3 February – Members of teams trying to conduct social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) were attacked in Manohar Thana block of Jhalwar district in Rajasthan.
5 February – The Orissa government decides to provide a monthly pension of ₹ 200 to HIV positive persons under the State-sponsored 'Madhu Babu Pension Yojana.'
12 February – "Year of Russia in India" was inaugurated jointly by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Russian counterpart Victor Zubkov in New Delhi.
15 February – The Election Commission issues notice to Congress president Sonia Gandhi seeking her response to an allegation that she had incurred disqualification as member of Parliament under Article 102(1)(d) of the Constitution for accepting the Order of Leopold (Belgium) from the King of Belgium in November 2006.
20 February – The former Queen Mother of Jaipur Gayatri Devi sat on a dharna near the Moti Doongri Fort protesting encroachment, by the land mafia, of land she donated.
24 February – In an affidavit filed before the Gujarat High Court, the CID has officially implicated former Gujarat Additional Director General of Police, D. G. Vanzara, as the "chief conspirator" in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
24 February – Tarun Vijay joins Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, the BJP's newly created think tank, as its director. He has been the chief editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh organ Panchjanya.
26 February – Ratakonda Dayakar named India's new Ambassador to Sweden. Dayakar is 1976 batch IFS officer.
26 February – Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar predicts the foodgrain production to reach the record level of 219.32 million tonnes during 2007–08.
3 March – Central government launches Dhan Laxmi scheme in seven states. Under this scheme an insurance cover of ₹ 100,000 would be provided for the girl child at her birth. The scheme aims to improve the girl-child ratio.
5 March – S. M. Krishna resigns from his post of Maharashtra Governor.
8 May – Jerome Bonnafont, the French Ambassador to India, puts forward the proposal of a large scale nuclear cooperation between India and France.
13 May – Bomb blasts rock Jaipur. About 80 people killed in serial blasts.
18 May – The bruised body of social activist and member of NGO Vikas Sahyog Kendra, Lalit Kumar Mehta found in Kandra forest in Palamau in Jharkhand. Mehta was involved in social audit of NREGS and is suspected to have been killed by those having "vested interests."
20 May – Calling Chhattisgarh government's Salwa Judum vigilante campaign against naxalism as "an abdication of the state itself", an experts group of the Planning Commission called for its immediate scrapping.
21 May – Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav announces cash awards amounting to ₹ 174million for officers and staff of all zonal railways.
22 May – Following resounding victory of the Trinamool Congress in the panchayat elections in Nandigram area, violence erupts in Purbo Medinipur district. In clashes between workers of Trinamool and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) five persons were injured.
23 May – A week ahead of first anniversary of police firing on agitating Gujjars violence erupts in Rajasthan. Four Gujjar protesters and one policeman killed in clashes in Bharatpur district. The tally goes up to 17 later.
24 May – Eighteen killed and 38 others injured in police firing in Dausa district of Rajasthan in the ongoing Gujjar-police clashes.
25 May – The Bharatiya Janata Party comes to power in Karnataka. In the assembly elections held earlier in the week, BJP win 110 seats. Congress is second with 80.
June - December
4 June – The Government announces an increase in petrol, diesel and LPG prices by ₹ 5, ₹ 3 and ₹ 50 respectively.
27 June – First Field Marshal of Indian Army Sam Manekshaw died.
3 February – Inaugurating the tenth Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for documentary, short and animation films at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi announced that a dedicated channel for short films in the Eleventh Plan is under consideration.
14 February – The Government decides to extend visa of exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, for another six months. Her visa was to expire on 17 February.
19 February – The K.K. Birla Foundation decides to give the following awards:(1) The Sixteenth Vachaspati Puraskar for 2007 to Swami Rambhadracharya for his work Sribhargavaraghaviyam (Mahakavyam). (2)The 2007 Bihari Puraskar to Hindi poet Yashwant Vyas for his Hindi novel Comrade Godse. (3) The Shankar Puraskar for 2007 to Prof. R.S. Tripathi for his work Baudh Darshan Prasthan.
8 May – The Delhi high court quashed three criminal proceedings initiated against the artist M. F. Husain for allegedly hurting public sentiments through some of his nude paintings that were perceived as obscene.
25 May – Pakistani rock band Junoon performs in Srinagar on the occasion of opening of the Institute of Kashmir Studies at the Kashmir University.
Abhinav Bindra became the first individual gold-medalist at the Olympics for India.11 August – Shooter Abhinav Bindra wins the gold in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He became the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games.
20 August – Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins a bronze medal in the Men's 66kg Freestyle Wrestling category at 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
21 August – Boxer Vijender Kumar became the first Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal when he won bronze medal in the middleweight category at 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
7 October – Cricketer Sourav Ganguly announces retirement from Test Cricket.
17 October – Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the leading scorer in Test Cricket and also becomes the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in Test Cricket.
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