2024 in Kerala

Events in the year 2024 in Kerala.

January

 * 3 January - Narendra Modi conducts roadshow in Thrissur which was attended by more than two lakh women.
 * 6 January - Enforcement Directorate issues summons to T. M. Thomas Isaac over investigation of Foreign Exchange Management Act violations in Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board.
 * 8 January - Kerala School Kalolsavam concludes its 62nd edition in Kollam with Kannur district emerging top in the tally.
 * 9 January - Indian Youth Congress's state head Rahul Mamkoottathil arrested and jailed by Kerala Police for alleged violent protest against Nava Kerala Sadas and Second Vijayan ministry.
 * 10 January -
 * National Investigation Agency arrests the absconding first accused of Prof. T. J. Joseph hand chopping case named Savad after 13 years from Mattanur.
 * Chief minister of Kerala inaugurates Phase 1 of Taurus Downtown Project in Thiruvananthapuram.
 * 11 January - Jnanpith Award winner M. T. Vasudevan Nair criticizes 'ritualistic worship of political executive' in his keynote address of Kerala Literature Festival while Pinarayi Vijayan was on the dais.
 * 20 January - Communist Party of India (Marxist) holds a 651 km long human chain in Kerala.
 * 27 January - Arif Mohammad Khan, Governor of Kerala conducts way side dharna at Nilamel in protest of security breach and protest of Students' Federation of India on him.
 * 30 January - Sessions Court Mavelikkara awards death sentence to 14 of the 15 convicted Popular Front of India activists who murdered Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ranjith Sreenivasan in Alappuzha.
 * 31 January - Kerala Janapaksham (Secular) headed by P. C. George merges with Bharatiya Janata Party.

February

 * 7 February - Kerala High Court didn't allow stay against Serious Fraud Investigation Office investigation on Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation and Veena Vijayan.
 * 8 February - Kerala cabinet stages protest against Government of India in Jantar Mantar, New Delhi over anti federal stand of central government in allocation of fiscal resources.
 * 10 February - Elephant attack in Manathavadi residence area caused death of 42 year old man.
 * 12 February - An explosion in an illicit stockpile of Firecracker in Thrippunithura damages 270 houses and kills two people.
 * 18 February - A student named Sidharth found hanging in his hostel room of Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University and is alleged that he was killed and hanged by the Students' Federation of India members.
 * 19 February - A pedophilie from Varkala attempt kidnapping a two year old kid from Thiruvananthapuram on broad day light.
 * 27 February - Prime Minister of India visits Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and announces names of four pilots who are undergoing Astronaut training for Gaganyaan.

March

 * 1 March - For the first time in history of Kerala, nearly five lakh Government of Kerala employees didn't receive their salary in the start of the month.
 * 4 March - Non - Resident Keralite killed in Israel following a missile attack by Hezbollah.
 * 19 March - Manjummel Boys becomes the first Malayalam cinema to cross Rs. 200 crore collection.
 * 30 March - Sessions Court, Kasaragod acquits all suspects of 2017 Riyas Moulavi murder.

April

 * 1 April -
 * Supreme Court of India refers Government of Kerala vs Government of India case over borrowing limits to Constitutional bench to test whether Federalism is contravened.
 * A senior nursing assistant who gave Testimony in favour of the survivor of ICU sexual assault case starts protest in Government Medical College, Kozhikode for unfair disciplinary proceedings against her.
 * 2 April - Three tourists from Kerala found dead in a hotel in Ziro. The trio allegedly committed suicide in pursuit of Afterlife.
 * 5 April - One person killed in a blast that occurred in an illegal country bomb manufacturing facility allegedly run by Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers in Panoor.
 * 11 April - Kerala High Court dismissed the plea by M. Swaraj to invalidate K. Babu's election from Tripunithura in 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.
 * 12 April - Blood money of Rs. 34 crores raised through Crowdfunding from Malayalis for release of a Kozhikode native pravasi from death row in Saudi Arabia.
 * 16 April - An SIT headed by Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Vigilance) recommends action against 18 forest officials for illegal felling of 126 trees in Sugandhagiri, Wayanad district.
 * 19 April - Controversies erupted over excessive police control and Ram Lalla motifs in Thrissur Pooram.
 * 26 April -
 * Loksabha elections held in Kerala with 71.27% votes polled.
 * LDF convener E. P. Jayarajan makes revelation about meeting BJP leader Prakash Javadekar at Thrissur amidst public outcry over LDF-BJP deal.
 * 27 April - Mayor Arya Rajendran and K. M. Sachin Dev MLA enters into Road rage with a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus driver and questioned him for alleged unruly behaviour in road.

May

 * 21 May - A massive Fish kill happened along Periyar River in outskirts of Kochi allegedly caused by Pollution.
 * 23 May - Bribery allegation arises against alleged new Liquor Policy of Pinarayi Vijayan ministry that aims to relax existing prohibition norms.

June

 * 4 June - 2024 general election results announced. United Democratic Front won 18 seats and Left Democratic Front and Bharatiya Janata Party won one seats each.
 * 12 June - 24 Migrant workers from Kerala died due to building fire in Kuwait.

July

 * 9 July - Allegations against a CPIM member in Kozhikode district for taking 22 lakhs as bribe offering Kerala Public Service Commission membership.
 * 12 July - The first Mother ship docks at Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram.
 * 13 July - Christopher Joy, a 47-year-old temporary cleaning worker, had gone missing on Saturday while cleaning a waste-filled part of the Amayizhanchan stream under a 200-metre-long canal tunnel which runs under the tracks at the railway station in Thampanoor near the Central Railway Station. Navy, Fire force personnel, scuba teams of Kerala Fire and Rescue Services, police, civic workers and National Disaster Response Force men worked on the rescue operation and after nearly 48 hours his dead body was found on 15 July 2024.
 * July 19 - Reports emerged in Friday that a Malayali lorry driver from Kozhikode named Arjun went missing. It is said that he and his lorry got trapped under a landslide occurred at Ankola in Uttara Kannada District on Tuesday. Delay in rescue operation conducted by Karnataka garnered significant media attention in Kerala and the family of Arjun later alleged the same, which led to Ministerial intervention from the side of Kerala Government and other elected representatives, only after which the Karnataka team expedited the rescue operation.
 * July 20 - A case of Nipah virus was reported in Malappuram. The confirmed case of Nipah virus infection, a 14 year old teenager boy died due to heart attack on 21 July 2024.

January - June

 * January 14 - T. H. Musthafa, former minister, 82.
 * January 15 - K. J. Joy, music director, 77.
 * February 18 -Sidharthan, - Kerala Veterinary University student, 21.

June

 * June 12 - 23 Migrant workers from Kerala died due to a building fire in Kuwait.