# 1987 in India

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Events in the year 1987 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents

* President of India – Zail Singh until 25 July, R. Venkataraman
* Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
* Vice President of India – R. Venkataraman until 24 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
* Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

### Governors

* Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
* Arunachal Pradesh –
** 20 February-18 March: Bhishma Narain Singh
** starting 18 March: R. D. Pradhan
* Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
* Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah
* Goa – Gopal Singh (starting 30 May)
* Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
* Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
* Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
* Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
* Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji (until 26 February), Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (starting 26 February)
* Kerala – P. Ramachandran
* Madhya Pradesh –
** until 30 November: K.M Chandy
** 30 November-29 December: Narayan Dutta Ojha
** starting 29 December: K.M Chandy
* Maharashtra – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 3 September), vacant thereafter (starting 3 September)
* Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
* Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
* Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
* Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
* Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
* Punjab – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
* Rajasthan – Vasantdada Patil (until 15 October), vacant thereafter (starting 15 October)
* Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
* Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
* Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
* Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
* West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

## Events

* National income - ₹3,618,647 million

### January - June

* January – Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction set up and became operational with effect from May reflecting concerns related to Industrial Sickness and republic day
* 17 January - Rajiv Gandhi laid the foundation stone for Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kannur.
* 7 March - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket.
* 19 March - 1987 Opera House heist
* 23 March - Controversial 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election held.
* March – Magnetic ink character recognition technology introduced for cheque clearing.
* March - June - 1987 Meerut riots
* 12 April - V. P. Singh resigns as Defence Minister of India following his disclosure about kickbacks in defense deals by predecessors.
* May - 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish the second such conflict between China and India ended.
* 22 May - Hashimpura massacre.
* 30 May – The Union territory was split, and Goa was elevated as India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining Union Territories
* 4 June - Operation Poomalai by India in Jaffna.
* June - Minister of External Affairs N. D. Tiwari visits North Korea as part of ministerial conference of Non-Aligned Movement.

### July - December

* 29 July - Indo-Sri Lanka Accord to restore peace in the island signed.
* 30 July - Assault on Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi by a Sri Lanka Navy sailor named Vijitha Rohana during Guard of honour at Colombo.
* 4 September - Roop Kanwar case - last known incident of Sati in India, occurred at Sikar district.
* October – ICC Cricket World Cup (Reliance Cup 1987)
* 11 - 12 October - Jaffna University Helidrop by Indian Peace Keeping Force
* 20 November–27 November – The South Asian Games are held in Calcutta.
* 28 December - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research was established by RBI as an advanced studies institute to promote research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view.

## Births

* 1 January – Neha Sharma, actress and model.
* 3 March – Shraddha Kapoor, actress.
* 31 March – Janani Iyer, actress.
* 18 February – Mahat Raghavendra, actor
* 24 April – Varun Dhawan, actor
* 25 April – Mallika Kapoor, actress.
* 28 April – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress.
* 30 April – Rohit Sharma, cricketer.
* 4 May – Charmy Kaur, actress.
* 7 May – Sundeep Kishan, actor, producer
* 2 June – Santhosh Prathap, actor
* 13 June – G. V. Prakash Kumar, film composer, singer and actor.
* 25 June – Anil Shetty, entrepreneur, author, activist and motivational speaker
* 3 July – Arjai, actor
* 1 August – Taapsee Pannu, actress.
* 5 August – Genelia D'Souza, actress.Genelia Deshmukh
* 6 August – Aditya Narayan, actor, singer and television host.
* 25 October – Umesh Yadav, cricketer.
* 1 November – Ileana D'Cruz, actress.
* 20 November – Sukirti Kandpal, actress.
* 18 December – Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, politician, member of parliament from Srikakulam.
* 28 December – Diganth Manchale, actor

## Deaths

* 13 March – Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, Islamic scholar, jurist and literary critic. (born 1910)
* 1 June – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1914).
* Kishore Kumar13 October – Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (born 1929).
* 27 October – Vijay Merchant, cricketer (born 1911).
* 24 December – M. G. Ramachandran, Actor, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (born 1917).

### Full date unknown

* Dasaradhi, poet and political activist (born 1925).