# 1995 in India

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Events in the year 1995 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma
* Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao
* Vice President of India – K. R. Narayanan
* Chief Justice of India – Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi

### Governors

* Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
* Arunachal Pradesh – Mata Prasad
* Assam – Loknath Mishra
* Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
* Goa – Gopala Ramanujam (until 15 June), Romesh Bhandari (starting 16 June)
* Gujarat – Sarup Singh (until 1 July), Naresh Chandra (starting 1 July)
* Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal (starting 13 June), Mahabir Prasad (starting 14 June)
* Himachal Pradesh –** until 17 September: Sudhakarrao Naik
** 17 September-16 November: Mahabir Prasad
** starting 16 November: Sheila Kaul
* Jammu and Kashmir – K. V. Krishna Rao
* Karnataka – Khurshed Alam Khan
* Kerala – B. Rachaiah (until 9 November), P. Shiv Shankar (starting 9 November)
* Madhya Pradesh – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
* Maharashtra – P.C. Alexander
* Manipur – O. N. Shrivastava
* Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe (until 18 June), M. M. Jacob (starting 18 June)
* Mizoram – P. R. Kyndiah
* Nagaland – O. N. Shrivastava
* Odisha – B. Satya Narayan Reddy (until 17 June), Gopala Ramanujam (starting 17 June)
* Punjab – Bakshi Krishan Nath Chhibber
* Rajasthan – Bali Ram Bhagat
* Sikkim – P. Shiv Shankar (until 11 November), K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (starting 11 November)
* Tamil Nadu – Marri Chenna Reddy
* Tripura – Romesh Bhandari (until 15 June), Siddheswar Prasad (starting 15 June)
* Uttar Pradesh – Motilal Vora
* West Bengal – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy

## Events

* National income - ₹12,055,827 million
* 1 January - India joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) which has replaced GATT.
* 5 March – Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited founded.
* 27 April - Gangster Auto Shankar hanged to death in Central Prison, Salem, Tamil Nadu.
* 2 July - Tandoor Murder of Delhi took place.
* 14 August – Internet is officially launched by VSNL.
* 31 August – Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh is assassinated.
* 21 September – Reports of the Hindu milk miracle surface.
* 20 October – Hindi movie Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge released the longest running Hindi movie.
* November
** City of Bombay renamed as Mumbai
** Hindi song Q-Funk became one of the biggest hit remix songs.
* 17 December – Purulia arms drop case
* 18 December–26 December – The South Asian Games take place in Madras.
* 23 December – Nearly 425 people die when a blaze rips through a school prize-giving ceremony in the northern town of Dabwali in Haryana state, near the Indian capital.

### Dates unknown

* Hajj pilgrimage through sea routes from India stopped following the ageing of vessel MV Akbari.

## Births

* P. V. Sindhu25 January – Mandeep Singh, field hockey player
* 5 March – Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, actress
* 10 March – Bipin Singh, footballer
* 19 March – Biswajit Biswas, footballer
* 26 March – Anshuman Joshi, actor
* 29 April – K. Maneesha, badminton player
* 5 May – Alen Deory, footballer.
* 10 May – Mirnalini Ravi, actress.
* 6 June – Sadi Jalali, soccer player
* 8 June – Jacob Lalrawngbawla, footballer
* 9 June – PU Chitra, track and field athlete
* 16 June – Sheena Bajaj, actress known as Dolly from Best of Luck Nikki
* 5 July – Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, badminton player
* 7 July – Anamika Choudhari, singer
* Armaan Malik22 July – Armaan Malik, singer
* Sara Ali Khan12 August – Sara Ali Khan, actress
* 21 August – Anu Sithara, Actress
* 28 August – Viraat Badhwar, Australian amateur golfer
* 7 September – Sahaj Grover, chess player
* 9 September – Rahul Kumar, actor
* 10 September – Aparna Das, actress.
* 11 September – Aparna Balamurali, actress.
* 11 September – Samyuktha Menon, actress.
* 15 October – Niveda Thomas, actress
* 26 October – Megha Akash, actress
* 5 November – Mehreen Pirzada, actress
* Tara Sutaria19 November – Tara Sutaria, actress, dancer, singer and TV host
* 22 December – Shivam Sai Gupta, visual effect producer and game developer
* 28 December – J. Meghana, badminton player

## Deaths

* Morarji Desai10 April – Morarji Desai, independence activist and 4th Prime Minister of India (born 1896).
* 21 August – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist and joint Nobel Prize in Physics winner (born 1910).