1988 in India

1988 in India
Events in the year 1988 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
President of India – R. Venkataraman
Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
Vice President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma
Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak
Governors
Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
Arunachal Pradesh – R. D. Pradhan
Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah (until 25 February), Govind Narain Singh (starting 25 February)
Goa – Gopal Singh
Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney (until 21 February), Hari Anand Barari (starting 22 February)
Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
Karnataka – Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah
Kerala – P. Ramachandran (until 23 February), Ram Dulari Sinha (starting 23 February)
Madhya Pradesh – K.M Chandy
Maharashtra – vacant thereafter (until 23 February), Ram Dulari Sinha (starting 23 February)
Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande (until 20 November), Saiyid Nurul Hasan (starting 20 November)
Punjab – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
Rajasthan – Sukhdev Prasad (starting 20 February)
Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana (until 16 February), P. C. Alexander (starting 16 February)
Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan
Events
National income - 4,293,630 million
January - August
January - Viswanathan Anand became first Grandmaster (chess) from India by winning
2 February - Elections to legislative assemblies of Meghalaya and Tripura held.
9 - 18 May - Operation Black Thunder
18 July - Rupan Deol Bajaj case
6 August – The 1988 Myanmar–India earthquake measuring magnitude 7.3 strikes the Sagaing–Assam border, killing 5 people and leaving over 30 injured or missing.
10 August - Chief minister of Karnataka Ramakrishna Hegde resigns following Wiretapping scandal against him.
21 August – The 6.9 Bihar earthquake shook northern Bihar near Nepal with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 709–1,450.
August - The Statesman accuses Lalit Suri, a close confidant of Rajiv Gandhi for accepting 6.61 crore rupees as bribe from Sumitomo Corporation related to HVJ Gas Pipeline works of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation through entities based in London and Panama.
September - December
23-26 September - Floods in Punjab, Haryana due to heavy rains in Bhakra.
October – Maximum lending rate abolished. Banks free to charge customers according to their credit record.
11 October - Janata Dal formed under the leadership of V. P. Singh.
20 December - Rajya Sabha passes the Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India which brings down voting age from 21 to 18.
26 December - caste violence between Kapus and Kammas erupts in costal districts of Andhra Pradesh following death of a Congress I M.L.A named Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga Rao.
Date unknown
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is set up under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986.
Shadow of the Almighty Faith Tabernacle Ministries is founded.
Law
April – Security & Exchange Board of India established to deal with the development and regulation of the securities market and investor protection.
The Discount and Finance House of India, set up as a money market institution, commenced operations.
July – The National Housing Bank established as an apex body of housing finance and to promote activities in housing development.
August – Stock Holding Corporation of India, a depository institution, commenced operations.
Births
4 January – Nabila Jamshed, novelist.
25 January – Cheteshwar Pujara, cricketer.
20 February – Jiah Khan, actress.(d.2013)
5 March – Khonthoujam Boboi Singh, Indian footballer
8 April –
Saqib Saleem, model and actor.
Nithya Menen, actress.
1 May Anushka Sharma, actress and film producer.
16 May – Vicky Kaushal, actor
6 June - Ajinkya Rahane, cricketer.
10 July - Manjari Fadnis, film actress
26 July Akanksha Puri, actress and model.
21 August Sana Khan, actress and businesswoman.
2 September - Ishant Sharma, cricketer.
6 September – Sargun Mehta, TV actress
12 September – Prachi Desai, actress.
22 September
Sana Saeed, actress and model.
Jay Shah, cricket administrator
26 September – Sandhya, film actress
5 November – Virat Kohli, cricketer
25 November – Rochelle Rao, model and anchor.
28 November Yami Gautam, actress.
2 December – Soniya Mehra, actress.
6 December - Ravindra Jadeja, cricketer.
24 December – Piyush Chawla, cricketer.
Deaths
August – Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, freedom fighter (born 1900)
29 October – Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, social reformer and freedom fighter (born 1903)
24 December – Jainendra Kumar, novelist (born 1905)
2 June – Raj Kapoor, actor in Bollywood (born 1924)
Full date unknown
Majnun Gorakhpuri, writer and literary critic (born 1904)
See also
Bollywood films of 1988
References
India
Years of the 20th century in India