1993 in India

1993 in India
Events in the year 1993 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 – Lalit Mohan Sharma until 11 February, Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah
Governors
Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
Arunachal Pradesh – Surendranath Dwivedy (until 4 July), Madhukar Dighe (4 July-20 October), Mata Prasad (starting 20 October)
Assam – Loknath Mishra
Bihar – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (until 13 August), Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (starting 13 August)
Goa – Bhanu Prakash Singh
Gujarat – Sarup Singh
Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal
Himachal Pradesh –
until 29 January: Virendra Verma
11 February-29 June: Bali Ram Bhagat
starting 11 February: Gulsher Ahmad
Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena (until 12 March), K. V. Krishna Rao (starting 12 March)
Karnataka – Khurshed Alam Khan
Kerala – B. Rachaiah
Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan (until 23 June), Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (starting 23 June)
Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam (until 9 January), P.C. Alexander (starting 12 January)
Manipur –
until 19 March: Chintamani Panigrahi
20 March-30 August: K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
starting 31 August: V. K. Nayar
Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe
Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal (until 9 February), P. R. Kyndiah (starting 9 February)
Nagaland – Loknath Mishra (until 1 October), V. K. Nayar (starting 1 October)
Odisha –
until 1 February: Yagya Dutt Sharma
1 February-31 May: Saiyid Nurul Hasan
starting 1 June: B. Satya Narayan Reddy
Punjab – Surendra Nath
Rajasthan –
until 31 May: Marri Chenna Reddy
31 May-30 June: Dhanik Lal Mandal
starting 30 June: Bali Ram Bhagat
Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
Tamil Nadu – Bhishma Narain Singh (until 30 May), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 31 May)
Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (until 14 August), Romesh Bhandari (starting 14 August)
Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy (until 25 May), Motilal Vora (starting 25 May)
West Bengal –
until 12 July: Saiyid Nurul Hasan
12 July-14 August: B. Satyanarayan Reddy
starting 14 August: K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
Events
National income - 8,759,924 million
9 March – The All Parties Hurriyat Conference is formed in Kashmir.
12 March – A series of bomb blasts, thought to be planted by underworld figures, rock the country's commercial capital of Bombay, killing some 260 people. (See 1993 Mumbai bombings.)
9 April – Veerappan Gang Trapped and blew a Tamil Nadu bus carrying police, forest officials and civilians, using a landmine, which killed 22 civilians and police[11] and this incident is known as Palar blast.
14 April – Sun TV, a Tamil language television station, as first regular broadcasting service to start in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
24 May : Veerappan and his gang Killed 6 policemen K.M.Uthappa, Prabhakara, Poovaiah, Machaiah, Swamy and Narasappa of STF commander Gopal Hosur's party and injured the police commander near Rangaswamy vaddu, M.M.Hills, Karnataka.
3 June - Chief minister of Kerala K. Karunakaran gravely injured following a road accident.
21 July - 1993 Kolkata firing
29 July - Disappearance of Chekannur Maulavi a reformist. He was allegedly kidnapped and killed and is considered as first act of Islamic terrorism in Malabar Coast post independence.
30 September – The 6.2 Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
5 December -Mulayam Singh Yadav elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time.
Law
Births
6 January – Pawan Negi, cricketer.
11 March Manjima Mohan, actress
15 March Alia Bhatt, actress and model.
25 May - Rahul Yadav, chartered accountant.
1 April Sri Divya, actress.
2 May Gayathrie Shankar, actress.
26 June - Shivam Dube, cricketer
25 July Pradeep Ranganathan, film director and actor.
4 August Malavika Mohanan, actress
17 August Nidhi Agerwal, actress
3 October – K. S. Bharat, cricketer
11 October – Hardik Pandya, cricketer
13 October – Hanuma Vihari, cricketer
30 October – Aditi Rathore, Indian television actress
6 December – Jasprit Bumrah, cricketer
16 December – Kalidas Jayaram, actor
Deaths
5 April – Divya Bharti, actress (born 1974)
3 August – Chinmayananda, spiritual leader (born 1916)
19 August – Utpal Dutt, actor, director and writer (born 1929).
7 November - Kirupanandha Variyar, spiritual teacher (born 1906).
29 November – J. R. D. Tata, French-born Indian aviator and businessman who became India's first licensed pilot (born 1904)
Full date unknown
Arun Joshi, novelist (born 1939)
See also
Bollywood films of 1993
References
India
Years of the 20th century in India