1985 in India

1985 in India
Events in the year 1985 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
President of India – Zail Singh
Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
Vice President of India – R. Venkataraman
Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (until 11 July), Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati
Governors
Andhra Pradesh – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 26 November), Kumud Ben Joshi (starting 26 November)
Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (until 15 March), P. Venkatasubbaiah (starting 15 March)
Gujarat – Braj Kumar Nehru
Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
Himachal Pradesh – Hokishe Sema
Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji
Kerala – P. Ramachandran
Madhya Pradesh – K.M Chandy
Maharashtra –
until 16 April: Idris Hasan Latif
19 April-30 May: Pir Muhammad
starting 31 May: Kona Prabhakara Rao
Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
Punjab –
until 14 March: Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala
14 March-14 November: Arjun Singh
14 November-26 November: Hokishe Sema
starting 26 November: Shankar Dayal Sharma
Rajasthan – Om Prakash Mehra (until 4 January), Vasantdada Patil (starting 20 November)
Sikkim –
until 30 May: Kona Prabhakar Rao
30 May-20 November: Bhishma Narain Singh
starting 20 November: T.V. Rajeswar
Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (until 31 March), Mohammed Usman Arif (starting 31 March)
West Bengal – Uma Shankar Dikshit
Events
National income - 2,845,341 million
16 January - Coomar Narain an employee of SLM Maneklal Industries and certain personal staff of Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India were arrested in connection with leaking of classified documents to foreign agents under Official Secrets Act (India).
10 March - India won the first World Championship of Cricket held at Australia by defeating Pakistan in the final.
30 March - The Special Protection Group is created
10 April – Chakravarty Committee was set up by the RBI to review the working of monetary system. Its recommendations had far reaching consequences eventually removing India from the 500-year-old silver standard
5 June - R. Balakrishna Pillai, a minister from Kerala resigns following controversial speech (Punjab Model needed for Kerala) from him that encourage terrorism.
23 June – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
By mid-1985, the statutory preemption on banks' resources in the form of the Statutory Liquidity Ratio and the Cash Reserve Ratio exceeded 45%.
KS Oils company is founded.
Texas Instruments, a multinational corporation, starts its India operations in Bangalore and helps create infrastructure to export software via satellite communications from India for the first time.
Law
24 May - Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act is came into effect after presidential assent.
2 September - Indira Gandhi National Open University is established by an Act of Indian Parliament.
14 November - The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act is passed by Parliament came into force.
The Administrative tribunals in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Allahabad were established by Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.
Births
16 January - Sidharth Malhotra , actor and former model
17 February Sivakarthikeyan, actor, producer, lyricist, TV anchor.
22 February – Bombayla Devi Laishram, archer.
5 March Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, actress
9 March - Parthiv Patel, cricketer
26 March – Kedar Jadhav, Cricketer.
27 March Ram Charan, actor and producer.
6 April – Jai, actor.
23 April – Annies Kanmani Joy, IAS.
9 May – Neha Bamb, actress.
15 May – Tathagata Mukherjee, actor.
1 June – Dinesh Karthik, cricketer.
19 June – Kajal Aggarwal, actress.
20 June – RJ Balaji, radio jockey, actor, television presenter, comedian and film director.
25 June – Durga Shakti Nagpal, Indian bureaucrat.
22 July Yogi Babu, actor and comedian.
7 September – Radhika Apte, actress.
18 September Vignesh Shivan, film director, lyricist and producer.
23 September – Ambati Rayudu, cricketer.
18 October - Sourabhee Debbarma, singer.
26 October – Asin Thottumkal, actress.
1 November – Anand Ambani, Business Magnet.
2 November – Diana Penty, actress.
11 November – Robin Uthappa, cricketer.
5 December – Shikhar Dhawan, cricketer.
21 December Andrea Jeremiah, actress and singer.
Deaths
31 October – Hardit Malik, diplomat, civil servant and cricketer (born 1894)
6 November – Sanjeev Kumar, actor (born 1938).
3 December - Satya Bhakta, founders of Communist Party of India (b.1897)
See also
Bollywood films of 1985
References
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Years of the 20th century in India
1980s in India
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