1995 in India

1995 in India
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.
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.
Law
Births
25 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
22 July – Armaan Malik, singer
12 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
19 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
10 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).
See also
Bollywood films of 1995
References
India
Years of the 20th century in India