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.
• 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
• Bombay renames as Mumbai
• Hindi song Q-Funk becomes 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

• 25 January – Mandeep Singh, field hockey player
• 5 March – Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, actress
• 10 March – Bipin Singh, 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