1995 in India
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{{Year in India|1995}}
Events in the year 1995 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
=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 - {{INR}}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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.delhimetrorail.com/corporates/about_us.html |title=Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.: About Us |access-date=30 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125225919/http://www.delhimetrorail.com/corporates/about_us.html |archive-date=25 January 2007 |url-status=dead}}
- 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.{{Cite web|url=http://dxm.org/techonomist/news/vsnlnow.html|title = VSNL starts India's first Internet service today}}
- 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{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}.
- 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.{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Daniel |title=Encyclopedia of International Games |date=17 March 2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1527-1 |page=517 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjPECwAAQBAJ&pg=PA517 |language=en}}
- 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.
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- Hajj pilgrimage through sea routes from India stopped following the ageing of vessel MV Akbari.{{Cite web |last=Moin |first=Ather |date=2018-11-03 |title=Haj trip by sea will not be possible |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/031118/haj-trip-by-sea-will-not-be-possible.html |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=Deccan Chronicle |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2022-02-04 |title=History – Haj Committee of India |url=https://hajcommittee.gov.in/history/ |access-date=2022-05-02 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204235622/https://hajcommittee.gov.in/history/ |archive-date=4 February 2022 |url-status=dead}}
Law
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Births
- File:PV Sindhu headshot.jpg]]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 {{ndash}} 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
- File:Armaan Malik 2016.jpg]]22 July – Armaan Malik, singer
- File:Sara Ali Khan graces Dinesh Vijan’s wedding reception and cocktail party (03) (cropped).jpg]]12 August {{ndash}} 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 {{ndash}} Aparna Das, actress.
- 11 September {{ndash}} Aparna Balamurali, actress.
- 11 September {{ndash}} Samyuktha Menon, actress.
- 15 October – Niveda Thomas, actress
- 26 October {{ndash}} Megha Akash, actress
- 5 November {{ndash}} Mehreen Pirzada, actress
- File:Tara Sutaria at Sabyasachi event in 2019 (crop).jpg]]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
- File:Morarji Desai portrait.jpg]]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
References
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{{Year in Asia|1995}}