1995 in India

Events in the year 1995 in the Republic of India.

← 1994 1993 1992 1995 in India → 1996 1997 1998
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

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.^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• 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]}.
• 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.^[3]
• 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.^[4][5]

Law

Births

• 

  P. V. Sindhu

  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

• 

  Armaan Malik

  22 July – Armaan Malik, singer

• 

  Sara Ali Khan

  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

• 

  Tara Sutaria

  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

• 

  Morarji Desai

  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

1. "Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.: About Us". Archived from the original on 25 January 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2007.
2. "VSNL starts India's first Internet service today".
3. Bell, Daniel (17 March 2016). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland. p. 517. ISBN 978-1-4766-1527-1.
4. Moin, Ather (3 November 2018). "Haj trip by sea will not be possible". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
5. "History – Haj Committee of India". 4 February 2022. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.