1985 in India

Events in the year 1985 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

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). The person who caught coomair Narainan was Mr Ved Parkash Sharma, a CBI officer by chance. This is explained in a recently published book by Kalol Bhattacharjee in 2024.
4 February - M. G. Ramachandran returns after three months hospitalization and Kidney transplantation in Downstate Medical Center New York City.
18 February - Anti reservation protest in Gujarat turns into six month long 1985 Gujarat riots.
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.
4 - 8 June - Merapani armed conflict between Assam and Nagaland.
5 June - R. Balakrishna Pillai, a minister from Kerala resigns following controversial speech from him that encourage terrorism.
23 June – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31,000 feet 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%.
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.
Narmada Bachao Andolan started by Medha Patkar

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.

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.
10 October - Shubhanshu Shukla, ISRO astronaut and Indian Air Force test pilot.
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.