1995 in India

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, Romesh Bhandari
Gujarat – Sarup Singh, Naresh Chandra
Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal, Mahabir Prasad
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, P. Shiv Shankar
Madhya Pradesh – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
Maharashtra – P.C. Alexander
Manipur – O. N. Shrivastava
Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe, M. M. Jacob
Mizoram – P. R. Kyndiah
Nagaland – O. N. Shrivastava
Odisha – B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Gopala Ramanujam
Punjab, India|Punjab] – Bakshi Krishan Nath Chhibber
Rajasthan – Bali Ram Bhagat
Sikkim – P. Shiv Shankar, K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
Tamil Nadu – Marri Chenna Reddy
Tripura – Romesh Bhandari, Siddheswar Prasad
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 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 1995 [South Asian Games|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.
21 August – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist and joint Nobel Prize in Physics winner.