1993 in India

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Year in India Events in the year 1993 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 – Lalit Mohan Sharma until 11 February, Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
• Arunachal Pradesh – Surendranath Dwivedy (until 4 July), Madhukar Dighe (4 July-20 October), Mata Prasad (starting 20 October)
• Assam – Loknath Mishra
• Bihar – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (until 13 August), Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (starting 13 August)
• Goa – Bhanu Prakash Singh
• Gujarat – Sarup Singh
• Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal
• Himachal Pradesh –
  • until 29 January: Virendra Verma
  • 11 February-29 June: Bali Ram Bhagat
  • starting 11 February: Gulsher Ahmad
• Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena (until 12 March), K. V. Krishna Rao (starting 12 March)
• Karnataka – Khurshed Alam Khan
• Kerala – B. Rachaiah
• Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan (until 23 June), Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (starting 23 June)
• Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam (until 9 January), P.C. Alexander (starting 12 January)
• Manipur –
  • until 19 March: Chintamani Panigrahi
  • 20 March-30 August: K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
  • starting 31 August: V. K. Nayar
• Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe
• Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal (until 9 February), P. R. Kyndiah (starting 9 February)
• Nagaland – Loknath Mishra (until 1 October), V. K. Nayar (starting 1 October)
• Odisha –
  • until 1 February: Yagya Dutt Sharma
  • 1 February-31 May: Saiyid Nurul Hasan
  • starting 1 June: B. Satya Narayan Reddy
• Punjab – Surendra Nath
• Rajasthan –
  • until 31 May: Marri Chenna Reddy
  • 31 May-30 June: Dhanik Lal Mandal
  • starting 30 June: Bali Ram Bhagat
• Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
• Tamil Nadu – Bhishma Narain Singh (until 30 May), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 31 May)
• Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (until 14 August), Romesh Bhandari (starting 14 August)
• Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy (until 25 May), Motilal Vora (starting 25 May)
• West Bengal –
  • until 12 July: Saiyid Nurul Hasan
  • 12 July-14 August: B. Satyanarayan Reddy
  • starting 14 August: K. V. Raghunatha Reddy

Events

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• 9 March – The All Parties Hurriyat Conference is formed in Kashmir.
• 12 March – A series of bomb blasts, thought to be planted by underworld figures, rock the country's commercial capital of Bombay, killing some 260 people. (See 1993 Mumbai bombings.)
• 9 April – Veerappan Gang Trapped and blew a Tamil Nadu bus carrying police, forest officials and civilians, using a landmine, which killed 22 civilians and police[11] and this incident is known as Palar blast.
• 14 April – Sun TV, a Tamil language television station, as first regular broadcasting service to start in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• 24 May : Veerappan and his gang Killed 6 policemen K.M.Uthappa, Prabhakara, Poovaiah, Machaiah, Swamy and Narasappa of STF commander Gopal Hosur's party and injured the police commander near Rangaswamy vaddu, M.M.Hills, Karnataka.
• 3 June - Chief minister of Kerala K. Karunakaran gravely injured following a road accident.
• 21 July - 1993 Kolkata firing
• 29 July - Disappearance of Chekannur Maulavi a reformist. He was allegedly kidnapped and killed and is considered as first act of Islamic terrorism in Malabar Coast post independence.
• 30 September – The 6.2 Template:M Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
• 5 December -Mulayam Singh Yadav elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time.

Law

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Births

• 6 January – Pawan Negi, cricketer.
• 11 March Template:Ndash Manjima Mohan, actress
• 15 March Template:Ndash Alia Bhatt, actress and model.
• 25 May - Rahul Yadav, chartered accountant.
• 1 April Template:Ndash Sri Divya, actress.
• 2 May Template:Ndash Gayathrie Shankar, actress.
• 1 June - Rajat Patidar, cricketer
• 26 June - Shivam Dube, cricketer
• 27 June - Prajakta Koli, YouTuber
• 25 July Template:Ndash Pradeep Ranganathan, film director and actor.

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  Malavika Mohanan

  4 August Template:Ndash Malavika Mohanan, actress

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  Nidhhi Agerwal

  17 August Template:Ndash Nidhi Agerwal, actress
• 3 October – K. S. Bharat, cricketer

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  Hardik Pandya

  11 October – Hardik Pandya, cricketer
• 12 October – Mukesh Kumar, cricketer
• 13 October – Hanuma Vihari, cricketer
• 30 October – Aditi Rathore, Indian television actress
• 6 December – Jasprit Bumrah, cricketer
• 16 December – Kalidas Jayaram, actor

Deaths

• 5 April – Divya Bharti, actress (born 1974).
• 9 June – Satyen Bose, film director (born 1916).
• 12 June – Binay Ranjan Sen, diplomat, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (born 1898).
• 3 August – Chinmayananda, spiritual leader (born 1916).
• 19 August – Utpal Dutt, actor, director and writer (born 1929).
• 7 November - Kirupanandha Variyar, spiritual teacher (born 1906).
• 29 November – J. R. D. Tata, French-born Indian aviator and businessman who became India's first licensed pilot (born 1904).

Full date unknown

• Arun Joshi, novelist (born 1939).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1993