1995 in India

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Events in the year 1995 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao

Events

• 5 March - Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited founded.
• 21 September - Reports of the Hindu milk miracle surface.
• 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.
• 20 October - Hindi movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge released the longest running Hindi movie.
• 31 August - Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh is assassinated.
• India joins the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which has replaced GATT.

Births

• 1 November - Ishaan Khattar, actor

Deaths

• 10 April - Morarji Desai, independence activist and 6th 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