1985 in India

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Events in the year 1985 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Zail Singh
• Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (until 11 July), Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati

Governors

• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Haryana –
• Himachal Pradesh –
• Jammu and Kashmir –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Manipur –
• Meghalaya –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Sikkim –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Tripura –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

Events

• 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
• 23 June – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) 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%.
• The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act is passed by Parliament.
• The Administrative tribunals in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Allahabad were established by Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.
• The Special Protection Group is created.
• Indira Gandhi National Open University is established by an Act of Indian Parliament.
• Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) is passed by parliament.
• 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.

Births

• 22 February – Bombayla Devi Laishram, archer.
• 5 March - Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, actress

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  Parthiv Patel

  9 March - Parthiv Patel, cricketer
• 26 March – Kedar Jadhav, Cricketer.
• 6 April – Jai, actor.
• 23 April – Annies Kanmani Joy, IAS.
• 9 May – Neha Bamb, actress.
• 15 May – Tathagata Mukherjee, actor.

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  Dinesh Karthik

  1 June – Dinesh Karthik, cricketer.

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  Kajal Aggarwal

  19 June – Kajal Aggarwal, actress.
• 25 June – Durga Shakti Nagpal, Indian bureaucrat.
• 23 July – Ravi D. Channannavar, IPS.
• 23 September – Ambati Rayudu, cricketer.
• 26 October – Asin Thottumkal, actress.
• 1 November – Anand Ambani, Business Magnet.

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  Diana Penty

  2 November – Diana Penty, actress.
• 11 November – Robin Uthappa, cricketer.

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  Shikhar Dhawan

  5 December – Shikhar Dhawan, cricketer.

Deaths

• 31 October – Hardit Malik, diplomat, civil servant and cricketer (born 1894)
• 6 November – Sanjeev Kumar, actor (born 1938).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1985