1993 in India

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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
• Chief Justice of India – Lalit Mohan Sharma until 11 February, Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh –
• Arunachal Pradesh – Surendranath Dwivedy (until 4 July), Madhukar Dighe (4 July-20 October), Mata Prasad (starting 20 October)
• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Goa –
• Gujarat –
• Haryana –
• Himachal Pradesh –
• Jammu and Kashmir –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Manipur –
• Meghalaya –
• Mizoram –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Sikkim –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Tripura –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

Events

• 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. Karunakarangravely injured following a road accident.
• 30 September – The 6.2 M_w  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
• 5th December -Mulayam Singh Yadav elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time.

Births

January

• 6 January – Pawan Negi, cricketer
• 31 January – Khusi Ravi, actress
• 21 January- Akshay Hansgota, businessman
• 25 January- Anirudh Shivanna , Businessman
• 23 April - Akrit Jaswal, Indian child surgeon
• 25 May - Rahul Yadav, chartered accountant
• 26 June - Shivam Dube, cricketer

• 

  Hardik Pandya

  11 October – Hardik Pandya, cricketer
• 13 October – Hanuma Vihari, cricketer
• 30 October – Aditi Rathore, Indian television actress
• 31 October – Avneet Punia, IAS
• 21 December – Jasprit Bumrah, cricketer

Deaths

• 5 April – Divya Bharti, actress (born 1974)
• 3 August – Chinmayananda, spiritual leader (born 1916)
• 19 August – Utpal Dutt, actor, director and writer (born 1929)
• 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