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Events in the year 1986 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Zail Singh
- Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
- Chief Justice of India – Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (until 20 December), Raghunandan Swarup Pathak
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
- Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
- Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah
- Gujarat – Braj Kumar Nehru (until 26 February), Ram Krishna Trivedi (starting 26 February)
- Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
- Himachal Pradesh –
- until 7 March: Hokishe Sema
- 7 March-16 April: Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai
- starting 16 April: R. K. S. Ghandhi
- Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
- Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji
- Kerala – P. Ramachandran
- Madhya Pradesh – K.M Chandy
- Maharashtra – Kona Prabhakara Rao (until 2 April), Shankar Dayal Sharma (starting 2 April)
- Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
- Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
- Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
- Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
- Punjab – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 2 April), Siddhartha Shankar Ray (starting 2 April)
- Rajasthan – Vasantdada Patil
- Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
- Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
- Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
- Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
- West Bengal – Uma Shankar Dikshit (until 12 August), Saiyid Nurul Hasan (starting 12 August)
Events
- National income - ₹3,183,659 million
- April 1 – VSNL incorporated
- April 30 – Operation Black Thunder conducted to flush out remaining Sikh extremists from the Golden Temple
- May – a new National Policy on Education announced by the Government
- August 11 - Supreme Court of India delivered landmark judgement which upholds Freedom of speech and expression in Bijoe Emmanuel Vs State of Kerala case. In this case court said that no law mandates singing National Anthem of India compulsory.[1][2]
- September 22 – Australia-India test cricket match ends in a tie at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, becoming only the second tied test in the history.
- October 27 – Inland Waterways Authority of India came into existence.
- November 18 – Operation Brasstacks starts in Rajasthan.
- November – 182-day Treasury Bill introduced
Law
- November 19 – Environment Protection Act that was passed in month of May in consequence to Bhopal disaster, came into force.[3]
- December 24 – Consumer Protection Act
Births
Deepika Padukone - 21 January – Sushant Singh Rajput,actor
- 4 February – Asif Ali, actor
- 27 February – Shishir Hathwar, Guinness World Record holder
- 6 June – Bhavana (actress), actress.
Ravichandran Ashwin - 28 July – Dulquer Salmaan, actor[4]
- 2 October – Praveen Kumar, cricketer.
- 17 October – T. V. Anupama, Indian Administrative Service officer.
Sania Mirza - 27 November – Suresh Raina, cricketer.[5]
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Deaths
- 6 July – Jagjivan Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer (born 1908).
- 13 December – Smita Patil, actress (born 1955).
See also
References
- ↑ Staff Reporter (16 October 2020). "Petitioner in landmark SC judgment dead". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ↑ "What Supreme Court said on National Anthem, respect and tolerance, 30 yrs ago". The Indian Express. 1 December 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ↑ "New laws Were written". www.downtoearth.org.in. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ↑ Sushmita Sen (28 July 2015). "Happy Birthday Dulquer Salmaan: 'OK Kanmani' Actor Thanks Fans For Wishes". International Business Times. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
- ↑ "Suresh Raina". Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
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