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Events in the year 2002 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma
- Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao
- Chief Justice of India – Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh –
- Arunachal Pradesh – Mata Prasad
- 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
- 5 March – Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited founded.[1]
- 14 August – Internet is officially launched by VSNL.[2]
- 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[citation needed].
- 31 August – Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh is assassinated.
- India joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) which has replaced GATT.
- November 1995 – City of Bombay renamed as Mumbai
- 17 December 1995 in which unauthorised arms were dropped from an Antonov An-26 aircraft in Purulia district in the state of West Bengal
Births
P. V. Sindhu - 5 March – Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, actress
- 10 March – Bipin Singh, footballer
- 19 March – Biswajit Biswas, footballer
- 26 March – Anshuman Joshi, actor
- 29 April – K. Maneesha, badminton player
- 5 May – Alen Deory, footballer
- 24 May – Jabir Shabas, ux designer
- 6 June – Sadi Jalali, soccer player
- 8 June – Jacob Lalrawngbawla, footballer
- 9 June – PU Chitra, track and field athlete
- 5 July – Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, badminton player
- 7 July – Anamika Choudhari, singer
Armaan Malik - 12 August-Sara Ali Khan, actress
- 28 August – Viraat Badhwar, Australian amateur golfer
- 7 September – Sahaj Grover, chess player
- 9 September – Rahul Kumar, actor
- 15 October – Niveda Thomas, actress
- 19 November – Tara Sutaria, actress, dancer, singer and TV host
- 22 December – Shivam Sai Gupta, visual effect producer and game developer
- 28 December – J. Meghana, badminton player
Deaths
Morarji Desai - 21 August – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist and joint Nobel Prize in Physics winner (born 1910).
See also
References
- ↑ "Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.: About Us". Archived from the original on 25 January 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2007.
- ↑ http://dxm.org/techonomist/news/vsnlnow.html
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