1987 in India

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Events in the year 1987 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[edit]

President of India – Zail Singh until 25 July, R. Venkataraman
Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

Governors[edit]

Andhra Pradesh –
Arunachal Pradesh –
- 20 February-18 March: Bhishma Narain Singh
- starting 18 March: R. D. Pradhan
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[edit]

January – Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction set up and became operational with effect from May reflecting concerns related to Industrial Sickness
March – Magnetic Ink Character Recognition technology introduced for cheque clearing.
1987 Sino-Indian skirmish the second such conflict between China and India.
30 May – The Union Territory was split, and Goa was elevated as India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining Union Territories
October - ICC Cricket World Cup (Reliance Cup 1987)
28 December – Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research was established by RBI as an advanced studies institute to promote research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view

Births[edit]

1 January – Neha Sharma, actress and model.
3 March
- Siddharth Bhardwaj, VJ, model and actor
- Shraddha Kapoor
  Shraddha Kapoor, actress and singer
20 March – Kangana Ranaut, actress.
31 March - Janani Iyer, actress
Varun Dhawan
24 April - Varun Dhawan,actor
25 April – Mallika Kapoor, actress.
28 April – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress.
Rohit Sharma
30 April - Rohit Sharma, cricketer.
4 May – Charmy Kaur, actress.
25 June – Anil Shetty, entrepreneur, author, activist and motivational speaker
5 August – Genelia D'Souza, actress.

Genelia Deshmukh
6 August – Aditya Narayan, actor, singer and television host.
19 August – Ileana D'Cruz, actress.
25 October - Umesh Yadav, cricketer.
20 November – Sukirti Kandpal, actress.
18 December - Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, politician, member of parliament from Srikakulam.

Full Date Unknown

Nisargadatta Maharaj (Maruti Shivrampant Kambli), Advaita Vedanta philosopher, spiritual leader

Deaths[edit]

13 March – Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, Islamic scholar, jurist and literary critic. (born 1910)
1 June – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1914).
Kishore Kumar
13 October – Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (born 1929).
27 October – Vijay Merchant, cricketer (born 1911).
24 December – M. G. Ramachandran, Actor, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (born 1917).

Full date unknown[edit]

Dasaradhi, poet and political activist (born 1925).

See also[edit]

Bollywood films of 1987

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