Template:Year in KeralaEvents in the year 1995 in Kerala.
Incumbents[edit | edit source]
- B. Rachaiah - till November
- P. Shiv Shankar - from November
- K. Karunakaran - till March 16th
- A.K. Antony - from March 22nd.
Events[edit | edit source]
- 1 March - Head priest of Sabarimala Temple Kattoor Kuttapilly Vishnu Namboothiri suspended by Travancore Devaswom Board for attending prayer at St. Thomas Ecumenical Church, Nilackal.[1]
- 16 March - Fourth Karunakaran ministry dissolved following announcement of resignation of K. Karunakaran.
- 12 April - Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader E. P. Jayarajan got shot with a gun as an attempt on his life in a moving train (Chennai Rajdhani Express) near Ongole.[2]
- 14 May - Communal riots in Vizhinjam claims six lives.[3]
- 30 September - The first live news broadcasting by a private sector media carried out by Asianet News.[4]
- September - Kerala Police finds more than 100 pipe-bombs from under a bridge in Vengara, Malappuram district.[5]
- 1 October - Secretary of Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department Kerala Brij Kishore Jaiswar IAS, found dead in his house later his wife Mohini was arrested in connection with murder.[6][7]
- 11 October - Police action in Sivagiri Asramam following unrest between two sanyasi groups over board presidency.[8]
- 22 October - Fourteen lives claimed by hooch tragedy in Fort Kochi.[9]
- Goat - Mangium - Teak High-yield investment scam comes into light. Crores of money fizzled away by two Kozhikode natives through a bogus entity named HYS Foundation, Palakkad.[10]
Deaths[edit | edit source]
- 25 February - Rani Mariam Vattalil, Religious sister (b.1954).[11]
- 19 June - P. N. Panicker, father of library movement in Kerala (b. 1909).
- 13 November - Thakiyudeen Abdul Wahid, MD and founder of East-West Airlines (India) (b.1952)
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ā "Head priest of Sabarimala temple barred from conducting puja for praying at church". India Today. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ā "CPI(M) MLA E.P. Jayarajan murder: Police allege plot against probe". India Today. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ā Engineer, Asghar Ali (1995). "Communalism and Communal Violence in 1995". Economic and Political Weekly. 30 (51): 3267ā3269. ISSN 0012-9976.
- ā Rajendran, Dhanya (2019-10-01). "The story behind India's first live private news broadcast 24 years ago". The News Minute. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ā "Pipe-bomb case verdict today". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ā "Wife allegedly kills IAS officer over alcoholism and marital discord in Kerala, arrested". India Today. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ā "State Of Kerala v. Mohini, Kerala High Court, Judgment, Law, casemine.com". www.casemine.com. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ā "Antony's decision to send police into Sivagiri shrine may cause major implications". India Today. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ā "Hooch tragedy in Kerala points to alcoholism". India Today. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ā "Man held for 20-year-old cheating case". The Times of India. 2016-08-08. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
- ā "Killed in 1995, Sister Rani declared 'Blessed' by Vatican". The Times of India. 2017-11-04. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2023-09-23.