1990 in India

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Year in India Events in the year 1990 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India – V. P. Singh until 10 November, Chandra Shekhar Singh
• Vice President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak until 25 September, Ranganath Misra

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi (until 7 February), Krishan Kant (starting 7 February)
• Arunachal Pradesh –
  • until 16 March: R. D. Pradhan
  • 16 March-8 May: Raja Gopal Singh
  • starting 8 May: Devi Das Thakur
• Assam – Anisetti Raghuvir (until 2 May), Devi Das Thakur (starting 2 May)
• Bihar –
  • until 2 February: Jagannath Pahadia
  • 2 February-16 February: G.G. Sohoni
  • starting 16 February: Mohammad Saleem
• Goa – Khurshed Alam Khan
• Gujarat –
  • until 2 May: Ram Krishna Trivedi
  • 2 May-21 December: Mahipal Shastri
  • starting 21 December: Sarup Singh
• Haryana – Hari Anand Barari (until 6 February), Dhanik Lal Mandal (starting 6 February)
• Himachal Pradesh –
  • until 12 January: R. K. S. Ghandhi
  • 16 February-20 December: B. Rachaiah
  • starting 20 December: Virendra Verma
• Jammu and Kashmir –
  • until 19 January: K. V. Krishna Rao
  • 19 January-26 May: Jagmohan Malhotra
  • starting 26 May: Girish Chandra Saxena
• Karnataka – Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (until 5 February), Bhanu Pratap Singh (starting 5 February)
• Kerala –
  • until 12 February: Ram Dulari Sinha
  • 12 February-20 December: Sarup Singh
  • starting 20 December: B. Rachaiah
• Madhya Pradesh – Sarla Grewal (until 5 February), M. A. Khan (starting 6 February)
• Maharashtra – Ram Dulari Sinha (until 18 January), C. Subramaniam (starting 15 February)
• Manipur – Chintamani Panigrahi
• Meghalaya – A. A. Rahim (until 8 May), Madhukar Dighe (starting 8 May)
• Mizoram – W. A. Sangma (until 7 February), Swaraj Kaushal (starting 8 February)
• Nagaland – Gopal Singh (until 3 May), M. M. Thomas (starting 3 May)
• Odisha – Saiyid Nurul Hasan (until 6 February), Yagya Dutt Sharma (starting 7 February)
• Punjab –
  • until 14 June: Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee
  • 14 June-18 December: Virendra Verma
  • starting 18 December: Om Prakash Malhotra
• Rajasthan –
  • until 3 February: Sukhdev Prasad
  • 3 February-14 February: Milap Chand Jain
  • starting 14 February: Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya
• Sikkim – S.K. Bhatnagar (until 7 February), Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani (starting 7 February)
• Tamil Nadu – P. C. Alexander (until 23 May), Surjit Singh Barnala (starting 23 May)
• Tripura – Sultan Singh (until 11 February), K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (starting 12 February)
• Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif (until 11 February), B. Satya Narayan Reddy (starting 12 February)
• West Bengal – T. V. Rajeswar (until 7 February), Saiyid Nurul Hasan (starting 7 February)

Events

• National income - Template:INR5,761,092 million
• 19 January – An insurgency breaks out in Kashmir Valley which leads to Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, inflaming tensions with Pakistan. New Delhi dissolves the state assembly and imposes direct rule.
• 14 February – Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes near the HAL Airport in Bangalore.
• March – The last Indian troops are withdrawn from Sri Lanka.
• 15 April – Food poisoning kills 450 guests at an engagement party in Uttar Pradesh.
• 15 May – Agriculture and Rural Debt Relief Scheme providing debt relief up to Template:INR 10,000 to small borrowers from Public Sector Banks and Regional Rural Banks announced.
• 4–10 May – Andhra Pradesh cyclone ravages southern India, killing nearly 1,000 people.
• 30 May - Communists brutally raped and killed two workers of UNICEF at Bantala, West Bengal for whistle blowing against corruption.
• August- V P Singh announces implementation of Mandal commission report.
• 19 September - Rajiv Goswami, a commerce student in Deshbandhu College attempted Self-immolation as part of Mandal Commission protests of 1990.
• 25 September - Ram Rath Yatra commenced from Somnath.
• 23 October - Government of Bihar arrest L. K. Advani at Samastipur during rath yatra.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 30 October - Ayodhya firing incident on Kar sevaks.
• November – V.P. Singh resigns as prime minister and is succeeded by Janata Dal dissident Chandra Shekhar.
• 22 December – S. Venkitaramanan becomes Governor of RBI

Births

• 1 January – Ali Murtaza, cricketer.
• 10 January – Aishwarya Rajesh, actress.
• 5 February – Bhuvneshwar Kumar, cricketer.
• 20 February – Hiphop Tamizha, actor, music director and singer.
• 9 March - Arif Khan, Alpine skier.
• 10 March – Ritu Varma, Actress.
• 17 March – Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player.
• 17 April – Beno Zephine, first 100% visually challenged officer in the Indian Foreign Service.
• 20 April – Merin Joseph, Indian Police Service officer.
• 19 May – Siddarth Kaul, cricketer.
• 23 July – Yuzvendra Chahal, cricketer.
• 27 July – Kriti Sanon, actress.

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Kriti Sanon

• 3 September – Mohammed Shami, cricketer.
• 6 September – Aishwarya Lekshmi, actress.
• 14 September – Suryakumar Yadav, cricketer.
• 13 October – Pooja Hegde, actress.

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Kriti Sanon

• 16 October – Anirudh Ravichander, music composer and singer.
• 14 November – Pugazh (actor), actor and comedian.
• 30 November – Rashi Khanna, actress.
• 11 December – Vinayakan, actor, playback singer, and composer.
• 13 December – Regina Cassandra, actress and model.

Deaths

• 14 January – Mani Madhava Chakyar, master Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam artist (b. 1899).
• 19 January – Rajneesh, aka OSHO mystic, guru and spiritual leader (b. 11 December 1931)
• 29 March – Adoor Bhasi, actor, writer, journalist, singer and film producer (b. 1927).
• 30 April - Angami Zapu Phizo, Naga separatist leader (b. 1913)
• 1 June - Maharaj Charan Singh, Fourth Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (born 1916).
• 7 July - Laldenga, Mizo Nationalist leader. (b. 1927)
• 30 September – Shankar Nag, actor and director (b. 1954).
• 21 October – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, philosopher, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer and linguist (b. 1921).
• 30 October – Vinod Mehra, actor (b. 1945).
• 25 December – Chandrakant T. Patel, cotton scientist (b. 1917).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1990