1988 in India
Events in the year 1988 in the Republic of India.
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Incumbents
- President of India – R. Venkataraman
- Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
- Vice President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma
- Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
- Arunachal Pradesh – R. D. Pradhan
- Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
- Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah (until 25 February), Govind Narain Singh (starting 25 February)
- Goa – Gopal Singh
- Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
- Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney (until 21 February), Hari Anand Barari (starting 22 February)
- Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
- Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
- Karnataka – Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah
- Kerala – P. Ramachandran (until 23 February), Ram Dulari Sinha (starting 23 February)
- Madhya Pradesh – K.M Chandy
- Maharashtra – vacant thereafter (until 23 February), Ram Dulari Sinha (starting 23 February)
- Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
- Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
- Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
- Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
- Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande (until 20 November), Saiyid Nurul Hasan (starting 20 November)
- Punjab – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
- Rajasthan – Sukhdev Prasad (starting 20 February)
- Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
- Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana (until 16 February), P. C. Alexander (starting 16 February)
- Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
- Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
- West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan
Events
- National income - ₹4,293,630 million
- Shadow of the Almighty Faith Tabernacle Ministries is founded.
- The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is set up under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986.
- Viswanathan Anand became first Grandmaster from India , in chess
- Voting age reduced from 21 to 18 years
- August - Floods in Punjab, Haryana
- 6 August – The 1988 Myanmar–India earthquake measuring magnitude 7.3 strikes the Sagaing–Assam border, killing 5 people and leaving over 30 injured or missing.[1]
- 21 August – The 6.9 Mw Bihar earthquake shook northern Bihar near Nepal with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 709–1,450.
- October – Maximum lending rate abolished. Banks free to charge customers according to their credit record.
- 26 December - caste violence between Kapus and Kammas erupts in costal districts of Andhra Pradesh following death of a Congress I M.L.A named Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga Rao.[2]
Law
- April – Security & Exchange Board of India established to deal with the development and regulation of the securities market and investor protection.
- The Discount and Finance House of India, set up as a money market institution, commenced operations.
- July – The National Housing Bank established as an apex body of housing finance and to promote activities in housing development.
- August – Stock Holding Corporation of India, a depository institution, commenced operations.
Births
- 4 January – Nabila Jamshed, novelist.
- 25 January – Cheteshwar Pujara, cricketer.
- 20 February – Jiah Khan, actress.(d.2013)
- 5 March – Khonthoujam Boboi Singh, Indian footballer
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8 April –
- Saqib Saleem, model and actor.
- Nithya Menen, actress.
- 1 May – Anushka Sharma, actress and film producer.
- 16 May – Vicky Kaushal, actor
- 6 June - Ajinkya Rahane, cricketer.
- 10 July - Manjari Fadnis, film actress
- 26 July – Akanksha Puri, actress and model.
- 2 September - Ishant Sharma, cricketer.
- 6 September – Sargun Mehta, TV actress
- 12 September – Prachi Desai, actress.
- 22 September – Sana Saeed, actress and model.
- 26 September – Sandhya, film actress[3]
- 5 November – Virat Kohli, cricketer
- 25 November – Rochelle Rao, model and anchor.
- 28 November – Yami Gautam, actress.
- 2 December – Soniya Mehra, actress.
- 6 December - Ravindra Jadeja, cricketer.
- 24 December – Piyush Chawla, cricketer.
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Deaths
- August – Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, freedom fighter (born 1900)
- 29 October – Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, social reformer and freedom fighter (born 1903)
- 24 December – Jainendra Kumar, novelist (born 1905)
- 2 June – Raj Kapoor, actor in Bollywood (born 1924)
Full date unknown
- Majnun Gorakhpuri, writer and literary critic (born 1904)
See also
References
- "M 7.3 - 85 km SE of Phek, India". earthquake.usgs.gov. USGS. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- Menon, Amarnath K. (31 January 1989). "Congress(I) MLA murder triggers off caste violence in four Andhra Pradesh coastal districts". India Today. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- Arjun (25 December 2009). "Merry days are here". The Hindu. Chennai. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
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