1993 in India

Events in the year 1993 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

 * President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma
 * Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao
 * Vice President of India – K. R. Narayanan
 * Chief Justice of India – Lalit Mohan Sharma until 11 February, Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah

Governors

 * Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
 * Arunachal Pradesh – Surendranath Dwivedy (until 4 July), Madhukar Dighe (4 July-20 October), Mata Prasad (starting 20 October)
 * Assam – Loknath Mishra
 * Bihar – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (until 13 August), Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (starting 13 August)
 * Goa – Bhanu Prakash Singh
 * Gujarat – Sarup Singh
 * Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal
 * Himachal Pradesh –
 * until 29 January: Virendra Verma
 * 11 February-29 June: Bali Ram Bhagat
 * starting 11 February: Gulsher Ahmad
 * Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena (until 12 March), K. V. Krishna Rao (starting 12 March)
 * Karnataka – Khurshed Alam Khan
 * Kerala – B. Rachaiah
 * Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan (until 23 June), Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (starting 23 June)
 * Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam (until 9 January), P.C. Alexander (starting 12 January)
 * Manipur –
 * until 19 March: Chintamani Panigrahi
 * 20 March-30 August: K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
 * starting 31 August: V. K. Nayar
 * Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe
 * Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal (until 9 February), P. R. Kyndiah (starting 9 February)
 * Nagaland – Loknath Mishra (until 1 October), V. K. Nayar (starting 1 October)
 * Odisha –
 * until 1 February: Yagya Dutt Sharma
 * 1 February-31 May: Saiyid Nurul Hasan
 * starting 1 June: B. Satya Narayan Reddy
 * Punjab – Surendra Nath
 * Rajasthan –
 * until 31 May: Marri Chenna Reddy
 * 31 May-30 June: Dhanik Lal Mandal
 * starting 30 June: Bali Ram Bhagat
 * Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
 * Tamil Nadu – Bhishma Narain Singh (until 30 May), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 31 May)
 * Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (until 14 August), Romesh Bhandari (starting 14 August)
 * Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy (until 25 May), Motilal Vora (starting 25 May)
 * West Bengal –
 * until 12 July: Saiyid Nurul Hasan
 * 12 July-14 August: B. Satyanarayan Reddy
 * starting 14 August: K. V. Raghunatha Reddy

Events

 * National income - ₹8,759,924 million
 * 9 March – The All Parties Hurriyat Conference is formed in Kashmir.
 * 12 March – A series of bomb blasts, thought to be planted by underworld figures, rock the country's commercial capital of Bombay, killing some 260 people. (See 1993 Mumbai bombings.)
 * 9 April – Veerappan Gang Trapped and blew a Tamil Nadu bus carrying police, forest officials and civilians, using a landmine, which killed 22 civilians and police[11] and this incident is known as Palar blast.
 * 14 April – Sun TV, a Tamil language television station, as first regular broadcasting service to start in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
 * 24 May : Veerappan and his gang Killed 6 policemen K.M.Uthappa, Prabhakara, Poovaiah, Machaiah, Swamy and Narasappa of STF commander Gopal Hosur's party and injured the police commander near Rangaswamy vaddu, M.M.Hills, Karnataka.
 * 3 June - Chief minister of Kerala K. Karunakaran gravely injured following a road accident.
 * 21 July - 1993 Kolkata firing
 * 29 July - Disappearance of Chekannur Maulavi a reformist. He was allegedly kidnapped and killed and is considered as first act of Islamic terrorism in Malabar Coast post independence.
 * 30 September – The 6.2 Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
 * 5 December -Mulayam Singh Yadav elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time.

Births

 * 6 January – Pawan Negi, cricketer.
 * 11 March – Manjima Mohan, actress
 * 15 March – Alia Bhatt, actress and model.
 * 25 May - Rahul Yadav, chartered accountant.
 * 1 April – Sri Divya, actress.
 * 2 May – Gayathrie Shankar, actress.
 * 1 June - Rajat Patidar, cricketer
 * 26 June - Shivam Dube, cricketer
 * 27 June - Prajakta Koli, YouTuber
 * 25 July – Pradeep Ranganathan, film director and actor.
 * Malavika_Mohanan_cropped_(cropped).jpg August – [[Malavika Mohanan]], actress
 * Nidhhi_Agerwal_at_the_Daniel_Wellingston_store_launch.jpg]]17 August – Nidhi Agerwal, actress
 * 3 October – K. S. Bharat, cricketer
 * Hardik Pandya (cropped).jpg October – [[Hardik Pandya]], cricketer
 * 12 October – Mukesh Kumar, cricketer
 * 13 October – Hanuma Vihari, cricketer
 * 30 October – Aditi Rathore, Indian television actress
 * 6 December – Jasprit Bumrah, cricketer
 * 16 December – Kalidas Jayaram, actor

Deaths

 * 5 April – Divya Bharti, actress (born 1974).
 * 9 June – Satyen Bose, film director (born 1916).
 * 12 June – Binay Ranjan Sen, diplomat, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (born 1898).
 * 3 August – Chinmayananda, spiritual leader (born 1916).
 * 19 August – Utpal Dutt, actor, director and writer (born 1929).
 * 7 November - Kirupanandha Variyar, spiritual teacher (born 1906).
 * 29 November – J. R. D. Tata, French-born Indian aviator and businessman who became India's first licensed pilot (born 1904).

Full date unknown

 * Arun Joshi, novelist (born 1939).