1995 in India

Events in the year 1995 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 – Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi

Governors

 * Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
 * Arunachal Pradesh – Mata Prasad
 * Assam – Loknath Mishra
 * Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
 * Goa – Gopala Ramanujam (until 15 June), Romesh Bhandari (starting 16 June)
 * Gujarat – Sarup Singh (until 1 July), Naresh Chandra (starting 1 July)
 * Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal (starting 13 June), Mahabir Prasad (starting 14 June)
 * Himachal Pradesh –** until 17 September: Sudhakarrao Naik
 * 17 September-16 November: Mahabir Prasad
 * starting 16 November: Sheila Kaul
 * Jammu and Kashmir – K. V. Krishna Rao
 * Karnataka – Khurshed Alam Khan
 * Kerala – B. Rachaiah (until 9 November), P. Shiv Shankar (starting 9 November)
 * Madhya Pradesh – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
 * Maharashtra – P.C. Alexander
 * Manipur – O. N. Shrivastava
 * Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe (until 18 June), M. M. Jacob (starting 18 June)
 * Mizoram – P. R. Kyndiah
 * Nagaland – O. N. Shrivastava
 * Odisha – B. Satya Narayan Reddy (until 17 June), Gopala Ramanujam (starting 17 June)
 * Punjab – Bakshi Krishan Nath Chhibber
 * Rajasthan – Bali Ram Bhagat
 * Sikkim – P. Shiv Shankar (until 11 November), K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (starting 11 November)
 * Tamil Nadu – Marri Chenna Reddy
 * Tripura – Romesh Bhandari (until 15 June), Siddheswar Prasad (starting 15 June)
 * Uttar Pradesh – Motilal Vora
 * West Bengal – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy

Events

 * National income - ₹12,055,827 million
 * 1 January - India joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) which has replaced GATT.
 * 5 March – Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited founded.
 * 27 April - Gangster Auto Shankar hanged to death in Central Prison, Salem, Tamil Nadu.
 * 2 July - Tandoor Murder of Delhi took place.
 * 14 August – Internet is officially launched by VSNL.
 * 31 August – Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh is assassinated.
 * 21 September – Reports of the Hindu milk miracle surface.
 * 20 October – Hindi movie Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge released the longest running Hindi movie.
 * November
 * City of Bombay renamed as Mumbai
 * Hindi song Q-Funk became one of the biggest hit remix songs.
 * 17 December – Purulia arms drop case
 * 18 December–26 December – The South Asian Games take place in Madras.
 * 23 December – Nearly 425 people die when a blaze rips through a school prize-giving ceremony in the northern town of Dabwali in Haryana state, near the Indian capital.

Dates unknown

 * Hajj pilgrimage through sea routes from India stopped following the ageing of vessel MV Akbari.

Births

 * PV Sindhu headshot.jpg]]25 January – Mandeep Singh, field hockey player
 * 5 March – Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, actress
 * 10 March – Bipin Singh, footballer
 * 19 March – Biswajit Biswas, footballer
 * 26 March – Anshuman Joshi, actor
 * 29 April – K. Maneesha, badminton player
 * 5 May – Alen Deory, footballer.
 * 10 May – Mirnalini Ravi, actress.
 * 6 June – Sadi Jalali, soccer player
 * 8 June – Jacob Lalrawngbawla, footballer
 * 9 June – PU Chitra, track and field athlete
 * 16 June – Sheena Bajaj, actress known as Dolly from Best of Luck Nikki
 * 5 July – Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, badminton player
 * 7 July – Anamika Choudhari, singer
 * Armaan Malik 2016.jpg July – [[Armaan Malik]], singer
 * [[File:Sara Ali Khan graces Dinesh Vijan’s wedding reception and cocktail party (03) (cropped).jpg|thumb|168x168px|Sara Ali Khan]]12 August – [[Sara Ali Khan]], actress
 * 21 August – Anu Sithara, Actress
 * 28 August – Viraat Badhwar, Australian amateur golfer
 * 7 September – Sahaj Grover, chess player
 * 9 September – Rahul Kumar, actor
 * 10 September – Aparna Das, actress.
 * 11 September – Aparna Balamurali, actress.
 * 11 September – Samyuktha Menon, actress.
 * 15 October – Niveda Thomas, actress
 * 26 October – Megha Akash, actress
 * 5 November – Mehreen Pirzada, actress
 * Tara Sutaria at Sabyasachi event in 2019 (crop).jpg November – [[Tara Sutaria]], actress, dancer, singer and TV host
 * 22 December – Shivam Sai Gupta, visual effect producer and game developer
 * 28 December – J. Meghana, badminton player

Deaths

 * Morarji Desai portrait.jpg April – [[Morarji Desai]], independence activist and 4th Prime Minister of India (born 1896).
 * 21 August – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist and joint Nobel Prize in Physics winner (born 1910).