1993 in India explained

Events in the year 1993 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma^[1]
• 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.)^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• 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^[5]
• 27 June - Prajakta Koli, YouTuber
• 25 July Pradeep Ranganathan, film director and actor.
• 4 August Malavika Mohanan, actress
• 17 August Nidhi Agerwal, actress
• 3 October – K. S. Bharat, cricketer
• 11 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^[6]
• 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).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1993

Notes and References

1. News: Shankar Dayal Sharma, 81, Former President of India. Eric. Pace. The New York Times . 3 January 2000 .
2. Web site: The 1993 Mumbai Blasts: What Exactly Happened on March 12 That Year. 16 June 2017 .
3. News: Why Veerappan planned the Palar blast. The Times of India.
4. Web site: Imported . 2018-10-17 . The sad fate of Chekannur case . 2023-09-07 . english.madhyamam.com . en.
5. Web site: Shivam Dube . 26 September 2020 . .
6. Web site: Jasprit Bumrah profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos . ESPNcricinfo . . 16 October 2021.