1995 in India explained

Events in the year 1995 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

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.^[1]
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.^[2]
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.^[3]
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.

Hajj pilgrimage through sea routes from India stopped following the ageing of vessel MV Akbari.^[4] ^[5]

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
22 July – Armaan Malik, singer
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
19 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

10 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).

Web site: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.: About Us . 30 January 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070125225919/http://www.delhimetrorail.com/corporates/about_us.html . 25 January 2007 . dead.
Web site: VSNL starts India's first Internet service today.
Book: Bell . Daniel . Encyclopedia of International Games . 17 March 2016 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-1527-1 . 517 . en.
Web site: Moin . Ather . 2018-11-03 . Haj trip by sea will not be possible . 2022-05-02 . Deccan Chronicle . en.
Web site: 2022-02-04 . History – Haj Committee of India . 2022-05-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220204235622/https://hajcommittee.gov.in/history/ . 4 February 2022 . dead.