1985 in India
Events in the year 1985 in the Republic of India.
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Incumbents
- President of India – Zail Singh
- Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
- Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (until 11 July), Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 26 November), Kumud Ben Joshi (starting 26 November)
- Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
- Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (until 15 March), P. Venkatasubbaiah (starting 15 March)
- Gujarat – Braj Kumar Nehru
- Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
- Himachal Pradesh – Hokishe Sema
- Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
- Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji
- Kerala – P. Ramachandran
- Madhya Pradesh – K.M Chandy
- Maharashtra –
- until 16 April: Idris Hasan Latif
- 19 April-30 May: Pir Muhammad
- starting 31 May: Kona Prabhakara Rao
- Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
- Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
- Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
- Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
- Punjab –
- until 14 March: Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala
- 14 March-14 November: Arjun Singh
- 14 November-26 November: Hokishe Sema
- starting 26 November: Shankar Dayal Sharma
- Rajasthan – Om Prakash Mehra (until 4 January), Vasantdada Patil (starting 20 November)
- Sikkim –
- until 30 May: Kona Prabhakar Rao
- 30 May-20 November: Bhishma Narain Singh
- starting 20 November: T.V. Rajeswar
- Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
- Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
- Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (until 31 March), Mohammed Usman Arif (starting 31 March)
- West Bengal – Uma Shankar Dikshit
Events
- 10 April – Chakravarty Committee was set up by the RBI to review the working of monetary system. Its recommendations had far reaching consequences eventually removing India from the 500-year-old silver standard
- 23 June – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
- By mid-1985, the statutory preemption on banks' resources in the form of the Statutory Liquidity Ratio and the Cash Reserve Ratio exceeded 45%.
- The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act is passed by Parliament.
- The Administrative tribunals in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Allahabad were established by Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.
- The Special Protection Group is created.
- Indira Gandhi National Open University is established by an Act of Indian Parliament.
- Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) is passed by parliament.
- Texas Instruments, a multinational corporation, starts its India operations in Bangalore and helps create infrastructure to export software via satellite communications from India for the first time.
Births
- 22 February – Bombayla Devi Laishram, archer.[1]
- 5 March - Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, actress
- 9 March - Parthiv Patel, cricketer[2]
- 26 March – Kedar Jadhav, Cricketer.
- 6 April – Jai, actor.
- 23 April – Annies Kanmani Joy, IAS.
- 9 May – Neha Bamb, actress.
- 15 May – Tathagata Mukherjee, actor.
- 1 June – Dinesh Karthik, cricketer.
- 19 June – Kajal Aggarwal, actress.
- 25 June – Durga Shakti Nagpal, Indian bureaucrat.
- 23 September – Ambati Rayudu, cricketer.
- 26 October – Asin Thottumkal, actress.
- 1 November – Anand Ambani, Business Magnet.
- 2 November – Diana Penty, actress.
- 11 November – Robin Uthappa, cricketer.
- 5 December – Shikhar Dhawan, cricketer.
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Deaths
- 31 October – Hardit Malik, diplomat, civil servant and cricketer (born 1894)
- 6 November – Sanjeev Kumar, actor (born 1938).
See also
References
- "Bombayla Devi LAISHRAM - Olympic Archery | India". International Olympic Committee. 20 November 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- "Parthiv Patel". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
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