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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 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 Mw 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.
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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.
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Nidhhi Agerwal - 3 October – K. S. Bharat, cricketer
Hardik Pandya - 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
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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
| 1993 in Asia | |
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References
- Pace, Eric (3 January 2000). "Shankar Dayal Sharma, 81, Former President of India". The New York Times.
- "The 1993 Mumbai Blasts: What Exactly Happened on March 12 That Year". 16 June 2017.
- "Why Veerappan planned the Palar blast". The Times of India.
- Imported (17 October 2018). "The sad fate of Chekannur case". english.madhyamam.com. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- "Shivam Dube". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- "Jasprit Bumrah profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media Ltd. Retrieved 16 October 2021.