1986 in India

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← 1985 1984 1983 1986 in India → 1987 1988 1989
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Events in the year 1986 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• President of India – Zail Singh
• Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (until 20 December), Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
• Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah
• Gujarat – Braj Kumar Nehru (until 26 February), Ram Krishna Trivedi (starting 26 February)
• Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
• Himachal Pradesh –
  • until 7 March: Hokishe Sema
  • 7 March-16 April: Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai
  • starting 16 April: R. K. S. Ghandhi
• Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
• Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji
• Kerala – P. Ramachandran
• Madhya Pradesh – K.M Chandy
• Maharashtra – Kona Prabhakara Rao (until 2 April), Shankar Dayal Sharma (starting 2 April)
• Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
• Punjab – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 2 April), Siddhartha Shankar Ray (starting 2 April)
• Rajasthan – Vasantdada Patil
• Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
• Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
• Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
• West Bengal – Uma Shankar Dikshit (until 12 August), Saiyid Nurul Hasan (starting 12 August)

Events[]

• 1 April – VSNL incorporated under the Indian Companies Act, 1956.
• 30 April – Operation Black Thunder conducted to flush out remaining Sikh extremists from the Golden Temple
• May – a new National Policy on Education announced by the Government
• September – Environment Protection Act
• 22 September – Australia-India test cricket match ends in a tie at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, becoming only the second tied test in the history.
• 27 October – Inland Waterways Authority of India
• November – Operation Brasstacks starts in Rajasthan
• November – 182-day Treasury Bill introduced
• 24 December – Consumer Protection Act

Births[]

• 

  Deepika Padukone
  5 January – Deepika Padukone, actress
• 21 January – Sushant Singh Rajput,actor
• 4 February – Asif Ali, actor
• 6 June – Bhavana (actress), actress.
• 

  Ravichandran Ashwin
  17 September – Ravichandran Ashwin, cricketer.
• 28 July – Dulquer Salmaan, actor^[1]
• 2 October – Praveen Kumar, cricketer.
• 17 October – T. V. Anupama, Indian Administrative Service officer.
• 

  Sania Mirza
  15 November – Sania Mirza, tennis player.
• 27 November – Suresh Raina, cricketer.^[2]

Deaths[]

• 6 July – Jagjivan Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer (born 1908).
• 13 December – Smita Patil, actress (born 1955).

See also[]

• Bollywood films of 1986

References[]

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