1987 in India

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Events in the year 1987 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• President of India – Zail Singh until 25 July, R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
• Arunachal Pradesh –
  • 20 February-18 March: Bhishma Narain Singh
  • starting 18 March: R. D. Pradhan
• Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah
• Goa – Gopal Singh (starting 30 May)
• Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
• Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
• Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
• Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
• Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji (until 26 February), Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (starting 26 February)
• Kerala – P. Ramachandran
• Madhya Pradesh –
  • until 30 November: K.M Chandy
  • 30 November-29 December: Narayan Dutta Ojha
  • starting 29 December: K.M Chandy
• Maharashtra – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 3 September), vacant thereafter (starting 3 September)
• Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
• Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
• Punjab – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
• Rajasthan – Vasantdada Patil (until 15 October), vacant thereafter (starting 15 October)
• Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
• Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
• Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
• West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events[]

• January – Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction set up and became operational with effect from May reflecting concerns related to Industrial Sickness
• March – Magnetic Ink Character Recognition technology introduced for cheque clearing.
• 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish the second such conflict between China and India.
• 30 May – The Union territory was split, and Goa was elevated as India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining Union Territories
• October – ICC Cricket World Cup (Reliance Cup 1987)
• 28 December – Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research was established by RBI as an advanced studies institute to promote research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view

Births[]

• 1 January – Neha Sharma, actress and model.
• 3 March – Shraddha Kapoor, actress and singer
• 23 March – Kangana Ranaut, actress.
• 31 March – Janani Iyer, actress
• 

  Varun Dhawan
  24 April – Varun Dhawan,actor
• 25 April – Mallika Kapoor, actress.
• 28 April – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress.
• 

  Rohit Sharma
  30 April – Rohit Sharma, cricketer.
• 4 May – Charmy Kaur, actress.
• 25 June – Anil Shetty, entrepreneur, author, activist and motivational speaker
• 5 August – Genelia D'Souza, actress.
  

  Genelia Deshmukh
• 6 August – Aditya Narayan, actor, singer and television host.
• 19 August – Ileana D'Cruz, actress.
• 25 October – Umesh Yadav, cricketer.
• 20 November – Sukirti Kandpal, actress.
• 18 December – Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, politician, member of parliament from Srikakulam.

Deaths[]

• 13 March – Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, Islamic scholar, jurist and literary critic. (born 1910)
• 1 June – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1914).
• 

  Kishore Kumar
  13 October – Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (born 1929).
• 27 October – Vijay Merchant, cricketer (born 1911).
• 24 December – M. G. Ramachandran, Actor, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (born 1917).

Full date unknown[]

• Dasaradhi, poet and political activist (born 1925).

See also[]

• Bollywood films of 1987