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    • Source: 1985 in India

      • Events in the year 1985 in the Republic of India.


      Incumbents


      President of India – Zail Singh
      Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
      Vice President of India – R. Venkataraman
      Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (until 11 July), Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati


      = Governors

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      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


      National income - ₹2,845,341 million
      16 January - Coomar Narain an employee of SLM Maneklal Industries and certain personal staff of Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India were arrested in connection with leaking of classified documents to foreign agents under Official Secrets Act (India).
      10 March - India won the first World Championship of Cricket held at Australia by defeating Pakistan in the final.
      30 March - The Special Protection Group is created
      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
      5 June - R. Balakrishna Pillai, a minister from Kerala resigns following controversial speech (Punjab Model needed for Kerala) from him that encourage terrorism.
      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.
      26 September – 1985 Punjab Legislative Assembly election.
      By mid-1985, the statutory preemption on banks' resources in the form of the Statutory Liquidity Ratio and the Cash Reserve Ratio exceeded 45%.
      KS Oils company is founded.
      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.


      Law


      24 May - Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act is came into effect after presidential assent.
      2 September - Indira Gandhi National Open University is established by an Act of Indian Parliament.
      14 November - The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act is passed by Parliament came into force.
      The Administrative tribunals in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Allahabad were established by Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.


      Births



      16 January - Sidharth Malhotra, actor and former model
      17 February – Sivakarthikeyan, actor, producer, lyricist, TV anchor.
      22 February – Bombayla Devi Laishram, archer.
      5 March – Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, actress
      9 March - Parthiv Patel, cricketer
      26 March – Kedar Jadhav, Cricketer.
      27 March – Ram Charan, actor and producer.
      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.
      20 June – RJ Balaji, radio jockey, actor, television presenter, comedian and film director.
      25 June – Durga Shakti Nagpal, Indian bureaucrat.
      22 July – Yogi Babu, actor and comedian.
      7 September – Radhika Apte, actress.
      18 September – Vignesh Shivan, film director, lyricist and producer.
      23 September – Ambati Rayudu, cricketer.
      18 October - Sourabhee Debbarma, singer.
      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.
      21 December – Andrea Jeremiah, actress and singer.


      Deaths


      31 October – Hardit Malik, diplomat, civil servant and cricketer (born 1894)
      6 November – Sanjeev Kumar, actor (born 1938).
      3 December - Satya Bhakta, founders of Communist Party of India (b.1897)


      See also


      Bollywood films of 1985


      References

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