1988 in India
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Events in the year 1988 in the Republic of India
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India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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Incumbents
- President of IndiaPresident of IndiaThe President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
– R. VenkataramanR. VenkataramanRamaswamy Venkataraman was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union minister and as the eighth President of India.... - Prime Minister of IndiaPrime Minister of IndiaThe Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
– Rajiv GandhiRajiv GandhiRajiv Ratna Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India . He took office after his mother's assassination on 31 October 1984; he himself was assassinated on 21 May 1991. He became the youngest Prime Minister of India when he took office at the age of 40.Rajiv Gandhi was the elder son of Indira...
Events
- The National Consumer Disputes Redressal CommissionNational Consumer Disputes Redressal CommissionThe National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, India is a quasi-judicial commission in India which was set up in 1988 under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986. Its head office is in New Delhi. The commission is headed by a sitting or retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. The present...
is set up under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986. - 1988 Bihar earthquake1988 Bihar earthquake1988 Nepal earthquake occurred in 1988 in Nepal near the Indian border, affecting much of northern Bihar.The magnitude 6.6 earthquake shook the region on August 21, 1988, killing about 1004 persons and injuring more than 16,000....
Births
- 4 January - Nabila JamshedNabila JamshedNabila Jamshed is the author of the fantasy novel Wish Upon A Time - The Legendary Scimitar. Jamshed lives in New Delhi, India and has graduated with a degree in political science from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University...
, novelist. - 25 January - Cheteshwar PujaraCheteshwar PujaraCheteshwar Arvind Pujara is an Indian Test cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman. Pujara has the distinction of hitting three triple centuries within a span of one month, although only the last of these was in a first-class match. In December 2008, the BCCI awarded him a D-grade national contract...
, cricketer. - 20 February - Jiah KhanJiah Khan-Early Life:Khan Raised in Chelsea, London, to a Muslim family is the daughter of Ali Rizvi Khan, an Indian American, and Rabiya Amin, a Hindi film actress in the 1980s from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India and most remembered in Tahir Hussain's Dulha Bikta Hai....
, actress. - 12 September - Prachi DesaiPrachi DesaiPrachi Desai is an Indian film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Bani Walia in the Hindi television drama Kasamh Se which aired on Zee TV. Prachi is the endorser, spokesperson, brand ambassador and the face of Neutrogena products in India...
, actress. - 22 September - Sana SaeedSana Saeed- Biography :Sana Saeed who currently resides in Mumbai, India was chosen among two-hundred other children to play Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee's daughter in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai , her only movie besides Badal and Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega... in which she reprised her role from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai ...
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- 2 December - Soniya MehraSoniya Mehra-Personal life:She is the daughter of the late actor Vinod Mehra from his third and last wife Kiran. She was less than two years old when her father died in October 1990. Since then she was brought up in Kenya with her brother Rohan by her maternal grandparents Soniya went to school at The Mombasa...
, actress. - 24 December - Piyush ChawlaPiyush ChawlaPiyush Pramod Chawla is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India U-19 team and the Central Zone. His Hometown is Moradabad,. He is seen as a leg-spinning allrounder in domestic cricket, but has not fired as a batsman in the One Day International format...
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Deaths
- August - Mahendra Lal WadhwaMahendra Lal WadhwaMahendra Lal Wadhwa was an Indian freedom fighter from the town of Muzafargarh. He fought the British Rule in India for an independent country, for which he was subsequently imprisoned many times. He was awarded the Tamrapatra in 1972, an award for outstanding contribution to freedom fighting by...
, freedom fighter (b.19001900 in India-Births:*12 July — Chhabi Biswas, actor .*2 October — Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, freedom fighter .*29 December — Deenanath Mangeshkar, actor, musician and singer ....
). - 29 October - Kamaladevi ChattopadhyayKamaladevi ChattopadhyayKamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer, freedom fighter, and most remembered for her contribution to Indian independence movement, for being the driving force behind the renaissance of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in post-Independence India, and for upliftment of the...
, social reformer and freedom fighter (b.19031903 in India-Births:*3 April - Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, social reformer and freedom fighter .*Gopi Krishna, yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer and writer ....
). - 24 December - Jainendra KumarJainendra KumarJainendra Kumar born Anandi Lal , was an influential Hindi writer of 20th century. He explored the human psyche in novels such as Sunita and Tyagapatra....
, novelist (b.19051905 in IndiaEvents in the year 1905 in India.-Births:*2 January - Jainendra Kumar, novelist .*16 January - Dr. Manubhai P. Vaidya, Educationist and recipient of Best Teacher Award from Dr. S...
). - 2 June - Raj KapoorRaj KapoorKnown as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...
, legendary actorActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
in BollywoodBollywoodBollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
(b. 19241924 in India-Events:*12 January - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested soon after.*February - Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds....
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- Majnun GorakhpuriMajnun GorakhpuriAhmad Siddiq "Majnun Gorakhpuri" Urdu:احمد صدیق مجنوں گورکھپوری was an eminent and leading Urdu short story writer, poet and literary critic of his time.- Life :...
, writer and literary critic (b.19041904 in India-Births:*28 March - Chittor V. Nagaiah, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer .*8 August - Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh ....
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See also
- Bollywood films of 1988Bollywood films of 1988A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1988:-Highest grossing:# Tezaab Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Chunkey Pandey# Shahenshah Amitabh Bachchan, Meenakshi Sheshadri# Paap Ki Duniya Sunny Deol, Neelam, Chunkey Pandey...