Events in the year 1990 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents President of India – R. Venkataraman Prime Minister of India – V. P. Singh until 10 November, Chandra Shekhar Singh Vice President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak until 25 September, Ranganath Misra
Governors Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi (until 7 February), Krishan Kant (starting 7 February) Arunachal Pradesh – until 16 March: R. D. Pradhan 16 March-8 May: Raja Gopal Singh starting 8 May: Devi Das Thakur Assam – Anisetti Raghuvir (until 2 May), Devi Das Thakur (starting 2 May) Bihar – until 2 February: Jagannath Pahadia 2 February-16 February: G.G. Sohoni starting 16 February: Mohammad Saleem Goa – Khurshed Alam Khan Gujarat – until 2 May: Ram Krishna Trivedi 2 May-21 December: Mahipal Shastri starting 21 December: Sarup Singh Haryana – Hari Anand Barari (until 6 February), Dhanik Lal Mandal (starting 6 February) Himachal Pradesh – until 12 January: R. K. S. Ghandhi 16 February-20 December: B. Rachaiah starting 20 December: Virendra Verma Jammu and Kashmir – until 19 January: K. V. Krishna Rao 19 January-26 May: Jagmohan Malhotra starting 26 May: Girish Chandra Saxena Karnataka – Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (until 5 February), Bhanu Pratap Singh (starting 5 February) Kerala – until 12 February: Ram Dulari Sinha 12 February-20 December: Sarup Singh starting 20 December: B. Rachaiah Madhya Pradesh – Sarla Grewal (until 5 February), M. A. Khan (starting 6 February) Maharashtra – Ram Dulari Sinha (until 18 January), C. Subramaniam (starting 15 February) Manipur – Chintamani Panigrahi Meghalaya – A. A. Rahim (until 8 May), Madhukar Dighe (starting 8 May) Mizoram – W. A. Sangma (until 7 February), Swaraj Kaushal (starting 8 February) Nagaland – Gopal Singh (until 3 May), M. M. Thomas (starting 3 May) Odisha – Saiyid Nurul Hasan (until 6 February), Yagya Dutt Sharma (starting 7 February) Punjab – until 14 June: Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee 14 June-18 December: Virendra Verma starting 18 December: Om Prakash Malhotra Rajasthan – until 3 February: Sukhdev Prasad 3 February-14 February: Milap Chand Jain starting 14 February: Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya Sikkim – S.K. Bhatnagar (until 7 February), Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani (starting 7 February) Tamil Nadu – P. C. Alexander (until 23 May), Surjit Singh Barnala (starting 23 May) Tripura – Sultan Singh (until 11 February), K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (starting 12 February) Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif (until 11 February), B. Satya Narayan Reddy (starting 12 February) West Bengal – T. V. Rajeswar (until 7 February), Saiyid Nurul Hasan (starting 7 February)
Events National income - 5,761,092 million
January - June 19 January – An insurgency breaks out in Kashmir Valley which leads to Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, inflaming tensions with Pakistan. New Delhi dissolves the state assembly and imposes direct rule. 14 February – Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes near the HAL Airport in Bangalore. March – The last Indian troops are withdrawn from Sri Lanka. 15 April – Food poisoning kills 450 guests at an engagement party in Uttar Pradesh. 15 May – Agriculture and Rural Debt Relief Scheme providing debt relief up to 10,000 to small borrowers from Public Sector Banks and Regional Rural Banks announced. 4–10 May – Andhra Pradesh cyclone ravages southern India, killing nearly 1,000 people. 30 May - Communists brutally raped and killed two workers of UNICEF at Bantala, West Bengal for whistle blowing against corruption.
July - December 7 August- V. P. Singh announces implementation of Mandal commission report. 19 September - Rajiv Goswami, a commerce student in Deshbandhu College attempted Self-immolation as part of Mandal Commission protests of 1990. 25 September - Ram Rath Yatra commenced from Somnath. 23 October - Government of Bihar arrest L. K. Advani at Samastipur during rath yatra. 30 October - Ayodhya firing incident on Kar sevaks. November – V.P. Singh resigns as prime minister and is succeeded by Janata Dal dissident Chandra Shekhar. 22 December – S. Venkitaramanan becomes Governor of RBI Births 1 January – Ali Murtaza, cricketer. 10 January – Aishwarya Rajesh, actress. 5 February – Bhuvneshwar Kumar, cricketer. 20 February – Hiphop Tamizha, actor, music director and singer. 2 March - Tiger Shroff, Actor 9 March - Arif Khan, Alpine skier. 10 March – Ritu Varma, Actress. 17 March – Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player. 17 April – Beno Zephine, first 100% visually challenged officer in the Indian Foreign Service. 20 April – Merin Joseph, Indian Police Service officer. 19 May – Siddarth Kaul, cricketer. 23 July – Yuzvendra Chahal, cricketer. 27 July – Kriti Sanon, actress.
3 September – Mohammed Shami, cricketer. 6 September – Aishwarya Lekshmi, actress. 14 September – Suryakumar Yadav, cricketer. 13 October – Pooja Hegde, actress.
16 October – Anirudh Ravichander, music composer and singer. 14 November – Pugazh (actor), actor and comedian. 16 November – Tejasvi Surya, Lok Sabha M.P. 30 November – Rashi Khanna, actress. 11 December – Vinayakan, actor, playback singer, and composer. 13 December – Regina Cassandra, actress and model.
Deaths 14 January – Mani Madhava Chakyar, master Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam artist (b. 1899). 19 January – Rajneesh, aka OSHO mystic, guru and spiritual leader (b. 11 December 1931) 29 March – Adoor Bhasi, actor, writer, journalist, singer and film producer (b. 1927). 30 April - Angami Zapu Phizo, Naga separatist leader (b. 1913) 1 June - Maharaj Charan Singh, Fourth Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (born 1916). 7 July - Laldenga, Mizo Nationalist leader. (b. 1927) 30 September – Shankar Nag, actor and director (b. 1954). 21 October – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, philosopher, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer and linguist (b. 1921). 30 October – Vinod Mehra, actor (b. 1945). 25 December – Chandrakant T. Patel, cotton scientist (b. 1917).
See also Bollywood films of 1990
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