Template:Year in region Events in the year 2002 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents[edit | edit source]
- President of India ā Shankar Dayal Sharma
- Prime Minister of India ā P. V. Narasimha Rao
- Chief Justice of India ā Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi
Governors[edit | edit source]
- Andhra Pradesh ā
- Arunachal Pradesh ā Mata Prasad
- Assam ā
- Bihar ā
- Goa ā
- Gujarat ā
- Haryana ā
- Himachal Pradesh ā
- Jammu and Kashmir ā
- Karnataka ā
- Kerala ā
- Madhya Pradesh ā
- Maharashtra ā
- Manipur ā
- Meghalaya ā
- Mizoram ā
- Nagaland ā
- Odisha ā
- Punjab ā
- Rajasthan ā
- Sikkim ā
- Tamil Nadu ā
- Tripura ā
- Uttar Pradesh ā
- West Bengal ā
Events[edit | edit source]
- 5 March ā Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited founded.[1]
- 14 August ā Internet is officially launched by VSNL.[2]
- 21 September ā Reports of the Hindu milk miracle surface.
- 23 December ā Nearly 425 people die when a blaze rips through a school prize-giving ceremony in the northern town of Dabwali in Haryana state, near the Indian capital.
- 20 October ā Hindi movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge released the longest running Hindi movie[citation needed].
- 31 August ā Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh is assassinated.
- India joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) which has replaced GATT.
- November 1995 ā City of Bombay renamed as Mumbai
- 17 December 1995 in which unauthorised arms were dropped from an Antonov An-26 aircraft in Purulia district in the state of West Bengal
Births[edit | edit source]
25 January ā Mandeep Singh, field hockey player
P. V. Sindhu - 5 March ā Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, actress
- 10 March ā Bipin Singh, footballer
- 19 March ā Biswajit Biswas, footballer
- 26 March ā Anshuman Joshi, actor
- 29 April ā K. Maneesha, badminton player
- 5 May ā Alen Deory, footballer
- 24 May ā Jabir Shabas, ux designer
- 6 June ā Sadi Jalali, soccer player
- 8 June ā Jacob Lalrawngbawla, footballer
- 9 June ā PU Chitra, track and field athlete
- 5 July ā Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, badminton player
- 7 July ā Anamika Choudhari, singer
22 July ā Armaan Malik, singer
Armaan Malik - 12 August-Sara Ali Khan, actress
- 28 August ā Viraat Badhwar, Australian amateur golfer
- 7 September ā Sahaj Grover, chess player
- 9 September ā Rahul Kumar, actor
- 15 October ā Niveda Thomas, actress
- 19 November ā Tara Sutaria, actress, dancer, singer and TV host
- 22 December ā Shivam Sai Gupta, visual effect producer and game developer
- 28 December ā J. Meghana, badminton player
Deaths[edit | edit source]
10 April ā Morarji Desai, independence activist and 4th Prime Minister of India (born 1896).
Morarji Desai - 21 August ā Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist and joint Nobel Prize in Physics winner (born 1910).
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ā "Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.: About Us". Archived from the original on 25 January 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2007.
- ā http://dxm.org/techonomist/news/vsnlnow.html
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