1987 in India
Events in the year 1987 in the Republic of India.
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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
- National income - ₹3,618,647 million
- 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
- 24 April – Varun Dhawan,actor
- 25 April – Mallika Kapoor, actress.
- 28 April – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
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- Dasaradhi, poet and political activist (born 1925).
See also
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