1992 in India

1992
in
India

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Events in the year 1992 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Governors

Events

  • 1 February – Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal Court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case, and orders the Indian government to press for an extradition from the United States.
  • May – Over 200 people die in Cuttack in Odisha, after drinking illegally brewed liquor. About 600 people were hospitalised (see: 1992 Odisha liquor deaths).
  • 14 August Veerappan Gang Trapped and killed Mysore District SP, T.Harikrishna, SI Shakeel Ahmed and four constables named Benegonda, C.M.Kalappa, Sundara and M.P.Appachu, through a false informant near Meenyam in Karnataka
  • 2 October Zee Television, a Hindi language satellite and cable television station, a first officially regular broadcasting service to start in Mumbai.[1]
  • 6 December – Members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council) tear down a 16th-century mosque located in Ayodhya, in Northern India. The mosque is built over a shrine which exhorted the small piece of land as Ram Janmabhoomi – the birthplace of Lord Rama. This sparks off nationwide communal riots in which some 3,000 people die.
  • Government of India establishes SEBI, stock exchange regulator.
  • Indian Rupee exchange rate collapsed. It was 20 Rs to 1 dollar in January 1992 and it became 30 Rs to 1 dollar in December 1992. A huge 50% depreciation in value.[2]

Births

Deaths

Full date unknown

See also

  • Bollywood films of 1992

References

  1. Zee TV Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  2. "Interactive graph: Indian rupee vs US dollar since 1990". Ibnlive.in.com. 24 May 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  3. "Navdeep Saini". Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
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