1 January - India joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) which has replaced GATT.
5 March – Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited founded.
27 April - Gangster Auto Shankar hanged to death in Central Prison, Salem, Tamil Nadu.
2 July - Tandoor Murder of Delhi took place.
14 August – Internet is officially launched by VSNL.
31 August – Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh is assassinated.
21 September – Reports of the Hindu milk miracle surface.
20 October – Hindi movie Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge released the longest running Hindi movie.
November
City of Bombay renamed as Mumbai
Hindi song Q-Funk became one of the biggest hit remix songs.
17 December – Purulia arms drop case
18 December–26 December – The South Asian Games take place in Madras.
23 December – 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.
Dates unknown
Hajj pilgrimage through sea routes from India stopped following the ageing of vessel MV Akbari.
Law
Births
25 January – Mandeep Singh, field hockey player
5 March – Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, actress
10 March – Bipin Singh, footballer
19 March – Biswajit Biswas, footballer
26 March – Anshuman Joshi, actor
29 April – K. Maneesha, badminton player
5 May – Alen Deory, footballer.
10 May – Mirnalini Ravi, actress.
6 June – Sadi Jalali, soccer player
8 June – Jacob Lalrawngbawla, footballer
9 June – PU Chitra, track and field athlete
16 June – Sheena Bajaj, actress known as Dolly from Best of Luck Nikki
5 July – Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, badminton player
7 July – Anamika Choudhari, singer
22 July – Armaan Malik, singer
12 August – Sara Ali Khan, actress
21 August – Anu Sithara, Actress
28 August – Viraat Badhwar, Australian amateur golfer
7 September – Sahaj Grover, chess player
9 September – Rahul Kumar, actor
10 September – Aparna Das, actress.
11 September – Aparna Balamurali, actress.
11 September – Samyuktha Menon, actress.
15 October – Niveda Thomas, actress
26 October – Megha Akash, actress
5 November – Mehreen Pirzada, actress
19 November – Tara Sutaria, actress, dancer, singer and TV host
22 December – Shivam Sai Gupta, visual effect producer and game developer
28 December – J. Meghana, badminton player
Deaths
10 April – Morarji Desai, independence activist and 4th Prime Minister of India (born 1896).
21 August – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist and joint Nobel Prize in Physics winner (born 1910).