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Events in the year1988 in the Republic of India.

• President of India –R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India –Rajiv Gandhi
• Vice President of India –Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Chief Justice of India –Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

• Andhra Pradesh –Kumud Ben Joshi
• Arunachal Pradesh –R. D. Pradhan
• Assam –Bhishma Narain Singh
• Bihar –P. Venkatasubbaiah (until 25 February),Govind Narain Singh (starting 25 February)
• Goa –Gopal Singh
• Gujarat –Ram Krishna Trivedi
• Haryana –Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney (until 21 February),Hari Anand Barari (starting 22 February)
• Himachal Pradesh –R. K. S. Ghandhi
• Jammu and Kashmir –Jagmohan Malhotra
• Karnataka –Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah
• Kerala –P. Ramachandran (until 23 February),Ram Dulari Sinha (starting 23 February)
• Madhya Pradesh –K.M Chandy
• Maharashtra – vacant thereafter (until 23 February),Ram Dulari Sinha (starting 23 February)
• Manipur –K. V. Krishna Rao
• Meghalaya –Bhishma Narain Singh
• Mizoram –Hiteswar Saikia
• Nagaland –K. V. Krishna Rao
• Odisha –Bishambhar Nath Pande (until 20 November),Saiyid Nurul Hasan (starting 20 November)
• Punjab –Siddhartha Shankar Ray
• Rajasthan –Sukhdev Prasad (starting 20 February)
• Sikkim –T.V. Rajeswar
• Tamil Nadu –Sundar Lal Khurana (until 16 February),P. C. Alexander (starting 16 February)
• Tripura –K. V. Krishna Rao
• Uttar Pradesh –Mohammed Usman Arif
• West Bengal –Saiyid Nurul Hasan

• National income -₹4,293,630 million

• January - Viswanathan Anand became firstGrandmaster (chess) from India by winning
• 2 February - Elections to legislative assemblies ofMeghalaya andTripura held.
• 9 - 18 May -Operation Black Thunder
• 2 June -Legendary actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor dies^[1]
• 8 July -Peruman railway accident claims 105 lives.
• 18 July -Rupan Deol Bajaj case
• 6 August – The1988 Myanmar–India earthquake measuring magnitude 7.3 strikes the Sagaing–Assam border, killing 5 people and leaving over 30 injured or missing.^[2]
• 10 August -Chief minister of KarnatakaRamakrishna Hegde resigns followingWiretapping scandal against him.^[3]
• 21 August – The 6.9 M_w Bihar earthquake shook northern Bihar near Nepal with a maximumMercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 709–1,450.
• August -The Statesman accusesLalit Suri, a close confidant ofRajiv Gandhi for accepting 6.61 crore rupees as bribe fromSumitomo Corporation related toHVJ Gas Pipeline works ofOil and Natural Gas Corporation through entities based inLondon andPanama.^[4]

• 23-26 September -Floods in Punjab, Haryana due to heavy rains inBhakra.
• October – Maximum lending rate abolished. Banks free to charge customers according to their credit record.
• 11 October -Janata Dal formed under the leadership ofV. P. Singh.
• 20 December -Rajya Sabha passes theSixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India which brings down voting age from 21 to 18.^[5]
• 26 December - caste violence betweenKapus andKammas erupts in costal districts ofAndhra Pradesh following death of aCongress IM.L.A namedVangaveeti Mohana Ranga Rao.^[6]

• TheNational Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is set up under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986.
• Shadow of the Almighty Faith Tabernacle Ministries is founded.

• April – Security & Exchange Board of India established to deal with the development and regulation of the securities market and investor protection.
• The Discount and Finance House of India, set up as a money market institution, commenced operations.
• July – The National Housing Bank established as an apex body of housing finance and to promote activities in housing development.
• August – Stock Holding Corporation of India, a depository institution, commenced operations.

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  4 January –Nabila Jamshed, novelist.

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  25 January –Cheteshwar Pujara, cricketer.
• 20 February –Jiah Khan, actress.(d.2013)
• 5 March –Khonthoujam Boboi Singh, Indian footballer
• 8 April
  • Saqib Saleem, model and actor.
  • Nithya Menen, actress.
• 1 May –Anushka Sharma, actress and film producer.
• 6 May -Rakul Preet Singh, actress
• 16 May –Vicky Kaushal, actor
• 6 June -Ajinkya Rahane, cricketer.
• 15 June -Kriti Kharbanda, actress
• 10 July -Manjari Fadnis, film actress
• 26 July –Akanksha Puri, actress and model.
• 21 August –Sana Khan, actress and businesswoman.

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  2 September -Ishant Sharma, cricketer.
• 6 September –Sargun Mehta, TV actress
• 12 September –Prachi Desai, actress.
• 22 September
  • Sana Saeed, actress and model.
  • Jay Shah, cricket administrator
• 26 September –Sandhya, film actress^[7]

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  5 November –Virat Kohli, cricketer
• 25 November –Rochelle Rao, model and anchor.
• 28 November –Yami Gautam, actress.
• 2 December –Soniya Mehra, actress.
• 6 December -Ravindra Jadeja, cricketer.
• 24 December –Piyush Chawla, cricketer.

• August –Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, freedom fighter (born 1900)
• 29 October –Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, social reformer andfreedom fighter (born 1903)
• 24 December –Jainendra Kumar, novelist (born 1905)
• 2 June –Raj Kapoor,actor inBollywood (born 1924)

• Majnun Gorakhpuri, writer and literary critic (born 1904)

• Bollywood films of 1988

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