24 January 1991Oocyte DonationIndira Hinduja
Indira Hinduja's work leads to India's first reported birth using an oocyte donation technique for infertility treatment.
Historical records for India in 1991, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Indira Hinduja's work leads to India's first reported birth using an oocyte donation technique for infertility treatment.
Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a suicide bomber during an election campaign at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu.
Death of Rajiv Gandhi
Manmohan Singh becomes Finance Minister in P.V. Narasimha Rao's government.
P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister after the 1991 general election.
Congress emerges as the largest party in the 1991 general election and forms a minority government under P.V. Narasimha Rao.
Manmohan Singh presents a reform budget that reduces controls, opens the economy and addresses a severe balance-of-payments crisis.
Rao's government announces a new industrial policy that dismantles much of the industrial licensing system.
India devalues the rupee in two stages as part of its response to the 1991 balance-of-payments crisis.
Appointed Chairman, House Committee, Lok Sabha.
Lalji Singh provides DNA fingerprinting evidence in an Indian court, helping establish the technique for disputed parentage and forensic identification.
Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao launches a wide-ranging programme of economic liberalisation with Finance Minister Manmohan Singh.
The economic liberalization package pushed by Singh and Rao opens the nation to foreign direct investment and reduces the red tape that had previously impeded business growth. Singh is widely regarded as the architect of Indias original economic reform programme which is enacted in 1991 under Raos administration
Apppointed General Secretary of the Janata Dal at the national level and Deputy Leader of Janata Dal in Parliament
Apppointed General Secretary of the Janata Dal at the national level and Deputy Leader of Janata Dal in Parliament
Vijay Bhatkar leads the development of PARAM 8000, India's first major indigenous high-performance parallel supercomputer.
Appointed Party Leader of the PNI
The economic liberalization package pushed by Singh and Rao opens the nation to foreign direct investment and reduces the red tape that had previously impeded business growth
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