1989 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi until 2 December, V. P. Singh
• Chief Justice of India –
• * until 18 June – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak
• * 19 June-18 December – Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah
• * starting 18 December – Sabyasachi Mukharji

  Governors

• Arunachal Pradesh –
• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Goa –
• Gujarat –
• Haryana –
• Himachal Pradesh –
• Jammu and Kashmir –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Manipur –
• Meghalaya –
• Mizoram –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Sikkim –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Telangana –
• Tripura –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

  Events

• 14 February – Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.
• March – Certificate of Deposit and Commercial Paper introduced to widen the monetary instruments and give investors greater flexibility.
• April – Amendment to Banking, Public Financial Institution and Negotiable Instruments Laws enacted to encourage the culture of use of cheques in India. It introduced penalties for the dishonour of cheques.
• Service Area Approach for rural lending became operational.
• 1 July – CRR raised to 15% taking statutory preemptions of banks' resources in the form of the Statutory Liquidity Ratio and the Cash Reserve Ratio to over 53%.
• 15 November – Sachin Tendulkar makes his debut in international cricket.
• 2 December – V.P. Singh becomes the Prime Minister of India after Lok Sabha elections.
• 6 December - Indira Gandhi's killers hanged to death in Tihar Jail
• 8 December – 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed

  Births

• 2 April – Midhun Jith, Guinness World Record Breaker and World Kickboxing Champion
• 23 June - Ankita Priya Das, KRM Global, Asst. Manager - TA
• 2 September – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, winner Amul STAR Voice of India in 2007.
• 10 September - Manish Pandey, cricketer
• 21 December – Tamanna Bhatia, actress.

  Deaths

• 1 March - Vasantdada Patil, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Former Governor of Rajasthan.
• Murad, actor.
• Tarkeshwar Pandey, politician.