1958 in India
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Events in the year 1958 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Rajendra Prasad
- Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
- Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Chief Justice of India – Sudhi Ranjan Das
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar
- Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
- Bihar – Zakir Hussain
- Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
- Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
- Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
- Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
- Odisha – Bhim Sen Sachar
- Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (until 15 September), Narahar Vishnu Gadgil (starting 15 September)
- Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
- Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
- West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events
- National income - ₹152,835 million
- 1 January - DRDO was established
- 18 February – Finance minister of India T. T. Krishnamachari resigns following M. C. Chagla Commission report on Haridas Mundhra LIC scandal.[1]
- 28 February – Jawaharlal Nehru presents Union budget of India as Finance Minister.
- 26 March - Mother India becomes the first ever Cinema of India to get nominated in the Academy Awards.[2]
- 29 April - Food poisoning caused by leakage of Folidol during transportation kills 74 in a Lok Sahayak Sena camp at Sasthamkotta, Kerala.[3]
- 18 to 20 May – The 16th Session of Indian Labour Congress was held at New Delhi.
- Vimochana Samaram against First Namboodiripad ministry in Kerala
- Unknown date – Reliance Industries was founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in Bombay (present day in Mumbai), as predecessor name was Reliance Commercial Corporation.[citation needed]
Law
- 22 May – Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Ordinance came into force
- 11 September – The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 is passed by the Parliament.
- 1 October – The Standards of Weights and Measures Act took effect.
Sport
- Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.
- Milkha Singh (field athletics player) had won the gold medal
Births
- 5 March – Nassar, actor, producer, writer, director, lyricist and singer.
- 29 April – Saumen Guha, political activist, human rights campaigner and author.
- 30 May – K. S. Ravikumar, film director and actor.
- 15 August – Raj Kapoor (Tamil director), film director and actor.
- 16 August – R. R. Patil, politician (died 2015)
- 19 September – Lucky Ali, singer, composer and actor
- 2 December – Lal (actor), actor, director, screenwriter, producer and distributor.
- 17 December – Jayasudha, actress.