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Historical Event on 12/25/2000
A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, launches a Rs.60,000 crore ''Gram Sadak Yojana'' for linking all villages and the ""Antyodaya Anna Scheme'' for providing cheap foodgrains under the TPDS.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/28/1996 | Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram. |
| 8/19/1993 | Utpal Dutt, famous actor, writer, director and producer, died. He was 64. |
| 12/6/1997 | Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands. |
| 1/1/1918 | Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission. |
| 5/25/1997 | In a bid to break the deadlock on naming transport corporation after caste leaders in southern districts, Tamil Nadu Government agrees to create a new bus corporation named after Pulithevan. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
| 1/4/1972 | Pakistan proposed to talk after the war. |
| 1/16/1919 | Nasikrao Khantadu Tirpude, former Duputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 12/23/1920 | King George V signs Home Rule Act. |
| 2/18/1992 | Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away. |
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