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Historical Event on 2/23/1993
Pre-budget Economic Survey proposes closure of sick PSE and rationalisation of tax and interests rates.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1998 | Kavi Pradeep (84), poet who received 1998 Dadasaheb Phalke award, dies in Mumbai. He was a patriotic song writer and wrote several immortal Hindi film songs. |
| 4/29/2000 | The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
| 2/8/1994 | Gopalrao Deuskar, internationally famed painter, passed away. |
| 1/26/2001 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Lata Mangeshkar. |
| 6/3/1993 | K N Venkatasubramanian,IOC Chairman, suspended for leaking information about oil purchase plans to international dealers. |
| 4/12/2000 | Ban on LTTE for two more years from May 14, says the Union Home Minister L. K. Advani. |
| 11/28/1990 | Union Cabinet approves re-induction of Airbus A-320 in the domestic sector. |
| 3/29/1914 | Sudhir Gupta, famous Hindi poet and educationist, was born in Kalasgram, Bangladesh. |
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