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Historical Event on 11/5/1997

Railway ministry doubles compensation amounts from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.4 lakh to victims of railway accidents and other untoward incidents.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/19/1995Goa Cong (I) government led by Pratap Singh Rane gets absolute majority when 4-members of MGP merged with Congress.
11/8/1893Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, great musician and professor, was born in Bangalore.
6/19/1999The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.
2/12/1990Assembly election in Manipur.
3/10/1985India beat Pakistan to win ""World Championship of Cricket"". Ravi Shastri is declared champion of champions and Sunil Gavaskar steps down from the captaincy.
3/20/1926For the first time in the history of the competition, Scotland beats England for rugby's Calcutta Cup in London.
1/5/1992Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st cricket Test wkt.
5/25/1965Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas.
2/2/1965Government sanction was accorded to the Officers Training School for the start of Short Service Regular Commission.
9/24/1992Five selected regional TV channels go national by direct linking to INSAT.