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Historical Event on 11/6/1997

Chief Executives of public sector banks and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, after a meeting in New Delhi, decide to grant greater administrative autonomy to select public sector banks.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1999India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก
8/12/1868Frederick JNT Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of British-India (1916-21), was born.
4/21/1998The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated.
11/19/1962Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.
4/5/1961Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited was established in New Delhi by Indian Government for allopathic drugs.
1/18/1999Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune.
12/17/1933Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
7/11/1998The Government reduces customs duty on edible oils under the Open General Licence from 20 to 10 per cent.