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Historical Event on 7/11/1998
The Government reduces customs duty on edible oils under the Open General Licence from 20 to 10 per cent.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/29/1780 | Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta . |
| 2/15/1997 | Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi. |
| 11/28/1945 | Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs India at Calcutta. |
| 11/18/1991 | In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority. |
| 11/27/1972 | Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan. |
| 9/17/1885 | Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born. |
| 10/9/1987 | Official Languages Rules, 1976 amended. |
| 10/18/1861 | Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya, historian and researcher, was born. |
| 5/6/1993 | Violence in Orissa state secretariat, CM manhandled. |
| 1/8/1968 | The Official Languages Act, 1963 was amended. Accordingly, a provision was made in Section 3 (4) of the Act of the effect that employees of the Union Government proficient either in Hindi or in English may carry out their work effectively and that their interests may no be adversely affected merely because they are not proficient in both the languages. According to Section 3 (5), it is necessary for bringing to an end the use of English language for the Official purposes of the union that resolutions to this effect are passed by the legislatures of the states (i.e. states where Hindi is not the Official Language) and after considring these resolutions, a resolution is passed by both the houses of the Parliament to put an end to the use of English language. |
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