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Historical Event on 2/24/2000
The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/25/1995 | Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed. |
| 5/7/1990 | Government of India bans strikes in any service in any oil field or refinery under the Essential Services Maintenance Act. |
| 4/13/1889 | Balkrishna A. Pillai, litterateur and journalist, was born. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
| 5/20/1964 | P. T. Usha, famous sprinter, was born. |
| 4/22/1996 | National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50. |
| 8/18/1800 | Fort William College was established at Calcutta. |
| 12/9/1999 | BJP expels former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh. |
| 9/20/1992 | Vithhal Badgelwar, painter and sculptor, passed away. |
| 5/24/1990 | K. S. Hegde, former President of Parliament, passed away. |
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