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Historical Event on 11/19/2000

The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1894Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Calcutta.
10/1/1995Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died.
7/30/1960Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and 'Lion of Karnataka', 0died. He was a loyal Congress leader.
2/20/1997RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
8/6/1932Ramsay McDonald came out with his 'Communal Award' to fix seats for the various communities in the provincial legislatures.
5/29/1906Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay.
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
9/18/1917Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana).
8/3/1991About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India.
8/20/1995Indira Mahila Vikas Yojana launched.