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Historical Event on 3/17/2000

V.C. Pande, Bihar Governor, accords sanction to the CBI to prosecute RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in a disproportionate assets case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/29/1911Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield.
8/15/1950Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives.
11/30/1989Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister.
12/12/1989Air Chief Marshal (retd.) Arjan Singh named Delhi Lt. Governor.
1/12/1990Vimal Kumar and Madhumita Bisht retain National badminton titles.
4/20/2000A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
5/23/1975P. S. Bapat, victoria cross winner Lieutenant General, passed away.
2/3/1977Government relaxes rules of Emergency to permit normal political activity and electioneering.
5/15/1999Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district.
6/7/1974Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis star, was born. He is the winner of French Open 1997 (mixed doubles) and 1999 (doubles) and Wimbledon 1999.