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Historical Event on 5/17/1992

Import of 106 life-saving drugs and 37 equipments allowed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1996Union Finance Ministry gives final clearance to the Enron power project in terms of issuance of counter-guarantee.
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
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.
10/12/1993RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.
7/31/1993Transport operators begin nation-wide strike.
8/13/1951Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away.
12/9/1825Tula Ram Rao, one of the revolutionary heroes of the 1857 and Sepoy Mutiny, was born.
10/23/1959Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border.
2/28/1937Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
8/29/1947Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar became the President of Constitution Council.