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Historical Event on 4/25/2000

West Bengal police nab Belal alias Lalu Mian, the suspected mastermind behind the hijacking of IC-814 IA flight to Kandahar last December, from a hideout in North 24 Parganas district.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1958Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.
11/11/1994The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act.
8/21/2000Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee.
12/10/1979Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace prize.
3/7/1911Sachchitanand Hiranand Vatsyayan, (Agyeya), modern Hindi literary journalist, freedom fighter and the winner of Jnanpith Award of 1979, was born.
3/15/1969Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa.
6/23/1992Tin Bigha Day protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh.
9/25/1993Soli Sorabji, 63, nominated as Prosecutor of the International War Crimes Court by UN Secretary General.
1/20/1949Junagarh formally merged with Saurashtra.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding