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Historical Event on 3/11/1997

Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/23/1664Shahaji Raje died in an accident.
12/13/2000The Lok Sabha begins the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid debate.
5/7/1993Jankiraman panel's final report finds that an additional aggregate of Rs. 12,85,549 crore was transacted in banks without any documentation; it indicts 12 more banks for involving in the scam.
9/19/2000India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US.
7/15/2000The Maharashtra Government gives the green signal to police to proceed against Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray for his alleged role in the 1992-93 Mumbai communal riots.
3/2/1990DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra.
1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
4/17/1799Srirangapatnam was surrounded by British Army in the fourth and last Mysore war which began in 1798. Tipu Sultan' was killed in the battle on 4th May. The East India Company announced the Seringapatanam Medal (1799).
11/18/1997US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives in New Delhi. Ms. Albright said she raised the 'all-important issue of terrorism' with Pakistan's top leadership.
9/10/1992All movable and immovable properties of big bull Harshad Mehta, and others involved in the Security scam, attached.