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Historical Event on 5/17/2000

The Union Cabinet clears a proposal for setting up a new appellate tribunal for foreign exchange following the repeal of the FERA and the enactment of FEMA in its place.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1913Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15)
9/1/1962Shivaji University was established in Kolhapur.
12/24/2000The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR.
1/9/1971Muslim leader Sheik Mohammed Abdullah was barred from returning to Kashmir.
5/11/1911Shrimati Lalitadevi, wife of second Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, was born.
7/22/1944Man Mohan Modi Seth , great industrialist, was born at Modinagar, U.P.
7/3/1661Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II.
8/7/1990Union Cabinet approves setting up of Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service.
4/1/1933Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.
5/10/1996Congress Chief Ministers of Assam, Haryana & Pondicherry resign.