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Historical Event on 10/2/1998
Santanu Deb Barma of Tripura was chosen for Kabir Puraskar for her role in preventing violence and riots in some areas of the state in 1997.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1951 | Kashmir issue taken up in UN security council. |
| 8/11/2000 | The World Bank signs an agreement for a $713 million aid to India for three infrastructure projects. |
| 4/27/1996 | First phase of election for 11th Lok Sabha, and assembly election in 6 states. |
| 12/20/1990 | India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations. |
| 3/31/1992 | The new five-year Export-Import policy relaxes restrictions. |
| 10/1/1981 | Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested. |
| 10/17/1859 | Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born. |
| 2/23/1994 | India rebuts Pak charges on Kashmir in the 53-nation UN Commission on Human Rights. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 6/23/1927 | All India Radio's broadcasting service started in 1927 by privately owned transmitter at Bombay and Calcutta. |
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