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Historical Event on 1/17/1997

Government rules out granting dual citizenship to NRIs.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/3/1991Satinder Kumar Lamba appointed India's Ambassador to Pakistan.
3/3/1939Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention.
10/31/2000Chhattisgarh, the 26th State of Indian Union, comes into existence with the swearing in of its Governor Dinesh Nandan Sahay and Chief Minister Ajit Jogi at a glittering function at Raipur.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
3/22/1961Jual Teria Dilga Oram was born in Kendudihi, Distt. Sundargarh (Orissa).
9/30/1989INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay.
2/18/1944Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Institute' established.
4/15/1874Tryambak Sitaram Karkhanis, founder of `Maharashtra Natak Mandali', was born.
11/18/1991In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority.
10/13/1999Janata Dal (United) snap ties with the BJP in Karnataka