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Historical Event on 7/12/1996
Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/27/1999 | BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats. |
| 11/19/1838 | Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj. |
| 3/6/2000 | India and China begin the first ever bilateral security dialogue in Beijing on global and regional issues of mutual interest. |
| 2/20/1999 | India and Pakistan signed a formal agreement for launching the Delhi-Lahore bus service. |
| 1/18/2000 | India and the US resume talks to narrow their differences on the CTBT. |
| 12/16/1960 | Ganesh Chintaman Karve, creator of Marathi dictionary and author, passed away. |
| 4/1/1996 | Kerala introduces ban on arrack. 5614 licenced arrack shops closed down. |
| 3/6/1997 | Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) inaugurated in Mauritius. |
| 6/11/1931 | Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born. |
| 2/25/1894 | Meher Baba (1894-1969) of Poona, Indian saint of Persian origin and gifted with psychic powers of prediction, was born. The mystical teachings of this silent sage stressed love, self-inquiry and God consciousness. |
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