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Historical Event on 8/21/1997

Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1851British Indian Association was established in Bengal with Radha Kanta Dev as president and Devendranath Tagore as the Secretary.
6/1/1996H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in.
6/13/1932Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died.
4/13/1993Lalitadevi Shastri passed away.
8/30/1645Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty.
7/8/1996U.N. says India is leading in HIV infections.
9/29/1977India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water.
10/22/1908John Sutton, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly), was born in Rawalpindi, India.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
4/24/1996BSE index reaches 3869.87, a new 18-month high.