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Historical Event on 3/17/1992

Suburban rail fare increase cut; 20\% hike in first class, second class A/C sleeper and chair car reduced to 15\%.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/9/1992Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP.
4/16/1997Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.
6/10/1959Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, died near Hardwar.
11/2/2000John Wright is appointed India coach by the BCCI.
8/15/1950Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives.
12/14/1999The Prime Minister informs the Lok Sabha that Ram Prakash Gupta has denied the remarks on temple construction.
8/2/1959Little Theatre was established.
12/24/1993Khanprabha Bhaduri, famous Bengali poet and writer, died.
12/25/1995First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras.
4/11/1930Pandit Motilal Nehru renamed 'Anand Bhuvan' as 'Swaraj Bhawan' and handed it over to the people.