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Historical Event on 4/15/1997

Interest rate on domestic term deposits brought down from 10 to nine per cent by RBI.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1991Barister Waman Barlinge (Dadasaheb), great freedom fighter, former Rajya Sabha member and Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, passed away.
12/6/1946Homeguard Organination was established.
1/30/1997Fifth Pay Commission submits proposals; minimum salary Rs. 2440 pm and maximum 26,000. Cabinet Secretary 30,000; six-day week; retirement at 60, etc. proposed.
7/29/1802Agreement between Gaikwad of Baroda and Britishers about the army.
11/6/1996India wins Titan's cup beating South Africa in Mumbai.
9/8/1960Feroz Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha,died in New Delhi.
4/7/1997NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
7/31/1991Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1993.
6/5/1966Indian rupee devalued by 36.5 percent.