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Historical Event on 11/5/1997
Railway ministry doubles compensation amounts from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.4 lakh to victims of railway accidents and other untoward incidents.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/22/1906 | Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born. |
| 1/6/1989 | Lord Sudhindra Prasanna Sinha died. |
| 10/28/1998 | The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts. |
| 10/5/1991 | Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years. |
| 6/4/1987 | A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India. |
| 7/28/1939 | Tarun Ram Phookun, great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, passed away. |
| 9/16/1977 | Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay. |
| 1/19/1963 | Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, passed away. |
| 7/10/1965 | First NCC (National Cadet Corps) College for training girls started at Gwalior. |
| 2/27/1997 | CBI arrests godman Chandraswami for alleged offences in violation of Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 1976. |
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