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Historical Event on 2/24/2000

The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/1945Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established.
2/12/1928Lalit Mohan Sharma, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
11/28/2000Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, launches his political outfit 'Janashakti' at a rally in New Delhi.
5/6/1948India rejected the Security Council's plan for UN supervision over plebiscite in Kashmir.
4/20/2000A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
12/23/1920King George V signs Home Rule Act.
5/2/1954Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism.
9/16/1996First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
7/23/1997India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
12/27/1998Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh.