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Historical Event on 12/24/2000

The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/20/1931Leela Nag (Leela Roy), freedom fighter and editor of Jayshri, was arrested in Bengal for her association with ""Depali Sangh"" who supported Chatgang Ammunition Plot against the Bengal Government.
9/14/1910Dennis Laurence Amo, merchant and industrialist in Maharashtra, was born.
1/21/1969First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.
12/20/1990India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations.
2/19/1949Mass arrests of communists in India.
1/25/1994Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55.
6/27/1995Environmentalist and 'Chipko' leader, Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna ends the 49-day old fast in demand for a scientific review of the controversial Tehri dam project in UP.
8/19/1999India's role in ASEAN, ARF is lauded at a colloquium in Singapore.
5/17/1993Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation.
10/15/1992Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab.