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Historical Event on 3/21/1996

Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/29/1968Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, one Test for India, died.
3/2/1984Mother Teresa University inaugurated by Mother herself at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu.
8/1/200027 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine.
1/8/1884Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
9/29/2000Nayudu award goes to former India cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari.
6/8/1897Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
9/12/1922Chandradhar Sharma Guleri passed away.
4/15/1890Gaganvihari Lalubhai Mehta, famous Indian economist, politician and journalist, was born.
7/13/1990Boby Talyarkhan, famous sports critic and author, died.
6/5/1993Unlawful Activities (prevention) Tribunal headed by Justice P N Nagi upholds the ban on Islamic Sevak Sangh.