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Historical Event on 4/25/1998

The Government announces a new salary structure for university and college teachers, consequent to the implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission recommendations.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/16/1926Manik Varma, famous singer, was born.
4/4/1997World Bank Atlas for 1997 put India as world's fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity estimated around $1318 trillion.
8/18/1923Jamshed Khudadaad Irani, cricket wicket-keeper for India during the 1947-48 Australia tour, was born in Karachi.
7/12/1998India will not reverse the nuclear programme, declared Mr. Vajpayee.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
1/3/1994Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad.
5/5/1944Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
10/11/1737A violent earthquake and cyclone hit Calcutta which claimed 3,00,000 lives.
4/8/1887Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born.