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Historical Event on 6/13/2000

Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/24/199824 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.
8/4/1894Narayan Sitaram Phadke, famous Hindi writer, was born at Karjat.
2/12/1993The baggage rules relaxed further.
1/27/1901Tarkatirtha Laxmanshastri Joshi, the great thinker, master of Sanskrit and editor of Marathi Vishwakosh, was born.
12/29/1997Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics.
3/25/199631st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh.
5/19/1980T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away.
4/29/1998The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99.
1/20/1897Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants.
1/28/1996Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82.