National Events in March 1997

2nd Mar

Mr. Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, IMF, congratulates India on its pursuit of steady and higher economic growth.

3rd Mar

Mr. Bill Gates, CEO, Microsoft Corporation, arrives in New Delhi.

8th Mar

Mr. G. K. Moopanar unanimously elected first president of Tamil Maanila Congress.

11th Mar

Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.

13th Mar

Three senior leaders of All-Party Hurriyat Conference taken into custody as they go on hunger-strike against alleged custodial killings in Srinagar.

Prime Minister, Mr. H. D. Deve Gowda, presents G. K. Reddy Memorial Award to Mr. Shekhar Gupta, Chief Editor, The Indian Express.

15th Mar

Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997.

16th Mar

Saidian Shafi, correspondent, `Ankhon Dekhi', TV news magazine, and his personal security officer killed by militants in Srinagar.

17th Mar

A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister, Mr. Kalpnath Rai, to 10 years RI.

19th Mar

BJP and BSP agree to form coalition government in U.P.

22nd Mar

Seven Kashmiri Pandits gunned down by unidentified militants.

25th Mar

Mr. Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India.

26th Mar

Centre signs `Ways and Means Advances Agreement' with RBI.

27th Mar

South African President, Mr. Nelson Mandela, arrives in New Delhi on official visit.

28th Mar

India and Pakistan, represented by Mr. Salman Haider and Mr. Shamshad Ahmed, Foreign Secretaries, hold official talks on issues at New Delhi.

30th Mar

Congress(I) withdraws support to 10-month old Deve Gowda Government.

31st Mar

The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.