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Historical Event on 3/2/1997

Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1913Waman Ganesh Talwalkar, Marathi journalist and story writer, was born.
1/8/1890Ramchandra Varma, renowned editor, was born. He also has the credit in making the Hindi Dictionary.
3/6/1915Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan.
9/22/1789Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department.
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.
3/28/1941Netaji Subhashchandra Bose reached Berlin after his secret underground journey from Calcutta.
11/1/2000Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi.
11/1/2000Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's Commander, won the impregnable fort of Devgiri. The fort was entered by the enemy. Raja Ramdeva was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where Alauddin recieved him untill his death in 1312.
8/25/199710,000 people residing in low lying areas in Gujarat shifted to safer places following incessant rains for two days. Death toll mounts to 265.
4/8/1998India enters into a historical partnership with France with the formal launch of a joint programme for restoring and protecting the Taj Mahal.