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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
1/14/1995Ban on VHP re-imposed.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.
3/4/1919Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born.
2/8/1989Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, PM of Norway, was awarded 1988 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.
4/8/1674Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj honoured Hansaji Mohite with the degree of 'Hambirrao' and appointed him as Chief General of his Army.
10/2/1845First Shipping Company of India started.
9/21/1990Supreme Court refuses to stay implementation of Mandal Commission Report.
6/9/1998Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days.
12/23/1959Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of 78.
12/14/1953Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born.