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Historical Event on 11/18/2000

Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, said there would be no cuts in Income Tax rates in the next budget, and signalled that the reforms process will continue.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/27/1999The Archbishop of Delhi rules out Pope John Paul II's dialogue with the VHP during his visit to India in November.
1/21/1945Shri Rashbehari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away at Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 60.
1/24/1937Gandhi announces that he will retire from politics.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
1/2/1964Raichaudhary Ambikagiri, nationalist Asamia poet, died.
6/22/1920Chandrasekhar Trimbak Sarwate, cricketer (batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52), was born in Sangor, Vidarbha.
3/9/1990Lalu Prasad Yadav to form JD Ministry in Bihar.
1/1/19958th World Tamil Conference begins in Madurai.
12/31/1706Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674.