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Historical Event on 6/25/2000

The Government agrees to the bifurcation of the Telecom Ministry.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1905Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family at Prayag at Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as a Master of Hockey. India celebrates this day as National Sports Day.
3/10/1969Parliament passed the Act that made Central Industrial Security Force as an Armed Force of the union.
9/16/1932Ronald Ross, bacteriologist and member of Indian Medical Service, died in London. He had also received a Nobel Prize.
3/26/1990Sangma Ministry quits in Meghalaya. B. B. Lyngdoh is new CM.
10/13/1905Sister Nivedita died.
10/15/1992Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab.
10/6/1997I. K. Gujral, PM, begins visit to South Africa, which was the first ever by an Indian Prime Minister.
1/15/1996Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
9/8/1952The Copyright bill was signed during the first world convention by 35 nations including India at Geneva.