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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
9/15/1997Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control.
12/6/2000The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'.
7/1/1997Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme `97 (VDIS) comes into effect.
5/31/1818Samachar Darpan, the first vernacular newspaper, was published in Bengali language by Carey and Marshman from Serampore.
7/11/1924Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi.
7/11/1924Muiz ud din Qaiqabad, was the tenth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty), was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler.
3/17/1905Narsinghcharya Purohit Tirunarayan Iyyangar, famous Kannad poet, music director and critic, was born.
12/8/1999Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.
2/2/1982Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
5/19/1953State to control production and distribution of minerals involved in atomic energy development.