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Historical Event on 8/25/1997

Konkan Railway line in Goa, except for a short stretch between Pernem and Maharashtra border, becomes operational.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/12/1957Sahajada Karim became Aga Khan.
10/18/2000Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river.
2/15/1992Kesri Publications started the first Indian newspaper in `Brail' lipi (language).
1/9/1995T.N. Seshan, chief election commissioner, asks Centre to put off annual budget in lieu of State assembly elections.
6/24/1989A majority of opposition members in the Lok Sabha resign on the issue of CAG report on the Bofors gun deal.
7/13/1660Baji Prabhu Deshpande, one of the warriors in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's kingdom, died.
4/30/1999Jessica Lal, model and TV personality, was murdered in a crowded south Delhi restaurant.
8/2/1942Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent.
10/19/1970First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
10/10/1995G. R Khairnar, the high profile suspended Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Bombay, was reinstated.