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Historical Event on 9/25/2000

A 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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/1999Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting.
3/30/1988Tamil Nadu beat Railways by an innings and 144 runs to win Ranji Trophy.
9/29/2000Union Minister of State for Agriculture S.B.P.B.K. Satyanarayana Rao quits the from Cabinet.
3/9/1989Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, arrives on a two-day state visit to India.
12/15/1965Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river.
12/8/1930British Gen. Norman Simpson shot at desk by Indian nationalists.
5/3/1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India.
10/18/1997Prince Philip switches on the internet version of Malayala Manorama and The Week at Kochi.
9/8/2000Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.
4/11/1999A.K.A. Abdul Samad (72), general secretary of IUML and State unit president, died in Chennai.