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Historical Event on 7/24/1996

Govt. decides to raise the ceiling on the maximum amount of retirement/death gratuity from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2.50 lakhs.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/19/1975Farm truck packed with wedding party run over by a train, killing 66 in truck, at 40 miles south of Pune.
8/2/1959Little Theatre was established.
1/22/1886Harikrishna Premi, Hindi writer, passed away.
8/3/1930Jai Prakash, educationist, was born at Jaunpur.
3/30/1908Devika Rani, famous film actress, was born.
7/8/199125 tonnes of gold moved to London from India to raise $ 200 million loan.
4/14/1948Law about Atomic Energy implemented in India.
1/23/1664Shahaji Raje died in an accident.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.