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Historical Event on 12/24/1998

A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces increased cash awards for Asian Games medallists.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/20/1965First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest.
9/21/1999Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur.
5/7/1834East India Company annexed Coorg. King Raja Veer Rajendra, who was a cruel ruler, after formally declaring a war had captured Durg State.
11/21/199227 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam.
4/20/1993Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade.
9/26/1919Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held.
4/29/1998The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99.
2/20/1968Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.
1/2/1994India and Pakistan resume talks after a gap of 16 months.
2/12/2000Ashok Shandilya wins the men's title in the National Billiards championship in Bangalore.