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Historical Event on 2/11/1997

A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/28/1997Cabinet permits RBI to issue rupee notes of 1000 denomination.
1/12/1993Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested.
11/2/1956Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons.
8/28/1934Justice Sujata Manohar was born.
11/2/1971Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives.
5/22/1917Suniti Chaudhary, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Kumilla. She was one of the accused in the famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka.
9/19/1996India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India.
10/31/1997Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.
11/6/1952Dipal Jayant Tilak, journalist and editor, was born.
2/25/1884Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, was born at Radhu village of Kaira District.