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Historical Event on 10/21/1997

RBI de-regulates deposit rates, reduces CRR and Bank Rate (from 10\% to 9) and allows banks to have two sets of Prime Lending Rates.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/1977India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water.
12/15/1980Hema Chengkalath, female Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calgary, Canada.
11/25/1998Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister, lays the foundation stone for the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam gauge conversion in Kancheepuram. The Kanchi Shankaracharyas stay away from the function following a controversy triggered over the invitation extended to them by the Railways.
8/20/1917Declaration of historic 'Mongegue'.
2/19/1992The ruling Congress party wins local elections boycotted by Sikhs in Punjab.
4/28/1986Malayalam film `Chidambaram' directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film 'Trikal'.
8/28/1976Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius.
10/19/1954Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.
8/20/1997Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President.
11/20/1989Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away.