1901 - Jagadish Chandra Bose proves life in plants in the hall of Royal Society London
1996 - PM P.V. Narasimha Rao resigns as PM after defeat of his party in elections.
2017
Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz was abducted and killed by extremists in Shopian.
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Birthdays
Sir Jamsetji Jeejeeboy,
1905 - Pankaj Malik - Film Music Director
1914 - Tarachand Barjatya
1927 - Nayantara Sahgal
1658 Dara Shukhou was defeated by Aurangzeb in battle of Samugarh near Agra
1947 - Establishment of Indian Standard Institution.
1953 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest.
1968 - Dara Singh became the world wrestling champion
1991 - P.V. Narasimha Rao was elected President of Congress (I).
1414 - Khidir Khan Syed, Governor of Lahore replaced Daulat Khan Lodi as Delhi Sultan
1963 - Estimated 22,000 dies in a cyclone in Bay of Bengal
1964 - Funeral Procession of Jawaharlal Nehru. A million and half Indians lined up to pay homage to him.
1965 - Fire and explosion in Dhori Mine, Dhanbad kills 400 miners.
1996 - Vajpayee Government quits after two day debate.
2007 - NIFTY touched an intraday record high of 4295.6
Birthdays
1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Life of Shri Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
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Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
1895 - Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter
1903 - Shantanu L. Kirloskar
1923 - N.T. Rama Rao, Popular film hero and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
1959 - Abdul Rahman - 2009 Lok Sabha Member
23 May - Presentation on Principles of Industrial Engineering by Prof. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao in 2017 IISE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh during the time 12.50 pm to 1.10 pm USA time.
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1947 UK cabinet approved the proposal of Lord Mountbatten to split India into two.
1984 Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to conquer Mount Everest.
1996 Congress candidate Purno Sangma elected speaker of the 11th Lok Sabha.
Birthdays
Maharani Gayatri Devi
Chandra Mohan
1973 - Ms. Bhawana Pundlikrao Gawali - 2009 Lok Sabha Member
1873 - Proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed
1992 - Harshad Mehta suspended. BSE closed.
1996 - 11th Lok Sabha was constituted
1998 - Pandit Ravi Shankar, received 1998 Polar music award
1999 - BJP and 13 allies from National Democratic Alliance
On 11th May, 1998 India achieved a major technological breakthrough by successfully carrying out nuclear tests at Pokhran.
Also first, indigenous aircraft "Hansa-3" was test flown at Bangalore on this day and India also performed successful test firing of the Trishul missile on the same day.
Considering above technological achievements on a particular date i.e. 11th May, the day of 11th May was chosen to be commemorated as National Technology Day. http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=95906
1987 - President's Rule imposed in Punjab
1993 - Toy factory fire kills more than 200 in Bangalore
1998 - Pokhran nuclear fusion test successfully done. Test firing of Trishul missile. Certification flight of Hansa-3, indigenous first all composite 2 seater plane.
1999 - Verdict on Rajiv Gandhi assasination case
2016
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2017
9 pm News Rajya Sabha TV
PM Narendra Modi reached Sri Lanka for a two day visit.
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CSIR Advertisement on 11 May 2017
CSIR Technologies Commercialised
CSIR-IIP, EIL, NRL - Numaligarh Refinery Wax Plant
Streptokinase - Clot buster drug
Handhel Ksheer Scanner
Carbonated Fruit Juice
CSIR-IIP, EIL and RIL - Benzene Recovery Unit. Jamnagar
Divya Nayan - Personal reading machine for visually impaired
Birthdays
1895 - Jiddu Krishna Murthy
Asaf Ali (Governor of Orissa)
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Pooja Bedi
1834 East India Company annexed Coorg.
1849 Bethune College was started in Calcutta (Kolkata) for Women's education
1958 Acharya Kripalani was elected as the leader of a new opposition group in Parliament
1973 Foundation stone for Itanagar, the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh was laid.
1990 Shilanyas for a new Ram temple in place of Babri Masjid was attempted by Rama Janma Bhumi nyas. Government disallowed it.
1991 Haryana beat Bombay in final and won Ranji Trophy
1993 Janaki Raman Report on Harshad Mehta Stock Market Scam was released.
1996 Third and Final phase of Lok Sabha Election - 185 Lok Sabha seats went in for polls.
2014 64 LS seats went in for polling in the 8 phase of 16th Lok Sabha Elections. Record polling has happened in the all the states.
1889 - Padma Bhushan Dr. Narayan Subbarao Hardikar, Journalist and Freedom Fighter
Dr. hardikar was elected twice for the Rajya Sabha drom 1952 to 1962. Hardikar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1958. His dress was typical of a Seva Dal Volunteer - - half pants, half sleeved shirt and a Gandhi Cap - - all in Khadi. he passed away on 26th August, 1975. http://www.indianpost.com/viewstamp.php/Alpha/D/DR.%20N.S.%20HARDIKAR
He joined the Forum of Free Enterprise, which was launched on 18 July 1956 by the late A D Shroff. In 1957, along with Nani Palkhivala. The Forum grew into a national organisation and it organised meetings on economic subjects across the country.
He left the employment in the Forum in 1976, but continued to be its vice president till his death.
He was an honorary secretary of the All-India Bank Depositors' Association and worked for consumber rights through this forum. The Indian edition of Reader's Digest, has put him on the cover of their October 1995 issue under the title M. R. Pai - Champion of the Consumer.
Special Event on 6 May 2013 Bharat Bhawna Divas - Sing National Anthem Jana Gana Mana at 10 am
1529 - Babar defeated Nawab Nusrat Shah, King of Bengal
1680 - Coronation of Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj
1944 - Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from Aga Khan Palace, Pune.
1948 - India rejected UN plan for plebiscite in Kashmir.
1952 - Dr. Babu Rajendra Prasad was elected as President by the First Lok Sabha of India
1967 - Dr. Zakir Hussain was elected President
1993 - Violence in Orissa state secretariat. Chief Minister manhandled.
Special Event on 6 May 2013 Bharat Bhawna Divas - Sing National Anthem Jana Gana Mana at 10 am
Birthdays
Motilal Nehru (1861)
Motilal Nehru is the father of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.
Motilal Nehru was born on May 6, 1861. His parents were Gangadhar Nehru and Jeevarani. The Nehru family were living in Delhi for several generations. Gangadhar Nehru was a kotwal in that city. During India's independence struggle of 1857, Gangadhar Nehru left Delhi with his family and moved to Agra. He died in February 1861 and his youngest child, Motilal, was born three months later. Motilal's brother became a lawyer first and educated his brother to become a lawyer also. Motilal Nehru became a successful lawyer and joined Congress party for India's freedom struggle. He became President of the Congress Party twice.
1601 - East India Company's ships sailed from Torbay to East Indies
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_poBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1968 - Lok Sabha passed Public Provident Fund Act.
1996 - Lok Sabha General Election - 2nd phase started.
Birthday
1921 - Satyajit Ray
K.N. Govindacharya
Death
2017 - Prof. L.M. Bhole, Former Professor of Economics, IIT Bombay
1932 - Hundred die in fighting between muslims and hindus in Bombay
1946 - Cabinet Mission consisting of three British Cabinet Ministers, Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr. A. V. Alexander, offered a their plan for India in their statement of May 16,1946. http://www.mkgandhi.org/biography/cabinetm.htm
1975 Sikkim became 22nd state of India
1996 - Atal Behari Vajpayee became 10th Prime Minister of India
2014 - Counting of Votes of 16th Lok Sabha Elections
2015 Prof. Uday Amonkar Memorial Lecture - Goa Engineering College - Make in India: Role of Industrial Engineering
Lecture by Professor K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao, NITIE
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International Day of Press Freedom
1764 - Mir Kasim with backing of Emperor of Delhi attacked British at Patna. (Date to be confirmed from other sources. Battle of Buxar is a different battle that took place on 23 October 1764.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Qasim
1913 - Raja Harischandra, the first Indian film shown at Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay.
1944 - Gandhi - Jinnah talks broke down.
1955 - Parliament approved Hindu divorce bill.
1977 - Chandra Sekhar was chosen as President of Janata Party
1992 - Prithvi launched.
1378 - Daud Shah assasinated Mujahid Shah to become the fourth Bahmani Sultan.
1399 - 1399 - Sant Kabir was born
1498 - Vaso Da Gama reached Calicut by travelling on the sea. The European to find a new sea route to India.
1677 - Shivaji won the fort of Jingi
1915 - Gandhiji founded Sabarmati Ashram.
1976 - Oil production was started from Bombay High.
2014 - Narendra Modi was elected as the leader of BJP Parliamentary Party in the 16th Lok Sabha. Modi met Rashtra Prati and staked his claim for PM post. President invited Narendra Modi to become the PM. Modi will take oath on 26 May 2014.
Birthdays
1399 - Sant Kabir
1750 - Tipu Sultan
1850 - Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar - Father of Modern story writing in Marathi
1968 - Ananta Kumar Hedge - BJP General Secretary, Lok Sabha Member
1960 - Bhoopendra Singh - 2009 Lok Sabha Member
1964 - P.T. Usha
NTR Jr. (1983)
1783 - Tipu Sultan became ruler of Mysore
1799 - Tipu Sultan was killed in a battle
1832 - Darpan, a weekly was started
1993 - Income Tax Limit was raised to Rs. 30,000. Santosh Yadav conquered Mount Everest for the second time.
1826 - The First Hindi Newspaper "Udant Martand" started its publishing activity.
1867 - Dar-ul-ulum was started
1919 - Rabindranath protests Jalianwalabagh massacre and returns awards given by British Government.
1987 - Goa becomes 25th state of India
Birthdays
Jag Mohan Dalmiya
1955 - Dr. Rajan Sushant - 2009 Lok Sabha Member
V. Narayan Samy - Lok Sabha Member
Paresh Rawal,
Ness Wadia,
1818 - Samachar Darpan, the first Bengali news paper, also the first in Indian languages started publishing.
1970 - PM Indira Gandhi appealed for international help to take care of East Bengal refugees.
1981 - SLV 3 places Rohini (RS-D1) in orbit.
1997 - Fourth National Games opened in Bangalore.
2011 - World No-Tobacco Day - Human Chain in Chennai http://indiatoday.intoday.in/calendar/31-5-2011/online.html
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