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Historical Event on 4/26/1995

Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/17/1928Pandit Gop Bandhu Das, famous writer, social worker and the creator of Orissa, passed away.
10/11/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
5/30/1919Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
12/24/1999Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.
1/20/1990Dr. Raja Ramanna sworn in Minister of State for Defence.
7/14/1636Aurangzeb was appointed as Shahjahan by Viceroy of Deccan.
6/23/1930The Simon Commission recommends a federal India and the separation of Burma at London.
1/10/1908Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal.
8/4/1956Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay.
7/10/1972Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24 people in Chandka Forest, India.