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Historical Event on 8/13/1998

India signs two agreements with the World Bank for concessional credit through the International Development Association for $115.4 million.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/12/1996Lok Sabha adopts resolution extending President's Rule in J & K for 6 months.
3/2/1997Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.
5/1/1999India retained the SAFF Coca-Cola football title in Margao, beating Bangladesh in the final.
11/10/1960First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State.
5/31/1921Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.
1/31/1992The Securities and Exchange Board of India given statutory power as an autonomous body.
5/23/1984Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Limited at Jamshedpur, conquers the summit of Mount Everest to become the first Indian woman and the fifth women in the world to achieve this feat.
7/15/1979Morarji Desai resigns as PM. Jagjivan Ram elected Janata Parliamentary party leader.
7/15/1987Rajiv Gandhi,Congress President, expels V. C. Shukla, Arif Mohammed Khan and Arun Nehru from Congress for anti-party activities.
6/6/1997U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal.