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India gains its independence from Brittan :
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the first indo-pakistani war over kashmir ends and pakistan becomes east and west pakistan : political
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Ceylon a originally British colony was granted independence : political
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More efficient farming techniques are introduced to the india people : economic
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The Bhola cyclone was a deadly cyclone that hit east pakistan and the west begal on november 11 1970 and is still the deadliest cyclone evr recorded killing aproximently 300,000 people : social
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the split country of east and west pakistan form one new country and one reverts to its original name pakistan and bangledesh
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Ceylon becomes a republic and changes its countries name to Sri Lanka : political
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india tests its first nuclear bomb in pokhran : political
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A civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and a large group of rebels breaks out : political
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i can assume because of the civil war in Sri Lanka 1980s the tourism industry in Sri Lanka collapses : economic
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the Sikhs assassinate India's prime minister at the time Indria Ghandi : political
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during the 1990s bagledesh and pakistan elect women as their prime ministers khaleda zia and Benazir Bhutto whos second term took place in these 5 years : political
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The deadliest tornado in bangledesh's history occured in the manikganj district and killed about 1300 people : social
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Tamil extremists assassinate Indira Ghandi's son Rajiv Ghandi : political
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A treaty is signed over the sharing of the ganges river by H. D. deve Gowda and Sheikh hasins wajed the prime ministers of the contrys at the time. : political
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Chagai-I is the code name for the 5 underground tests of nuclear weapons in pakistan : political
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Indias population reaches one billion in may of 2000 with the birth of Aastha a little girl : social
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India launches a rocket that sends a satellite into space adding to the contrys who can do so. : political
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India successfully fires a ballistic missile off of its east coast : political
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59 pilgrims returning from Ayodhya and many others mainly Muslims were killed in a train fire in Goghra Gujarat : political
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Bus services arrive in india the first in 60 years between Srinagar and muzaffarabad in different country administered areas of kashmir : economic
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India's largest rural job scheme is luanched aiming to lift 60 million families out of poverty : economic
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India's first commercial space rocket is sent into space carrying a Italian satellite : political
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India elects its first female president Pratibha Patil : political
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India successfully launches its unmanned lunar probe (the chandrayaan-1) into space and to the moon : Political
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Nearly 200 people are killed in attacks lead and coordinated by lashkar-e a Taiba jihadist group based in Pakistan targeting the financial capital Mumbai
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Pakistan and India pledge to fight terror together and they make progress towards improving ties.
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India launches its first space laboratory the Astrosat Its biggest space project since the mars orbiter a year prior.
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India ends a law from the colonial era that criminalized gay sex
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A leaked government document gets leaked and shows that unemployment has risen to 6.1% the highest since 1973