National Events in August 1999

Aug. 1

Villagers from Maheshwar release lamps into the Narmada.

Aug. 2

Over 270 people are killed and 460 injured, when the Brahmaputra mail and Avadh-Assam express collide at Gaisal station.

Aug. 4

The U.S. Enforcement agencies notify India as a target of the Saudi Arabia mastermind Osama Bin Laden.

Aug. 5

The Global Peace March demands demilitarisation of the entire planet.

Aug. 6

India expels a staffer of the Pakistan High Commissioner on charge of spying.

Aug. 7

The Prime Minister Mr. A. B. Vajpayee appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state.

Aug. 9

Khajuraho, the city of love temples is chosen for the Millennium Celebrations.

Aug. 11

India witnesses celestial spectacle, the millennium's last total solar eclipse.

Pakistan fires at IAF Copter.

Aug. 15

The Prime Minister, Mr. Vajpayee says Agni-2 is to be inducted into the defence arsenal.

Aug. 19

India's role in ASEAN, ARF is lauded at a colloquium in Singapore.

Aug. 20

India urges Pakistan to take back its soldiers, who are in custody in the country.

Aug. 24

Arms dump unearthed near the Line of Actual Control in Nowgam Sector.

Aug. 30

The Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal A. Y. Tipris warns Pakistan not to indulge in trans-border ventures.

Events 1999