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Historical Event on 10/31/2000

The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources'

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/2/1993ONGC converted into corporation by ordinance.
6/18/1995The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi.
3/3/1990JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
9/17/1960Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
1/24/1937Gandhi announces that he will retire from politics.
4/20/1965First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest.
11/18/1898Prabodhchandra Bagchi, researcher of ""Ancient History of India"", was born.
6/17/1973Leander Vece Paes, tennis player who singles bronze at Atlanta Olympics (1996), was born. He was also a winner of French Open in 1999, Gold Flake Open, Newport 1998, Wimbledon 1999 (doubles and mixed doubles).
10/22/1764The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro.