August6

SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. department.

Chittaranjan Das "Desh Bandhu", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named "Swadeshi Mandali". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'.

Kripal Singh Govindsingh, Amritsar, India, 100* on debut v NZ 1959, was born at Madras.

Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.

Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes.

Indian troops invade Pakistan.

Six top Cricket stars banned for one year from all cricket activities on the issue of American tour.

A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam.

Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat.

The Muslim Auqaf Trust takes over charge of the Hazratbal shrine after the removal of security bunkers around it by authorities.

Hajratbal' was handed over to Muslim Auwkaf Trust.

Army confirms social activist Sanjay Ghose's death who was abducted by ULFA.

The Maharashtra Government rejects the Srikrishna Commission findings on the 1992-93 communal riots and the serial blasts in Mumbai, but agrees to act on the panel's suggestions to refurbish the police force.

Dr. Raj Kumar was conferred Dada Saheb Phalke award.

Sundararajan Kidambi becomes the new International Master in the Beil Open chess championship at Biel.

'Shakuntala' made by Oriental Film Mfg. Co. was released.

Star Films Ltd., Bombay, was founded by Ardeshir M. lrani and Bhogilal K. M. Dave.

Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.

Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.

Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died.

Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi.

Ramakrishna Hegde disqualified as MLA.

SriKrishna Commission report was tabled by the Maharashtra government. It was rejected by the ruling alliance whom it heavily indicted.