3 November - India on this day27 events

BCCI suspends five cricketers -Mohammed Azaruddin, Ajay Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Manoj Prabhakar--for a period of 15 days after the CBI report.

Gold Bond scheme was started to boost Indian economy after Indo-China war.

Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], great Mughal emperor (1658-1707), was born at Dohad in Gujarat.

Sagarmal Gopa, freedom fighter, was born.

Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.

Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born.

Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal).

3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India.

Deve Gowda, PM, to attend G-15 summit in Harare. This was his first foreign trip as PM.

Vice President Krishan Kant presents India's 3-point 'South's positive agenda' at G-15 meet at Kuala Lumpur to ensure a fair deal in the process of globalisation.

Temporary Octroi Mandal established.

Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated.

Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives.

American Consulate General in Chennai starts issuing visitor's visa with 10-year validity.

India presents G-15 with agenda for a fair deal in Kuala Lumpur. India calls upon Group of 15 developing countries to "build convergences among nations and encourage G-7 to pursue structured and issue-based dialogue with us".

Salim renamed himself as Jahangir and became the king of Agra.

India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.

The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India.

Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, is selected for the UNESCO Gandhi gold medal.

Prithviraj Kapoor, stage and film artist, member of Rajya Sabha and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, was born.

Manmohan Krishna, famous film actor, passed away.

Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away.

Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000.

Dr. Indrachandra Shastri, versatile in Sanskrit and Pali, died.

Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim.

Mamta Banerjee, the TMC leader resigns from Central Coordinating Committee of the BJP and Allies to highlight the issue of spiralling vegetable prices, but Vajpayee refused to accepts the resignation.

Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M).