5 November - India on this day31 events

Case was filed against the Azad Hind Army Soldiers at Red Fort in Delhi.

Narashima Rao, former PM, refused bail in St. Kitts forgery case.

The Interpol issues a "look-out'' notice for the five persons and two of their accomplices, who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in December 1999.

Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions.

Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta.

Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.

R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born.

Arjun Singh, leader of Madhya Pradesh, was born.

M. G. Subramaniam, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1983-84, was born in Karnataka.

Mughals, under the leadership of Akbar, defeated Hindu ruler Hemu in the second battle of Panipat.

Baba Nagarjun "Vaidyanath Mishra" died. He wrote in Hindi, Maithali and Sanskrit. Some of his noted works are "Patra-Heen- Nagna Gachh", "Dukhmochan", "Yugdhara" and "Sahath" "Pret Ka Bayan".

Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, met Gandhiji, S.Shriniwas Iyengar and M.A. Ansari Congress leaders at New Delhi.

Narsimha Rao, PM, reaches Argentina for G-15 summit at Buenos Aires.

Initials of the place of issuance of notes were started to be printed instead of Issuing Circle's name.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.

India and Pakistan agree to continue their talks on the Tulbul navigator project on the Jhelum in Kashmir, despite differences over various provisions of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960.

Accession of Jahangir.

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford.

Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful.

Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup.

Railway ministry doubles compensation amounts from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.4 lakh to victims of railway accidents and other untoward incidents.

India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.

Malcom Marshall, legendary West Indian fast bowler, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after battling colon cancer for over six months.

University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC.

Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, died.

Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year.

Indira Gandhi arrested and released unconditionally. The External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addresses the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi.

Janata Dal splits. The breakaway group claims support of 58 M.P.'s to elect Mr. Chandrashekhar as leader. V.P. Singh's government loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.

Madhavrao Scindia rejoins Congress.

United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I).

The CBI arrests the Bihar Road Construction Minister Illiyas Hussain and conducts raids in the Bitumen scam case.