Historical Highlights of this day / आज के दिन की इतिहासिक विशिष्टतायें

JHUMPA LAHIRIApril 10, 2000 - Her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

MORARJI DESAI, former Prime Minister of India, and the first premier of a non-Congress Government of India, died on April 10, 1995, at the respectable age of 99 years.

SALMAM KHAN, Indian Bollywood actor, on April 10, 2006, was sentenced to a five-year jail term and remanded to Jodhpur jail in the blackbuck huntng case.

SWAMI DAYANAND SARASWATI, on April 10, 1875, founded the first branch of the Arya Samaj at Bombay, India.

VIJAY MALLYA, the notorious business magnate and liquor baron of India, who has since fled the country after swallowing the bank loans aggregating over Rs.9000 Crores, became the member of the Rajya Sabha of the Indian Parliament on April 10, 2002.

CHAKRAVARTI RAJAGOPALACHARI, Bharat Ratna, became the Chief Minister of Madras on April 10, 1952.