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17th September - A Day in the life of India

Learn about the importance of 17th September. Significant historical events, Famous Birthdays and Death anniversaries on this day.

2022
  • While the BJP is preparing to celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 72nd Birthday on the 17th of September, the biggest opposition party is trending #Berozgar_Diwas highlighting the alarming numbers of unemployed youths in the country.
  • The Telangana government - Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has declared a holiday for all government institutions in the state on Saturday, September 17, on the occasion of 'Telangana National Integration Day.
  • Adani Group became the 2nd largest cement manufacturer after its acquisition of Ambuja Cements & ACC completes.
  • 8 cheetahs flown from Namibia in a special cargo plane landed at the Gwalior's Maharajpura airbase, operated by the Indian Air Force (IAF), around 5 am on 17th September 2022. Then they were flown in an IAF Chinook heavy-lift helicopter to the Kuno National Park and released into their natural habitat.
2020
  • Indian National Congress celebrating the 70th Birth Anniversary of PM Narendra Modi as National Unemployment Day as India's Unemployment rate rose sharply to 23.7% in April 2020 while the number of total unemployed youths crossed the 150 million mark in the country.
2019
  • Indian stocks fell to almost a year low amid fears that surging crude prices will intensify an economic slowdown as supplies from Saudi Arabia will get disrupted because of last week’s drone attacks there.
  • NASA's lunar orbiter will send ISRO's Vikram Lander's images.
  • PM Narendra Modi is to visit Narmada Dam, today on his Birthday
  • An unmanned aircraft Rustom 2 of DRDO failed during a test flight and crashed in agricultural land in Karnataka's Chitradurga district.
  • Allahabad Bank board approves its merger with Indian Bank.
  • 2nd winner of ₹1 crore in this season of KBC 11 is Babita Tade from Amravati, Maharashtra


17th September in the History of India
  • 1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
  • 1965 – The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.


Famous Birthdays on September 17
  • 1986 – Ravichandran Ashwin, Indian cricketer
  • 1986 - Priya Anand is an Indian film actress and model who appears in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films. After pursuing higher studies in the US, she began a career in modelling in 2008 before making her acting debut in the Tamil film Vaamanan and then her Telugu debut in Leader a year later.
  • 1950 – Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, India (2001-14) and, 14th Prime Minister of India since 2014 to present.
  • 1945 – Bhakti Charu Swami, Indian religious leader
  • 1937 – Sitakant Mahapatra, Indian poet and literary critic
  • 1932 – Indarjit Singh, Indian-English journalist
  • 1930 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (d. 2013)
  • 1915 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (d. 2011)
  • 1879 – Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy, commonly known as Periyar, also referred to as Thanthai Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician who started the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam. He is known as the 'Father of the Dravidian movement'. (d. 1973)

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