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19- January-2000	M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai.
24- January-2000	Supreme Court imposes, with immediate effect, a ban on industries in Delhi and Haryana from discharging untreated industrial effluents into the Yamuna.