Asia Africa Intelligence Wire articles from August 14 1988

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire archives from August 14 1988

Scheme to stop 'outsourcing' of workforce.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Tanmay Chatterjee in Kolkata Aug. 13. - Remember how an agitation by villagers reportedly patronised by the local CPI-M at Haldia nearly paralysed operations at the Haldia Petrochemicals soon after its...

Doctor murder case accused surrenders.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR, Aug. 13. - Dr Rehamatullah Alam, the prime accused in the Dr Chandan Sen murder case, today surrendered before the Ranaghat sub-divisional judicial magistrate, Mr Partha...

Fish perishes as Citu agitates.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service HALDIA, Aug. 13. - Fishermen of Digha were forced to sell fish at a low price today. And marine fish worth Rs 30 lakh perished in trawlers and fishing boats because Citu activists...

Commuters protest electrification delay.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KRISHNAGAR, Aug. 13. - Although the government embarked on an ambitious railways electrification programme a few years ago, it did not electrify the 128 km stretch from Krishnagar to...

Eviction drive meets political resistance.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Kanchan Siddiqui in Bankura Aug. 13. - The Operation Cleanliness, mooted by the Bankura administration, needs to be recast as operation rehabilitation. At least the attitude of the political parties in the...

Centre likely to fund revival package for BOGL.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, Aug. 13. - If all goes well, the sick central public sector undertaking, Bharat Opthalmic Glass Limited, may manage to tide over its present financial crisis with the Centre's...

New process to reflect on steel bottomline.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service DURGAPUR, Aug. 13. - Finally the Durgapur Steel Plant is set to shift to the continuous casting path, as the Steel Authority India Limited board has approved a bloom caster for the...

Centre may ament contract labour laws.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman news Service NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - The Centre is thinking of amending labour laws to allow a greater role for contract labour in 13 or more areas, including export-related zones, IT enabled services...

Sensex crosses 3,900-point barrier, up 36.66.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MUMBAI, Aug. 13. Keeping market expectations alive the Sensitive Index of Stock Exchange, Mumbai today crossed the 3,900-barrier to close 3,926.07 which was 36.66 above previous day's...

Trai asks operators to follow norms.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has served notices to telecom operators who are not following norms prescribed by Trai. The Authority has given them three...

100 years ago.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) august 14, 1903 A New Dispensary. - His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor will open the new Dwarka Nath Mitter Outdoor Eye Dispensary and Surgical Ward, founded by Rai Omrito Nath Mitter, Bahadur of Calcutta, at...

Welcome Ansari.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Everyone remembers the traumatised face, eyes filled with tears, pleading for mercy with folded hands as the VHP-Bajrang Dal mobs went on the rampage killing and raping Muslims in Gujarat last year. Blazoned...

POWER OF WLL.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) By SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI Interested parties are applying the toothcomb to the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal's (TDSAT) 2-1 majority decision that legalised limited mobility. There is really...

Marxist politics.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) The CPI-M's reaction to two recent Supreme Court judgments - one on the two child norm and the other on the right to strike by government employees - smacks of political opportunism. While its top leaders...

Pride and predicament.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) The decision to have the National Book Fair in Kolkata in September may look, at first sight, to be a recognition of the city's literary credentials demonstrated in no uncertain terms every January when the...

Diana Mosley's Death Ends Link To Facism.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) The Times, London PARIS, Aug. 13. - Diana Mosley, the wife of Sir Oswald Mosley and one of the last links to prewar high society and the stain of fascism, died yesterday in Paris aged 93. A rich and beautiful...

Zardari acquitted in murder rap.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) KARACHI, Aug. 13. - A Pakistani court today acquitted former Mrs Benazir Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, of the murder of a chairman of state-owned Pakistan Steel Mills, court officials said. Zardari,...

BBC pushed scribe to back report.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Agencies LONDON, Aug. 13. - A senior BBC journalist today described how she was pressurised by her managers to back up a report by radio journalist Andrew Gilligan that the government had "sexed up" the Iraq...

17 killed in Afghan bus blast.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Agence France Presse KABUL, Aug. 13. - A massive bomb explosion on a minibus killed 17 people and injured three others in southern Afghanistan early today, officials said. The bomb exploded in the minibus at...

Indian girls on top.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) LONDON, Aug. 13. - Girls of Indian origin are the highest performing among students of all groups in Britain, including the majority white community, latest official figures reveal. Indian girls are 10...

Lanka SC bans conversions.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) COLOMBO, Aug. 13. - Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has ruled against religious conversions and denied legal status to two Christian organisations. The three-judge Bench last week held that the Sri Lankan...

King, Maoists inked secret deal.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KATHMANDU, Aug. 13. - King Gyanendra and the Maoists have already reached a secret agreement on peace in Nepal, according to a media report here today. The king had assented to a...

Briton faces prison for uttering 'Paki'.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Indo-Asian News Service LONDON, Aug. 13. - For the first time in the history of race relations in Britain, a man faces jail for calling an Asian a "Paki" - short for a Pakistani but actually a term of racial...

Bush becomes a 'model' leader.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) The Times, London WASHINGTON , Aug. 12. - He flew out to an aircraft carrier to declare the end of the Mr Saddam Hussein's government. Now Mr George W Bush, the action man US President, has inspired an action...

Rock 'n' Roll's gain, and Elvis manager's too.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Associated Press MEMPHIS, Aug. 13. - Elvis Presley might have become a decent actor if manager Tom Parker hadn't been so eager to cash in on a string of lacklustre movies, says a songwriter who created music...

Crashed a car? Blame it on the full moon.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Straits Times/ ANN LONDON, Aug. 12. - A British insurance company has warned drivers to be extra careful whenever there is a full moon. Despite several studies finding no relationship between lunar phases...

Mutiny sought Arroyo's ouster: rebel leader.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Philippines Inquirer/ ANN MANILA, Aug. 13. - A Mutiny in the Philippines last month was mounted by junior military officers to force the resignation of President Ms Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and military top...

Eyebrows raised over Cola delay.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service Kolkata, Aug. 13. Questions have been raised on why the state pollution control board is taking about 10 days to declare the results of tests on the presence of pesticide in soft drink....

Police step up vigil on I-Day eve.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Aug. 13. Concerned with the seizure of detonators and gelatin sticks from a bus at Chopra, Uttar Dinajpur, early this week, police have stepped up vigil throughout the state in...

June in tune with CAS campaign.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Subhajit Banerjee in Kolkata Aug. 13. With the first zone rollout of CAS only days away, the Multi-System Operators in the city have each, in their own ways, embarked on making the consumer clearer on the...

Encroachers create wetland crisis.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Kaushik Ghosh in Kolkata Aug. 13. You can't wish away the menace of illegal encroachments by merely organising eviction drives. Evicted people simply move elsewhere to settle illegally once again. This is...

School staff stir over tuition ban.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Aug. 13. Some secondary school teachers and non-teaching staff took to the streets today 'to build a strong public opinion' on the 'decadent school education scenario of the...

SC trashes Coke plea.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Our Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - The Supreme Court (coram, Babu, Lakshmanan, Mathur, JJ) today refused to entertain a writ petition filed by Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd under Article 32...

Insurgency a national problem: Tripura CM.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - Unable to keep a tab on insurgent outfits, Tripura chief minister Mr Manik Sarkar has urged the Centre to declare insurgency a national problem. Mr Sarkar, who...

Three-judge panel to hear petitions.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) CHENNAI, Aug. 13. - The Madras High Court today announced a three-judge panel, according to the Supreme Court directive, to hear the petitions of the 6,072 government employees and teachers, who participated...

Bhaben Saikia dead.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) GUWAHATI, Aug. 13. - National award-winning filmmaker and litterateur Bhabendranath Saikia (71) died at a nursing home here this morning. Saikia, survived by his wife and two daughters, was admitted to a...

This I-Day, the colour of freedom is red...
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Sudipta Chanda in Siliguri Aug. 13. - Two red pandas will be celebrating Independence Day this 15 August. On the day, Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Darjeeling will be officially transferring two...

After cola, oil in the frying pan.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) SNS & Agencies NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - With the cola controversy continuing to bubble, the Union food and consumer affairs minister, Mr Sharad Yadav, isn't waiting for any studies to expose chinks in his...

Jaya's Tamil Nadu fit for Art. 356, says peeved DMK.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service CHENNAI, Aug. 13. - There was enough scope for invoking Art. 356 in Tamil Nadu to dismiss the Jayalalitha government in view of the prevailing situation here, the DMK president, Mr M...

PCC picks on 'pious' Naidu.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service HYDERABAD, Aug. 13. - How pious is chief minister Mr Chandrababu Naidu? This has been bothering the new APCC president Mr D Srinivas for some time now, who feels Mr Naidu had failed to...

Siwan don calls it a day, gives in.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PATNA, Aug 13. - RJD MP Mohammed Shahabuddin today surrendered before a local court at Siwan in connection with four cases in which he was facing arrest warrants. The Siwan 'don',...

Ray's Sonar Kella to get a facelift.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - The Union tourism and culture ministry has worked out a comprehensive restoration programme to give a new lease of life to the 12th century Jaisalmer Fort, now in...

7-year-old killer acquitted.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) RANCHI, Aug. 13. - A seven-year-old kid was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Dhanbad court on charges of murdering a six-year-old boy at Singhnagar, Jharia, in December 2002. But Jharkhand High Court...

A life-long rail pass for Bismillah.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - The railways have rectified the mistake and restored the honour bestowed on Ustad Bismillah Khan. The railway minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, today called on the Ustad and presented a...

Jagdambika defends jumbo line-up.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service LUCKNOW, Aug. 13. - The jumbo UPCC executive announced by UPCC chief Mr Jagdambika Pal appears to have created more problems than it has solved. It already has 110 members and the...

Double trouble prompts security rehaul.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - It only took Shatrughan Sinha's double to take a casual walk in Parliament House to show that security arrangements left much to be desired. It has now been...

...And saffron.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) GANDHINAGAR, Aug. 13. - There are visibly more of saffron flags than the national flag fluttering in the streets of Patan, the venue chosen by Gujarat chief minister Mr Narendra Modi to celebrate Independence...

Budhha discusses neighbours.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - The law and order situation along the International Border India shares with Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan came up for discussion today between Deputy Prime Minister Mr LK Advani and...

2 killed in J&K blasts.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) SRINAGAR, Aug 13. - Militants today triggered four explosions in the Kashmir valley killing two civilians and injuring 48, including seven securitymen. Mohammad Yaseen Bhat was killed and 42 people, including...

Slaughter ban state issue: Cong.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - The Congress today sounded cautious opposition to the government's move to bring a Bill in Parliament for banning cow-slaughter nation-wide saying the matter was a "state issue". An eye...

Mulayam, Pawar pitch for George.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - Sensing differences within the Opposition ranks and bolstered by a favourable ruling from the Rajya Sabha Chairman, the government is likely to try and force the...

Soccer or parade, I-Day is matchless in Kalimpong.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Niraj Lama in Kalimpong Aug. 13. - Independence Day is still to come but Kalimpong has already donned its festive fervour for the occasion. Unlike other parts of the country, in Kalimpong the celebrations...

Bhandari hits out at Chamling.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Aug. 13. - The newly-appointed president of the Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr Nar Bahadur Bhandari, wants delimitation of constituencies based on the 2001 census. ...

Cops to help out with evictions.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MALDA, Aug. 13. - The Malda irrigation division may seek police help to evict more than 25 encroachers from PWD land at Panchanandapur in Kaliachak-II. The division wants to begin the...

Cooch Behar roads lie in tatters.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 13. - The Sitalkuchi-Mathabhanga Road in Cooch Behar is lying unusable. The situation turned worse this monsoon. Sitai and Sitalkuchi residents are the worse sufferers...

Red tape clogs minority schemes.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) MALDA, Aug. 13. - Schemes for minorities are not being implemented in Malda because of official apathy. What is worse is that there is no representative of the West Bengal Minorities' Finance and Development...

Bharatnatyam dose to cure hip-hop fever.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Aug. 13. - What can one do to lessen the influence of hip-hop culture among young people? Introducing them to Bharatnatyam, with an additional attraction of pantomime, is what...

Green boxes for a clean city!
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service SILIGURI, Aug. 13. - Eleven green postboxes bearing the message 'Keep Siliguri clean and green' will be set up in different areas of Siliguri on Independence Day for encouraging clean...

Cops beef up border vigil.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 13. - Cooch Behar police have stepped up vigilance along the Assam-West Bengal and Indo-Bangladesh borders to ensure that no one can sneak into the district and...

Bijoy blasts CM.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Aug. 13. - The Paradip Oil Refinery controversy dogged the government again today with reports from Mumbai quoting IOC sources alleging that the state government was responsible for the inordinate...

Residents vent ire on petty crime rise.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service PARALAKHEMUNDI, Aug. 13. - Petty thefts, robberies and shopbreaking have become a major problem for the inhabitants of this town even as the local police fail to nab the gang involved....

Officials to repair temple roof soon.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, Aug. 13. - The state government will shortly restart repair of the 200-year-old Gobindajiu Temple. Earlier, a large part of the roof of the Jhulanayatra building, that...

Farmers fear drought, demand mini-dam.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service NIMAPARA, Aug. 13. - Farmers of Nimapara block in Puri district have demanded construction of a minidam on the Dhanua mouth to store water for irrigation purposes. A memorandum to...

Workshop on rail safety.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Aug. 13. - As part of the safety drive by Indian Railways, a zonal level workshop on Railway Safety was organised by East Coast Railway, Bhubaneswar at the NALCO Nagar Auditorium here recently....

NTPC pact with BHEL.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Aug. 13. - The National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd recently entered into an MOU with the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd to form a joint venture company for taking up...

OSRTC officials punished for abuse of power.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Aug. 13. - Authorities of the Orissa State Road Transport Corporation have decided to recover money from two of their officials and forfeit their annual increments for abuse of official power....

Port a crime haven.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) PARADIP, Aug. 13. - Crime like antisocial activities, rape, kidnapping, atrocities on women and even attacks on policemen is on the rise here since last year. Sources said that frequent transfer of...

Stir over shift of office venue.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) BHADRAK, Aug. 13. - Agitated leaders cutting across political lines joined hands with local industrialists today to lock up the office of the Orissa State Financial Corporation, Bhadrak branch following a...

Shoddy repairs make highways unmotorable.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHAWANIPATNA, Aug. 13. - Most roads in Kalahandi district are in poor shape due to bad construction and lack of maintenance. Even major parts of state highways 1, 2 and 16 are in...

Migration good for business.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BOLANGIR, Aug. 13. - The state government often takes the plea that migration is largely seasonal than distress-related. But even district officials confess that this sort of excuse...

Panel for housing scam.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) BHUBANESWAR, Aug. - 13. - The House Committee of the Assembly, constituted to probe into the alleged bungling of housing loans for cyclone-hit poor families, today set up three sub-committees to go deep into...

Scrap power Act, cries Bardhan.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Aug. 13. - CPI general secretary Mr AB Bardhan today demanded the scrapping of the Central Electricity Act 2003 and a roll-back of privatisation in the power sector...

Counsel defends Dara to the hilt.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Aug. 13. - Senior defence counsel Mr Brahmananda Panda today raised questions on the veracity and acceptability of extra judicial confessions made by a few witnesses in...

HC spoils AES share sale plan.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service CUTTACK, Aug. 13. - Orissa High Court has issued an injunction on AES Company's purported bid to sell it's shares in Orissa Power Generation Corporation while arbitration proceedings...

Blockade after accident.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAGATSINGHPUR, Aug. 13. - Vehicular traffic was disrupted on Cuttack-Paradip road for several hours as irate villagers blockade roads after the death of a person in an accident at...

ORISSA BRIEFS.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Fake PW threat Five persons of Pangama village in Mathili block of Malkangiri had recently received threatening letters, allegedly from PWG Naxalites. All the letters instructed their receivers to hand over Rs...

Sand theft leaves township, nearby villages prone to flood.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service KENDRAPARA, Aug. 13. - The Kendrapara township plus three gram panchayats which have a total population of more than two lakhs face threat of inundation by the Luna. Illegal lifting of...

BJP-BJD fail to arrive at seat consensus.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHADRAK, Aug. 13. - The BJD-BJP alliance failed to arrive at a consensus over seat sharing in the urban local body elections in Bhadrak. The coordination committee met twice here...

Power collapse probe nails three.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service BHUBANESWAR, Aug. 13. - Three former engineers of Gridco were indicted for the substandard work in the installation of the 220 KV high tension towers which eventually resulted in the...

Computers crash worldwide.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) PARIS, Aug. 13. - The worst computer virus attack this year rocked businesses, government agencies and home users around the world today, mocking Microsoft's billionaire founder Mr Bill Gates and his Windows...

Back home, pennies in India.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service JAIPUR, Aug. 13. - Munir returned home with loads of gifts and lots of love and good wishes from people in India, but he has left behind something he may miss very much. Munir's sole...

ONGC staff.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) Statesman News Service MUMBAI, Aug. 13. - Flouting the Bombay High Court order, ONGC employees today began their pen-down in support of their demands such as a CBI inquiry into Monday's chopper crash,...

HC rap on Sachin Ferrari.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) NEW DELHI, Aug. 13. - While Sachin Tendulkar might have been busy cruising Mumbai roads in his new Ferrari sports car, Delhi High Court today issued notices to him and the Centre asking them to "show cause"...

Terror tout's missile misses.
August 14, 1988... (From The Statesman (India)) PTI and SNS WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. - Three persons, including a British arms dealer of Indian origin with alleged links to the Mumbai underworld, have been arrested by FBI in an international sting operation...