June 5, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Dhaka Talks Fail
India and Bangladesh failed to reach an agreement on sharing their common river, the Ganga, despite three days of talks in Dhaka, officials said. The talks had been called to work out an agreement on sharing the Ganga's waters and augmenting the river's flow during the lean season. Bangladesh foreign affairs adviser Humayun Rashid Choudhury termed the talks 'inconclusive'.
Violence Unabated
Police burst tear gas shells to quell violent mobs in areas of north Mehsana and south Surat, which witnessed unabated violence during the last 24 hours. An abortive attempt was made to set on fire a coach of the Ahmedabad-Kalol shuttle. A state transport bus was set ablaze and the police also seized 900 litres of acid in Nadiad in Kheda district.
PM's 5-nation Tour
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi leaves New Delhi tomorrow on a five-nation fortnight-long tour, aimed primarily at establishing contacts at the highest level and evolving the ties between India and these countries. Considerable importance is being attached to his visits to France and the United States, where tremendous interest has been generated about India, thanks to the coming Festival of India in these two countries. The festivals, the first of their kind to be held outside the United Kingdom, are on a scale never attempted before.
Blasts In Gurdaspur
The uneasy calm during the initial days of the 'Operation Bluestar week' was broken by two bomb blasts in Gurdaspur district. Three terrorists lobbed a country-made explosive device in front of the public cloth house at about 9.30 p.m. One of the terrorists was overpowered by the people.
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