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Indian Express
19-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
July 19, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Gujarat Accord
The anti-reservation agitation in Gujarat is likely to be withdrawn following an agreement between the government and anti-reservation leaders. The Amarsinh Chaudhary government has agreed not to implement the Solanki cabinet's decision to increase the reservation quota of non-Harijan and non-Adivasi backward-class students for admission in medical and technical institutions to 28 per cent. Pakistan is coordinating its military activities with China in a bid to capture the strategic Siachen Glacier in Ladakh. Pakistani and Chinese air force jet fighters recently conducted joint reconnaissance missions over the glacier and the Indian Nubra Valley. Defence experts say Pakistan is trying to secure advantageous positions in the glacier to secure a common border with China to facilitate a closer military link-up in the event of a war with India. Safarnama, the new TV serial presented at the initiative of the railway ministry, has been derailed. Doordarshan authorities have decided to suspend it on the ground that the third episode was 'not only below standard but vulgar in dialogue at places'. The move has caused surprise in Rail Bhavan, where officials point out that Doordarshan brought the alleged vulgarity to their attention only after the telecast. The ongoing tussle between the Congress (I) and Congress (S) for office accommodation in Parliament House took a serious turn when the former made an unsuccessful bid to 'capture' the adjoining Congress (S) office. After removing all sign boards of the Congress (S) office, Congress (I) men allegedly broke open the connecting door between the two party offices and took away some files and papers.
Indian Express
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
July 7, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Indo-Pak troops clash
Security forces effectively foiled an attempt by Pakistani troops to encroach on an Indian Army post in the Chhajja area, about 6 km from Poonch, according to official sources. They said that Pakistani troops made another bid to encroach on the nearby Indian army post at Karmarrah, but their attempt was foiled. New Gujarat CM Amarsinh Chaudhary, a close confidante of the outgoing chief minister, Madhavsinh Solanki, was sworn in as chief minister of Gujarat. Solanki, who returned from Delhi, tendered his resignation to the governor in the morning after a cabinet meeting. He is the second Congress-I chief minister of Gujarat to have been forced out of office by an agitation. Chimanbhai Patel's ministry was dismissed in 1974 in the wake of a students' agitation. Black box search A new robot submarine is taking over the search for the flight recorder of a crashed Air India jet. Reports that it had been found were premature, a leader of the recovery team said. Commander Frank Digeorge, US Navy consultant to the operation, said the team now believed the minisubmarine at the scene lacked the equipment to detect the recorder's signal. Tourism crisis The tourism industry is facing an unprecedented crisis following sharp decline in foreign tourist traffic to India after Indira Gandhi's assassination last October. According to officials in the travel trade, the tourist traffic has dropped by 20 to 30 per cent since November 1984, resulting in the loss of crores of rupees in foreign exchange. They said that group after group cancelled their scheduled trips to India after the assassination and the subsequent violence that erupted all over the country.
