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Indian Express
3 days ago
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June 3, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Talks On Tamil Issue
India and Sri Lanka are said to be inching towards a solution to the Tamil ethnic issue after the talks that began in New Delhi between PM Rajiv Gandhi and President J R Jayewardene. The two sides were not able to indicate what stage the talks were at, though according to them, all aspects of the problem and ways and means to find a negotiated political settlement were being discussed. Choosing A CM A large number of legislators, including ministers, urged the AICC (I) observers to entrust the choice of Maharashtra's new chief minister to the outgoing CM, Vasantdada Patil, it is reliably learnt. Legislators from Patil's group are understood to have recommended the names of two of his cabinet colleagues, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Sudhakar Naik. Indications are that the new CM will be chosen from among the elected MLAs or MLCs. Heat On Bachchan Superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who has had little time for either his constituency or Parliament since his election to the Lok Sabha last December, may soon face a movement seeking his recall for betraying voters' trust. A senior Congress (I) partyman, Sant Bux Singh, brother of Finance Minister V P Singh and a former MP, has fired the first salvo by asking Bachchan to quit politics If he does not like it. Attacks in Sri Lanka Separatists stormed a police station and blew up a bridge in eastern Sri Lanka only a day after killing at least 50 people in raids on Sinhalese villages in the same area. Guerillas sprayed gunfire and threw bombs last night as they attacked the station at Kuchchaveli, about 30 km from the east coast port of Trincomalee town, a senior government politician told reporters.
Indian Express
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
May 23, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Pak N-weapon
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi expressed serious concern about Pakistan being close to developing a nuclear weapon and said the US was not doing much to stop the programme. Addressing a press conference in Moscow, Gandhi said that recently, a Pakistani national was caught by the US customs authorities while trying to smuggle out certain triggering devices. But they let him off after levying some charges. Hijack Attempt Foiled An anonymous phone call foiled a possible hijack of an Indian Airlines flight from Kathmandu to Delhi by three suspected Sikh extremists carrying transistor bombs, officials told PTI. The plane was carrying 88 passengers, including the cine star and Congress (I) MP Sunil Dutt. The plane left after being thoroughly searched, nearly four hours behind schedule. Soviet Credit Line India is about to get a massive 1,000 million roubles (about Rs 1,100 crore) of Soviet credit to finance a package of projects in vital sectors like oil, power, and the coal industry under an agreement signed in Moscow by PM Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet Communist Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev. A second agreement sets out basic guidelines for economic, trade, scientific and technical cooperation between the two countries over the next 15 years. Expulsion Of Tamils More than 20,000 Tamils face the prospect of expulsion from a Sri Lankan town. The Times reported that in the wake of last week's massacre at Anuradhapura, the Sri Lankan Army proposed that a whole district between Vavuniya and Anuradhapura should be cleared of Tamils. However, a Sri Lankan cabinet spokesman denied such reports.
