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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.
Indian Express
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
May 19, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Anti Terror Bill
The government has introduced the Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Bill, which seeks to provide deterrent provisions, including the death sentence, to combat the menace of terrorism in the country. The bill also seeks to confer on the central government adequate powers to make rules necessary to deal with terrorists. The introduction of the bill was preceded by noisy protests from members of the Opposition who argued that they did not have time to go through its provisions. Madhu Dandavate of the Janata Party argued that the introduction of the bill should be deferred by a few days. Alternatively, he suggested, the bill could be referred to a Select Committee. Gujarat Violence One person was killed and two injured in police firing in Baroda, while in Ahmedabad, where peace seemed to be returning a day earlier, one man was stabbed to death. Meanwhile, Gujarat CM Madhavsinh Solanki has offered to hold a fresh round of talks with leaders of the three-month-long anti-reservation agitation. The CM said he and his colleagues have never refused any proposal to hold talks on the issue. A group of 11 Opposition leaders is arriving in the state on May 19 to take stock of the situation. Gas Victims Rally Police teargassed a rally by victims of the Bhopal Gas tragedy. The protestors also included noted cultural figures like painter J Swaminathan, eminent dramatist B V Karanth and Hindi writer Vijay Mohan Singh. The incident is likely to embarrass the Madhya Pradesh government because the three are among the leading figures in its cultural showpiece, Bharat Bhavan, the prestigious multi-arts centre. Goenka Awards The B D Goenka awards for excellence in journalism will be given away by Justice H R Khanna on May 19. The 1984 awards have gone to Prem Bhati, editor in chief of The Tribune, Chandigarh and Raj Kumar Keswani, a journalist from Madhya Pradesh.
