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Indian Express
6 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
August 6, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Assam Voter List
The prospects of holding early parliamentary elections in Assam appeared to recede when a team of the student agitation leaders arrived in New Delhi and demanded a fresh revision of rolls with a 'clear set of directives'. The leaders met the Chief Election Commissioner, R K Trivedi, and emphasised in a memorandum that the assumption that any non-citizen entering Assam before 1971 had automatically acquired citizenship was not legally tenable. The Union Cabinet has given its approval to increase the number of Supreme Court judges from 18 to 30, it is learnt. The Cabinet is also believed to have agreed to raise the strength of high court judges. The government will now bring a bill in Parliament to this effect. What was worrying the government was the accumulation of a large number of cases in high courts and the Supreme Court. A conspiracy to cause disorder in Haryana and kill very important persons, including CM Bhajan Lal, family members of Gen R S Dayal, who led the military action in the Golden Temple last year, and the senior superintendent of police, Ludhiana, was unearthed by the Kurukshetra police following the arrest of five persons. One foreign-made .455 bore revolver, hand grenades, two guns and a large quantity of ammunition have been recovered. The legendary Bob Marshall outclassed second seed Subhash Agrawal and Indian national champion Geet Sethi beat holder Michael Ferreira to set up a clash between experience and youth in the final of the 25th World Amateur Billiards Championship on August 6. The 75-year-old Marshall beat Agrawal in all departments of the game to record a convincing 2809-1872 win while Sethi forged ahead in the last hour to topple holder Ferreira 2513-2379.
Indian Express
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
July 4, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Blast Caused Crash
The Indian team that came to investigate the causes of the Air India jumbo jet crash into the Atlantic has come to the conclusion that sabotage, probably a time bomb or explosives planted on the plane, may have caused the explosion in mid-air. The conclusion, for the present, is 'preliminary' and indicates that there was no structural defect with the plane. Indo-Pak Agreement An agreement between India and Pakistan for co-operation in agriculture and allied fields will be signed in New Delhi before the conclusion session of the three-day ministerial meeting of the Indo-Pakistan Joint Commission. An External Affairs Ministry spokesman told reporters that the four sub-commissions of the Joint Commission had more or less completed their work and a cultural agreement had also been finalised. EC seeks opinions The Election Commission has sought the views of the Centre and the Punjab government on holding parliamentary and assembly elections in the state. The Chief Election Commissioner, R K Trivedi, told UNI that he had written in this regard to the Punjab government and the Union Home Ministry on June 26, the day the five-year-term of the state legislative assembly expired. He also wanted to know whether President's Rule would be revoked before October 5. Missing ships mystery Two Indian ships with a total of 44 crew members on board have been missing since June 21, 1985 — one 90 miles north of Sri Lanka's east coast port Trincomalee and the other in the Bay of Bengal. An extensive search by the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard is yet to yield any clue about their whereabouts.
