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Indian Express
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
July 15, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Black box analyses
Justice D N Kripal, who is heading the court of inquiry into the Kanishka crash, is expected to arrive in Bombay to decide the place and date for the much-awaited analyses of the black boxes. In all probability, the read-out of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) will take place at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), where similar analyses of the two air crashes in 1976 and 1978 were carried out. Pak For N-treaty Pakistan is willing to sign a bilateral agreement with India renouncing nuclear weapons, according to a senior Pakistani official. Zain Noorani, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, told the upper house of Parliament that Islamabad is ready 'to join with India bilaterally, or with other non-nuclear states on a regional or a global basis, in a solemn treaty to renounce nuclear weapons'. Tweaks To Schemes Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said the 20-point programme, put in place by Indira Gandhi during the Emergency, would be suitably modified to meet the developmental needs of the poorer sections of people in the villages. He singled out the implementation of the integrated Rural Development Programme in this context and said changes had to be made in the schemes under this programme to help weaker sections. Gandhi said much had been done for the tribals in Madhya Pradesh 'but a lot remained to be done'. Assam talks The fate of the Saikia ministry could become the deciding factor for the solution of the foreigners problem in Assam. One minor hurdle was crossed in the present round when Union Home Secretary R D Pradhan cleared the element of uncertainty over the resumption of talks. They will begin within 10 days.
Indian Express
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
June 20, 1985, Forty Years Ago: $4 bn aid for India
The Aid-India consortium pledged total assistance of four billion dollars to India during the fiscal year 1985-86, which represents an increase of over five per cent in real terms. India will get 3.9 billion dollars in terms of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) as against 3.7 billion dollars last year. This is an increase of 200 million dollars or 5.5 per cent in real terms. In pledging four billion dollars, the World-Bank led consortium has maintained its assistance to India at approximately last year's level. Pak criticises India India expressed 'regret' at the statement of Pakistan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zain Noorani, about the human rights of Indian Muslims. An official spokesperson said, 'we regret that the minister should have spoken in such terms about India's internal affairs.' Noorani had made the statement while referring to the anti-reservation agitation in Gujarat. He alleged that the state government has instigated a communal riot to divert attention from the agitation. Cong chief killed The city Congress (I) president, Neta Hakimuddin, was shot dead by unidentified assailants on the Prahlad Nagar road in Meerut. The DIG, police, Nathu Lal told PTI that the Congress (I) leader, who was riding on a rickshaw, was shot from point-blank range by some persons. The bullets hit him on the temple and he died on the spot, he said. The assailants managed to escape.
