NEW DELHI, India: Flushed With righteous anger, viewers in North India set fire to an electricity company office and blocked a road after a power Cut blacked out their favorite television gods on Sunday, the united news of India reported.
The exploits of the Hindu God, told in the ancient epic the Ramayana, are compulsive Sunday morning viewing for ions of Indians.
Scores of people blocked the Jammu Pathankot highway for about two hours to protest against the power cut.
NEW DELHI, Indi: Srilanka will shortly merge its northern and eastern provinces, All India Radio reported. The radio quoted an Indian government spokesman in Madras as saying the merger had been urged on Sri Lanka by India. Meanwhile an official spokesman in New Delhi said Indian forces in Sri Lanka captured 35 Tamil rebels in the two provinces.
ISLAMABAD: A major Afghan government offensive has forced anticommunist guerrillas to call for help to maintain their prolonged siege of the eastern Garrison town of khost, near the: Pakistan border, according to guerrilla sources, they said,
The area’s main guerrilla Commander Jalauddin Haqani asked for reinforcements after an advance by Soviet and Afghan government forces towards the town in Paktia province, which borders Pakistan.
NEW DELHI, India: India plans to buy at least three enriched Uranium fuelled nuclear reactors from the Soviet Union and open them to international inspection, the Sunday Mail reported.
NEW DELHI, India: Police defused a time bomb on a railway track and sent additional forces into Darjeeling district in Northeast India as a militant Gurkha group stepped up its violent campaign for self determination.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 25, 1987
