About 125 Pakistan trained freedom fighters may enter Punjab by October this year to intensify insurgency in the border districts of the State. Intelligence agencies in New Delhi are understood to have sounded a warning to this effect to the Centre.
The border belt in Jammu and Kashmir will be declared as a “protected area” by invoking article 249 of the Constitution. “Three representatives of the farmers will soon be appointed to the Agricultural Costs and Prices Commission, raising the number of its members to seven,
*A confrontation between the Barnala government and the Centre may become inevitable if the latter goes ahead with its decision to invoke article 249 of the Constitution to create a “security belt” on the western border.
Mr. V.N. Narayanan has been appointed as the editor of the Tribune, Chandigarh in place of Mr. Perm Bhatia.
Mr. KS. Gill has been appointed chairman of the committee constituted by the Punjab government to prepare the State’s case for restructuring Centre State relations.
*The Reserve Bank of India has announced upward revision of the rupee in relation to the pound sterling. The new middle rate now works out to be Rs. 18. 60 per pound, the new buying and selling rates are Rs, 18.50 and Rs, 18, 64 per pound respectively.
“The Lok Sabha approved the Miso Accord to confer Statehood on Mizoram which becomes the Unions 23rd state. It also ensures constitutional protection to the social customs and laws of the tribal people.
Balvinder Singh created Asian record in shot-put on the opening day of the two day International Meet in Delhi on August 5, 1986 with a throw of 18.71 meters.
Arguing before a full bench of the Delhi High Court, Defense Counsel, and P.N.Lekhi contended that the eye witness accounts prepared by the prosecution in the Indira Gandhi assassination case were “unbelievable and self-contradicting”.
*Widespread rain in the 1st week of August has revived hope of a normal Kharif harvest in the paddy growing districts of Punjab.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 22, 1986
