From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Two more private Airlines to join Indian Skies
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 13:58:26 GMT


Source   : News Clips from CGI
Date     : Nov 14, 1992
Country  : India

Headlines

* Amrita gives up fast threat: 
* Private Air lines in the Indian skies
* ITC's news addition - Rajputana Palace in Jaipur
* Pressure put on Pakistan to disband terrorist training camps
* Kashmiri militant held
* Militants carrying Five Lakh Rupees reward killed in Punjab
* Governmentt made up its mind on making rupee fully convertible ?
* A.R Krishna dead in Andhra Pradesh

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* Amrita Gives up fast threat: 

Hyderabad - Amrita Ahluwalia, the air-hostess who rescued child-bride
Ameena from the clutches of an Arab national, has given up her
proposal to go on an indefinite fast oppoisite the residence of the AP
Chief Minister, Mr.K.Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, following intervention of
the Prime Minister's Office.
	A senior official of the PMO reportedly rang up Ms.Amrita to
inform her that measures would ne taken to ensure that Ameeran's
deposition were recorded in Hyderabad itself instead of her having to
undertake a long journey to appear before the Delhi High Court. The
air-hostess had threatened to go on fast demanding that Ameena depose
in Hyderabad.

* Private Air lines in the Indian skies

More private airlines are in the offing in the Indian skies, according
to Civil Aviation Ministry sources. Apart from Citylink, two more
which may make their entry soon include Raj Aviation, a subsidiary of
Shree Raj Tours and Travels, and a Bombay bases company which has
shown its eagerness to start by the year-end.
	Once the air taxi services start operation in right earnest,
many feel that India Airlines will be forced to come in competition
with them. Even though the IA personnel are not happy about more and
more private airways joining the Indian skies, the Civil Aviation
Ministry is committed to push them through, having taken a policy
decision to this effect.

* ITC's news addition - Rajputana Palace in Jaipur

A "Welcome" addition in these day of heavy tourists traffic to India
is the ITC owned Welcomegroups's new hotel in Jaipur, colorfully
dubbed Rajputana Palace.
	With 224 rooms to its credit, the palace claims to be
Jaipur's largest hotel and aims at attracting the high-spenders in
travel - the businessmen and the leisure-seekers.
	Describing this marker as "the new royalty," welcome group has
designed the Rajputana Palace to recreate the splendour of feudal
Rajashtan with all the modern conveniences including a location in the
center of town.

* Pressure put on Pakistan to disband terrorist training camps

Rajasani - The Union Minister os State form Home Affairs Mr.M.M
Jacob said India had been mounting international pressure on Pakistan
by using various diplomatic channel "for disbanding the training camps
for the Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir militants."
	"India had been holding intense dialogue with PAkistan at
various levels to prevent it from abetting militancy in the two border
states," Mr.Jacob said at a press conference here, after having
inspected the border security forces, forward check posts and the
fencing work in progress in the rivers areas of the Punjab-Pakistan
border at Ajnala.
	He was accompanied by Punjab Police Chief Mr.K.P.S Gill and
Inspector General BSF, Mr.P.Dogra.
	India was in dialogue with France and Germany for signing the
extradition treaty with them. Many other European countries had agreed
to sign a similar extradition treaty like the one signed between UK
and India.
	The minister asserted that if Pakistan did not stop its
support to the militants it would have to "sever its economic and
business relations with India."

* Militant held

New Delhi - the Central District Police have arrested an alleged
Kashmir terrorist, Basheer Ahmed Bhatt, and his accomplice Shaukat,
when they arrived in the capital to procure a passport to facilitate
their passage to Pakistan. The arrest were made on Tuesday evening,
the CDP, Central District, Mr.M.P Aggarwal said. He said Basheer Bhatt
was the "chief commander" of a Pak-funded militant outfit, the Kashmir
Freedom Frontm active in the Kashmir valley.

* Militants carrying Five Lakh reward killed in Punjab

Chandigarh - Dreaded militants Bant Singh and Gulzar Singhm
"Lt-General" and "Area Commander" respectively of the Bhindranwale
Tifers Force(BTF), who were responsible for more than 200 killings,
and seven other militants were among 10 people killed in Punjab during
the past 24 hours.
	In a fierce encounter, security forces gunned down three
militants near Chaklan village in Ropar district. Two of them were
later identified as Bant Singh and Gulzar Singh. The two carried a
reward of Rs Five Lakh. Two of their accomplices, however, escaped.

* Govt made up its mind on making rupee fully convertible ?

One of the hottest bit of news that's keenly awaited by the stock
markets is : a slash in import duty on capital goods, import for
steel, from 65 per cent to 25 er cent. Why?
	One: The steel industry has successfully lobbied with the
center that unless this was done, the local industry would be in deep
trouble sooner than later. the fact that the industry was already in
difficulty only helped in swaying the government.
	Two: The government has already made up its mind on making the
rupee fully convertible on the trace account and is only waiting for
the opportune moment. Alongside free exchange the government will have
to cut import duties across the board, This would make imported steel
cheaper than locally manufactured.

* A. R. Krishna Dead
Hyderabad - Padmabhushan awardee and architect of the modern theater
movement in Andhra Pradesh, Mr.A.R Krishna died here. He was 66. 


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