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From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India to test fire 'Prithvi' missile tomorrow
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 21:55:13 GMT

Source    : CGI
Date      : Aug 17, 92
Country   : India

Topics
* Steps to frustrate remaining militant groups in Punjab
* Prithvi launch postponed till tomorrow
* Executive director of Syndicate Bank asked to proceed on leave

                           * * * * * * 

* Steps to frustrate remaining militant groups in Punjab

The Government is taking all possible steps to achieve the twin
objectives of mounting pressure on the remaining "terrorist gangs" as
also giving adequate protection to policemen and their families in the
northern state of Punjab, the Rajya Sabha was told on Monday.
	All efforts are being made to ensure the morale of the
security forces is not affected by such incidents, the house was told.

* Prithvi launch postponed till tomorrow

Balasore: Aug 17: The test firing of India's medium range
surface-to-surface missile, "Prithvi" was Monday postponed to 0900
hours Tuesday, due to inclement weather, official sources said.
	Weather permitting, the missile would be launched from the
interm test range at Chandipur-on-sea, 15 km from here.  The Balasore
coast, including its base, was lashed by continuous rains since Sunday
night till Monday after noon.
	Defence Minister Sharad Pawar and Scientific advisor to the defense
ministry A.P.J Abdul Kalam, have been stationed at the base since
Saturday, the sources added.

* Executive director of Syndicate Bank asked to proceed on leave

New Delhi - Aug 17: R.S Pai, executive director of the Syndicate Bank
has been asked by the Indian finance ministry to proceed on leave
following his reported links with the Fairgrowth Financial services
Limited.
	The seniormost general manager of the bank has been directed
to take over as acting executive director.  Reports said that three of
the family members of Pai held considerable number of share in FFSl.

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From: sunder@bach.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
Subject: India - Naga tribals kill security personnel 
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing at the
              University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 10:54:24 GMT


Date	: Aug 20, 1992
Country	: India
Source	: UPI summary


       New Delhi:	 Tribal guerrillas killed six police Thursday
in northeastern India in a third major recent ambush that signals the
resurgence of their dormant insurgency in the remote region, according
to local authorities.

	The Naga tribal guerrillas, trained by China until the mid-1970s,
ambushed and killed eight paramilitary policemen two weeks ago in Assam
state. In June, 14 security personnel were slain in a similar ambush.

	In the latest attack in neighboring Manipur state, guerrillas of the
National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) escaped with the slain
policemen's weapons, state officials said. Two of the dead were police
officers.

	The rebels are demanding independence for their tribal state,
Nagaland, located between Assam and Manipur. The northeastern region is
connected to mainland India by a narrow corridor and borders Burma,
China, Bangladesh and Bhutan.

	After the June ambush, Indian security forces said they destroyed the
headquarters of the rebels in a massive raid.

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From: myadav@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Mahesh Yadav)
Subject: India -  INSAT-2A sends weather pictures
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 12:33:45 GMT


Country:India
From: Mahesh k. Yadav

		INSAT-2A SENDS WEATHER PICTURES
		===============================

Times of India Aug,5,1992
The Times of India News Service
NEW DELHI, Aug 4:

	The indigenous multi-purpose satellite, INSAT-2A has started sending 
high-quality cloud cover pictures of the country and other payloads are also
working well.

	Consequently, India will terminate the lease of 12 transponders on 
ABABSAT and switch-over those operations to INSAT-2A on August 8. The
satellite, launched by the Ariane rocket from Kourou islands in the French 
Guyana on July 10, was parked at its space home at nearly 36,000 km from the 
earth surface last Friday.

	Indian space research organisation sources said all the equipment 
abroad have been switched on and are working well, yesterday ISRO scientists
carried out some communication experiments. The satellite is likely to be 
declared operational on August 15.

	India leased 12 transponders on ARABSAT at a cost $1 million per 
transformer for every year in 1989, following the unexpected failure of 
INSAT-1C. The transponders were hired as an emergency measure for four years to
back-up INSAT-1B till INSAT-1D was launched in 1990.

	Infact, now with the advanced features on INSAT-2A, eight transponders
would do the job of 12 on ARABSAT, ISRO sources said Arab countries are happy 
to get back the transponders as they are facing shortage of capacity due to 
some operational difficulties in their other satellite.

	The India meteorological department (IMD) here recieved the first 
cloud pictures, similar to the one from INSAT-1D shown on Doordarshan news 
every night, last week.

	An indigenously-made very high resolution radiometerr (VHRR) takes 
measurements of the cloud. INSAT-1 series had imported VHRRs on board. 
Sophisticated computers at the master control facility, Hasan and the IMD here 
converts these into high quality pictures.

	Last week, even before the satellite had reached its space home 
scientists operated the VHRR and got good pictures. Earlier, the IMD  used to
get the pictures through the earth station at Sikandrabad in Bulandshahr 
district near Delhi.

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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Subject: India - Some interesting statistics
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 21:54:49 GMT


Note: The following article contains statistical data that may be
interesting to the readers - Moderator


From	: Ajay Shah
Source	: CMIE, Bombay
Date	: June, 1992
Country	: India

                        1980-81         "today"         Units

Population                 67.9            85.4         crores
GNP                     384,835         707,000         crores 1992 Rs.
pc GNP                     5667            8119         1992 Rs.

Savings                  81,447         149,000         crores 1992 Rs.
Capital issues              364          20,000         crores 1992 Rs.

Foodgrains produced       128.6           177.0         million tons
Fertiliser consumption     55.2           145.0         lakh tons

Industrial production     100.0           219.9         index numbers
Electricity generation    110.8           306.8         billion kwh
thermal plant load factor    45              55         %

Govt. expenses             27.1            30.5         % of GDP
Govt. deficit               4.0             2.1         % of GDP

Exports                  18,988          63,000         crores 1992 Rs.
Imports                  35,506          73,000         crores 1992 Rs.
Trade deficit               4.3             0.1         % of GDP
External debt            38,000        1,10,000         crores 1992 Rs.

Surfaced roads              683            1001         '000 km
Villages electrified         47              84         % of all villages
Bank branches            35,707          62,000         number

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From: myadav@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Mahesh Yadav)
Subject: Indian actors in UAE face death rap
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 21:48:12 GMT


From	: Mahesh Yadav
Country	: India
Source	: Times of India, Aug,12,1992
   
		INDIAN ACTORS IN UAE FACE DEATH RAP
		===================================

 Abu Dhabi, aug,11(AFP).

	A group of 11 Indian actors could face a possible death sentence after
being arrested in United Arab Emirates(UAE) for allegedly insulting Islam, a
Muslim cleric has warned.

	The actors, some of whom live in UAE, stagged the play in the UAE 
emirate of  Sharjah in May and it triggered a public furore that the 
participants offended Jesus and Islam 's Prophet Mohammed.

	"We have received scores of calls expressing dismay at the play. The
 actors have been arrested", a police official told AFP.

	Entiled "ants feast on corpses", the play opens with three corpses
lying on the stage. A villager asks if he can eat on of the corpses, which
scholars who saw the videotape said represented Prophet Mohammed. The other
corpses were Jesus Christ and Karl Marx.

	The actors were arrested in June and had been due to go on trial last
week. However, the case has been adjourned until September.

	The UAE and other Gulf states are among the most conservative Muslim
countries but it was not clear what punishment those actors would get if they
are found guilty. A local Muslim cleric said they could face death.

	"The court is looking into their case and its complications", Sheikh
Mohammed Abdul Razzak told the UAE magzine Al-Islah. "The sentence could be 
death if they were found to have insulted the Prophet on purpose".

	"It is another Satanic verses",Al-Islah said, in a reference to the 
British author Salman Rusdie's book that led to the late Iranian spritual
leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordering the Indian born writer's death.

	Court sources said the actors had denied permission by Sarjah
authorities to stage the play, which was also rejected by Kerala. But they
went ahead with their plans and staged it on May,28 before a large audience
of Indians, including Muslims and Christians, they added.

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From: ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu  (Arun K. Gupta)
Subject: India seeks release of 11 Hindus jailed in Emirates
Organization: CMU
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 12:15:44 GMT

From	: Arun K Gupta
Source	: The Saudi Gazette
Date	: Thursday, August 13, 1992

* INDIA SEEKS RELEASE OF 11 HINDUS JAILED IN EMIRATES

New Delhi, Wed. (AFP)

India is working for the release of 11 Hindu actors who face possible
death sentences after being arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
for allegedly insulting Islam, a minister said today.
The Indian Embassy was "making every effort" to ensure the release
of the Indians, Minister of State for External Affairs, R.L. Bhatia
told Parliament.

He gave no further details, saying that the matter was "rather sensitive."

The actors, some of whom live in the UAE, staged a play in the UAE emirate
of Sharjah in May which triggered a public furore because of allegations
that the participants had offended Islam and Christianity.

The actors were arrested in June and were to go on trial last week. However,
the case has been adjourned until September.

A Muslim judge in the UAE has warned that the actors could face a
death sentence. No explanation was given of the details of the offending
play whose contents seem to have offended people in high places as well
as some of the public who apparently had seen the play.

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Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India - Police arrest wife of slain chief of a militant outfit
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 18:49:17 GMT


Source  : CGI
Date	: Aug 13, 1992
Country : India

* Police arrest second wife of slain militant chief

Patiala: Aug 13 - The Patiala Police on Thursday arrested a lady 
Jawahar Kaur, who was living as second wife of Babbar Khalsa Chief,
Sukh Dev Singh Babbar, from her house here alongwith her mother,
Surjit Kaur.
	Jawahar Kaur told the Police that she was neither religiously
nor legally wedded to the slain Babbar Khalsa international chief,
but was living with him as his wife since 1986.  She said she had a three
year old son from him.
	She futher disclosed that Sunkhdev Singh had constructed 
for her a house called "White House" in urban estate a locality
in the town.
	Babbar was living under a fake name of Jasmer Singh Sandhu,
a government contractor, with here in the "White House" which had
several modern amenities.
	The police recovered a larger number of imported articles, 
including porn literature, VCRs and a diamond necklace.
	Polce said besides the "White House" in Patiala, Babbar had
a "Pink House" in Rajpura, and another building was purchased by him
in the local model town for Rs.9.85 lakhs.
	Both the houses were being used as meeting places and hide-outs
for the Babbar militants, police said.
	Sukhdev Singh had also managed to obtain from the govenment 
departments, an identitiy card and a driving licence, in the name of 
Jasmer Singh Sandhu.

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From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.N.Reddy)
Subject: Inmarsat Announces Opening of India Earth Station
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 18:26:58 GMT


Source  : Communications Daily  - 7/15/92
Country : India

* Inmarsat announces opening of India earth station
* Intelecom in India -  Digital exchange to be installed at Hyderabad

                           * * * * * 

* Inmarsat announces opening of India earth station

Inmarsat announced the opening of an earth station in Arvi, India,
operated by an Indian signator, Videsh Sanchar Nigam, the country's
overseas communication company. At outset, the station will provide
Inmarsat-A services: phone, fax, telex, E-mail, and data communications.  
Inmarsat said the station will be "progressively upgraded" to provide 
high-speed data services by the "end of this year", when it said it 
plans to start Inmarsat-C services from the station.    

* Intelecom in India -  Digital exchange to be installed at Hyderabad.

India's ambitious plan s to have approximately 20 million digital
telephone lines in use by the year 2000.  The first phase of the
program calls for an order of 200,000 lines which will increase 1.5
million within the next three years.
	Intelecom Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between K.K. Birla and the
United Kingdom telecom manufacturer GPT, is one of 13 companies which
has submitted bids to supply 200,000 lines to the Indian Department of
Telecommunications (DOT).  As part of the adjudication process,
Intelcom was invited to supply a 10,000 line exchange for validation
in the Indian telephone network.  They delivered a System X digital
exchange to be installed at Hyderabad.
	System X has already played a major role in the digitalization
programs of other nations and Intelecom expects it to be very
important in the future plans of the Indian DOT.  Besides providing
telecommunications equipment to the DOT, Intelecom is also
establishing a facility to provide software development, customer
support capabilities and manufacturing in India.


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From: myadav@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Mahesh Yadav)
Subject: Pakistani women suffer many indignities
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 12:35:04 GMT


Country: Pakistan
from: Mahesh K. Yadav


		PAKISTANI WOMEN SUFFER MANY INDIGNITIES
	        =======================================

Times of India Aug,5,1992
The Times of India News Service
NEW DELHI, Aug 4:

	Women of Indian subcontinent suffer disrespect and indignity, 
Ms  Asma Jhangir, secretary-general of the Human Rights Association of 
Pakistan said here yesterday.

	Delevering a lecture on the "Role and position of women of Pakistan",
she said the women there have suffered by not being active in politics. But, 
expressing hope, she said they have major contribution in stopping the complete
Islamisation of Pakistan, and with the world changing, they would not lay 
behind, she added. The lecture was organised by India-Pakistan friendship 
society.

	Ms Jahangir said women the world over faced the difficulty of having to
prove the offence of rape. But in Pakistan, if the police thought the woman had
agreed to the sexual act, she became a co-accused , and so very few rape cases
are reported.

	Giving an instance, she said a blind girl, Safiya Bibi, was raped by 
her employer and his son. She concieved. After the child was born, the doctor
at the hospital urged her father to file a case. But little did he realise that
she would be sent to prison for three years and subjected to 75 lashes as 
punishment while the accused went free.

	The most tragic case is of a 13 year old orphan, Jhamina. She was raped
by her uncle and his son. A distant relation filed a case. The court held her
guilty and gave her 100 lashes in public. The case went in the apeal to the
federal shariat court. The judges said: " For the sake of mercy",the sentence
was reduced to 20 lashes and three years imprisonment. After completing her 
sentence, she went back to her village. But said Ms Jahangir, she has not 
spoken a word since then to anybody, she pretends to be deaf

	There have been instances of policemen raping women and then arresting
them for running a brothel. In another case, a 60-year-old woman was raped by 
a policeman. He was not convicted . But the woman had to fight two years to 
defend her honour.
	
	The law is open to exploitation. But as it exists in the name of 
religion, it cannot be changed, she said.

	
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From: ach.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
Subject: Leading militant of a Sikh separatist outfit killed in India
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing at the
              University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 21:44:29 GMT

Sfrom	: Srinivas Sunder
Country	: India
Date	: Fri, Aug 21, 1992
Source	: UPI News Summary

                            * * * * * 
Subject: Leading Sikh militant killed

	NEW DELHI, India  -- A Sikh separatist leader blamed by police
for about 100 terrorist slayings was shot and killed Friday in the
troubled northern Indian state of Punjab, local authorities reported.

	Sukhdev Singh Sukha, a ``general'' of an underground guerrilla group,
was slain in a gunbattle with police, a Punjab government spokesman
said.
	Sukha had been blamed for the assassination of a district police
chief in Punjab and the massacre of 13 Hindus in the holy city of
Haridwar, 100 miles northeast of New Delhi.
	The police slaying of two top Sikh militant leaders earlier this
month triggered a series of retaliatory attacks by the insurgents on
policemen and their relatives. At least 74 people, mostly relatives of
police, were reported killed in the reprisals.

	In Kashmir, another troubled Indian state that borders Punjab, Indian
Army troops were placed on alert Friday after Hindus and Muslims clashed
in Jammu, the state's summer capital, according to officials.
	The riot, which left several people wounded, was sparked by two rival
religious processions in the city, 400 miles north of the Indian
capital.
	Elsewhere in Kashmir, four people were killed in shootouts with
police and 32 suspected Muslim insurgents were arrested, the Press Trust
of India news agency reported.

	On Friday, five people were killed in Hindu-Muslim rioting at a
village in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, PTI said.

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Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: misc.int-property
Subject: Re: Copyright and Derivative Works
Date: 18 Aug 1992 05:50:44 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com


G.D.Shaw pointed out that it's impossible to "prove" that something is a
copy or derivative work when computers are involved, and asked how we are
to reconcile copyright law with this.

There's a simple answer: it's not a problem (at least in the USA).  Civil
law doesn't require absolute proof, it just requires you to make a better
case than your opponent so that you can convince a judge or jury.  It's not
even as stringent as criminal law, which requires proof "beyond a
reasonable doubt" in order to convict the defendant.

Thus, the impossibility of proof would hurt both the plaintiff and
defendant about the same.  The plaintiff can't prove absolutely that the
new file is electronically related to the original, but the defendant can't
prove that he wrote it from scratch.

In practice, the courts are likely to believe computer records unless
they're contradicted by more reliable evidence.  For instance, if the
plaintiff claims to have started writing the document on July 1, and the
defendant can bring in a backup tape from June 1 that contains an early
draft of his version, then the court will likely believe that it's an
independant work.  Yes, it's possible to fake the date on a backup tape;
however, the plaintiff would have to convince the court that the defendant
did so, as the court will otherwise presume its veracity (hmm, I'm starting
to sound lawyerly).

In the real world, people are found guilty of copyright infringement on
much less ground than you're worrying about.  There have been a number of
recent cases where movie and music creators have been found guilty based on
the fact that they could have read or heard the original version and the
purported copy bears a resemblance to it.

-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar