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India Interest Group News Digest    Thu, 21 Jan 93      Volume 2 : Issue 10

Today's News Topics:

        List of Cabinet, State and Deputy Ministers
        Woman Officer to lead this year's R-Day Parade
        122 militants surrender, chief of Dashmesh Reg. killed
        Panchayat Polls - a ray of hope for villagers of Punjab
        IRCON bags prestigious contract in Jakarta
        John Major to announce 3 British aid pgms to India
        Vast scope for export of two-wheelers from India
        AP Chief Minister's fate hangs in the balance
        Pakistan unable to find venue for Mission in Bombay
        Military Industrial Technology put into civil use
        India and Chile sign cultural agreement
        AIDS virus spreading fast in India
        Britain firm on deporting Sikh militant to India
        Cricket: 2nd One Day Intl - India v/s England
        India beat England by 5 wkts

Editorials & Commentary:

        Beyond Ayodhya's watershed - by Girilal Jain [ Part II ]

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 18:14:46 GMT
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.NArotham Reddy)
Subject: List of Cabinet, State and Deputy Ministers

From: Andhra Pradesh Bhavan, New Delhi

New Delhi - Jan 18: Following is the list of members of Union Council
of Ministers and their portfolios after today's reshuffle:

Pamulaparti Venkata Nasrasimha Rao (Prime Minister)

   Also incharge of personnel, public grievances and pensions,
science and technology, ocean development, electronics, atomic energy,
chemicals and fertilizers, rural development, non-conventional
energy sources and law, justice and company affairs and the additional
charge of the ministry of industry and other subjects not allocated to
any other cabinet minister or minister of state (independent charge).

Cabinet Ministers:

Arjun Singh       Human Resources
B.Shankaranand    Health and family welfare
Dr.Manmohan Singh Finance
S.B.Chavan        Home Affairs
Sharad Pawar      Defence
Balram Jhakar     Agriculture
C.K.Jaffer Shariff Railways
Ghulam Nabi Azad  Civil Aviation
A.K.Antony        Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public distribution
Dinesh Singh      External Affairs
Mrs.Sheila Kaul   Urban Development
Sitaram Kesri     Welfare
V.C.Shukla        Water Resources and Parliamentary
Pranab Mukherjee  Commerce
N.K.P Salve       Power

Ministers of state (independent charge)

Ajit Kumar Panja  - Coal
Balram Singh Yadav  Mines
Giridhar Gomango    Planning and Program implementation
Jagdish Tytlor      Surface Transport
Kalpanath Rai       Food
Kamal Nath          Environment
P.A. Sangma         Labour
Capt. Satish Sharma   Petroleum and Natural Gas
Santosh Mohan Dev   Steel
Sukh Ram            Communications
Tarun Gogoi         Food Processing industry
G.Venkata Swamy     Textiles
Dr.Abrar Ahmed      Finance and Parliamentary affairs
Arvind Netam        Agriculture
Bhuv Chaturvedi     Prime Minister's Office
Eduardo Faleiro     Chemicals and Fertilizers
H.R.Bharadwaj       Law, Justice and Company affairs
K.C. Lenka          Railways
Kamaluddin Ahmed    Civil Supplies, Consumer affairs
Mrs.Krishna Sahi    Industry
M.Arunachalam       Industry (Small scale, agro and rural industries)
V.Chandrashekara Murthy  - Finance
Mallikarjun         Defence
Margaret Alva       Personnel, Pension, Public grievances
Mukul Wasnik        Youth Affairs
P.K.Thungon         Urban Development
P.K.Kumaramangalam   Science and Technology and parliamentary affairs
P.V.Rangayya Naidu   Power
R.L.Bhatia           External Affairs
Ram Singh            Rural Development(Wasteland Development)
Rameshwar Thakur     Rural Development
S.Krishna Kumar      Non-conventional energy
Salman Khurshid      External Affairs
Sukhbans Kaur        Civil Aviation (Dept of Tourism)
Uttambhai Patel      Rural Development

Deputy Ministers:

Paban Singh Ghatowar    Health and Family Welfare
Ram Lal Rahi            Home Affairs
Miss.Selja              Dept of Education

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Date: 19 Jan 93 21:56:01 GMT
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Four more ministers of state sworn in

Source   : The CGI

* Four more ministers of state sworn in

New Delhi - Jan 19: Former Union minister Mr.K.P.Singh Deo, veteran
leader, P.M.Sayeed, Mrs.Basawarajeshwari and Mr.K.V.Thangkabalu, were
Tuesday sworn in as ministers of state, thus completing the exercise
of revamping of the 19 month old Narasimha Rao ministry. Mr.Singh Deo
will be holding independent charge of his ministry.
        The President Dr.Shankar Dayal Sharma, administered the oath
of office to the new incumbents.
        The ours ministers of state, could not be sworn in as they
were out of the city.

A member of parliament from Orissa. Mr.K.P.Singh Deo, returns to the
center after a gap. He was the minister of state for defence in the
Rajiv Gandhi government and resigned over the Ram Swarup epsionage
scandal.
        P.M.Sayeed has returned to Parliaments for the seventh
consecutive term from Lakshwadeep. He is also secretary of the
Congress Parliamentary party and a member of the joint parliamentary
committee probing the securities scam.
        Mrs.Basawarajeshwari, a lok sabha member had held many
important portfolios in Karnataka till 1977. This is her third term in
the lower house and first entry into the Union Council of ministers.
        Mr.K.V.Thangkabalu, was a general secretary of the Tamil nadu
youth Congress and is a member of the Lok sabha. He is the vice president
of the Tamilnadu congress.
        With the Tuesday's ceremony, the exercise undertaken by the
Prime Minister to reconstitute the council of ministers has been
completed and changes in the Congress organizational structure and
replacement of a few Governors is expected soon.

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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 22:05:10 GMT
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Woman Officer To Lead This Year's Republic Day Parade

Source   : The CGI

* Army to display its deadly weapons on Republic Day

Bombay - Jan 19: The army will display its modern capabilities and
fire-power in the from of updated T-77 tanks, multi-barrel rocket launchers
(MBRL) and Stella-10 Air defence missiles at this year's Republic day
parade.
        The sophisticated support equipment consisting of battlefield
surveillance Radar, PMS BRI equipment will also be displayed, an
official release said.
        Digicora meteorological system which provides meteorological
information to the gunners is to be shown at the parade for the first
time.
        The Air force vehicular columns will display air-to-air R-27
R1 long distance missile, R-60 MK, MAGIC-1 close combat missiles, and
a variety of aircraft guns and the rocket pads.
        For the first time in the history of republic day parade, a
woman officer will lead this year's all-male naval contingent as one
of the two platoon commanders.
        The air force band following the contingent of airmen, for the
first time, will play the newly composed tune "Air Force Song" to mark
the recently celebrated IAF Diamond jubilee.


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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 17:48:49 GMT
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Polls Peaceful in Punjab, Newsmen Survey Shows Improvement

Source   : The CGI

* 122 militants surrender, newly appointed chief of Dashmesh Reg. killed

Chandigarh, Jan 19: The surrender of 122 militants on Jan 14 and
peaceful polls in the first two phases of Panchayat polls in Punjab
were a big moral boost for the security forces, who killed 24
militants in various encounters last week.
        In all, 29 lives were lost in the violence in the state last
week.
        The two phases of four-phased panchayat (highest level village
body) elections are over with virtually no poll related violence.
        More than 66,000 sarpanches (heads of panchayats) are to be
elected by Jan 22 when the process is expected to be completed.
        As many as 122 militants surrendered before state Inspector
General of Police K.P.S Gill in Amritsar district on Jan 14.
        Those who surrendered included two 'Lt.Gens' of separatist
outfits and 39 listed militants.
        A total of 473 militants and surrendered in the border region
comprising Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Majitha, Patala and Gurdaspur Police
districts last year.
        Jan 12 was incident free day when no militant related crime
was reported from anywhere in the state.

Newly appointed chief killed:
        Security forces killed Dalbir Singh alias 'Subegh Singh', the
newly appointed chief of Dashmesh Regiment, in an encounter.

* Panchayat polls - a ray of hope for villagers in Punjab
  Source: Hindustan Times, Jan 11, 1993

  Chandigarh - 10 (UNI): The panchayat elections scheduled to be held in
four phases from Jan 16 to Jan 22 promises to once again reestablish
people's power in the rural areas of Punjab, which were virtually
ruled by the gun for more than a decade.
        The innocent villagers, who had been caught in the running
battle between the State and the militants, in the process suffering
at the hands of both, have now started basking in the light of
freedom.
        Fed up with the cult of violence, the people have started
coming out in the open to assert their right to live in peace and
tranquility. With a spate of successes achieved by security forces
against terrorists, with the help of information provided by the
villagers, the element of fear has by and large evaporated from the
hearts and minds of the ruralites.
        A small groups of newsmen who extensively toured the
identified sensitive areas spread over four districts of Ropar,
Ludhiana, Faridkot and Ferozepur could clearly sense a transformation
in the thinking of the rural folk the latter now seem to have no
sympathy for the militants, whom they earlier provided shelter -- some
out of conviction and others out of fear.
        However, they have no great respect for Police either. The
information flow to the police was more out of anger for the militants
who did not even spare the families who gave them shelter, whether
willingly or unwillingly.
        In almost all the 40-odd villages visited by the newsmen
people were quite enthusiastic about the panchayat elections being
held in the state after a decade.
        In Jagatpur village, names of two persons were being mentioned
for the post of sarpanch - sitting sarpanch Sarwan Singh and Ajit
Singh, a retired school teacher. People said they were trying for a
consensus.
        In Jattana village, the home of slain hardcore militant Balwinder
Singh Jattana, there was not much enthusiasm for the elections though a
consensus candidate was likely to emerge in due course.

* IRCON bags prestigious contract in Jakarta

New Delhi - Jan 19: The public sector Indian Railway construction
company limited (IRCON) has bagged the Rs 12? crore prestigious
contract for the construction of "Paramuka Matraman" flyover in
Jakarta.
        IRCON will be the prime contractor and project would be
executed in association with a local company.
        It said the contract has been awarded by the JUDP, and has
stipulated the completion time for the project as 12 months.
        The flyover project, the release said, had been funded by the
world bank and has been secured against stiff international
competition. EXIM bank of India has lent support to the project.
        IRCON has recently secured work for the Senen flyover costing
Rs 19 crore which is also in the same vicinity and part of the same
urban development project.
        IRCON has successfully completed two railway electrification
projects on the suburban electrified section of Jakarta, involving 44
km each of railway electrification sections.

* John Major to announce three British aid programmes for India

London - Jan 19: British government is expected to announce three new
aid programmes worth pound 30.5 million for India during Premier John
Major's official visit to New Delhi next week. ( He will be the chief
guest at the Republic day parade )
        The British aid to India was reviewed during the Indo-British
aid talks here recently and both sides expressed satisfaction over the
progress made in the implementation of different bilateral projects.
        The aid projects likely to be announced by Major may include
rahabilitation of a British electricity generation unit in Hirakud
worth pound 20 million, a project to help in the modernisation of the
system of Regional Engineering Colleges with an estimated aid of
pound six million and an export promotion programme worth pound 4.5
million, official sources said.
        British accounts for nearly 50 per cent of grants element of
overall external assistance to India. This assistance does not include
loans.

* Vast scope for export of two wheelers from India

New Delhi Jan 19: A leading manufacturer of two wheelers, Hero Motors
Ltd, has exported more than 129,000 vehicles this year earning a
foreign exchange worth Rs 6.5 crore.
        the company has targeted to export 8000 more pieces during the
current financial year.
        According to the company release, during the current year,
Indian exports of two wheelers are projected to touch 50,000 pieces of
which the company hopes to export about 40 per cent of the total
export.
        After the liberalisation of country's export, import policy
norms, the overall scope of upgradation of technology in the automobile
sector has increased tremendously, says the release.
        India exports two wheelers to more than 40 countries,
including Turkey, Uruguay, Madagascar and Egypt.

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 20:12:59 GMT
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister's Fate Hangs In The Balance

Source  : PTI

* A.P Chief Minister's Fate Hangs In The Balance

Hyderabad - Jan 20: The fate of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister
Mr.K. Vijaya Bhasker Reddy hangs in the balance following the election
commission's refusal to hold early by-election to the Panyam assembly
seat.
        Reddy, a former Union Law minister, who still retains the Lok
Sabha seat, is required to fulfill the constitutional obligation of
getting elected to the Assembly within six months of his assumption of
office, that is before April nine.
        The election commission's observation that it was
inappropriate to change the program of revision of polls to suit the
convenience of one individual has triggered electoral controversy
and caused severe embarrassment to the state administration.
        The state government has asked the election commission to
advance the date of publication of polls for Panyam constituency in
order to hold election before March 10, when the Assembly's budget
session is likely to begin.
        The revision of electoral roll in the constituency is
scheduled for completion on March nine.
        In the past, by-elections have been held even when
registration of rolls was in progress, on the basis of the earlier
list of voters. Even in Andhra Pradesh, by-election in Rajampet
constituency was held while the registration process was still in
progress.
        The sitting ruling party member from Panyam, K.Ram Bhoopal
Reddy resigned on January 11 to enable the Chief Minister, his
political mentor, get elected from this constituency.
        The other option for Reddy was to contest from Rayachoti,
which is also a stronghold of Congress(I). Election could also be held
in Panyam with election commission permitting minor technical
adjustments in the schedule of publication of fresh rolls in the
constituency.
        However, the election commission has chosen to hold
simultaneous poll in both Rayachoti and Panyam which fall in Reddy's
home district, Kurnool.
        Reddy may choose either but he must be hoping that there would
not be another postponement before the crucial date.

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:27:50 GMT
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: 81 per cent Polling Reported in Punjab Panchayat Polls

Source  :  CGI
Headlines:
        - 19 people killed in Bus Accident
        - 81.5 per cent polling in Punjab Panchayat polls
        - Pakistan unable to find venue for mission in Bombay


* 19 people killed in Bus Accident

Shimla, Jan 20: At least 19 people were killed and three injured
seriously when a private bus fell into a deep ravine in Chopal area in
Shimla district, in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh Tuesday
night.
        Eigheen persons died on the spot while one person succumbed to
injuries on the way to hospital.
        The bus was on its way from Attal in Uttar Kashi to Nerwa in
Shimla district.
        There were about 22 passengers on board the bus when the
tragedy occured.

* 81.5 per cent polling in Punjab Panchayat polls

Chandigarh - Jan 20: A record 81.5 per cent polling percentage was
recorded in the Panchayat elections in Punjab of which the third and
last phase was completed Wednesday.
        The Cong(I) has claimed over 75 per cent of the winning
candidates were supported by their party.
        Polling in 65 villages was either adjourned or cancelled due
to the law and order situation.
        Ferozpur district recorded the heaviest polling ( 88 per
cent), followed by Fathegarh Sahib (87 per cent), Mansa ( 85 per
cent), Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, Ropar, Gurdaspur and Faridkot 80 per
cent each, Amritsar 78 per cent, Jalandhar 77 per cent and Ludhiana 75
per cent.

* Pakistan unable to find venue for mission in Bombay

Islamabad, Jan 20: Pakistan Wednesday said New Delhi's refusal to
lease out the Jinnah house and difficulties faced by its personnel in
acquiring office and residential accommodation for its consulate
general in Bombay 'militates against the principle of reciprocity.'
        A foreign office spokesman said "whereas India maintains a
fully operational consulate in Karachi, Pakistan has not been able to
set up its consulate general in Bombay. This situation militates
against the bilateral relations and the functioning of diplomatic and
consular missions."
        Asked if the difficulties faced by the Pakistan High
Commission to set up a mission in Bombay could lead to the closure of
its consulate there and in turn shutting down of the Indian consulate
in Karachi, the spokesman said "I will not like to take a position on
a deduction of that nature. No decision has been taken in this
regard.'
        Press reports quoting highly placed sources have in the recent
past said Islamabad was contemplating closure of the Bombay consulate
as well as the Indian consulate in Karachi where Islamabad has asked
for reduciton of staff strength from 62 to 20 by Jan 30.
        In retaliation to the Pakistani decision, New Delhi has also
decided to cut down the number of personnel in the Pakistani High
Commission from 150 to 110.

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:50:25 GMT
From: reddym@Barra.COM (Reddy Mallidi)
Subject: India's foreign trade deficit goes up


     Source : XINHUA, TASS, IPS

    * Military Industrial technology put into civil use

    New Delhi 01/15 : India's Defense Research and Development Organization
    (DRDO) entered into a joint venture for the first time to exploit
    advanced military technologies for civilian application, a defence
    ministry press release said here today. A MOU signed here between the
    DRDO and the Calcutta-based Carbon Composites India Ltd. envisaged
    formation of a joint venture for the management, orgnization, and
    marketing of products of the organization's composite products center
    as a viable commercial enterprise. The civilian areas to be targeted
    by the venture will include space, communication, non-conventional
    energy resources, aircraft components and medical rehabilitation. (XIN)

    * India's foreign trade deficit goes up

    New Delhi 01/13 : India's foreign trade deficit soared to a record
    high of $3,400m during the first 8 months of 1992-1993 (April-Nov)
    fiscal year. Figures from the commerce ministry showed that trade
    deficit doubled as compared to $1.3b in the same period of 1991-92.
    The country's aggregate exports in U.S. dollars during April-Nov 1992-93
    were estimated at $11.594b, against imports at $14.691b. However,
    compared to the exports of $10.950b in the first eight months of 1991-92
    the exports in dollar terms grew by 5.9% in the same period in 1992-93.
    In April-Nov 1992-93, exports to general currency area were estimated
    at $11.159b, as against $9.842b in the corresponding period of 1991-92,
    showing a positive growth of 13.38%. (XIN)

    * India and Chile sign cultural agreement

    New Delhi 01/13 : India and Chile signed a cultural agreement here
    today. The agreement was signed by joint secretary in the Indian
    department of culture Komal Anand and Chilian ambassador to India
    Eduardo Ortiz. The agreement covers the fields of culture, education,
    mass media and sports. (XIN)

    * Shumeiko in India to prepare Yeltsin's visit

    New Delhi 01/19 : First Russain vice-premier Vladimir Shuneiko
    arrived here today to hold final round of negotiations on the eve of
    an official Indian visit of Russian president Boris Yeltsin scheduled
    for Jan 27-29. Shumeiko told TASS at the airport that he aims to
    prepare a basis for holding the Russian state head's visit "with the
    maximus use". He will hold talks with Indian finance minister,
    Manmohan Singh, ministers of foreign affairs, trade, defence and
    heads of other departments. He is also expected to meet prime minister
    Rao. In the words of Shumeiko, over the past year and a half Russia
    has "somehow lost" in India the positions, which were characterstic
    of the Soviet-Indian relations. "We should upgrade relations with
    India to the previous level, but on a new basis", he said. (TASS)

    Jan 01/20 : Co-chairman of the joint intergovernmental commission for
    trade and economic cooperation, and vice-primier Shuemiko and Indian
    finance minister Manmohan Singh and members of the delegations of both
    countries are taking part in negotiations. The talks focussed on the
    correlation between the rouble and the rupee used by India in the
    repayment of credits granted to it by the former Soviet Union. During
    the talks Shumeiko pointed out that Russia was attaching great
    importance to economic cooperation with india and expressed the hope
    for its dynamic and fruitful development. Later in the day Shumeiko
    met with Indian defence minister Sharad Pawar. (TASS)

    * India interested in Russian oil

    New Delhi 01/20 : India would like to keep receiving Russian oil and
    defence industry products and has a lot to offer in exchange, Indian
    foreign minister Dinesh Singh told reporters on Wednesday dwelling on
    the upcoming visit of the Russian president to India. (TASS)

    * Reforms to continue - Pranab Mukherji

    India's new commerce minister Pranab Mukherji, who sworn in two days
    back, underlined the continuation of economic reform programs.
    Inaugurating a national seminar today on administrative reforms, he
    said that there should not be any apprehension regarding the stability
    and continuation of economic reforms programs. The minister assured that
    the crisis in Indian economic front would be resolved as the nation's
    resilience, various structures and institutions would enable the country
    to overcome it as in the past. He said it takes some time before the
    results of economic reforms would be felt, adding that some results have
    started coming in - as one can see that inflation rate has come down
    to around 7%. The growth of the Indian industry and economy as whole
    would be as anticipated despite some setback due to recent disturbances
    in some parts of the country. He also stressed the need for siplifying
    the customs and excise procedures at the seminar. (XIN)

    * AIDS virus spreading fast in India

    New Delhi 01/20 : Last month, the Indian Council of Medical Research
    (ICMR) acknowledged that 150,000 of India's estimated one million
    prostitutes may be HIV-infected. In a report, the ICMR has for the
    first time given an assessment of the HIV epidemic in India, pegging
    the number of carriers at 637,000 in the country's urban areas. The
    report does not make any projections for rural India. It says there
    is no information about the sexual habits of the 95-million sexually
    active Indians who live in villages. Ofiicially only 10,856 Indian are
    HIV-infected. However, critics say the figures do not reflect the
    reality. Top Indian virologist Dr. Jacob John believes some 2.5 million
    may be HIV-infected, whild India's AIDS control chief P.R. Dasgupta
    thinks that the epidemic has reached a stage where every Indian is at
    risk if he or she is not careful. "The chief co-factor is unprotected
    sex in Indian brothels. Prostitutes and their clients are infecting
    and getting infected by one another, and the clients are infecting
    wives who give birth to infected babys", says Dr. I.S.Gilada, head of
    Bombay base India Health Organization. Heterosexual transmission acounts
    for 80% of the cases. Bombay has an estimated 100,000 prostitutes and
    HIV-incidence has jumped from 2% to 4% in just three years. To complicate
    matters, Gilada estimates that 80% of women prostitutes are suffering
    from sexually transmitted deseases (STDs)  at any time.
    Besides heterosexual transmission, one hazard in India is its infected
    blood supply. The blood is not safe, because as much as 30% of it is
    from professional donors - malnourished and sometimes homeless, who sell
    their blood for money. Many of the donors are infected, but continue to
    donate blood because no machinery exists to stop them from doing so.
    Dr. M.L. Gupta, director of Indian Red Cross says "the horrifying truth
    is that mos of India's blood banks don't have diagnostic kits to screen
    blood". (IPS)

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 14:55:40 GMT
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Britain Firm on Deporting Sikh Militant to India

Source  : PTI

London: Jan 20: On the eve of Prime Minister John Major's official visit to
India, the British Government has demonstrated its resolve to deport a
Sikh terrorist "for national security reasons."
        Karamjit Singh Chahal has challenged, for the second time, the
legality of the British Home Office's decision to deport him to India
on the grounds that he faced a "Real risk of inhuman and degrading
treatment" if returned to India.
        The British Home Office refused Chahal's plea for asylum in
the UK and ordered his deportation to India accusing him of a "public
history of violent involvement in Sikh terrorism."
        The Home Office has all along maintained that Chahal would not
face torture if he returned to India. Chahal had to be expelled in the
public interest because he was involved in terrorist activities, the
Government told the court Tuesday.
        The Government has refused to accept that Chahal had the right
to refugee status, but even if he did, the Home Office wanted him
deported for national security reasons, the court was told.

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Date: 19 Jan 1993 16:13:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: RNATARAJAN@Gems.VCU.EDU
Subject: Second One-Day Intl - India v/s England

The second one day match between India & England was a close affair after
the first one was abandoned. The scores in brief:
        INDIA
        223 for 3 in 50 overs:
        Vinod Kambli - 105 n.o.
        Sachin Tendulkar - 89 n.o.
They shared an unfinished fourth wicket stand of 169.

        ENGLAND
        224 for 7 in 50 overs:
The highlight was the pathetic display by the 2 senior players Kapil Dev and
Skipper Azharuddin. While Kapil conceded 13 runs in the 49th over Azhar
sealed India's fate by conceding the winning run by an overthrow.

West Indies clinched the World Series Cup Triangular against Australia down
under 2-0. Curtley Ambrose took 3 wickets in each game while Brian Lara and
Carl Hooper excelled in batting.

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Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:50:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Gopalan Krishnamurthi<GKRISHNAMURTHI@worldbank.org>
Subject: India Beat England by 5 wkts

        ENGLAND VERSUS INDIA ONE-DAY MATCH SCOREBOARD
                          ENGLAND
         G.GOOCH C TENDULKAR B SRINATH       7
         A.STEWART C AZHARUDDIN B KAPIL DEV  7     BOWLING
         R.SMITH LBW B KUMBLE               42    KAPIL DEV 10-2-40-2
         M.GATTING C & B SRINATH             0    PRABHAKAR 8-0-30-0
         N.FAIRBROTHER LBW B RAJU            7    SRINATH 10-2-34-2
         G.HICK B KAPIL DEV                 56    TENDULKAR 3-0-16-0
         D.REEVE NOT OUT                    33    RAJU  9-0-28-1
         C.LEWIS NOT OUT                    16    KUMBLE 10-0-37-1
         EXTRAS (LB-13 NB-4 W-13)           30    FALL: 1-19 2-20 3-22
          TOTAL (SIX WICKETS, 50 OVERS)    198        4-49 5-132 6-153

        INDIA 201-5  (45.1 OVERS)
             INDIA INNINGS
         S.SIDHU      C REEVE B DEFREITAS    76 BOWLING
         M.PRABHAKAR  C REEVE B LEWIS        36 DEFREITAS 10-1-31-2
         V.KAMBLI     C AND B JARVIS          9 JARVIS    10-1-43-1
         M.AZHARUDDIN LBW REEVE              36 REEVE    6.1-0-33-1
         S.TENDULKAR  LBW DEFREITAS           1 LEWIS     10-0-47-1
         P.AMRE       NOT OUT                24 SALISBURY  8-1-42-0
         KAPIL DEV    NOT OUT                 5 GATTING    1-0-2-0
         EXTRAS (LB-3 W-5 NB-6)              14
           FALL: 1-79 2-99 3-148 4-161 5-195
           DID NOT BAT  YADAV, KUMBLE, RAJU, SRINATH. INDIA WON BY 5 WKT

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                         Editorials and Commentary
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Date: 09 Jan 1993 12:25:33 -0400 (AST)
From: Girish <bond@jupiter.Sun.CSD.unb.ca>
Subject: BEYOND AYODHYA'S WATERSHED - Part 2 of 2

    Article: BEYOND AYODHYA'S WATERSHED - Muslims Have To Reckon With Realities
    By     : Girilal Jain, Former Editor-in-Chief, Times of India
    Source : The Times of India.
    Date   : December 14, 1992.
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         The controversial building is now gone; the government's  "brave"
    declarations notwithstanding, one must be out of one's mind to believe
    that it can ever be built. The consequences would be too grim even for
    a Nero, or a Babar, or an Aurangzab, to contemplate though one can not
    be too sure about our courts anxious to order the government about.

         A Ram Mandir already exists on the site, even if a makeshift one.
    The  government's proposal to rebuild domes appropriate to a mosque on
    top is too ridiculous for words and speaks of the straits to which  it
    has  been  reduced.  It  can, of course, get a Ram temple built on the
    adjoining land and hope that it can then persuade Hindus to shift  the
    idols. But that is moonshine.

    Two Ram Temples
    ---------------
         The present government can at best begin constructing  a  temple;
    it  is  unlikely  to  be  in a position to complete it. And what if it
    does? We shall then have two Ram temples side by side,  both  devalued
    because neither will be seen as being complete.

         In plain terms, Muslim leaders have no bargaining power left. The
    demolition squad has finally divested them of it, however much most of
    us (Westernised elite) may denounce the squad. In historical terms, it
    is  immaterial  whether  or  not  Muslim leaders acquiesce in some so-
    called decisions of the government; for in reality, the  government is
    paralysed and unlikely to regain much room for manoeuvre.

         It would still be idealistic  to  expect  Muslims  to  "withdraw"
    their  claim to the site. But it is not wholly inconceivable that they
    can see some light, stop pressing the demand for reconstruction of the
    "mosque", in course of time allow the claim to the land in question to
    lapse, and settle for a mosque around Ayodhya.

         A couple of points may be addressed to Muslim leaders. First,  it
    is  time  they realise that the secularism-pseudo-secularism is essen-
    tially an intra-Hindu affair. It is, in a sense, a  replay,  doubtless
    in  very different circumstances, of controversies between modernisers
    and traditionalists beginning in the early 19th century. When  I  made
    this point some month ago, Syed Shahabuddin wrote to me to refute this
    proposition on the plea that Muslims had a vital stake in the  outcome
    of  the  debate.  It would have been more pertinent for him to say how
    they could influence the outcome from  the  position  of  self-imposed
    marginalisation  and of being objects of wooing (and that too for lim-
    ited electoral purposes) they had reduced themselves to.

    Unreasonable
    ------------
         It would appear reasonable to think that this point did not  even
    occur  to  him. For, I have yet to meet a Muslim who has realised that
    the description, or treatment, of his community as a  "vote  bank"  is
    insulting.  Similarly, it is not easy to find many  Muslims who recog-
    nise that  Indian nationalism has to be rooted in the  Hindu ethos and
    those who deny this self-evident proposition are ignoring the dramatic
    change that has taken place in  the  Indian  scene  in  recent  years,
    partly as a result of the VHP's campaign over Ram Janma Bhoomi.

         Secondly, their own experience in a number  of  riots  in  recent
    years should convince them that they need the goodwill of Hindus which
    the Congress, decrepit in much of North India, the two communist  par-
    ties,  virtually non-existent beyond West Bengal and Kerala, the vari-
    ous Janata Dals, centered on individuals preoccupied with  themselves,
    can no longer assure for them.

         In the hot house atmosphere of New Delhi and South Delhi, a  dif-
    ferent  world  even  from the old city, certain attitudes and postures
    prosper. Elsewhere, the reality is different. Located in New Delhi the
    Union government has become a prisoner of this make-believe world.

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