From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India: Minister relieved in Karnataka
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 19:56:57 GMT


Source	: CGI and All India Radio
Country	: India and Pakistan

Topics:
* Karnataka Minister divested of education portfolio
* Defence Minister discounts naval exercises with China
* 'Operation Night' in Punjab to flush out militants
* TCIL bags Rs 10 Crore Contract
* Wipro LAN for Hoogly Bridge
* PCS signs contract with CNN
* ICI India Ltd to join ICI worldwide Datacom Network
* Pakistan President favoured Army Chief's visit to India

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* Karnataka Minister divested of education portfolio

Bangalore: Aug 25: Chief Minister of the Congress(I) ruled southern
Indian province of Karnataka, S.Bangarappa, set the first blow to
dissidence in the party unit by divesting the education portfolio from
his senior cabinet colleague M.Veerappa Moiley.
	An aspirant for the Chief Minister's post, Moily is now left
with only the Parliamentary affairs portfolio.  Moily who has been
demanding of the central leadership to perform a 'major surgery' in
the Bangarappa ministry was not available for comments since he had
reportedly airdashed to New Delhi to appraise the party bosses of the
action taken by the Chief Minister.
	Chief Minister S.Bangarappa has also reached Delhi, ahead of
his scheduled visit to attend the 10th finance commission meeting,
apparently for the same purpose.
	Moily, who has launched a tirade against the Bangarappa
administration did not attend the Aug 20 cabinet meeting saying that
he did not want to be a part of the meeting.
	On Monday Moily came down heavily on Bangarappa, stating
"Bangarappa is not my leader, he is only my Chief Minister,
P.V.Narasimha Rao is my leader".
	Bangarappa recently rescinded a decision by Moily to grant aid
to privately managed colleges.

* Defence Minister discounts naval exercises with China

Bombay: Aug 25: Indian defence minister sharad Pawar Tuesday said no
large scale naval exercise was planned with China as a Chinese naval
ship would come on just 'a courtesy visit' as per the practice every
year ships embarking on goodwill missions.
	Speaking to newsmen here, Pawar said his recent statement on a
joint naval exercise with China was published 'out of context' by the
media.  The visit of the Chinese naval ship was, however, 'welcome' as
a proposal by authorities at Beijing four years ago to send one ship
to Indian waters was turned down then, the minister said.
	A proposal to send Chinese naval ship on a 'courtesy visit'
was reiterated at Beijing during his recent visit to China, the first
ever by an Indian defence minister.

* Operation Night in Punjab to flush out militants

Chandigarh: Aug 25 - Security forces Tuesday launched 'Operation Night
Domination' in the strife-torn northern state of Punjab to foil the
movement of militants while two top militants committed suicide and
six were killed since last night.
	Two militants died by swallowing cyanide when cornered by
police near Nabha road in Patiala.
	The first phase of the operation in the border districts of
Amrirtsar, Tarn Taran and Majitha in Punjab was completed by early
morning of Tuesday.
	About 3,300 men of the state police and para-military forces
took part in the operation.  More than 200 villages were raided
'intensively' and 400 'loosely'.  
	The operation comes in the wake of vengeful killings of police
personnel and their kin by the militants following the killings of top
militants like Sukhdev Singh Babbar, Faulji and Gurjant Singh
Budhsinghwala this month.
	More than seventy policemen and their relatives have been
killed since then.
	Federal Defence Minister Sharad Pawar had assured the state
Government that the army will not be withdrawn from the province.

Source: DQ, August, 1992

* TCIL bags Rs 10 Crore Contract

TCIL, a public sector organization under the ministry of
communications, has bagged a Rs 10 crore contract from the ministry of
communications of the Republic of Benin, in the West Africa.  It will
be TCIL's first project in that region.  It involves design and
implementation of cable networks in Benin's capital, Proto Novo.  The
project, which is being funded by the African Development Bank, is
expected to be completed within 18 months.

* Wipro LAN for Hoogly Bridge

Wipro infotech Ltd has bagged an order for installing a LAN comprising
40 PC/XTs, LX-800 printers, and LAN cards at the toll gates of second
Hoogly bridge.  
	The bringe connects south Calcutta to Howrah.  
	The LAN will enable bridge authorities to process app. Rs 30 
crore in revenues per annum.  The toll gates are expected to start 
functioning by mid Aug, 1992.  The toll is expected to take care of 
maintenance expenses and repay the cost of the bridge over the next 
22 years.
	It is estimated that the cable supported cantilever bridge
will be used by 80,000 vehicles every day, with peak loads of 5,500
vehicles per hour.  The toll plaza will have 18 lanes and 36 booths.
	Besides operating electronic boards indicating the toll to be
paid, computers will control the traffic signals, distributing the
vehicles among the 18 lanes.  The software, which is being developed
by Webel Business Machines, includes an advanced traffic signalling
system to avoid queues at the plaza.  

* PCS signs contract with CNN

Patni Computer systems(PCS) has commenced work on a 15 man year
offshore development project worth $300,000 for Turner Broadcasting
Systems of the US.
	The turnkey contract involves development of an
integrated television accounting system (TVAC).  TVAC is a database
for tracking the turner Network Television cable channel's extensive
movie library. 

* ICI India to join ICI worldwide Datacom Network

ICI India Ltd plans to implement an e-mail system by the end of 1992,
linking its various offices and factories in India.  This system will
allow access to the ICI group's worldwide private e-mail system which
runs on an IBM mainframe host in the UK.  This connects 52 countries.
ICI has choses Wipro infotech to supply hardware and software required
for the project.  
	ICI regional manager A.K Mitra says: "The recently launched
public data network I-NET will constitute the backbone of the project
which will utilize India's emerging telecommunications infrastructure."

Source:	The Delhi Sation of All India Radio - Aug 25, 1992
(verbatim reports)

* Pakistan President favoured Army Chief's visit to India

Pakistan President Ghulam Ishaq Khan has supported the idea of the
Chief of Army General Asif Nawaz Janjua visiting India and said that
such an exercise would help in better understanding of each other's
point of view.
	"It will be wrong to assume that principles will be
sacrificed by someone's going or coming.  You can meet and talk to
the other side while sticking to your principle," Khan said while
informally talking to newsmen after a function Islamabad on Sunday.
	The President further said, "whenever there is trouble on
the borders, a flag staff meeting is held in which the Pakistan Army is
represented, of which the Chief of Army staff is the head."
	Khan said that Pakistan did not want a war with India, but at
the same time, "we will not like to compromise on our principles while
trying to resolve bilateral disputes."  
	India has formally invited Gen Janjua to visit the country
and a letter to that effect was handed to the Pakistan Foreign Secretary
Shahryar Khan during the recently concluded Foreign Secretary level 
talks held in New Delhi.

Other briefs:

Indian Minister for water resources Mr.V.C.Shukla arrived in Dhaka to
hold discussion on river waters ( Ganga in particular ).

The Government of India has announced subsidies on fertilizers with
immediate effect.

India denied BBC reports that its embassy personnel were injured when
a rocket landed in the vicinity of its embassy in Kabul last Sunday.  


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