From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
Subject: India - Violence in Belgaum
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:46:34 GMT


Source	: Press Trust of India
Date	: April 11, 1992
Country	: India

* Suchitra Sen and Shivaji Ganesan honored:
* Four killed in Belgaum
* JK militants freed senior official
* Japan Assures Support to India in Multilateral Financial Fora
* Manmohan Singh rules out reversal of economic reforms policy
* GNLF Chief suggestion

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* Suchitra Sen and Shivaji Ganesan honored:

Calcutta: Noted Tamil Actor Shivaji Ganesan and renowned Bengali actress
Suchitra Sen bagged the prestigeous "Gandharva" and "Apsara" awards, 
respectively, of the All India Critics' Association for their out-
standing contributions to film.

* Four killed in Belgaum

Belgaum: April 11 (PTI): Four persons were killed and 13 others, 
including a police constable, injured in violent incidents in this city
of Karnataka state during Friday night curfew.
	Three persons were killed in a bomb blast in Aralikatti
Deshpande Galli, popularly known as old motor stand.  Twelve people 
were seriously injured in the blast, which rattled the entire area.
	One person was killed and a police constable was injured in
stabbing incidents in the city, Police said.
	With this the death toll in communal violence over the last
five days has gone upto 10. Situation in the city was reported to be
tense.

* JK militants freed senior official

Srinagar: Apr 11 (PTI): Militants Saturday freed a senior government
official who was kidnapped from Srinager, summer capital of Jammu and
Kashmir, on Friday.
	Deputy Secretary (Home), Mohd Ashraf Kakroo, reached home
safely Saturday, police said.
	B.K.Sharma, a central reserve police force personnel, 
kidnapped on March 28, has also been freed in exchange of two militants,
as demanded by the captors, Ikhwan-Ul-Muslimeen.


* Japan Assures Support to India in Multilateral Financial Fora

Tokyo: Apr 11 (PTI):  Japan has assured its full support to India in
multilateral financial fora like the world bank and international
monetary fund(IMF) when proposals relating to India come up for ensuring
that the process of economic reforms yield benefits to the people.
	the assurance was given by Japanese Prime Minister when visiting
Indian Finance Minister Manmohan Singh called on him.
	An official spokesman said the Japanese side committed itself
to the success of India's reforms and the Japanese Prime Minister was
deeply appreciative of the far-reaching economic reforms initiated by 
the Narasimha Rao government.
	The dramatic reforms had caught the imagination of the Japanese
people, particularly the Financing, Business, industrialists and the
trading communities, he added.
	Japan also recognised that during the initial two to three
year period of major reforms program, problems of adjustments were
severe and it would do whatever possible for a "smoother transition."
	Japan recognized that it had a role to play in multilateral
fora to support countries like India, the spokesman said.
	
* Manmohan Singh rules out reversal of economic reforms policy

Tokyo, Apr 11 (PTI):  finance Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday ruled
out reversal of the economic reforms policies and declared that
India will "stay on the course" of new development path.
	talking to Tokyo-based Indian journalists at the end of his
four day visit here, he said "we will stay on the course.  There 
should be no doubt about irreversibility of the new policy thrust".
	To a query on the opposition criticism of his remarks to top
Japanese bankers on government disinvestment upto 49 percent in the
public sector industries, the minister said he had been "mis-
understood."  
	"I was merely stating we were not thinking of handing public
sector and we were not going beyond 49 percent( while disinvesting),"
he added.

* GNLF Chief:

The Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) chief, Mr.Subhash Gheising,
suggested that the Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bhutan treaties be 'corrected'
so that the center did not face an international problem over the
disputed land of the region in future.
	Even in the face of fresh GNLF demand seeking clarification
on the status of Darjeeling, the west Bengal government has released
a fund of Rs Eight Crore as a central assistance to the Darjeeling
Ghurkha Hill Council.
	

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