FORTY YEARS AGO

added: “But, for heaven’s sake, something should be done quickly.”

RAM IN DACCA

THE INDO-BANGLADESH MINISTERIAL level talks on the sharing of Ganga waters adjourned after a three-day meeting which lasted 10 hours over six sessions. After the day’s talks, the leader of the Indian delegation, Jagjivan Ram, called on the Bangladesh president, A.M. Sayem. Earlier, Ram met Major General Ziaur Rahman, chief martial law administrator, at the secretariat.

BARODA CASE

AN APPLICATION SEEKING the trial of the accused in the Baroda dynamite case by a court at Baroda instead of by the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court at New Delhi was dismissed by the Gujarat High Court on the ground that the HC had no power under clause ‘B’ of section 186 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

MIZO REBEL KILLINGS

SIX MIZO REBELS were killed and another was wounded in an armed encounter with a patrol party of the Assam police battalion at Boruncherra in Cachar district. Samsuddin Ahmad, IG of Police, Assam, told reporters that there was no casualty on the side of the police battalion.