APRIL 10, 1984, FORTY YEARS AGO

BHATINDA BLAST

THREE PERSONS WERE killed and two seriously injured in the last 24 hours as terrorist activity continued unabated in Punjab. Jawan Chander Bhushan Pandey was killed and watchman Bhagat Bahadur was seriously injured when a high-powered bomb was lobbed into a place of worship at Bhatinda. The watchman was admitted to the hospital where he was said to be out of danger.

INDIA BACKS PLO

THE PRIME MINISTER, Mrs Indira Gandhi, reiterated India’s full support to the Palestine Liberation Organisation under the leadership of Yasser Arafat. Mrs Gandhi told the PLO chief that it was most important at this time for the Arab nations to maintain their unity and to achieve greater cohesion in PLO ranks.

EENADU EDITOR FREE

THE CONSTITUTION BENCH of the Supreme Court issued notice to the Attorney-general of India and the Advocate-general of Andhra Pradesh on the writ petition filed by the Eenadu editor, Ramoji Rao. Meanwhile, the order of the Supreme Court not to arrest Rao will continue. The legislative council last month had found him guilty of breach of privilege of the House for a report published in the paper regarding the discussion on the abolition of the Upper House.

BORDER TENSION

WHILE TENSION IS mounting on the India-bangladesh border following the proposal for the barbed-wire fencing, Bangladesh rejected Indian High Commissioner I P Khosla’s claim that a large number of Bangladeshis were crossing over to India. He said “it is a well-established fact that there has not been any migration from Bangladesh into India since the independence of Bangladesh” in 1971.