The Indian Express -- General

Friday, December 26 1997

Kaunda detained in Zambia

Police in Zambia detained former President Kenneth Kaunda yesterday, five days after he returned to the southern African country for the first time since an attempted coup. Emergency laws, imposed just after a military officer tried to overthrow President Frederick Chiluba's Government on October 28, permit the "Father of the Nation" and now vocal Opposition leader to be held for four weeks without a court order.

Pilot feat for Diana's cause

Colin Bodill, once pilot of Princess Diana, arrived in Nagpur on Monday evening in a microlight aircraft on his record flight from London to Sydney. The flight is also a fund-raising effort for the Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and the unique feat is likely to collect half a million dollars at the end of Captain Bodill's tour.

NCL patents its way to glory

After earning the title of largest money spinning research laboratory of CSIR, the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune is now heading for an another pathbreaking record in terms of highest number of patents filed by any scientific lab in the country. During the current year, the laboratory has already filed a total 94 patents which is nearly one third of around 300 patents filed by all the forty laboratories of CSIR collectively.

Kaunda detained in Zambia

A home for girls, far from the madding crowd

Sex scam tainted SIMS director quits

World Vignettes -- Big is beautiful, says court

Judge can direct CBI to probe pvt complaints

Pilot feat for Diana's cause

X'mas not so merry in the land of God

NCL patents its way to glory

Pak train collision claims 35

Gangs strike terror on highway

Stalin felt all was not right with Left in India

Pak SC to resume Sharif case in January