Saturday, June 27, 1998
Task force asks Govt to set up national security council
A high-level task force constituted by the Centre has recommended the establishment of a national security council on a priority basis and said it should comprise a cabinet committee headed by the Prime Minister as the apex body for decision making. The three-member task force said the need for managing national security in an integrated and coherent manner reaching across compartmentalised functioning had become more pressing after the May 11 nuclear tests.
Euphoric Naidu vows to add wings to economy
Encouraged by the World Bank clearing the AP Economic Restructuring Project (APERP) despite sanctions, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has declared that the state government will endeavour to implement the project much ahead of the five-year schedule. The Chief Minister said that the Rs 3,300 crore project would radically alter the economic scenario in the state.
Memories of Chinese aggression come alive
Over a month after Union Defence Minister George Fernandes' candid statement declaring China as "the potential threat No 1," army officials say that though the tension at the Ministry of Defence and External Affairs has not yet reached the Sino-Indo border, heated verbal exchange between the two nations has indeed revived memories of the '62 war and the tension in 1986, causing unease at least on the Indian side.
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