The Indian Express

Saturday, July 12 1997

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Smell of death and sense of grief at the hospital
The casualty wards of Rajawadi Hospital at Ghatkopar (E) resembled emergency booths set up in a war zone. Agonising victims were surrounded by their grief-stricken relatives, some had huddled in the corners. The hospital notice board displayed 10 as the official figure for the dead in the Black Friday riots and 18 seriously injured and admitted in the hospital.

Much ado about a missile
Pakistan's new Hatf 3 surface-to-surface missile (SSM) has a reported maximum range of 800 km -- bringing much of north-western India within its reach -- and is at present invulnerable to Indian air defences. However, the most remarkable thing about the Hatf 3 might just be how little difference it makes to the strategic balance in the subcontinent.

BAT officials, ITC top brass charge-sheeted
ITC chairman Y C Deveshwar, nominees of financial institutions (FIs) and its parent company BAT are among 20 present and former directors and top executives who have been charge-sheeted by the Enforcement Directorate for FERA violation of $ 114 million.

Fossil DNA proves Neanderthals were not ancestors of humans

Paes topples top-seed Radulescu in quarters

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