Now CEC Manohar Gill plays Murdoch's watchdog
There's a new censor in town and he doesn't sit in either Shastri Bhavan (Information and Broadcasting Ministry office) or Mandi House (office of Doordarshan). He sits in Nirvachan Sadan. Ably assisted by a Star TV desperate to stay on the right side of an unpredictable Government, Chief Election Commissioner M S Gill has now started vetting television programmes.
US loses PR battle over Iraq war
The United States lost a major public relations battle on Wednesday even before it fired the first shot in the impending war against Iraq. Assigned by President Clinton to sell the idea of a military offensive against Iraq to a skeptical American public, three of his cabinet members ran into a hostile and vocal minority protesting US foreign policy at a townhall meeting in Columbus, Ohio, the heart of the United States and the birthplace of American humorist James Thurber.
Light copter proves a mismatch for IAF
The Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) which recently landed atop the Siachen Glacier and cleared cold weather trials does not fully meet the Indian Air Force (IAF) weight and altitude requirements. The ALH, overweight by 350 kgs, cannot carry the specified 200 kgs pay load to 20,000 feet altitude in the Siachen Glacier area.
Annan mission to avert a war
With blessings of Godspeed from a skeptical US administration, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan flew a Concorde on Thursday to Paris on his way to Iraq for the most important mission of his life: To stop a war Washington has all but declared against the renegade country.
China lends Pakistan 150 million dollars
China has reportedly provided Pakistan with 150 million dollars to support its balance of payments. The loan agreement came during Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's week-long official visit to China that ended on Tuesday.
"Gandhiji did not say Hey Ram when he died"
Mahatma Gandhi never said `Hey Ram' when he died. It was a fiction of the imagination of those who came later. "It was true that he often said that I wish I could die with the name of Ram on my lips," but wishes were different from happenings, says Gandhiji's former aide V Kalyanam. "I missed the bullet by six inches, and I know exactly what happened on that day. The entire universe has been fooled by something that did not happen", he said speaking at the `Forum for Loud Thinking' of the Local Fund Auditors, Chennai.
