Saturday, August 15, 1998
I am a working President: Narayanan
President K R Narayanan put political parties on the alert on Friday by making it clear that he was not "a rubber-stamp" President. "My image of a President is a working President, not an executive President... there is a subtle influence of the office of the President on the executive and other arms of the Government...," he said.
After 6 years Hiten Dalal is convicted
The special court hearing cases in 1992 securities scam on Friday convicted stock broker Hiten Dalal and one ex-officer of Canbank Financial services, S Mohan for offences, including criminal breach of trust. They were charged with conspiracy of siphoning off Rs 33 crore from Canara Bank Financial Services (Canfina).
Goa Speaker disqualifies CM, nine others
Goa's Chief Minister Dr Wilfred D'Souza and nine other legislators, who broke away from the Congress in July to form the Goa Rajiv Congress (GRC), were disqualified from the membership of the House by Speaker Tomazinho Cardozo on Friday.
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