Tuesday, November 2, 1999
Relief arrives, patience runs out
Already in the dark, marooned for three excruciating days and nights, victims of Orissa's worst cyclone are angry and impatient as rescue and relief teams of Armed forces struggled to reach them on Monday.
Like Gandhiji's ideals, the Dandi bridge too lies forgotten
The foul smell of human excreta, mosquitoes rising in small dark clouds at every step, a cowdung-covered mud track, and finally an apparently ramshackle bridge peeping from behind a wire mesh -- that's the first impression one gets of Dandi bridge over which, 69 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi led his hand-picked band of satyagrahis.
Gujarat, MP clash over pipeline project
An Indo-Oman oil refinery venture in Madhya Pradesh is hanging fire for want of a nod from the neighbouring Gujarat government, thus leading to a steady rise in project cost that could spell the doom for the four-year-old endeavour.
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