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- From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
- Subject: Two more private Airlines to join Indian Skies
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 14:00:08 GMT
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- Source : News Clips from CGI
- Date : Nov 14, 1992
- Country : India
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- Headlines
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- * Amrita Gives up fast threat:
- * Private Air lines in the Indian skies
- * ITC's new addition - Rajputana Palace in Jaipur
- * Pressure put on Pakistan to disband terrorist training camps
- * Kashmiri militant held
- * Militants carrying Five Lakh Rupees reward killed in Punjab
- * Governmentt made up its mind on making rupee fully convertible ?
- * A. R Krishna Dead in Andhra Pradesh
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- * Amrita Gives up fast threat:
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- Hyderabad - Amrita Ahluwalia, the air-hostess who rescued child-bride
- Ameena from the clutches of an Arab national, has given up her
- proposal to go on an indefinite fast oppoisite the residence of the AP
- Chief Minister, Mr.K.Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, following intervention of
- the Prime Minister's Office.
- A senior official of the PMO reportedly rang up Ms.Amrita to
- inform her that measures would ne taken to ensure that Ameeran's
- deposition were recorded in Hyderabad itself instead of her having to
- undertake a long journey to appear before the Delhi High Court. The
- air-hostess had threatened to go on fast demanding that Ameena depose
- in Hyderabad.
-
- * Private Air lines in the Indian skies
-
- More private airlines are in the offing in the Indian skies, according
- to Civil Aviation Ministry sources. Apart from Citylink, two more
- which may make their entry soon include Raj Aviation, a subsidiary of
- Shree Raj Tours and Travels, and a Bombay bases company which has
- shown its eagerness to start by the year-end.
- Once the air taxi services start operation in right earnest,
- many feel that India Airlines will be forced to come in competition
- with them. Even though the IA personnel are not happy about more and
- more private airways joining the Indian skies, the Civil Aviation
- Ministry is committed to push them through, having taken a policy
- decision to this effect.
-
- * ITC's news addition - Rajputana Palace in Jaipur
-
- A "Welcome" addition in these day of heavy tourists traffic to India
- is the ITC owned Welcomegroups's new hotel in Jaipur, colorfully
- dubbed Rajputana Palace.
- With 224 rooms to its credit, the palace claims to be
- Jaipur's largest hotel and aims at attracting the high-spenders in
- travel - the businessmen and the leisure-seekers.
- Describing this marker as "the new royalty," welcome group has
- designed the Rajputana Palace to recreate the splendour of feudal
- Rajashtan with all the modern conveniences including a location in the
- center of town.
-
- * Pressure put on Pakistan to disband terrorist training camps
-
- Rajasani - The Union Minister os State form Home Affairs Mr.M.M
- Jacob said India had been mounting international pressure on Pakistan
- by using various diplomatic channel "for disbanding the training camps
- for the Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir militants."
- "India had been holding intense dialogue with PAkistan at
- various levels to prevent it from abetting militancy in the two border
- states," Mr.Jacob said at a press conference here, after having
- inspected the border security forces, forward check posts and the
- fencing work in progress in the rivers areas of the Punjab-Pakistan
- border at Ajnala.
- He was accompanied by Punjab Police Chief Mr.K.P.S Gill and
- Inspector General BSF, Mr.P.Dogra.
- India was in dialogue with France and Germany for signing the
- extradition treaty with them. Many other European countries had agreed
- to sign a similar extradition treaty like the one signed between UK
- and India.
- The minister asserted that if Pakistan did not stop its
- support to the militants it would have to "sever its economic and
- business relations with India."
-
- * Militant held
-
- New Delhi - the Central District Police have arrested an alleged
- Kashmir terrorist, Basheer Ahmed Bhatt, and his accomplice Shaukat,
- when they arrived in the capital to procure a passport to facilitate
- their passage to Pakistan. The arrest were made on Tuesday evening,
- the CDP, Central District, Mr.M.P Aggarwal said. He said Basheer Bhatt
- was the "chief commander" of a Pak-funded militant outfit, the Kashmir
- Freedom Frontm active in the Kashmir valley.
-
- * Militants carrying Five Lakh reward killed in Punjab
-
- Chandigarh - Dreaded militants Bant Singh and Gulzar Singhm
- "Lt-General" and "Area Commander" respectively of the Bhindranwale
- Tifers Force(BTF), who were responsible for more than 200 killings,
- and seven other militants were among 10 people killed in Punjab during
- the past 24 hours.
- In a fierce encounter, security forces gunned down three
- militants near Chaklan village in Ropar district. Two of them were
- later identified as Bant Singh and Gulzar Singh. The two carried a
- reward of Rs Five Lakh. Two of their accomplices, however, escaped.
-
- * Govt made up its mind on making rupee fully convertible ?
-
- One of the hottest bit of news that's keenly awaited by the stock
- markets is : a slash in import duty on capital goods, import for
- steel, from 65 per cent to 25 er cent. Why?
- One: The steel industry has successfully lobbied with the
- center that unless this was done, the local industry would be in deep
- trouble sooner than later. the fact that the industry was already in
- difficulty only helped in swaying the government.
- Two: The government has already made up its mind on making the
- rupee fully convertible on the trace account and is only waiting for
- the opportune moment. Alongside free exchange the government will have
- to cut import duties across the board, This would make imported steel
- cheaper than locally manufactured.
-
- * A. R. Krishna Dead
- Hyderabad - Padmabhushan awardee and architect of the modern theater
- movement in Andhra Pradesh, Mr.A.R Krishna died here. He was 66.
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