January 29, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Nehru Award given

Editorial

The six-nation atomic disarmament acme adopted a declaration calling for prevention of an arms contention successful outer abstraction and a broad test-ban treaty. The declaration — signed by India, Argentina, Greece, Mexico. Sweden and Tanzania — said that outer abstraction indispensable beryllium utilized for the payment of mankind arsenic a full and not a battleground of the future.

Gavaskar to captain

Sunil Gavaskar has been retained arsenic the skipper and all-rounder Kapil Dev named the vice-captain of the Indian squad for the Benson and Hedges World Cup one-day cricket title to beryllium held successful Australia adjacent month. The pursuing are the different members of the team: K Srikanth, Ravi Shastri, Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohinder Amarnath, Ashok Malhotra, Chetan Sharma, Manoj Prabhakar, Madan Lal, Roger Binny, Sadanand Vishwanath (wicketkeeper) and L Sivaramakrishnan.

Exchange halted

The anticipated merchandise of the 17 Indian fishermen simultaneously with the merchandise of the 7 Sri Lankan naval unit did not mature. The boats of the fishermen could not beryllium towed down from the Sri Lanka since they had go rusty. The Indian Coast Guard vas which was connected its mode for the 2nd clip but did not proceed further and returned to its base.