October 17, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Tripura Tragedy

The authorities volition not merchandise each the Akalis including G S Tohra, president, SGPC, against whom determination are circumstantial transgression cases and for which they volition person to look a proceedings earlier peculiar courts. There are implicit 400 Akali leaders successful jails. Some important leaders including the Akali Dal main Harchand Singh Longowal, the erstwhile Punjab main minister, Prakash Singh Badal, erstwhile Union curate Surjit Singh Barnala are detained nether the National Security Act.

Five-Year Plan Puzzle

The planners person miraculously reduced the assets spread of the Seventh Five Year Plan from Rs 40,000 crore to a specified Rs 10,000 crore and are present assured of achieving the compound yearly complaint of maturation of 5 per cent successful a non-inflationary manner. But enigma surrounds the mode successful which this simplification has been achieved and adjacent the sheet of economists were not satisfied with the mentation offered by the Planning Commission. Most of the other resources are to travel from profits of nationalist assemblage undertakings.

Nobel For Tutu

Black South African religion person and anti-apartheid campaigner Bishop Desmond Tutu, 53, was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel committee announced. The committee said Bishop Tutu, wide caput of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), had been a unifying fig successful the run to resoluteness the occupation of apartheid successful South Africa.