Friday, May 26, 2000, Chandigarh, India

Speight rejects chiefs’ plan
Council favours interim govt, pardon for gunmen
SUVA, May 25 — Fijian coup leader George Speight has rejected a proposal by the country’s traditional chiefs to pardon him for taking the Prime Minister hostage and to install a new government, a spokesman said today.

 

 

 

 

Self-appointed Prime Minister George Speight, left, is adorned with a Salosalo, a traditional garland, moments before he addressed supporters on the grounds of the Fiji Parliament in Suva, on Thursday. — AP/PTI photo

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NEW DELHI, May 25 — Legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev tonight denied former teammate Manoj Prabhakar’s allegation that he offered him a bribe to play poorly in a match six years ago and attributed the charge to the latter holding “personal grudge” against him.

Members of Sri Lanka's rapid deployment force stand guard in front of the Norwegian Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday night, after unidentified attackers lobbed a crude explosive near its guard room.
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Tigers get arms through Thailand
COLOMBO, May 25 — The Sri Lankan army claimed it had repulsed two major rebel attacks in the northern Jaffna peninsula even as 24 persons, including six civilians, were killed in fighting between government troops and the LTTE on different fronts in the north and the east, as the war spread to Batticaloa in the east.

  


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Cabinet expansion this week
NEW DELHI, May 25 — The Union Council of Ministers will be expanded by the weekend, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, said today.

Lathi charge on farmers, cops stoned
BATHINDA, May 25 — A mild lathi charge at two places by the police on the activists of five farmers’ organisations and workers of political parties and pelting of stones at the police by the protesters marked ‘chakka jam’ agitation in this region today. Few protesters were injured in the lathi charge in Muktsar district.

Rupee touches all-time low
NEW DELHI May 25 — The government today said it was for the RBI to take necessary steps to stabilise the rupee, which touched an all-time low against the US dollar today.

First night sortie to Thoise
CHANDIGARH, May 24 — Night sorties over the rugged Himalayas may not be new to the IAF, with training and terrain familiarisation sorties by transport aircraft to airfields located in the Northern Sector being undertaken in the past. But Operation Vijay in the Kargil Sector last year has given an impetus to operational night flying for carrying out air maintenance to support Army formations deployed along the Line of Control.

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