The Tribune...Spotlight

			Saturday, July 11, 1998
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HC pulls up CBI
PATNA, July 10 (PTI) — The Patna High Court today pulled up the CBI for delaying institution of cases relating to assets earned by the fodder scam accused, including politicians, disproportionate to their known sources of income even as the agency asserted that it would complete probes into all the scam cases by this November. The CBI standing counsel, B.K. Shukla, however, told the court monitoring the investigations into the multi-crore fraud that the agency had already instituted cases against five accused, the former state AHD officials — S.B. Sinha, K.M. Prasad, Seshmuni Ram, O.P. Diwakar and RJD MLA, R.K. Rana for possessing disproportionate assets.

15 die in bus mishap
CALCUTTA, July 10 (PTI) — At least 15 persons were killed and several others injured, many seriously, when a crowded bus rolled into a water-filled nullah near Asansol in Burdwan district today, the police said. The Kalipahari-bound bus from Asansol skidded from a bridge and fell into the ditch at Noonia village under Asansol. The villagers and the police rescued the injured from the bus and rushed them to a nearby hospital.

Helicopter crash
KAMPALA, July 10 (AFP) — Seven persons were killed in a military helicopter crash in northern Uganda’s Gulu district, newspapers reported today quoting army commandar Major General Jeje Odongo. The state-owned New Vision put the number of dead at five, while the independent Monitor newspaper said that seven lives were lost in the crash early yesterday. Both papers were quoting Odongo. New Vision said the dead included a Lieutenant Colonel, who is yet to be identified.

Satellites launched
MOSCOW, July 10 (Reuters) — Russia today successfully launched six satellites, including five foreign space probes, after three previous delays, the Russian space agency said. A Ukrainian-made Zenit-2 booster carried a Russian-made scientific Resurs-O satellite and five probes belonging to Australia, Chile, Germany, Israel and Thailand, spokesman Konstantin Kreidenko told Reuters. Russia has successfully launched several German satellites in the past but two separate attempts to put Israeli and Chilean satellites into orbit with Russian-made boosters failed in 1995.

Anup Chetia
DHAKA, July 10 (PTI) — A Bangladesh court has charged Anup Chetia, Secretary-General of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), and two of his associates with illegal stay in the country and alleged possession of forged Bangladeshi passports. The court of the Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) framed the charges against the three in two cases yesterday under the provisions of the Foreigners Act and the Passport Act after they pleaded not guilty, judicial sources said today.