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Nobel
Prize for Portugese author
STOCKHOLM (Sweden), Oct 8 (AP) — Portugese novelist
Jose Saramago was named the winner of the 1998 Nobel
Literature Prize today. Mr Saramago, 75, wrote his
breakthrough novel in 1982, "Baltasar and
Blimunda." Perhaps his best-known work is, "The
Stone Raft," in which the Iberian peninsula breaks
off from Europe for supernatural reasons and floats off
into the Atlantic. He is the fourth consecutive European
to win the prestigious prize.16 cops killed
JAGDALPUR,
Oct 8 (UNI) — At least 16 policemen were killed and
15 injured when Naxalites blasted two police vehicles by
using landmines on the Basuguda Jagarguda road in
Dantewara district in the tribal Bastar region of Madhya
Pradesh. Police sources said the policemen were
patrolling in a mini bus and a jeep when the landmine
explosion took place. The condition of eight of the
injured was reported to be serious.
10 die in
derailment
VIJAYAWADA,
Oct 8 (PTI) — Ten persons were killed and 26
injured, 14 of them seriously, when nine coaches and the
engine of the Hyderabad-Narasapur Express derailed in
Guntur district early this morning. One of the coaches
was completely jammed and gas cutters were used to remove
passengers trapped inside following the derailment, which
took place between Sattanapalli and Gudipadu stations,
South Central Railway sources said.
Boat tragedy
MADRID, Oct 8
(Reuters) — At least 19 persons were drowned today
when a pleasure boat carrying more than 140 French
passengers sank in a lake in northeastern Spain, a
government official said. The official said the number of
dead could rise as rescue crews continued searching the
boat, which went down in Lake Banyoles in Girona
province. One witness said the boat, ‘Anna’,
started sinking soon after it left the dock.
Gholap’s secy
held
MUMBAI, Oct 8 (PTI) — Personal Secretary of
Maharashtra Minister for Social Welfare Babanrao Gholap
has been arrested on a charge of embezzling Rs 4.5 crore.
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the city police
yesterday arrested Personal Secretary Anil Pagare for his
alleged involvement in depositing the money of several
corporations for backward classes into ‘Awami
mercantile bank’, which later went into liquidation.
Tripura clash
AGARTALA, Oct
8 (UNI) — Two tribal youths were lynched by a group
of people suspecting them to be extremists while several
injured, some of them seriously, in a clash between
tribals and non-tribals even as an eight-year-old girl
was kidnapped by the militants in Tripura last night, the
police said today. The youths were killed near the
Jolaibari market in south Tripura. In retaliation, a
large number of tribal people attacked a non-tribal
village in an adjoining area and beat up many people.
AI flights
NEW DELHI,
Oct 8 (PTI) — Air- India (IA) could start non-stop
flights to North America with the help of the latest
range of aircraft manufactured by Airbus Industries
within next four years, a spokesman for the European
Aircraft Consortium said today. Presenting their latest
family of aircraft, Airbus Industry (India) President
Kiran Rao told a press conference that different versions
of the A 340 family of aeroplanes would become most
sought after within the next 20 years when the civilian
air traffic is projected to increase three-fold.
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