Jul 10, 2025 06:53 IST
First published on: Jul 10, 2025 at 06:52 IST
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said a solution to the Punjab problem was definitely much closer than it was four or five months ago. In an interview with Karan Thapar, Gandhi pointed out, however, that the Punjab problem started off with the “morcha” organised by the Akali Dal and that would not end if the government gave further unilateral concessions. “There will have to be some agreement between the two parties for the morcha to be lifted,” he said.
India-Germany ties
India and West Germany have agreed to improve bilateral relations and cooperate in fighting against terrorism and war in the international arena. An understanding to this effect was forged at the talks between the Foreign Minister of Germany, Hans Dietrich Genschirr, and the Minister of State for External Affairs, Khurshed Alam Khan, in New Delhi. Khan hoped Genscher’s visit would provide an impetus to mutual economic relations and raise them to the level of “political expectations”.
Gujarat shake-up
In a major administrative shake-up, the Gujarat government shifted its chief secretary, M Shivgnanam, along with five other senior civil servants, and also appointed Julio Ribeiro as the state’s director general of police.
The shake-up in the civil police set-up is apparently aimed at giving a face lift to the state administration.
Downed Air India jet
A British ship chartered on behalf of Indian aviation authorities has been withdrawn from the search for the flight recorders of the downed Air India jumbo jet because of congestion at the crash site, according to a British government spokesman. In Cork, Ireland, the crash investigators said that the search was continuing off the southwest Irish coast.
