September 8, 2025 07:35 AM IST
First published on: Sep 8, 2025 at 07:35 AM IST
Acting on intelligence reports on infiltration of trained terrorists from across the border, the Union Government is taking several steps to prevent any disruption of elections in Punjab, apart from tightening the security arrangements for candidates and sealing the borders. It is also trying to narrow the scope for countermanding the election in any constituency by amending the Representation of the People Act.
No Indira In Polls
The Congress (I)’s election campaign in Punjab, which is being officially launched in the coming week, will be marked by the total elimination of the late prime minister Indira Gandhi from the poll scene. The campaign planners and managers of the Congress (I) have taken care not to remind the Punjab voters about the person who dominated the country for 17 years, through their innumerable election posters, banners, badges, stickers and bindis which are now being dispatched to the state.
Chairman Mugabe
Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, has been elected chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement for the next three years following the choice of Zimbabwe as the venue for next year’s summit. The decision to hold the summit at Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, came after detailed negotiations pared down the field of contenders to Zimbabwe and non-aligned founding member Yugoslavia.
Plane shot down
The Afghan government claimed that Muslim insurgents shot down a passenger plane with a US-made missile. All 47 passengers and five crew members of the Bakhtar Afghan Airlines aircraft were killed.
