Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!ecn.purdue.edu From: pall@ecn.purdue.edu (Pallab K Bhattacharyya) Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia Subject: India News ( Some Old Some New ) Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 21:37:25 GMT Sender: gaddam@remus.rutgers.edu Lines: 28 Approved: gaddam@remus.retgers.edu SOURCE: NEWS INDIA, MAY 10, 1991 -------------------------------- 1. PAKISTAN RECEIVED SECRET SHIPMENT OF URANIUM, SAYS INDIA New Delhi: India said on May 6 that Pakistan had received a secret shipment of uranium at the port of Karachi which would be moved to Hyderabad city. A senior government source, who asked not to be identified, said the uranium arrived on May 5 and would be carried to Hyderabad by military trucks ona road from which all other traffic has been banned. 2. POLLS IN PUNJAB WILL BE FRAUGHT WITH DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES Patna: The elections in Punjab under the existing circumstances "will befraught with dangerous consequences," Congress-I president Rajiv Gandhi told reporters May 6. The former Prime Minister felt that free and fair elections were not possible in Punjab at this stage. 3. SHIPPING CORP.'S SEVEN-DAY HIGH SEAS ORDEAL ENDS Visakhapatnam (PTI): The seven-day ordeal of passengers and crew of a Shipping Corporation of India's passenger vessel on high seas ended May 3. The immobilized passenger vessel, M.Vanaja-II, was towed by another ship and berthedat Visakhapatnam Port. 4. GUNMEN KILL 3 CPM WORKERS IN U.P. New Delhi (Reuter): Gunmen killed three Communist Party workers and wounded 10 other people in violence ahead of this month's general election. Gunmen on May 3 sprayed bullets at a jeep carrying Communist Party of India (CPI) campaigners near Ghazipur town, 185 miles from Lucknow.