Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!ecn.purdue.edu!pall From: pall@ecn.purdue.edu Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia Subject: NEWS (SOME OLD SOME NEW) Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 21:50:27 GMT Sender: gaddam@remus.rutgers.edu Lines: 38 Approved: gaddam@remus.rutgers.edu Compiled by Pallab: 1. AS ELECTION CAMPAIGN ENTERS FINAL PHASE SPECULATION OF COALITION GOVT. INTENSIFIES New Delhi: India heads this week into the last phase for campaigning that seem increasingly likely to change the face of the country's politics. And there is a perciptible change in the campaign tempo, with the major political parties throwing their big guns into action for the final round. 2. NAXALS SEIZE AND RELEASE MLA THREAT OF VIOLENCE CASTS SHADOW OVER POLLS IN INDIA New Delhi: With the murder of an independent candidate for Punjab assembly election on May 13, the death-toll in pre-poll violence in India rose to 47 this week. A Congress-I legislator from Andhra Pradesh, P.Sudhir Kumar, was abducted on May 11 and released two days later in exchange for the release of four jailed radicals. 3. FIRST FREE POLLS IN 32 YEARS IN NEPAL Kathmandu: Many people gathered outside Kathmandu's Town Hall on May 13,preparing to celebrate a communist sweep of the capital's seats in the Himalayankingdom's first free polls in 32 years. The Candidates of the United Marxist- Leninist (UML) group, one-time allies of the liberal Nepali Congress in mass protest last year that forced King Birendra to surrender absolute power won four of the first five seats declared after the May 12 general election. 4. DESPITE HEROIC BATTING BY VENGSARKAR (139)... HARYANA WIN THRILLER TO CLINCH MAIDEN RANJI TITLE BEATING BOMBAY BY 2 RUNS Bombay: The exciting, tension-filled finals of the Ranji Trophy tournament, which Haryana won by a narrow margin of two runs could easily go down as one of the most magnificent and thrilling matches in the 57-year-old history of the prestigious National cricket championship. Scores: Haryana -- 522, 242 Bombay -- 410, 352 SOURCE: NEWS INDIA, MAY 17,1991 ============================== Edited by Surekha Reddy Gaddam