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Subject: India  - [NEWSCLIPS]
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 Subj:   CIVIL SERVICES EXAM IN INDIA CANCELLED AFTER LEAKAGE OF EXAM
              QUESTIONS
 
 
 NEW DELHI (JUNE 10) DPA - Authorities in India have cancelled the 
 examinations that were to be held to select candidates for the top 
 bureaucratic posts following leakage of question papers in some of the 
 subjects, news reports said Monday. 
 
 The autonomous Union Public Service Commission, which conducts the tests, said
 on Sunday fresh examination dates would be announced later. 
 
 The cancellation were announced following the publication over the week-end of
 the questions in some subjects in the Times of India newspaper. 
 
 Candidates in New Delhi who appeared for the tests on Sunday, even after
 publication of the alleged questions, confirmed that the question papers of
 history, economics, political science, sociology and physics were identical to
 the one printed by the newspaper. 
 
 The papers were sold to candidates for prices ranging between 3,000 rupees
 (about 150 dollars) and 20,000 rupees with the mysterious ''leakers'' raking
 in thousands of dollars. 
 
 The cancelled examinations were preliminary ones which winnowed out candidates
 for the final selection stage for posts in the diplomatic, administrative,
 police and excise services in the federal government.      
 
 Many of the candidates, who had prepared for months for the tests, were
 disraught over the leakage. 
 
 One of them, V.K. Singh, unaware of the leakage of the very same questions
 that he had answered some minutes ago at a examination center in New Delhi,
 broke into tears when he saw the published questions in the newspaper. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Subj:   TORRENTIAL RAINS AND HEATWAVE KILL 264 PEOPLE IN INDIA
 
 
 NEW DELHI (JUNE 10) DPA - Heavy rains and a heatwave sweeping different parts
 of India have killed 264 people, the United News of India news agency reported
 Monday. 
 
 While a heatwave in the northwestern desert state of Rajasthan has claimed 192
 lives so far this year, torrential rains on Saturday and Sunday in Bombay and
 its suburbs have accounted for 40 deaths and injures to 50 others, mainly in
 house collapses. 
 
 Most of the victims in Rajasthan have died of heatstroke with area hospitals
 full of people weakened by the heat. Newspaper reports say this summer is
 proving the hottest in the region since 1916, with shade temperatures in some
 spots reaching 50 degress Centigrade. 
 
 UNI said other rain related deaths occured in Kerala (24), Karnataka (2) and
 Gujarat (6). 
 
 The financial capital of India, Bombay, remained cut off from its suburbs as
 commuter train services remained suspended for the third successive day due to
 water-logging of the tracks. 
 
 Bombay's Sahar international airport and domestic Santa Cruz airport reopened
 for flights early Monday morning after remaining closed Sunday as the runway
 was flooded and water entered the customs and cargo arrival terminal. 
                                                            
 Airport personnel from New Delhi were flown to Bombay to man the flights as
 the local staff were unable to reach their work spots. 
 
 The weather bureau in Bombay said the city recorded 63 centimetres on Saturday
 and Sunday, as the annual southwest monsoon slashed the area with all its fury
 destroying several thousand hutments that left over 100,000 slum dwellers
 shelterless. 
 
 Weathermen warned that ''heavy to very heavy rains accompanied by gusty
 winds'' were expected to lash the Bombay area on Monday-Tuesday. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Subj:   INDIAN MINE ACCIDENT CLAIMS AT LEAST 150 LIVES
 
 
 NEW DELHI (JUNE 10) - Some 150 workers were feared killed in a coal mine
 tunnel in central India, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Monday. 
 
 It said the accident occurred in the Singrauli colliery Sunday when the tunnel
 was flooded by heavy rains. 
 
 
 
 
 Subj:   HEAVY RAINS CLAIM 94 LIVES IN BOMBAY, INDIA 
 
 
 NEW DELHI (JUNE 10) - The Indian metropolis of Bombay was limping back to
 normality Monday, after the heaviest rains in nearly four decades left at 
 least 62 people dead in the city and nearby areas. 
 
 Thirty-four others were killed elsewhere in the country by rains and flash 
 floods which destroyed hundreds of homes and left thousands of people homeless,
 news reports here said. 
 
 More than 50 others were injured as the rain that began Saturday morning 
 destroyed scores of shanties in Bombay, uprooted hundreds of trees and crippled
 normal life in the bustling city of 10 million. 
 
 Nearly 100,000 dwellers of the poor shanty towns which dot Bombay lost their 
 homes as 63 centimeters (25 inches) of rain fel on the city, breaking a record
 set in 1953, The Times of India and other newspapers said. 
 
 The Press Trust of India (PTI) said 17 people were killed in Bombay, the 
 country's financial and movie capital, 34 in neighburing Thane district and 11
 in other nearby areas. Previous reports had put the Bombay toll at 40. 
 Most deaths occurred when homes collapsed. 
 
 PTI said that after two days of total dislocation, road and air transport were
 returning to near normalcy in Bombay. But attendance Monday in banks, 
 factories and government offices was thin. 
 
 Bombay's airports also reported a partial resumption of domestic and 
 international flights, but only 5,000 feet (1,515 meters) of runway were 
 useable because of water logging. 
 
 Earlier, all domestic flights were cancelled and international flights 
 rescheduled after water entered the customs and cargo sections in the airports,
 

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