Quicktakes

Botha found guilty
GEORGE S AFRICA: Apartheid president PW Botha, 82, was today found guilty in a magistrate8217;s court here of contempt of South Africa8217;s Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRC. The court was adjourned briefly to discuss possible mitigating circumstances before sentence is passed later today. News of the guilty verdict was greeted by loud cheers when it reached protesters gathered outside the court, who chanted 8220;jail him, jail him.8221; Botha, who ruled South Africa from 1978 until 1989 8211; the harshest years of apartheid 8211; faces a fine of 3,300 dollars or two years in jail.

Bankmen8217;s stir
NEW DELHI: Public sector bank employees all over the country will go on strike on September 18 to protest the delay in wage revision. The United Forum of Bank Unions comprising nine unions of officers and workmen have decided on this course of action following breakdown of their negotiations with the Indian Bank Association last week. 8220;The IBA stuck to its unreasonable and unacceptable proposition confining industry level negotiations to only basic pay and dearness allowance and leaving all other components of wages and other service condition to respective bank level8221;, a senior official of the All India Bank Officers Confederation, Kishan Singh told PTI here.

Jawan killed
SRINAGAR: A security jawan was killed and two persons were wounded when Pakistani troops opened fire at two places in Jammu and Kashmir since Thursday evening. Official spokesman said here on Friday that the jawan was killed in the Pakistani troops unprovoked firing at border outpost regal in Hiranagar sector of Kathua district in Jammu region yesterday. The Indian troops retaliated and the intermittent exchange of fire continued for several hours. However, there was no report of any casualty on the Pakistani side, he said.