Opinion April 18, 1983, Forty Years Ago: ISRO’s SLV-3 launched from Sriharikota
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on April 18, 1983.
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on April 18, 1983. 
India once again emphatically signalled to the world that it has become a force to reckon with in the frontiers of space technology when the second developmental flight of SLV-3 majestically lifted off from the Sriharikota launching pad of ISRO and flawlessly catapulted the Rohini satellite into orbit. PM Indira Gandhi congratulated the “brilliant young men who met here and also other men and women, who worked day and night” to make the project a success.
Refuge for militants
Balbir Singh Sandhu, the self-styled secretary-general of the National Council of Khalistan is running the banned organisation’s office in Guru Nanak Niwas in the Golden Temple. He said: “Guru Nanak Niwas is the cantonment of the Sikhs… I have every right to stay at this place.”
New exim policy
The government claimed that the new export and import policy announced would considerably help boost exports and increase production. In an obvious reference to the criticism of the policy from different quarters, a spokesman of the Commerce Ministry said that many of the steps in it would also affect possible savings import. Citing some of the “firsts” in the export policy for 1983-84, he said while the industry would continue to get its essential inputs to maximise production, a number of items for which production capacities had been developed in the country, have moved to more restrictive lists.
Regional dictionary
If you want to know the equivalent of the Hindi word “arhar” (dal) in 13 regional languages, you could ask people who speak the 13 languages. Or you could just pick up the Bharatiya Bhasha Kosh and find all the equivalents at a glance. The multi-lingual dictionary is expected to be available by March, 1984 and is one of the several dictionaries being brought out by the Central Hindi Directorate. It will have 5,000 words and 2,500 expressions in the Devanagari script and will give word-to-word substitutions in 13 languages.
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