Opinion August 10, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Bomb blast probe
The Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation, Khursheed Alam Khan, admitted that some senior airport and police officials at Meenambakkam airport had prima facie not responded to the bomb blast threat on August 2 with the seriousness it warranted.
Very useful clues have been found to the bomb blast at the airport that killed 29 people and injured 38, he added. 
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The Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation, Khursheed Alam Khan, admitted that some senior airport and police officials at Meenambakkam airport had prima facie not responded to the bomb blast threat on August 2 with the seriousness it warranted. Very useful clues have been found to the bomb blast at the airport that killed 29 people and injured 38, he added.
Scuffle in Southall
Slogan-shouting “Khalistanis” ran for their lives when the hosts at an Indian-dominated Southall restaurant challenged them to a confrontation saying that they would not cancel the dinner arranged to welcome a prominent editor of an English daily in Punjab. There was a brief scuffle between the protestors and the guests in which T S Toor, a prominent Indian community leader of Southall, suffered some injury. The police arrived and arrested one of the demonstrators.
PM on Bhindranwale
The government once again deplored the propaganda being carried out by Pakistani media against India. In this connection, the Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi, scotched all rumours of terrorists and in the Pakistani media that Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was alive. “I can assure the House that he is dead. His body was identified,” Mrs Gandhi said, in the Rajya Sabha. She told Maimoona Sultan that if Bhindranwale could be resurrected, other people who have died in Pakistan could also be resurrected.
P T Usha misses medal
India missed winning an athletics bronze medal by one-hundredth of a second when P T Usha finished fourth in the 400 metre hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympic Games. Usha clocked a career-best 55.43 seconds to finish behind Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco, Judi Brown of the United states and Cristieana Cojocaru of Romania.
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