Opinion Forty years ago, December 6, 1985: SAARC declaration
The foreign ministers of the seven SAARC countries pledged their wholehearted support to regional cooperation and unanimously approved the draft summit declaration.
Firm measures should be taken against terrorists trying to disturb the peace in Punjab again, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said. The foreign ministers of the seven SAARC countries pledged their wholehearted support to regional cooperation and unanimously approved the draft summit declaration. The question of the scope and location of the SAARC secretariat that had been recommended by the standing committee of the foreign secretaries was, however, left undecided and might be remitted to an official committee to work out in the near future.
PM on terror in Punjab
Firm measures should be taken against terrorists trying to disturb the peace in Punjab again, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said. Gandhi said people should assist both the state and central governments in identifying terrorists and dealing with them effectively. Extremists, the PM said, did not have faith in any religion and their only objective was to destabilise one of the most progressive states of the country.
Acid leak kills 1, injures 16
A senior lawyer at the Tees Hazari courts, affected by acid fumes, died in Hindu Rao hospital in New Delhi. Charanjit Singh (58), fell unconscious soon after the acid fumes swept through the courts. He did not recover after that. Sixteen persons were still lying in various city hospitals after breathing the acid fumes, the police said. The police have charged three Shriram executives with causing death by a rash and negligent act following Singh’s death.
Anti-quota protests
The anti-reservationists, who had given a call to boycott classes, set fire to two buses near Navgujarat College in Ahmedabad. Meanwhile, most of the schools in the city suspended work for the day as some students went around throwing stones at schools in different parts of the city. Of the two buses burnt, one belonged to the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services and the other was a state transport bus, a double-decker shuttle between the state capital and the city.
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