US President Ronald Reagen and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev concluded their summit with a joint statement saying that while “serious differences remain on a number of critical issues,” they agreed to accelerate nuclear arms negotiations. After two days of talks, both leaders expressed optimism, largely because of a decision to meet again in 1987.
India will not normalise trade relations with China while shelving the border dispute, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said. Earlier, answering a number of supplementaries on the recent Sino-India talks External Affairs Minister B R Bhagat, said India had made its position clear on the boundary issue in all sectors and it would not give up territory which is legitimately Indian.
In a “rarest of the rarest” case, a division bench of the Rajasthan High Court awarded the death sentence to a woman holding her guilty of “barbaric” murder of her 18-year-old daughter-in-law eight years ago. Justice Lodha said, “Even a stone would have melted” at the plight of the Pushpa, daughter of a class IV employee of the State Electricity Board, who was burnt alive by her mother-in-law, Lichhma Devi, in the kitchen of her in-law’s house in Jaipur.
