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Opinion October 6, 1985, Forty Years Ago: UN condemns Israel

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on October 06, 1985.

October 6, 2025 10:42 AM IST First published on: Oct 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM IST

The United Nations Security Council has “vigorously condemned” Israel’s aggression against Tunisia and ordered it to “refrain from perpetrating such acts” in future. Acting on a non-aligned proposal, the 15-nation Council on Friday night dubbed the Israeli air raid a “flagrant violation” of international law and upheld Tunisia’s right to reparations for the loss of life and material damage it suffered.

Assam electoral roll

Nearly half the claims and objections relating to the draft electoral rolls of the 126 Assam Assembly constituencies have been disposed of so far, and the final rolls are expected to be published by the end of next month. Nearly 22 lakh claims and objections have been received. According to tentative figures, of the nearly 9.5 lakh claims, about seven lakh have been disposed of. Of these seven lakh, over four lakh were accepted and the rest rejected. Out of 12.5 lakh objections filed, 3.2 lakh have been disposed of, with about 70,000 being accepted.

ENLF team arrives

A 12-member Eelam National Liberation Front (ENLF) delegation arrived in Delhi to resume talks with the Foreign Secretary, Romesh Bhandari, on the modalities for the observance of the ceasefire in Sri Lanka. V Pirabhakaran (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), Padmanabha (Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front), V Balakumar (Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students) and Sri Sabaratnam (Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation) are the leading members.

Second thoughts

The Barnala Government seems to be having second thoughts about a judicial inquiry by a High Court judge into “all the killings in Punjab” to “punish those politicians and officials who were responsible for them over about four years.”