The Prime Minister declared that India has no intention of embarking on a nuclear weapons programme.

India and Bangladesh agreed on ad hoc sharing of the Teesta waters. Under the new arrangements, Bangladesh will get 36 per cent and India 39 per cent of the flows while the remaining 25 per cent will remain unallocated.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N T Rama Rao lodged a protest with PM Indira Gandhi against the manner in which All India Radio denied him the broadcast of a speech on the strike by state government employees.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 18, 1983.

The Akali Dal President, Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, said that the next phase of the party’s agitation would be announced on August 15.

Mystery shrouds the death of Deputy Inspector General of Police, J S Anand, Maneka Gandhi’s uncle, whose body was found in the Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh.

King Birendra appointed Lokendra Bahadur Chand, 44, Prime Minister of Nepal. Chand was earlier recommended unanimously by the Rashtriya Panchayat (national assembly).

South Africa and Israel have jointly conducted two successful nuclear weapon tests overground, according to the American magazine, Defence Electronics.

External Affairs Minister P V Narasimha Rao gave this information to the consultative committee of MPs attached to his ministry. He expressed serious concern and said, “India feels that the situation in West Asia is getting out of hand”.

R N Kao, chief security advisor to the Union government and former RAW chief, reviewed the law and order and political situation in Punjab with the home secretary, T N Chaturvedi, who returned from Chandigarh after studying the latest developments in the state.

President Zia’s government troops clashed with opposition party members in Karachi and arrested a dozen top leaders protesting against the sixth anniversary of Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s military take-over.

Two persons were reported killed and many injured in police firings in the historic towns of Tarn Taran and Baba Bakala in Amritsar district. A Nirankari, Avtar Singh, was killed allegedly by extremists at Kalanwali Mandi in Sirsa district of Haryana.

The Planning Minister, S B Chavan, has warned chief ministers that if they do not mobilise resources in accordance with agreed estimates and go on for overdrafts, their plan outlay will get curtailed.

Five Haryana dissident ministers and the chief parliamentary secretary of the state have resigned from the Bhajan Lal Ministry. Their resignation letters were handed over to the Prime Minister in New Delhi yesterday.

Revamping of the Punjab Police set-up figured prominently during the discussion the union Home Secretary T N Chaturvedi had with the state Chief Minister Darbara Singh.

The government made its position on the Akali demands clear and put the blame on their leadership for ending negotiations. However, it has reiterated that doors for negotiations with Akalis are still open and expressed the hope that it will reconsider.