PM Indira Gandhi said that the Centre never interfered or put pressure on anybody in Jammu and Kashmir but nobody should think he had a monopoly to rule over the state for ever.

The notice served by the SGPC, Amritsar, on Amrita Pritam for writing poems alleged to be offensive to the religious susceptibilities of the Sikhs has left the poetess completely bewildered.

Amrita Pritam, Punjabi writer and this year’s Jnanpith award-winner for her book in Punjabi, Kagaz te Kanwas, earlier the Sahitya Akademi award-winner — has been served with a legal notice by the S G P C, Amritsar ,on the ground that five of her poems offended the religious susceptibilities of the Sikhs.

The Planning Commission, it is understood, is in a serious dilemma over the question of bringing out the midterm appraisal of the Sixth Plan, despite assurance to this effect to Parliament.

Dalip Singh, the New Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (I) chief, is among nine persons in illegal occupation of land belonging to the Rehabilitation Ministry Employees Co-operative House Building Society, according to a survey report of the Department of Rehabilitation.

The Akali leadership is reported to be divided over accepting the Centre’s proposed formula envisaging the division of Chandigarh and referring the river waters dispute to the Supreme Court — the two main Akali demands for resolving the Punjab tangle.

Hopes of an early settlement of Punjab issues dwindled with Haryana leaders deciding to stick to the state’s stand at a meeting at Union Agriculture Minister Birendra Singh’s house.

One person was killed when the police opened fire in the curfew bound Arna Barna Chowk area in Patiala. Two others were injured when they were hit with lathis by policemen.

The Government ignored an opposition demand for a judicial inquiry into the killings in Assam.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee authorities in the Golden Temple have been given one week to hand over the assailant in the Atwal murder case, Home Minister, P C Sethi said.

Home Minister P C Sethi, made a fervent appeal to the Akali leadership to shun violence and to hand over terrorists, like the Khalistan protagonist Balbir Singh Sandhu and the assassin of the DIG of Police, A S Atwal.