The Prime Ministers of India and Britain had a wide-ranging exchange of views on international issues including the situation in West Asia and the outcome of their respective visits to the Soviet Union and China.

The Congress (I) is launching a massive drive with a plan to isolate Maneka Gandhi by weaning away the tiny groups of Sanjay Vichar Manch workers spread over several cities.

Lalit Mohan Singh, president of the Bihar unit of the Sanjay Vichar Manch, was arrested on the charges of cheating and forgery.

The Gauriganj shooting incident in which Tikori Singh, a worker of the Sanjay Gandhi Vichar Manch, was injured and later died in a Lucknow hospital, took a dramatic turn with the arrest of three important Manch leaders: Akbar Ahmed, MLA, in Lucknow, Kalpanath Sonkar, MP, in Basti and J N Mishra in Delhi.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 21, 1982.

Left-wing guerrillas held hostage some 200 leading Honduran businessmen, two cabinet ministers and the central bank governor and warned they would begin killing them if the government did not release 80 political prisoners.

Kotia Vijayabhaskara Reddy was unanimously elected leader of the Andhra Pradesh Congress (I) Legislature Party. The new leader is expected to be sworn in along with his ministerial team.

The final choice of the high command for the leadership of the Andhra Pradesh legislature Congress (I) party seems to be K Vijayabhaskara Reddy, member of the Lok Sabha, according to indications available in New Delhi.

The newly-constituted Jammu and Kashmir Council of Ministers pledged, soon after being sworn in, at the marble grave of Sheikh Abdullah that they would be “true to his ideals”.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 14, 1982.

The Sheikh Cabinet had seven cabinet ministers, six ministers of state and eight deputy ministers.

The National Conference Legislature party formally endorsed the decision o f Governor B K Nehru and elected Farooq Abdullah chief minister of the state.

The Union Government ordered a two-day period of national mourning as a mark of respect to Sheikh Abdullah.

Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah died on September 8 after valiantly fighting for his life following a prolonged illness. An ambulance carrying his body was taken from his residence to his private office.

The Gujarat deputy agriculture minister, Khimji Jesang, and the deputy irrigation minister, Kirtsinh Gohil, submitted their resignation to Chief Minister Madhavsinh Solanki in Gandhinagar.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 6, 1982.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 6, 1982.

Poisonous brew, sold through licensed arrack shops in Vypeen, an island off Cochin, killed 57 and blinded or incapacitated several others in the worst-ever liquor that occurred in Kerala.

The Israeli Government rejected a new West Asia peace plan proposed by the United States because it was certain to lead to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi broadly hinted at the possibility of making “some amendments” in the controversial Bihar Press Bill but made it clear that consent would not be refused since it had already been given to “much harsher” bills like that of Tamil Nadu.

The Bihar Press Bill has cast its shadow on the two-day visit of President Zail Singh to Rajasthan.

There was a pandemonium at New Delhi railway station when a fight erupted between Congress (I) workers and Maneka Gandhi’s supporters who had gone to receive the latest addition to the Sanjay Gandhi Vichar Manch, Kalpanath Sonkar, till now a Congress (I) MP, from UP.

India’s investment programme will rely more on external resources in the eighties than in the seventies because of the likelihood of persistent current account deficits in the coming years, according to the World Bank’s annual report.

Tripartite talks on the foreigners in Assam got off to a hopeful start with the unanimous acceptance of a formula for the detection of foreigners.