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.

In a swift action pre-empting possible resistance, the Haryana government sacked 293 jawans of the Haryana Armed Police and removed them from the barracks in a crack-down on agitators in the force.

Normal life came to a standstill with shops, business establishments and cinema houses remaining closed in response to the call for a 12-hour Patna bandh in protest against the brutal police lathi-charge on a peaceful procession of Bihar journalists.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on August 23, 1982.

Beirut resounded to the roar of thousands of guns as the besieged west sideof the city bade farewell to Palestinian fighters.

The Supreme Court suspended the operation of the Tamil Nadu law which made “grossly indecent and scurrilous” writing a cognisable, non-bailable offence. The law, a predecessor of the controversial Bihar Press Bill, was challenged by the editor of Murasu, through a writ petition.

Governor B K Nehru accepted the resignation of G M Shah, Works and Powers Minister, who had already tendered his resignation to J&K Chief Minister Sheikh Abdullah.

The economic affairs panel of the Union Cabinet cleared the proposal of Maruti Udyog for the manufacture of small-sized passenger cars in collaboration with Suzuki of Japan.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on August 17, 1982.