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			Tuesday, September 15, 1998
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Gujarat Industry Minister quits
GANDHINAGAR, Sept 14 (PTI) — The Gujarat Industry Minister Mr Suresh Mehta, today resigned from the Cabinet giving a jolt to the six-month-old Keshubhai Patel ministry and bringing to the fore trouble brewing in the state’s ruling BJP over party leadership. Mr Mehta, a former Chief Minister, who was number two in the Patel ministry, told mediapersons at his residence that he quit in protest against the murder of his confidant, Bhauji Jadeja, a BJP leader from Kutch district, last week. He said he was unhappy over the police "inaction" in nabbing the assailants of Jadeja.
Indian guard killed
DHAKA, Sept 14 (AP) — Bangladeshi frontier guards shot dead an Indian soldier accused of illegal intrusion, an official said today. Another Indian guard was wounded, but he returned to the Indian territory after yesterday’s incident along the Sherpur frontier, 145 km from here. "We have briefed the Indian authorities about the incident," Azizur Rahman, chief of Bangladesh Border Guards, said in a telephone interview.

190 houses burnt
KOKRAJHAR, Sept 14 (PTI) — A tribeswoman was killed and 190 Santhal houses were burnt by Bodo militants in Lower Assam’s ethnic violence-hit Kokrajhar district, official sources said today. A group of Bodo militants swooped down on a tribal relief camp at Balegaon in Gossaingaon subdivision, attacked its inmates and killed the woman yesterday, the sources said. Another group of Bodo ultras torched 190 tribal houses at Koksaguri, Surrendrapur and Sabkakat villages.
Urea scam
NEW DELHI, Sept 14 (PTI) — Malessam Goud, an accused in the Rs 133 crore urea scam case currently lodged in Tihar Jail, has moved a petition in the Delhi High Court for grant of bail. The petition, filed through counsel D. Mahesh Babu, is to come up before Mr Justice D.K. Jain tomorrow. An employee of Karsan’s Indian agent Sambasiva Rao, Goud was sent in judicial custody on January 12, 1998.
Derailment
MUZAFFARNAGAR (UP), Sept 14 (PTI) — A railway engine driver was killed and another seriously injured when the engine and four coaches of a goods train derailed at Rohana railway station, about 25 km from here, yesterday, Northern Railway (NR) sources said today. The driver was killed at the scene and another driver, who lost one leg, was admitted to a local hospital.
Apollo staff stir
NEW DELHI, Sept 14 (PTI) — The Indraprastha Apollo Hospital Employees Union (IAHEU) today announced its decision to go on an indefinite strike under the banner of CITU’s, Delhi unit from September 18 to press its demands, which include implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission recommendations. Union President Rajnish Sharma told newspersons here that the IAHEU had called off its four-day strike in March/April after the hospital management assured it that its demands, would be considered. "But nothing has materialised so far", he claimed.
Algerian violence
ALGIERS, Sept 14 (Reuters) — Twentyseven persons have been killed by a group of "terrorists" in Ain Defla province, 130 km from here, security forces said today. APS news agency said two persons were wounded in the incident which took place last night. Twentyseven persons were killed in a "cowardly way by a group of terrorists."
CPI leader dead
HYDERABAD, Sept 14 (UNI) — Former MLA and CPI leader Boddu Abraham died at his native town of Cheriyal, about 150 km from here, in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh today. He is survived by his wife, two sons and three daughters. he joined the CPI after the historic Communist Party split, and represented Cheriyal in the state assembly in 1967.
4 shot in Pak
ISLAMABAD, Sept 14 (ANI) — Four persons were shot dead today in Pakistan, including Allama Shuaib Nadeem, Deputy Secretary General of Sipah-e-Sahaha Pakistan (SSP). The shootout also killed his driver, guard and Maulana Habibur Rehman Siddiqui, a religious scholar from Taxila.
75 cr as flood relief
NEW DELHI, Sept 14 (PTI) — The Centre today declared floods in West Bengal as a national calamity and announced a special grant of Rs 75 crore to the state as an immediate step towards relief and restoration work in 11 flood-hit districts. This was decided at a 40-minute meeting between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Chief Minister Jyoti Basu here, in which the state government sought Rs 605 crore from the national fund for calamity relief.
Shangkun dead
BEIJING, Sept 14 (PTI) — Yang Shangkun, a former Chinese President and one of the last of China's Communist revolutionaries, died early this morning here, it was announced today. He was 92. Xinhua news agency said Yang died of an illness. Senior Communist party leaders, including President and party General Secretary Jiang Zemin, visited Yang after he was hospitalised.
'Jail bharo' stir
BANGALORE, Sept 14 (PTI) — More than 25,000 BJP activists, including Karnataka unit president B.S. Yediyurappa, today courted arrest in the state in response to the party's 'jail bharo' call, asking the Janata Dal government to concede to its demands, including withdrawal of the power tariff hike. However, the agitation passed off peacefully in all districts and taluks of the state