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S.D. Sharma
NEW DELHI, Dec 4 (PTI) The condition of former
President Shankar Dayal Sharma remained
"unchanged" today and he continued to be on the
support of ventilator, Mr Sharma's private secretary J.N.
Kashyap said.Quake
in Turkey
ISTANBUL, Dec 4 (DPA) An earthquake in north-east
Turkey left one person dead and sent people fleeing from
their homes in panic, the NTV Television station reported
today. The quake, which occurred on Friday evening,
registered 5.5 on the Richter scale, its epicentre was
near Horasan, east of the city of Erzurum. The quake was
felt as far away as Kars, Prize and Trabazon.
16 die in mishap
SIKAR ( Rajasthan), Dec 4 (UNI) Sixteen persons
were killed and 18 injured in a collision between an
overloaded jeep and a truck near the district
headquarters town of Sikar today. The victims were
travelling in the jeep, the police said. The accident
occurred near Babaji-ka Nada, 25 km from Sikar, when the
overloaded jeep moving towards Nawalgarh crashed into the
truck coming from the opposite direction.
SDM, cops hurt
JABALPUR, Dec 4 (PTI) A sub-divisional Magistrate
and six policemen, including two inspectors, were injured
as a mob, infuriated over undeclared power cut, ransacked
the divisional electricity office and distribution centre
at Katni, near here, yesterday, delayed reports said. The
police resorted to a lathi-charge to disperse the mob
that set ablaze three vehicles parked in the office
compound, office furniture and records.
Phoolan Devi
case
KANPUR, Dec 4 (UNI) A lower court here has given
permission for withdrawal of a case against dacoit
Phoolan Devi registered 19 years ago after an encounter
with the police. After this withdrawal, the number of
cases against her has come down to 56. A special court (
dacoity) of Orai, after hearing the case, endorsed an
order of the government through which the case against
Phoolan Devi, MP, had been withdrawn.
Exchange set
ablaze
KARIMNAGAR, Dec 4 (UNI) Suspected Naxalites of the
People's War Group (PWG) set fire to the telephone
exchange at Kamalapur in Karimnagar district of Andhra
Pradesh around midnight yesterday in an apparent
retaliation to the "Koyyur Encounter" in which
three top PWG militants were killed on December 2. The
police said here today that four to five armed Naxalites
attacked the exchange at the Mandal headquarters town and
set fire to the machines and furniture.
20 houses gutted
SHIMLA, Dec 4 (PTI) A devastating fire broke out
last night destroying 20 houses and property worth Rs 1
crore at Gumma village in Rohroo subdivision of Shimla
district, about 100 km from here, official sources said
today. The cause of the fire could not be known, they
said, adding no one was injured.
Doctors
strike
MUMBAI, Dec 4 (UNI) The Maharashtra
Government today decided to terminate the services of 476
unregistered resident doctors and take disciplinary
action against registered doctors, whose strike for
increased wages entered the 13th day today. Health
Minister Digvijay Khalvilkar said the government had
yesterday announced a 50 per cent increase in wages from
Rs 2,500 to Rs 4,000 which would cause a burden of Rs 6
crore on the state government as well as the Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation.
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