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			Friday, July 23, 1999
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CPI withdraws support
PONDICHERRY, July 22 (PTI) — The Communist Party of India (CPI) today withdrew support to the DMK-led coalition in Pondicherry. The withdrawal of support was announced by Agriculture Minister r Vishwanathan and the party’s Pondicherry unit secretary N Kalainathan.

Train robbery
ALLAHABAD, July 22 (UNI) — Dacoits raided a compartment of the Pawan Express and injured seven passengers, two of them seriously, before looting articles and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees last night. According to the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Railway, Mr Dinesh Singh, the dacoits boarded the train at Varanasi. After the loot, they pulled the alarm chain of the train between Ramnathpur and Jhusi railway station, a few kilometres from here, and escaped.

Ahmedabad curfew
AHMEDABAD, July 22 (UNI) — The police fired at least seven rounds in the air to disperse a rioting mob in the Kalupur area of the walled city after the 11 hour curfew relaxation for women and children in Dariapur and Kalupur areas ended this evening. The city control room here said most of the relaxation period passed off peacefully in Dariapur and Kalupur but fresh incidents of violence were reported from other parts of the city. In one of these incidents in Dabgarwad locality, the police fired in the air when two groups indulged in stone throwing.

1 killed in blast
GUWAHATI, July 22 (UNI) — At least one person was killed and 15 were injured, five of them seriously, in a time device explosion at N.K. Daranga village bordering Bhutan in Assam's Nalbari district today, official sources said. The time device was suspected to be planted by the Bengali Tiger Force (BTF). The injured were admitted to the medical college and hospital here, where the condition of two was stated to be critical. The other injured were treated at a hospital in Bhutan.

Kidney donation
BANGALORE, July 22 (UNI) — In a rare gesture, an employee of the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) here has come forward to donate one of his kidneys to jawans injured in the Kargil operations. Adl Technical Assistant N. Sham Prasad has given a declaration to this effect to the ADE director. Mr Prasad had so far donated his blood about 40 times, according to a release by ADE civilian Employees Union, here today.

Solar eclipse
NEW DELHI, July 22 (ANI) — The millennium's last total solar eclipse will occur on August 11 this year. The Indian Meteorological Department said the eclipse will begin at 1.56 p.m. IST and end at 7.10 p.m. IST. In India. The duration of the eclipse will vary from 30 seconds to 67 seconds. The eclipse can be best viewed in India over Saurashtra and Kutch, preferably near Bhuj, in Gujarat.

Oppn walkout
LUCKNOW, July 22 (UNI) — The entire Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly today walked out of the House in protest against the alleged denial of admission to thousands of students in secondary classes. Raising the issue through an adjournment motion, the Opposition alleged the state government was neither filling the posts of teacher nor increasing the intake capacity in government schools.

Death sentence
BEIJING, July 22 (Reuters) — A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for the kidnap and murder of Taiwan Opposition politician Lin Ti-Chuan, The China news service reported today. The court in Anashan in the northeastern province of Liaoning sentenced Yang Rongsong to death and other members of a gang to long prison terms, it said. Ms Lin was visiting China with her boyfriend Wei Tien-Kang, a Taiwan businessman who owed $ 7,10,000 to a Chinese magnesium company when they were kidnapped.