Uma Bharati
NEW DELHI,
March 1 (UNI) — Ms Uma Bharati has been given
independent charge of the Department of Youth Affairs and
Sports and the Department of Women and Child Development
in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, a
Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué said today.
Bodos kill 6
GUWAHATI,
March 1 (PTI) — Six woodcutters were killed, three
injured and five others went missing when suspected Bodo
militants attacked them in Assam’s Dhubri district
today, official sources said. At least 14 persons had
gone to the Montupara reserve forest under Gauripur
police station to collect firewood when some suspected
Bodo militants fired at them indiscriminately killing
five of them on the spot.
Khalsa festival
NEW DELHI,
March 1 (PTI) — Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee
will inaugurate the week-long festival to celebrate
Khalsa tercentenary at Anandpur Sahib in Amritsar on
April 8. The festival would get underway with a seminar
on Sikh ideology, Cultural Affairs Director of the Punjab
Government P.S. Anjela told reporters here today.
AIDS drug
MOSCOW, March
1 (UNI) — A group of doctors from Armenia, a
constituent of the former Soviet Union, claims to have
discovered a drug for the treatment of AIDS. The new drug
has led to full recovery of 13 patients suffering from
the dreaded disease, Radio Moscow quoted the doctors as
saying in its despatch from Yerevan, the Capital of
Armenia. With the successful completion of the
experiments, the drug would be patented soon, probably
early next month. But the chief of the anti-AIDS medical
research centre, Dr Vadim Prokrovsky, has described the
claim as "extremely frivolous".
China’s stand
BEIJING,
March 1 (PTI) — China today said the just-concluded
official level talks with India in seven months had not
changed Beijing's firm opposition to the South Asian
nuclear tests last May. Both sides discussed India's
tests and its impact on Sino-Indian ties and
"expounded their respective positions on the
issue", Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Giyue
said in the first official reaction to the talks held on
Thursday.
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