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			Sunday, October 17, 1999
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Special series on Tenth Guru
NEW DELHI, Oct 16 (UNI) — Doordarshan is to telecast from tomorrow a special television series on the Tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, based on written work by the renowned Kartar Singh Duggal. The series is to be telecast on Sundays at 2000 hours on the national channel (DD-I) in three episodes. Co-produced by Raj Kumar Kohli and Darshan Gandhi, the series has been directed by Thakur Ranvir Singh and has music by Anil Sharma apart from Shabad kirtan performed by the Delhi-based Singh Bandu.

Cardiac diseases
MUMBAI, Oct 17 (UNI) — Patients suffering from various kinds of heart ailments who need to undergo angioplasty and bypass surgery may soon be cured by a simple injection of genes, according to Dr Samin K. Sharma, director of cath laboratory and intervention cardiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York. By early next year genes inducing the body to produce new arteries supplying blood to those regions which have no blood supply due to a blocked artery would be introduced into the Indian market.

Los Angeles quake
LOS ANGELES, Oct 16 (DPA) — An earthquake jolted the Los Angeles area of southern California this morning, the Cable News Network (CNN) reported. The quake measured 7 on the Richter scale and had its epicentre in southern California. There were no immediate reports of possible injuries or damage. Eyewitnesses said the earth shook massively for at least 15 seconds at about 0300 hours (local time).

Storm warning
CALCUTTA, Oct 16 (UNI) — A Cyclonic storm packing winds of speed 70-80 kmph is set to hit the southern district and coastal areas of West Bengal tomorrow, the 'Maha Ashtami" day, the weather office said here today. Director R.N. Goldar said a low pressure near the Andaman Sea intensified into a depression over the east central Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas yesterday.

10 killed in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Oct 16 (Reuters) — Gunmen attacked a large UN food convoy in Somalia, and 10 persons were killed and at least 12 wounded in the ensuing battle, witnesses said today. The convoy came under attack yesterday near Mahadday in the troubled region of Middle Shabelle, about 110 km north of here.

Kattabomman
NEW DELHI, Oct 16 (UNI) — The Postal Department has brought out a commemorative postage stamp on the occasion of the 200th death anniversary of Veerapandia Kattabomman, a great patriot of Tamil Nadu and one among the earliest martyrs of the freedom struggle. Kattabomman ascended the throne of Panchalankuruchi at an early age in 1790. He refused the dictates of the then East India Company and denounced the revenue settlement introduced by it.

Arrest ordered
TEHERAN, Oct 16 (Reuters) — An Iranian court today ordered the arrest of a leading pro-reform editor whose newspaper was recently banned for questioning Islamic principles, his colleagues said. The newspaper’s publisher had already been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison because of his role in printing an article questioning Islamic views on capital punishment. One of the journalists said editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin had refused to attend a court hearing today, prompting the hardline court to issue the warrant.