Saturday, April 22, 2000,
Chandigarh, India
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500 feared dead
in boat capsize
LAGOS,
April 21 (APF) About 500 persons are feared dead
after an overcrowded boat capsized in a river in southern
Nigeria, press reports said today. The boat was
travelling on the Nembe creek between Port Harcourt and
Yenagoa late Wednesday when the accident occurred, the
Comet reported.
Vajpayee better
NEW DELHI,
April 21 (UNI) Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee
is expected to attend office tomorrow and will chair the
full Cabinet, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs and
Cabinet Committee on Disinvestment meetings, scheduled
for Saturday morning. A spokesman for the Prime
Ministers Office said Mr Vajpayee was feeling much
better today and met a few individuals at his residence.
Rape charge
CHENNAI,
April 21 (PTI) The Tamil Nadu Government today
ordered a CB-CID investigation into the complaint of a
teacher of a deaf school in Thanjavur that she was raped
by an IAS officer here on March 11, an official press
note said here. It said the probe would find out whether
the complaint of Ponmani that she was raped by the
Director of Handicapped Welfare, Mr M. Kalaivanan, was
true. However, Mr Kalaivanan had denied the allegation.
150 kids
hospitalised
From
Our Correspondent
KATHUA, April 21 At least 150 school
children were admitted to Sub-District Hospital,
Heernagar, when they fell ill after consuming ice-cream
this afternoon. Most of the children were between the age
group of eight to 15 nears. It is learnt that after the
school time, while going home, the children consumer
ice-cream (kulfi) purchased from a local shop of one Hans
Raj, son of Julla Ram of Heernagar.
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