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Politics Business Expressions General Sports Leisure States 16 January 1998   UN attacks Iraq on signal from testy US The United States on January 14 obtained a fresh unanimous denunciation of Iraq by the 15-member UN security council, but signalled that patience was running out. British and US ambassadors meanwhile expressed concern about allegations that Iraq had tested biological and chemical weapons on human guinea pigs, saying that the reports underscored the need for UN inspectors to have full access to sites.   Cabinet nod for manpower cuts in Army On the eve of Army Day the Union Cabinet has approved the plan to initiate manpower cuts by 50,000. It has also approved the proposal, to place the monies saved -- about Rs 600 crore -- back into the Army budget for its modernisation programme. Algiers rejects EU mission to probe killings Algeria has called off a visit by European officials seeking ways to end bloodshed in this north African nation because the delegation lacks prestige. Algeria's refusal to accept a visit by a European Union delegation has marked a return to Algiers' systematic refusal of offers of international aid or investigations into six years of violence that has claimed an estimated 75,000 lives. China may sign human rights accord: Jiang China is seriously considering signing an important international covenant on civil and political rights, according to a letter by Chinese President Jiang Zemin to UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.   Sharif for more Indian trains to Pakistan Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has responded positively to Prime Minister I K Gujral's offer to double the number of goods trains from India to Pakistan from the present level of ten to 15 trains a month to one every day. Gujral has also offered to increase the frequency of the Samjhauta Express, which presently runs twice a week from India to Pakistan, to six times a week. Gulzarilal Nanda is dead Gulzarilal Nanda, twice interim Prime Minister, freedom fighter and veteran Gandhian died yesterday in Ahmedabad of respiratory complications following prolonged illness. Nanda became interim prime minister twice-once after Nehru's death in 1964, and again after Lal Bahadur Shastri's death in 1966.     Gandhian in the real sense   K P S Gill pays Rs 2.5 lakh compensation   Quicktakes   Plea for CBI probe into custodial death   Dive into darkness   World Vignettes   Get safety contracts from school bus owners   Konkan Railway ready to roll, at last   Cop denies doctoring probe report   Chaos marks BMC meet   Man who threw acid on IAS officer held   Mumbai Notes   After print, Naipaul's classics on film now   MRDC project to remain offtrack till March   Print media scores over TV, says survey   Matka murder   Death no release at KEM morgue   Sen's theory   The true picture   Bus overturns, 46 injured   Industry asks for MBA reshaping   DU shut again, teachers march to PM's house   Man spends month in jail because of suitcase   Chandigarh line   Alkazi's album   Shop owners apprehensive as impasse at airport continues   Kharar gets electronic exchange   Don't alienate north-eastern denizens, says scholar   NHRC to conduct surprise checks at police lock-ups   Luxury car showroom opens amidst controversy   Geology students protest against teacher's behaviour   3 UT officers served notices for contempt of court   Delhi Beat   School alumni for blood info centre   `Chalk-down' strike by KV teachers   Ajeya Bharat party launches unit   Patient dies even as relatives run around for blood   CII exhibition on textile technology   Anti-periphery Act panel meet   Civic employees begin fast   Stay on railway employee's transfer vacated   Crime Beat   S. Korean show kicks off row   On-line trading launched   A peep into cop's mental agony