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Sunday, May 17, 1998

	Vajpayee will visit Pokhran on May 20 The Prime Minister AB Vajpayee is likely to visit Pokhran, the site of India's nuclear tests, on May 20. Vajpayee's visit is intended to take a leaf out of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's notebook, who visited Pokhran in May 1974, days after India exploded her first nuclear device.		No more N-tests, asserts Vajpayee The Prime Minister has categorically stated that India was not planning any more nuclear tests. In an interview to Outlook he also maintained that the only reason for undertaking the tests at this particular time was "to ensure our security and to let the people of India and the world know that we have a credible deterrent".
	New US satellite for more effective spying on India United States has launched a new six-ton satellite to spy more effectively on India and Pakistan. "The satellite will be able to spy better than earlier satellites on India, Pakistan, and other countries from the Middle East to China and North Korea," Aviation and Space Technology has reported.		Laloo, Mulayam fume over N-tests The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Government has decided to go in for a full-fledged discussion in Parliament on the fallout of the series of nuclear tests conducted by the country. But if the statements made on Friday by former defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Yadav are an indication. The duo lashed out at the Vajpayee Government for trying to derive political mileage from the nuclear tests.

PM has nation's backing: Pawar
Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha opposition leader, Sharad Pawar, said on Saturday that the whole country stands with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the issue of nuclear tests, and the nation has to face the challenge of international sanctions unitedly.

US cancels Pune project in wake of nuclear tests
India's nuclear tests have claimed its first "academic" victim. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has cancelled the ambitious project of a comparative environment risk assessment in Pune and Chennai.

LEISURE
Worried about AIDS? Yogi MP has a cure
Dixit not to ditch Husain on maiden mission

SPORTS
Erratic Anand maintains lead
Hingis upset

EXPRESSIONS
"I deliberately avoided playing the China card, it is wrong diplomacy": Gujral
Fathering the big bang

BUSINESS
Shriram lashes out at RBI
Markets turn active again

GENERAL
Nuclear tests in Pokharan baffle seismologists
Pak-made arms found in Surankote

POLITICS
Thackeray may revoke his temporary sanyas
Cong MP faces CBI probe