Friday, September 11, 1998
NGO confirms mass slaughter of Olive Ridleys in Orissa
More than 50,000 sea turtles were found dead in the Orissa coast in the last two years, according to a video survey conducted by Project Swarajya, a non-governmental organisation, during two turtle season of 1996-97 and 1997-98. The report blamed the state government for its failure to check excessive illegal fishing near five major rookeries of the state.
Taliban giving a fierce fight: Malik
Chief of Army Staff General Ved Prakash Malik refuses to buy the argument that Indian casualties in encounters with militants in the Kashmir Valley are "higher than the accepted norms'', but acknowledges that these encounters have become "fierce" with the emergence of the hardened Taliban mercenaries.
Starr corners Clinton in report
The wheels of the American system of justice ground on relentlessly pushing President Clinton to the threshold of impeachment and removal from office. Amid high drama on Thursday, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr transmitted to Congress his report containing "substantial and credible evidence'' that the President committed perjury and obstructed justice in covering up his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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