Monday, December 28, 1998
Get a number stamped on palm, try your luck
In August 1997, fifty years after my grandparents and two aunts were lost in the holocaust of partition, I applied for a visa to travel to Jallandhar where it had all happened. I was refused permission to travel in Indian Punjab on account of our government's involvement in the troubles there.
Fear stalks Saket's senior citizens
Four elderly persons murdered in the span of two days does not seem to have taught anybody any lessons. In a few more days, it might go down simply as another incident that made the headlines.
Passenger trains to have walkie talkies
Railway Minister Nitish Kumar announced that by March all passenger trains in the country, numbering over 7,500, would have walkie talkie facilities for better communication between guards and drivers.
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