The Indian Express -- General

Tuesday, July 1 1997

Nostalgic Patten's parting pat

Piles of ageing eggs, squawking hens and guinea fowls, caged grasshoppers and much, much more are on the nostalgia list of outgoing Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten.

Govt bungles bill to check piracy of herbs

Four years after the idea was first mooted, the Union Environment Ministry is still groping in the dark for a legislation that would check piracy of Indian medicinal plants and microbes.

Choppers get vibration testing gadgets

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has installed hi-tech vibration monitoring equipment purchased from a United States (US) firm at about 16 helicopters bases in the country which operate Soviet designed MI-8s and MI-17s.

5 die in clashes over flood relief

With anxiety in their hearts, Hong Kong residents turn Chine

Army brass resist Yeltsin's reforms

Munde assures Pune of long-term power plan

The history of Hong Kong

Army into computer war games to curtail training expenditure

The last ride

Adnani remanded to custody in Dena Bank case

Vice-chairman of civic body killed in bomb blast

Another Chernobyl averted

Sun sets on the empire in Asia's last British outpost

Centre's plans to take over BISM angers Pune historians