27-06-2025
June 27, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Air India Crash
Investigators say they may never determine what caused the crash of the Air India jet, which killed all 329 people on board. So far only two per cent of the jet's fuselage has been recovered and its flight recorders, with vital data, are deep beneath the sea. The meagre evidence prompted one US investigator to say he was not optimistic about finding the cause of the crash of the Boeing 747.
Sri Lanka Talks Soon
The Sri Lankan government will hold preliminary talks with representatives of the Tamil United Liberation Front and the militant groups in Thimphu, Bhutan 'very soon' to resolve the island's ethnic problems. The Indian government will provide facilities like transport for all delegates. Officials declined to specify who would head the government team but indicated the possibility that it might be at the ministerial level.
Tohra On Punjab Poll
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, warned the government in Ludhiana that until it accepted all the demands of the Akali Dal (Longowal), it would not be possible to hold elections in Punjab. He added that if the Congress (I) thinks of forming a government after the next election without solving the Punjab problem, it should learn a lesson from the past and recall the case of the Darbara Singh government, which had to be suspended after only half its term.
Iraq-Libya Ties Sour
Iraq withdrew its recognition of Muammar Gaddafi's 'Libyan regime' and said it was recalling its diplomatic mission from Tripoli. Iraq also asked the Libyan diplomatic mission in Baghdad to 'leave', a foreign ministry spokesman said.
