The Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, congratulated the scientists for their efforts which led to the successful launching of Dhruva and other power reactors. He called upon the scientists to lay emphasis on new research and plants with high efficiency and safety factors. He praised the safety factor achieved in the nuclear reactors.

Extremists shoot cop dead

A constable, Bhupinder Singh of Chhabal police station, was shot dead early at Manuchal village near Amritsar by Gurbachan Singh, an extremist wanted in many murder cases, during an exchange of fire. According to information reaching the police headquarters in Amritsar, a police party had surrounded the tube well in Manuchal where he was hiding. As the police challenged him, the terrorist fired at the police party. The constable, Bhupin

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