"Veerappan will be caught soon"

Of Clinton, Kabaddi & Veerappan!

When it was Bombay and Madras!

8th January 1994

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Today we got our marks for the Half-Yearly Exams. I got the first mark in English [both papers]. Not in other papers though! 😉

Just before our special class, we all played kabaddi during our lunch break.

Now for the General News of the day from the day’s Newspaper -  

Clinton’s assurance to pro-militant outfit makes India fume! Advani asks govt to protest US bias.

CM Jayalalithaa goes on a personal visit to Hyderabad.

Huge haul of heroin (Rs. 50 crore) in Bombay.

On an aside - the name of the city was officially changed from Bombay to Mumbai in the year 1995, when Shiv Sena came to power. The renaming was a way of paying tribute to the goddess Mumbadevi.

The much anticipated ‘Agni’ launch was postponed.

Veerappan will be caught soon, assures Dawaram.

On an aside, Veerappan was caught and killed ten years later, on 18th October 2004, by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force under the leadership of K Vijayakumar, IPS. 

Three school girls missing from Madras.

Again, the name of the City was changed from Madras to Chennai on 17th July 1996, under the DMK regime.

UGC says governor must be the chancellor of Universities.

Israel frees 101 Palestinians.

Another US Bosnian official quits.