Word: nagpur
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When cane-wielding police in the central Indian city of Nagpur charged a crowd of protesters, 113 people were trampled to death in the ensuing stampede; an additional 500 people were injured. The protesters were poor members of the Gowari tribe who were demanding official recognition as an underprivileged group to get better education and employment benefits from the government...
...Germany; Presbyterian Layman Sir Francis Ibiam, Governor General of the Eastern Provinces of Nigeria; Archbishop lakovos of New York, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America; Methodist Layman Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J.; and the Rev. Dr. David G. Moses, Principal of Hislop College, Nagpur. India, and a member of the United Church of Northern India...
...realized. To the sound of conch shells and church bells, India's bilingual state of Bombay was formally divided into Marathi-speaking Maharashtra, with Bombay as the capital, and Gujarati-speaking Gujarat, with Ahmedabad as its capital. Even before the noisy celebration died down, Maharashtra police in Nagpur 400 miles away were teargassing 40,000 demonstrators demanding still another state of their own-Vidarbha...
...Bombay, India, R. T. Sahni, divisional superintendent of the Central Railway System, said that one reason why trains on the Nagpur division are so frequently behind schedule is that approximately 180 babies are born in them each year...
Born. To Marlon Brando, 34, cinemactor, and India-born Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 23, who denies strong evidence that she was little Joanie O'Callaghan when her father, an Irish employee of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, enrolled her in school in Darjeeling: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Christian...