Word: uttar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exercise in world history -- and the bloodiest and most contemptible ever held in India. At least 134 people died in election-related violence. Because of widespread rigging, new voting was ordered in 1,485 polling stations, including 97 in Amethi, Rajiv Gandhi's constituency in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Ultimately, Gandhi was declared the winner over Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and no relation to Rajiv. But 20 of Rajiv's 59 ministers were defeated, a measure of the Congress Party's steep decline...
...solution: carnivorous softshell turtles. To cleanse the holy river, the state government of Uttar Pradesh is raising hundreds of the reptiles. In mid- 1988 they will be released into a twelve-mile stretch of the Ganges. There they are expected to feed on the dead...
...area until man destroyed their nesting sites, the turtles will help reestablish the ecological cycle. Officials say the creatures pose no danger to live users of the Ganges, though the project is not without risks. "Poaching will be our biggest problem," says Rajendra Prakash Sharma, chief wildlife warden of Uttar Pradesh. "Turtle meat is considered a delicacy...
Experts expect some crops to fall 40% to 50% from last year's levels. The yield in the agriculturally important states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh will be about 70% below normal. A famine is considered unlikely since India has large stockpiles of wheat and rice. But food shortages are a real possibility, and India may be forced to import grain for the first time in years. That could create new political problems for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, whose ruling party has taken credit for India's recent self-sufficiency in food grains...
...Driver Hari Singh pulled his crowded vehicle out of the Punjab capital of Chandigarh shortly after nightfall for what was to have been a routine trip to Rishikesh, a Hindu pilgrim center in Uttar Pradesh. But half an hour into the journey, a white Fiat suddenly stopped in front of the bus, forming a blockade. Five armed men, four of them turbaned in the manner of Sikhs, burst out of the car, threw Singh off the bus and commandeered his vehicle. After driving the bus to a nearby field, the gunmen opened fire, instantly killing 38 men, women and children...