gaddam@remus.rutgers.edu (Surekha Gaddam) (03/17/91)
New governors have been appointed for the north eastern state of Assam and the western state of Goa. Mr.Loknath Mishra, a former MP will be the new governor of Assam. He succeeds Mr.D.V.Thakur who resigned on Thursday . Mr.L.N.Mishra will also hold additional charge of the governor of Arunachal Pradesh. The president has also appointed Mr.Bhanu Pratap Singh, a former union minister as governor of Goa. He will also be the administator for the union territory of Dadranager Haweili and Daman and Daiyu( ?sp ). The present governor of Goa Mr.Khurshid Alam Khan has been shifted to Karnatak. The Pakistan foreign secretary S.Yakhub Khan has expressed the hope that the next round of foreign secretary level talks due to begin on the 4th of New Delhi on the 4th of April will maintain the momentum gathered during the last round of talks held in Islamabad last December. Speaking at the Pakistan institute of international affairs in Karachi, Mr.Khan said that the relations between the two countries have improved considerably following the meeting between the two PMs in Maldives last November last year during the SAARC meeting. In Srilanka three persons were hacked to death by the LTTE men on Thursday in two Sinhale villages in the N.eastern districts of Amparai and Anuradhapuram. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by Surekha Reddy Gaddam. Please send your news articles relevant to S.Asia to gaddam@remus.rutgers.edu. Other than news will not be posted. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------