The wrangle between the Planning Commission and the new Ministry of Programme Implementation over monitoring has ended in a patch-up with the Monitoring Division having been ordered to be split into two halves. The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Manmohan Singh, seems to have yielded to part with half of the staff of the Monitoring Division as a result of pressure from the top.

South Africa Riots

South Africa, in a major clampdown on the media, banned television crews and photographers from covering the riots that have racked the nation for 20 months and featured prominently in world news. The Law and Order Minister, Louis le Grange, said pictures of unrest, strikes or boycotts in areas under emergency rule were forbidden except with police permits, and non-photographic journ

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