Articles by Nireekshak

regime appears to be following US advice and appears to be reconciled to accepting Indian hegemony and leadership in the region. Specific aspects of relations with India include the question of India-Pakistan trade, the Kashmir issue and the Agreement on the Salal dam project. The Salal dam agreement which was signed in New Delhi on April 14 appears to have involved concessions by Pakistan. The Salal dam is being built on the Chenab river in India before it enters Pakistan territory. Under the Indus Basin treaty the waters of the Chenab river were allocated to Pakistan and India was forbidden to interfere with the flow of water in this river. The Indus Basin treaty allows the use of the Chenab river headwaters for generation of hydroelectric power but Pakistan fears that its canal irrigation based on the

Nireekshak THE term of office of the members of the first Press Council, which came into existence (following the Press Council Act, 1905) in July 1966, ended in Sep- tember 1970 when it was reconstituted. This, the second, Press Council

Undoing Samachar Nireekshak THE government's decision to break up Samachar into its four original components amount to wishing its hands clean of an unenviable legacy of the Emergency. In retrospect the Kuldip . Nayar Committee's exercise would seem to have been a pointless one.

Travails of an Editor Nireekshak IN quite a few cases, the excesses using the Emergency powers on a newspaper were only a continuation of an old vindictive war. The Dainik Sambad, a Bengali daily from Agartala (in Tripura), and its editor, Bhupen Datta Bhowtnik, incurred as far back as in 1969 the wrath of the state government

Here's Samachar Nireekshak SAMACHAR, India's sole news agency, supposedly private (created as it was through a Voluntary' merger of four existing outfits) has totted up a staggering loss of Rs 97 lakhs for its first year. The tax-payer will have to underwrite the luxury directly or indirectly, for the agency's revenue base hardly warrants its unproductive financial commitments. It has been, for instance, sending every day 200 to 250 words of 'news' to some 20 news agencies of non-aligned countries, spending over Rs 2 lakhs a month. The credibility of Samachar being near zero even at home, it is hardly surprising that those who get its capsule service, unsolicited and gratis, do not touch it. Samachar has given itself other ego trips too, fancying itself the focal point of the non- aligned newspool and the proposed non-aligned news agency, when it is hardly in a position to play any international role.