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Sunday, 26 December 2004 |
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News in brief Khemadasa's gratitude Maestro Premasiri Khemadasa expresses his gratitude to the people who have volunteered to donate him a kidney, after the media announced that a kidney transplant has been recommended. The great affection people have for him as an artiste and their blessings would encourage him further to dedicate his creative power on behalf of the nation, despite his illness, says the maestro. Death of Narasimha Rao India mourns the death of P.V. Narasimha Rao, ninth Prime Minister who was considered as the modern day Chanakya. He was the first person outside Nehru-Gandhi family and from the southern Indian to become Prime Minister who completed a full term in office. Born in Andhra Pradesh in 1921, Rao took over the reins of the Congress after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. During the rule of Indira Gandhi and later Rajiv Gandhi he held important portfolios, the Defence, Home and External Affairs in the 1980s. |
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