2 min readJul 20, 2026 06:40 AM IST
First published on: Jul 20, 2026 at 06:40 AM IST
Chandravati, who was born with a defective right eye, lost her left eye, too, when she was operated upon for cataract at an eye camp in Khurja on April 21. For almost three months now, Chandravati, a 50-year-old widow, has been confined to her mud house in Khurja’s Gouri Shankar Ki Press area. Most of the time, she keeps sobbing and curses that fateful Monday. “I walked to the Aggarwal Dharmshala for the operation,” she recalled. “And within 15 minutes they sent me home blinded for life.” In Khurja’s mohallas and dingv lanes, where one has to hold one’s breath to escape the stench from overflowing open drains, one can meet dozens of victims of the April 21 eve camp disaster.
3 frontline states join boycott
Three of the four Commonwealth members in Southern Africa have pulled out of the Commonwealth Games, prompting other nations to join the growing protest against Britain’s opposition to sanctions against South Africa. Zambia and Zimbabwe agreed to join fellow frontline state member Tanzania in a boycott of the Games. Botswana, the fourth Commonwealth member of the six-nation frontline, did not join the boycott.
Junejo’s successful visit to US
Both Pakistan and the US have achieved what they wanted from the visit of Prime Minister M K Junejo to Washington. The US has accepted as democratic the elections that brought Junejo to power — although they gave even less scope to opposition parties to participate than the Nicaraguan elections, which the US denounced as a fraud.
India-China border talks
India and China will have comprehensive discussions on the border dispute covering all three sectors at the seventh round of official-level talks beginning in Beijing. The ambit of the talks has been widened to cover the Eastern Sector, too. The Indian delegation, led by Foreign Secretary A P Venkateswaran, left carrying a brief from the government on the line to be adopted over the Chinese intrusion in Arunachal Pradesh last month.
