Two sub-commissions on trade and economic matters, set up under the Indo-Pakistan Joint Commission, began their deliberations. The talks were held in a “cordial atmosphere” with both sides adopting a “business-like approach” to the proposals for the promotion of cooperation between the two countries.
After a grim, daylong search, authorities in the southern port city of Busan put the death toll at 37 and said 75 people were injured in a fire that raged through a tourist hotel
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, categorically denied that a decision on the number of Lok Sabha seats his party and the Lok Dal would contest had been taken or the exercise had even been started.
Conflicting reports from Colombo on the proposed roundtable conference on the Tamils issue have caused confusion in the Tamil United Liberation Front leadership now for talks with Indian leaders.