Awarded:ToSitakant Mohapatra, the Jnanpith Award for the year 1993. An Oriya poet of national and international repute, Mohapatra is the third Oriya writer to receive the award. His works includeAstapadiandSabdar Akash. Mohapatra has published 11 anthologies of his poems.Died: Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal, 99, the Paramacharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham in Kancheepuram. Born in 1894, he donned saffron robes in 1907 and later became the head of the math.Appointed: K. Srinivasan, 57, as the new foreign secretary. Srinivasan belongs to the 1959 batch of . the IFS and is presently secretary (west) in the External Affairs Ministry. He will succeed J.N. Dixit, who retires on January 31.Back: Election Commissioner M.S. Gill at Nirvachan Sadan after nearly six weeks. Gill had proceeded on leave in the wake of the Supreme Court's interim order of November 15 last year, through which it had upheld the supremacy of Chief Election Commissioner T.N. Seshan, vis-a-vis the other two election commissioners in the three-member Election Commission.Discharged:Wajahat Habibullah, the former divisional commissioner of Srinagar, from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. Habibullah, the chief negotiator during the Hazratbal crisis, was seriously injured in a road accident last November.Postponed: The third test flight of Agni, India's indegenously-built intermediate-range ballistic missile, after a technical snag was located in one of the onboard systems. No new date for the test flight has been announced..preferred-source-banner{ margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom:10px;}Published By: AtMigration Published On: Jan 31, 1994--- ENDS ---
