A New Day, A New Dawn
There is a surprise for the readers. A special Poila Boishakh gift from none other than West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Who has written a piece for this special edition.
30 LAKHS FOR EDUCATION & MEDICAL RELIEF
Final orders have just been passed by the Bombay High Court approving the scheme prepared by the trustees under the will of the late Mr. Gordhandas Sundardas. Its result is that a sum of rupees thirty lakhs is now set free to be spent on education and medical relief. The late Mr. Gordhandas Sundardas was a Bhatia gentlemen who died in 1902 bequeathing thirty lakhs to public charity. After his death litigation followed and many difficulties regarding the utilisation of the amount in consonance to the testator’s desire had to be settled. After setting apart several lakhs for the special benefit of the Bhatia community the trustees have offered rupees twelve lakhs to establish a medical college, to be named after the testator, which will impart education up to the highest medical degree of the Bombay University. The trustees have set apart among other benefactions a sum of rupees one lakh each for encouraging Sanskrit literature, famine relief and relief of the deaf, dumb and the blind.
BURMAN’S ATTACK ON A EUROPEAN
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RANGOON, APR 10
Justice Mung Kin in the Chief Court today enhanced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment the sentence of one year’s rigorous imprisonment passed by the District Magistrate Rangoon on a Burmese youth named Nga Thi on the charge committing an unprovoked assault with a stick on Mr. J.L. Selkirk, Manager of Messrs. Jesson and Co., while complainant was walking along the Insein Rangoon Road with Mr. J.L. Robinson, architect, on the evening of September 21, 1918. The complainant was in hospital for some time with injuries to his head and has lost the use of two fingers.
Mr. GANDHI
SIMLA, APR 10
It is understood that Mr. Gandhi while travelling by the up Bombay-Baroda and Central India train en route to Delhi was served with a notice of the Punjab Government forbidding him to enter that province. As he continued his journey in contravention of this order he was requested to descend from the train at a station in the Punjab and was conducted back to Muttra. It is also understood that by an order under the Defence of India Rules Mr. Gandhi is directed to remain for the present within the Bombay Presidency.
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