This is the front page of The Indian Express published on May 10, 1984.
The Indian tricolour proudly fluttered again atop the world’s highest summit, 3,848 metre Mount Everest, after 19 years when 34-year-old Sikkim mountaineering instructor Phu Dorjee reached the peak. Dorjee created a new record for an Indian by going up from the South summit without oxygen and became the 10th Indian to scale the peak.
CPM Leaders Shot At
The leader of the CPI-M group in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Chand Singh Chopra, escaped unhurt when two unidentified terrorists opened fire on him and his associate, Amarjit Singh, a sarpanch, at Barnala. Amarjit Singh received bullet injuries. The police, during its combing operations in Ferozepur district, claimed to have nabbed two more alleged terrorists.
Olympic Boycott
The Soviet Union defended its boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics and some of Moscow’s Communist allies hinted they would snub the games in favour of an alternative “Red Olympics” . “Soviet sportsmen do not wish to be accomplices in the gross violations of the Olympic charter, which/impair the international Olympic movement and subvert its noble ideals and principles” the Soviet news agency Tass said. Bulgaria has also decided to pull out o f the games.
Dowry Act
The long-awaited bill to amend the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 was introduced in the Lok Sabha just before it adjourned after the budget session. Though the bill seeks to enhance the maximum punishment for the acceptance of dowry from six months to two years, several vocal women members of the House, who had consistently campaigned for the legislation, were most disappointed.
