40 Years Ago June 30 1986 Argentina Are Champions

Argentina won football’s World Cup 3-2 in a game that pitted the football artistry of the South Americans against West German grit in the face of defeat. In a dramatic last 10 minutes, West Germany fought back from 2-0 down to level at 2-2 only for Argentina to score the winner moments later. Reshuffle in Karnataka ministry In a day of sensational developments, 14 of 15 ministers of state in Karnataka opted out of the ministry, three senior ministers were dropped and two ministers were inducted into the team by CM Ramakrishna Hegde. Iraqi raid on Iranian villages Iraqi warplanes raided six Iranian border towns and bombed Iran’s oil export terminal at Kharg Island in retaliation for an Iranian surface-to-surface missile attack on the Iraqi oil province of Kirkuk. Iran reported five civilians killed and 28 wounded in one of the raids and vowed to “retaliate forcefully as before”, a reference to a string of medium-range missile attacks launched on Baghdad last year. Pranab keeps pot boiling Politics in West Bengal never stays dull for long. There is always something new to lend piquancy to it. The crusade by Pranab Mukherjee, former Union finance minister, against the Congress-I is a case in point. The expelled Congress-I leader is trying to make the people understand that the process of concentrating all power and responsibility in a single individual (Rajiv Gandhi) has done the party incalculable harm. All dissidence, corruption and indiscipline can be traced back to this single source, he says.