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Traffic was held up due to a rally organised by the Save India Front, protesting against the Gujarat carnage, at the Ramlila Maidan in the Capital on Thursday.
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal
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Rachel Thomas of the Northern Railway became the first Indian woman and the first grandmother ever to skydive over the North Pole. She achieved this feat on April 20 when she dived down from a MI-8 helicopter from a height of 6,000 ft when the temperature was hovering at a freezing minus 40 Degree Celsius. The event was part of the celebrations of the 150th year of Indian Railways. It was organised by the Expedition Centre ‘Arctic’, Russian Geographic Society and promoted by the UN International Drug Control Programme. The theme of the expedition was ‘A Drug Free Planet’ and ‘Dialogue Between Civilisations’.
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FOLLOW-UP
Cop’s role
in Arora’s murder comes under scanner
New Delhi, May 2
The Delhi Police have raised their
finger of doubt at a police official, who was with Parvinder Arora alias
Titoo who was killed in front of his Gola and North Restaurant at
Gujranwala in Model Town in North district. The official was being
questioned from the day one, police sources said.
CNG
price hike: Panel’s report today
New Delhi, May 2
The three-member committee
constituted to look into the “economic implications” of the hike in
the price of CNG will submit its report tomorrow.
Left
on the roads after milking them dry
Noida, May 2
Four things strike any visitor to
Noida town – broad and well-carpeted roads, elegant boulevards,
imposing buildings and a large number of stray cattle, mostly cows,
roaming freely and posing a hazard to traffic as well as to the
pedestrians. Quite often one would come across such animals lying on
pavements and roads incapacitated by either accidents or sheer age or
disease.
IN PARLIAMENT
Delhi has
highest accident deaths
New Delhi, May 2
The national Capital accounts for
the highest number of accident deaths among the metropolitan cities in
the country, Rajya Sabha was told today. However, there was a decline in
the number of road accidents in Delhi, since the year 2000, the Minister
of State for Road Transport and Highways, Mr B.C.Khandri said in a
written reply.
Cong
MLA’s SOS to Sonia on SYL canal
Rewari, May 2
In an effort to secure the much
needed irrigation water for the Ahirwal region, Congress legislators of
Ahirwal, made common cause with the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om
Prakash Chautala, who has been vociferously calling for the completion
of the canal, as stipulated by the Supreme Court verdict.
Fields
turning barren without canal water
Sonepat, May 2
More than 1,500 acres of
agricultural land in the villages of Ridhao, Mauzam Nagar, Farmana,
Jasrana and Gorar have become unfit for cultivation on account of the
non-supply of canal water, even during the rotation period, by the
Irrigation Department.
Gujarat
relief: SAD draws parallel with ’84 riots
New Delhi, May 2
While political parties are giving
a healing touch to the riot victims in Gujarat, the victims of the 1984
anti-Sikh riots have been left to fend for themselves, charged Delhi
unit president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), Mr Avtar Singh Hit,
here today.
Merge
DRDAs with zila parishads: Cong leader
Rewari, May 2
Mr Rao Vijay Singh, the newly
appointed co-chairman of the panchayati raj cell of the Haryana Pradesh
Congress Committee, has pleaded for the merger of the district rural
development agencies (DRDA) into the zila parishads in Haryana.
NCR BRIEFS
Shopkeeper
robbed of Rs 6,000 at gunpoint in Rohtak
Rohtak, May 2
Three armed youths, robbed a
shopkeeper of Rs 6,000 at gun point at Subhash Nagar locality here on
Wednesday evening.
- MDU cat on June 16
- Chain snatched
- Minor sodomised
- UP wheat seized Faridabad
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- Man shot at Sonepat
- 2 persons injured
- Jat Maha Sabha
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Gurgaon,
May 2
New
Delhi, May 2
