Houses
to all in the Capital by 2006
New Delhi, June 29
The Union Home Minister, Mr L. K.
Advani, today said that unemployment was the biggest challenge the
government was facing and claimed that the Centre had launched several
projects to generate additional job opportunities in the country.
Home Minister L.K. Advani handing over an allotment letter to an owner of a DDA flat at Dwaraka in South-West Delhi.
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Solid
waste: Onus of managing it must be on units
New Delhi, June 29
Uncrushed bottles of mineral water
and soft drinks are bought many times for Re 1 per bottle for refilling
them illegally, reveals a study by Srishti, an NGO.
Leaders
flay govt for retrenching PSU staff
Faridabad, June 29
The state government’s move to
close down the Minor Irrigation Tubewell Corporation and Small
Industries and Export Corporation Limited has evoked criticism from
certain political and trade union leaders. They have demanded absorption
of the retrenched staff in other state government departments.
GETTING AWAY
 Patnitop –
A quiet hilltop where the breeze does the talking
NESTED between the
picturesque city of Kashmir and the historic city of Jammu, Patnitop
with its salubrious climate and tranquil environs is a mesmerising
creation of a poetic and an imaginative author that nature is.
 Trust
welcomes proposed maintenance law changes
New Delhi, June 29
The Human Rights Trust has welcomed
the decision of the Law Ministry to amend Section 125 of the Cr. P.C. to
include those women as being entitled to maintenance whose marriages may
not be considered strictly legal as their spouse had a wife living at
the time of marriage.
Bainda
in race for Cabinet berth
Faridabad, June 29
The move by the Prime Minister, Mr
Atal Behari Vajpayee, to reshuffle and expand his Cabinet on July 1
seems to have kindled hope among a section of the state BJP leaders and
activists, who believes that representation of Haryana could go up this
time.
Circle
of Animal Lovers: Taking care of the uncared
New Delhi, June 29
Ten years ago when Putul Mukherjee
died in Kolkata, Baga, a dog of desi pedigree, did not allow her body to
be lifted for cremation. Furious and depressed, Baga had to pay with its
life to allow people touch its owner’s body. The Municipal Corporation
had to shoot it down and its death gave birth to the Circle of Animal
Lovers. Since that day, the CAL has been serving and taking care of
stray animals.
SEARCH WITHIN
Fatal victims
of the success race
SIX students committed
suicide in Delhi alone, depressed over their poor performance in the
examinations. If you add the numbers for the whole country it may even
touch an alarming figure. In Kerala, the impact of such suicides even
led the government to consider the grading system for examinations in
future so that painful comparisons could be avoided.
‘Bhagat Kabir’ from Sikh Heritage in Painting
based on Punjab & Sind Bank collections |
Commissioner
unearths coupon racket by trucks
New Delhi, June 29
Municipal Commissioner Rakesh Mehta
conducted surprise midnight raids at the Singhu Border toll tax post and
at Hindu Rao Hospital. He was accompanied by a team of officials from
the Vigilance Department of the MCD and the Anti-corruption Branch.
During the raids, trucks and other commercial vehicles coming from
Haryana and Punjab via Singhu Border were checked.
NCR BRIEFS
Date for
submission of forms for LLM course extended
Rohtak, June 29
Maharshi Dayanand University has
extended the last date for submission of application forms for LLM
course to July 5. Earlier, the last date for submission of application
forms was June 22.
- Minister on Left Front
- Medical Conference
- 12 sex workers held
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