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GURGAON
Respite for illegal plazas till Oct 17
Gurgaon, October 14
The owners of illegally constructed plazas and shopping complexes here can breathe easy till October 17, as the mandarins from the Urban Development Department and the officials of the local Municipal Council are yet to finalise their `hit’ list.

• Lockout for violating discipline: Delphi

Designer effigies for bonfire in backyard
New Delhi, October 14
After private Holi and Diwali bashes, the denizens of the Capital are waking upto Dasehra celebrations in the safe and sheltered precincts of their gardens and backyards.

An array of dazzling Ravans on sale at Blind School in the Capital on Monday. — Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal

Mining survey report to be submitted soon
Faridabad, October 14
A second committee — which was set up on the orders of the Supreme Court to ascertain whether the ban on mining was being enforced within a 5-km radius of the border of the national Capital — has finished its survey. The committee is likely to submit its report in the court on October 21. The next date of hearing is October 23.

MCD has no fuel to ply garbage trucks
New Delhi, October 14
Scores of vehicles used for carting garbage from the dumps in the city are lying idle as they do not have enough fuel to ply, owing to the financial crisis facing the sanitation department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). In fact, the department has not received the second installment of its funds from the Delhi Government.

Changing foundation stones is Cong priority
New Delhi, October 14
Four years ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went on a foundation-stone laying spree to woo the electorate ahead of the 1998 Assembly polls. Murli Manohar Joshi, Madan Lal Khurana, Sahib Singh Verma, Jagmohan and Harsh Vardhan all laid foundation stones of as many as seven hospitals. Four years later, leave alone erecting a building, there is no trace of even as much as the foundation stone.

NSUI activists seek CBI probe into ‘rape’
New Delhi, October 14
Delhi state activists of the National Students Union of India (NSUI) held a demonstration at Jantar Mantar yesterday, demanding a CBI inquiry into the alleged rape of a dancer by former DUSU president Avdesh Sharma on October 8.

NSUI activists protest against the alleged involvement of former DUSU president Avdesh Sharma in the ‘gangrape’ of a young dancer in Alaknanda. — Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal.

COMMUNITY

Activists of the Anti-Terrorist Front burning the effigy of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the eve of Dasehra at Jantar Mantar in the Capital on Monday. — Tribune Photo Pop singer Bhuppi is welcomed by Sanjay Mallik and Amandeep Singh at a cultural programme organised at Fun & Food Village. Delhi BJP president Madan Lal Khurana with Mrs T. Jain, chairperson of Manav Sewa Sansthan, at a camp organised to give financial assistance to the needy in the Capital.

Ambedkar villages are stragglers in Mayawati land
Meerut, October 14
For the Mayawati-led government claiming to be representative of the Dalits and other backward classes, statistics of development in villages selected for the Ambedkar Gram Vikas Yojana (AGVY) must be a point of worry. Several irregularities are reported in the implementation of the AGVY, which the BSP-BJP government in the state claims to have taken on a priority basis. Villages selected under the AGVY are still behind schedule on several development points.

Front burns the Ravan of terrorism
Sonepat, October 14
A large number of workers affiliated to the All India Anti-terrorist Front took out a procession here today in protest against cross-border terrorism.

‘Corruption can only be contained’
Rohtak, October 14
Dr S. B. Dahiya, Professor of Economics and Director, Institute of Development Studies, Maharshi Dayanand University, feels that corruption cannot be eradicated and it has been in vogue since the inception of state society.

500 idols ready to make Yamuna more toxic
New Delhi, October 14
The Yamuna in the Capital is all set to receive about 500 idols that have been part of the Durga Puja festivities for the last nine days. Though there is sufficient water to immerse these idols, environmentalists are worried that the river will be further added with pollutants, causing deterioration in the already polluted river.

FACE TO FACE
‘I have tried to highlight the shortcomings of the ruling party’
The leader of the Opposition in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Mr Subhash Arya, has been active in politics since he completed his schooling from DAV School in Daryaganj.

Subhash Arya, leader of the Opposition in MCD.

Rohtak rally to expose ‘misdeeds’ of government
Jhajjar, October 14
A former Haryana minister and spokesman of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr Krishan Murti Hooda, stated that the district-level rally of the party would be held in Rohtak on October 27 and the state unit chief, Mr Bhajan Lal, would address the gathering as the chief guest.

Radio taxis launched in the Capital
New Delhi, October 14
The Capital’s roads can now boast of radio taxis. Mega Cab, after successfully testing systems, has launched the full-scale Radio Taxi experience in the National Capital Region.

NCR BRIEFS
Murder probe handed over to CID
Rohtak, October 14
Mr Rampal Majra, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Haryana, has handed over the investigation of a murder to the Crime Branch of the CID.

• Encroachments cleared
• Two cops arrested

DELHI DIGEST
Request to stop Garhwal Express at Shahdara
New Delhi, October 14
The Dainik Yatri Sangh, a registered body of commuters in the Capital, has requested the Union Railway Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, to instruct the railway authorities to provide stoppage of the newly introduced train, Garhwal Express, at Shahdara railway junction for the facility of Uttaranchal Pradesh and Bijnor district as hundreds of people from there are residing in trans-Yamuna and they travel to these places.

• International MBA plan
• PTI staff union strike