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Power distribution cos told
to get their act together New Delhi, April 18 In return, the Union Government expects the private distributors to tone up their systems and services. Union Secretary RV Shahi hinted as much on Friday when he said Bombay Suburban Electric Supply (BSES) and Tata Power should ensure that consumers are provided with adequate services. “The distribution companies,” he told the delegates to a conference on electricity distribution in India, “have been provided with ample freedom as well as other requirements by the Government of NCT of Delhi and the Union Government. They must tone up their customer call centres and check the condition of the capacitors, replacing the poor ones or repairing when required.” Emphasising that the private distributors would be kept “under watch and pressure,” Shahi said the Central Electricity Authority has been asked to conduct random checks of their systems. The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission also will periodically review the performance of the companies. “In case of interruption in power supply due to unforeseen circumstances, they have been advised to have a half-hourly staggered load shedding which should be notified. For peak-hour cuts, they should solicit the cooperation from consumers,” Shahi said. The secretary said there were certain “gaps” which the companies should fill for uninterrupted supply. “Capacitors,” he said, “were either fewer than the required capacity or not in good shape.” The Central Electricity Authority has been asked to advice them regarding repair of capacitors or on acquiring new ones. |
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STRANGER THAN FICTION New Delhi, April 18 According to the police, the Inter-State Cell had arrested a history-sheeter, Dinesh alias Doctor, in January this year for his alleged involved in car theft. Under interrogation, Dinesh revealed that the receiver of the stolen vehicles was one Rohtash alias Manish from Rohtak, who was also involved in several cases of murder and looting. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) M S Upadhye later told presspersons that the police had received information that Rohtash, along with his associates, would assemble at Sultan Puri. The gang had allegedly planned to grab a plot in Delhi. At about 10.10 pm, the police spotted the gang in two Maruti cars (No HR-26-P-4197 and HR-18-4692). The ensuing shootout resulted in the arrest of three persons — Virender Singh alias Bablu (34), a resident of Najafgarh who is posted as a BSF constable in the 577th Battalion in Barmer, Narinder Singh (24), a BSF constable and a national-level wrestling champion, and Sandeep alias Dhilla, a resident of Bahadurgarh. Six others managed to escape.
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JUSTICE PREVAILS New Delhi, April 18 Additional Sessions Judge S. N. Dhingra awarded the accused, Ram Prabhu Sharma, 10 years’ RI and fined him for raping a girl who was known to him. The girl, who was working in a telephone booth, had lodged a complaint with the Ambedkar Nagar police station on July 7, 2001, alleging that Sharma had called her over to his house on some pretext and later raped her. Sharma, who was employed with the battery unit of the Air Force, vanished after the crime but surrendered before his unit in September that year and was handed over to the police. The girl’s statement was recorded before a magistrate in which she stated that Sharma knew her late father and had been visiting them even after his death. The victim in her statement said Sharma had called her to his house on the pretext of discussing the service matter of her father and then raped her. However, she declined to identify Sharma as the same person who used to visit her house in the court. Holding that the girl was acting under fear or had probably received money, the court convicted the accused and pronounced the sentence yesterday.
Factory owner, brother
held for woman’s murder Noida: The Sector 58 police have arrested a factory owner, his brother and a supervisor of the factory in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old woman in the factory in suspicious circumstances. The trio have been booked for murder on the basis of the post-mortem report of the deceased. According to the police, Veena Gupta was employed in a factory in plot no 22 in Sector 57. Her husband, Ram Avtar, was a physically challenged person. His wife used to run the household with her income. As she was employed for cleaning and dusting she used to sleep in the factory. On March 29 Veena Gupta was found dead in the factory. The police sent the body for an autopsy. At that time, factory sources had said the woman was sick and had thus died a natural death. But her husband had complained that his wife was raped before being murdered. The complaint had been sent to the National Human Rights Commission, the Chief Minister, the Home Minister and a few other dignitaries. The post-mortem report had said she had been killed by strangling but no signs of strangulation were found on her neck. However, rape was not confirmed by the post-mortem. Ram Avtar Sharma, according to the police, had demanded Rs 10 lakh for reaching a compromise with the factory owner. But when the other party did not agree to it he brought down his demand to Rs 5 lakh. When a compromise could not be reached the police registered a case of murder against factory owner Rajiv, his younger brother and a factory supervisor.
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Cheap blankets may soon be out of reach Panipat, April 18 In fact, the blanket industry is in deep water. If the industry, which had been on strike for over two weeks now, resumes working, its operations would be uneconomical on account of the rise in costs. If on the other hand it continues to shut shop for a longer period as a mark of protest it would suffer huge losses. It may be mentioned that the shoddy industry manufactures shoddy yarn from old and pre-mutilated rags. The yarn is then woven on power looms to manufacture cheap blanket for the masses and the Army. As a consequence of the favourable industrial climate 90 per cent of the shoddy industry is concentrated in Panipat, 9 per cent in Ludhiana and Amritsar and 1 per cent in the rest of the country. The local industrialists said since the small-scale industry (SSI) posed no competition to the big mills using fresh fibre as the raw material the “double taxation” on them defied logic. Surprisingly, the big mills had been given certain concessions, adding to the woes of the local blanket manufacturers. With the latest excise duties, the cheap blanket would be out of reach of the common man and relief agencies that distributed blankets to the needy in case of emergencies like earthquake and floods. Currently, Panipat-the blanket capital of India-caters to about 99 per cent of the blanket needs of the international and national relief agencies. Besides, almost 100 per cent of the Army supplies are routed through the local entrepreneurs. Since the industry was highly labour-intensive, employing semi-skilled and unskilled labour, a serious unemployment crisis was in the offing if the duties were not withdrawn, said Mr Vishnu Goel, president of the Northern India Shoddy Mills Association. The closure of the industry was likely to continue as it was not likely to absorb the additional duties. Besides affecting the morale of the people it would cause mass unemployment and loss of tax and electricity revenue, he added. A large number of workers, it is learnt, have already left the city or are in the process of changing trade in the wake of the closure of the industry. The shoddy yarn manufacturers rued the fact that various quarters were taking up representations of the power loom workers since power looms were spread all over the country. Any relief to the power loom industry must be passed on to the blanket manufacturers and shoddy industry, they contended. Meanwhile, the association has urged the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, to prevail upon the central government to review the imposition of duties. |
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HERITAGE TRIP New Delhi, April 18 “Exploring Shahjahanabad-A Heritage Walk of Old Delhi” was organised by the Heritage Cell of the MCD in association with the Delhi chapter of the Indian National Trust of Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) on the occasion of World Heritage Day. The walk started in the morning from Town Hall in Chandni Chowk with the dignitaries exploring their way through “gallies and mohallas” to places of historical importance like Jama Masjid, Chunnamal’s Haveli, Katra Neel, Bagh Dewar, Kuncha Ghasiram, Ballimaran, Hindustani Dawalkhana, Ghalib’s Haveli, Kuncha Rehman, Ek Burji Masjid, Marwari Dharamshala, Jogiwara, Nai Sarak, Maliwara, Balushah Temple, Paranthe Wali Gali, Kinari Bazar, Nau Ghara, Katra Kushal Rai, Sheesh Mahal, Dharam Pura, Jain Mandir, Vakil Pura and Gali Guliyan. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Ram Babu Sharma announced the MCD’s Heritage Cell would survey the heritage buildings in the city and keep their photographic records. Nobody would be allowed to carry out changes in the buildings without permission from the cell. Any official found guilty of being in cahoots with the builders aiming at any change in the character of the building would lose his job. Unauthorised construction would not be allowed to promote commercialisation of such buildings, he said. The Mayor of Delhi said the corporation appreciated the value of heritage. That is why the MCD had created its own Heritage Cell to promote interest in the city’s heritage. This effort would help the corporation develop a common platform for those who care and were ready to invest their resources to maintain heritage buildings in the area. Municipal Commissioner Rakesh Mehta informed the Heritage Cell would work for creating awareness about the rich heritage of the Capital and initiate measures to preserve heritage buildings. Highlighting the importance of Shahjahanabad, Dr Marie F. Gonnord, Attache for Science and Technology, Embassy of France, said Shahjahanabad was of immense heritage value not only to Delhi or India alone but to the international community also as it preserved the character of the Mughal period for the present and future generation. |
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Students
not to cough up money for re-exam Sonepat, April 18 Mr Mohinder Singh Mor, secretary of the board, told mediapersons at Gohana town, 35 km from here, yesterday reports that the board would charge Rs 100 each from the examinees at the time of re-examinations appearing in various newspapers were baseless and false. There is a provision that the board will charge such expenses when the papers are cancelled on account of mass-scale copying and it will make arrangements for the re-examination. He also said the results of middle and matric examinations would be delayed on account of leak and cancellation of the papers as well as the re- examinations of these papers. Mr Mor indicated the board was likely to announce the results of matric examination by June 20 and the middle examinations by June 30. He also disclosed the evaluation work of the senior secondary examination had already been completed and the results would be announced by June 15. Meanwhile, the Haryana Students Welfare Association has demanded the resignation of the chairman and secretary of the board for their failure to conduct annual examinations of middle, matric and senior secondary standard in the state without being plagued by the copying menace. |
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Admn waits for report on rickety bridge even as traffic continues to ply as usual Ghaziabad, April 18 Presently, the traffic has to pass over the dried canal bed. At nights, the vehicles, especially cars and buses, have to go via Hapur, for which passengers have to shell out extra money, besides taking more time for the journey. A large part of the bride on mid Ganga Canal, near Garh Mukteshwar on the Meerut-Lucknow national highway, was suddenly damaged on February 2. Subsequently, the administration had closed the bridge for vehicular traffic by building a 3 feet high barricade on both sides of the bridge. A pontoon bridge was put in place for vehicles to cross over, but this too developed some big fissures soon enough, so that heavy vehicles were disallowed to pass over it. Besides, diverting traffic via Hapur has resulted in traffic jams at bottlenecks at Hapur. Later, the authorities made a temporary diversion road on the canal bed by cutting the sides of the canal with bulldozers. However, this route is also fraught with risks and dangers and can lead to major accident any day. A tractor lost its balance on this diversion road and its driver was seriously injured on April 15. On April 16, a truck loaded with sugarcane broke down in the middle of canal bed, putting the entire traffic out of gear. Now, some of the more enterprising drivers have, after demolishing the three feet high brick wall on either side of the bridge, started taking their buses and trucks across the damaged bridge, thus endangering the lives of the passengers as well as their own. In spite of all this, the administration does not seem to be alarmed at all. According to the Deputy District Magistrate, Mr Deep Chand, a team of experts from Delhi will study the load-bearing capacity of the bridge and then, hopefully, the repair work will be taken up. When will that expert team’s report be available, no body seems to have an idea about! |
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Ajit Singh likens Chautala to Saddam, calls Panipat, April 18 Addressing a press conference here, Mr Ajit Singh said since the recommendation had already been opposed by the BJP chief, Mr Naidu and the TDP, it was unlikely that it would ever be implemented. The average landholding was only about 1.55 hectares and there was no rationale to tax the farm income, he asserted. He, however, advocated that farmhouses of the big landlords could be raided and their income accounted for. Even as the interest rates on consumer items and home loans were declining, the interest rate on the purchase of farm equipment ranged from 14 per cent to 19 per cent, giving truth to the belief that farmers were at the ‘receiving end’ of the market forces. With a view to protect the interests of the farmers at the national level, a foundation was being set up as part of the anniversary celebrations of late Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. Coming down heavily on the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, he reiterated that no timely request for the draught relief was received from the Haryana Government. Besides, there was no account of the draught relief of Rs 194 crore spent by the current government. He alleged that crores of rupees from the state exchequer had been spent by the Chautala government on unsuccessful contesting of elections in neighbouring states of UP, Rajasthan and Delhi. Earlier, during his address to the members of the District Bar Association, the Minister likened Mr Chautala to Saddam Hussain and his sons to Saddam’s sons. He claimed that the people were fed up with the current regime and were ready to “topple” it in the next Assembly poll. |
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Wheat procurement dips due to sluggish arrivals Faridabad, April 18 Although the various procurement agencies have so far purchased 2,32,531 metric tonnes of wheat, out of the total arrival of 2,33,690 metric tonnes up till April 17. This is somewhat lower than the 2.91 lakh metric tonnes and 2.76 lakh metric tonnes procured and purchased respectively in the corresponding period last year. It is stated that several farmers in UP, who earlier used to bring their produce to the Mandis here, have decided to sell it in the mandis in UP due to better procurement prices this year. It is reported that the mandis in the district had received atleast 50 per cent of the total wheat from the UP farmers. The authorities, which had purchased about 6 lakh metric tonnes of wheat last year, feel that the total procurement this year could slide down if the arrival from UP did not pick up. It is learnt that the majority of the wheat that had arrived from UP this season had been to mandis in Hodal, Palwal and Chant. The arrival of wheat from the neighbouring state to mandis in Tigaon, Ballabgarh and Hassanpur is reported to be negligible so far. However, a farmer from a village in Ballabgarh subdivision said that the arrival of wheat from UP was likely to pick up by the end of this month, when there is a halt in the arrival from the local areas. According to the office of the District Food and Supply Controller (DFSC), Hafed had bought the maximum of 60,615 metric tonnes so far, while Haryana Agro and Food Supply had bought 55,791 and 44,475 metric tonnes respectively so far. The FCI has procured 7,301 metric tonnes of wheat till yesterday. On the other hand, farmers here are unhappy with the facilities provided to them at the various mandis. Ranbir Singh, a farmer of Amipur village, who had brought two trolleys of wheat for procurement, said that there was no provision for drinking water or a place to rest at the Tigaon Mandis. He said the mandi was like an ‘open ground’, as there was no room or shed to rest or unload the wheat till it was procured. He said the farmers would suffer losses in case of rainfall or squall, as there was no roof overhead where the wheat was unloaded. Moreover, there was no safety from stray animals or thieves. It is also reported that some of the mandis, where procurement had been heavy, had no place to unload the new arrivals, as old stocks had not yet been cleared. Complaints of irregularities in weighing of the produce had also been reported from some mandis. |
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SPECIAL FOCUS
ON JHAJJAR/BAHADURGARH Jhajjar, April 18 While the setting up of a fire station with one fire tender, along with an additional fire tender for Bahadurgarh has been in the offing, these projects have been delayed due to red-tape procedures in the government department. The poor fire fighting services afflicts the district despite the fact that Bahadurgarh is a major industrial town, and incidence of fire is common in the industrial units here. Nearly 262 villages fall in the Jhajjar district and in this harvesting season, with heaps of harvested crops spread out in the field, there is a constant threat of fire incident in the fields. Sources in the fire office in Bahadurgarh informed that more than 8 incidents of fire had been reported in the last 15 days. Fire broke out in two factories in Bahadurgarh and Dahkora village, which caused heavy losses. The blaze could be extinguished only after extra fire tenders were called in from the neighbouring cities of Delhi, Sonepat, Rohtak and Bhiwani. Moreover, sources said that calls from the nearby villages have also become frequent these days. It is feared that such incidents would increase due to the scorching summer season ahead. As such, there was an acute need of another fire tender here. They said that while a Tata 407 vehicle is expected shortly, another chassis for a fire tender has been parked here for more than two years. Moreover, the strength of the staff is also inadequate at the Bahadurgarh office. There are only 12 people posted here, with 5 posts for foremen and drivers lying vacant for a long time. However, the Executive Officer of the local Municipal Council said that fire services are being strengthened, following a loan grant of Rs 13 lakh for the town by the National Capital Region Planning Board. He said that while a new office-cum-residential building is being constructed, the fire tenders would also be ready for operation shortly. However, the situation is much worse in the Jhajjar town where a new fire service station is being constructed but no extra fire tender is available here. The secretary of the local Municipal Committee said that the NCRPB has also sanctioned a loan of Rs 12.66 lakh, and the fire service station is expected to be commissioned within a month. Sources said that the Municipal Council has adopted the resolution for establishing a fire service station in a meeting on April 30. However, it is to be seen whether these proposals will be finally implemented or get stuck up in red–tape government procedures. Meanwhile, increasing incidence of fire will continue to take its toll in the coming summer months.
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SPEAKING OUT
Apropos Sonepat correspondent’s report ‘Private schools begin enrolment drive’ (NCR Tribune, March 23), it is common knowledge that public school education, even at pre-nursery, nursery and K.G level, has become a big business. With parents hankering after English medium education for their children, privately owned public schools are springing up like mushrooms in big cities, small towns and even villages. Loosely speaking, if you are looking for a profitable business, then set up a school. All you have to do is to hire a building, appoint fresh graduates, who have some convent background, and start a school. Most of these private schools (pre-nursery, nursery and KG), run by societies and trusts, are not affiliated to the CBSE. And these non-affiliated schools announce with visible pride that they follow “CBSE curriculum” and allure parents with the help of slick advertising and personal contacts. They also make a big deal about being different from other schools. But within 2-3 years, their idealism disappears and they resort to crass commercialism, fleecing poor parents, desperate to provide English medium education to their children. In fact, most of these schools degenerate into teaching shops, becoming money-spinners for their owners. They devise numerous ways of fleecing parents, charging fees under diverse heads and nomenclatures coined at their own level. In order to put an end to the financial exploitation of parents by such unrecognised and non-affiliated schools, the Haryana Government should invoke provisions of clause 3(1) and 3(2) of the Haryana School Education Act, 1995. O. P. Sharma,
Dowry worries Marriage of one’s son or daughter is a Herculean task. Every Sunday we find reams of papers full of matrimonial columns for aspiring grooms/brides. Parents browse through these columns or make personal interactions to find suitable matches. Yet, the parents say marriages are made in heaven and not on earth. But of the two, the decision to
marry one’s daughter is most difficult. Once a doctor parent, who had just married off his daughter, was asked how his daughter and son-in-law were, he very sadly retorted that it was a gamble and he had invested his life’s precious capital in the marriage. Crimes against women have become too rampant to be listed in detail. Result: Parliament had to enact anti-dowry law for the empowerment of women. But the underlying reasons of dowry have not disappeared. Ujjal Pal Singh, Goof-up I had purchased a washing machine, Electrolux E-845 F, from M/s Kay Dee, Sector-27 Noida, in 2000 with two years’ guarantee. On March 10, the machine did not work. Then I informed about this to M/s Kay Dee, who sent two engineers, Mr Rawat and Mr Manmohan, on March 11. After examining the
machine, the engineers said that the switch was defective and they will replace it. Both came on March 12, and replaced the switch, but the machines didn’t work. They again examined it and said the timer is defective. As the timer is an expensive item, the engineers said that they would bring that from Ghaziabad on March 17. I got suspicious and thought either they were incompetent or they were trying to cheat me. I got the machine checked from a known engineer who said nothing was defective, only the wire had become a little loose. He tightened it and the machine became functional. On March 15, Mr Rawat along with another person came instead on 17 to oblige me with a timer worth Rs 3,250 and offered a discount of Rs 400 if the so-called defective original timer was returned to them. On my asking if the timer was really defective, they confirmed it was really defective. I told them that it was just the case of a loose wire connection and the machine is working. No part was defective. I gave them a bit of my mind. I rang up Ghaziabad office Electrolux and informed their Branch Manager Mr Naresh Upadhya about the quality of their service engineers. S. B. Kalra, Only 30 minutes wasted I was amazed to learn that in the recent budget session of Delhi Assembly, the House transacted the business for 44 hours and 52 minutes – a 97.5 per cent utilisation of floor time – and wasted only 30 minutes. At least, the honourable members of Delhi Assembly have realised that crores of rupees are being spent on the conduct of assembly sessions and it is the poor tax-payers’ money. I would like to request all the assembly members and MPs to use floor time for proper discussion and not waste even a single minute. Subhash C.
Taneja,
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Army land
abuse: DPCC seeks CBI probe New Delhi, April 18 “In
spite of the decision of the Delhi High Court,” DPCC president
Subhash Chopra on Friday told mediapersons, “A Union Minister of
State tried to shield the encroachers from being evicted by the
defence authorities by putting pressure on them.” Mr Chopra,
flanked by senior party leaders, told reporters it was a shame that
the very authorities supposed to be the custodians of the land were
aiding and abetting the encroachers. “We demand a CBI inquiry into
this land scam,” he said. The land in question was taken over by
the Army in 1976-77 after due notification and paying the
compensation. The Congress claimed a former BJP legislator encroached
upon this land in 1980 after forging documents. “Owing to the
pressure put by the BJP, the Army authorities are unable to get the
prime land vacated,” he said. The Congress alleged that in spite of the advice tendered by the Additional Solicitor General, stating that the Army authorities should proceed against the encroachers, the Union Minister of State tried to stop the process of eviction. The
allegation comes in the wake of the DPCC’s assertion that the BJP
members were involved in several scams besides the DDA scam exposed
recently. Soon after the CBI arrested certain officials on charges of
corruption, the party had threatened to come out with documents
pertaining to several such scams involving the BJP members. The
Congress alleged that it had taken the Army authorities 25 long years
to get possession of their land worth several crores of rupees which
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NCR BRIEFS Ghaziabad, April 18 The blood-soaked body of a man was found behind the wall of a new market in Murad Nagar. The neck of about 25-year-old victim had been severed with a sharp-edged weapon. A large crowd collected around the body. His face and fingers of the hand bore signs of injuries. In Garh Mukteshwar, a body had been found beside a minaret near the national highway. The police sent it for a post-mortem. Fifth class exam Rohtak: All necessary arrangements have been made for the smooth conduct of annual examination of fifth class scheduled to be commenced from April 21 in the district. District Primary Education Officer (DPEO) Vidya Malik said nearly 17,000 students were likely to appear in the examination. She said 119 examination centres had been set up and 450 teachers detailed for examination duties. She said the sets of question papers would be distributed among the centre superintendents on April 19. |
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DELHI DIGEST New Delhi, April 18 The suspects later ransacked the house and decamped with the cash and jewellery. The member of the house who were injured during the scuffle were given first-aid in a hospital. CM directive to MCD: The Chief Minister issued these directions to the corporation a few days back when she visited the Town Hall, headquarters of the MCD. She said thousands of safai karamcharis would be rendered unemployed if the work of civic amenities was given to the private companies. This is the basic liability of the corporation and it should not lag in its responsibility, she said. However, Opposition Leader in the corporation, Subhash Arya objected to the directions, saying that the MCD was an independent body and interference of the Chief Minister was “unethical and illogical”. In February, the corporation decided to privatise the transportation of garbage from ‘dhalao’ to filling land areas. Prakash Utsav: The programme in Chandni Chowk is being organised by the Guru Teg Bahadur Sewak Jatha, Joraghar in association with the DSGMC. The programme will comprise Gurbani, Kirtan, Deep Mala and Katha followed by fireworks. A langar will also be organised on the occasion. At Rakab Ganj, Var and Shabad Kirtan will be performed by Bhai Bhupinder Singh followed by Shabad Vichar by Bhai Ranjit Singh, head granthi Gurdwara Sis Ganj.
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Man, wife suffer burn injuries Sonepat, April 18 Their condition is serious. The injured persons were identified as Mr Azad Singh and Mr Nirmal. The wife of Mr Azad Singh is undergoing treatment in the local civil hospital. It is stated that after a quarrel in the family on some issue, Mr Azad Singh poured kerosene on his body and set himself afire. On hearing the commotion, wife Mrs Jaslevi and Mr Nirmal rushed to the site. They also sustained burn injuries. In the meantime, the neighbours reached there and poured water to extinguish the flames. The police are investigating the case. One killed:
Student killed:
Phone numbers changed:
However, it has not given information about it so far, according to a report. Many subscribers point out that the telephone numbers of the offices of various government offices housing in the mini-secretariat had been changed without prior notice and they had been facing hardships to get the new telephone numbers of these offices. The Telephone Subscribers Association has protested against the unsatisfactory working of the telephone department and demanded a high-level probe into the department affairs. Free eye camp:
Man run over by train:
Wheat crop gutted:
Medical exam:
According to a report, the judge has taken this action following a complaint filed by the parents of the prisoners alleging that they had been attacked with the connivance of some officials of the district jail. In a dowry death case, the judge acquitted three accused, Tanjeet, Dayanand and Bharpai yesterday. The police had registered a case of dowry death against all the accused of Shahzadpur village on March 20 last year on the charge of murdering Mrs Meenu, wife of the accused
Tanjeet.
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Computerised sub-registrar’s office
New Delhi, April 18 Mrs Dikshit said the remaining eight sub-registrar’s offices would be automated by the year-end. Automation, she said, would bring down the time taken for registering a property by a month. “It takes at least one month. Now it will take only a few hours,” she said. TNS
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Burglars draw a blank at bank Bhiwani: A bid to burgle a bank’s extension branch came to naught when the burglars found to their dismay that the steel almirahs did not contain even a penny. According to a report, the burglars entered the extension branch of the State Bank of Patiala in the local Adarsh College last night. They opened all the almirahs in the branch, hoping to lay hands on cash. Finally, disgusted, they left the premises empty handed. OC
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