|
Roads in disrepair as telecom companies dig and forget
New Delhi, April 19
The companies like Bharti Telenet, MTNL, Vidyut Board and others have earned a bad name for themselves for digging up roads and then failing to restore them to their original shape. Touchtel, a company of Bharti Enterprises, has recently joined the same category.
Ballabgarh development
The road to hell is paved with good
intentions
Faridabad, April 19
Ballabgarh may be known as the twin city of Faridabad but it is lagging far behind when it comes to the basic civic amenities, let alone mod cons available in a city of such stature.
‘Need for corporates to be involved in civic works’
New Delhi, April 19
The Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi today honoured Coca-Cola India with a special citation for the initiatives taken by the company to plan and implement a number of rainwater harvesting and solid waste management schemes in various parts of Delhi in association with the state government and local bodies.
Happy School children make a human chain during the golden jubilee
celebrations of the school at Rajghat in the Capital on Saturday.
The faithful carry the Holy Cross on the occasion of Good Friday at the Gol Dakkhana Church in the Capital.
— Tribune Photos
Folk dancers performing at a Bhagidari Mela at Pragati Maidan in the
Capital on Saturday.
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal |
SPECIAL FOCUS ON REWARI
Vigilance committees to keep tabs on plans for welfare of rural poor
Rewari, April 19
The Union Ministry of Rural Development has recently set up state level vigilance and monitoring committees under the chairmanship of rural development minister of the state concerned as well as district level vigilance and monitoring committees under the chairmanship of the local member of Parliament.
Fire incidents scald Sonepat
areas
Sonepat, April 19
Come summer and the fire breaks out in a number of places. During the past 24 hours, half a dozen incidents of have been reported in different parts of the district.
Khurana predicts worst
water, power crisis
New Delhi, April 19
The Delhi BJP chief, Mr Madan Lal Khurana, said with sharp hike in electricity tariff being planned by the government and private power distribution companies, the Capital was heading towards the worst water and power crisis in its history.
X-ray room used for flesh trade in
Sonepat
Sonepat, April 19
A police party conducted a surprise raid in an X-ray room of a civil hospital here last evening and caught a woman involved in flesh trade. However, four youths, said to be the employees of the hospital, managed to escape.
SEARCH WITHIN
Death, resurrection and redemption
The Christian religion holds that God, who had always through His messengers and prophets, communicated His word to man, at last, as the climax of His grace, sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, into the world, to redeem fallen man.
NCR BRIEFS
Ex-corporator among 3 arrested for
murder
Ghaziabad, April 19
The Kavi Nagar police claimed to have solved the murder of a travel agent, Sonvir Singh alias Bittu of Shastri Nagar. The police have arrested a former corporator of BSP, along with two hired killers, after an encounter near Rajpur railway crossing.
DELHI DIGEST
Utsav that touches the
soul
New Delhi, April 19
Bhakti Utsav, a three-day festival of Bhakti Sangeet, is a retreat for the religious deities. The festival, which is being organized by the Delhi Tourism from April 18-20 in the Capital, has been designed to highlight all forms and facets of Bhakti–from dohas of Kabir to Gurbani, bhajans and Sufi qawwalies.
|
