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DSGMC poll announced in open challenge to Sarna’s authority
New Delhi, June 26
The Akali reunion is spelling trouble for the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), with its senior vice-president, Mr S. S. Sandhu, announcing that the committee would hold its annual elections on July 24.

Venkaiah gives BJP pep talk, harps on killer instinct
New Delhi, June 26
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Venkaiah Naidu says the development works completed in the NCT of Delhi is courtesy the generous disbursal of funds by the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. 
In video: Venkaiah Naidu says BJP's aim is to make India a developed nation by 2020.(28k, 56k)

BJP stalwarts at a meeting organised by the state unit at Talkatora Stadium in the Capital on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

Is Gurgaon safer? Yes, if you believe statistics
Gurgaon, June 26
The crime graph in the district has shown a significant decline following prompt action taken by the police and intensive patrolling in sensitive areas, Senior Superintendent of Police Kuldeep Singh Siag has claimed.

More needles surface even as sceptic doctors dub them as plants
Meerut, June 26
In another twist to the case of 12-year-old Munzrin, from whose body 80 needles were ‘‘retrieved’’ in a span of seven months, a claim which was greeted with scepticism in medical quarters, three persons, including a doctor, have been arrested on the charge of sexual harassment.

SUMMER PANGS
Delhi power tariff up
New Delhi, June 26
There is no respite for Delhiites. Reeling under power cuts, the domestic users will have to reckon with a tariff hike of 25 paise per unit from July 4. The will pay Rs 1.75 per unit for the first hundred units, as against Rs 1.50 earlier, and Rs 2.35 per unit in the upto 200 unit slab. The earlier charges were Rs 2.10, Rs 3.25 and Rs 3.85 per unit in the 201-400 unit and above 400 unit slabs, respectively.

DOWRY DEMAND
Village community detains barat
Ghaziabad, June 26
The residents of Kanawani village, which falls under Indirapuram police station, detained a bridegroom and the marriage party for demanding dowry at the eleventh hour. A motor cycle and Rs. 20,000 were reportedly demanded at the time of departure of the doli.

COMMUNITY

DCC flays action to deprive farmers of land
Sonepat, June 26
The action of the district administration, aimed at “dispossessing” nearly 50 families of Ahulana village under the Ganaur subdivision of around 600 acres of panchayat land, on which they had been farming for a decade, has been criticised by the District Congress Committee. The DCC alleged that the arrest of 88 farmers and lodging of criminal charges against them was illegal and discriminatory.

CULTURE

ARTSCAPE
Making an attempt to hear the inner cries of womanhood 

The English play ‘Womanly Voices’ would be premiered at the India Habitat Centre. Premiered by the Johnnie Walker Club on June 28, ‘Womanly Voices’ is directed by the well-known theatre personality and actress Lillette Dubey, and is a dramatization of three short stories-‘Utaran’ by Wajeda Tabassum, ‘Shishu’ by Mhasweta Devi and ‘The Teacher’s Story’ by Gita Mehta. The cultural heritage of the people of the remote Tiwi Islands will be on display at the IHC.

Indigenous culture

Generations from ghats

MUSIC ZONE Full entertainment guaranteed Mojaan Laen Do” is the latest nine-track offering from the king of Indi-pop Daler Mehndi. In this album, Mehndi has gone off the beaten track one more time and yet again discovered musical gold. The album, which literary means ‘Let There Be Enjoyment,’ has tried to revive the traditional ‘Rabbi’ style of singing with a mix of Sufi and Arabic rhythms. Daler Mehndi’s ‘Mojaan Laen Do’ is a mix of Sufi and Arabic rhythms.

SPORTS

Children taking part in ‘Run Against Drug Abuse’ organised by the Delhi Government at India Gate on Thursday in the Capital. — Photo Kamal Singh

Shardha annexes double crown in badminton
New Delhi, June 26
Shardha Chhabra annexed a double crown when she lifted the titles in the under-19 and women’s singles events of the 14th Pt.Tirathram Memorial Badminton Tournament at the New Era Public School court, Mayapuri.

Himanshu, Esha Bhambri get top billing
New Delhi, June 26
Himanshu P Kala and Esha Bhambri have been seeded top in the men’s and women’s singles respectively in the first Delhi Champion Cup Table Tennis Tournament for the best 16 players to be held at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium on June 28 and 29.

South India down Columba’s
New Delhi, June 26
South India Club scored a facile 3-0 victory against Columba’s Youngsters in a Group II preliminary league match of the Delhi Soccer Association B Division Open Clubs Football League Championship at the Ambedkar Stadium on Thursday.