TOP STORIES

Party tickets: BJP has more room to manoeuvre
New Delhi, September 28
Even though the Election Commission is yet to announce the poll dates, intense lobbying for tickets for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the National Capital Territory of Delhi has begun with prospective candidates thronging the offices and residences of political heavyweights.

HC seeks report on affairs of Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah
New Delhi, September 28
The Delhi High Court has asked the Central Wakf Council to inspect the Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah here and report to it how the affairs of the over 700-year-old shrine were being managed.

Activists of the Akhil Bhartiya Muslim Yuva Ekta Committee protesting against the NDA government on the issue of changes in Haj subsidy scheme at Jantar Mantar in the Capital on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Good monsoon = Chilly winter. No, say weather pundits
New Delhi, September 28
It is time to put the rain gear away: After what seemed a never-ending wet spell, the monsoon has finally withdrawn from the national Capital. This season, the city experienced the second highest rainfall in the last hundred years, with showers greeting it almost everyday.

Commission being collected forcibly for land registries
Sonepat, September 28
The representatives of various political parties and farmers’ organisations today expressed their grave concern over the forcible collection of one per cent commission from owners who come for registration of their properties by the officials of the sub-registrar’s offices at Ganaur and Kharkhauda tehsils in the district.

Traders upset over Sales Tax directive
New Delhi, September 28
The Confederation of All India Traders has opposed the Delhi Government directive to dealers registered with the Sales Tax Department to apply for TIN (Trade Identification Number) on a 10-page performa, replacing the existing Sales Tax registration numbers.

• Closure of crushers ordered

A model at the Bridal Asia show in the Capital. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Simmering land row erupts again
Faridabad
Tension prevailed in Solra village in the Khader belt, on the Haryana-UP border, after a simmering row over sowing rights erupted in what has become an annual ritual. It is reported that certain elements, hailing from Fareda village of UP, had opened fire on the farmers of Solra village on September 23. The farmers of Solra had just begun sowing operations in the agricultural tract that had been cleared by the receding waters of Yamuna.

Teaching work suspended till Oct 9 in varsity
Meerut, September 28
There was considerable tension on the CCS University Campus after incidents of violence on Friday. The tension heightened with the students and their leaders demonstrating outside the V-C’s office; they were seeking the release of students detained in the police station.

POLITICS

Govt squandering public money: HVP
Sonepat, September 28
The secretary-general of Haryana Vikas Party, Mr Surender Singh, charged the Chautala government with squandering the public money and misusing of government machinery for promoting the cause of his family by organising purposeless rallies like “Samman Divas Samaroh”.

COMMUNITY

SPECIAL FOCUS ON SONEPAT
Forest Department authorities crack down on wood smugglers
Sonepat, September 28
With the arrest of nearly a dozen persons involved in illegal felling of trees and wood smuggling in two separate incidents, the forest and police authorities believe that they have busted a gang of wood smugglers active in the district for the last many years.

The performers of a dance drama on Ram at Shriram Bhartiya Kala Kendra in the Capital on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Unplanned development takes toll on civic amenities
Sonepat, September 28
Traffic jams on the roads here have become a common phenomenon due to the rush of heavy vehicles. In the absence of any planned development, the menace has assumed alarming proportions, giving rise to traffic jams and mishaps. The situation is particularly serious in the narrow lanes, as all sorts of vehicles, including bullock carts and thelas, pass through.

Housing Board colony planned at Kharkhauda
Sonepat, September 28
The Haryana Government has decided to construct a Housing Board colony at Kharkhauda town in this district so as to ease the problem of those who have to commute daily due to the lack of residential accommodation.

Morning walkers celebrate World Heart Day
New Delhi, September 28
As many as 1,000 walkers in the walled city area this morning celebrated the Cornola World Heart Day at Shantivan. The symbolic walk which was flagged off by the Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, Mr Jagmohan, proceeded up to Veer Bhoomi and back.

• Common man’s problems

NCR BRIEFS
House burgled
Faridabad, September 28
A house in Sector-46 here was burgled on Friday night. The robbers took away cash and valuables worth Rs 15,000. In other incidents, two motorcycles were stolen from separate places in the town. While one motorcycle was lifted from Sector-23 here, the other two-wheeler belonging to one Akhilesh of Trikha Colony was stolen from outside his house.

• Agrasen Jayanti celebrated
• Water supply scheme
• Traffic held up

DELHI DIGEST
Successive govts have failed Delhiites: Romesh Bhandari
New Delhi, September 28
The Janata Dal (Secular) vice-president and former Lt-Governor of Delhi, Mr Romesh Bhandari today blamed the ruling Congress and the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government for “turning the national Capital into a living hell”.

• Two held for car-lifting
• DDA ground rent

CRIME

• Sacked cop among five held

Haryana tourism needs a kiss of life
Faridabad, September 28
Tourism in Haryana appears to be passing through a dormant phase at present despite a number of programmes organised recently to mark the celebration of the World Tourism Day.

BSNL promises improvement in customer care service
Gurgaon, September 28
The local telephone department will ensure the delivery of tariff bills to the subscribers on the seventh of each month, according to the General Manager, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Gurgaon, Mr D. N. Tripathy.

SHOWCASE
Make-up palettes for luscious lips and cherry cheeks
Lakme, the beauty brand has launched Color Drench and Color Spray limited edition make-up palettes. Inspired by the creative expressions of Lakme’s Grand Finale Designers–Hemant Trevedi and Wendell Rodricks, the two ‘Water Colors’ palettes offer colors in non-oily crème textures that you can splash across your eyes, lips and cheeks in six water inspired shades each.

• No memorandum to CM from industrial associations of Kundli, Rai

EDUCATION

DPS, R K Puram, observed the, ‘International Peace Day’ on September 23. The chief guest on the occasion was the Director, United Nations Information Centre, Mr Feodor Starcevic. The programme began with the traditional lamp lighting ceremony, followed by the welcome address by the Principal, Dr S. Chona who said that it is at the school that children should be taught to stay in harmony and accept the differences.

Students of GHPS, Vasant Vihar, celebrating International Peace Day.

PRINCIPALSPEAK
Violence is the weapon of the weak
THE strong have the strength of conviction, only the weak use violence as their weapon. ‘Inqualab zindabad’ – the whole nation rose in one voice to win their independence from the oppressive British, armed not with weapons but a firm belief in their cause.

COURTS

Five estranged couples reunited thanks to Lok Adalat
Sonepat, September 28
Five couples living separately for the past few years, were reunited following a compromise arrived at in a one-day Lok Adalat organised by the Haryana State Legal Services Authority on the premises of the judicial complex here yesterday.

SPORTS

Sightless guide women rally drivers New Delhi, September 28 They were not groping in the dark or in any blind alley, though they were visually impaired. It was, in fact, a sight to behold, as the sightless guided their women drivers in the fourth All-Women’s Car Rally, which was flagged off from the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi and terminated at the Hill View Hotel in Suraj Khund.
One of the blind navigators with lady driver Neelam Pratap Rudy at the flag off point in the 4th All Women Car Rally for visually impaired navigators held in the Capital on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Meenakshi Tokas, Varun rule the pool
New Delhi, September 28
Meenakshi Tokas of Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences ruled the pool when she swept all the seven individual gold medals at stake in the women’s section of the 43rd Delhi University Inter-College Swimming Championship at the Talkatora swimming pool on Sunday.

City, National enter quarters
New Delhi, September 28
City Club and Indian National moved into the quarter-finals of the Lt. Governor’s Cup Prize Money Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Sunday. City Club rallied to edge past Goan Sports 3-2 while Indian National got the better of Shastri Club by a lone goal.

Sameer shines
New Delhi, September 28
A strokeful century by Sameer Ralhan and deadly bowling of 3 for 27 by Akshay Kumar helped Meera Model School, Janakpuri defeat Ramjas School, R K Puram by 61 runs in the fourth Parle Cup Inter-School Under-17 Cricket Tournament at the Vikaspuri ground.