TOP STORIES

Fly-by-night lady ‘who conned businessmen’
New Delhi, February 20
The Fraud and Cheating Section of the Economic Offences Wing, Crime Branch, Delhi Police, today claimed to have arrested an alleged cheat, Mrs Susan D’Souza, 47, who had been at large after jumping bail for about a year. She is alleged to be the kingpin of a racket and cheated industrialists and businessmen out of crores on the fake assurance that she would arrange for loans from foreign banks.

The Economic Offences wing of the Crime Branch has arrested Mrs Susan D’Souza on the charge of duping gullible businessmen. — Photo by Kamal Singh

CM to talk ‘growth’ with Faridabad Inc
Faridabad, February 20
The ‘Manchester of the North’ is still waiting for drastic measures to put the development of the region on the fast track.

A child admires an exhibit at the garden tourism festival, which was inaugurated by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the Capital on Friday. — Photo by Kamal Singh

POLL TIDINGS
DPCC hails EC stay on demolitions
New Delhi, February 20
The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee has welcomed the Election Commission’s directive to suspend demolition and eviction drives till the completion of the Lok Sabha poll. DPCC President Prem Singh said the directive vindicated the party’s stand that Union Tourism Minister Jagmohan and the BJP-led NDA Government were demolishing slums in the Capital to deny the slum-dwellers their voting rights.

CRIME AGAINST CHILD
Cops ‘save’ alleged rapist from livid mob
Rewari, February 20
The Dalit samaj here is highly agitated over the alleged rape of a 4-year-old girl by a young rickshaw-puller in Qutubpur locality on Thursday evening.

COMMUNITY

Sonepat residents grapple with traffic congestion
Sonepat, February 20
Long and seemingly endless traffic snarls, hawkers everywhere on the pavements and spilling over the streets, yawning holes on roads driving motorists to madness, apathy of safai workers leaving piles of garbage all over the city and the grim power situations have thrown the normal life out of gear.

Haryana govt invites tender for sale of old wheat
Sonepat, February 20
The Haryana Government has invited the tenders for the sale of 3,36,579 metric tonnes of old wheat lying in the godowns of various official procurement agencies in different parts of the state.

SPEAKING OUT
Many organisations set the targets to achieve and deadlines to meet, but very few of them achieve them on time. The Delhi Metro is among the few. Apart from meeting the deadlines, it has made Delhi, nay, India proud as it has been recognised as a world-class Metro. Today many countries like Sri Lanka are asking for help from the Delhi Metro. For all this, the credit goes to all those who are engaged in turning this dream into reality—the employees.

Sheila’s day out. — Photo by Kamal Singh

• Pray, where is the shine?

Make Shivaratri an instrument for bringing social change: Agnivesh
New Delhi, February 20
“Religious festival should not be confined to religious rituals and ceremonies, but should have social relevance. They should be able to awaken and enable people to root out vices and evils like greed, attachments, additions and gender discriminations from the self and society.”

Marketing board’s auction of commercial plots a damp squib
Sonepat, February 20 Despite making all publicity efforts, the state marketing board failed to achieve desired success in auctioning the commercial plots and booths in new grain market and new vegetable market of Gohana town, which is a subdivisional headquarter of the district.

BJP chief Venkaiah Naidu, Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Dr. Harshvardhan at a function organised by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in the Capital on Friday. — Photo by Kamal Singh

Arya flays govt for transferring upkeep of roads to PWD
New Delhi, February 20
Mr Subhash Arya, leader of Opposition in MCD, strongly criticised the act of Delhi Government on Thursday to hand over maintenance of eight MCD roads to Public Works Department.

NCR BRIEFS
Road blockade against disruption in power supply
Jhajjar, February 20
Hundreds of resident of Matanhale village put up blockade on the Jhajjar-Bahujholri road against the disruption in power supply in the rural areas of the district. The road blockade was led by the former Sarpanch of the village, Mr Umed Singh. 

• Ph.D. awarded

• Group clash

• Motorcycles stolen

• Visit by croatian Ambassador

• Body found

CRIME

Highway robbers held
Sonepat, February 20
With the arrest of two youths, the special police staff has busted a gang of highway robbers operating between Khanpur Kalan and Kasandi villages in the Gohana sub-division of this district.

EDUCATION

DUTA’s white paper to expose ‘dictatorial’ functioning of VC
New Delhi, February 20
Teachers of various colleges and departments of Delhi University today observed a strike to protest against the arbitrary and dictatorial functioning of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Deepak Nayyar, and decided to effectively resist the same by launching a protracted movement.

Mathematics exam cancelled as copying continues unabated
Sonepat, February 20
The Board of School Education Haryana has ordered the cancellation of Mathematics paper in the middle standard annual examination at Rohat village in this district, following the mass-scale copying and chaotic condition prevailing at the centre. According to another report, the Board has also ordered the shifting of an examination centre of Rohna village due similar complaints.

Exploring the minds of children on gender-based violence
New Delhi, February 20
An exhibition of a visual journey into the minds of children on a critical human rights issue, violence against women, will be inaugurated by the Delhi Chief Minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit at Habitat Visual Art Gallery, Lodhi Road, here.

Cooperation sought to check use of unfair means
Bhiwani, February 20
The Secretary, Haryana Board of School Education, has appealed to the people to cooperate with the administration in its efforts to check the use of unfair means during the ongoing middle examination in the state.