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NGO to observe
three landmark Sikh events
New Delhi, March 3
The Servants of Humanity, an NGO
working in Delhi, started the celebrations of three centenaries of the
Sikh community coming in year 2004 - Nanakshahi 536. The celebrations
for the three centenaries - Guru Angad Dev Ji’s 500 Parkash Purab,
Guru Granth Sahib’s 400 Parkash Purab and 300 Martyrdom of
Sahibzadas of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, was started by the organisation
with a Gurmat Samagam, held at Gurdwara Shahidan, Shastri Park.
LJP
demands Haryana DGP’s resignation
Sonepat, March 3
The state president of the Lok
Janshakti Party (LJP), Capt Shamsher Singh Malik, today asked for the
resignation of the Director-General of Police (DGP) Haryana, Mr M. S.
Malik from his post as his wife Krishna Malik has been nominated as
the INLD candidate from Sonepat Parliamentary constituency.
Shelterless after a blaze in a slum behind the thermal power plant near Rajghat.
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Interweaving
issues of gender and sexuality needed to fight AIDS stereotypes: Study
New Delhi, March 3
“Bad women are the carriers of
AIDS and so to avoid its spread we must get rid of them.” Shocking
as it may sound this is the standard response of the adolescent
community in four different slums of the Capital, where a study was
conducted by the Gender Training Institute of the Centre for Social
Research to look at AIDS from a gender perspective.
SOS
Children’s Village celebrates 30 years of service
New Delhi, March 3
The SOS Children’s Village,
Bawana, celebrated 30 years of its establishment. It was also the 40th
anniversary of the establishment of organisation in India.
Two
dowry death cases
Ghaziabad, March 3
Two dowry deaths were registered
by the police here. A woman was burnt to death by her in-laws when she
was unable to meet their dowry demand of Rs.1.50 lakh. A report has
been filed by the mother of the deceased with the Loni police.
Notorious
criminal held from Jhilmil Colony
New Delhi, March 3
The Special Investigation Team of
the Crime Branch arrested a notorious criminal, identified as Bipin
Sharma (31), resident of Jhilmil Colony, from the Anand Vihar area of
East district. The sleuths apprehended him after receiving a secret
information that the notorious criminal was staying in the Jhilmil
area.
BKU to
field candidate from Sonepat
Sonepat, March 3
The district unit of the
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has decided to field Mr Braham Singh
Dahiya, vice-president of the Haryana unit of the BKU, as its
candidate from the Sonepat Lok Sabha seat.
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Sadhu dead
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Body found hanging
NCR
BRIEFS
4 inter-state auto
thieves nabbed
Ghaziabad, March 3
The Link Road police arrested
four auto thieves and seized two cars from them during a routine
checking. Based on their disclosures, the police seized seven more
cars from different places. Moreover, two country-made revolvers, a
large quantity of live cartridges and two knives were also seized from
the two accused.
DELHI
DIGEST
MCD gets court notice
on renaming Rani Jhansi Road
New Delhi, March 3
The Delhi High Court today issued
notice to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on a petition seeking to
prohibit the municipal body from renaming Rani Jhansi Road in the
heart of the Capital to Manohar Lal Khurana Road. A division bench
comprising Chief Justice B C Patel and Justice B D Ahmed, issued
notice to the MCD and its Standing Committee Chairman on the petition
filed by a resident of Rani Jhansi Road.
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