TOP STORIES

Man, wife commit suicide in Prashant Vihar
New Delhi, March 20
In a tragic incident today, both husband and wife committed suicide by shooting themselves in their house in the Prashant Vihar area of North-West district. The police have recovered the country-made weapon which the couple allegedly used to end their lives.

ERRANT HARYANA STAFF BROUGHT TO BOOK
Board going all out to check copycats
Faridabad, March 20
The Haryana State Education Board is pulling out all the stops to check copying in the annual Board exams. The Board officials booked about 39 cases of the use of unfair means on Friday, while several papers of the Matric and Plus Two classes are still to be held.

53 candidates booked for using unfair means
Bhiwani, March 20
As many as 53 candidates were booked for using unfair means out of 25,137 candidates who appeared in the mathematics examination of the ongoing Senior Secondary Annual Examinations of the Board of School Education, Haryana today.

HANDCRAFT: A street vendor sells the Congress merchandise, featuring the images of party president Sonia Gandhi outside the party headquarters as a run-up to the general elections to be held in five stages from April 20 to May 10, 2004. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

BJP councillor smells a rat in purchase of plastic dustbins
New Delhi, March 20
The secretary of Delhi unit of the BJP and member of Opposition in the Standing Committee, Mr Vijender Gupta, in a letter to the Lt-Governor has demanded that the case of purchase of plastic mobile-wheeled bins involving an expenditure of more than Rs 12 lakh be referred to the Anti-Corruption Department.

HC wants MCD reply on bovine menace
New Delhi, March 20
The Delhi High Court has ordered the Municipal Commissioner of Delhi to explain within a week why the menace of stray cattle continued to plague the national Capital despite court orders in this regard given in December 2002.

Bahadurgarh becoming a happy hunting-ground for criminals
Jhajjar, March 20
The bordering township of Bahadurgarh is fast turning into a haven of criminals. The miscreants carry out their nefarious acts and turn tail while the district police remain clueless about their whereabouts.

HEALTH WATCH
Private clinics to get the stick for failure to check bio-medical waste
Sonepat, March 20
The Haryana Pollution Control Board has taken stringent measures to check the bio-medical waste by the private nursing homes and clinics in this city and elsewhere in the district.

• Ex-DGP gets three months to probe Noida scams

POLITICS

BJP has betrayed INLD: Chautala
Sonepat, March 20
Addressing an election meeting at Gannaur, the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, claimed that his government had provided stability in the state, which had facilitated the development process in the state.

HVP warns against anti-farmer policy of BJP
Sonepat, March 20
Addressing election meetings in the Rai Assembly constituency, the HVP nominee, Mr Jagbir Singh Malik, cautioned the farmers against the anti-farmer policies of the BJP. He warned that the BJP would impose income tax on the farmers after the Lok Sabha elections.

COMMUNITY

SSI unnerved over deadline set by Pollution Control Board
Gurgaon, March 20
The small-scale industrial units are in a bind following a circular issued by the Haryana State Pollution Control Board for the installation of accoustic enclosure for their generator sets by March 31.

BEJEWELLED BELLE: A model sporting multi-coloured antique jewellery in gold and diamond to celebrate the launch of ''Carat Couture'' by Manish & Nikhil at a fashion show in the Capital on Friday night. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal Model Aditi Govitrikar tries out jewellery during the inauguration of ‘Zal Jewels 2004’ at Pragati Maidan in the Capital on Saturday. — A Tribune photograph

Seminar highlights economic, environmental potential of seabuckthorn
New Delhi, March 20
A two-day seminar on seabuckthorn organized by the Directorate of Life Sciences of the Defence Research and Development Organization, Ministry of Defence, at Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, here highlighted the importance of seabuckthorn, which has a vast potential as a source for environment conservation, health, food and economy during the 21st century.

Rs 309-crore budget okayed for GDA
Ghaziabad, March 20
In a board meeting held in Delhi, a budget of Rs 309 crore has been approved for the Ghaziabad Development Authority for 2004-05. Due to the code of conduct imposed for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls, many of the proposals were not debated in the meeting.

Get your PAN number in 15 seconds!
Noida, March 20
The Income Tax department recently launched a new scheme to facilitate accesses in procuring their Pan number. The Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, Mr S. Rehman, explained that “now you can get your Pan number for CCIT region from Noida to Dehradun on your mobile through SMS.”

Jt Director inspects Bal Sudhar Graha
Sonepat, March 20
The Joint Director of the Social Welfare Department, Ms Mamta Garg, made an inspection of the Bal Sudhar Graha here on Thursday after receiving the information about the alleged attempt by three child prisoners to escape from it.

• Raid at exam centre

• Man assaulted

Major Anurag Nauriyal remembered
Noida, March 20
Noida is home to many brave soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for the nation and also those who have returned victorious to narrate tales of courage and heroism. With unrelenting courage and fierce determination, these bold soldiers guard the country from the enemy’s evil designs risking their life at every step.

Residents demand probe into erratic power supply
Sonepat, March 20
There has been no let up in the unscheduled loadsheddings being enforced by the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam in this city and elsewhere in the district. Residents alleged that though unannounced power cuts were being enforced daily, the officials of the UHBVN have failed to give satisfactory reason for it.

• Schoolteacher killed in road accident

• Youth killed after snakebite

SNAPSHOTS

Newly elected president and general secretary of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Employees Welfare Association S. Satnam Singh Koharka and S. Harbhajan Singh with DSGMC members S. Shamsher Singh Sandhu and GM S. Swaran Singh.

SEARCH WITHIN
Learning lessons every day in the school of life
A wit has remarked that one must learn from other people’s mistakes for life is not long enough to make all the mistakes oneself. Of course, learning is a lifelong process Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80.

Calf rally held for quality breed
Sonepat, March 20
In order to motivate the ruralites for breeding cows and buffaloes of quality and making their livestock disease-free, the Animal Husbandry Department organised an impressive calf rally at village Khewras veterinary hospital on Friday.

Power shutdown
New Delhi, March 20
The North Delhi Power Limited today announced power shutdown on March 22, due to maintenance work at the sub stations of Mangol Puri, Narela, Civil Lines and Moti Nagar area. The affected areas Pooth Kalan, Mange Ram Park, Begum Vihar and parts of Badli district.

NCR BRIEFS
Brahmin Sabha demands Parliamentary tickets
Jhajjar, March 20
The Akhil Bharatiya Brahmin Yuva Sabha and Brahmin Mahasabha have called upon the Congress leadership to give tickets to its candidates from Sonepat in Haryana and Outer Delhi in the national Capital.

• Woman strangulated by son

• Demonstrators demand arrest of culprits

• Five persons injured in group clashes

COURTS

Man gets 7-yr RI for dowry death
New Delhi, March 20
A city court has sentenced a person for seven years imprisonment for harassing his wife for dowry, who committed suicide in January 2001. The court has also fined him of Rs 5,000 in addition u/s 304-A. The accused, Ajay Spehia, was working with armed forces and was posted in Kashmir during Kargil war.

SPORTS

South Delhi down Winsome Club in DDCA League
New Delhi, March 20
An unbeaten century by Adil Ahmad and a delightful 84 not out by Rakesh Singh helped South Delhi defeat Winsome Club by nine wickets in a DDCA Super A Division match at the Yamuna Sports Complex ground.

Ten teams for SAIL Trophy cricket New Delhi, March 20 The 14th SAIL Trophy Invitation Cricket Tournament, to be played on a knockout format, will be held from March 25 to April 8 at the Mohan Nagar Cricket Stadium.   SAIL senior deputy director of sports T K Bhowmik and former India Test player Rakesh Shukla announce the SAIL Cricket Trophy schedule.

National Seminar on Yoga and Sports begins New Delhi, March 20 A National Seminar on Yoga and Sports was inaugurated by All-India Council of Sports president Prof Vijay Kumar Malhotra at the Talkatora swimming pool complex on Saturday. All-India Council of Sports president Prof Vijay Kumar Malhotra lighting a lamp to inaugurate the National Seminar on Yoga and Sports at the Talkatora swimming pool complex on Saturday.

Formula-I Championship live on Star
New Delhi: The Grand Prix circus moves to Malaysia for the first of four Asia-based races on this year’s calendar as the event returns to the superbly appointed Sepang track in Kuala Lumpur, for the Malaysian Grand Prix, to be shown live on Star Sports at 12.15 pm on March 21.