TOP STORIES

Vardhan’s bid to rouse city BJP
New Delhi, May 22
Mum’s the word on revamping the organisation but the Delhi Pradesh BJP will seek popular support against the “anti-people” policies of the Sheila Dikshit Government in NCT of Delhi.

Miffed villagers say ‘no’ to HUDA
Sonepat, May 22
Alleging discrimination in assessing the value of land acquired by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) for developing residential sectors, residents of Fazilpur, Raipur and Sultanpur have refused to sell their land to HUDA. The villages are located between Sonepat town and the GT Road.

Sikhs celebrate Manmohan’s appointment Meerut, May 22 The Deputy General Manager of State Bank of India (SBI), Sardar Dvendra Singh, said that it is a good sign for India that a person like Dr Manmohan Singh, who has wide experience in different fields of life, was taken over as the Prime Minister. Gurdwara Rakab Gunj is all decked up to celebrate the swearing-in of the first Sikh Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh. — A Tribune photograph

Chandini Chowk MP Kapil Sibal during the oath-taking ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the Capital on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Ghaziabad power sub-stations to be in pvt hands
Ghaziabad, May 22
All the power sub-stations of Ghaziabad Mahanagar will be privatised. As a first step, the Maliwada electric sub-station will be privatised on an experimental basis.

No consolation, says Sikh body
New Delhi: The All India Sikh Conference has said that the Sikhs would not hate the Indian National Congress (INC) any less after a Sikh, Dr Manmohan Singh, has been appointed prime minister. Its president, Mr Gurcharan Singh Babbar, told a news conference that the wounds of the atrocities committed on the Sikh community were fresh in their minds and troubled their collective consciousness.

LOST & FOUND
Hijacked biscuit consignment recovered
Ghaziabad, May 22
Seven hundred Priya Gold biscuit cartons, worth Rs five lakh, stolen last fortnight from a truck on way to Karnal, have been found in Muzzafarnagar. The biscuit-laden truck had been hijacked and diverted to Muzzafarnagar. The driver of the truck had been drug-laced sweets, which rendered him unconscious.

POLITICS

Delhi Sadar MP Jagdish Tytler during the oath taking ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the Capital on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Chautala promises turnaround before poll
Bhiwani, May 22
The assembly elections in Haryana would be held on schedule in March 2005. This was stated by Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala while interacting with the people in Bhiwani yesterday. He said that he would visit all villages in the state to redress the grievances of the people before the ensuing assembly elections.

BJP to go it alone for assembly poll: Sangwan
Sonepat, May 22
Mr Kishan Singh Sangwan, BJP MP and spokesman of the Haryana unit of the party, yesterday ruled out a poll alliance with any other political party for the assembly elections in the state. He declared that the party would contest the assembly elections independently and field its candidates in all 90 assembly seats.

Loss in Rohtak ‘due to inexperience’ 
Jhajjar: The BJP leader, Capt Abhimanyu, who lost the Lok Sabha election to the Congress in Rohtak, said the party could not transform the support of the people into.

COMMUNITY

With new encroachments everyday, Sonepat roads getting narrower
Sonepat, May 22
Roads are getting narrower with each passing day in this city which is a district headquarters in Haryana. All this is thanks to the failure of the district authorities, particularly the Sonepat Municipal Council, the PWD (B and R), and the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) to check the menace which has assumed an alarming proportion.

Models sashaying down the ramp at Wigan & Leigh College's fashion show.

Workshop on resource mobilisation from May 24
New Delhi, May 22
The India-WHO Programme on Essential Drugs is being implemented by the Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs in Delhi and sixteen other states in India. To increase the future potential of such a successful programme, the Society is organising a three-day workshop on resource mobilisation from May 24 to 26.

Farmers’ organisations to submit memo to Chautala
Sonepat, May 22
The representatives of various farmers’ organisations, including the Bharatiya Kisan Union, the Farmers Forum and the Krishak Samaj, have decided to submit a joint memorandum to the Chief Minister, Mr Om Parkash Chautala, on May 27 when he would visit the city to address the workers meeting of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD).

Transformers burnt in fire at power station
Meerut, May 22
Extensive damage was caused when a major fire broke out at the Nauchandi power sub-station on Thursday evening. At least two 10 MVA transformers and several other electric equipment and machines were reduced to ashes by the time the fire was controlled.

SEARCH WITHIN
Unravelling the magic of Nayanar
A great man is affable in his converse, generous in his temper, and immovable in what he has maturely resolved upon; and as prosperity does not make him haughty and imperious, so neither does adversity sink him into meanness and dejection, wrote Jeremy Collier, an English Bishop (1650-1726).

NCR BRIEF
Shekhawat presents awards to BSF
New Delhi, May 22
The Vice-President, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, presented awards including Police Medal for Gallantry to Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at the investiture ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan this morning.

DELHI DIGEST
Seminar on values in media
New Delhi, May 22
A two-day seminar-cum-retreat on values in media was inaugurated at the Om Shanti Retreat Centre, Northern Indian Campus of Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwaria Vidyalaya near here today.

CRIME

Criminals held, arms seized
New Delhi, May 22
The Seemapuri police arrested two criminals and seized a country-made pistol, one live cartridge and a knife from their possession. Last evening, police stopped a TATA Sumo for checking in which five youths were sitting.

EDUCATION

An open-day programme for school pass-outs
New Delhi, May 22
To facilitate the school pass-outs seeking admission in different courses in the Delhi University, the students and the staff of the University has organised a ‘Open-Day’ programme. The programme would start from May 24 in different colleges and campuses of the university.

Two gets life term in murder case
Sonepat, May 22
The District and Sessions Judge of Sonepat, Mr B. L. Singal, yesterday convicted two persons Naresh and his friend Nesha and sentenced them to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 5,000 or in default to undergo further two years rigorous imprisonment each in a case of murdering a woman on May 30, 2002. The Judge also acquitted third accused involved in this case on lack of evidence.

PIL on circus animals dismissed
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has dismissed a PIL ‘’on technical grounds,’’ which had sought a direction to the Central Government to immediately take custody of all animals kept in cages by circus companies across the country.

HEALTH

BODY & MIND
Women and matters of the heart
WORKING women are under dual stress due to responsibilities at home and workplace and must, therefore, not dismiss warning signals of heart disease. Dr Upendra Kaul, Director, Interventional Cardiology and Electrophysiology, Batra Hospital, says that the number of young working women under medication for heart diseases is on the rise.

SPORTS

Malviya get past Karma in Raghubir Singh tourney
New Delhi, May 22
A brilliant unbeaten knock of 92 by Abhishek Kaushik, studded with seven boundaries and three sixes off 95 balls, enabled Malviya Club defeat Karma XI by eight wickets and move into the quarter-final of the Lala Raghubir Singh Hot Weather Cricket Tournament on the Modern School ground on Saturday.

Oriental Bank hit back to hold PNB
New Delhi, May 22
Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) came from behind to hold Punjab National Bank (PNB) 3-3 in a Group B match of the Senior Division DSA Institutional League Football Championship at the Ambedkar Stadium on Saturday.

Hemant Singh stars for Ravindra Academy
New Delhi, May 22
An all-round display by Hemant Singh (4 for 25 and 68 n o) and a dashing unbeaten knock of 69 by Anuj Jain helped Ravindra Cricket Academy defeat Montfort Academy by 10 wickets in a league match of the Cambridge Foundation Under-19 Summer League Cricket Tournament on the Cambridge ground, Rajouri Garden.

Delhi and District Cricket Association joint secretary Dr S S Sareen hugging former Test player Maninder Singh at the Platinum Pension Scheme of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.