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Scrap house tax on small units: Rajesh Yadav
New Delhi, January 21
| Senior leader of the Delhi Congress Rajesh Yadav on Sunday demanded that the government should scrap house tax on the 26 square metre dwelling units and include the house tax issue in the Congress manifesto for the next month’s municipal elections.
Senior Congress leaders at a reception to congratulate Rajesh Yadav (third from left) on his becoming secretary of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee in the Capital on Sunday. |
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MLAs to get
lessons in House
procedure
New Delhi, January 21
A two-day orientation programme for legislators and middle-level officers of the Delhi Assembly, aimed at making them conversant with the intricacies of parliamentary procedure, gets underway tomorrow.
 ‘Social service gives me enormous satisfaction’
Fifty-two-year old Harmanjit Singh combines business, education and politics in his everyday life and perhaps this is the recipe for his success. From an employee in a Sadar Bazar shop to the chairman of Khalsa College and the Vice-President of the Shrimoni Akali Dal (Badal), he has come a long way.
Harmanjit Singh, the Chairman of Khalsa College and the vice-president of the Shrimoni Akali Dal (Badal).
More trains on Delhi-Gurgaon section promised
Gurgaon, January 21
The train services from Delhi to Gurgaon and from Delhi to Rewari and to Mahendragarh are expected to improve in the next financial year, according to local MP Dr Sudha Yadav.
DVB making light of
Anand Lok woes
New Delhi, January 21
Big, beautiful houses. Trees almost everywhere. The parks, lush green, absolutely spick and span. South Delhi’s posh Anand Lok residential complex is indeed beautiful. But the beauty is seen only during the day. Night falls and nothing’s clear to the eye.
Girls with samovar (traditional kettle) on the tableau of Jammu and Kashmir at the press preview of the Republic Day parade in the Capital on Monday.
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal
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33 kv grid
substation commissioned
New Delhi, January 21
A 33 kilovolt grid substation was commissioned today by the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
for the Delhi Vidyut Board in East Delhi. “With the setting up of the substation in Krishna Nagar, around 40 megawatt of additional power will be available to this area,” a statement said.
Labour
Welfare
Board
constituted
New Delhi, January 21
A 12-member Delhi Labour Welfare Board was constituted today to address the needs of industrial workers employed in factories across the National Capital Territory. It would have a corpus made up of contributions by employees, employers and administrator of the board and unpaid accumulations that have not been claimed.
NCR BRIEFS
Total polio immunisation by July
Jhajjar, January 21
The Ayurvedic and Medical Education Minister, Mr M. L. Ranga, today launched the second phase of polio immunisation programme by administering polio drops at the slum area in Bahadurgarh town of the district today.
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Ace woman weightlifter Kunjarani Devi is an extremely disheartened sportsperson now. She feels let down by the powers-that-be in her hour of crisis. And she also feels, perhaps justifiably so, that all her hard toil with the iron bar to bring laurels to the country, has been ground to dust in one stroke.
Winner of more than 50 medals of all hues in various World
Championships, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games—with 21 medals
coming from the World Championships alone—Kunjarani was ranked among
the “greatest five lifters of the century”.
