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IN PARLIAMENT
No plan to absorb Super Bazar staff
New Delhi, May 10
The government was not contemplating to absorb the employees of Super Bazar, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
The Super Bazar had reported that the dues of suppliers as on March 31, 2001 were Rs 32.50 crore (unaudited), Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution V. Sreenivasa Prasad said in a written reply.
SAD wants DSGMC polls postponed
New Delhi, May 10
In a last-ditch attempt to delay the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee polls, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) members today met the Delhi Minister in charge of Gurdwara Elections, Mr Mahinder Singh
Saathi, and pointed out the discrepancies in the electoral rolls.
SAD (Badal) president Avtar Singh Hit and other members of the party meeting officials of the Directorate of Gurdwara Elections in the Capital on Friday. |
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Recovery of power dues
Waiver scheme fails to click
Faridabad, May 10
After one week of the special drive to recover power dues, the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) was able to recover only Rs 35.95 lakh from the defaulters in the rural areas of the district. The special scheme of waiving of 75 per cent of the pending power dues, if 25 per cent of it was paid in a single instalment, is valid up to May 15.
Power consumers to protest against lathi-charge
Sonepat, May 10
The action committee of the Electricity Consumers’ Association decided to hold a massive demonstration on May 16 at Kharkhauda town in the district in protest against the alleged lathi-charge made by the police on the electricity consumers who were protesting against the replacing of old electricity meters with the electronic ones on Thursday.
‘Follow SC guidelines on poll candidates’
Sonepat, May 10
The president of the Haryana Pradesh Janata Dal (U), Mr Ved Parkash Vidrohi, today called upon all political parties in the country to follow the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court regarding the right of the people to know about the antecedents of candidates seeking elections to the state assemblies and Lok Sabha.
60 jhuggis gutted in Koshambi
Ghaziabad, May 10
Over 60 jhuggis in a huge slum cluster on G.T. Road opposite the head quarters of 41 Battalion of PAC, under the Indirapuram police station, were reduced to ashes in a fire that broke out on Thursday. A five-year-old girl, Laxmi, who received serious burns was rushed to a nursing home in Koshambi.
Speaking out
Often, there are easy solutions available for very complicated problems. But we simply tend to ignore them? It can be said that a similar scenario prevails about the grossly under-utilisation of the Badli railway station by the residents of Rohini.
- There’s no lockout in factory
- Human misery
- Two-party system
- Basic amenities
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- Birth registration
- Vacation
- Potholed city
- TA payment
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DELHI DIGEST
DTC services on two new routes
New Delhi, May 10
The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) today introduced its services on two new routes. Bus No 857 that was terminating at Paharganj police station will now originate at N Block of Raghubir Nagar and terminate at Vivekananda Bus Terminal (Anand Vihar).
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NCR BRIEFS
Streetlights in Hodal town unlit for years
Faridabad, May 10
Streetlights of Hodal, a sub-divisional town of the district, have been out of order for the past several years. The reason: Non-payment of electricity bills by the Municipal Committee. According to information, the majority of streetlights of this town, situated on the border, are
non-functional.
- 237 Sodium lights
- Water charges
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- Houses gutted
- Labour dispute
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Two drown in drain
New Delhi, May 10
Two school students drowned in a drain in the Rohini area of North Delhi, the police said here today. Nishant Aggarwal (13) and Rohit Katoch (14), both residents of Budh
Vihar, were understood to have entered the drain for a swim on Thursday but drowned, the police said.
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