TOP STORIES

SAD (B) fishing in troubled waters
Asks Bhai Ranjit Singh to assume a crucial role
New Delhi, July 5
The Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) today urged the former Akal Takht Jathedar, Bhai Ranjit Singh, to play a crucial role in the formation of the DSGMC Executive Committee. This is being seen as an attempt to gain political mileage out of the differences between the former Akal Takht Jathedar and the victorious Shiromani Akali Dal, Delhi, president, Mr Paramjit Singh Sarna.

Centre asked to supply more CNG
New Delhi, July 5
The Government of NCT of Delhi has to contend with a transport crisis even as it is engaged in restoring uninterrupted supply of electricity. Transport Minister Ajay Maken today wrote to Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Ram Naik seeking adequate supplies of compressed natural gas (CNG) to meet the demands of buses that ferry students.

Endless queue for CNG. — Tribune Photo

‘Satta’ gang smashed, over Rs 35 lakh seized
Ghaziabad, July 5
The Ghaziabad Police today claimed to have smashed a betting (satta) gang. The gang used to bet on cricket and soccer matches and other political developments in India as well as abroad to the tune of crores of rupees.

Rs 5 lakh looted from stone-crusher
Gurgaon: Three unknown assailants looted Rs 5 lakh at a gunpoint from a stone-crusher and injured two persons, including the owner of the crusher before fleeing from the scene.

Vested interests trying to derail privatisation: CM
New Delhi, July 5
Fewer than 24 hours after ruling out sabotage for the erratic supply of electricity, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit admitted today that vested interests could be responsible for the frequent blackouts.

PUBLIC PLACES
Passengers ‘pig it’ in Faridabad bus stands 
Faridabad, July 5
While the Haryana Roadways, a leading state transport department in the country, is trying hard to come out of red, the bus stands in several places in the state are in a state of disrepair.

MDU slugfest: Probe ordered
Rohtak, July 5
The Vice-Chancellor, Maharshi Dayanand Univesity, Maj-Gen (retd) Bhim Singh Suhag, has ordered an inquiry into the scuffle between the Registrar and the Deputy Chief Security Officer (DCSO).

The poor Chiru getting the kiss of life finally
New Delhi, July 5
Having failed to protect Chiru, the Tibetan antelope from extinction as the trade in Shahtoosh continues despite an international ban, the wildlife conservationists are now contriving ways to stop the barbaric killing.

COMMUNITY

RWAs, cable operators reach pact
Faridabad, July 5
The cable operators in the town have resumed the telecast of various channels following an agreement with the district administration and the federation of various Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs) here last night.

Mission to nip the tobacco evil in the bud
Panipat, July 5
In an era when few have time to think about others, a retired teacher along with his daughter-in-law, is on an unique mission-to rid the society of the harmful effect of tobacco.

Drug addiction spreading its tentacles 
Rewari, July 5
Mr Amit Swami, president of the ‘Youngmen’s Association of India’, has asserted that it was a matter of grave concern that drug addiction, which had influenced a sizable section of the youths in the border areas of Punjab and Rajasthan, had now started spreading its tentacles in various parts of Haryana as well.

Dharnas staged in region against MITC closure 
Faridabad/Rohtak, July 5
Government employees affiliated to the Sarv Karamchari Sangh (SKS) Haryana today staged dharnas in front of the offices of Deputy Commissioners in various parts of the state in protest against the closure of Haryana State Minor Irrigation and Tubewell Corporation (MITC).

PM reminded of promises on Mayors’ powers
New Delhi, July 5
Mayor of Delhi Jaishree Panwar, in a reminder sent to the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, has once again demanded that the Mayors in India should be given all financial and administrative powers at par with the Mayors of European countries.

Panel to probe attack on Bal Bhawan Dy Director
New Delhi, July 5
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has constituted a committee to inquire into the allegation that the Chairperson of the National Bal Bhawan here had assaulted the Deputy Director, Finance.

Arya asks for desilting of nallahs
New Delhi, July 5
Mr Subhash Arya, Leader of the Opposition in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi MCD, in a letter written today to the Municipal Commissioner, Mr Rakesh Mehta, expressed deep concern over the slow progress of work on the desilting of nallahs in the Capital.

NCR BRIEFS
KU urged to change date of MCA entrance
Rohtak, July 5
Several women candidates have appealed to the Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of Kurukshetra University to change the date of entrance test for admission to the Master in Computer Application (MCA) course.

• SBI launches credit cards
• Firemen’s union

SPEAKING OUT
This is with reference to the views expressed under the title "Standard of colleges is going down every passing day" by Professor Amrik Singh, a former Vice-Chancellor of Punjabi University, Patiala, and a doyen of the university system in India.

• ‘Haryana is not Punjab’s poor country cousin’
• Voltage blues
• Ghalib Memorial poll
• Phenomenal hike
• Plea for power
  

Keeping a tight vigil!
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal

EDUCATION

Giving Rewari a chance in technical education 
Rewari, July 5
Somany Institute of Technology and Management (SITM), which is the first Engineering college in the Rewari region, has successfully completed one year. The institute, popularly known here as Somany Engineering College, was inaugurated in 2001 on a 25-acre land on the Rewari-Garhi Bolni Road, 3 km from here.

Members of the Somany Institute of Technology and Management taking a round of the institute.

CAMPUS SCENE
DU scraps sports quota in most PG courses
New Delhi, July 5
Resentment among the sports community of Delhi University is on the rise as the Vice-Chancellor has more or less scrapped the sports quota at the postgraduate level, including in all the major subjects such as Economics and Philosophy, leaving only the least-preferred subjects such as Sanskrit and Hindi open for the talented sportspersons.

Legislation soon to control private nursing homes
Alwar, July 5
In a move to streamline the functioning of nursing homes and clinics, the Rajasthan Government is planning to bring a legislation in the Assembly, which would curb the fleecing of patients by the medical practitioners.