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The heavy showers brought traffic to a standstill in busy arteries of the Capital on Tuesday.
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal
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Khurana wants 529 colonies regularised
New Delhi, August 13
The last time an aerial survey was conducted, Madan Lal Khurana got his Cabinet to endorse the regularisation of 1,071 unauthorised colonies that had come up till March 31, 1993. That was when he was chief minister of the first popular elected government of the NCT of Delhi.
Legislator demands more grants for drought-hit areas
Rewari, August 13
Congress legislator Rao Inderjit Singh, who is also a member of the All India Congress Committee, has described the state government’s compensation of Rs 1,000 per acre to the affected formers for their drought-destroyed crops, as totally insufficient.
Gurgaon Co-op Bank meets 78% farm needs
Gurgaon, August 13
The Central Co-operative Bank Limited, Gurgaon, met 78 per cent of agricultural needs of the district last year whereas other commercial banks served only 22 per cent of agricultural requirements.
Ajit Singh backs HYKSS fight for water share
Rewari, August 13
The Union Agriculture Minister, Mr Ajit Singh, who is also the national president of Rashtriya Lok Dal, has extended his party’s support to the ongoing struggle of the Haryana Yuva Kisan Sangharsh Samiti for an equitable distribution of canal water to ensure its share to the people of south Haryana.
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HYKSS president Naresh Yadav presents a memorandum to Union Agriculture Minister Ajit Singh on the problems of drought-hit people of south Haryana. |
Globalisation threatening the very basis of survival
New Delhi, August 13
The two-day convention (August 10 and 11) on Community Rights to Natural Resources and the Constitution, organised by Dr Vandana Shiva’s Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology and Navdanya, brought forth the fact that the process of globalisation is threatening the very basis of survival-land, water and biodiversity-and is paving the way for commodifying these natural resources through legal and policy changes.
Draperies worth lakhs gutted
New Delhi, August 13
Room furnishing cloths and carpets worth lakhs of rupees were destroyed in a fire that broke out in Jagdish Store, a showroom in Lajpat Nagar area this morning. No casualty took place in the fire which broke out at 21.45 pm in a storeroom on the second floor of the building located on the Ring Road.
According to the preliminary inquiry, short-circuit is the cause
behind the fire. The storeroom was packed with expensive cloths
and carpets and most of the cloths were destroyed.
Firemen try to douse the flames at Jagdish Store in Lajpat Nagar in the Capital on Tuesday.
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal
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Jewellery, cash stolen from PHD official in Jhajjar
Jhajjar, August 13
Thieves reportedly barged into the house of an official of the Public Health Department and stole jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh and cash Rs 80, 000.
In a complaint, Ishwar Dalal, a PHD official, that he along with his wife and children were sleeping, when thieves entered the house by scaling the boundary wall. They reportedly broken the shelf and decamped with the booty.
Delhi Secretary tops: Ms Madhu Rajesh (centre) of PepsiCo India, New Delhi, has won the 8th contest of secretaries organised by DHL India and the National Institute of Professional Secretaries (NIPS).
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Messengers of peace to wear white ribbons
New Delhi, August 13
The message is harmony and peace and to spread the message on India’s 55th Independence Day, half a million Indians will sport white ribbons.
‘The White Ribbon Campaign’ is a gesture to mobilise and unite civil society across the nation under the simple symbol of a white ribbon.
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