TOP STORIES

Bodies of affluent girl, driver found in Lancer
New Delhi, April 5
In an apparent pact, a 20-year-old BA II Economics (Honours) student and the family’s 26-year-old driver, Anil, reportedly committed suicide by consuming an unidentified insecticide in North Delhi’s Keshavpuram area. The bodies were found in the Lancer car of the family, which was found parked near Wazirpur Tower.

20-year-old Tejata Chikara The ill-fated car being examined by investigators. — Tribune photo

DEAD DEBT
Unable to pay debt, five of a family commit suicide
New Delhi, April 5
Unable to pay a debt of Rs 20,000, five members of a family from Sonepat in Haryana reportedly committed suicide by hurling themselves under the wheels of a moving train at the Narela railway crossing in the Capital early this morning.

FORBIDDEN FRUIT: Students of JD Institute of Fashion Technology demanding a ban on meat at a show organised by Animal Rights International in the Capital on Saturday. — Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal FOR HEALTHY DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit formally launched the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme (PPIP) at her residence on Saturday. Polio drops will be administered to the children below five years of age on Sunday.  Mime artistes performing as part of the TB awareness campaign at the treatment-cum-diagnostic centre in Malaviya Nagar. Delhi Health Minister A. K. Walia is also seen. — Photo by Anil Sharma Author Bulbul Sharma interacting with children during the launch of her book, Tales of Fabled Beasts,God and Demons in the Capital on Saturday. — Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal

CBI arrests three more in DDA case
New Delhi, April 5
The CBI today claimed to have arrested three more persons in connection with the scam in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for allegedly acting as conduits on behalf of senior officials.

Exam centres or open houses for mass copying?
Sonepat, April 5
Large-scale interference by outsiders and mass copying by examinees during the ongoing middle and high school examinations has been reported from many of the 117 centres set up by the Board of School Education, Haryana, here and elsewhere in the district. However, the authorities here declined to make any comment.

Violence, arson outside exam centre
Faridabad: The police has booked at least 12 persons, mostly youths, in connection with the violence that erupted at an examination centre at Bahin village of the district yesterday. Several persons, including some policemen, had been injured and three vehicles were torched by the mob.

VAT: INLD gets another stick to beat BJP with
Panipat, April 5
The alacrity shown by the Om Prakash Chautala government in implementing the Value Added Tax (VAT) in Haryana is seen as another attempt to put its electoral ally, the BJP, on the defensive and erode its base among the trading community.

STATE-OF-THE-ART
Haryana cops get mod devices
Sonepat, April 5
In order to keep pace with the changing technology the Haryana Police will be provided with breath analysers, radar guns, night cross belts, safety jackets, gloves, nose masks and night vision devices shortly. This will help check crime and regulate traffic.

POLITICS

Bhajan Lal demands release of BKU leader
Faridabad, April 5
Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) chief and former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal has asked the state government to release unconditionally the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Ghasi Ram Nain. He has alleged that the farming community and their leaders here are being harassed as the government wants to hide its `failure’ on this front.

Market committees suffer loss of Rs 21 lakh
Sonepat, April 5
It is not that only the farmers have suffered losses due to scanty rains, the market committees in Sonepat, Gohana and Ganaur have also suffered losses to the tune of Rs 21 lakh as market fees during the last kharif crop season.

Hike support price of wheat: BKU
Sonepat, April 5
Mr Hari Singh Khokhar, president of the state unit of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), has urged the central government to increase the support price of wheat and make adequate arrangements for its procurement during the current procurement season.

A forlorn father hopes to recover daughter
Panipat, April 5
The father of an allegedly abducted 12-year-old girl has lost hopes of recovering her daughter despite making repeated pleas to the Inspector-General of Police, Rohtak Range, the Superintendent of Police and the DSP of Panipat.

SPECIAL FOCUS ON REWARI
A school makes its mark in the region in one year 
Rewari, April 5
In the recent years, several English medium co-educational public schools have come up in the rural as well as urban areas of Rewari district. There are a number of such schools, which have the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) syllabi, in Rewari, Dharuhera, Kosli, Bawal, Berli and other areas of the district.

SONEPAT
Villagers rally for arrest of molester
Sonepat, April 5
A large number of villagers, including women held up traffic on the Gohana-Jind Road for several hours yesterday in protest against the failure of the police to arrest the culprits involved in a molestation case. They also held a demonstration in front of the office of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate at Gohana town, about 35 km from here.

• Two dozen houses razed
• Theft of computers
• Girl commits suicide
• Workers’ threat

Martyr’s statue unveiled
Bhiwani, April 5
Unveiling the statue of martyr Ramesh Chander Yadav, who was killed during a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, at village Dhani Biran, 15 km from here yesterday, Mr Ajay Singh Chautala, Member of Parliament, called upon the youth to maintain the unity and integrity of the country. Sepoy Ramesh Chander, son of Subedar Om Prakash Yadav, was serving with 22 Grenadier.

• Youth killed in accident

NCR BRIEFS
Girls abducted from Gautam Budh Nagar
Noida, April 5
Two minor girls have been abducted from Gautam Budh Nagar. One of them was reportedly persuaded to elope by her class teacher.

• Two die as tractor overturns
• Sale of cut fruits banned

DELHI DIGEST
Woman ends life in CGO complex 
New Delhi, April 5
Brij Bala (47), an official in Paryavaran Bhawan in CGO complex reportedly committed suicide by jumping from the 8th floor of the building.

• Two Anoop gang members held
• Two cops in CBI net

SEARCHWITHIN
The question of evil in man and its origin
The gruesome murder of twenty-four men, women and children in Pulwama district of Kashmir recently has brought home once again the reality of evil. Around midnight, 15 men in army fatigues descended on Narimarg village in Kulgam of Pulwama district of Kashmir. They forced the villagers to assemble for an identification parade. Shots were fired claiming 24 innocent lives.

EDUCATION

Dalit students of Meerut medical college allege harassment
Meerut, April 5
Allegations of caste-based discrimination are reverberating on the Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College campus these days. Serious allegations are being levelled against the medical college top brass by the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe students and employees.