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Admn waits for report on rickety bridge even as traffic continues to ply as usual
Ghaziabad, April 18
The bridge on middle Ganga canal at Garh Mukteshwar, damaged for about last three months, seems to be crying out for restoration and repairs. However, repair work has not been started yet, putting traffic on the busy road to great inconvenience and endangering the lives of the passengers.
Ajit Singh likens Chautala to Saddam, calls for regime change
Panipat, April 18
Accusing successive governments of giving raw deal to the farming community, the Union Agriculture Minister, Mr Ajit Singh, today once again opposed the income tax on farm income, as recommended by the Kelkar Committee.
Wheat procurement dips due to sluggish arrivals
Faridabad, April 18
The procurement of wheat in the various mandis in the district is likely to be on the lower side this season, following a shortfall in arrival from the neighbouring state of UP.
SPECIAL FOCUS
ON JHAJJAR/BAHADURGARH
Jhajjar without fire station, dependent on neighbouring towns
Jhajjar, April 18
Even after six years of its formation as a district headquarter, Jhajjar town is without adequate facilities to cop with a fire emergency in and around the town. Jhajjar, unfortunately, still does not have a fire station.
According to sources, there is only one fire tender in the fire station at Bahadurgarh district.
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Flight of fancy.
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal |
SPEAKING OUT
Schools fleecing
poor parents
Apropos Sonepat correspondent’s report ‘Private schools begin enrolment drive’ (NCR Tribune, March 23), it is common knowledge that public school education, even at pre-nursery, nursery and K.G level, has become a big business. With parents hankering after English medium education for their children, privately owned public schools are springing up like mushrooms in big cities, small towns and even villages.
- Why sales tax on sarees?
- Dowry worries
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- Goof-up
- Only 30 minutes wasted
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Army land abuse: DPCC seeks CBI probe
New Delhi, April 18
The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) said that the BJP-led Government at the Centre threw all constitutional norms to the wind and encouraged encroachment of land in Cantonment Board, Naraina in South Delhi.
A mire of land scam: Congress leaders Kiran Chaudhary, Subhash Chopra, Jagdish Tytler and Ram Babu Sharma addressing a press conference on the Army land encroachment in the Capital on Friday.
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal |
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NCR BRIEFS
Two bodies found
Ghaziabad, April 18
One youth was killed by slitting his throat with a sharp-edged weapon by criminals on Wednesday night in Murad Nagar.
In another instance, the police recovered a body from a minaret in Sambhawali police station. Both the victims could not be identified.
Shokimbi Anthony, who was arrested by the Narcotics Bureau on the charge of possessing 70 gm of cocaine worth Rs 70 lakh in the international market.
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal |
DELHI DIGEST
Jeweller robbed
New Delhi, April 18
Four unidentified armed assailants today robbed the house of a jeweller of Rs 15,000 and some jewellery in Bhajanpura area in the North-East district.
Man, wife suffer burn injuries
Sonepat, April 18
Three members of a family, including a woman and her husband, sustained burn injuries at Bhigan village about 10 km from here last evening. According to a report, all the three persons were rushed to the local civil hospital wherefrom two persons were sent to Safdarjang Hospital in Delhi for treatment.
Computerised
sub-registrar’s office
New Delhi, April 18
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday inaugurated the first computerised sub-registrar’s office in Mehrauli. The sub-registrar’s office deals with the transaction and registration of property.
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