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OPERATION TALAASH
Drive against illegal immigrants at dead-end
Panipat, April 20
When it comes to launching ‘special drives,’ few can match the Haryana Police. However, the end results of such drives are hardly encouraging.
One of such special drives, “Operation Talaash”, launched by the police with much fanfare in October last year to flush out illegal Bangladeshis, has fizzled out.
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fair price shops get the stick for malpractices
Sonepat, April 20
The Food and Supplies Department has suspended the supply
of rationed commodities to as many as 13 fair price shops and
issued show cause notices to 40 others asking them to explain as
to why their supply should not be suspended and their licences
should not be cancelled for indulging in irregularities and
malpractices in the distribution of rationed commodities in
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Admn turns a blind eye to encroachments
Sonepat, April 20
Roads are getting narrower with each passing day in the city due to the failure of the district authorities, particularly the Sonepat Municipal Council, the PWD (B and R), and the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) to check the menace of encroachment which has assumed alarming proportions. |
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Mayawati has unleashed political terror: Bitta
Noida, April 20
The president of Anti-Terrorist Front, Mr M S Bitta, has accused UP Chief Minister Mayawati of having unleashed political terrorism in the state.
“Acting like dictator Saddam Hussien, Mayawati has also silenced her critics by threatening them with dire consequences. Cases are being registered against those who choose to speak the truth. My Front will launch a movement against Ms Mayawati and support those victimised by her,” Mr Bitta said. |
Grand finale to Bhakti Utsav
New Delhi, April 20
The first Bhakti Utsav organised by the Delhi Government and the Ministry of Tourism and Culture in association with the NDMC concluded here today.
Brainchild of the Chief Minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit, the festival was a compendium of devotional as well as a classical music. Probe ordered into flesh
trade racket in hospital
Sonepat, April 20
Dr H. R. Singhal, the Medical Superintendent of the local Civil Hospital, has ordered a probe into the reported case of flesh trade being carried out from the X-ray room, in which five employees have been alleged to be involved.
Executive body of Gohana Congress reconstituted
Sonepat, April 20
The executive body of the Gohana city Congress has been reconstituted by the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee. The former president of Gohana Nagarpalika, Mr Azad Singh Malik, has been appointed as the president and Shiv Lal Balmiki, as the treasurer.
NCR BRIEFS
Residents quarrel over colony gate
Rohtak, April 20
A number of residents of HUDA Sector I have welcomed the removal of iron gates erected at various points in the colony. However, Mr Vidya Bhushan Aghi, convenor, Ekta Pocket Sudhar Samiti, Sector I, described the removal of these gate as ‘unjustified’. In a memorandum to the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Aghi stated that the samiti had collected lakhs of rupees from the residents of Sector I to construct the iron gates for security purpose.
DELHI DIGEST
Books distributed to needy children
New Delhi, April 20
Tarun Mitra Parishad, a social service organisation, held its annual textbooks distribution function today at Payare Lal Bhawan. Textbooks, note books, help books and other study material were distributed among more than 500 needy students of various schools in the Capital.
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