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Over 5 lakh bogus voters enrolled: BJP
New Delhi, May 26
The Bharatiya Janata Party today came down heavily on the Congress for enrolling more than five lakh bogus voters, most of them illegal Bangladeshi migrants, in the Capital to influence the ensuing Assembly polls in November this year.
POLL SHENANIGAN: Delhi Pradesh BJP president Madan Lal Khurana and party spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra addressing a press conference in the Capital on Monday.
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Power supply: MCD leader flays move to ‘siphon off’ public funds
New Delhi, May 26
Leader of Opposition in the Standing Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Mr Vijender Gupta condemned the act of recommending to the Delhi Electric Regulatory Commission (DERC) the payment of Rs 3,600 crore to DISCOMS as loan assistance for the year 2002-2003.
Illegal use of motors to tap water from mains
Sonepat, May 26
With the summer on, residents of most of the localities in the town including the HUDA sectors are faced with the problem of low pressure in taps supplying drinking water.
One man’s crusade
to shatter myths
about Shanidev
New Delhi, May 26
All gods are not favourites of all people, especially among the pantheon of Hindu gods. Even as myths surround each of them, misconceptions regarding one particular god, Shanidev, are too projected.
A person who has vowed to dispel these myths about Shanidev, His Holiness Shanicharananuragi Pandit Madan Lal
Rajasthani, has thought up one sure way to achieve that. By installing the idol of the partial incarnation of Lord Shiva,
Shanidev, at Shanidham, located on Chattarpur Road, Asola, Fatehpur Beri here on this coming Saturday. This is when there are serious misgivings about even sculpting the idol of
Shanidev.
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DDA opens Wazirabad flyover
New Delhi, May 26
Much to the relief of the residents commuting from Wazirabad, the flyover at the intersection of Wazirabad road number 66 was opened by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) today.
DPCC
gives itself full marks; readies for polls
New Delhi, May 26
Criticising the BJP for its ‘anti-poor measures’ and ‘failure to fulfil promises’, the Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila
Dikshit, today pointed out that her government, despite having limited powers, has received adulation from both within and outside the country.
SUKHBIR SINGH
Rewari salutes Kargil martyr
Rewari, May 26
Several thousand war widows, ex-servicemen and other residents of the Rewari region participated in the Shaheed Samman Samaroh organised to mark the fourth death anniversary of Deputy Commandant Sukhbir Singh Yadav of the 171Bn of BSF, the first martyr of Kargil war of 1999, at Dhamlawas village, seven km from here today.
 FACE TO FACE
‘Don’t uproot the slum dwellers, give them jobs’
Amita Joshi, who has been working for the betterment of slum dwellers and women for more than a decade, has come up with a unique idea: volunteers living with the slum dwellers to understand and solve their basic problems. When she began this noble mission, she managed to lure the children to attend schools by popularising a slogan - “education for better living”.
Call to declare Jains a minority
community
Sonepat, May 26
The All India Jain Milan (AIJM) and the All India Jain Women Milan have urged the Centre and the Haryana Government to declare the Jain community as a minority community and safeguard the interests of the people belonging to this community.
Youth’s body found near Dewru village
Sonepat, May 26
The Sadar police have seized a body of a youth lying in the fields of a farmer near Dewru village about three km from here yesterday and sent it for a post-mortem.
According to a report, the body was identified as one Mahinder of Bakhtawarpur village. He had been living along with two brothers at Murthal village for the past few years.
NCR BRIEFS
Killers of truck driver, cleaner held
Ghaziabad, May 26
The Ghaziabad police arrested three criminals who had killed a driver and a cleaner of a truck in Kavi Nagar area on May 11 and then looted the truck.
The police have seized the truck and the goods worth Rs 5 lakh loaded in the truck.
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