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SPECIAL FOCUS ON JHAJJAR/BAHADURGARH
Rs 8.22 cr spent on poverty alleviation schemes
Jhajjar, January 2
The District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) has been implementing various schemes of poverty alleviation and rural development in the district. The DRDA has so far spent about Rs 8.22 crore on various programmes launched by it.
‘Love should permeate every day of the year’
New Delhi, January 2
People exchange greetings and express their love and good wishes on every New Year day and the Year - 2004 too dawns in the same pleasant environment. We should, however, not confine this gesture of goodwill to our own relatives and friends but to all human beings.
Foggy weather damaging crops, too
Sonepat, January 2
The continuous foggy weather conditions have reportedly damaged the gram, mustard and vegetable crops in the district.
Sonepat continues to shiver in cold
Sonepat, January 2
There has been no let-up in the cold wave sweeping the region for the past two weeks on account of heavy snowfall in the hilly areas of Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir as well as the foggy weather conditions.
Girl stabs ‘romeo’ in Vasant Kunj park
New Delhi, January 2
The South-West district police today claimed to have solved a stabbing case of one Arunesh Shukla, a property dealer based in Pandav Nagar.
Holistic
centre for ‘personal fulfilment’ inaugurated
New Delhi, January 2
The Union Minister for Human Resources and Development, Dr M. M Joshi,
today inaugurated a holistic center at Satbari in the Capital. The
centre built in the suburbs of the city is being touted to provide the
guests a “mini world of tranquility, relaxation, exotic, but
specifically formulated professional products and treatments”.
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| Union Minister Murli Manhor Joshi, L.M.Singhvi and Ashok Singhal at the inauguration of ‘The Holistic Centre’ near Chattarpur in the Capital on Friday.
— Photo by Kamal Singh. |
Individuals can be transformed through yoga,
says Swami
New Delhi, January 2
Delivering the “O. P. Ghai Memorial Lecture”, at the India International Centre, Swami Kriyananda (J Donald Walters) expressed the view that “India has the solution to the problems that the world faces today”.
Criminals
making a killing
Jhajjar, January 2
The image of the district police seems to have taken a beating while
the criminals are having a field day. In most of the cases recently,
the desperadoes committed the crime and escaped. The SP who assumed
office about two months ago, made claims of checking the crime rate.
ncr briefs
HVP launches ‘Mission 2004’ in Ahirwal
Rewari, January 2
The Haryana Vikas Party led by the former Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, launched its ‘Mission 2004’ with renewed zeal in Ahirwal. It envisages a replication of the phenomenal electoral success in Ahirwal, which the party had earlier achieved in 1996.
delhi digest
Britannia Chowk flyover to be ready by May
New Delhi, January 2
The flyover at Britannia Chowk will be thrown open to traffic in May. The PWD Minister, Mr AK Walia, who visited the site on Friday, attributed the delay in construction work to the non-availability of adequate land for the slip road.
 SPEAKING
OUT
WHENEVER we talk about pension, old age immediately
comes to our mind. Pension is always associated with old age
security/some sort of income in the old age. The basic purpose is to
provide economic security during the retired life of an individual.
What do we mean by security? Does this mean some kind of a guarantee,
an assurance or more uncertainty?
A HOLE FOR A ROOM. — Tribune photo
by Mukesh Aggarwal
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