TOP STORIES

Delhi forms panel to deal with disasters
First city joins select club
New Delhi, January 11
The NCT of Delhi is one of eight States/Union Territories to have set up a Disaster Management Committee and institutionalised the chain of command in order to facilitate certain key agencies to act as first responders in the event of a natural or man-made disaster, including terrorism.

People make merry while the sun shines
New Delhi, January 11
After days of bone-chilling cold, the city experienced another sunny day today with a clear sky greeting the people on Sunday morning. However, the warm sunny sky is short-lived, claim the weather experts, who have predicted colder days ahead.

MCF staff to rally against transfers on Jan 15
Faridabad, January 11
The word ‘transfer’ is anathema to the employees, staying with their hearth and home at a particular place for a long time. It is simply not acceptable to the employees of the Municipal Corporation Faridabad, the largest civic body in the state. The recent transfer order of about 38 employees of this body has left the majority of the lower and middle staff hot and bothered.

Decks being cleared for the splendours of the Republic Day Parade at Rajpath in the Capital on Sunday. — Photo by Kamal Singh

BSNL cheating case: Property dealer quizzed
Sonepat, January 11
The police have reportedly recorded the statement of a property dealer, Om Prakash, in connection with the alleged duping of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited of Rs 7 lakh and the escape of two suspected ISI agents, Ramphal and Ramesh, from the city.

Crime maze
Man ‘identified’ who set bogies on fire
New Delhi, January 11
The police today claimed to have lifted several clues to identify the mysterious arsonist, who has set several bogies on fire over the last two months. The police also made a portrait of the arsonist after getting descriptions from some employees.

• House burgled; cash, jewellery stolen

• Dreaded criminal in police net

• Property dealer stabbed

Check murders in the name of family honour: AIDWA

New Delhi, January 11 The All India Democratic Women’s Association today raised a demand for effective policy interventions to end the evil of ‘honour killings’. Geeta who lost her husband for marrying outside the caste at Jahan Khelan in Hoshiarpur district, addressing the delegates at a convention against ‘Honour’ killings in the Capital on Sunday. Geeta’s mother-in-law is also seen in the picture. — Photo by Kamal Singh

COMMUNITY

Farmers to launch agitation against INLD government
Sonepat, January 11
The Haryana unit of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has decided to launch a statewide agitation for dislodging the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) government from power. This was announced by Mr Hari Singh Khokhar, president of the state unit of the BKU, at a district-level conference held here yesterday.

• Abhey Singh on Inauguration spree

• Court work suspension ends

Special Focus on SONEPAT
Many welfare projects to make life worth living in Kharkhauda
Sonepat, January 11
After waiting for nearly three decades following its upgradation to sub-tehsil and then to tehsil headquarters, the people of Kharkhauda town can hope for a better living as a number of projects have been sanctioned for developing this area.

Need to provide quality life to police personnel stressed
New Delhi, January 11
The Union Minister of State for Sports, Mr Vijay Goel, today stressed the need for providing quality life to the Delhi Police personnel, who often live under tremendous stress and strain. The Union Minister also emphasised the need for a hike in the salary scale of the Delhi Police personnel.

• Restrain order

Homage to Shastri on his death anniversary New Delhi: The Delhi Chief Minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit along with Union and state ministers today visited the samadhi of the late Prime Minister, Mr Lal Bahadur Shastri, at Vijay Ghat to pay homage on his 38th death anniversary. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit paying homage to Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 38th death anniversary at Vijay Ghat in the Capital on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

• Lori celebrations

Security guard sentenced to life imprisonment
Sonepat, January 11
The District and Sessions Judge, Mr B. L. Singhal, yesterday convicted Sant Kumar, a security guard of a private company, under Section 302 IPC and sentenced him to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 5,000 or in default to undergo further two years rigorous imprisonment for murdering Tej Pal, a machine operator of the same company on May 24, 2001.

• Trains disrupted

• Grievances Committee meeting

CRIME

Armed assailants loot jeweller’s house
New Delhi, January 11
Three armed assailants looted gold jewellery worth lakhs of rupees from a jeweller’s house in the Vivekanand Puri area of North Delhi. The police said that the three assailants knocked at the house of Rajender (36), a jeweller in the Vivekanand Puri area last night.

• Robbers arrested

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Need not go beyond the Red Tape for trendy winter collection
Red Tape has unleashed its trendy winter collection of formal and semi-formal shoes for men. Red Tape, high fashion range of semi-formal and casual wear shoes, is constantly designing fashion forecasts to satisfy the tastes of the fashion conscious individual, and is today one of the largest selling brands in its segment.

EDUCATION

DG to lay stone of first girls law college on Jan 14
Sonepat, January 11
The Director-General of Police, Haryana, Mr Mahender Singh Malik, will lay the foundation stone of the building of the first girls law college in India at Kanya Gurukul Khanpur Kalan in Gohana sub-division of the district on January 14.

HEALTH

Civil hospital: Where patients told to buy their own medicines
Sonepat, January 11
The emergency patients in the 100-bed civil hospital, Sonepat, are asked to buy their own medicines, as the hospital cannot afford them. Yes, this is the condition in the government hospitals run by the Health Department of the state government. Even the stock of basic medicines is reportedly running out in these so-called cash-strapped hospitals.

SPORTS

Four Indian boys break into ITF top 10 ranking
New Delhi, January 11                                             
The All-India Tennis Association can derive a lot of satisfaction from the fact that the money and effort it invested on the junior talent in the country is now showing solid results.

SA annex C’wealth Cricket Trophy
New Delhi, January 11
South Africa handed out an emphatic 250-run defeat on Bangladesh to annex the Commonwealth Under-19 Cricket Championship Trophy at the Nahar Singh Stadium in Faridabad.

Sonnet down Gyan Bharati in Rajiv Gandhi tourney
New Delhi, January 11
An all-round performance by Yogesh Nagar (4 for 53 and 88 n o) and an unbeaten knock of 56 by Vikas Garg helped Sonnet Club defeat Gyan Bharati South Delhi Academy by seven wickets in the second Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Under-17 Cricket Tournament.

• Bharat National enter final
  
  

• Youngsters beat CWC

Civic authorities told to pay salaries to employees regularly
Sonepat, January 11
The Haryana Government has directed the municipal councils and municipal committees in the state to ensure payment of salary to their employees before the end of the first week of the month.