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Corruption rampant in Haryana: Cong
leader
Sonepat, February 4
A former Haryana Minister and a Congress leader, Prof Chhattarpal Singh, has accused Haryana Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala of amassing wealth through objectionable means and has let loose a reign of terror in the state.
ITO Chowk named after Ram Charan
Aggarwal
New Delhi, February 4
The Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila Dikshit, today named the ITO Chowk after the name of a freedom fighter and first deputy Mayor of Delhi Ram Charan Aggarwal.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit unveiling the Lala Ram Charan Aggarwal Chowk near ITO crossing in the Capital on Wednesday.
— Photo by Kamal Singh
DELHI DIGEST
Constitution Club to be renovated
New Delhi, February 4
The Constitution Club will don a new look soon. The Club would soon have state-of-the-art facilities to match international standards like an underground sports complex, pool, sauna, jacuzzi and all modern facilities under one roof.
Delhi Police Commissioner K. K. Paul calls on Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee after taking charge of the police in the Capital. |
NCR BRIEFS
Police under fire for ‘inefficiency’
Jhajjar, February 4
The functioning of the district police has come in for sharp criticism in the district. The residents of Birohar village are enraged over the detention of some villagers who were allegedly “lifted” by the police from their houses on Tuesday night.
SOS to Deputy Prime
Minister
New Delhi, February 4
A woman, whose son was murdered last November, alleged that the police have arrested an innocent person while letting the real culprits go scot-free. The woman, identified as Meena from
Bahadurgarh, Haryana, has appealed to the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Lal Krishna Advani, the Delhi Lt-Governor, Mr Vijay Kapoor and senior police officials to ensure that the real culprit is punished.
Straw, Villepin scheduled for Scindia
lecture
New Delhi, February 4
As part of the Madhavrao Scindia Foundation’s objective of infusing greater debate and encouraging excellence through globally oriented initiatives, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Jack Straw, and the French Foreign Minister, Mr Dominique de
Villepin, are scheduled to give lectures in New Delhi during the first week of February at the Teen Murti Auditorium.
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The uproar over the University Grants Commission’s proposed Model Act for Universities refuses to die down. After the teachers and the students expressing their reservations about the Act, it was the members of the University and College Karamchari Union, Delhi and the Jamia Administrative Staff Association to register their apprehensions.
In spite of a considerable increase in the budget for medicines during the last two decades, the Sonepat civil hospital and most of the community health centres, dispensaries and primary health centres in the district fail to meet the demand of the medicines, thanks to the failure of the civil surgeon to make the supply of medicines and other life-saving drugs in the health institutions of the district.