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Captain Nivedita Joshi, the country's first woman check pilot and the world's youngest pilot to command a Boeing aircraft, filling petrol at India's first all-woman managed petrol pump in the Capital on Friday.
— Photo by Kamal Singh |
Commuters
suffer as trains run late as usual
Sonepat, March 12
The late running of not only
long-distance but suburban trains also on the Sonepat-Delhi section of
Northern Railway has become a routine thanks to the failure of the
railway authorities to maintain the punctuality of the incoming and
outgoing trains.
A
social body that helps women become self-reliant
New Delhi, March 12
Ms Mridul Shukla, managing worker
of Meghdoot Gramodyog Sewa Sansthan (MGSS), has launched a social
organisation called the Maruti Mahila Swalambi Sansthan, a women’s
organisation which apart from manufacturing herbal cosmetics and
medicines, works at the village level on themes like women and child
welfare, population control, literacy and modern practices in farming.
Agitating
Dalits allege police discrimination
Meerut, March 12
Hundreds of agitated Dalits from
Mahalwala and Kankarkhera villages held demonstrations. They were
protesting against the alleged harassment meted out to them by the
area police in two different cases. The Dalits accused the police of
discriminating on the basis of caste and creed.
Tibetan protesters on the 24th anniversary of Tibetan Women's Uprising at Jantar Mantar in the Capital on Friday.
— Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal |
Committee
on transporters’ grievances soon: Paul
New Delhi, March 12
The Commissioner of Police, Dr K.
K. Paul, today assured transporters that a committee to look into
their grievances of harassment by police at various points on highways
in the Capital would be constituted.
No
headway in identifying half-burnt body
Sonepat, March 12
The Rai police have failed to
achieve any breakthrough so far in identifying the person whose
half-burnt body was recovered form the cremation ground at Badhkhalsa
village in the district on Wednesday.
Members of Surbhai family during a demonstration demanding boycott of politicans having more then two children at Jantar Mantar in the Capital.
— Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal |
NCR
briefs
Man
gets life term for killing father-in-law
New Delhi, March 12
A city court has sent a person
for life imprisonment for killing his father-in-law. Deepak, the
convict, killed Jyotish Mandal (father-in-law), on January 17, 1996,
by stabbing him.
Delhi
digest
Commemorative
function organised
New Delhi, March 12
The Chairman, Delhi Sikh
Education Council, Mr Vikramjit Singh Sahney, organised a
commemorative function recently on the occasion of the establishment
of Guru Teg Bahadur National Integration Chair at Punjabi University,
Patiala, at India International Centre here. The chair was established
at Punjabi University, Patiala in 1991-92, with the main objective to
propagate and promote all around the globe the sacrifices and high
ideals of great guru of human causes.
SPEAKING OUT
Mrs Balwant Kaur, a 75
years old woman, has a saving bank account with the Punjab National
Bank, N.I.T. Faridabad. She is a pensioner. This apart, she has a
joint-saving bank account with her son, which has savings exceeding Rs
two lakh.
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Rethinking the new vehicle
registration rules
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Is news all about
sensationalisation?
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Development without
planning
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Maintaining the sanctity of
exams
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Need for petrol pumps
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Giving a face-lift to ISBT
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Clarification on rail
concession
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