New Delhi, November 2
Delhi has achieved its target in respect of installation of set top box (STB), ensuring the smooth transmission to digital addressable system (DAS). The last date for getting the box installed was October 31.

Chief Secretary P. K. Tripathi said that the Union Government took the decision of switching over from the existing analogue cable television network to the DAS. The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995, was then amended making, inter alia, mandatory switchover of the analogue cable television network in Delhi. There will be a complete blackout of cable TV for the viewers who do not have the set top box.

The Chief Secretary said that the DAS system essentially means that all the television channels on cable networks would be in digital (encrypted form) and a viewer of cable television will require an STB to be attached to his TV set in order to watch programmes.

Any complaints regarding carrying signal on analogue mode should be made to the SDM concerned.

The contact numbers and e-mail addresses of the SDMs are available at the Divisional Commissioner, Delhi website.

Besides, the Department of Excise, Entertainment and Luxury Taxes has set up a control room to receive complaints about overcharging for providing a set top box.  The control room will be headed by an assistant entertainment tax officer and the complaint may be made during the office hours between 9.30 am and 6.00 pm on the telephone number 23370262.

New Delhi, November 2
The three municipal corporations have confirmed 39 fresh cases of dengue in the Capital today, taking the cumulative figure for the vector-borne disease to 1,096.

Among the people whose cases were reported, 37 came from the municipal corporations, one was reported from the VVIP area while another from outside Delhi.

Two children have so far succumbed to dengue ever since the disease began spreading in the Capital early this month.

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation reported the maximum number of cases at 359, while 407 cases were detected from the North Delhi Municipal Corporation area and 279 cases have so far been reported from the East Delhi Municipal Corporation. The remaining cases were from the New Delhi Municipal Council and Delhi Cantonment areas.

New Delhi, November 2
A 21-year-old Delhi University student was shot dead while his father critically injured allegedly by a man in the Patel Nagar area of Central Delhi last night. The deceased was identified as Manish Singh Chaudhary.

His father, Rajvir (45), is a businessman. Manish was a second year student of Motilal Nehru College and lived with his family in Ranjit Nagar, said the police.— TNS