New Delhi, November 11
About 200 dwellings were destroyed when a major fire broke out in a jhuggi cluster in east Delhi's Ghazipur on Monday. No one was injured in the incident, police said.

The incident was reported at around 5.35 pm. A fire officer added that it was brought under control by 27 fire tenders and some water tankers in around two hours.

"Flammable items like wood, clothes and plastic were stored in the area which made the blaze difficult to contain," the officer said. While the exact cause of the fire is yet to be established, the fire department suspects that it may have begun due to a shortcircuit.

As the fire started, the residents of the jhuggis fled to save their lives, but they lost their clothes, money, food and furniture in the fire.

Temporary camps have been set up in the area for the locals. "We are providing food, medicines and other facilities as the entire jhuggi cluster has been gutted," the officer added.

Similar fires have been reported thrice in the area in the past. While 500 dwellings were gutted in January 2012, 100 dwellings were destroyed in 2010.

New Delhi, November 11
The BJP has launched a 3-D virtual life video rath for campaigning in which a viewer can see himself sitting with the leader he listens to. The party has two such raths which will be moved in all the 70 constituencies.

"The rath was fabricated by a Gujarat-based commercial agency. The technology has been imported from abroad. Earlier, it was used in the assembly elections in Gujarat. Now it is being used in Delhi, said Ashish Sood, campaign committee convenor of the party.

The rath has speeches of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, chief ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan, the leader of the opposition in Delhi Legislative Assembly Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Delhi BJP chief Vijay Goel.

To operate the rath, a team 15 persons have been brought from Gujarat. The rath will be stopped at important places in each constituency where visuals of speeches of Modi, Vardhan and other leaders will be showed. This is an easy way to spread the leaders' messages. The latest technology will help the party campaign better, Sood said.

Sunny Bhatt, one of the team members from Gujarat, said, "We do not know the local leaders. We just have videos of their speeches to show them at important points. A complete team has come from Gujarat to manage the rath."

Goel said, "The villages of Delhi are still being governed by laws made more than a hundred years ago. The Congress government has done nothing except paying lip service. The villagers are still struggling to get civic amenities like schools, hospitals, railway reservation counters, water and power, road transport and even toilets."

Goel promised all-round development of the villages if the BJP is voted to power.

New Delhi, November 11
The Congress Pradesh Committee today released the first list of candidates for the Delhi Assembly elections to be held on December 4.

The names of the candidates are: Jaswant Singh, Narela; SP Singh, Timarpur; Mangar Ram Singhal, Adarsh Nagar; Devendra Yadav, Badli; Surender Kumar, Bawana (SC); Naresh Kumar, Mundka; Amit Malik, Kirari; Jai Kishan, Sultanpur Majra (SC); Bijender Singh, Nangloi Jat; Raj Kumar Chauhan, Mangol Puri (SC); Naresh Kumar Gupta, Shalimar Bagh; SC Vats, Shakur Basti; Anil Bhardwaj, Tri Nagar; Hari Shankar Gupta, Wazirpur; Kanwar Karan Singh, Model Town; Rajesh Jain, Sadar Bazar; Prahlad Sawhney, Chandni Chowk; Mirza Javed Ali, Matia Mahal; Haroon Yusuf, Ballimaran; Madan Khorewal, Karol Bag ( SC); Rajesh Lilothia, Patel Nagar (SC); Sushil Gupta, Moti Nagar; Mala Ram Gangwal, Madipur (SC); Surender Kumar Setia, Hari Nagar; Nand Kishore, Vikas Puri; Mukesh Sharma, Uttam Nagar; Sumesh Shokeen, Matiala; Vijay Singh Lochav, Bijwasan; Ashok Kumar Jain, Delhi Cantt; Ramakant Goswami, Rajinder Nagar; Sheila Dikshit, New Delhi; Talwinder Marwah, Jangpura; Neeraj Basoya, Kasturba Nagar; Kiran Walia, Malviya Nagar; Barkha Singh, RK Puram; Yoganand Shastri, Mehrauli; Balram Tanwar, Chhatrpur; Arvinder Singh, Deoli (SC); Ch Prem Singh, Ambedkar Nagar (SC); Subhash Chopra, Kalkajit; Ram Singh Netaji, Badarpur; Asif Mohd Khan, Okhla; Amrish Singh Gautam, Kondli (SC); Anil Kumar, Patparganj; AK Walia, Laxmi Nagar; Naseeb Singh, Vishwas Nagar; Vinod Monga, Krishna Nagar; Arvinder Singh, Gandhi Nagar; Narendra Nath, Shahdara; VS Dhingan, Seemapuri (SC); Vipin Sharma, Rohtas Nagar; Bisham Sharma, Ghonda; Zakir Khan, Babarpur; Balzoor Singh, Gokalpur (SC); Hasan Ahmed, Mustafabad.

New Delhi, November 11
On the second day of its Jhadu Chalao Yatra today, leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by the party's national convenor Arvind Kejriwal travelled through four assembly constituencies - Seemapuri, Gokulpuri, Mustafabad and Karawal Nagar in northeast Delhi.

Arvind, who was accompanied by party candidates from these constituencies - Dharmender Singh Koli (Seemapuri), Devi Dayal Murtiwale (Gokulpuri), Kapil Dhama (Mustafabad) and Kapil Mishra (Karawal Nagar) - started the rally around 10 am from the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in the Dilshad Garden area.

Later in the evening, the party chief also addressed public gatherings in Shahdara and the Gandhi Nagar area. "People of Delhi want an honest political alternative in the form of AAP. People were keenly reading party's announcements and were also inquiring about the party's plans from the volunteers," said Arvind.

One of the first areas that yatra covered today was the Sunder Nagri area, home to Santosh - one of party's oldest volunteers who died earlier this year after the motorcycle she was riding pillion was hit by an unidentified vehicle.

Sunder Nagri and Nand Nagri are the areas where Kejriwal, along with other activists, had started working on social issues, including spreading awareness about the use of RTI for seeking accountability from the government.

"When yatra passed through the Sunder Nagri area, local people recounted to Kejriwal and other party leaders, how they together with Parivartan had put an end to corruption in Public Distribution System of foodgrain in their area," said party leaders.

New Delhi, November 11
A Delhi Police Sub-Inspector and four other men have been arrested for allegedly leaking an examination of the Staff Selection Commission.

The accused have been identified as Amit, Rahul Dabas, Manoj Verma, Ajay Kumar and Kuldeep. They were arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday morning for allegedly running a cheating racket of leaking the question papers of the Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) Examination-2013, which is conducted by the Staff Selection Commission at the all India level.

The police said that Ajay is presently posted as a Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police at the Outer District. Manoj who has already been selected in SSC's Assistant Grade Exam was allegedly involved in a similar scam in the past and was also arrested earlier. Amit was selected in SSC's LDC/Data entry operator's exam and has been allotted the post of LDC in the government press at Mayapuri, Delhi. He was waiting to join the organisation.

The police had raided a farm house at Nizam Pur Road at the instance of an informer. At the farmhouse, the police saw seven persons using mobiles. Five of them were apprehended, but two others escaped. "One of the absconding persons is reported to be working in the Railway Protection Force as a Sub-Inspector. The other one is the brother of one of the apprehended persons," said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.

According to Yadav, the accused claimed that they were sending the answer keys of the question paper through mobile phones to the candidates appearing for the exam.