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Tearful farewell to the lost sentinels
New Delhi, December 14
Amid poignant scenes of grieving relatives, trying to put up a brave face, the bodies of the four Delhi Police personnel were handed over to the relatives with full honours. Shots of a14-gun salute reverberated in honour of the policemen who thwarted the designs of the terrorists, before making the supreme sacrifice in a bid to protect the hallowed precincts of Parliament.

The bullet marks on Parliament wall. 

 The bullet marks on Parliament wall.
The caskets containing the bodies of the Delhi policemen.
The caskets containing the bodies of the Delhi policemen.		 A blood-splattered car.
A blood-splattered car.

 

 

EARLIER STORIES
 

Wiser, Govt deploys Delhi Police at New Secretariat
New Delhi, December 14
The immediate fallout of the high alert, sounded in the wake of Thursday’s storming of Parliament House, has been the deployment of Delhi Police personnel at the New Secretariat of the Government of NCT of Delhi. Instructions have been issued for the setting up of a barbed-wire fence around the Old Secretariat for securing the Delhi Assembly.

Wall of contention on HUDA green belt 
Gurgaon, December 14
The residents of posh Sector 14 are sulking due to the ‘neglect’ of their area by the authorities. They are particularly sore with the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) over its move to set up a wall across the green belt in front of the sector.

CBI arrests five MCD engineers
New Delhi, December 14
The CBI has arrested five junior MCD engineers for causing a revenue loss of lakhs of rupees to the corporation by colluding with the contractors. The arrested persons were identified as H G Saxena, A K Jain, Baljit Singh, J P Singh and Manoj Kumar, the agency said.

IN PARLIAMENT
 Super Bazar not closed down yet
New Delhi, December 14
Super Bazar has not been closed so far, the Minister for State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Mr V. Sreenivasa Prasad informed the Rajya Sabha today.

 
COMMUNITY

Winter of discontent for power-hit Ghaziabad 
Ghaziabad, December 14
The power scene in Ghaziabad, already going from bad to worse, seems to have taken another severe beating due to the breakdown in power plants at Anapara, Parichha near Jhansi and Harduaganj.

Sonepat farmers thirst for water
Sonepat, December 14
The state government has spent lakhs of rupees on the cleaning operations of the canals and other distributaries in Rai Water Service Division of the irrigation department this year, but the position has hardly improved as water is yet to reach the tail-end villages and fields of the farmers.

Shopping mall on school land?
Noida, December 14
Hundreds of residents of Chaura Raghunathpur village have been sitting on a dharna in front of Ghandhi Memorial High School in Sector 1 here for the last four days against the decision of the school management and principal Jaswant Singh Tyagi to build shops on the school land.

Heavy penalty awaits polluting units: Board
Gurgaon, December 14
Mr H. S. Bains, Chairman, Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB), has appealed to the industrialists here to seek consent/exemption from the department immediately as it is going to impose heavy penalty on the units falling under its purview, and had not applied for the same.

SONEPAT
 Centre gives 466 vehicles to police
THE Central Government has provided as many as 466 new vehicles to Haryana to combat the activities of the dreaded criminals and anti-social elements. This was stated by Mr M. S. Malik, State DGP, while receiving the key of a vehicle, costing Rs 6 lakh, donated by the District Red Cross Society at a function held on the premises of the PWD (B&R) Rest House here Thursday evening.

  • 2 Hurt in assault
  • Adulterated food

SPEAKING OUT
Pensioner cries foul, demands justice
I retired as Accounts Officer on July 31,1978, from the Treasuries and Accounts Organisation of the Himachal Pradesh Government. An application for revision of my pension was sent on September 29,1998. The pension was revised wrongly by the Additional Secretary (Finance)-cum-Director of the T & A Organisation.

  • Wake-up call for leather industry

  • Lack of amenities

  • Threat to SSIs

  • Good coverage

  • Need for bridge

  • Bedi for Kabul?

 
CRIME

Thieves decamp with safe
Faridabad, December 14
Some unidentified persons made their way into a shop at Anaj Mandi of Ballabgarh town on Thursday night and decamped with a safe containing Rs 80000.

JE held for taking bribe
Faridabad, December 14
A Junior Engineer (JE) of the block development office at Palwal town in the district was arrested Thursday by vigilance officials while accepting a ‘bribe.’ The accused identified as Dharmender Kalra, a JE, had asked for graft for clearing the payment of Rajju, a contractor.

BUSINESS

Trade body flays luxury tax
New Delhi, December 14
The imposition of luxury tax under the Commodities Act by the Delhi Government has come under sharp attack from industrial houses in the National Capital Region as they feel it goes against the principles of value added tax (VAT) agreed upon by state governments.
 
COURTS

Car licence can’t be linked to power dues
Rohtak, December 14
The Rohtak civil judge, Ms Madhu Khanna, has ruled that the refusal to renew a driving licence on the failure of the applicant to produce a ‘no-due certificate’ from the electricity department was unjust, arbitrary and against the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

 
SPORTS

Dushan Deo – A tennis man for all seasons
New Delhi, December 14
When 17-year-old Amanjot Singh of Chandigarh, in a fit of on-court rage, questioned Dushan Deo, “Who are you?”, it was a moment of ‘awakening’ for the 59-year-old tennis official. “Who, indeed, am I”, wondered the veteran official, after spending a lifetime for the cause of tennis. Such is the irony of life.

Idea Factory team win ESPN Star quiz contest
New Delhi, December 14
The Idea Factory team comprising Chitranjan Aggarwal and Rahul Chadha emerged the winners in the first round of the Corporate Challenger Quiz conducted by ESPN Star Sports.



The winners of the ESPN Star Sports Corporate Quiz contest with commentator Charu Sharma and ESPN MD Manu Sawhney

 The winners of the ESPN Star Sports Corporate Quiz contest with commentator Charu Sharma and ESPN MD Manu Sawhney

BSF, CRPF corner titles in Police Games
New Delhi, December 14
Sports persons from Border Security Force (BSF) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) excelled in the 50th All-India Police Games, cornering most of the medals at stake, at the Chhawla Campus here on Friday. BSF annexed the team titles in judo, free style wrestling, gymnastics and boxing. 

Delhi push Haryana into a corner
New Delhi, December 14
Delhi pushed Haryana into a tight corner on the second day of the North Zone Under-22 Cricket League match at Harbaksh Stadium here on Friday.

ADMINISTRATION

Licences of 26 brick kilns cancelled
Sonepat, December 14
The Food and Supplies Department has cancelled the licences of at least 26 brick kilns and suspended the licences of eight others in Sonepat district during the current financial year following the detection of irregularities in their working.

Two JEs suspended for hiking estimates
Jhajjar, December 14
Two junior engineers of the Irrigation Department here have been suspended on the charges of making expenditure estimates for desilting three minor canals in the district disproportionate to the actual workload.

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