TOP STORIES

Most MPs skip BJP meet
New Delhi, March 30
What was intended to be a crucial meet, convened to analyse the Bharatiya Janata Party’s debacle in the MCD polls here today, turned out to be a lackluster affair with only two of the seven MPs from the Capital attending it, a clear reflection of the state of disunity within the state unit.

• Congress set to elect Mayor on Monday

NCR development model ever elusive
New Delhi, March 30
Even four decades after the National Capital Region was conceived, there seems to be no consensus on the model to be adopted for the development of the region, resulting in haphazard and unplanned growth of the area.

Here, councillors rather cross swords
Mahendergarh, March 30
The development works in Mahendergarh town have taken a back seat because of bickering between the elders in the Municipal Council. Some elders have levelled serious charges of corruption against the president of the 13-member local body, Mrs Shakuntala Mittal.

Crime-Busters
For ACP Meena, detection is all brain and little brawn
New Delhi, March 30
For twenty-nine-year-old R P Meena, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Operations), West district, murders, robberies and dacoities are mere puzzles which need to be solved. The clues are there, it is only a matter of finding them. And this is where research comes in.

Water babies beat the heat at Oysters in Appu Ghar. —Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal

Duty evasion racket in Rohtak
Rohtak, March 30
The district police claims to have exposed a nexus between transporters and officials of taxation department involving evasion of sales tax and excise duty. A few officials of the CID department and the RTA, too, are allegedly involved in the scandal that has rocked the district administration.

CAG raps Delhi Govt for fiscal mess
New Delhi, March 30
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has castigated the Delhi Government for financial mismanagement by overestimating both receipts and expenditures consistently. 

Noida power scene grim
Noida, March 30
Noida is fast turning into a no-power town despite being touted as a no power cut zone by the successive chiefs of the electricity department. Due to the failure of two power houses, Noida has been starved of power for the last fortnight. The power shortage is worse in residential sectors.

• Bid to decongest Mathura Road

COMMUNITY

Role of media crucial in communal tension: PCI
Rewari March 30
Justice K Jaya Chandra Reddy, Chairman of the Press Council of India, today inaugurated the Media Meet, organised by the value-based media wing of Brahma Kumaris at their Om Shanti Retreat Centre (ORC) near Bilaspur Chowk on Patandi Road, about 30 km from here.

Holi passes off peacefully in the Capital
New Delhi, March 30
No untoward incident was reported in the Capital on the occasion of Holi on Friday, as police had taken precaution and informed the revellers through different means that strict action would be taken if anybody tried to misuse the festival.

GETTING AWAY
The pinnacle of adventure for mountain lovers
Garhwal or the land of many ‘garhs’, meaning forts, is around six hours drive from the national capital. Situated 250 kilometres north of New Delhi, in the western end of the mighty Himalayan mountains on the western side, it borders the present state of Himachal Pradesh. 

Sonepat remains waterless for hours
Sonepat, March 30
The entire city of Sonepat with a population of more than 2 lakh remained waterless for several hours today following the disruption in drinking water supply as a result of the damage caused to the electricity transformer by a truck driver in the Murthal Adda area here on Friday night.

SEARCH WITHIN
Resurrecting the Lord and what he stands for
“The fear of death is so natural to man that all life is one long effort not to think about it,’’ declared Dr Samuel Johnson, lexicographer and author, who himself was haunted by the fear of death all his life. ``He never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.’’

Rai engineer’s transfer hailed
Sonepat, March 30
The representatives of various farmers organisations including the Bharatiya Kisan Union, the Farmers Forum and the Kisan Morcha today hailed the decision of the state government for ordering the transfer of Mr Gulab Singh Narwal, Executive Engineer of the Rai Water Service Division to Panipat and demanded a high-level probe into the complaints about the bungling in the public funds.

NCR BRIEFS
Employees give Holi the go-by in Rohtak
Rohtak, March 30
The impact of Union Budget on the salaried class was quite visible during the festival of colours on Friday. It was a very low-key affair.

Four killed Road mishaps Cop arrested

Aid to poor women Holla Mohalla

CRIME

Teacher booked for cheating
Sonepat, March 30
The Sadar police have registered a case against a woman teacher Sunita Dahiya of D.C. Jain Senior Secondary School Sonepat under Sections 419, 420 and 170 IPC (cheating and impersonation) and started investigations into it.

Senior Deputy Mayor, wife suspended
Faridabad, March 30
The senior Deputy Mayor of Faridabad, Mr Shiv Charan Lal Sharma, and his wife, Maya Sharma, both corporators, who had been recently booked in a case of fraud, have been placed under suspension. The suspension orders have been passed by the Commissioner, Gurgaon Range, under Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994.

Forest  officials in the dock
Rohtak, March 30
The people caught ‘red-handed’ some employees of the Forest Department, who allegedly felled several trees in the forest adjacent to the Lakhan Majra village on Friday.

MCD JE, peon held
New Delhi, March 30
The CBI has arrested a Junior Engineer and a peon of the MCD on charges of accepting Rs 10,000 from a shopkeeper for extending some official favour. The engineer, Madan Mohan Kaushik, was caught red-handed by the CBI on Thursday while allegedly demanding and accepting Rs 10,000 from complainant, Yogesh Sharma, in his shop in Seelampur in North-East district in the presence of independent witnesses, CBI spokesman said.

Man kills friend by serving  poisonous drink
New Delhi, March 30
A resident of Sarai Rohilla, Vikram, allegedly killed his friend, Gurjeet, by serving drink laced with poisonous substance in his residence on Friday. Vikram and Gurjeet were good friends and were partners in a musical group. But Gurjeet had some misunderstanding and separated his work.

BUSINESS

CAD system to change fortunes of Panipat’s textile industry 
Panipat, March 30
Textile designing here is on the threshold of a revolution with the Weavers’ Service Centre, an organisation of the Ministry of Textiles, getting the state-of-the-art Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system.

HEALTH

BODY & MIND
Meet on advances in cancer cure
A two-day international conference on ‘Management of breast and colorectal cancer’ began at the Le Meridien hotel here on Saturday. About 300 delegates from India, Canada, France, UK and USA are participating in the conference organised by Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.

IFH meet in mid-April Simple TB therapy

For a lasting smile

SPORTS

Arjun Atwal gets top billing
New Delhi, March 30
Arjun Atwal has been given the top billing ahead of the current Order of Merit leader Mukesh Kumar in the Rs 10-lakh SRF All-India Matchplay Championship, which begins at the Delhi Golf Club course on April 1.

Daily dozen essential for perfect health

New Delhi, March 30 What every sportsperson and health conscious individual must do to maintain perfect health is regular exercise which is “essential for achieving excellence in health”. Appreciating the concept of Health Parade, Dr SCL Gupta, president of the Delhi Medical Association (DMA), emphasised the need for taking regular exercise for maintaining perfect health.  Yogic exercises to be in the pink.

Boxing ring inaugurated 
Faridabad, March 30
Mr R.S. Dalal, IG, Gurgaon range, inaugurated an International standard boxing ring at DAV Public School, Sector 124, here on Friday. Mr Dalal, who is also the President of All India Boxing Federation, said that the outdoor sports and games like boxing ought to promoted at school levels, so that the talent in the filed could be identified and provided proper motivation and support.

NIIT topple holders HDFC
New Delhi, March 30
NIIT upset defending champions HDFC by six wickets to enter the semi-final of the ninth Teri Cup Cricket Tournament at the Teri Oval. The man responsible for NIIT’s handsome victory was Ashish Sachdeva, who claimed five wickets for 18 runs, to wreck the batting line-up of HDFC.

Dixit bowls IAF to win

Ajmal Khan win