TOP STORIES

It may not be a cakewalk for Sheila
New Delhi, December 5
Delhi may have voted overwhelmingly for Sheila Dikshit but her detractors in the party are not so sure. With many contenders to the throne, the lobbying for the coveted chair and a berth in the Council of Ministers is only beginning to hot up.

ACP gets 6-month RI for role in murder of sex worker
New Delhi, December 5
A Delhi court has sentenced an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to rigorous imprisonment of six months and ordered him to pay a fine of Rs 15,000 for his role in the murder of a prostitute in 1996, even as it sentenced to life a mother-son duo for the crime.

Cable industry sets Dec 15 deadline for set-top boxes
New Delhi, December 5
The cable industry today set a deadline of December 15 for implementing the much-delayed Conditional Access System (CAS) in South Delhi even as the Union Government remained tight-lipped on whether it will appeal against the Delhi High Court order asking it to put the system in place.

BEJEWELLED BELLES: Bollywood actress Perizaad Zorabian with the models during the unveiling of latest collection of diamond jewellery by Inter Gold in the Capital on Friday. — Photo by Kamal Singh

An effigy of a commando at the International Security, Safety and Fire Exhibition 2003, being held at Pragati Maidan, in the Capital on Friday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

	Delhi votes for development December 5, 2003
	Cong or BJP, who’ll have the last laugh? December 4, 2003
	Waiting with bated breath… December 3, 2003
	Lazy Monday perks up at noon December 2, 2003
	NDMC cocks a snook at info booths on disabled December 1, 2003
	Are women only good for canvassing? November 30, 2003
	Are women only good for canvassing? November 29, 2003
	Bumper to bumper: Delhi grinds to a halt November 28, 2003
	Mobiles put voters within earshot of candidates November 27, 2003
	Flip-flop on test reports of petrol samples November 26, 2003

MDU Academic Planning Board gets nod; Ratnoo’s suspension okayed
Rohtak, December 5
The Executive Council of the Maharshi Dayanand University today approved the setting up of the Academic Planning Board. The issue had been pending since November 28, 1990, although the constitution of the board was mandatory under the University Act and the UGC rules.

Jathedar Rachpal Singh, president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Master Tara Singh), and Jaswinder Singh Honey, president of its youth wing, congratulating the DPCC president, Ch Prem Singh, on his victory in the Delhi Assembly elections.

Three perish in slum fire, 300 huts gutted
New Delhi: Over 300 hutments were gutted and three persons burnt to death in a fire in slum clusters of Kela Godown in Shalimar Bagh in the early hours today. The victims were identified as Reema (15), Kunti (12) and Sri Niwas (18); all of them were sleeping when the fire broke out.

CRIME SPIRAL
Trader abducted, Rs 2 lakh cheque encashed
Panipat, December 5
A handloom trader, Mr Charanjit Baluja, was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified persons on Wednesday. According to information, Charanjit, a resident of Bishan Sarup Colony, left for his handloom unit on Barsat Road in the morning on his motor cycle.

• Youth shot dead over petty row

COPS CLUELESS
No trace of missing girl students
Noida, December 5
The police have failed to develop a lead in connection with the four girl students who have been missing from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sector 24, since Tuesday afternoon.

COMMUNITY

Erratic canal water supply annoys farmers
Sonepat, December 5
Resentment prevails among farmers of Mauzam Nagar, Ridhao, Farmana and Nizampur Majra against the erratic supply of canal water and non-desilting and deweeding operations of three canal minors in the Kharkhauda area of this district.

Nine fair price shops blacklisted
Sonepat, December 5
The Food and Supplies Department has suspended the supply of rationed commodities to at least nine fair price shops in the city with immediate effect.

• Missing sarpanch

Goodbye stress, hello life!
Sonepat, December 5
The ‘art of living’ courses introduced recently in the city are increasingly finding favour with the businessmen and teachers alike.

SONEPAT
One killed as jeep collides with tractor-trolley
Sonepat, December 5
One person was killed and two were seriously injured when a jeep carrying them collided with a tractor-trolley on Sonepat-Gohana Road near a petrol pump of Barwasni village about 5 km from here today.

• Rally for water

• Life term for two

• ITI student attacked

DHBVN staff stage dharna
Faridabad, December 5
Hundreds of employees of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) staged a dharna outside the state government owned thermal power station in the NIT area here today in protest against the delay in acceptance and implementation of their pending demands.

NCR BRIEFS
Woman crushed to death
Jhajjar, December 5
A 40-year-old woman was reportedly crushed to death by a running Maruti car in Bhadani village of the district last Wednesday.

• Three killed in car accident

• Cyclist killed

• Foreign language courses

IN PARLIAMENT
High-speed coaches ready to be on track
New Delhi, December 5
New lightweight and high-speed coaches are ready for introduction in the Mumbai-New Delhi Rajdhani Express service shortly.

• Milk shortage

• 1,59,759 motorists fined

• Permission for felling trees

• MTNL services

BIRDS OF PASSAGE — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

SPEAKING OUT
In his article, "It is how you play the game that is important" (NCR, November 30), Mr M.P.K. Kutty has provided us with the views of Mahatma Gandhi, Prof K. D. Gangrade, a Gandhian philosopher and others about sin.

• Peace parleys with Pakistan: Need to be watchful

• Tips for successful life

• Protest through creativity

• World culture through communication

• Refugee who became PM

EDUCATION

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: A story of lost focus and purchases galore
Faridabad, December 5
The World Bank aided education scheme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, appears to be on a wayward track in the district. Although over Rs 1 crore have been spent, the authorities concerned have hardly any idea about the strategies and options required to achieve the target.

Orientation programme for examiners
Gurgaon, December 5
The bug of globalisation and the concomitant competitiveness appear to have bitten the Board of School Education, Haryana, which conducts school examinations in the state.

Schools to open a new chapter in life of the disabled
Jhajjar, December 5
To cater to the educational and other peculiar needs of the mentally and physically disabled children up to the age of five years, model schools would be opened in every district. The Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) would be engaged to make this programme a success.

Signature drive for lifting ban on students’ poll
Sonepat, December 5
The state unit of the Students Federation of India (SFI) has launched a statewide signature campaign in support of its demand for lifting the ban imposed by the government on elections to student unions. The ban was imposed more than five years ago.

Indraprastha V-C plans online exam system
New Delhi, December 5
Prof K K Aggarwal, who was appointed the founder Vice-Chancellor of GGS Indraprastha University, has been reappointed as Vice-Chancellor for five years.

SPORTS

Sanjay School drub Chopasni in Subroto Cup
New Delhi, December 5
Sanjay Public School, Chandigarh, toyed with Chopasni Senior Secondary School, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), 10-0 in a Group VIII match of the Subroto Mukherjee Cup Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Friday.

RCN eclipse Kranti Star in DDCA League
New Delhi, December 5
RCN defeated Kranti Star by 98 runs in an A-II Division match of the DDCA League at the RSC ground.

• Aviva Under-13 Cricket

• Frank Anthony enter final

• HT defeat Star

• Mithun Manhas retained Delhi skipper

India-Pak Veterans’ ODI in Delhi
New Delhi, December 5
The veteran cricketers of India and Pakistan will play an One-Day International (ODI) match at the Karnail Singh Stadium in Delhi on December 22.

• ESPN Star Corporate Cup

• Hudco triumph

Willes Little Flower bloom in Schools’ World Cup
New Delhi, December 5
Willes Little Flower Higher Secondary School, Bangladesh, scored a handsome 183-run victory against Delhi Public School (DPS), Vasant Kunj, in the DPS World Cup Invitational Cricket for Schools at the DDA Saket Sports Complex ground.

Sanjay Singh wins golf title

Sarpanches given cheques worth Rs 54 lakh
Sonepat, December 5
Mr Dev Raj Dewan, an independent MLA, distributed cheques amounting to Rs 54 lakh among sarpanches of 15 villages falling under the jurisdicton of the Sonepat assembly constituency.