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Schoolchildren rehearsing for the Republic Day parade on Rajpath in the Capital on Saturday.
—Tribune photo Mukesh Aggarwal |
CM harps on CNG failings
New Delhi, January 18
With only two weeks left for meeting the Supreme Court deadline, the Chief Minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit, today attacked the single fuel mode policy for public transport.
“We need to be assured that CNG is the fuel that will take us through the century,” she said addressing a seminar on Alternative Energy Driven Vehicles at the Auto Expo here.
Police corner three dreaded gangsters
Jhajjar, January 18
The district police claimed to have succeeded in solving several cases of murder, dacoity and looting with the arrest of three dreaded gangsters, identified as Hansraj of Charakhi Dadri, Kuldeep and Vinod of Goyala Kalan village, by the CIA wing near Bahadurgarh town today.
The collapse of a 3-storey building, KA-17, under construction in Koshambi, Ghaziabad’s zero distance colony from Delhi, has once again raised serious doubts about GDA’s ability to enforce building construction by laws, mandatory for all plot owners. In the mishap, eight construction workers perished and another twenty two were injured, following heavy downpour on Tuesday afternoon.
The under-construction three-storey building in Koshambi which collapsed, killing 8 labourers. |
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For Ambedkar’s sake
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Contributing one’s mite
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Red-tapism
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NCR BRIEFS
Family health fortnight to be observed in February
Rohtak, January 18
A `family health awareness fortnight’ will be observed from the first week of February, Deputy Commissioner Anil Malik has said. He was presiding over a meeting of the district level committee constituted for the purpose today. He said the programme would be sponsored by the Haryana AIDS Control Society.
- UHBVN cash counters
- 2 die, 11 hurt in mishaps
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2 youths hang themselves
to death
Noida, January 18
Two youths reportedly hanged themselves last night in the city. While one person took his life after he had a tiff with his wife on money, the other did so as he had lost his job. Their bodies have been sent for autopsy.
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