IN PARLIAMENT
1071 colonies unauthorised in Capital
New Delhi, March 18
There are about 1071 unauthorised colonies in the Capital with an estimated 30 lakh people residing in them, informed the Minister of State for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, Mr Bandaru Dattatreya in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
Fiscal bungling afflicts Noida
Noida, March 18
The lack of discipline in most of the departments in Noida and the resultant increase in the financial crimes has brought into focus the working, fiscal control and accounting system of various departments.
FACE TO FACE
‘I want to help the Punjabis by giving them a broad outlook’
He is a man of different feats - from horse racing to providing education to the deprived sections of society. Many have heard about
him, but very little is known about the different facets of this industrialist, who just does not shy away from social service.
PHD programme to augment water supply in Panipat
Panipat, March 18
Under its water supply augmentation plan, the Public Health Department(PHD) has launched a crash programme to augment water supply in 104 villages and Panipat, as well as Samalkha Municipal towns of the district, with the aim to make available 70 litres of water per day per head.
Public help sought to check graft
Faridabad, March 18
The District Authorities have appealed to the residents to cooperate in its endeavour to check corruption and bring transparency in the work of various departments.
NCR BRIEFS
Stolen cars, jewellery recovered in Rohtak
Rohtak, March 18
The police recovered four stolen cars, a motorcycle, a scooter, an autorickshaw, iron pipes and jewellery. A police spokesman said an accused Rajesh, admitted his involvement in the theft of four cars which were later recovered by the police from Pali district in Rajasthan.
- Woman, girl Killed
- Training camp
- Fire in Refinery
- Driver beaten
- Armyman cremated
- Fund released
- Eye operation camp
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- Anti-Polio camp
- Membership campaign
- Copying menace
- Employees assaulted
- Dhayan
Sadhna shivir
- Theft
in temple
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Tempo turns turtle; 10 injured
Sonepat, March 18
At least 10 persons were injured, two of them seriously, when a tempo carrying them overturned on the Sonepat-Kakroi Road here last evening.
According to a report, the tempo was packed to capacity and it was on its way from Bhadana village to the city.
Yoganand Shastri relieved
New Delhi, March 18
“Relieved” at being given a clean chit by the Lokayukta in the inquiry conducted into allegations of corruption in Delhi Consumer Co-operative Wholesale Store, former Civil Supplies Minister of the Government of NCT of Delhi, Dr Yoganand Shastri, on Monday said the “episode was a political vendetta … a conspiracy hatched by political opponents within and outside the party to tarnish my political and social image and reputation.”
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