TOP STORIES

A virtual classroom & the schoolmaster is abroad
Gurgaon, May 3
Education of global standards has arrived in Gurgaon. The city has become a virtual classroom, where world-class academic courses are on offer, via global tie-ups. Only, the schoolmaster is abroad.

More students plump for private books
New Delhi, May 3
The students of class X and XII in particular are investing both time and money in expanding their knowledge through the books written and brought out by the private publishers.

Fare hangs in balance, commuter in the lurch
New Delhi, May 3
The Government of NCT of Delhi has deferred till Monday a decision on the quantum of hike in bus and autorickshaw fares when the Cabinet would meet to deliberate on the recommendations of the three-member committee constituted to consider the economic implications of the CNG price hike. Indications are revised fares would come into force by next weekend.

Triple murder: Faridabad cops groping in the dark
Faridabad, May 3
While the residents of Sector 31 here are in a `state of shock’ over the cold-blooded murder of three persons, including an eight-year-old girl, that took place here on Thursday, the police is clueless about the suspects and the cause of the killings. The SSP, Mr Ranbir Sharma, disclosed that although the police had interrogated some persons, including the husband of one of the victims, they had no clue about the assailants and their motive.

• Mystery death

• Sarpanch removed

Residents feel pigged off, Section 144 clamped
Gurgaon, May 3
Those who want to settle in the dream city of Gurgaon should put on their thinking cap. It is quite possible that they may have to live cheek by jowl with the porcine species. In fact, all towns in the district are plagued by pigs.

COMMUNITY

The activists of the Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress at a dharna demanding the removal of Mr Narender Modi as the Chief Minister of Gujarat in the Capital on Friday. — PTI Photo.

IN PARLIAMENT
Computer being made compulsory in Sanskrit education
New Delhi, May 3
Shri Lal Bahadur Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, a deemed university in the Capital, has prescribed computer application courses as a vocational subject for Shastri (BA) classes, the Minister of State for Human Resources Development, Prof Rita Verma, told the Rajya Sabha today.

Tourism chief’s bid to browbeat roadways staff
Rewari, May 3
The impounding of a Tata Sumo (HR 35B 5540) by the Haryana Roadways authorities here on April 30 led to an uproarious confrontation between the roadways employees and a prominent INLD leader and Chairman of Haryana Tourism, Mr Rao Inder Pal Singh, who is stated to be the incognito owner of the vehicle which had been illegally plying as a maxi-cab (taxi) between Rewari and Dharuhera for a long time.

Rohtak IG asks police to keep tabs on ‘deras’
Rohtak, May 3
The IG Police (Rohtak Range), Mr Resham Singh, has ordered immediate verification of the antecedents of the occupants of the ‘deras’ which have come up near many towns along the G. T. Road in the range.

3,000 phones go phut in Sonepat
Sonepat, May 3
More than 3,000 telephones went dead and the drinking water supply to the entire city of Sonepat remained paralysed for several hours when the district administration pressed into service JCB machines to remove encroachments and unauthorised structures on the public land near the Murthal Adda here today.

Cong govt hounding Akalis: Hit
New Delhi, May 3
Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) chief Avtar Singh Hit today sprang to the defence of his political mentor, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, echoing his charge that Punjab’s Congress government was implicating Akalis in “false cases”.

Need to spread awareness on plastic usage: Bandhu
New Delhi, May 3
The Delhi Minister for Environment and Forest, Mr Deep Chand Bandhu, today emphasised the need to spread awareness on the environmental and economic aspect of plastic usage, more so for the fact that its use has spread to the rural area.

Plan to improve water tables in Mahendragarh
Narnaul, May 3
The Haryana Government has formulated a time-bound project to improve the water tables of nearby villages of Hamidpur in Mahendragarh district by pumping canal water from the Hasanpur distributary into the dry Hamidpur Dam in the Narnaul subdivision before June 30, 2002.

Mafia felling trees
The fields in Mahendragarh district, the driest district of the state, are wearing a deserted look these days. Not a soul is seen in seen in the fields as the harvesting process has been completed. Taking advantage of this, the ‘forest mafia’ has become active and started felling trees on the roadsides.

Agencies stop procurement
Sonepat, May 3
Even as the arrivals of wheat at the grain markets in the district are continuing, reports say that the authorities of the procurement agencies have already stopped purchasing the stocks creating a glut. This has caused resentment not only among the farmers but also arhtias, who are now reluctant to buy the wheat marketed by the farmers.

• Farmers told not to bring wheat to mandis till May 8

SPEAKING OUT
Having served as a member of the Flying Squad of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak, for a number of years, I read with curiosity, the news titled “Flying squad asks examiner ‘to wink’ at copying” (NCR Tribune, April 30).

• Son missing for 8 years
• Thank you, NCR
• Refugees at home
• ‘Power terrorists’
• Diesel buses

A LABYRINTH OF CRISS- CROSSING PATHS.
— Tribune Photo Mukesh Aggarwal

NCR BRIEFS
Wage war on Pak to end terrorism: AIATF
Panipat, May 3
Blaming the ISI for the Gujarat riots, the president of the Haryana unit of the All-India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF), Dr Viresh Shandilya, today advocated war against Pakistan to curb cross-border terrorism.

• 2 women commit suicide
• Two die in mishaps
• Water works inaugurated