TOP STORIES

Noida continues to simmer,
rail roko on
Greater Noida, January 18
Over two dozen people were injured in fresh violence in Kasna police post and a number of government and private vehicles were torched. Some 50 persons have been arrested and another 250 named for riots in the Greater Noida area.

In video: Security tightened at Noida and Greater Noida. (28k, 56k)

Court seeks review of 70-yr-old colonial notification
New Delhi, January 18
The Delhi Police cannot arrest anyone on the charge of criminal intimidation, following a directive of the Delhi High Court to the Delhi Government, asking it to quash Section 506 of the IPC (criminal intimidation), a 70-year-old notification. The final decision is pending with the city government on the “necessity” of its continuation.

Bride says ‘no’ to drunk groom
Meerut, January 18
A groom had to pay a heavy price for a bout of drinking: The would-be-wife, infuriated on finding him in an inebriated condition in the marriage pandal, refused to marry him. Miffed over having been rebuffed, the drunk baratis ransacked the banquet hall and also allegedly beat up several ‘ladkiwale’.

Murder Most Foul
Mystery of three burnt bodies cracked
New Delhi, January 18
With the arrest of five persons, including a woman, the South district police today claimed to have solved a triple murder case reported on January 4 in the Surajkund area in Faridabad in which three dead bodies were found in a burnt condition.

IN A NUTSHELL
Power officials beaten up
Jhajjar: Three employees of the electricity office at Matanhale were reportedly beaten up by some persons of Mundahera village yesterday. According to information, a team of UHBVN raided a house in the village and caught two persons for stealing electricity.

• Carjackers strike on Gurgaon road

• Lukewarm response

NEGLIGENCE
Aged woman locked up in bank locker
Sonepat, January 18
An aged woman, Mrs Raj Rani of New Colony, was locked up in the locker room by an employee of the Bank of Baroda on the Railway Road here yesterday.

POLITICS

BJP committee to press party High Command to snap ties with INLD
Sonepat, January 18
The Haryana BJP has constituted an 11-member committee for pressing the party ‘High Command’ to scrap the alliance with the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in the state before the forthcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.

An NCC cadet at a horseshow in the Capital on Sunday.  NCC cadets from abroad at a horseshow in the Capital on Sunday. — Tribune photos by Mukesh Aggarwal An antique exhibit at the 7th Auto Expo being held at Pragati Maidan in the Capital. — A Tribune photograph

Unauthorised use of LPG cylinders as officials look the other way
Sonepat, January 18
Contrary to claims made by the district administration and the authorities of Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petroleum, there has been no let up in the unauthorised use and black marketeering of the LPG cylinders in this city and elsewhere in the district.

Trains delayed due to fog
Sonepat, January 18
Rail traffic on the Delhi-Ambala-Kalka (DuK) section of the Northern Railway continued to remain disrupted today due to heavy fog. Both long distance and suburban trains were running behind schedule, stranding large number of passengers at Sonepat and nearby railway stations.

NGO to take up girl trafficking cases with Amnesty
Faridabad, January 18
The Shakti Vahini, an NGO involved in taking up the causes of women, has decided to take up the matter of the ‘increasing number’ of the cases of girl trafficking in Haryana with the organisations like Amnesty International and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

‘Onion supplies, prices to be normal soon’
New Delhi, January 18
Prices of onion are likely to come down in the next few days following improvement in weather and resumption of near-normal supplies from other states, according to Mr Rajinder Sharma, general secretary of Potato and Onion Merchants Association at Ch. Hira Singh Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market in Azadpur Sabzi Mandi, the largest wholesale vegetable market in Asia.

Special Focus on SONEPAT
CM lays foundation stone of Rs 60 cr fruit, vegetable market
Sonepat, January 18
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Parkash Chautala, claimed that the government had spent Rs 1,000 crore on the various development schemes in Sonepat district during the last four years. This was stated by the Chief Minister while laying the foundation stone of a Rs 60 crore modern fruit and vegetable market at Rai, about 15 km from here yesterday.

Stir threat as power crisis snowballs
Sonepat, January 18
The power crisis in the villages falling under the jurisdiction of Murthal, Ganaur and Kharkhauda sub-divisions in this district has worsened. The students preparing for the their annual examinations have been forced to use lamps and candles.

NCR BRIEFS
One shot dead in Bahadurgarh
Jhajjar, January 18
One person was reportedly shot dead by two unidentified assailants in Bahadurgarh town on January 16 evening.

• Three bikes stolen

• Loadshedding

• Meditation Day

EDUCATION

SCHOOL BUZZ
Focus on mental health to tackle aggression in schools
The recent incident of stabbing involving two school boys of a reputed school in Delhi has brought the spotlight on the need for focussing on the mental health of the students.

Union Minister Vijay Goel interacting with MCD schoolchildren and assuring them of all facilities to lift the standard of education in government schools.

• Shah of Pathways blazes a trail

• Let schools frame their own syllabi

Principalspeak
Our disposition matters, not our position
It takes both rain and sunshine to create a rainbow. Our lives are no different. There is happiness and sorrow, the good and the bad, the dark and the bright spots. We cannot control all events that happen in our lives, but we can control how to deal with them. It is not our position but our disposition that determines our destiny.

COURTS

MLA accused of amassing property
New Delhi, January 18
A West Delhi Resident Welfare Association (RWA) has filed a complaint before Lokayukt, alleging that their local MLA Mukesh Sharma of Congress accumulated property worth crores of rupees after becoming the MLA in 1993.