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Not confident on Muslim turf, Goel moves to Sadar
New Delhi, March 14
The Union Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs Vijay Goel today officially moved to the Delhi Sadar constituency to contest elections, leaving the Chandni Chowk seat vacant. Goel had been elected to the Lok Sabha from the Sadar constituency in 1996, when he defeated the Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.

A fortified FCI building in the Capital, where DU teachers had converged on Sunday to voice their protest against the holding of an interview for the post of principal. — A Tribune photograph

MBBS examinee asked to take maths exam
New Delhi, March 14
The Central district police today claimed to have busted a fake Mumbai institute, which was conducting Combined Aptitude Test (CAT) exams for admissions to professional courses like MBBS, BDS, BE, MCA and MBA in Paharganj.

Cheat infiltrates exam hall as invigilator
Ghaziabad, March 14
The basic education officer, Sahibabad, has identified a cheat who masqueraded as a teacher and obtained a fake examination duty slip from the basic education office.

• 59 cases of copying detected

The second annual " Walk for Autism" was held to raise funds for the National Centre For Autism in the Capital on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

5 lakh fail to make it to Capital’s electoral list
New Delhi, March 14
Amid recriminations over bogus voters, nearly five lakh applicants in Delhi have failed to make it to the electoral list, updated for the coming Lok Sabha polls here. Cumbersome paper work, leading to mistakes in filling of forms by the applicants, is the main reason for keeping this large chunk of potential voters out of the electoral exercise, sources in the Election Commission said.

1st polio case of this year in Bulandshahr
Bulandshahar, March 14
The Bulandshahr district has the dubious distinction of recording the first confirmed polio case of the year. The victim is two-year-old Mujahid.

• Doctor stabbed to death in Dholana

NCR SPECIAL
Is Delhi demagnetised
New Delhi, March 14
The concept of a National Capital Region comprising the contiguous districts of UP, Haryana and Rajasthan was intended to create a demographic magnet to draw the Delhi populace to these satellite towns and thus decongest the national Capital. Quite the opposite has happened and today two of Delhi’s nine districts—North-east and Central — are the most densely populated in the whole country.

COMMUNITY

Dug-up roads take a heavy toll on phone services
Faridabad, March 14
The entry of the private service providers in the fields like telecom has been a welcome move for many, but the process of laying the infrastructure causes inconvenience to many a resident.

• Beef seized

Lt-Governor Vijai Kapoor inaugurates the Annual Convocation Function of the Institute of Marketing & Management while media personality Pratibha Advani looks on in the Capital on Sunday. — Photo by Kamal Singh

Sonepat breaks new ground in mushroom cultivation
Sonepat, March 14
Sonepat has become a leading centre for growing mushroom not only in India, but in Asia as well. The district has witnessed a six-time increase in the mushroom production and three times in the number of crop trays during the last 12 years.

Three labourers cheat death as house collapses
New Delhi, March 14
Three labourers were buried under the debris of a two-storied house which collapsed this morning at Palam village in South-West district. The victims were rescued jointly by personnel of the Delhi Police and Fire Brigade.

Old man dies in hit-and-run mishap on GT Road
Sonepat, March 14
An old man was hit and killed by a car on the GT Road near Bhigan village, about 10 km from here, last night.

• Body recovered

• Family of three hurt

• Man pushed out from train

• Youth assaulted

The might of Punjabi vote underscored
Bhiwani, March 14
The Punjabi community held a meeting here today that wanted its people to know the might of their vote.

Govt urged to free Sikh youths jailed under TADA
New Delhi, March 14
The president of the All India Shiromani Gurdwara Sewadar Committee, Mr Raja Singh Sethi, today demanded that the Union Government should reconsider the cases of Sikh youths detained in prisons under TADA after Operation Blue Star.

Seven years’ RI for two in dowry death case
Sonepat, March 14
The District and Sessions Judge here, Mr B. L. Singal, yesterday sentenced two accused, namely Luxmi Chand and his wife Savitri, of Aghwanpur village under the Ganaur police station area of this district to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment and fined them Rs 4,000 each in a dowry death case.

• No let-up in power cuts

Delhi digest
CAT notice to Delhi Govt on nurses’ plea
New Delhi, March 14
The Central Administrative Tribunal has issued a show-cause notice to the Delhi Government on a petition seeking quashing of termination of the services of some nurses. These nurses were working with different hospitals in Delhi. CAT has ordered the Delhi Government to reply by March 22 into this matter.

• Seller of fake drugs held
  
  

• Cops take a day to reach suicide ‘spot’