TOP STORIES

Video trials: Tihar inmates need not go to court
New Delhi, March 25
The Central Jail (Tihar) premises will now be constantly monitored with the aid of CCTVs, to thwart any more attempts at escape. Also, now the jails would be linked to the courts. The decision to install CCTVs was taken after Sher Singh Rana, the main accused in the murder of Samajwadi Party MP Phoolan Devi, escaped from the prison with the help of a policeman.

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70-year-old woman smothered to death
New Delhi, March 25
A seventy-year-old woman was found murdered in her house this morning in Arjun Nagar in the Sarojini Nagar area of South-West district. The house had been ransacked. The victim, Rajrani (70), a retired employee of the Delhi government, was alone at her house when the incident occurred.

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Metro’s Rithala section to open without fuss 
New Delhi, March 25
While the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is yet to finalise its decision on a fare hike, it has announced the opening of the Inderlok-Rithala section of the Metro on March 31, but without any fanfare or elaborate inaugural ceremony. The new leg of the Metro will increase the total length of Delhi Metro line in the Capital to 20.974 kms. 

Willow talk: Former Indian captain Mohd. Azharuddin entertains the crowd at a Connaught Place street corner in the Capital on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

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NDMC forced to part with prime land
New Delhi, March 25
The Land and Development office of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has decided to hand over about10 acres of prime land, in front of Birla Mandir on Mandir Marg, on lease to the Tourism Ministry.

A mushaira with Hussain as backdrop
New Delhi, March 25
Mushairas (Arabic for a gathering of poets) have done much to keep the Urdu language alive in the sub-continent. As a part of this exercise to rev up a language, which cynics say is decaying, Urdu poets from India, Pakistan and China will participate in ‘Mushaira Jashn-e-Bahar’ on April 9 at Shankar Lal Hall in the Capital.

Sonepat RWA to file PIL on unscheduled load-shedding
Sonepat: The Sonepat Residents Welfare Association and the Sonepat Citizens Welfare Forum have decided to file a PIL in the Punjab and Haryana High Court against unscheduled power cuts being enforced by the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) in the city and its suburbs for the past few months.

POLITICS

Remaining BJP candidates on March 27
Bhiwani, March 25
The state BJP president, Prof Ganeshi Lal, disclosed that announcement of the candidates for the remaining five seats of Lok Sabha would be made in the final list of the party on March 27.

COMMUNITY

DELHI DIGEST
Cong misleading public on property tax: BJP
New Delhi, March 25
Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, MP, has accused the Congress government of “deliberately misleading” the public on the issue of the New Unit Area Method for the assessment of property tax.

NCR BRIEFS
Dowry death accused sentenced to seven years in prison 
Faridabad, March 25
Dowry related violence continues unabated in the area. The District Court sentenced a woman to seven years of imprisonment for murdering her daughter-in-law for her inability to fulfil her dowry demands.

Police directed to register murder case Man held for murdering his mother

Demonstration by Railway passengers Inspections in offices, schools

One killed as jeep rams into tree  Sonepat, March 25 One persons was killed and seven others were injured when the jeep in which they were travelling rammed into a tree on the roadside near Kathura village, about 50 km from here yesterday. According to a report, all the injured persons were rushed to the PGIMS at Rohtak for treatment, where one of them succumbed to his injuries.

CRIME

Sleaze racket rocks Modinagar
Ghaziabad, March 25
The arrests of two women, Geeta and Manju, have exposed the ramification of flesh trade in the Modinagar town. While the role of police itself has been suspicious the elite of the town are also reportedly losing their night’s sleep.

Constable arrested for taking bribe 
New Delhi, March 25
The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi Government today claimed to have arrested Constable Naresh Pal of the Delhi Police for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 1,000 from complainant Lakhan Singh for not sealing his factory.

Criminal killed in encounter
Ghaziabad, March 25
A dreaded criminal, who was carrying an award on his head, had been killed in an encounter by Indira Puram and Kavi Nagar police. He had been involved in a bank dacoity and the murder of a kin of former Minister Hukum Singh.

BUSINESS

Inadequate facilities forcing industries to migrate: PHDCCI
New Delhi, March 25
The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) in a recent survey conducted among the industrial units in the Capital has found that a number of them are planning to migrate to the neighbouring states due to inadequate facilities.

EDUCATION

Pvt schools: Flourishing small-scale industry?
Sonepat, March 25
The thirst for Western style education has led to emergence of a number of teaching shops in the city and elsewhere in the district. These are privately run institutions and hold classes from nursery to the matriculation level. Most of them are small enterprises run by the educated unemployed. These schools constitute perhaps the most flourishing small-scale industry for which one needs no licence, a report says.

Prohibitory orders enforced to check use of unfair means in exams
Sonepat: The District Magistrate of Sonepat, Mr M. R. Anand, has enforced prohibitory orders under Section 144 Cr.P.C. banning the assembly of five or more persons and carrying of firearms within the radius of 200 metres of the examination centres set up by the Maharishi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak, for conducting the annual examinations here.

CULTURE

Street children film their lives
New Delhi, March 25
This was no Bollywood tearjerker, there were no big names and no big money. Yet, the film evoked emotions and left the audience stumped. Capturing the real life of the street children on reel, Devender, Rajni, Lily, Asaddur and Sanjay, children who made the film, took a bow as audience wiped their tears.

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Ceramic art - Communicating through clay
Anant Art Gallery is presenting a ceramics exhibition by eight Baroda-based artists from March 27 to April 11. Jyotsna Bhatt, one of the prominent ceramic artists of the country, studied sculpture at MS University, Baroda, and then at Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York. After that she taught ceramics at MS University, Baroda, for 32 years.

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‘Lord Krishna is the ultimate musician’

Radha Krishna Sankirtan is a kirtan album in praise of Radha Rani and Lord Krishna. This album is a `culmination of purpose and meeting of minds’ of Radha Krishna devotees - chiefly producer Harbinder Badhwar, music director Jaspal Moni and singer Manish Khullar. The attractive concept is explained by Manish Khullar “Lord Krishna is the ultimate musician, besides being the Lord of all virtues - sampoorna gun.To sing His adulations is to salute the universal karmayogi of all times.”

HEALTH

A life-saving surgery for morbidly obese people 
New Delhi, March 25
Endoscopic surgeons at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) have for the first time successfully performed keyhole surgery to remove extra flab in three patients. Kapil was one of the three patients of morbid obesity, who were operated upon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) recently. Morbid obesity is clinically defined as a condition in which a person’s body mass index (BMI) is more than 40.

SPORTS

Malhotra hails Indian victory
New Delhi, March 25
President of the All-India Council of Sports (AICS) Prof Vijay Kumar Malhotra congratulated the Indian cricket team for clinching the five-match One-Day International series against Pakistan at Lahore on Wednesday.

Rajat Gupta’s century goes in vain

New Delhi, March 25 A brilliant century by Rajat Gupta went in vain as Collage Group defeated Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) by seven wickets in the SAIL Trophy Cricket Tournament at the Mohan Meakins ground. Debjit Rath along with T K Bhowmik inaugurating the SAIL Cricket Tournament at the Mohan Meakins ground on Thursday.

ONGC trounced CWC in DDCA League
New Delhi, March 25
A fine knock of 57 n o by Radhey Shyam Gupta and deadly bowling by Nitish Malik (4 for 8) helped Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) defeat Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) by eight wickets in a Super A Division match of the DDCA League at the Mohan Meakins ground.

Prachar Academy in semis
New Delhi, March 25
An all-round performance by Sachin Saraswat (38 and 6 for 9) and dashing knock of 58 by Udit Gupta helped Prachar Cricket Academy defeat Indian Public School by 118 runs and entered the semi-final of the first Mahender Kaushik Memorial Under-15 Cricket Tournament at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Sachin Sarashwat was declared the man of the match.

Armed Forces Headquarters win
New Delhi, March 25
Half centuries by Parveen Kapoor (71 n o, 10x4) and Daya Pal (50, 8x4) and deadly bowling by Mohinder Singh (3 for 18) and S K Gotam (3 for 19) helped Armed Forces Headquarters defeat Railway Board by 13 runs and entered the final of the Inter-Ministry Veteran Cricket Tournament at the Vinay Marg ground.

Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Trust beat New Zealand
New Delhi, March 25
An all-round display by Dhan Raj Singh (4 for 8, 46 n o, 7x4, 37b) and an unbeaten 71, studded with three sixes and six fours off 55 balls by M P Singh, enabled Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Trust defeat New Zealand High Commission Cricket Club by eight wickets in the third Commonwealth Cricket Tournament for the Raymond Trophy.