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Thursday, Dec 09, 2004

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Around the City

Misty morning, clear day

NEW DELHINEW DELHI, DEC. 8.DEC. 8. The Capital will wake up to a misty morning on Thursday. According to the weatherman, the sky is likely to remain clear throughout the day and minimum temperature is expected to hover around 7 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and the minimum temperatures recorded at Safdarjung on Wednesday were 24.0 degrees Celsius and 8 degrees Celsius respectively. At Palam, the maximum temperature recorded was 24 degrees Celsius and the minimum was 9.2 degrees Celsius. The maximum relative humidity recorded at Safdarjung and Palam was 92 and 87 per cent respectively, while the minimum humidity at the two places stood at 35 per cent and 38 per cent respectively.

Man jumps

to death

NEW DELHINEW DELHI, DEC. 8.DEC. 8. A 26-year-old veterinary doctor, who aspired to qualify for the civil service examinations, allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the sixth floor of Vikas Minar in Central Delhi today. He was apparently depressed over his continued poor performance in the examinations.

According to the police, Mahender Nath, son of Lallan Prasad, a resident of Gwalior and a retired audit officer in the Madhya Pradesh government, jumped from the building and died on the spot around 6-15 p.m. A suicide note was recovered from his person in which he had purportedly mentioned that he was responsible for taking the step. He also wrote that he did not deserve to live as he had not been working hard enough to qualify for the examinations.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Mahender used to live in a rented accommodation at Vijay Nagar in North-West Delhi with three roommates -- Ashish Jha, Ramcharan Rawal and Khagan Mahato -- for the past three years. His roommates told the police that Mahender, who had completed the course of veterinary doctor from an institute in Jabalpur, had been passing through a phase of depression after he appeared in the preliminary examination conducted this past October. He constantly used to tell his roommates that he had not performed well and that he did not stand a chance of qualifying. Last year too, Mahender had appeared for the examination but had failed to clear.

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