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Sunday, Jan 09, 2005

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Misty morning

NEW DELHI JAN. 8. The weatherman has forecast a mainly clear sky following a mist or shallow fog laden morning in the Capital on Sunday. The minimum temperature is likely to be around 6 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded at Safdarjung on Saturday were 21.2 degrees Celsius and 7.7 degrees Celsius respectively. At Palam, the maximum and minimum temperatures were 20.8 degrees Celsius and 5.1 degrees Celsius respectively.

As for the humidity, both Safdarjung and Palam recorded a maximum of 97 per cent. The minimum humidity at the two places was 44 per cent and 51 per cent, respectively.

Shop fire claims one

NEW DELHI JAN. 8. A 55-year-old man was charred to death and another sustained burns when the shop in which they were sleeping caught fire at Nand Nagri in North-East Delhi in the wee hours of Saturday.

According to a fire department spokesperson, the fire broke out in the puncture repair shop of Ved Prakash in Nand Nagri around 2-30 a.m. At the time, Ved and his fellow worker, Kalwa, were sleeping in the shop. While Ved was charred to death, Kalwa was admitted to GTB Hospital with 35 per cent burn injuries.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Ved had left the petromax burning apparently to keep the room warm. The petromax apparently fell down from the pedestal and came in contact with inflammable material that led to the fire.

Man opens fire

NEW DELHI JAN. 8. In a bizarre incident, an unidentified man opened fire following an argument with a "paan" shop owner and escaped from the place at Bhajanpura in North-East Delhi today.

According to the police, the man reached a "paan" shop in a lane near Wazirabad flyover in Bhajanpura around 3 p.m. and asked the shopkeeper to make a particular variety of "paan". After the shopkeeper gave him the "paan", the man refused to pay for it. An argument ensued between the two and, in a fit of rage, the man pulled out a gun and fired in the air. As others present at the shop were shocked, the man himself escaped from the spot.

Aptitude test

NEW DELHI JAN. 8. The NIS Academy, a division of NIS Sparta, has launched an NIS Aptitude Test (NAT) that identifies the career choices which best match with an individual's skills and is aimed at evaluating how people perform on tasks or react to different situations and whether they are suited to these jobs.

Helping students to arrive at a perfect mix of career and matching skills, the aptitude tests will include self-assessment tools to assess strengths and weaknesses as well as an individual's ability to perform job-related tasks.

Stating that by this January 4 as many as 2,667 candidates had appeared for NAT, a release issued by NIS Sparta said the programme channels a person's thought process to work on his ability to excel in what he is best suited for. After having achieved the required NAT score, the aspirants are trained to work on their core competencies. The training programme also builds and monitors each individual's performance enabling him to pursue their specific sector, it added.

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