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Misty morning forecast

NEW DELHI FEB. 17. The Capital will wake up to a foggy, misty morning on Friday and the minimum temperature is expected to hover around 9 degrees Celsius.

While the maximum temperatures recorded on Thursday at Safdarjung and Palam stood at 22.0 degrees Celsius and 20.3 degrees Celsius respectively, the minimum temperatures recorded were 9.4 degrees Celsius and 11.3 degrees Celsius, respectively.

The maximum and the minimum humidity at Safdarjung was 88 per cent and 51 per cent respectively, while Palam recorded a maximum humidity of 88 per cent and a minimum of 44 per cent. The rainfall recorded at Safdarjung was trace, while Palam recorded 0.4 mm of rainfall.

CM reassures traders

New Delhi Feb. 17. The Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, today said the government was working towards creating a transparent system for solving issues of traders and markets.

Attending a Bhagidhari workshop on `Sustainable Development of Markets', she said cooperation between civic agencies and traders was necessary to implement market-specific schemes.

Bawaria gang members held

New Delhi Feb. 17. Five persons of the Bawaria tribe have been arrested by the police from Narela area of North-West Delhi while trying sell grains looted from various places in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

The police said 450 bags of paddy, worth Rs 3.5 lakh, were seized from their possession.

The accused were arrested yesterday from the Narela grain market after a brief scuffle which followed when the police challenged them while they were trying to unload the paddy.

They would sell the grains stolen from different places in Haryana and U.P. in the market posing as farmers, the police added.

Five arrested

New Delhi Feb. 17. With the arrest of five persons, including four Bangladeshis, from Khajuri Khas area of North-East Delhi, police today claimed to have solved nine cases.

Two knives, a dagger and two razors were recovered from their possession following their arrest yesterday, the police said today.

They were arrested close to the Police Training Centre in Khajuri Khas area while planning a dacoity attempt.

During interrogation they disclosed of their involvement in nine cases of thefts from trucks plying on highways, the police added.

Found dead

New Delhi Feb. 17. A teenaged girl who worked as maid servant was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a South West Delhi area today.

Jharna, 16, had apparently fallen to her death from the seventh floor of a building in Dwarka, the police sources said.

Some of her clothes were found torn and police were investigating whether she was sexually assaulted before being pushed off.

No suicide note was found, the sources said.

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