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Six new cases of meningitis

NEW DELHI: While no death due to meningococcal meningitis was reported in the Capital over the weekend, six new cases have come to light. Meanwhile, two of the suspected cases admitted to LNJP Hospital earlier have tested positive taking the total number of cases so far to 380.

As many as 56 patients are still undergoing treatment in various city hospitals. The total death toll so far stands at 38.

Audio studio opened

NEW DELHI: To provide free facilities for producing programmes on development-related subjects, an audio studio, Ek Duniya Ek Aawaaz, was opened at the office of One World South Asia (OWSA) here on Saturday.

Speaking on the occasion, the Delhi Police Commissioner, K.K. Paul, observed that radio was an important tool for reaching out to communities and even the police were looking at its utility in community policing. The Prasar Bharati chief, K.S. Sarma, was also present on the occasion.

After the inauguration ceremony, street children recorded their first programme in the audio studio.

Savarkar remembered

NEW DELHI: The former Deputy Prime Minister and BJP president, L.K. Advani, paid floral tributes at the portrait of freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in the Central Hall of Parliament on Saturday on the occasion of his 122nd birth anniversary.

The Lok Sabha secretariat also brought out a booklet on Veer Savarkar in in Hindi and English. Others present on the occasion included Sushma Swaraj, Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Jana Krishnamurthy, Vikram Verma and Pyarelal Khandelwal.

Seminar on tobacco Act

NEW DELHI: The Bhagidari Jan Sahyog Samiti in collaboration with several government and non-government organisations is organising a seminar on "National Tobacco Control Act and its Enforcement'' here this coming Monday to mark "World No Tobacco Day''.

The seminar is aimed at sensitising NGOs, Delhi Police personnel and other government officials about the enforcement of the Act.

Man sentenced

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday sentenced the managing director (MD) of a chit fund company to three years' rigorous imprisonment for cheating about 15 to 20 investors of his company of about Rs. 40 lakhs here in 1997.

The Metropolitan Magistrate, V.K. Khanna, also sentenced the MD's wife to one year's rigorous imprisonment for helping her husband in the crime, being one of the directors of the company.

The Magistrate also imposed a fine of Rs. 65,000 each on the two convicts.The CBI had arrested the two in 1999. However, they were later set free on bail.

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