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"Need to strengthen Indo-US relations"

NEW DELHI: "Mutual co-operation between India and America is the need of the hour and every effort should be made to strengthen Indo-US relations at all levels," Delhi Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Shoaib Iqbal said on Thursday welcoming a delegation from the US that was visiting the Assembly.

Mr. Iqbal also greeted the visitors with a welcome letter. He briefed them on the historic importance of the Assembly building.

Warning on respiratory infections

NEW DELHI: Patients with chronic respiratory diseases here need to remain careful now with the onset of winter, according to Heart Care Foundation of India president K.K. Aggarwal has warned.

Stating that lower respiratory tract infections -- bronchitis and pneumonias -- require urgent attention, Dr. Aggarwal said both these infections frequently afflict even otherwise healthy individuals.

CBI registers fresh FIR in housing scam

NEW DELHI: The CBI on Thursday filed a fresh FIR against eight people, including a senior auditor in the office of the Registrar of Co-operative Societies (RCS) here.

Filing the FIR before a Special Judge, the probe agency alleged that a new co-operative group housing society ``Railway Line Staff CGHS Ltd'', registered in April 1972, was allegedly revived on the basis of forged documents by some private persons in connivance with a corrupt RCS official.

Srichand, Mohan Lal, R K Sharma, S K Sharma, Bhupinder Singh Mann, Satvir Singh, Rajiv Gupta entered into a criminal conspiracy with P K Thirwani, a senior Auditor of the RCS in the year 2002, the CBI alleged.

Six remanded to judicial custody

NEW DELHI: Six men arrested for alleged possession of illegal weapons in North-West Delhi by the Crime Branch sleuths were on Thursday remanded to 14 days' judicial custody by a city court here.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) G P Singh sent six accused Sudesh Hans, Manoj Thakaran, Vijaypal, Karambir Thakaran, Surender and Deepak - all hailing from Haryana - to judicial custody till November nine.

According to the prosecution, Sanjay the gang leader along with five of his associates were apprehended on Wednesday in possession of six weapons from a place under Kanjhawala police station in North-West Delhi.

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