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DDA auctions two hotel sites

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Development Authority on Thursday auctioned two hotel sites at Central Business District in Shahdara and Community Centre Sector-A in Kondli, of the seven hotel sites that were put to auction.

The hotel plot measuring 3,279 square metres with reserve price of Rs. 18.08 crore was bought by M/S Mahagun Hotels at a bid amount of Rs. 32.21 crore. The plot at Kondli measuring 1,800 square metres was sold at a bid amount of Rs. 20.55 crore against a reserve price of Rs. 20.5 crore. It was purchased by M/S Dr. Fresh IT Park Limited.

Need to arrest decline in moral values

NEW DELHI: An interactive seminar on "Value Based Media For A Better Society" organised jointly by the Brahma Kumaris institution and the Society of Media Initiative for Values was held here on Thursday.

A number of participants including journalists and media professionals opined that there was an urgent need to arrest the decline in moral standards and values in media. Most of them stressed the need to strike a balance between media's commercial interests and its social responsibilities.

Compensation for sex workers demanded

NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Sabha president Khairati Lal Bhola has demanded that sex workers operating in G.B. Road here must be compensated in the event of a death.

In a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Mr. Bhola has drawn her attention to the fact that though the Government announces compensation for victims of fire incidents in jhuggi-jhonpri clusters, it does not offer monetary help to sex workers who are victims of such tragedies.

Mr. Bhola has requested the Delhi Government to immediately announce a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh to the next of kin of the two sex workers who died in a fire incident on March 16.

Seminar on water contamination

NEW DELHI: Former Union Minister and MP Jagdish Tytler has cautioned that while potable water should be made available to everyone, its quality should be in keeping with the norms prescribed to avoid water borne diseases.

Addressing a seminar on "Water Availability, Water Contamination and its Impact on Health" organised by NGO Jan Utthan Sangh here earlier this week, Mr. Tytler pressed for proper management of potable water.

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