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Tailor found dead in north Delhi

NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old tailor was found dead in his shop in Roop Nagar area in north Delhi, police said here on Thursday.

The incident came to light on Wednesday evening when tailor Sarvesh's landlord went to his shop after noticing his absence for over a week.

``For the past week, Sarvesh had not opened his shop and when his landlord broke the lock and entered the shop the tailor was found lying in a pool of blood,'' a senior police official said.

Police said the throat of the victim was slit with some sharp edged weapon and there were injury marks on the neck.

The body has been sent for post-mortem.

Air traffic disrupted at IGIA for three hours

NEW DELHI: Air traffic at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday was disrupted for nearly three hours after lights on the main runway went off.

Airport sources said that as many as 17 flights were diverted to nearby airports and the entire schedule was disrupted.

Lights on the main runway were off from 5.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Maintenance work by workers of Delhi International Airports Limited restored the lights, they said.

Fog makes unusual appearance

NEW DELHI: Fog made an unusual appearance at the onset of summer, disrupting air traffic on Thursday morning.

The MeT Department attributed the phenomenon to northerly winds due to moisture content in the atmosphere, which it said was unusual during this period.

``Fog during this period is unusual and this is a new scenario,'' the Weatherman said.

The Runway Visbility Range dropped to 200 metres while normal visibility sank to 100 metres during the foggy hours disrupting air traffic.

Two arrested at Dhaula Kuan

NEW DELHI: Two persons have been arrested at Dhaula Kuan here for allegedly stealing the luggage of a man after drugging him. Over 100 gm of charas has been recovered from their possession, the police said.

Rahimuddin and Bichalu, both residents of Bihar, were arrested following a complaint by one Ram Dayal on Wednesday that two persons stole his belongings and cash after drugging him. The two joined Ram Dayal in an auto-rickshaw when he was on his way to New Delhi railway station and allegedly stole his belongings.

Japanese grant for JNU

NEW DELHI: The Japan Government has extended a grant assistance amounting to about Rs. 31 lakh to Jawaharlal Nehru University here to support a project for the improvement of Language Learning (LL) equipment.

The grant is being provided under its "Grant Assistance for Cultural Grassroots Projects" and the Ambassador of Japan Yasukuni Enoki signed the agreement with a JNU representative on Thursday.

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