citybriefs: Kanda admitted to Tihar jail hospital

NEW DELHI: Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda,who is now in judicial custody in connection with the Geetika Sharma suicide case,was admitted to Tihar jail hospital on Wednesday after he complained of chest pain and dizziness. Jail doctors confirmed that he was suffering from high blood pressure. “He is in the jail hospital and there is no news of him being referred to any other hospital,” Tihar law officer Sunil Gupta said.

Seven Delhi districts are Maoist-affected: Govt

NEW DELHI: Seven of the nine districts in Delhi are Maoist-affected,though none of them have witnessed any Maoist-related violence,the government told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. These districts have been called Maoist-affected because of the activities of front organisations of the banned CPI(Maoist) and other Naxalite groups.