Delhi underground

Driving into troubled spot

The municipal councillors’ fight for upmanship has reached the parking lot of the civic headquarters. While the building has basement parking space for all,councillors want a slot for themselves on the porch. So that her favourite parking spot is not taken by another,the Mayor of South corporation decided to put up a board there that read: “parking for south mayor”. Irked,the opposition party has decided to take up the issue and demand that all vehicles must be parked in the basement.

Why waste a good opportunity

The two-day strike in the city’s district courts added an unexpected kick to the upcoming Bar Association elections in the Rohini and Dwarka courts. The elections for the office-bearers of both Bar associations are scheduled for July 27,with nomination papers being filed between July 11 and 13. As the strike call had many lawyers coming together to show solidarity to the cause,the aspirants used this as an opportunity to start campaign for the upcoming elections.

Too late for rescue?

Four-year-old Ganesh Kumar’s mother has a question in her mind. After his mother failed to locate him at his school in Vasundhara,Ghazaiabad on Thursday,she called the police. The personnel,however,reached the spot 40 minutes later. Police said they could not locate the school,which is run out of two rooms and does not have a signboard outside. . Ganesh’s family claims that the mother had provided the full address of the school when she called police. She wonders if her only son would still be alive had the local police known the area better. Ganesh drowned in an open drain outside his school on Thursday.

As a result,DU students suffer

Delhi University’s English department had recently postponed their MA admission schedule,citing “delay in the publication of the BA (Hons) English results of the university”. The university’s exams section says the department has itself to blame if the BA (Hons) results aren’t out. “All evaluation camps in the university have wrapped up work,while the English evaluation camp is still going on. For whatever reason,the work hasn’t been finished and this is delaying not just English (Hons) results,but other results as well,” said an official.

My turf or yours?

After complaints of poor drainage and bad roads emerged,the civic commissioner went to inspect the area with a few officials. After completing their inspection,they found out that the road had been recently transferred to PWD. The Leader of the House later said roads have been transferred so many times that the civic agencies have no clue about which road belongs to whom.