With two dead out of the 150 confirmed dengue cases reported at Gurgaon hospitals, an alarmed district administration is taking immediate steps to arrange special facilities at its civil hospital.

The 255-acre zone coming up in Gurgaon to cost around Rs. 4,500 crore

MEGA ZONE: Navin Raheja (left), Chairman, Raheja SEZs, Yogesh Raheja (second from right), Director (Projects) and R. C. Aggarwal, President, ISPER (Architecture firm), at a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: Raheja Developers on Wednesday launched the Rs. 4,500-crore specialised

Raju William
Tribune News Service

Gurgaon, July 22
Thousands of commuters between Gurgaon, Delhi and the National Capital Region may feel relieved as 23 CNG-operated buses, including seven low-floor air-conditioned ones, will start plying from tomorrow. The step follows the start of two CNG filling stations here.

Two years ago, the water crisis in Delhi was at its peak. With the drought-like situation still fresh in their minds, most people today count water supply as a key factor in deciding where to live. Going by that trend, residents of East Delhi are the happiest lot. And that is not surprising given the fact the area has the best groundwater levels and a direct supply from the Ganga. With the Sonia Vihar water treatment plant commissioned, the area today faces hardly any shortage.

An alleged scam involving huge quantities of expired medicines worth lakhs of rupees dumped in a storeroom of the civil hospital, Sohna, has come to light. These medicines supplied by the government were meant to be distributed to patients free of cost.

The district health authorities went into tizzy following a complaint by an NGO. Civil surgeon S.S. Dalal has marked an enquiry to a four member team headed by district immunisation officer B.K. Rajora. The team has started verifying the stock position and will submit its report in a week.

Bhima Bawariya was arrested in 2005 following a seizure of tiger parts, is now out on bail This Monday, a team from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) raided a house in Old Gurgaon and recovered a 14-foot long tiger carcass.

The state health department has decided to award a trophy to the police recruits of the IRB, Bhondsi, in recognition of their contribution to administering polio drops to kids during the pulse polio rounds in Gurgaon district, besides learning effective policing techniques.

NEW DELHI: After a tiger skeleton was recovered from a residential premises at Surat Nagar in Gurgaon on Monday following a combined raid by the local police and officials of the Delhi-based Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, the Haryana police have registered a case and are now looking for the accused identified as Bhima Bavaria.

The tiger cannot be preserved if we ignore the incentives to kill it

GURGAON/NEW DELHI: A complete tiger skeleton was recovered from a residential premises at Surat Nagar in Gurgaon on Monday afternoon following a combined raid by the Gurgaon police and officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau. A senior official of the Bureau said: "The raid was carried out following a tip-off from a non-government organisation working in the field of wildlife conservation. We raided the residence and found a complete tiger skeleton and traps used by poachers to capture wild animals in the forest. The skeleton weighs over 10 kg.'

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