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Cycle rickshaws to go off Delhi's main roads 4/21/2007 11:28:48 PM BL KAK NEW DFELHI, Apr 21 Main roads in the vicinity of national capital, Delhi, will soon witness a change. Cycle rickshaws will cease to choke these roads. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has begun to prepare a list of arterial roads on which rickshaws will not be allowed as they interfere in the movement of fast-moving traffic. Rickshaw pullers in several areas of Delhi have been on tenterhooks, as till now their business originated and flourished largely on the main roads. According to the MCD officials, they have a limit for issuing licences to 99,000 rickshaws but only 77,000 rickshaws actually have the licence. Unconfirmed figures claim that more than 300,000 cycle rickshaws ply in the city. And the ones in Old Delhi earn huge profits due to the wholesale markets in the vicinity, wherein maximum business takes place. An MCD official said: "We impound the unlicensed ones. But after a few weeks they are on the roads again. The owners pay bribes and manage to get on with their business. But now we are being more strict and prosecuting rickshaw pullers wh...   READ MORE

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Sonia Gandhi's ability comes under close scrutiny 4/21/2007 11:27:27 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, Apr 21 The Election Commission has put in place arrangements for the fourth pase of Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. And if major non-Congress political parties engaged in the battle of the ballot have reckoned the fact that the polls' final results will have impact on the UPA government at the Centre, the UP elections have become an acid test for the Congress party president, Sonia Gandhi. Given that the most ardent of Congress supporters do not give it even an outside chance of victory in UP, the outcome is seen as crucial for Sonia Gandhi to reiterate that she continues to be the most popular mass leader in India. Anything above 25 seats her ...   READ MORE

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