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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

In 8 years, a Maruti 800’s price spent on drinking water

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Had the Bishts settled down in Central Delhi or even Mayur Vihar, they would have had a spare car in the garage by now. But their decision to make Dwarka their home eight years ago has cost them roughly Rs 2 lakh towards packaged drinking water.

“We buy our drinking water, which is very costly. DDA had promised us four hours of water supply a day, but we don’t get even an hour’s supply regularly,” said Virender Singh Bisht, resident of DDA flats in Sector 14.

At Rs 70 for 20 litres, packaged water works out as expensive as the monthly electricity bill — Rs 1500-2000 — for a typical family of four adults. However, in Dwarka, unless a housing society has its own reverse osmosis (RO) filtration plant, residents are constrained to buy potable water at steep rates.

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Monday, February 4, 2008

Software engineer found murdered in car in E. Delhi

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28-year-old Akash was to marry on Feb. 10

BARELY A week before his marriage, a 28-year-old software engineer was found murdered in his car on National Highway-24 in East Delhi on Sunday Police said Akash Saxena had left office for home in Gole Market on Saturday around 9 p.m. His body was found in his Maruti car on NH-24 on Sunday Police said he bore injuries to his head and mouth. They ruled out robbery as the motive as all his valuables, including a gold chain and his mobile phone, were on him. Akash was working for Abacus Software Private Lim- ited in Patparganj Industrial Area for the past two years. He was to marry on February 10. Police said a resident of Vinod Nagar saw the car parked on the roadside late on Saturday night from his house. When the man woke up on Sunday, he saw the car stm parked on the road. When he went near and opened its door, he saw Akash dead at the wheels with blood oozing from his...

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Article taken from the issue: 4 Feb 2008

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