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Sonia to unveil statue of IndiraAll India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi will unveil a six-foot-tall bronze statue of the late In...

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Sonia to unveil statue of Indira

All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi will unveil a six-foot-tall bronze statue of the late Indira Gandhi in Nashik when she arrives here on Wednesday for the Congress convention.

The statue, which has been sculpted at a cost of Rs 7.5 lakh, will be installed at Shalimar Chowk, was renamed `Indira Gandhi Chowk’ in November 1996. The cost of the sculpture and the chowk’s revamping has been borne by the Nashik Municipal Corporation. Sonia Gandhi will leave Nashik for Ichalkaranji the same night after addressing a public meeting at 7 pm.

Easy duping

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Residents in and around Ambedkar Nagar in Igatpuri, who had been paying `easy instalments’ to C Terruvekaddam of Sun Traders to buy household appliances, have discovered that the trader has made off with their dough.After collecting about Rs three lakh, he has been missing since the last 11 days.

The residents have informed the police, who has sealed the shop. The trader, like several othershysters, had opened his shop on March 15, and won the confidence of the locals in a surprisingly short time.

Phony operator

An imposter posing as an executive engineer has duped two job aspirants and decamped with Rs 19,000. Sudhakar Athavale and P Raju, who paid Rs 5,000 for a peon’s job and Rs 15,000 for a clerical job in the telephone department respectively, have been searching all over for the impersonator – Ashok Rao.The game was up when appointment letters issued by Rao were found to be bogus.

Answer this!

The fate of 16 second year BA (Marathi special) students at the Manmad College of Arts hangs in the balance as their teacher, V T Thorat, and head of the department of Marathi, Professor Yeshwant Pathak, taught them the old course even though the curriculum had been revised by Pune University in April 1997.

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The students, who took the examination on April 29, were horrified to see that the questions were based on the revised course. After an agonising half hour, they wereasked to answer a questionnaire based on the old course (for repeaters) on the reverse of the question paper. The Manmad college principal, Prabhakar Bagale, says an inquiry has been ordered into the lapse.