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HAIL, TIGER: A PEOPLE’S movement to protect the tiger is being initiated in Sariska, the famous wildlife sanctuary. Christened Sariska Parliament, the proposed endeavour will receive financial assistance from the Centre.

SMOKELESS DREAMS: COME January 2001 and Delhiites below 18 years will not be sold cigarettes. The Delhi Government also plans to ban the sale of cigarettes within a 100-metre radius around any educational institution.

BARRED CHEFS: EIGHTY odd women in the newly set-up women’s cell at Tihar Jail have been employed to cook goodies for their fellow inmates. The new menu is already such a hit that there are plans to diversify this scheme.

TOOTHY FRUITY: BRITISH scientists are working on a way to inject a peptite ( a fragment of a protein that prevents tooth-decay ) into fruits so that cavities, and the consequent painful visits to the dentist, are put to an end.

ZEROING IN: SOME 140 secondary schools in Assam have zero pass records in High School Leaving Certificate or matriculation exams.

WIRED IN: AT least 50 per cent of the country’s TV cable operators may have to close shop following the amendment of Cable TV Network Acts, 1994.

FALLING PACE: ACCORDING to a world development
report released by the World Bank, the pace of poverty reduction in India fell gravely in the nineties.

CAR-RY ON, MINISTERS: DELHI’S ministers will soon be provided the luxury car, Maruti Baleno, as their official car. Each car costs Rs 7.5 lakh.

-- RADHIKA K. WANKANER

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