Thursday, February 12, 2009

news report writing

  1. Prepare a news report in about 150 words based on the information given below:

    Dateline: New Delhi, 17 January 2009.
    Facilities for the residents of the jhuggi-jhonpri clusters in the capital would be improved: Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president J.P. Agarwal.
    He said it on Thursday.
    He said that people have always stood solidly beside the congress party and helped it come to power in Delhi for a third straight term.
    Mr. Agarwal assured the jhuggi dwellers that the Congress was against uprooting anyone and wanted to settle all the slum dwellers properly.
    Addressing a meeting organized by JJ Cell Chairperson Satya Sharma.
    The meeting was organized at Rajiv Bhawan, New Delhi.
    He said no more JJ clusters would be removed till the Government allotted specified plots or flats to them.
    Mr. Agarwal said the Delhi Govermnent had initiated several steps for resettlement of those living in JJ clusters.
    Steps include allotment of lower-priced flats of which about 4 lakh are being constructed.

News reporting

Write a report in about 150 words based on the information given below:

1. Delhi Police arrested four persons involved in a racket. They were making fake DL, PAN cards & voter I-cards.
2. Place & date of origin of story: New Delhi, 30th March 2007.
3. The police arrested them on March 29, 2007.
4. The police said they used to get vehicles financed on the basis of forged documents and later sell them to other gangs.
5. The four are: Daya Shankar, Budh Singh, Surjit Singh and Raj Kumar.
6. “We conducted raid and nabbed Daya Shanker, who tried to mislead us by saying he is Gaya Prashad. He even produced his driving licence to substantiate the claim. During the search, we recovered another driving licence in the name of Daya Shanker, one PAN card with the name of Rajesh Singh having the photograph of Daya Shanker, besides six more driving licences,” said DCP (crime and railways) Neeraj Thakur.
7. “He revealed that he was running a company in Azadpur. He confessed to having arranged personal loans for himself and his associates on the basis of forged documents,” Thakur added.

News report writing assignment

Write a one column news report in about 100 words based on the information given below:


1. Place: New Delhi. Date: 14th Jan 09.
2. On Jan. 8, police got a tip-off that a consignment of ganja was being transported to Gurgaon via IIT Gate.
3. The police laid a trap.
4. Intercepted the vehicle.
5. Four of its occupants were arrested after the consignment was seized from inside the vehicle.
6. On January 10, Upender Rajput was arrested with 25 kg of ganja and Lovlash Kumar was arrested in Saket with 22 kg of ganja.
7. The police claim to have seized over 200 kg of ganja.