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It is not healthy to blame dengue deaths on New Delhi, November 16 The fact that dengue killed more people in 1996 and claimed the lives of fewer persons in the Capital this time was not a proof of the inefficiency or efficiency of any government, Dr KK Aggarwal of the Moolchand Hospital here said. The reason simply was that dengue in the previous epidemic in 1996, was caused by a virus which was deadlier than the one which struck this time, he said. It is this difference and not the handling of the situation by either government in their respective terms that determined the number of victims this year and seven years ago, said Dr Aggarwal. Dengue had struck the Capital in a big way in 1996, claiming 423 lives and affecting over 10,000 people that year. This time, there were only 33 dengue deaths and 2,738 cases have been reported so far. The figures are not likely to increase as with the onset of winter, mosquito breeding decreases. He said that there were four types of dengue fever: dengue one, two, three and four. A person can get dengue four times but one type only once. In 1996, there was an outbreak of dengue two and four, which are more dangerous than the other types, while this time, the Capital was hit by dengue three, caused by a less virulent strain, he explained. If last time more people died it was not because the government was taken unawares, and conversely if fewer persons died this year it was not because of the government preparedness, he affirmed. |
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chemical poison Ghaziabad, November 16 The livid people had raised slogans in protest and blocked the traffic. It may be recalled that a large number of polluting units, when evicted from the Delhi territory, had set up units in the border areas of UP a few years ago. The district administration’s order to remove them were not carried out by the police. These animals had drunk the poisonous discharge from the chemical factories as they entered the colonies. The sweepers were later called in to dispose of the carcasses. Jaswant Singh of Janakpuri alleged that daily chemical discharge from these factories into the drain as well as in the open endangers the life of human and cattle alike. The discharge must have been more harmful yesterday, as a result of which cattle had perished. Angry people had raised slogans and jammed the traffic near Aradhana Cinema. They demanded the removal of polluting factories from the area. It may be recalled that the polluting units were removed from Delhi on the orders of apex court. But they were quickly set up in Janakpuri, Ganeshpuri, Shriram, Raj Bagh colonies of Sahibabad. While water was being polluted on a large scale, it was turned into chemical poison. People using handpump water are also exposed to many skin and other diseases. |
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Delhi traders’ bandh today against TIN forms New Delhi, November 16 The TIN forms have been issued by the Delhi Sales Department and date for filling the forms has been extended up to December 12. Earlier, the deadline ended on October 31, 2003. The move to observe the ‘Trade Bandh’ was taken at a meeting after a unanimous decision taken by the representatives of more than 100 trade associations of Delhi. Criticising the ‘lethargy’ of the Delhi Government, CAIT secretary-general Praveen Khandelwal said that despite the assurances given by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Finance Minister Mahinder Singh Saathi, the Sales Tax Department is putting undue pressure on traders to fill the TIN forms. The pressure has led to resentment among the trading community, he said. DVM president Manohar Lal Kumar stated that the sales tax officers are visiting every market and pressurising traders to fill the 10-page-long TIN form and a minimum quota for getting the forms filled has been fixed for the tax officials. He regretted that the department is not giving statutory forms for sales tax returns for the ended quarter and is not accepting any documents as they are forcing them to fill the forms first. The traders have decided not to fill the forms and will fight tooth and nail to stop its implementation.
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Girl kidnapped by own brother Sonepat, November 16 According to a report, the girl has been sent to the local civil hospital for medical examination in a bid to ascertain whether she was raped. The police acted on the complaint lodged by the father of the girl who has named his own son Naresh and Sanjay who is the brother of his wife. The girl was whisked away by the culprits to an unknown place and kept in illegal confinement. The victim’s father has alleged that her daughter was allegedly raped by Sanjay at the behest of his son. It is stated that both the culprits had sent the girl in a jeep to Sonepat city. When the jeep driver reached Sonepat, he suspected something fishy and tried to elicit some information from her. The girl was frightened and gave the telephone number of a neighbour. The driver dialled the number. On receiving information, the parents of the girl reached the site of the parked jeep wherefrom they went to the Civil Lines police station for lodging the complaint. Further investigations were on. No arrest has been made in this connection as the alleged kidnappers were at large.
One killed in group clash One person was killed and four were injured in a clash that took place between two groups at Khanpur Kalan village about 30 km from here last evening. A longstanding dispute over the land was stated to be the cause of the clash. According to preliminary reports, the victim was identified as Mr Hari Singh (65) and the injured were identified as Randhir a son of the victim, Mangat Ram brother of the victim, Om Parkash and a relative Balbir. All the injured persons were immediately rushed to the community Health Centre at Gohana town where they were stated to be out of danger. |
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sms threats New Delhi, November 16 The accused Sunil Nagpal (38), resident of Ashok Vihar who had enmity with his brother-in-law allegedly mailed messages to the security officials in an effort to settle scores. Accordingly, Sunil hatched a conspiracy with Prakash Nehra (35), resident of Rajouri Garden and a technical expert in computers and left clues so that his brother-in-law would be caught for the offence. On November 12, Sunil started sending these messages that an Indian VVIP is under threat from the terrorist outfit Al Qaida. The security officials who tightened the security of the VVIP, during investigation, found Sunil and Prakash guilty of the offence and seized the mobile instrument and SIM card used to send the messages. During interrogation, Sunil disclosed that he had some problems with his brother-in-law and wanted to teach him a lesson. For this, he got in touch with Prakash and asked him to assist in his effort.
Three women killed in accidents Faridabad: Three women were killed and six injured in different accidents on the National Highway No 2 (Mathura Road) yesterday in the district. A middle-aged woman identified as Kanchan, a resident of Shastri Nagar in Delhi, was killed after the car in which she was travelling along with her son, rammed a tree after the driver had lost control over the steering wheel. Her son Gaurav was injured seriously. In second case, a woman aged about 50 was run over by a speeding vehicle near Palwal. Another unidentified woman was also killed in similar accident on the highway. Three youths were injured after a tractor hit them. A minor boy was also injured when a heavy vehicle hit him in an accident. |
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Robbers do not respect even cop’s house! Ghaziabad, November 16 Robbers had broken the locks of a constable’s house just at the back of Pratap Vihar police post and decamped with valuable worth thousands of rupees, it is learnt. Constable Nenpal Singh lives in House No. 283 of Sector-II F Block Pratap Vihar. Singh is posted in Hapur. He had gone, along with family, to Sabranpur to attend the wedding of his brother on November 10. He had handed over the keys to his house to Somveer Singh who lives in the neighbourhood. Somveer is a constable who is posted in Indirapuram police station. Last night, Somveer noticed that the door of Nen Pal’s house was ajar. When he went inside, he found the almirah’s lock broken and other belongings were strewn all around. The thieves had ransacked the house and decamped with valuables worth thousands. The Vijay Nagar police had informed Nen Pal of the theft, but the estimate of loss is not available yet, the police said.
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Unscheduled power cuts, low voltage make Sonepat, November 16 According to a report, the voltage sometimes is so low that most of the electricity gadgets do not function. As a result of non-functioning of tubewells because of the low voltage, the drinking water crisis has aggravated in this city and its suburbs. The worst affected are the villages falling under the jurisdiction of Kharkhauda. At Murthal, Ganaur, Gohana and some other subdivisions there is no power for about six to eight hours in a day. As the temperature fell again today, frequent power shutdowns, failures and voltage fluctuations were witnessed, causing inconvenience to thousands of residents. Many residents alleged that all their complaints made to the authorities concerned in this regard had fallen on deaf ears. An official of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) when contacted by this correspondent today brushed aside the complaints about not attending the complaints, saying that “Yeh to hota rehta hai”. Individual complaints ko kahan tak dekha ja sakta hai”. This is what has been the overwhelming response of the UHBVN employees manning the local offices. However, a senior officer of the UHBVN said that attending to the problems of the consumers would be his priority. He also said that he would be taking steps to check the complaints of the consumers received at the complaints centres. Referring to voltage fluctuations, he said that the voltage fluctuations were due to disturbance in the 132 KV grid power sub-station at Fazilpur village near the city. The frequent load-shedding was also on this account. Whenever the officials of the UHBVN are contacted on phone by the consumers about the problems, the family members of these officers tell them, “Abhi sahab ghar par nahin hain, baad mein phone kariyega”, and put down the phone. Meanwhile, industrialists are agitated over the erratic power supply. Industrial units in this industrial belt have been hit badly with the increasing cuts in the power supply almost every day. Many industrialists stated that due to erratic power supply entrepreneurs had been showing tendency of migrating to the neighbouring states like Delhi and UP where they get uninterrupted power supply and related facilities to set up and run their units. The demanded that the areas should be declared centrally backward. Some industrialists also said that the metal and steel industry of this region were on the verge of closure due to power crisis. |
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Special Focus on SONEPAT Sonepat, November 16 The public, as well as municipal and HUDA land, which had earlier been vacated, has again been usurped by the same persons. The re-encroachment and grabbing of land is again causing traffic problems and people are wondering whether the administration has any guts to get the land vacated permanently from unauthorised occupants. There is hardly any main road in the city where there are no
encroachments. The open drains have also been encroached upon, making the life of people miserable. The district, police and civic administration is a silent spectator of the mess. Not only in Model Town, the Eight-marla colony and Ashok Nagar (kutche quarters) areas, but even in Sectors 14 and 15, the residential colonies of HUDA, the owners of the houses have encroached upon the land in front of their houses by fixing grills and turning the enclosures into their private lawns. This has resulted in the roads getting narrower which, in turn, obstruct the free flow of traffic. The shopkeepers in button factory area had grabbed the land of a park, owing to the failure of the authorities to check it despite repeated complaints by the residents. Even the embankments of Drain No. 6, which passes through the city, have been encroached upon by people who have constructed pucca houses and structures for their living purposes. The district authorities have failed to take any action against the people. Similarly, all footpaths in the mandi and other areas of the city have been re-occupied by the shopkeepers, though the authorities had got them vacated recently. The rehriwalas and rickshaw pullers further add to the traffic problem and complaints remain unheeded as these persons enjoy the patronage of local politicians. The orders of Punjab and Haryana High Court banning running of commercial establishments in residential houses in Sectors 14 and 15 have not been implemented by the HUDA authorities. The public land on both sides of the G T Road between Kundli and Haldana border had been grabbed by the owners of dhabas, hotels and restaurants in the absence of any checking by the officials of the PWD (B and R). |
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Canal breach: Protest against imposition of penalty Sonepat, November 16 The villagers have pleaded that they are not guilty of the breach which, they alleged, was caused due to poor maintenance. Instead of repairing the breach, despite repeated requests of the villagers, the authorities were hell-bent on imposing the penalty. The farmers pointed out that their crops had been damaged due to the inundating of the fields by the canal water. Also, they could not sow their kharif crops in a large area as the accumulated water could not be drained out in time. The deputy commissioner has reportedly assured the villagers that there will not be discrimination against them. The villagers had earlier pleaded that the
imposition of `tawan’ would be a double loss for them. The memorandum, which bore signatures of hundreds of residents, points out that the executive engineer of the water services division, Sonepat, will take the final decision on November 17 regarding imposition of `tawan’. The residents of Hullaheri village are reportedly planning to oppose the move of the irrigation authorities. A number of residents, who were present on the court premises at the time of the demonstration, said if the authorities refused to budge on tawan, the villagers would move court. |
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Buses rerouted for Metro work New Delhi, November 16 Bus route nos. 350, 352, 358, 180, 535, 641, 156, 100, 450, 993, 318 and 157 moving from north to east will take original route via Panchkuian Road. On return these buses will take route via Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Gole Market, R K Ashram. Bus route nos. 40, 216, 752, 760 shall move from east to west and onward on original route and on return will take route via Mandir Marg, Kali Bari Marg, Baba Kharak Singh Marg/Pandit Pant Marg. Bus route nos. 85, 313, 728, 943, GL-91, 830, 966, 851 and 965 currently moving from east to west on Panchkuian Road are proposed to run via Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Gole Market, R K Ashram and will return via Panchkuian Road. Bus route nos. 29, 89, 268, 490, 521, 522, 893, 895 and GL-32 currently moving from west to east via Peshwa Road, Gole Market, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road shall be diverted on Panchkuian Road and will take return route via Bhagat Singh Marg, Gole Market and Mandir Marg. All visitors to Panchkuian Road, Gole Market roundabout and other nearby commercial complex are requested to park their vehicles in the parking lot created in Smt Sucheta Kripalni Hospital Staff Quarters area, entry to which is from Bangla Sahib Road. |
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Awards instituted for ‘deserving’ writers in 3 languages New Delhi, November 16 A majority of the writers who are given literary awards by government institutes are those who have been able to draw the attention of those who mattered in such bodies. Keeping this in mind, the club has instituted four cash awards of Rs 11,000, Rs 5100, Rs 3100 and Rs 2100 which will be given annually along with a memento and a shawl at a special function in the Capital, according to Club President Nirmal Singh Raipuri here yesterday. An Award Committee of eminent writers, constituted for the purpose, has already made a public announcement, asking writers of the three languages to submit their literary works to the committee before December 31.
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Five hurt as car falls into khud Sonepat: At least five persons, including a youth, Banti, a relative of Mr Satbir Singh Kadyan, Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, were injured when their car overturned and fell into a khud along the G T Road near Kuber Hotel, about 8 km from here, last evening. According to a report, the car was on its way from Delhi to Panipat. When the car reached near Kuber Hotel its driver lost control, resulting in the accident. The highway police reached the spot and all injured persons, including the car driver, were admitted in a private hospital at Murthal. OC
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Five inter-state robbers held after encounter Ghaziabad, November 16 According to SP City Umesh Srivastava, last night SO Anil Samanya of Vijay Nagar police station got a tip-off that a gang of dreaded criminals was likely to accomplish a big crime near the Ghaziabad bypass. As the police force reached the spot it was fired upon by the robbers who tried to flee, Mr Samanya said. The police, in retaliatory firing, overpowered five criminals. The arrested robbers include Vinode, alias Dharam Veer, of Bulandshahar, Brahm Prakash, alias Kaslu, of Dankaur, Kiran Pal, alias Bhola, of Salarpur, Attarauli, Ishwer Singh of Bhiwani, Haryana, Rajkumar, alias Raju, of Sudana, Murad Nagar. Dinesh, alias Vakil, succeeded in fleeing. The SP City said all arrested robbers were dreaded criminals who had looted a truck laden with sugar near Pratappur in Meerut recently. They had dumped the truck driver and cleaner after tying them and had then taken away the truck. The police have recovered the hijacked truck with 50 quintals of sugar. CO Dharam Veer Singh said the same gang had about 10-12 days earlier looted a truck from Aligarh also. In this case also they had tied the driver and cleaner and thrown them from the truck before looting the truck laden with paper. |
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Five nabbed for bank official’s murder New Delhi, November 16 On September 13, the victim’s son, Deepak Malhotra, resident of Faridabad, reported to the police that his father who went to Delhi in his Santro car along with some gold and jewellery was missing. Based on the complaint the police also found the victim’s Santro car abandoned in Jaipur in a posh colony. During investigation the police zeroed in on one couple Lokender Bhardwaj, his wife Mamta Bhardwaj and their son-in-law Satish, alias Sonu, a jeweller. On intense questioning the couple broke down and confessed to have committed the crime as they wanted to take away the jewellery and money from Malhotra. Accordingly, they roped in others and murdered Malhotra by smothering him with the help of a pillow. They also robbed Rs 24,000 from the victim’s pocket. The accused Lokender Bhardwaj, alias Pappu (44), Mamta Bhardwaj (33), residents of Faridabad, Sunil Verma, alias Gullu (27), Raghunath Singh, alias Raghu (24), and Shiv Narayan Sharma, alias Guddu (32), residents of Gwalior, were arrested. The police are looking out for another accused Satish, alias Sonu, to recover some more stolen articles from him. Girl killed in mishap:
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Youth attacked with iron rods Sonepat, November 16 Fake currency racket:
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