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Higher DU cut-off
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Doctors from various associations addressing a Press conference in the Capital on Friday.
Punjabi 2nd
language status yet to percolate Chandok’s legal
move seen as ploy to delay poll
Tainted
ministers: BJP sees shades of emergency 17 lakh saplings
to ‘green’ Faridabad RPF constable’s
murder case solved, seven held
Driver refuses
to pay bribe, beaten up Soldier died of
rabies: RVC Body of missing
trader found Seth murder
accused in police remand
Former Prime Minister V P Singh hands over a roll of honour to Dr Jagmail Singh. Man crushed to
death
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Higher DU
cut-off in most streams New Delhi, June
25 The much-awaited list, which has caused much distress among students, indicated an increase of about two to three percent in most of the streams. With the scores having improved considerably and competition having increased manifold, the rush for the limited seats in DU colleges has been cause of much anxiety. While there is no perceptible increase in the cut-offs for the Science courses, the rise in the cutoffs for the Commerce stream in some colleges is between three to four percent. In Sri Venkateshwara College, the cutoff for B. SC is 75 percent while for B.com Honors it is 92 percent. B.Com Hons. has a cut-off of 90 per cent in Daulat Ram, 90.5 in Gargi, 97.25 in Hindu and 92.75 in Lady Sriram. Biochemistry Hons, which also attracts a fair share of students, has a cut-off of 82 percent in Deshbandhu College, 88 in Daulat Ram, 87 in Shivaji and 92 in Sri Venkateshwara College. In Hindu, the cut-off for BA is 86 per cent, in Hans Raj it is 84 percent, in Lady Sriram it is 84.50 percent, 80 in Ramjas and Shivaji and 82 in Sri Venkateshwara College. English Honours, which remains a popular choice, is earmarked at 85 percent in Hans Raj, 89 per cent in Kirori Mal and 86 in Sri Venkateshwara. Most colleges, including LSR, Gargi and Janki Devi, conduct an entrance exam for admission to the course. Computer Science has a cut-off of 80 percent in Ramjas, 89 in Hansraj, 87 in Kirori Mal and 89 percent in Gargi. The cut-off for Hindi Hons in Hansraj is 61 percent, 72.25 in Sri Venkateshwara and 50 percent in Aurobindo Evening. The cut-off for another favourite — Economic Hons. — is 90 in IP College, 86 in Daulat Ram, 95 in Jesus and Mary, 92.50 in LSR, 94 in Sriram College of Commerce and 93 in Hindu. In Sri Venkateshwara, the cut-off for Economics Hons is 92, up by five percent from last
year’s 87 percent. “Higher scores” achieved by students in the class XII examinations is being cited as a reason for higher cutoffs, but students have been advised to wait for the second cut-off list. Teachers have also been stressing the need for giving preference to the course rather than the college. “There are colleges like Hansraj and Kirori Mal, which have received more than a 100,000 forms, whereas there are other colleges like Aditi Mahavidyalaya and SP Mukherjee, where the numbers are far less”, said a university official. The candidates can see the details of the cutoffs in colleges on Saturday, June 26. Those who meet the requirements notified in the first list have been advised to complete their admission formalities in the colleges concerned by June 30. The colleges will release subsequent cut-off lists on the basis of vacancy on stipulated dates. |
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Seven held for robberies, double murder New Delhi, June 25 The sleuths also claimed to have recovered one 9mm pistol, one revolver, one countrymade pistol, 19 live cartridges and one knife from them. The sleuths received a tip-off on June 24 that some gang members would assemble near Ajmal Khan Road to commit dacoity in a bank in Connaught Place. Accordingly, a team was constituted and the gangsters were nabbed. They were later identified as Javed, alias Anwar, alias Mukesh (30), resident of Sadar; Laxman Singh (30), resident of Palam; Shivam, alias Vicky (28), Mandawali; Ramesh Chand, alias Ramu Katta (22), resident of Uttranchal; Bhuwan Pandey (25), resident of Uttranchal; Sanjay, alias Raju (27), resident of Badarpur and Parvez, alias Sajju (26), Nabi Karim. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Tajender Luthra said that the gang leader Javed was involved in several cases of robbery, including one in Kotwali where he along with his associates robbed a house of Rs 15 lakh. His accomplices Bhuwan Pandey and Ramesh Chand were involved in a double murder in Uttaranchal and later disposed of the bodies in a canal. Mr Luthra said that Parvez used to collect information about businessmen collecting money and then would inform his accomplices. They always used stolen vehicles while committing robbery.
Software seized The Economic Offences Wing has arrested one person for manufacturing and selling pirated software in Mehrauli. The sleuths also claimed to have seized software worth Rs 4.25 lakh from him. The policemen received a tip-off that one person had been involved in selling the pirated softwares in Mehrauli. He was later identified as Uday Bhan, alias Kishan (24), resident of Mehrauli. The sleuths seized as many as 290 pirated copies of MP3/VCDs of various Hindi films from his possession during a raid.
Bus robber held The Crime Branch has arrested one Rasheed Ahmed, involved in several cases of bus robberies. The sleuths also recovered one countrymade weapon and two live cartridges from him. Based on a tip-off that the accused along with his associates would assemble near Dhaula Kuan bus stand, the sleuths arrested Rasheed Ahmed while others managed to escape. |
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Robber shot in police encounter Ghaziabad, June 25 A gun looted from the bank guard, a revolver, cartridges and a stolen Maruti car were seized from the slain criminal. He has been identified as Lakhampur’s Gurcharan, alias Gurbaksh Singh, who was wanted in the murder of two foreigners four years ago in Haridwar. Circle Officer Charanjeev Sinha said that CP Singh, SO Kotwali, was on night patrol duty near Nav Yug market. The security guard of Vaish Bank told the police that four persons in a Maruti had tried to rob the ATM. As he had resisted, they beat him up and sped away after snatching his licensed gun and cartridges. Other security guard Labb Singh was also hit with a pistol butt and injured. The CO informed the control room, but the criminals had already passed from Seth Mukandlal Inter College. Their car was seen as the police SO reached Meerut Road tri-junction. The police tried to stop it, but the driver accelerated the speed. As a result, the car fell into Budh Vatika. While firing at the police, the criminals tried to escape. The cops then shot at and injured one of the criminals who died in the district hospital. Three of his companions managed to flee. The CO said the slain criminal was Gurcharan Singh of Benpura village in Lukhimpur who had robbed two foreigners of Rs 4 lakh in Haridwar and killed them. |
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Payment for patient referral
unethical: Doctors New Delhi, June 25 Addressing a joint press conference, president of the Heart Care Foundation of India, Dr K.K. Aggarwal, secretary of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Dr Vinay Aggarwal, secretary Delhi Medical Council, Dr S. K. Khatri, and chairman of the Academy Chapter of the IMA, Dr J. J. Sood, said that physicians should not accept payment of any kind, in any form, from any source for prescribing or referring patients. The source could be a pharmaceutical company or a pharmacist, an optional company or manufacturers of medical appliances and devices. In each case the payment violated the requirement to deal honestly with patients and colleagues. A patient relies upon the advice of a physician on matters of referral. All referrals and prescriptions must be based on the skill and quality of the physician to whom the patient has been referred or the quality and efficacy of the drug or the product prescribed. Talking about sexual misconduct in the practice of medicine, Dr KK Aggarwal said sexual or romantic interaction between the physician and patients detract from the goals of a physician, may exploit the vulnerability of the patient, may interfere with the physician’s objective opinion about the patient’s health, and ultimately be detrimental to the patient’s well-being, he said. If a physician has reason to believe that non-sexual contact with a patient may be perceived as or may lead to sexual contact, then the doctor should avoid the non-sexual contact, said Dr S. K. Khatri. Physicians also said that as is the case in the West, patients in India should also have defined rights. In the US, a patient has the right to receive information from physicians and to discuss the benefits, risks and costs of appropriate treatment alternatives. Patients should receive guidance from their physicians as to the optimal course of action. They should be entitled to obtain copies or summaries of their medical records, have their questions answered, be advised of potential conflicts of interest that their physicians might have and receive independent professional opinions.
PR awards The Public Relation Society of India (Delhi chapter), in its annual function here, presented the PR awards. Some of the recipients included Dr K K Aggarwal of Heart Care Foundation, Dr Rajendra Prasad, a cancer specialist at AIIMS, Mr Ashok Shah, zonal manager, LIC, Mr Sanjeev Kumar, DC, (New Delhi District), Mr Siddiqui from Indian Railways, Mr Hindwan of NTPC, Mr Shrish Tiwari, chairman, Horticulture, MCD, and Mr Anil Kumar, councillor, MCD. Mr Shiv Swarup Tiwari, chairman, PRSI (north), and Dr Ajit Pathak, former national president
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Punjabi 2nd language status yet to percolate New Delhi, June 25 A member of Delhi Minority Commission, Mr SPS Bawa, and others complained as much to Chief Secretary Shailaja Chandra when they called on her recently. ‘Kendriya Punjabi Sahitya Sammelan’ President Manjit Singh and General Secretary Mohan Singh Berry were a part of that delegation. They pointed out that the number of part-time Punjabi teachers recruited by the government-run Punjabi Academy in 1990 had come down from 1,500 to 700. There are posts of Punjabi teachers in government-run schools that are lying vacant. The posts of translator and language officer have not been filled. The ban on new recruitment on part-time teachers has persisted for almost a decade and even trained postgraduate teachers (PGTs) among them are given only Rs 2,100 per month while trained graduate teachers (TGTs) are getting only Rs 2,030 a month, they observed. It was claimed that none of the 250 posts of Punjabi teachers lying vacant after the retirement of the incumbents had been advertised or filled as yet. Rather, they said, attempts were being made to abolish those posts. However, writing of the names of roads, buildings and offices in Punjabi has been taken up by the Punjabi Academy. They impressed upon the Chief Secretary the need to issue instructions to the departments concerned for lifting the ban on recruiting part-time teachers, absorbing trained teachers among them and starting the process of recruiting translators and language officers. |
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Chandok’s legal move seen as ploy to delay poll New Delhi, June 25 Mr Chandok said he would be approaching Mr Joginder Singh, a former director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and Mr Jaspal Singh, a former judge, with a request to help the DSGMC take legal action against the members. Mr Chandok’s opponents, who are demanding his resignation, view with suspicion the DSGMC chief’s latest plans to seek disqualification of certain members; it is seen to be an attempt to delay the DSGMC’s annual elections due in September. Mr Manmohan Singh Sachdeva of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) has said that he doubts the sincerity of this move (to disqualify certain members) as it was likely to trigger counter-suits in court, thus automatically delaying the elections.
INSO threat to launch stir The Indian National Students Organisation (INSO) will launch an agitation to seek more seats in undergraduate programmes in the Delhi University. The INSO intends to meet both the Minister for Human Resource Development and the Delhi University Vice Chancellor to put forth its demand. Claiming that the present number of 43,000 seats is clearly not enough, the students’ faction has demanded that the government should open more evening colleges. The decision to begin an agitation for securing more seats was taken at the state executive of the INSO. |
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Tainted ministers: BJP sees shades of emergency
New Delhi, June 25 “Till now, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not dismissed the tainted ministers from his Cabinet even after repeated demands of the Bharatiya Janata Party”, Delhi Pradesh BJP President Harshvardhan said in a statement released to media. |
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17 lakh saplings to ‘green’ Faridabad Faridabad, June 25 The department has decided to plant about 17.92 lakh saplings in the district during this period. This target is reportedly slightly higher than the total number of saplings planted last year. The green cover in the district is just around three per cent which is far less than the target standard of 20 per cent stated in the National Forest Policy. The authorities concerned seem to be confused as to how the department will achieve the national target in forestry so as to counter the growing problem of pollution here. Faridabad is among the ‘Top Ten’ list of the most polluted cities of the country. Giving the break-up of the tree plantation scheme to be launched this year, an official statement released by the department stated that an area of about 585 hectares would be brought under the Social Forestry Scheme during 2004-05. According to the details, about 500 hectares of land will be covered under the project and a total of 13.01 lakh saplings will be planted. These include six lakh plants which are to be supplied free to the various departments. About 4.41 lakh plants will be allotted to the Forest Development Agency scheme. However, the target includes the maintenance of around 1.19 lakh plants sown earlier. The authorities have also decided to sell about 1,50,000 medicinal plants during the season, which will be available at a rate ranging from Rs 3 to Rs 7 per plant. According to the target allotted to the District Forest Office (Social Forestry), over 4.82 lakh trees are to planted this year. Of them, about four lakh plants would be given free while 11,500 plants would be covered under the maintenance scheme. The department has about 11 nurseries in the district which have about 22.7 lakh saplings at present. Though the authorities have announced to involve the state government departments and undertakings in the plantation campaign, as had been done in the previous years, they have no record of how many plants planted last year were able to survive. |
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RPF constable’s murder
case solved, seven held New Delhi, June 25 The accused were identified as Rajesh Sansi, Madan alias
Gogi, Jagdish alias Jaggi, Jagjit alias Vicky, Parminder alias Jat, Vinod alias Chust and Bharat Ram. On the fateful night Head Constables
Ramsevak, Rajpal Singh and Constable Roshan Lal were posted on patrol duty in the Zakhira flyover-Patel Nagar railway station stretch. At around 4.15 am, when Head Constable Ramsevak went to relieve himself; around this time, Rajpal and Roshan spotted a group of persons moving suspiciously near the railway sleepers. When questioned, the group attacked them with knives and iron rods. Both Rajpal and Roshan sustained serious injuries and the latter died in the hospital later. During investigations, the police found clues hinting at the involvement of the Rajesh Sansi gang. Accordingly a team was formed to nab the gang members. On June 24, the police received information that Rajesh Sansi and his two associates were meeting in Kudesia Park, ISBT, and leaving for Jammu. Accordingly, a team rushed to the spot and which nabbed the trio. During interrogation, Rajesh confessed to having committed the crime along with other gang members. Subsequently, his other four associates were also nabbed.
Dowry case registered Following the death of Sushma (22), a resident of Bhajanpura, the North-East district police has registered a case under sections of dowry death against her husband Ashok Kumar, a constable posted in he Customs unit. The victim, who was admitted this morning in a hospital in Panchsheel, later died. The victim’s husband had admitted her this morning in the hospital, stating that she had consumed some tablet. |
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Driver refuses to pay bribe, beaten up Ghaziabad, June 25 To protest the high-handedness, the truck drivers and transporters organised a massive traffic jam on the tri-junction. The baton-wielding cops then chased and beaten up the drivers and others to clear the jam from the busy highway. President of Goods Transport Association Naresh Dhingra and another transporter Amarjeet Khosla were injured. The CO intervened at this point and brought the situation under control. The incident occurred as a truck driver Rupesh Kumar from Rohtak in Haryana was rectifying some fault in his truck. The policemen on Meerut tri-junction challaned him for overloading and demanded Rs 20,000 from him. When he expressed his inability to pay the amount, he was taken inside the police post and beaten up mercilessly with lathis so much so that he became unconscious. He sustained some internal injuries also. The news of Rupesh being beaten up spread like wildfire and the truck drivers then blocked the Delhi-Meerut Road. Some transporters reached there and squatted in the middle of the road. To disperse them, the cops lathi-charged the squatters on the orders of CP Singh, SO Kotwali. Two transport association office-bearers Naresh Dhingra and Amarjeet Singh Khosla and some others were injured in the |
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Soldier died of rabies: RVC Meerut, June 25 Commenting on the various media reports that the soldier died in suspicious circumstances, the spokesperson claimed that the media reports about his death were totally wrong. The spokesperson said in a communique that Hanif, No 7238759, was bitten by a stray dog on the upper lip and chin on May 25, 2004 on the premises of the RVC officers’ mess and the soldier was also administered post-bite rabies vaccine. The soldier reported sick in the morning of June 15, 2004 with symptoms of vomiting, headache, and fever. Hanif was rushed to a military hospital in Meerut where he breathed his last at 1650 hrs on June 16, 2004. The RVS spokesperson claimed that the wife of the deceased was with him when he died. The postmortem was conducted on June 17 and his relatives and family members were also informed. They arrived in the morning of June 18. The spokesperson claimed that the funeral of the deceased was performed at Shah Vilayat Burial Ground, Meerut as per the wishes of the soldier’s widow, according to the Muslim rites. Referring to some media reports, the spokesperson made it clear that it had been the tradition of the Indian Army to honour its soldiers even after their death and the Army was aware of its liabilities and duties towards its soldier. Even Hanif’s family was extended all possible help. Though the spokesperson claimed that Hanif died of rabies encephalitis, he could not clear several doubts as to how a stray dog entered the highly secured officers’ mess. The spokesperson could not say either why it took so much time to conduct the postmortem when they have got full facilities for it. |
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Body of missing trader found Brij Ghat, June 25 He had been missing for six days. Pradeep was taken to Sisauli on June 19 by his tenants Veerpal and Anil on the pretext of paying him Rs 8000 as two months’ rent for his shops in Brij Market. The traders of the town took a torch rally, gheraoed the police post and then sat on hunger strike, forcing the police to detain Anil and Veerpal, who were reportedly bad characters. The recovery of the body of the young trader has cast a gloom in Brij Ghat town. |
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Seth murder accused in police remand New Delhi, June 25 However, the accused disputed the statement in the court and contended that only the Bengali associate was involved; he denied the involvement of a third person. According to the police, a few things stolen from the house of Retd Lt General HS Seth, including some medals, had been recovered. |
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Punjabi scholar honoured New Delhi, June 25 a roll of honour. On the occasion, Mr Rajendra Tripathi, former Home Minister, Uttar Pradesh, Kesri Singh Gujjar, President, Dehat Morcha, Jai Bhagwan Jaatav, Director, Jan Chetna Manch, Balbir Singh Panesar, President, Hindustan Art and Cultural Society and Balwinder Singh, the General Secretary, were present. The General Secretary, Hindustan Art and Cultural Society, S Balwinder Singh Talwandi recalled that Dr Jagmail Singh had done his Ph.D on various compositions of the famous scholar, Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha.
He has also uncovered several
compositions which were never published. He has been able to find Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha’s first book, `Raj Dharam,’ which was written in 1894. He has prepared this book with new footnotes and it is now being published. Besides this, for the last five years, Dr Jagmail Singh’s organization, Hari Vrijesh Cultural Foundation, is guiding the young generation on Punjabi culture, language and folk music. |
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Man crushed to death Greater Noida, June 25 The driver, who had fled after abandoning the bus, was arrested later. The bus has been seized by the police and the body sent for an autopsy to Ghaziabad. Ram Charan, resident of village Sorkha, had a dhabha in Sudhyana. He was crossing the road near Haldoni Mode when the bus hit him. He died on the spot. |
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With the arrest of seven dacoits, the Crime
Branch has claimed to have solved eight cases of robbery in Delhi and one case
of double murder in Uttaranchal.
