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100 rocket shells found in scrap container
Few takers for CBSE diktat on school bags
Builder told to refund advance
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Derailment hits traffic
Panchayat gives stick to lovelorn couple
Slum renewal programme in the offing
Conman in uniform held
Employment exchange fails to offer jobs
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100 rocket shells found in scrap container
New Delhi, October 9 The shells have been found in a consignment meant for Ghaziabad-based Bhushan Steel, where an explosion killed 10 people last week. The vessels were detained at the Tughlakabad Inland Container Depot last Saturday on the suspicion that the scrap consignment included explosives. The shells that have been recovered include several unexploded devices. Explosive experts from Army, National Security Guards (NSG) and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad of Delhi Police are in the process of isolating the live shells for detonation, the police said. The detection comes close on the heels of
the recovery of 36 explosives from Okhla and Mayapuri areas of the Capital yesterday. Owing to an alarming number of shells being recovered in different parts of the city and in neighbouring areas, the government has sent a special team of investigators
to Mumbai to search the scrap consignments being offloaded at the Mumbai Port. The officials of the Customs Department and the local intelligence were also alerted after 100 bombshells were recovered in the Capital today. “It is better to defuse the shells at the starting point to prevent any untoward incident during transit,” said an official of the Intelligence Department. According to reports, the government has pulled up the officials of the Customs Department over the issue. It is shocking that scrap in such huge quantity is being imported to India and the authorities were unaware, he added. “This incident could be considered a blessing in disguise as such consignments are extremely dangerous,” said the senior intelligence officer. According to a senior police officer, “There should be a special law prohibiting the import of such dangerous material. Presently, there is no restriction on the import of scrap from any country, which is why these incidents have taken place,
he added.
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Few takers for CBSE diktat on school bags
New Delhi, October 9 In a circular that has been sent, the CBSE asked the schools to ensure that students could leave their bags back in school and also asked them to avoid homework up to class II. The letter reads, “While the causes that contribute to stress are many, some of them are quite tangible and it is possible to take such measures that would minimise the stress, if not totally eliminate the same. One of the major contributors to stress is the size of the schoolbag. This has been brought to the attention of the entire country in the Yashpal Committee report.” Barring a few schools, most schools in the Capital are yet to comply with the order and some even claim that the implementation will take a few years. “It requires a lot of changes and overhauling the infrastructure. Unlike the schools in the West, where students are given lockers, we have no such facilities here and to have students leave books behind will mean an additional responsibility for teachers and staff,” says Principal, GHPS, Vasant Vihar, S. S. Minhas. Not agreeing with the “infrastructure and additional responsibility bit”, Principal, Amity, Noida, Ms Mohina Dar, adds, “All it takes is a shelf in the classroom,” but she points out that students would still need to “carry something home”. Ms Dar says in her school students up to class V “take back the text books, because the time they get in the classroom is not sufficient and students need to read and revise. They, however, leave their notebooks behind”. Taking cognisance of the increasing number of textbooks prescribed by certain institutions for the students of class I and II in particular, the Board has proposed that the number of books and notebooks for these classes should be minimal. “There are days in a week when we find it hard to carry our son’s bag. Sometimes we wonder whether they actually get to even open all the books they are made to carry,” complained a parent of a class III student in a reputed public school. Incidentally, not all parents are complaining, says Minhas. “We have been told by many parents that if we retain the books in the schools, it would become difficult for them to monitor the child’s progress”. He adds, “sometime parents are so caught up in their work, they fail to check their child’s time table, so the child ends up carrying more books than required.” While most school authorities claim that they are already complying with the order of no homework, some claim to have “easy and practical projects”. “We ask them to look up a new word in the dictionary or find meanings and make sentences,” says Dar. The CBSE wants to do away with homework owing to the “psychological load of the textbooks” and allow “students to have enough time to develop other basic life skills and adequate emotional rapport with the parents.”
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Builder told to refund advance
New Delhi, October 9 The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission also ordered the builders to refund Rs 18.17 lakh paid by the complainant Vinay Gupta for the house worth Rs 19.95 lakh with 18 per cent interest, in addition to litigation costs of Rs 10,000. The court said that it is a case of gross deficiency as the house was not constructed and handed over within a reasonable period of time. The complainant, it was pointed out, had to live in a rented accommodation and had to pay Rs 6,000 per month, which was later raised to Rs 10,000. Gupta has submitted that he had paid Rs 18.17 lakh between the date of booking in April 1997 and October 1999. Despite the lapse of over two years, the possession of the independent floor in Silver Crest Scheme in Gurgaon’s Sushant Lok was not handed over to him.
Youths cheated of lakhs on false promise of job
New Delhi, October 9 Those accused have
been identified as Kumar Kishan Wadhera, Jagdish Rai, Bhagwan Dass and Gayatri Devi. Of these, Gayatri Devi was an attendant at the old Delhi Railway Station while Jagdish Rai was a tea vendor at the waiting hall at old Delhi railway station. Bhagwan Dass was employed as a gateman at Dharondhi Railway Station in Haryana. The Delhi Police Commissioner, Dr K. K. Paul, had received a written complaint that the CVC had received a number of fake appointment letters distributed to candidates looking for jobs. When the matter was investigated, it was found that the four accused persons had collected Rs 1.5 lakh each from a number of unemployed youths for arranging jobs for them in the CVC. It was further found that Kishan Kumar, Gayatri and Bhagwan Dass were absconding after collecting the money. When the police interrogated Jagdish Rai, he disclosed that Kishan Kumar had introduced himself as a senior official in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He had asked Jagdish Rai to bring candidates, who needed jobs in the CVC. Later, Jagdish discussed the matter with Bhagwan Dass. Soon, the trio started trapping innocent youths.
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Derailment hits traffic
Faridabad, October 9 Senior railways officials had been supervising the repair operations as the traffic on the route could not be resumed till 5 pm. As a result, nearly all the passenger and express trains got delayed for several hours. According to reports, the bogies carrying coal got derailed at about 8 this morning a few km from the Asavati railway station. The train was reported to be on its way to Ghaziabad. The railway authorities had to suspend the movement of trains as the bogies fell on both sides, damaging the tracks severely. It is learnt that the trains could not be restored till evening, though the officials claimed that the traffic would be normalised soon. It may be recalled that this route had been one of the busiest tracks and the accident led to paralysing the movement of many important trains bound for North and South. While no one was injured, it is suspected that the derailment could be due to a broken track. There is no official statement so far.
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Panchayat gives stick to lovelorn couple
Meerut, October 9 As a punishment, both of them were beating each other with
chappals.
This was done to teach a lesson not only to them but also to other lovelorn couples, according to some villagers. The whole drama unfolded three months back when one unmarried youth of Surjaoli village of Bulandshahr fell in love with a married woman of the same village. Villagers could only know about their affair when both of them eloped. The husband of the woman than filed a complaint in the local police station. But
the police did not register a case. According to some villagers, the duo first went
to Delhi, then to Muradnagar, Ghaziabad and settled down there. After a while, the police located
them and informed their family members. On Thursday evening, some villagers reached Muradnagar and forcibly put them in a jeep and returned to Sevojaoli. The woman also had a small child. The frenzied villagers were ready to teach them
a lesson so that no other could dare take such step. On Friday, they were beaten up publicly. Their heads were shaven clean and faces painted black. The villagers also forced them to hold chappals. A procession was then taken out in the village. The local police station was aware of the incident, but the SHO did not bother to visit the village.
A considerable tension gripped the area after the incident.
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Slum renewal programme in the offing
New Delhi, October 9 After planting saplings near the National Stadium here as part of the Habitat Week Celebration, Ms Selja said that the existing infrastructure in cities is inadequate considering the speed of urbanisation and the large-scale migration of population. The Common Minimum Programme of UPA Government, she said, is envisaging expanding the provision of basic minimum facilities in rural areas.
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Conman in uniform held
New Delhi, October 9 A foreign-made pistol and a stolen Maruti Alto car were seized from the cheat who hails from Sisauli village in Muzaffarnagar. When he was arrested, he was wearing the uniform of an Uttar Pradesh policeman. The car with a red beacon light had been stolen from Uttaranchal. He was reportedly involved in 17 cases of murder, dacoity, loot and extortion. When he was just 13, he had allegedly killed a criminal of his village. In July this year, he had allegedly killed a property dealer in Vivek Vihar in Northeast district, the police said.
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Employment exchange fails to offer jobs
Greater Noida, October 8 As for the unlucky majority, most of them did not even get a reply or call from the employment exchange. — OC
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DUJ plans joint action
New Delhi, October 9
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Envoy’s kin held for assault
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 9 Later, they were released on bail. The shopkeeper, Rajesh Verma, suffered minor head injuries after he was hit by the ambassador’s nephews. The police said that the trouble began when Verma asked the Cambodians to remove their vehicle parked right in front of his shop, which led to an argument and the subsequent brawl. Heroin haul
With the arrest of two suspects, the Narcotics Branch of the Delhi Police has busted a gang of inter-state drug traffickers operating from Rajasthan and Neemach. The police have also recovered heroin worth Rs three crore. The sleuths of the Narcotics Branch had received a complaint that a huge quantity of heroin was being pumped into the National Capital. The information was developed. A few days back, it got a tip-off that Prem Narayan of Chittorgarh would be delivering a big consignment of heroin to one Amar Singh near Sarai Kale Khan Inter-State Bus Terminus. A police team in plainclothes was deployed at the terminus and they arrested the suspect this morning. During interrogation, Prem Narayan disclosed that he had worked as a clerk in Rajasthan Electricity Board before he was dismissed.
Fire in CP
A major fire broke out in the Jeevan Bharati building at Connaught Place at 2 am today; it and was brought under control by 4.30 am in the morning. According to the police, the fire broke out on the 10th floor of the building. About 18 fire tenders were pressed into service to bring the blaze under control. There is no report of any casualty, but some records were destroyed in the fire, sources said. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Auto-lifters held
With the arrest of two youths, Ketan Sharma and Achin Sharma, the Anti-Robbery Section of the Crime Branch today claims to have busted a gang of vehicle thieves.
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