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TV serial director held for vehicle thefts
HC nod for DSGMC election
SI assaulted, pistol snatched
Two-yr RI to SI in graft case
Youth needs to be made aware of diabetes: Akram
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Encroached land worth crores recovered
Institutions’ feedback to help reorient higher education
Meet on communicable diseases
NSUI seeks formation of national commission
Ahluwalia’s full support for C’wealth Games
Tele-booking facilities at Tihar
Mother of three, lover take poison
Wife shot for refusing to give booze money
A missionary vision!
Delhi girl wears Elite Model crown
Navy band to perform in Noida
Dairy owners told to book plots at Ghogha
A euphonic ‘Aman’ treat
Cancer screening camp
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TV serial director held for vehicle thefts
New Delhi, November 20 Manish Yadav (22), who is a National Institute of Fashion Design (NIFD) graduate, was arrested along with his associate Ravinder Singh Dahiya yesterday from a park in Kapashera while riding a stolen motorcycle, said the DCP (Crime), Tajender Luthra. The other accused was identified as Ravinder Singh Dahiya. “It seems they were up to something new when they were caught,” said Luthra. However, the kingpin of the gang, Ravinder Mann, is yet to be arrested, he said. During interrogation, it was revealed that Manish had assisted in the direction of a Doordarshan serial and had several regional language albums of Haryana to his credit, said the police. Last month, both the accused had robbed a car from the Gurgaon market. They also took away two mobile phones and the purse of the car owner, Luthra added. According to the police, Ravinder Singh Dahiya, in his early twenties, is an English Hons. student in Gurgaon College. He left his studies after he came in contact of bad characters and got the image of local goon. He got in contact with Ravinder Mann and Manish Yadav, who lured him for robbery as he was of good physique. The third accused, who is at large, did his diploma in engineering, has a record of heinous criminal cases in Gurgaon. Ravinder is the main person who provoked these two accused arrested last night to get into the crime world. The police have recovered a country made pistol and live cartridges from their possession.
With the arrest four suspects, including a former Mr Amritsar, the South Delhi yesterday busted a gang of auto-lifters. The suspects were identified as Gurminder Singh, a former Mr Amritsar; Harpinder Singh, alias Happy, alias Aman, Bahadur Singh and Paramjeet Singh. Eleven stolen cars have been recovered from them. With the arrest, 70 cases of vehicle theft have been worked out. To control auto theft cases in South Delhi, the district police constituted a special team.
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HC nod for DSGMC election
New Delhi, November 20 Giving a green signal to the DSGMC to elect its Executive Board, Justice S. N. Kaul said the stay order of the civil judge would amount to overriding the High Court’s earlier verdict fixing the date of election on November 22. The civil court had passed the order earlier in the day stating that its November stay order on the election would continue. Justice Kaul took strong exception to the civil judge staying the poll process and said when the date had already been fixed by a Division Bench of the High Court, there was no reason for the lower court to interfere in the matter. The appeal against the civil judge’s order was filed in the High Court by DSGMC Joint Secretary Kuldip Singh, through senior advocate H. S. Phoolka. Initially the elections were scheduled for September 24 but the DSGMC President P. S. Chandiok had fixed a new date of January 27, 2005 recently, Phooka said. Aggrieved by his decision, 34 members of the Executive Committee of DSGMC had passed a resolution to advance the date to November 17, which was endorsed by the Executive Board, he said. Following this, Chandiok and DSGMC General Secretary had moved the High Court for stay of the Executive Committee order, but the single judge Bench there had declined to interfere in the matter. When the matter was raised before a Division Bench, it fixed November 22 as the new date for holding the election.
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SI assaulted, pistol snatched
Khurja, November 20 The criminals had blocked the road by felling a tree across it to stop SI Bhoop Sing Yadav near Agora village on Pahasu Road. Bhoop Singh is in charge of Pahasu police post. According to information available, when Bhoop Singh was returning after doing duty at 3 am on Thursday, eight criminals reportedly blocked the road near village Jhanka and as the SI stopped his bike, they assaulted him with hockey sticks, lathis and pistol butts and snatched his service revolver with a magazine containing
10 cartridges. Bhoop Singh was left almost half dead by the criminals who later escaped with his service revolver. Assailants were said to be between 25 and 30 years and were seen fleeing towards village Nangla Shakhu. Though badly wounded, Bhoop Singh was able to inform police. The Circle Officer and SOs of a number of police stations rushed to the spot and the SI injured in the head was rushed to the government hospital, Jatya. There is no trace of the assailants till now. SSP Anil Das has ordered the police force to nab the criminals at the earliest and retrieve the looted government weapon. SSP Khurja has also inspected the site. According to SO Khurja, five teams have been set up to investigate and apprehend the criminals involved in the case.
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Two-yr RI to SI in graft case
New Delhi, November 20 The court also imposed a fine of Rs 11,500 on convict Narender Singh (63). “A corrupt official is a menace to the society and public servants found guilty of demanding and accepting bribe deserve no leniency,” the court observed. It also handed down a six-month jail-term to Singh’s accomplice Ashok Kumar and asked him to pay a fine of Rs 500. “Prosecution proved that there was conspiracy between Singh and Kumar to take bribe from the complainant for release of Brijesh and Ballu who were illegally detained in Sultanpuri police station by Singh,” the court said. Acting on a complaint by one Ramesh Chandra Singh, the CBI arrested the convicts. He made a complaint that the convicts, then posted at Sultanpuri police station, had demanded Rs 10,000 as “illegal gratification” for releasing his brother-in-law Brijesh and friend Ballu from “illegal confinement”. The sleuths laid a trap and caught Kumar red-handed while taking bribe on November 9, 1995.
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Youth needs to be made aware of diabetes: Akram
New Delhi, November 20 The ‘Accu-Check Inspiration Series’, organized by Roche Diagnostics, aims to create awareness through road shows across the country on diabetes and its management through self monitoring. As part of the road show, a school contact program was held at the Kalka Public School in the Capital. Eight winners from schools across Delhi were felicitated by Wasim Akram for having excelled in life despite personal odds. This is in sync with ‘Accu-Checks’ philosophy of `Live life the way you want’- a conviction that one can lead a normal life in spite of being afflicted with diabetes. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 20 per cent or 33 million of the world’s diabetics are Indians. And more than 30 per cent of this population is under the age of 40. It further projects an increase in the incidence of diabetes in the Indian population to 57 million by 2025 from the current levels. Since there is no known cure for diabetes, active involvement and good understanding of the disease and management
is necessary. Thus, awareness and management of diabetes plays a very crucial role in controlling the disease and leading a normal life. Speaking on the occasion, Wasim Akram, who successfully played international cricket in spite of being diagnosed with diabetes, said, “Recent studies have indicated that children in developing countries are at a higher risk of becoming diabetics when they grow up. This is largely due to changing lifestyle, physical inactivity, urban food habits and a genetic
predisposition. There is, therefore, an urgent need to create awareness about diabetes on these young impressionable minds through this Inspiration Series.”
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Encroached land worth crores recovered
Noida, November 20 On Friday at about 11 am, the demolition squads of the authority had dispersed the people occupying the public land. Some people had constructed a boundary wall on the land under Khasra No. 77, 72, and 79 and occupied it illegally. A part of the plot had been encroached upon by a junk dealer who was running his business from there on 3-bigha land. The squad was headed by Project Engineer, AK Mathur, RS Raghav, SC Gupta, Pradeep Yadav, H.S Sharma and RJK Bhasne. Five rooms constructed on the land along with the boundary wall were razed. The whole operation took about 6 hours. The Noida authority officials, however, said that the land could be occupied by unscrupulous people again.
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Institutions’ feedback to help reorient higher education
New Delhi, November 20 The feedback from the institutions is being sought in the form of an exhaustive questionnaire drafted by the University Grants Commission and through face to face interactions. “The decision to send a questionnaire came from the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) in its resolution passed in July. The first meeting of the reconstituted Board was held in August wherein it decided to set up committees of CABE to examine in detail critical issues associated with various sectors. One of the committees, under the Chairmanship of Kanti Biswas, Education Minister, Government of West Bengal, has been asked to work on the subject of ‘Autonomy of Higher Education Institutions,” said Prof Ved Prakash, Secretary, UGC. He said the questionnaire has been dispatched to the educational institutions and the feedback, which will be collected by the end of December, will be analysed and the recommendations would be referred to
the CABE. “Apart from this, we are also going to hold four regional meetings, where institutional heads in an interaction with us will put forth their comments and observations. The meeting for the North zone will be held in either Chandigarh or Lucknow, the date for which is yet to be finalised. For the South zone, it will be held in Chennai on December 30 and 31, in Guwahati on December 28 and 29 and in Pune on December 8 and 9,” Prof. Ved Prakash said. The questionnaire seeks the feedback on issue like fee structure, admission policy, intake capacity and also asks whether the institutions favour separate commission for the appointment of teachers like for the civil services. It seeks a feedback on the institution’s degree of existing academic autonomy and whether autonomous status to a college should be limited to colleges with potential for excellence or NAAC accredited institution or NBA accredited institutions. The document also seeks opinion on whether institutions feel the need for having regulatory bodies like the UGC, AICTE, MCI, PCI etc., for maintaining
standards. “Importance attached to the autonomy is, indeed, a welcome and promising point of departure
for reforms. It assumes even greater significance when it is proved beyond doubt that autonomy in governance is one of the vital antecedental variables to bringing about qualitative improvement leading to excellence, and more so when in present times institutions are increasingly facing the crisis of identity,” summed up Prof Ved Prakash.
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Meet on communicable diseases
New Delhi, November 20 The conference is being organised with the view of propagation of scientific knowledge to the world at large. It was pointed out that in recent times there have been outbreaks of several new diseases like SARS, Avian Flu, which pose new challenges to health professionals of the country. The theme of the conference is ‘Health Vision Challenges’. About 400 delegates from various disciplines like Public Health, Epidemiology, Parasitology etc are participating in the event. Renowned national and international scientists would be attending the Congress, scientific sessions will include invited speakers as well as open papers.
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NSUI seeks formation of national commission
New Delhi, November 20 From training camps to sports meets, the students’ wing of the Congress has announced its decision to conduct a convention of the north-eastern students in Guwhati later this year and apart from organising events like blood donation camps and literacy awareness programmes. Some of the issues that the NSUI will support include drug abuse and trafficking, education for the backward classes, gender sensitisation and the need for implementing the Right to Information. The NSUI has reiterated its demand for the creation of new jobs for educated rural youth in sectors like horticulture, handicrafts, textiles and food processing. A request has been made to the Congress-led UPA Government to implement without delay effective mid-day meal schemes, promote primary and secondary education and provide more autonomy to institutions of higher learning. It has also put forth a request for setting up of middle-level technical institutes in rural areas for providing vocational education.
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Ahluwalia’s full support for C’wealth Games
New Delhi, November 20 “The issue was raised by the chief minister during the meeting and I told her to submit specific proposals in this regard,” Dr Ahluwalia told newspersons after a meeting of the chief ministers of the northern region. The meeting related to getting a feedback from the chief ministers regarding the mid-term appraisal and various policies and programmes as they effect states. “The Planning Commission will support any move in this regard,” Dr Ahluwalia said. The other representatives who attended today’s meeting included Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and the Planning Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Ms Dikshit said she sought assistance from the Planning Commission for infrastructure development to support the Commonwealth Games.
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Tele-booking facilities at Tihar
New Delhi, November 20 Earlier, visitors had to collect the registration numbers in person prior to meeting the prisoner. A separate register is being maintained for those who cannot make tele-booking registrations. General interview between the prisoners and their relatives commences between 9 am and 1 pm on all working days, and a maximum of three persons are allowed to meet the prisoner for a maximum of 30 minutes. While eatables, including fruits are allowed to be given to inmates, money is transferred into jail coupons for the use of prisoners.
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Mother of three, lover take poison
Noida, November 20 The woman had reportedly died on the spot while the man was rushed to hospital in a serious condition. He died a little later while being treated at the government hospital in Sector-30 Noida. The woman’s three children waited by the side of her body. There were also some relatives standing near the man’s body which lay in the hospital mortuary till late in the evening. The Indira Puram police reached the government hospital yesterday at 2.30 pm with Vinod Kumar, 32, in a serious condition. One Naresh, accompanying the patient, said that he had swallowed poison. His beloved Suman died in the afternoon. Naresh said both had consumed poison. Vinod belonged to Jhohari village in Bagpat and had been working as a boring technician in Khora Colony for the last one year. Suman, mother of three, had eloped with him on October 12. Her youngest child is nine months old. Her husband, Vedpal, 40, of village Jhohra under Baraut police station, had traced her to Vinod’s house a few days ago and caused a furore demanding her to come back with him. According to SP Singh, SO, Indira Puram police station, both the men had lived in the same house earlier with the woman for a few months.
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Wife shot for refusing to give booze money
Dari, November 20 Police have arrested the killer and the revolver used in the crime has also been recovered. Surinder, the culprit had already served a jail term for the rape of a woman in the village. According to Dadri police, Surinder, son of Rajinder had demanded money for liquor from his wife Babita on Thursday night in village Laharu under Dadri police station. On her refusal, he went to his mother and demanded some money. She also refused. The man again went to his wife, but Babita did not budge. This made Surinder go ballistic. He took out a revolver and shot at Babita, who was hit in the chest and died on the spot. Surinder’s grandfather Pritam Singh had reported the matter in Dadri police station. The police arrested Surinder, seized his revolver and sent the body for autopsy. Surinder was known to cause disturbance under the influence of liquor in the village every day. Babita and Surinder would clash almost daily over liquor and he would often beat up his wife. The whole family was reportedly fed up with his wayward habits.
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A missionary vision!
New Delhi, November 20 World Children’s Day is celebrated on November 20. The event was organised to raise funds for paediatric eye care. On Thursday, Jadoo, the alien who ruled Bollywood, made a special appearance at McDonald’s restaurants along with the popular MTV VJ Rannvijay. The purpose of their visit was to lend support to the cause of paediatric eye care on the occasion of World Children’s Week, being celebrated across McDonald’s restaurants in North India. Both of them served as honorary crew members and interacted with the customers at the McDonald’s restaurant at 3C’s Lajpat Nagar, to raise funds for the visually and economically disadvantaged children. McDonald’s will be contributing the entire proceeds of the food and beverage sales garnered from 12 noon to 1 pm today, for restoration of the vision of poor children. Jadoo enchanted them with his interactive games and showered them with gifts. The high point of the afternoon was Jadoo shaking a leg with the kids on the famous Jadoo number. Subsequently, he also visited McDonald’s restaurants in Ansal Plaza and Green Park market making the day a memorable one for many children.
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Delhi girl wears Elite Model crown
New Delhi, November 20 The international event will have winners from over 50 countries vying for the coveted crown. Another Delhi girl Vibhinita Verma was declared the first runner-up, while Vaishali V Desai and Priya Reddy, both from Bangalore, were declared the second and third runners-up. The ‘Pantene Zoom Elite Model Look 2004’ began its nationwide search on November 4. The girls short-listed were put through an intensive training programme.
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Navy band to perform in Noida
Noida, November 20 The versatile Missile Boats had carried out the attack on Karachi harbour to set it ablaze. To commemorate the day, Navy Day is celebrated on December 4 every year. The Naval Brass Band consists of three sections: “Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion” Section, introducing Electronic instrument like Synthesizer, Guitars, Octopad (Electronic Drum Machine). In the evening programme, the band is playing martial music to pop, jazz and Hindi tunes under the Baton of Master Chief Petty Officer N.S. Rawat and J.G. Das Band Master of Indian Navy. The premiere band of Indian Navy was commissioned with strength of 50 men in 1945. The Indian Navy Band is one of the best military bands in the country. The Naval Band commenced giving concerts all over India and on goodwill visits abroad in Germany, the USSR, the USA, the UK, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. Despite formidable competition from the Army and the Air Force bands, the Naval Band has won the coveted Inter-Services Trophy eight times out of the 11 competitions held so far. On the eve of Navy week celebration, the band is giving public performance in various parts of Delhi. This Naval Band is presently based at INS India Dalhousie Road, New Delhi.
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Dairy owners told to book plots at Ghogha
New Delhi, November 20 All such unauthorised dairy owners can now deposit advance payment towards the cost of the developed plot by November 30, 2004. The amount at the rate of Rs 1,250 per square metre can be deposited. Earlier also the MCD had issued notices and had directed the unauthorized dairy owners to get their plots booked. But the response has been poor due to the distance of Ghogha village from the main city. Second, the area is not fully developed. The dairy owners are of the view that Ghogha is located in a remote area and it does not suit all dairy owners. Instead of going to Ghogha, the dairy owners would prefer to shift to Ghaziabad and Faridabad. They would find it convenient to supply milk from these areas to their customers in the national Capital. Some of them have even closed down their dairies. An official of the corporation said that the unauthorised dairy owners, who have failed to book their plots so far, have been directed to get their plots booked and deposit the advance amount. Those who fail to make the advance payment within the time limit will have to close down their unauthorised dairies and face the consequences of their cattle being seized.
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A euphonic ‘Aman’ treat
New Delhi, November 20 The event, organised by ‘Swar Dharohar’, a social and cultural organisation, will commemorate 80 glorious years of the music college and will be celebrated with the performance of the renowned ghazal maestro, Jagjit Singh on Monday evening at Siri Fort auditorium. The musical extravaganza will be inaugurated by Mr Arjun Singh, Minister of Human Resource and Development and presided over by Mr Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs. Mr B R Saini, Chief Patron and Mr Ghulam Mohammad, president, Swar Dharohar will also be present on the occasion. Mr Saini, a renowned astrologer, also heads Saraswati Music College, one of the oldest and reputed institutions of music and dance in Delhi. The college has produced one of the greatest personalities in the music world like, O P Nayar, Mohammed Rafi, Padma Bhuushan, Pandit Jasraj, et al. The institute has also been organising cultural events and star nites in India and around the world. Mr Saini and Mr Mohammad believe this organisation enables them to spread the message of unity and peace within the nation using music as a platform. Swar Dharohar has been organising such musical concerts to promote humanity and brotherhood.
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Cancer screening camp
New Delhi, November 20 The camp was organised at the Cancer Detection Centre, to commemorate the birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi. Addressing the gathering, Mrs Babar urged the women to take advantage of the camp.
— TNS
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Online liquor sale
New Delhi, November 20
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Youth Parliament
New Delhi, November 20
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