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Mobile ISD exchange fraud unearthed
Three Bangladeshi robbers held
Man held for killing aged mother
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Cop stabs restaurant owner for demanding payment
Trifurcation plan in limbo due to legal hassles
District admn gears up for pulse polio campaign
Global meet on diabetes today
Workshop on disaster management
Management tips from Metro chief
‘Vaada’ cast costumes to aid victims
Warmth, sunshine for another day
Briefly...
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Mobile ISD exchange fraud unearthed
New Delhi, January 8 Based on a complaint from the Reliance Infocom that someone has been misusing the phone numbers of their customers, the sleuths swung into action and nabbed one Mohammad Yaseen, alias Monu, near the Apollo Hospitals while he was going in his black Santro car. As many as 20 Reliance mobile phones, one Laptop Dell company along with a SIM scanner and a writer were recovered from him. The sleuths also recovered another three mobile phones and seven computer software CDs from his residence in Mehrauli. During interrogation, the accused disclosed that he was using the numbers of Reliance mobile phones by cloning and they were used for making conference calls to the Gulf countries. He also disclosed that before running the illegal telephone exchange, he was involved in disposing of at least 60 stolen cars in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Srinagar. Monu said that he was in the process of buying a software which was recently launched in Mumbai through which prepaid cards can be recharged illegally.
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Three Bangladeshi robbers held
New Delhi, January 8 Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Nuzhat Hassan said the police received a secret information that some Bangladeshi robbers involved in a spate of burglary cases were active in the district. Accordingly, a special team was constituted to nab the suspects. A trap was laid in the Kalyanpuri area on January 7 and three persons were arrested. They were later identified as Mohammad Azad, alias Rakhaal, Mohammad Mussa and Mohammad Mustafa, all residents of Bangladesh. During interrogation, the accused confessed to their involvement in several burglary cases in Preet Vihar, Farsh Bazar and Vivek Vihar areas. They also said they always chose houses close to the parks and railway tracks as they provide easy escape routes.
Six autolifters held
With the arrest of six autolifters in two different cases, the North-East district police claimed to have worked out several cases of vehicle thefts in the district. In the first case, the police have nabbed three autolifters Sanjay Kumar (21), resident of Ashok Nagar, Jitender Kumar Sharma (36), resident of Gokalpur and Virender, alias Babloo (22), resident of Indra Puri, Ghaziabad and recovered three TSR vehicles from their possession. During interrogation, the accused told the police that they drove the TRS vehicles on hire basis and later started stealing them, as they became desperate for money. They also said that they had stolen TSR vehicles from Shahdara, M S Park and Kalkaji areas. In another case, the district police has nabbed three autolifters Devender Mishra (28) and Vikas Gupta alias Vicky (24), residents of Kartar Nagar and Rajesh Tiwari, alias Nannu (27), resident of South Gamri from Gokulpuri area and recovered one Hero Honda motorcycle from them.
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Man held for killing aged mother
Meerut, January 8 Basanth, an engineer, killed his mother with the help of his two servants. He has no regret for the shameful act. The mood of the accused was rather jovial at the time of his arrest. Basanth answered the queries of the mediapersons boldly. The body of the victim, Urmila Goel (68), was recovered from a well inside her house on December 31, last year. She was survived by two sons and a daughter. The victim had been missing from her house since December 12. But none of his sons informed the police. When the daughter of the victim, Ritu, who stays in Mumbai, couldn’t contact her mother over phone, she met SSP Anju Gupta. Later, a case was registered on December 31. Meanwhile, Basanth also reported the incident to the local police SHO. Subsequently, the SHO visited the accused’s residence. After a through search by the sleuths led by the SSP, the body of the victim was recovered from a well inside a locked room. The police also found some blood-stained spots in the house. Interestingly, Basanth had given his servants’ name — Mukesh and Santosh — in the FIR. But things took a different turn when both the servants and Basanth were questioned by the police separately. The servants broke down and narrated the whole story to the police. According to police, Basant was having property differences with his mother, and so, he decided to eliminate her. . On December 12, Basanth involved his servants by offering Rs 1 lakh each to help him kill his mother. On the fateful evening, Basanth tried to strangulate his mother, but failed. Later, the accused slit his mother’s neck with a sharp-edged weapon and then threw it into the well inside a room. As the news of the murder spread, hundreds of residents of the area rushed to the local police station to see the accused.
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Cop stabs restaurant owner for demanding payment
Greater
Noida, January 8 The accused cop, identified as Parvinder, was later escorted away from the restaurant by a police sub inspector. However, when the police refused to register the case, hundreds of irate local traders and residents along with the former MLA Narinder Bhatti marched to the office of the Senior Superintendent of Police in Surajpur. Later, a case was registered against the cop on the orders of the Superintendent of Police (Rural), Mr M. P. Singh yesterday. According to reports, after having threatened the waiter, who had first approached the policeman for the payment, the cop walked over to the owner and threatened him. “I will fix you,” he warned. When the restaurant owner refused to buckle under his pressure, the cop took out a dagger and stabbed him in the stomach. A sub inspector of the nearby Haldwani police post soon arrived at the restaurant and instead of taking the wounded restaurant owner to the hospital, he escorted the cop even as he threatened to close down the restaurant if he dared to file a complaint. Later, the victim’s relatives were asked to leave the police station when they went to lodge an FIR.
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Trifurcation plan in limbo due to legal hassles
New Delhi, January 8 The DMC Act 1958 was amended in 1993 and again in 2002. Certain changes were then made to make the functioning of the corporation transparent. They said that the majority of the councillors had opposed the private proposal tabled before the Delhi Assembly. The corporation had also passed a resolution opposing the move of the Sheila Dikshit government to trifurcate the civic body. They said that leaders, who do not have the knowledge of corporation’s working, were supporting the issue of trifurcating. The Congress leaders, the DPCC president, Mr. Ram Babu Sharma, Outer Delhi MP, Mr Sajjan Kumar and HKL Bhagat, BJP leaders like Madan Lal Khurana, Sahib Singh Verma and other senior leaders have never raised their voice in support of Sheila Dikshit’s move to decentralise the corporation. Senior officials of the corporation are also opposing the issue saying that it will curtail the powers of corporation. The power of transfers will be given to the Secretary, Urban Development, Government of Delhi. Promotion of officers and other employees will be stopped for many years and ad hoc appointments will also be stopped. Trifurcating the corporation will have financial burden on the corporation as it will have three mayors, three municipal commissioners, additional commissioners. Besides, the majority of the taxable property is located in South Delhi which is a major source of revenue. So, the South Delhi Corporation will be the richest whereas the other two corporations will face a financial crisis leading to lack of development in these areas. They say that the corporation is already divided into 12 districts. Hardly anybody comes to the Town Hall, headquarters of the corporation, to get his work done. The person gets it done in the district itself. Behind raising the issue, the Chief Minister wants to divert the attention of the residents of the Capital from the more important issues such as hike in water, electricity tariff and other limitations of the state government. Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu, Mumbai, capital of Maharashtra and kolkata, capital of West Bengal have municipal corporations. However, the governments in these states have more power in comparison to the municipal corporations and their area of development is also larger. But the area of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the Delhi government is almost equal. The MCD is stronger and the state government is weak in nature. The MCD being the second largest corporation in the world, has its heritage and historical value.
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District admn gears up for pulse polio campaign
Noida, January 8 The District Magistrate said action will be taken against those who obstruct the volunteers or spread misinformation or false alarms against the campaign. Uttar Pradesh has 90 per cent of the polio cases in the country, with neighbouring Meerut and Saharanpur division with one of the largest population with polio cases. Gautam Budh Nagar is surrounded by Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr and Baghpat districts, which are struggling with this problem, added the District Magistrate. The pulse polio campaign this year has been called ‘Bada Suraksha Chakkar’. (The big safety round). The campaign will be flagged off from the slum areas of Noida by the District Magistrate himself. This step, he feels, will increase awareness and make it more acceptable to the slum dwellers. As a special measure, all primary and lower middle schools will be open on January 9 so as to facilitate the mobilization of the kids to the booths. Teams of 8 to 10 school children will go around villages and localities blowing whistles specially provided to them to herald the arrival of the volunteers. In all, 755 booths have been established along with about 6,000 staff deployed as part of the various teams.
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Global meet on diabetes today
New Delhi, January 8 According to the WHO, diabetes remains one of the major health problems across the globe, with more than 170 million people worldwide affected by it, 31 million of them in It has also been pointed out that India would contribute nearly 79.4 million to the global burden of diabetes by 2030, which would be about 20 per cent of the total diabetic population in the world. Diabetes Mellitus is also associated with serious life-threatening complications like cardiovascular diseases, end stage renal diseases, visual impairment, limb amputation, strokes and high mortality, say experts. With a view to discussing the disease, which has often been dubbed as a lifestyle disease, the Centre for Diabetes and Lifestyle Diseases is organising an international symposium on “Diabetes: Newer Insights” on January 9, at Hotel Ashok. The seminar is in collaboration with the World India Diabetes Foundation, Division of Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. The symposium will be addressed by a distinguished international faculty who have excelled in the field of diabetes, and one of the faculty members, Dr Michael Brownlee is the Banting Awardee for the year 2004. The meeting will shed light on the latest developments of this metabolic disorder. It also focused on the research by scientists across the world trying to create new strategies to delay and prevent the development of diabetes mellitus Type 2. Among the speakers are Dr Michael Brownlee, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, Dr John M. Miles, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Dr Olle Ljungqvist, M.D., Ph.D, Director of Ersta Hospital and Professor Karolinska
Institute, Stockholm, among others. They will discuss the ideal and practical blood glucose in patients with Type 2 Diabetes, management of hypertension in metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular risk related to obesity, insulin resistance, management of dyslipidemia in metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance in post-surgical patients and its implications.
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Workshop on disaster management
New Delhi, January 8 Chairpersons of the Board of Secondary Education participated in the workshop apart from the representatives of CBSE, Council for Indian School Certificate Examination, NCTE, NIOS and UNDP. The participants discussed broadly on disaster management. They argued whether disaster management should be a separate subject or should it be integrated with other subjects. The workshop also discussed over the modalities of teaching-learning, evaluation and teachers’ training. Inaugurating the workshop, Prof Krishna Kumar, Director, NCERT, said: “As curriculum designers, we have to ensure that the theory of disaster management should be put into practice, and for this, we will have to train our teachers well. Inclusion of chapters will not be enough, but making our children more responsible in taking right action at the time of any disaster is more important.” S. P. Gaur, Director, NIDA, said that disaster management in school education has its own significance, as today’s students are tomorrow’s responsible citizens. Schoolchildren and parents constitute a large section of society, so we need adequate planning for school safety and improve disaster risk reduction. He also added that the idea of disaster management does not mean another textbook, increasing the load of the school bag, but to equip the students with the life skills through practical training, debates and painting competition, etc.
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Management tips from Metro chief
New Delhi, January 8 A presentation to the students was made by E. Sreedharan, Managing Director, DMRC, in which he outlined some of the strategies of the DMRC, which include ensuring quick award of contracts, timely payments to contractors, adoption of international technical standards, strict quality audit, prompt resolution of claims, a team approach and immediate attention to public issues and complaints.
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‘Vaada’ cast costumes to aid victims
New Delhi, January 8 Producer Vashu Bhagnani and the entire ‘Vaada’ team, who were recently in town to auction the costumes worn by the actors in the movie, raised a total amount of Rs 1.95 lakh of the ten costumes auctioned on the occasion. The remaining costumes will be available at CTC Plaza for the buyers. The costumes have been designed by renowned designers Rocky S. Shahid Amin and
Kamal.
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Warmth, sunshine for another day
New Delhi, January 8 But fine weather in the Capital did not stop the railway rescheduling as operational reasons forced changes in departure time of several trains. Passengers continued to remain hassled owing to severe disruption in train schedules. With the reduction in fog, vehicular movement in the city remained smooth.
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Target- based lifestyle programme
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 8 Unless it is a target-based programme, people are not going to take it seriously and their usual response will be “I will start it from tomorrow”, he added. Quoting a recent study from Georgia, USA, Dr Aggarwal said that patient’s participation in the programme was associated with a significant improvement in blood pressure, cholesterol levels, sugar levels and body weight. Help to the needy
At its 29th annual function to be held at Pearey Lal Bhawan on January 9, Tarun Mitra Parishad will distribute tricycles, wheelchairs, artificial limbs, hearing aid, sewing machines and study material along with scholarships to needy students. The President of the Parishad, Mr Ashok Jain, said that the former Union Minister, Dr Sahib Singh Verma, will inaugurate the function.
Educationist honoured
The Founder Principal and Director, Manav Sthali School, Mrs Mamta Bhatnagar, has been honoured with Shiksha Rattan Award by the Institute of Economic Studies for her contribution in the field of education. The award was presented to her by the former Governor of Tamil Nadu and Assam, Dr Bhishma Narain Singh, at a ceremony organised by the IES here recently. Ms Bhatnagar has been associated with the field of education for the last four decades and has contributed to making the school a success story.
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