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Nine held for robbery in jewellery shop
Two bank officers embezzle Rs 18 lakh
Bangles stolen from shopper’s purse
Stress on ‘peace literacy’
Many anomalies cited in voters’ list
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CAIT demands special status for Delhi traders
Lancaster to woo Indian students
NSIT wins BBC quiz contest
Spring Dales student in mega final
27 trucks seized for tax evasion
Shopkeepers to get notice for defaulting on instalments
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Nine held for robbery in jewellery shop
New Delhi, February 11 The police also seized gold items worth Rs eight lakh stolen from the shop and four country-made weapons from their possession. The accused persons arrested have been identified as Prem, resident of Karol Bagh, Tarkeshwar, alias Bittoo, Ravi (22), Sachin, alias Ashu (27), residents of Adarsh Nagar, Gopal (25), resident of Bapa Nagar, Bharat (30), resident of Shastri Nagar, Ravinder (26), Ram Bishan (19), both residents of Beadonpura and Ram Singh (39), resident of Azamgarh. On February 3, the accused persons entered a jewellery shop and decamped with gold jewellery worth Rs eight lakh after threatening the inmates with country-made weapons. During investigation, the police found out the involvement of two goldsmiths, Ram Singh and Prem, in the robbery. The police managed to apprehend Prem. Based on the information provided by Prem, the police also arrested Ram Singh. During interrogation, the duo told the police that they were not getting enough orders from the jeweller and therefore, decided to rob the jeweller. Ram Singh and Prem in turn assigned one Gopal, a local goldsmith in Karol Bagh, to identify a target for the purpose. Accordingly when Gopal informed them about the target, the accused persons roped in other associates and also procured four country made weapons for committing robbery.
Desperate dacoit arrested
The East district police claimed to have apprehended a desperate dacoit involved in a daylight dacoity case on January 8 in which Rs 12 lakh was robbed from two persons in Kalyanpuri area. The police also seized Rs 23,000 and a Pulsar motorcycle from his possession. The accused has been identified as Dinesh Kumar Sharma, resident of Ambedkar Nagar. Based on a tip-off about the involvement of Dinesh in the dacoity case from one Arun, the police had sent teams to Agra, Bhopal, Jaipur, Alwar and Ajmer but had failed to apprehend him since he was constantly on the move. On February 10, the police received a tip-off that Dinesh was present at Laxmi Nagar T-point and accordingly, a team led by SI Vinay Yadav of Special Staff arrested the accused.
Rewards announced
The Delhi Police have announced rewards for giving informations about seven absconding terrorists in the Red Fort case that took place in December 2000. Those included in the list include Bilal Ahmed, a Srinagar resident, Abu Haider and Abu Shakhar, Pakistani nationals. They all carry a cash reward of Rs 25000 each. Another accused, Zahoor Ahmed Qasid, who hails from Kashmir, has a reward of Rs 15,000. Besides, the information about Sher Janamand Sabir, Afghanistan national would fetch Rs. 10,000. The seven members belong to Lashkar-e-Tayeba. The police have so far arrested 11 accused in the Red Fort case that took place on December 22, 2000. The police said that the prime accused, Ashfaq Ahmed, is a Pakistan national. The police have arrested his Indian wife, Rehmana Farooqi along with other accused.
— TNS
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Two bank officers embezzle Rs 18 lakh
Noida, February 11 A report has been filed against them after the CBI had conducted simultaneous raids on the bank branches in Sector-26 and Sector-18 and started investigations. Both the officers, who were suspended, have absconded. The bank personnel were taken aback when the CBI sleuths descended on the branches. Nobody was allowed to leave the building or come in during search operations. V. Srinivasan, an officer in Sector-26 branch, was found to have slowly transferred money from other accounts to his bank account. This way he had transferred Rs 10 lakh. At the time of the raid, Srinivasan was absent from the bank. When the SSI branch of Sector-18 was raided, it was discovered that Rs 8 lakh had been misappropriated by the officer Ravi Chandra posted in the branch. He is alleged to have transferred the interest on FDs to his account. When the bank authorities learnt about it, they themselves informed the CBI, it is said. Acting on this information, the CBI quickly solved this case.
Fugitive criminal in Katara murder case nabbed
Ghaziabad, February 11 It may be recalled that son of an IAS Joint Secretary in the Union Shipping Ministry, Nitish Katara was murdered on January 16, 2002. Some of those accused in the murder had been absconding for the last three years. A police party from outside district had nabbed Sukhdev Pahelwan from his house in Kushi Nagar. A Ghaziabad police team has already left for Devariya to interrogate the criminal, Ghaziabad SSP Jai Narain Singh confirmed. A police team from Patherwa in Kushi Nagar had arrested Sukhdev from his house. Nitish Katara, son of an IAS officer, resident of Chelmsford Road, New Delhi, had come to attend a wedding in Diamond Hall in Kavi Nagar on January 16, 02. Nitish was kidnapped from the Diamond Hall by Vikas and Vishal Yadav, son and nephew respectively of MP DP Yadav, who had first murdered Nitish Katra with hammer blows in Khurja area of Bulandshahr. Later, they had burnt his body. The Ghaziabad police had the very next day registered a kidnapping and murder case against Vikas, Nitish and Sukhdev Pahelwan on January 17, 2002. Nitish’s half-burnt body and hammer was recovered by the police. On February 22, 2002, Vishal and Vikas were nabbed in Dabra, MP for possessing cartridges and sent to jail. Vishal and Vikas are lodged in Tihar Jail after that, but Sukhdev Pahelwan went absconding and had been declared a fugitive since
then. — OC
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Bangles stolen from shopper’s purse
Noida, February 11 Mrs Savita Jindal, wife of a businessman Pankaj Jindal, resident of A-2, Sector-11 Noida, had gone to the jeweller’s showroom in Sab Mall along with Aruna Goel, her relative, as they had found some defects in the jewellery purchased from the showroom for Rs 78,000. The workers were taking lunch at 3 pm when Mrs Jindal and Mrs Goel reached there. They were told to come after sometime. Both the women then went to the basement where a sale of Ritu Wears was on and a large number of people were present in the basement. They selected three sweaters. One of them then took the purse off her shoulder and noticed that the purse chain had been undone and their gold bangles missing. They immediately informed the security in charge and manager RP Choudhry of the basement portion. The women requested the manager and the security in charge to close the door and frisk all those present. Savita alleged the manager and his staff did not listen to them. Soon Pankaj Jindal and his friends reached Ritu Wears. They created a ruckus in the showroom at the attitude of the Ritu Wear management. The police that reached soon frisked many employees of the Ritu Wear while the Jindals alleged that Manager Choudhry and his staff were hand in glove with the thieves.
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Stress on ‘peace literacy’
New Delhi, February 11 “Violence invades even the sanctuary of textbook writing through words, ideas, omissions and misrepresentations that legitimise prejudices. Peace needs to be the perspective from which every aspect of education is understood and transacted,” the group pointed out. Following a two-day meeting, the members of the group said, that education needs to integrate personal empowerment with national integration and social transformation. It was pointed out that “today there is an unprecedented need to impart a peace orientation to the educational formation of students. Children are exposed to greater stimulation for violence. The prevalence of violence is increasing locally, nationally and globally. The media assaults them with an avalanche of violent images routinely. Large numbers of children experience violence at home. They could imbibe “violence literacy” in the very process of growing up. This leaves us with no option but to launch an all-out campaign to propagate “peace literacy” to counter this alarming trend. Implementing peace education nation-wide involving all stakeholders in education needs to be seen as a key strategy in this respect”. The Focus Group is concerned, however, that unless curriculum load is scaled down sensibly and teachers are empowered to be peace educators the dream of turning India into a garden of peace cannot be addressed effectively. Also, the indefensible rural-urban divide in education through which education undermines, however unwittingly, national cohesion needs to be addressed upfront.
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Many anomalies cited in voters’ list
Faridabad, February 11 The residents have rued the ‘omission’ of a large number of voters and sought enlisting of the missing names. The Citizen Welfare Association of Palwal town has submitted a memorandum to the authorities at the sub-division to seek inclusion of all the names in the voter list, whose names had been omitted recently by the survey teams. In a statement here today, the president of the association, Mr Trilok Chand Gupta, claimed that the re-organisation of the wards of the Municipal Committee at Palwal had been done in a wrong manner and many residents of the existing wards had been left out in the fresh list of the voters. Citing the example of ward number 19 (old), which has been re-formed as ward number 26, he said a large number of voters of the old ward had been unable to find their names in the list of the new ward. He said the old ward had about 2,000 voters. The new ward has about 3,000 voters, but he said there was none who could tell us the reason behind the omission of the existing voters. He said a team of the affected persons had met the SDM and the officials of the Municipal Committee, but could not get any assurance for the correction of the list. It is reported that the last date for the inclusion of new voters had been February 10. The association has now decided to approach the district and the state election authorities in this regard. At Hodal another subdivisional town, about 2,500 residents have applied for the inclusion of their names in the new list. The residents have the option of representing to the Deputy Commissioner by tomorrow, if their claim had been rejected at the sub-divisional level.
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CAIT demands special status for Delhi traders
New Delhi, February 11 In a communication to Dr Aseem Das Gupta, Chairman of the apex committee, the Secretary-General of
CAIT, Mr Praveen Khandelwal, stated that Delhi plays an important role as a key distribution centre of the country. A copy of the letter has also been sent to the Delhi Chief Minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit, and the Finance Minister. The destiny of lakhs of people engaged in trading activities is being sought to be rewritten under the proposed VAT regime, he said. Dependent entirely upon distribution business, the traders of Delhi have a “genuine fear” that in event of the VAT implementation, when tax slabs of various goods will be at par, the trade from Delhi will be transferred to other states. Mr Khandelwal wanted the government to inform the traders about the preventive steps taken to deal with the VAT law. Further, it was pointed out that in the event of trade moving out of Delhi, the government will suffer huge revenue loses, as nearly 70 per cent of the revenue comes from Sales Tax itself.
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Lancaster to woo Indian students
New Delhi, February 11 Vice-Chancellor Paul Wellings, who is presently in India, will sign agreements for joint research in social sciences with Jawaharlal Nehru University. Besides, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies Paul Wellings will give lectures and meet the staff to facilitate the two-way cooperation. The university will also sign an agreement with the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) for research in Life Sciences for which Professor Trevor Mcmilan will conduct lectures at MAHE this week. Visits will also be made to the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, for discussions regarding research links with the Lancaster Environment Centre and Infolab 21.
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NSIT wins BBC quiz contest
New Delhi, February 11 In a closely fought contest, Rohan Murarka (captain), Abhishek Dimri, K. K. Mukund and Anish Johnson from NSIT defeated Gaurav Gollerkeri (captain), Suraj V. Kumar, Abhishek Sinha and Sanjeev Jayakumar from IIM Kozhikode by 2440 points to 200. Renowned sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who was the guest of honour, presented the trophy to the winning team. “It is a mind-boggling experience really, to be presiding over this quiz contest. It’s wonderful to see all these young brilliant people with their quick scintillating minds being so fantastic. This gives me such great hope for the future,” he said. Speaking on the team’s performance, the NSIT team captain Rohan Murarka said: “Winning against some of India’s best quizzing teams was an exhilarating experience. I think the combination of individual skill and terrific team play has won us this glory and we are honoured to have received this prestigious accolade.” The exciting final episode of University challenge will be broadcast on BBC World on Thursday February 10 at 2200 IST, with an additional appointment to view on Sunday February 13 at 1000 IST. Around 350 four-member teams from India’s top colleges and universities originally entered the competition, with 24 selected to participate in the television rounds of the quiz. The team from NSIT, New Delhi, made it to the second round of the quiz as one of the best losers from the preliminaries and then went on to beat JIPMER (Pondicherry), NIT (Trichy) and National Law School (Bangalore) in the subsequent rounds. IIM Kozhikode defeated DCE (Delhi), BITS (Pilani), CEG (Guidy) and IITM (Chennai) to take their place in the finals.
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Spring Dales student in mega final
New Delhi, February 11 In addition, she has scored among top 12 entries, with our 40,000 children participants from 2,000 schools across the country. Sixteen-year-old Indrani Basu wrote her 2,000 words story in two hours on the topic, ‘A Walk in the Clouds’.
—TNS
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27 trucks seized for tax evasion
Noida, February 11 Joint Commissioner S. M. Sinha said different teams of trade tax and special intelligence group were constituted under Deputy Commissioner O. P. Raj and Trade Tax Officer R. K. Bhargav. These teams were stationed at DND flyover, Sarita Vihar, Sector-14 main entrance, Jhandpura, Hari Darshan Chowki and Khora Colony. The detained trucks had either defective documents or were transporting goods without any documents. In 24 cases, security amount of Rs 4,50 lakh was deposited on goods worth Rs 15 lakh. In the remaining three cases, action on Rs 32 lakh worth of goods is still pending. A financial penalty amounting to Rs 7 lakh could be demanded from there also, Mr Sinha said.
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Shopkeepers to get notice for defaulting on instalments
Noida, February 11 According to the commercial department officials, the finance department is updating its figures for the last two months in preparation for the financial year accounts. Some 105 defaulters being issued with the notices by the authority will be asked to pay within a stipulated period, failing which the allotment of these plots could be cancelled and the property taken back by the authority, the sources said. Some of them had, by showing their shops, enterprises or units as functional, got the residential plots allotted from the reserve quota of the entrepreneurs. Subsequently, they had stopped payment of instalments for shops.
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New Delhi, February 11 Expressing concern over the delay in the pending demands, the DUTA general body meeting has also decided to hold demonstrations to press for the acceptance of these demands. There will be a dharna by staff associations from 10 a.m. to one p.m. and four p.m. to six p.m. in all colleges on February 17. Demonstration will be organised at the VC’s office from 11 a.m. to one p.m. on February 24. There will be a demonstration on March 2 near the UGC office and the teachers will march from Mandi House to Parliament on March 10. Manthan at AIT
The Ansal Institute of Technology
(AIT), Gurgaon, celebrated its annual cultural festival, ‘Manthan’. The chief guest on the occasion was Dr Micheal Anderson, Consular for Public Affairs, US Embassy. Dr Ranjit Singh, Director, Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology and Punjabi singer, Bhupinder
Bhuppi, were also present on the occasion. The highlight of the two-day event, which included a host of programmes, was the performance by Euphoria. Medical education programme
The Escort’s Hospital and Research Centre, Faridabad, organised a ‘Continue Medical Education Programme’ in association with the Upadhyay Hospital, Agra. The team headed by Dr Naresh Trehan, visited Agra to update doctors with the advanced surgical care and techniques. Demolition drive in DESU Colony
The BJP Legislature Party today met with the Lieutenant Governor, Mr B. L. Joshi and handed over a memorandum against the demolition drive in DESU Colony, Janakpuri. The Leader of Opposition, Mr Jagdish Mukhi, said that the residential land price for the 24 acres of land of DESU Colony is calculated Rs 650 crore and if this land is allowed to be used commercially, the land price comes to be thousands of crores of rupees.
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