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MCD worker held for brutal murder
Body of kidnapped child found
Lovers commit suicide on Valentine’s Day
Retired IFCI official found dead
Manager of investment firm booked for fraud
Govt to set up commission to check population explosion
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Tap latest technology for development: Petroleum Secy
Chhotu Ram’s anniversary goes unnoticed
No salary for workers in hostel for blind
The disabled waiting for pension for two years
Pandemonium in House after professional tax proposal
Adnan with his mother and father, Manzoor Ahmed, at his bedside.
DUTA to protest ‘attack’ on its dharna at Shivaji College
Three nabbed with pirated materials
Mobile phones for councillors
Blood donation camp held
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MCD worker held for brutal murder
New Delhi, February 14 The accused has been identified as Shish Pal (42), resident of Civil Lines area and an employee of the MCD, Shahdara, North Zone. The sleuths said that the accused so far had married eight women and molested several of his colleagues and other women in his locality. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), Mr Tejender Luthra, said that the Shish Pal was nabbed from Ring Road. During interrogation, he confessed to have raped and killed his neighbour’s daughter, Laxmi, who was staying in his house to look after his newly born kid, he added. Luthra said that Shish Pal told his neighbour, Rajbir, to send his girl to Hindu Rao Hospital in September 2002, since Shish Pal’s wife had given birth to a child. The victim also stayed in his house to help Shish Pal’s wife. On September 30, 2002, he came to his house at around 9.30 pm and offered food and medicine to his wife, who slept after that. Later, he went to his bedroom where Laxmi was watching television. Finding Laxmi alone he raped her and when she threatened him to disclose the matter to her parents, Shish Pal got scared and cut her body into pieces. Later, he packed the body pieces and disposed them in the Yamuna over a period of three days. Shish Pal’s involvement came to light after his wife Asha was traced by the police. Asha, hailing from Ambala, told the sleuths that she came to Delhi to visit her sister’s place in Palam, but somehow landed in Shish Pal’s hands in Kashmere Gate after she lost her way. Subsequently, she started staying with him as his wife and also gave birth to a baby. It was only after staying with him that Asha learnt about his relationships with several women. Shish Pal also confessed to the sleuths that he had molested several of his women colleagues in MCD and none reported against him after he threatened them. The sleuths also recovered some blank MCD identity cards from his possession. The accused said that he used to sell them after getting a hefty amount.
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Body of kidnapped child found
Ghaziabad, February 14 Had the police taken the case of missing boy seriously, kidnappers could not have killed the boy, his relatives alleged. They had expressed their fear that the boy could have been killed, but the police took it casually. The police still say that it is an accident, the family alleged. The body of the child has been sent for postmortem. Shiv Kumar of Massori village under Incholi police station, Meerut, had come to his relative Kumar Pal’s residence in Loni on February 6 along with his wife and child. The two-year-old Prince had gone missing while playing outside the house on February 6 in the afternoon. Shiv Kumar had lodged a missing report in Loni police station, when the family could not trace the boy till evening. Two days later, Shiv Kumar and other relatives expressed fears to the police that the child had been kidnapped and they were worried about his life. They had also suspected two of their neighbours. However, the police did not take it seriously even then. The fishing out of the child’s body from a drain pit has angered the people in Loni.
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Lovers commit suicide on Valentine’s Day
Faridabad, February 14 Uttam, a second year student of Government College and his beau Suman, a first year student of KLP College in Rewari town came to Palwal this morning, reportedly after fleeing from their homes and then hanged themselves from a tree near Bamnikhera village around noon, today. But before doing so, they left a note, in which they not only gave out their identity, but also claimed that they were in love and could not live without each other. It is stated that the note mentioned that their families had opposed their friendship and would not allow them to marry, that’s why they were taking the extreme step. The police found the bodies hanging from a tree at about 2.30 pm after someone reported the case to the police at Palwal. It is learnt that Uttam, son of one Vidyanand, hailed from Bedola village and Suman, daughter of one Ravinder Kumar, was a resident of Pahola village in Rewari district. The police have informed the respective families after the postmortem of the bodies.
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Retired IFCI official found dead
Noida, February 14 Deceased Subash Chander Ahuja and his wife Mrs Santosh Ahuja lived in the flat. On Sunday, Mrs Santosh had gone out in the market after lunch. When she returned at 4 pm, she found the body of her husband hanging from the fan. Seeing her husband dead, she screamed and collapsed. Neighbours who came to her help after hearing her cries, informed the police. Her body has been sent for autopsy. The police have recovered a suicide note also in the room in which Ahuja had stated that he alone was responsible for his death. Subash Chand Ahuja had retired as a private secretary from Industrial Finance Corporation of India. He had taken voluntary retirement in November 2004. Ahuja’s daughter is settled in Australia while his son is working in a private company, who had gone on a holiday along with his wife a few days ago. Neighbours said Ahuja appeared somewhat mentally disturbed for the past few days.
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Manager of investment firm booked for fraud
Faridabad, February 14 According to the complaint lodged by one Kusum Jain, a resident of the town, she had opened an account in this branch in December 2001 and applied for loan in December this year against an offer made to her by the branch and its agent. She said when she approached the unit at Hodal recently, she was told that a loan worth Rs 12,000 had already been released in her name. When she protested and said that she had never got the loan, the branch officials expressed their inability to do anything in this matter. She then approached the police station and alleged that her money had been withdrawn by some persons. She named the branch manager and his two agents also. The police after primary investigation have registered a case under Sections 420, 467,468,476 and 406 of the IPC against four persons.
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Govt to set up commission to check
New Delhi, February 14 The Council of Ministers, led by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, met today and accordingly cleared the proposal for setting up of the state Population Commission. According to officials, the commission will be mandated to stabilise the population growth in The commission, a 20-member body to be chaired by the Chief Minister, will perform an advisory role to assist and guide the Delhi Government in the implementation of the National Population Policy and formulation of a state population policy, officials said. The population of Delhi is currently over 1.4 crore and the number is expected to grow over the next decade as people flock to Delhi in search of a livelihood. Officials believe this ‘floating population’ is the bane of Delhi, which is already reeling under the burden of providing infrastructure and other amenities to the existing population. The commission will look into the problem of migration into the Capital and suggest ways and means to overcome it, the officials said, adding emphasis will be on formulating policies for checking inflow of floating population of the NCR region into Delhi. A major term of reference of the commission will be to provide over-all guidance to Delhi Government for achieving both population stabilisation and sustainable achievement in human development. It will promote synergy between demographic, educational, environmental and developmental programmes, including nutrition, women and child development, safe drinking water, sanitation, waste disposal, roads, communication, transportation and housing etc.
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Tap latest technology for development: Petroleum Secy
Noida, February 14 While addressing the 9th Annual Meeting of Noida Management Association, he said that the technology is flowing, markets are getting integrated, quality product and skills are at premium. The transformation of Indian corporates in global context is very important. At the time of the king Akbar, India was a strong and flourishing nation. Then we lost touch with technology in 18th centaury and everything to European nations. Monopoly of sea routes, discovery of artillery etc. paved the way for European domination of the world. Some two lakhs Britisher had ruled Indian sub-continent, Burma, South East Asia. They used technology and management skills to rule the world, he said. But India has also awakened. We must succeed in harnessing the latest technology and management skills to take our country ahead, Mr Tripathi said. The 1991 reforms had freed the economy from Inspector Raj and the archaic law. Today, India is one of the fastest growing economies of the world. BRIC – Brazil, Russia, India and China are the countries who will be leading the world economy by the year 2040-50. The role of mighty specialists and corporate giants will grow by the year 2030-2040. IT companies that struggled in 90s are global giants. WIPRO, Hindustan Computers started by a group of young men in Noida is a thriving success story, which has today a giant computer complex in Sector-62, Noida, Mr Tripathi added. Indians have two advantages – one we have best brains, second we work hard.
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Chhotu Ram’s anniversary goes unnoticed
Faridabad, February 14 region, went unnoticed on Sunday, the day ‘Basant Panchami’ was celebrated. No function—official or unofficial—was held to pay tribute to the late leader, whose name had dominated the political scene in the state a few months ago, when the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, had gone to Lahore and brought back some of the belongings of the late leader.. A state-level function had been held then at the paternal village of Sir Chhotu Ram in Rohtak district, where a huge statute of the Kisan leader was unveiled by the Chief Minister. However, as the state has been waiting for the results of the polls held on February 3, people seem to have forgotten the late leader. It may be recalled that his birth anniversary was observed on Basant Panchami day every year. It is reported that many officials of the local administration had been busy collecting free passes for the cricket match that was organised by the Indian Airlines at Nahar Singh Stadium here on Sunday, the day his anniversary is observed. According to Mr Kailash Sharma, a social activist, the majority of the political parties and their leaders use the names of great leaders for their benefits only. No one was really concerned about such dates. On the other hand, the Congress leader, Mr Karan Dalal, described it as an example of the alleged double standards of the Chautala Government. Mr Chautala’s move to bring the belongings of Sir Chhotu Ram from Labore, was just a ‘political drama’, in view of the elections. It may be recalled that some of the belongings of Sir Chhotu Ram, lying in a ‘haveli’ at Lahore, were brought in a special yatra a few months ago and they had been taken to various places before the conclusion of the yatra at Garhi Sampla, the native village in Rohtak district. The state government had also announced to set up a museum in memory of the great leader.
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No salary for workers in hostel for blind
New Delhi, February 14 It is a miracle because the 12 employees, including the cooks, entrusted to take care of their needs have been doing so despite not having been paid their monthly salary from March 2002. “The employees here are not being paid, the government and the Directorate of Education, that is responsible for the school, have neglected the school and the hostel and it will be no surprise if the inmates are shown the door,” said He pointed out that the school’s Authorised Officer has not even cared to visit the school. “Trouble began in 1980, when the government took over the school. While it agreed to pay the salaries of the teachers, it refused to take care of the hostel,” he said. The employees of the hostel were initially being paid from the corpus accumulated from the donations. But in 1996, they made an appeal to the High Court seeking absorption by the Directorate of Education. Though the court then turned down their plea, it entrusted the Authorised Officer to pay the salaries. “In 2001, the High Court’s decision was challenged and subsequently in October 2003, the court ruled that these hostel employees should also be paid by the government. There was an appeal made by the Directorate in the Supreme Court, which was dismissed, and the High Court orders were asked to be implemented,” it was pointed out. “While the employees were kept waiting, the Directorate on its part kept shuttling the relevant orders and papers in true bureaucratic way. They were not even paid salaries from the donation money, which was the practice prior to the court ruling. The employees finally filed a case of contempt in 2004, following which the court further gave notice to the Directorate of Education. In the meantime, the Authorised Officer also transferred the donation money from the bank and refused to pay the employees,” the source said. The employees, who have also petitioned the Chief Minister and the Education Minister, are still awaiting their salaries despite the court’s orders. While Rajendra Kumar, during whose tenure as DOE the salaries were stopped, has been transferred, the Authorised Officer, O. P. Singh, remained unavailable for comment.
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The disabled waiting for pension for two years
Ghaziabad, February 14 Such persons had filled in forms over two years ago. One Bhojraj, 64, filled in the prescribed form in 2002 under the pension scheme for the physically disabled, but no action has been taken yet. Whenever he visits the social welfare office, officials send him back with false promises. Ms Vimla Devi of Vijay Nagar, who has lost one leg, says she had also deposited a form for pension in social welfare department two years ago, but is still awaiting her pension.
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Pandemonium in House after professional tax proposal
New Delhi, February 14 The all-powerful Standing Committee of the civic body had earlier this month rejected the imposition of professional tax and had asserted that the citizens of the national Capital will not be burdened further. After the completion of final Budget speech by the Chairman of the Standing Committee, Mr Mukesh Goel, the professional tax issue was raised by the Opposition. All issues and new policies, which the Congress-ruled corporation, are going to implement in the coming financial year, were mentioned in the speech. But he did not touch on the controversial tax. It was mentioned in detail in the text of “Motions and Amendment”. While supporting the proposal Mr Goel said that the corporation wanted to make an Act to implement the tax in future to ward off financial crisis. But he was forced to delete the proposal as the entire Opposition opposed it vehemently. Besides this, the corporation tabled a proposal to reduce 15 per cent rebate after timely payment of property tax, increment of transfer duty. It has no head for development and road repairing in the budget. The corporation has reduced the tax rebate from 15 per cent to five per cent and it has increased two per cent transfer duty. When these issues were raised by Subhash Arya and Vijender Gupta, there was total confusion in the House. In connection with the transfer, duty voting had taken place. The BJP-led Opposition secured 20 votes and ruling party 85. Still it was withdrawn. In connection with the property tax rebate, he said that it was printing mistake. The corporation is stick to 15 per cent rebate. A certain amount has been allocated for development of Industrial areas. In a joint conference, Subhash Arya, Vijender Gupta, Arti Mehra and Onkar Singh Thapar said that ruling party in the corporation wanted to pass these resolutions hiding these facts as Chairman of the Standing Committee had not mentioned these issues in his speech.
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Health Watch
New Delhi, February 14 Even as he was diagnosed to be suffering from Aortic Stenosis, a condition in which the main valve at the exit of the heart gets severely shrunken and disallows oxygenated blood to be carried to the whole body, a team of doctors under Dr Anil Bhan prepared to operate upon him at the Max Devika Devi Heart and Vascular Institute, Saket. Incidentally, the Cardiac Surgery Department at MHVI was operationalised only on December 24, 2004. For Dr Bhan, the young patient provided a challenge of its own. While the treatment of Aortic Stenosis is Aortic valve replacement, the doctor wanted it to be a lifelong lasting treatment considering the age of the patient. This entailed taking the difficult option of replacing the diseased valve with the patient’s own pulmonary valve, that not only gives a better performance but grows with the child over the years. Explaining the four hours operation to The Tribune, Dr Bhan said: “The diseased Aortic valve was excised, the coronary artery (vessels which supply blood to the heart) buttons and pulmonary valve was harvested. The pulmonary valve was sewn into Aortic position, coronary buttons were restructured and a new pulmonary valve made of bovine pericardium sewn into pulmonary position”. “Ross operation is a breakthrough as thousands of patients, both children and adult, can benefit from it. It will usher in a new era in the field of valve surgery by providing the patient his own normal valve in place of a diseased Aortic valve, thereby avoiding the complications of a metallic valve,” said Dr Bhan. The Ross operation has ensured that “no medication” is necessary in the post-operative stage. If all goes well, Adnan needs to travel to the national Capital for a check up only after two years. Dr Bhan is doubly satisfied because the Ross operation at MHVI is the first of its kind to be performed successfully in a private hospital in north India. “Even as our faith in the doctor has been rewarded, we hope similar hospitals would be established nearer home so that we don’t have to make such a long trip in such an emergency,” said Adnan’s father, Mr Manzoor Ahmed, relieved that he would be back home soon. The intricate operation has now given a new lease of life to Adnan, the second of three children of Mr Manzoor Ahmed, a bakery owner from downtown Srinagar, J & K, who now looks forward to getting on with his normal routine back home in the Valley.
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DUTA to protest ‘attack’ on its dharna at Shivaji College
New Delhi, February 14 While the teachers are seeking the rustication of a student accused of slapping a teacher, the students have been on a hunger strike demanding the resumption of classes. Today on the fifth day of the hunger strike, the students disrupted a meeting of teachers with the DUTA representatives, which led to further acrimony. Irked by the incident, the teachers have threatened to go on strike on February 18, while the students are in no mood to call off their agitation. “The teachers have been on strike demanding that the student, who had an argument with the teacher, should be rusticated from the university. The students are opposed to this as the student, who is being accused of slapping the teacher, has already apologised and has even undergone a suspension. Now the teachers want to have him off the rolls,” claimed a student. Condemning the “attack on its peaceful dharna at Shivaji College”, the Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) have announced a university bandh on February 18. “We were attacked by students where even the female colleagues were manhandled. The students came as a mob, broke the sound system, ripped the banners and smashed flowerpots. This would never have happened if the college principal would have given harsher punishment to the student, who slapped a teacher and set an example,” complained Aditya Misra, President, DUTA. They have also demanded an inquiry into the “functioning of the principal”, who they want should be sent on leave till the report is received. “There is financial and administrative bungling in the college and today, we had gone with solutions when this incident happened. The principal has assured us that two students involved in today’s incident have been expelled, but we want more action,” Misra said.
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Three nabbed with pirated materials
New Delhi, February 14 While Dhingra is the owner of the shop, Deepak had been working for him. The sleuths arrested Deepak Sharma from his house in Sanjay Enclave in Uttam Nagar from where he was arrested on February 8. The sleuth also seized thousands of pirated VCDs/MP3, 10 CD writers and pornographic VCDs from his possession. The sleuths said that Deepak used to write pirated CDs with the help of master CDs and CD writers and after manufacturing the same he used to supply these pirated VCDs/pornographic VCDs to the various shops of Palika Bazar. Based on his information, raids were conducted at two shops in Palika Bazar and Connaught Place and 1,008 pirated VCDs/DVDs/MP3/ pornographic DVDs were seized from the possession of accused, Jitender Kumar and Raman Dhingra.
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Mobile phones for councillors
New Delhi, February 14 In a special package, Reliance has offered free calls worth Rs 500 a month to the MCD consumers, Corporation leader Satbir Singh said after the Budget proceedings. He claimed the telecom major was also supplying handsets and connections free of cost for the Corporation’s 134 Councillors and field staff. ‘’It (mobile phones) will increase the efficiency of Municipal Councillors. Besides, it will not put any financial burden on the MCD since the cost of calls under corporate category is almost negligible,’’ the MCD Standing Committee Chairman, Mr Mukesh Goel, told the House earlier.
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Blood donation camp held
New Delhi, February 14 The camp was held in collaboration with the Red Cross Society of India, in which there were over 150 blood donors. Inaugurating the camp, Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, President, World Council of Religions, said blood donation is among the highest services one can do for a fellow human being. The blood collected is distributed without any discrimination, he said. He thanked the donors, doctors, staff and organisers for this noble service and prayed for their welfare.
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Safety award
New Delhi: For implementing innovative safety and quality procedures, BHEL has been conferred the first safety initiative
award. — TNS
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