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Gurdwara panthi held with poppy husk
JNU Prof resigns from chairmanship of CIL
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Make art an integral part of curriculum: Educationists
Cop held with heroin worth
Rs 80 lakh
Special promotion for 14 police personnel
PNB’s Vasant Kunj branch inaugurated
Cross-border movement of criminals keeps police on toes
Paint town red, but don’t feel blue later!
Grand talent show in GTBIT festival
Man killed for hitting dog
Minor raped by neighbour
Limited Metro services on Saturday
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Gurdwara panthi held with poppy husk
New Delhi, March 24 According to the police, they had made several secret visits to historical gurdwaras in the Capital to probe informal complaints of drug-dealing among junior-level staff. “We have come to know that poppy husk supplied in Delhi generally originates from UP,” a police official said. In another case, the Crime Branch today claimed to have arrested a travel agent involved in luring innocent persons by selling them stolen visas. The sleuths also claimed to have seized seven stolen Norwegian visas and passport from the possession of the accused, who was later identified as one Atul Bata, resident of Janakpuri. Acting on a tip-off that one Amanpreet Singh, alias Juggu, who procures stolen visas from abroad, would be coming out of Chankya Cinema, the sleuths laid a trap for him. Accordingly Amanpreet came out and handed over some visas to Atul Bata, and when the sleuths surrounded them Amanpreet managed to escape. During interrogation, Atul told the sleuths that he used to procure stolen visas from Amanpreet, who inturn procured the same from travel agents of Indian origin from foreign countries. During an inquiry in the embassy of Norway, the officials said that these visas were stolen from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Prague in December 2004. The officials also disclosed that in the said incident as many as 74 visas and 34 Norwegian passports were stolen from the embassy. The sleuths are now on the look out for Amanpreet, who owns two hotels in the Paharganj area. Meanwhile, a sub-inspector, who was undergoing Upper School Course training at the Police Training College for promotion, died this morning after complaining of some uneasiness. The deceased, identified as Chedi Lal (57) of Uttam Nagar, was given first aid by his colleagues and was rushed to the CRPF hospital and then to Rao Tula Ram Hospital where he was declared brought dead. Chedi Lal is survived by his wife, a son and two daughters. The police have sent his body for the postmortem examination to ascertain the actual cause of his death.
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JNU Prof resigns from chairmanship of CIL
New Delhi, March 24 The university has accepted his resignation and appointed Prof. Mohd. Shahid Husain as the new Chairperson. “The office order accepting his resignation and appointing Prof. Husain was passed yesterday. In his resignation, Prof. Khan has said that he is unable to cope with the various problems that have cropped up,” said Dr Balveer Arora, Rector, JNU. Prof. Khan was recently in the news when a section of the students in the campus went on a hunger strike demanding his resignation. These students were alleging “victimisation” by Dr Khan. “There were complaints against Dr Khan and the students have been demanding action against him. There were accusations that he was victimising them by giving them lower grades than they merited and even after a revaluation, he went a step further to reduce the grades,” said a source. Dr Khan, who had earlier told the Tribune that the allegations made by the students were motivated, was not available for comment on his resignation today. DU karamcharis’ strike disrupts practical exams Owing to the strike of karamcharis, many colleges of Delhi University could not hold their practical examinations as per schedule here today. The karamcharis, who were on a day’s strike, boycotted the practical examinations thereby causing many colleges to reschedule the dates. College including Hindu, Ramjas, Miranda and Zakir Hussain, could not hold the practical examinations where some college like Sri Venkateshwara, Maitreyi and St Stephens could conduct only part of the examinations. Officials in the university said that of the 28 college, where examinations were scheduled only 22 could conduct the examinations.
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Make art an integral part of curriculum: Educationists
New Delhi, March 24 “The neglect of art has a great deal to do with the violence we witness in Asia,” said Prof Krishna Kumar, Director of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Prof Kumar, a member of the committee mandated to revise the national school curriculum, said art has a “healing role” to play in today’s society. In his inaugural address, the former Union Minister, Dr Karan Singh, said the need of the hour for the countries in Asia was to draw upon the creativity of their cultures to re-invent their educational systems. He said Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo had emphasised the fact that art and creativity were central to education. Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Yash Pal said the learning of art should not become a burden for children. “It should not be done in the same way like the other subjects, becoming an additional burden”. “Arts need to be made an integral part of the school curriculum,” said Dr Prabha Sahasrabudhe, Director of the Centre for International Art Education, New York. Organised by the India International Centre-Asia Project, UNESCO and the New York-based Centre for International Art Education, the four-day seminar is attended by delegates from India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Azerbaijan and China.
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Cop held with heroin worth
Rs 80 lakh
Noida, March 24 The SI of the Special Branch, S. S. Samant, got a tip-off that a narcotics gang was having some links in Noida, and a cop posted in Aligarh, was an active member of this gang. The SI also learnt that the gang was supplying narcotics to students in Noida colleges, and accordingly, the SSP Mr Mordia, gave an order to nab the drug traffickers. The sleuths led by the SSP came to know that two persons were likely to come with a consignment of narcotics in Sector-62. They spread a dragnet and the drug-pushers were nabbed with 800 gm heroin. The duo were interrogated in Sector-58 police station. The drug peddlers were identified as Sushil Kumar and Mohesh Giri. Sushil Kumar, son of Bihari Lal, is a UP police constable in Aligarh. Sushil told the police that he had brought the heroin from one Neeraj Goswami in Aligarh and it was to be supplied to a customer in Noida. A police team has been sent to arrest Neeraj Goswami and others involved in this nefarious trade, the SSP said.
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Special promotion for 14 police personnel
New Delhi, March 24 The police personnel who were awarded promotion are: Head Constable Hardwari Lal of Special Cell; Constables Omvir Singh and Devender Pal of South-West district; Constables Sailesh, Bir Singh, Nazim Khan and Rajnish of South district; Constable Pawan Kumar from the Traffic Police; Constable Satyavir Singh of North-East district; Constable Rambir Singh of New Delhi district and Constables Jagdish, Nasiq Ahmed and Jasbir Singh of North-West district.
Tolosa
Mayor visits Town Hall
The Mayor of Tolosa, Spain, Mr Jokm Bildarrata Sorron, accompanied by his wife, Ms. Anne Garate, visited the Town Hall and met the Mayor, Mr A. R. Verma. They exchanged views about the functioning of the local body and its electoral procedure. The visitors were interested to know about the maintenance of heritage buildings. Later, the Mayor of Tolosa presented mementos to the Delhi Mayor. —
TNS
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PNB’s Vasant Kunj branch inaugurated
New Delhi, March 24 Complimenting the PNB on its achievement, Mr Chidambaram said that the actual measure for success of an institution is how the customer perceives the institution.
— TNS
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Cross-border movement of criminals keeps
Gurgaon, March 24 Mr Nehra, who took charge a few days back after the change of the government in the state, said that maintaining law and order was the priority of the new government. With Gurgaon city witnessing exponential growth in geographical expanse, the increase in population and the heterogeneity in
its ever-bulging demography further add to the
challenge. The other area, which has drawn the attention of the police, is the vehicular movement. Efforts will be made to ensure a better flow of vehicles on the roads. Mr Nehra sees enough scope for better management on this front. With a number of malls, shops and colonies already in place and many in the pipeline, the police thrust will be on systematic parking. Besides, encroachments on the roads by petty shopkeepers and vendors will be dealt with seriously He says that singular effort will be made to increase the visibility and mobility of the police. The thrust will be both on the prevention of crimes and swift follow-up action. However, he is aware of the shortage of manpower in the district. He, however, was quick to rationalise the problem of logistics, saying that it essentially boiled down to better management of human resource.
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Paint town red, but don’t feel blue later!
New Delhi, March 24 The use of homemade fragrant natural colours has a therapeutic value and is beneficial for our skin and health, point out the experts. The innocuous-looking colours conceal in them, acids, alkalis and dangerous chemicals like mercury, lead and even silica. Black which has lead oxide can cause renal failure and learning disability, while purple that has chromium iodide causes bronchial asthma and allergies, point out the health gurus. Silver, which has aluminium bromide is carcinogenic and red can cause skin cancer, mental retardation, paralysis and impaired vision. According to Dr A K Raina, consultant ophthalmologist at G M Modi Hospital, green colour contains copper sulphite, which causes eye allergy and puffiness. Blue, Dr Raina said, could cause dermatitis and red with a base It was pointed out that chemical colours should be replaced with the natural colours, most of which can be easily prepared at home. Rose petals can be dried and ground to prepare gulal instead of using chemical gulal, that has two components, a colourant, which is toxic and a base which could either be asbestos or silica, both of which could cause health hazards. Lead is the most dangerous of all the heavy metals found in Holi colours and is found in red colours. Gentian violet, used widely as concentrate during Holi to make wet colours, causes skin discolouration, dermatitis, skin allergy and can damage the ocular surface and cause temporary visual disability, discomfort and complications that pose a great danger to the vision, it was pointed out. Henna powder, leaves of a wheat plant can be used to obtain a natural safe green colour while turmeric gives yellow colour. Red sandalwood powder can be used for red colour while jacaranda flowers can be dried and ground to obtain a beautiful blue.
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Grand talent show in GTBIT festival
New Delhi, March 24 The first day witnessed scientific events like skyscrapers (architecture simulation), vernisage (technical paper presentation), electrotype (circuit designing) and neologic (speed programming). There were other mind-boggling competitions like protocols (networking events), mosaic (web designing) and hugely popular stock market simulation game bulls and bears. The day 2 began with technical events like Ideatum (software and hardware presentation) and 8085 designing. There were also some fun-filled events like Rhapsodize (extempore), Criss-cross (crosswords and anagrams) and Enigma (brain teasers) which revealed the literary and oratory skills of the students. All these events drew an overwhelming response from the students of various colleges, including NSIT, DCE and more. The third and the final day of the fest started with the valedictory function by Mr K K Aggarwal, Vice-Chancellor of GGSIPU. The evening began with the cultural festival inaugurated by Mrs Kanti Singh, State Minister of HRD, Govt of India. Students of GTBIT presented a cultural programme which had musical and dance events. Artiste Bhuppi performed to a packed crowd. Later, the jam session set the campus rocking.
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Man killed for hitting dog
Greater Noida, March 24 According to the SP of Greater Noida, M. P. Singh, one Kesari Singh of Bor village had reported on March 1 that his nephew Suraj had been missing for a few days. His house, which was locked, was emitting bad odour. When the police broke open the door, Suraj’s body was found. The police have started investigations after sending the body for autopsy. The SO of Kakode police station, Anil Pratap Singh, revealed that some paper slips had been found in the village which read, “Suraj had been murdered”. It was also reported that three residents of village, Shakil, Vakil and Shahzad had also been missing from the village for many days. Later, the police conducted a raid at Shakil’s residence and nabbed all the three accused yesterday. During interrogation, the trio confessed to having killed Suraj. On the fateful night on February 28, Shakil was walking with his friends when Suraj hit his dog and also abused them. Shakil then planned to settle scores and took Suraj to his own house. His friends were also there. All of them had a gambling session and consumed liquor. After a while, they stabbed Suraj to death and fled after locking the premises from outside. To divert everybody’s attention, they threw some slips with the message, “Suraj appears to have been murdered”.
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Minor raped by neighbour
Faridabad, March 24 In the first case, the victim, a student of the sixth standard of a local school, who resides at Shiv Durga Vihar Colony in the NIT area here, was on her way to attend the nature’s call at a nearby place. One Umesh stopped the victim and took her to an isolated spot and assaulted her. After committing the crime, the accused fled from the spot. In another incident, a person tried to rape a minor, who also resides in his neighbourhood in Jawahar Colony. The accused was later arrested after a complaint was lodged by
the victim’s father, the police said.—TNS
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Limited Metro services on Saturday
New Delhi, March 24 As such, the train services will not operate on Saturday morning. The Metro is currently operating between Shahdara and Rithala and from Kashmere Gate to Vishwavidyalaya terminal.
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