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Bid to abduct two women correspondents
BJP flays attempt to ban commercial activities in residential areas
Seven killed, 46 hurt in bus collision
Two get 7-yr RI for kidnapping, rape
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Nepalese national gets
Sarpanch among five sent
Sharing a ‘Desertful of Roses’ with Ghalib’s lovers
Security fears keep many away from Trade Fair
Vishwa Expo tests students’ skills
Schoolkids getting more obese by the day
Freeship quota: HC issues notice to school
Admissions abroad: Couple held for cheating students
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Bid to abduct two women correspondents
New Delhi, November 26 The two women Star News correspondents were returning home from work at night in the company’s car when a white Indica car (HR 38 KT 4373) started chasing them while crossing the Nizamuddin Bridge. The Indica cornered the Star News car and tried to push it off the road. A person got out from the Indica with a rod in his hands and asked the reporters to get out of the car. When they didn’t come out, he broke the windowpanes and the taillight of the car and started abusing the reporters. He along with his accomplice tried to molest the girls and made attempts to abduct them. But due to the alert driver, they could not succeed in their attempt. However, the car continued to chase them till the Star News car reached a police picket near Noida border. Meanwhile, the reporters made several calls to PCR, and other reporters to seek immediate help from the police. But there was no police help available. After reaching the police picket, no immediate help was extended. Only after raising a lot of hue and cry, an FIR was finally lodged in the Mayur Vihar police station at around 1.30 a.m.
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BJP flays attempt to ban commercial activities in residential areas
New Delhi, November 26 He said that a detailed strategy regarding this will be decided later on November 29 in a meeting of the office bearers of the party. Dr Vardhan said a simple solution is to amend the Master Plan by including these areas in the mixed land use category. Dr Vardhan stated that more than seven lakh self-employed persons will be rendered unemployed in the Capital if shops and other commercial activities are banned in the residential areas. In order to avoid such a situation, he asked the Delhi Government to take all legal steps to ensure that the traders were not put to any hardships. A BJP delegation will also meet the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi demanding continuation of commercial activities in the residential areas. Dr Vardhan criticised both the Union and the Delhi Government for bowing down before multi-national companies, World Trade Organisation, which are bent upon finishing the retail trade in India. It may be recalled that an effort is on to allow foreign investment in retail trade and the Delhi Government wants to render more than seven lakh people unemployed
connected with the retail trade in the Capital, he alleged. He also pointed out that the MCD earned huge revenue by issuing adhoc licenses for running shops and other commercial activities in the residential areas. Moreover, the retail trade in residential areas provided livelihood to lakhs of people, he said. And now after issuing licenses for running the shops, the MCD has gone to the Supreme Court for closing down these shops, he alleged.
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Seven killed, 46 hurt in bus collision
Ghaziabad, November 26 As a bus (B1-N-9446) tried to overtake the DTC bus, it lost control and had a head-on collision with another UP Roadways bus coming from the opposite side. The collision was so dreadful that both the buses were reduced to wreckage. Three passengers, including a woman, were killed on the spot, while 46 were seriously injured. The seriously injured passengers were rushed to GTB Hospital, Delhi, and in a Bagpat hospital. Four of the injured admitted to SGTB Hospital had died during treatment. Another five persons had been identified so far. One of the buses which overturned was seen swept to a distance on the road under the force of the accident, the eyewitness said. ADM City S. K Singh and SP City Ramchandar Yadav also visited the site of the accident.
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Two get 7-yr RI for kidnapping, rape
New Delhi, November 26 Additional Sessions Judge V P Vaish also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on Ram Kumar alias Gonda, and Rs 5,000 on his brother and accomplice Raj Kumar. Raju, the third accused in the case, was acquitted of all charges. On April 10, 2001, the father of the prosecutrix lodged a complaint with the Badarpur Police Station, reporting that his daughter had been missing since that morning. The missing girl, aged fifteen-and-a-half years, surfaced on April 19, and alleged that she had been kidnapped and raped by Gonda. The prosecutrix said she was first raped by the convicts in her house in south Delhi and threatened to kill her brother if she refused to run away with them, upon which she parted with Rs 20,000 in cash and some jewellery. However, she was later kidnapped and taken to Haridwar, where she was made to stay for 8-9 days. The prosecutrix also claims that she was forcibly made to marry Gonda, and sign documents against her wishes. During this period, according to the girl’s testimony, she was repeatedly raped by Gonda and his brother.
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Nepalese national gets 4-yr RI for rape
New Delhi, November 26 Pronouncing the verdict today, Additional Sessions Judge Swarna Kanta Mehra said, “The incidence of rape, molestation and abuse are on the rise and the courts cannot remain a mute spectator to such incidents.” Accused
Ganesh, a native of Mahinder Nagar in Nepal, was on a visit to his sister’s rented house in Malviya
Nagar, south Delhi, on December 23, 2001. The girl, a student of class seven and who lived in the same locality, was playing in the garden when the accused on seeing her, lured her away and raped her. “The social responsibility of the court is not
limited to deciding whether a person is guilty of an offence or not, but the court of law also keeps in mind the social need
of the society,” the court observed, while slapping a fine of Rs 20,000 on the accused. In a separate incident, the same court sentenced a 19-year-old to three years’
imprisonment.
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Sarpanch among five sent to judicial custody
Gurgaon, November 26 They were coming from Sector 56 side to DLF. The police team flashed the message on the development as a result of which personnel went on alert in the city and tried to stop the vehicle at Jharsa village crossing. According to Mr Rathee, while one of the accused was driving the vehicle, the other kept on firing on the police team. They fired about 35 rounds on the team, he added. The police version is that the accused entered Jharsa village, abandoned the vehicle and entered the residence of the sarpanch. According to Mr Rathee, when the four members of the police team nabbed the son of the sarpanch at his residence the villagers, including the sarpanch, his wife, manhandled the police and facilitated his son to escape. A countrymade pistol was recovered from the sarpanch’s son when the police nabbed him. The vehicle used by the police has also been taken into custody. The ASI and a constable of the CIA Staff allegedly received injuries when the police team was reportedly manhandled by the residents of the village. They are admitted to the local Kalyani Hospital. The police have registered an FIR. Five persons, including the two main accused who fired on the police and 35 others, have been booked in the FIR. However, some villagers alleged that the police was gunning for the sarpanch’s son under mistaken identity. The police personnel were roughed up as they were in civvies and they had entered the house of the sarpanch. The son of the sarpanch is alleged to be having a criminal record. A police team has been constituted and raids at various places are being conducted to arrest the main accused.
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Sharing a ‘Desertful of Roses’ with Ghalib’s lovers
New Delhi, November 26 “I am really in the process of writing a huge commentary on Ghalib and am translating his poetry into English. This is very hard but extremely rewarding work,” she added. Prof Pritchett was in the national Capital recently and delivered a lecture on Ghalib, organised by ‘Hindustani Awaz’ at the India International Centre. “Hours and hours of my life will go into making this site, and many of them will be hours of absolute delight. So I will have already had my reward,” Prof Pritchett writes rather ardently on her website. Interestingly, she further adds, “I hope the poetry of Ghalib rewards you too, but years of teaching have shown me that its not upto me. If Ghalib wants you, against all odds, he will reach out and grab you, he chooses his own readers as he makes it clear in some of his ghazals.” Why call the site a ‘Desertful of Roses’? Prof Pritchett explains that my site is loosely based on a particular ghazal of Ghalib, which refers to a desertful of glory with the appearance of roses. “It might be like a handful of air and thus nothing at all, since a desert is an empty and rose-free place to begin with,” said Prof Pritchett. However, “Ghalib likes to measure things in such units: like a ‘desertful of longing’ or a city full of longing.” “The joy of Ghalib’s poetry is indescribable. It is like the cloud or nimbus of possibilities that hangs at the edge of each of his sher’s,” she added. According to Prof Pritchett, Ghalib, like Shakespeare, is a great literary genius, not restricted to a particular emotion, imagery or style, but is able to capture a whole gamut of human situations in his poetry and “can create many different kinds of literary effects.” “Ghalib lived in very interesting times,” said Prof Pritchett. “It was the hinge historical period between the old and the new. He was really the first Urdu poet to control and publish his own divan. He published in a newspaper called ‘Dehlvi.’” Poetry in Ghalib’s day was a serious affair with “Mushairas being something else all together as compared to today.” “Back then, one can imagine Ghalib must have really had to prepare for a Mushaira, in those days a general theme was given weeks before the Mushaira. Probably the nature of poetry must have also been decided and one can imagine the competition between poets then,” said Prof Pritchett enthusiastically. Getting back to the subject of her website, Prof Pritchett mentioned that Ghalib’s ‘traditional divan,’ the ‘Muravvaj divan,’ forms the basis for his project. This contains much less then half of his writings, as it does not account for two major groups of his poems and all his prose.
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Security fears keep many away from Trade Fair
New Delhi, November 26 “We were expecting more people to visit the fair, but the recent serial bomb-blasts in the Capital might be the reason that many people decided to stay away fearing problems at the crowded venue,” said Mr Safdar Hussain Khan of the India Trade Promotion Organisation
(ITPO). Elaborate security arrangements were made for the safety of the visitors in and outside the venue, Mr Khan added. More than 75 trade delegations from overseas comprising about 450 members visited various segments of the fair and evinced keen interest in sourcing small and medium items, technologies and machinery showcased by more than 7,500 exhibitors from India and abroad. The IITF is among the world’s biggest trade shows approved by the Union Foires de Internationale de-Paris
(UFI). China and Thailand participated in a big way in the Trade Fair. Thailand was the ‘Focus Country’ at the IITF 2005 while Uttaranchal was the ‘Partner State’ and West Bengal featured as the ‘Focus State’ in the Silver Jubilee edition of this year’s fair. Besides trade and commerce, the fair also depicted the diverse cultures, traditions, cuisines and handicrafts from all over India, with each state celebrating its ‘State Day’. Themes of this year’s fair were “Power and Communication”. Topical seminars, conferences and workshops were also organised focusing on subjects related to business opportunities, special displays and themes and other aspects of contemporary relevance during the course of the mega business event. Special displays included SARAS organised by the Ministry of Rural Development, TECHMART by National Small Industries Corporation
(NSIC) and INDIA TECH jointly set up by ITPO and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Permanent pavilions at Pragati
Maidan, which include Defence Pavilion, Crafts Museum, Handloom Pavilion, Nehru Pavilion and National Science
Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare also attracted hordes of visitors. All the Indian States and Union Territories participated and displayed the best of their achievements in products and technologies at the fair.
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Vishwa Expo tests students’ skills
Noida, November 26 The display of the science and environment related projects was a testimony to the constructive transformation and adaptation skills of the students, who displayed exemplary models and project. Vishwa Expo, constituting the primary and middle school project display and senior science symposium, went very well on this day. The symposium for students of classes IX-XII was conducted on the topics “Cosmetic Caution”, “Holography” and “Genetic Food”. Individual teams of students from 10 schools gave illustrative Power Point computer presentations on the topics assigned to them. An interjection round after each presentation proved the intellect and in-depth knowledge of the young minds in the current environmental issues. The parallel event was “e NOV@TORS”, a series of computer-related event, through which the students were given a set of tasks to be performed on the computer like solving logical problems, gaming, crossword consisting of cryptic rules, logo designing, queries on cyber world, playing music as new mix, and designing pictures. These fun-filled activities not only proved their mettle but brought them glory. The names of the events, organised by e NOV@TORS were ‘Cranium’, programming in C++, ‘Nerdy Bytes’, Computer Quiz, ‘Adrenaline’ – Lan Gaming, ‘Pentathlon’, Designing and Gaming, ‘Dragon Alley Server’, Code Breaking , ‘Turntable’ – DJ Mixing, ‘Think and Pink, ‘Ms Paint’, ‘Bumping Jumping’, ‘Gaming, ‘Graffiti’, ‘Digital Designing, ‘Cut2Cut’. These competitions could test their knowledge of Windows and their flexibility in using software packages and their observation skills. The programme was inaugurated by the chief guest, Prof S. M. Ishtiaque, Dean of Students, IIT, Delhi. The judges for various competitions included Dr Meenu Kapoor, Associate Prof, University School of Biotechnology, Delhi, Gaurav Kumar Verma, SDM Noida, Neelam Kapur, Principal, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Air Force Station, Hindan, Ghaziabad, Dr Ajay Mian, Chief Executive Officer, E Technologies India, Dr B. K. Tyagi, D.S.T. Vigyan Prasar, Government of India, and Mr Sreekant Bhaumik, Mr Jayant Chandra, and Anjuman Sarangi from the multi-media faculty. The overall trophy for Vishwa Expo was bagged by the host school and passed to the first runners up, Khaitan Public School, Noida, and the trophy for e Nov@tors went to Alchon Public School, Mayur Vihar, Delhi. The prizes were given away by Prof Ambardar, general secretary, Vishwa Bharati Management.
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Schoolkids getting more obese by the day
New Delhi, November 26 This is the finding of a study conducted by the Delhi Diabetic Research Centre (DDRC) on 3,800 Delhi schoolchildren. Launching a week-long campaign to create awareness about this dangerous trend on the occasion of the World Obesity Day today, DDRC chief Dr A K Jhingan said concrete steps should be taken to reverse this trend. The campaign has been launched under the Bhagidari initiative of the Delhi Government. Dr Jhingan said over 17 per cent of the surveyed children were found to be overweight. Some even had high blood pressure and a family history of diabetes. He said 62 per cent children were found eating junk food, 47 per cent taking at least one cold drink a day, 35 per cent spending more time before TV and computers. Twenty six per cent of the children have overweight mother or father. He suggested that physical activity should be encouraged. Children upto primary level should exercise at least for 150 minutes a week and those upto higher secondary level at least 225 minutes a week. Fast food culture should be curtailed, and spending too much time before TV and computer should be reduced. Parents and teachers should encourage children to get rid of these habits. The DDRC would distribute 20,000 leaflets during the week suggesting ways to reduce obesity. It will also conduct discussions and consultation on the subject, he said. The attempt would be make the youths aware of the advantages of regular exercises in order to check the tendency of gaining weight, he said.
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Freeship quota: HC issues notice to school
New Delhi, November 26 However, the parents were asked to pay the full fee in the academic year 2005-2006, failing which the names of the students would be deleted. The school in a written order dated September 16, 2005, deleted the names of the students and asked them not to attend the school. The petitioners counsel, advocate Ashok Agarwal, claimed that the school’s action is illegal because it is in breach of Delhi Government’s order dated April 27, 2004, which mandates all recognised private schools to provide admission and freeship to children from the weaker sections to the extent of 20 per cent and violates Rule 158 of Delhi School Education Rules, 1973. The petitioner submitted that his two sons, Priyank Mittal and Mayank Mittal, were given full fee concession on the grounds that he was the only earning member in the family and his monthly income is about Rs 3000 and he was not in a position to pay fee for these children.
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Admissions abroad: Couple held for cheating students
Noida, November 26 The two arrested are Sanjay, alias Sanju, a resident of Vaishali, Ghaziabad, and his beloved Rijwana Khatoon, alias Nisha, a resident of Sector 71, Noida. On November 7 this year, one Vipin Kumar of Bihar had filed a report with the Sector 20 police station, Noida, against these two, accusing them of defrauding him to the tune of Rs 1.50 lakh by promising to send Vipin to a foreign country. During police investigations, it was found that these two had opened an office in Atta, Noida, for counseling these students on going abroad. They used to collect lakhs of rupees for making available necessary documents for getting admission to educational institutions abroad. Their network covered Delhi top colleges. The SOG team had been asked to track these criminals by the Noida SP City, Mr Soumitra Yadav. Apart from deploying information and a network of electronic surveillance, the police came to know that Sanjay was likely to visit his house in Neel Padam Apartments in Vaishali, Ghaziabad. The SOG team was able to nab Sanjay and his beloved from his apartment yesterday.
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