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Ambitious Gurgaon plan to ease traffic congestion
Old man strangled in sleep
13 bar dancers held for obscenity
Children rally to spread awareness on environment
Court’s nod for case against
DDA officials
Degree racket busted
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Nagar Kirtan procession to Pakistan on June 11
Campaign on to pay 50 pc
of power bills
President releases book
on ‘Dialogue’
Man kills father over minor issue
Artscape
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Ambitious Gurgaon plan to ease traffic congestion
Gurgaon, June 4 The Deputy Commissioner, Mr R. P. Bhardwaj, informed the administration had widened the road from the fountain crossing to the Civil Lines after acquiring the land from senior secondary school, the Civil Hospital, the tourism department and the Sainik Board. Now, the city commuters have got some relief. The Inspector-General of Police, Gurgaon Range, Mr Mohinder Lal, informed DSP, Traffic, had already been appointed for the district to supervise vehicle movement. Various cranes kept moving in the city to tow away vehicles parked on the road or in an unauthorised area, informed the IGP. The Administrator, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), Mr S. P. Gupta, informed that the seven-meter service road was coming up on both sides of MG Road where there were more than 25 leading malls and corporate buildings. A huge multi-level parking had already been sanctioned on the road, added the officer. Mr Gupta informed that the department had drawn a short-term strategy for MG Road till the multi-level parking and service road was completed. “We have planned to use the huge open space at Sector 29 like the Delhi Administration makes use of the India Gate open space at the time of India International Trade Fair. We will ask the visitors to park their vehicles at Sector 29 and from there the battery-operated vehicles run by the mall owners will pick and drop them on MG Road”, revealed the officer. HUDA had called a meeting of all mall owners on June 12 for finalisation and implementation of the plan, said the officer. HUDA had also sent another proposal to its head office at Panchkula for one more multi-level parking near the Sikenderpur market to meet the future requirements, added Mr Gupta. He further informed that the tenders for parking for all commercial markets in HUDA sectors were in various stages of finalisation. There would soon be authorised parking slots in each sector to meet the traffic problems, claimed Mr Gutpa. |
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Old man strangled in sleep
Bulandshahr, June 4 Seventy-year-old Sohan Pal of Zahidpur village under Kolwali Dehat police station was sleeping alone in his house on Saturday. When his son came in the morning with a few heads of cattle for collecting fodder for them, he found his father Sohan Pal missing from the house. Then he went home and informed his two brothers. All three brothers then set out to trace their father. They ultimately found his body some 600 metres away from the village, suspended from a tree. The assailants had strangled Shohan Pal and then hung his body from a tree. His daughter told the police that land consolidation work was in progress in their village in which his father had a dispute with some villagers over 4 bigha land. Sohan Pal was allegedly done to death by the rival group. Sohan Pal’s eldest son Om Prakash has named six persons of the village, including Ranvir and Sodhan in his murder report to the police. The police have registered the FIR, but have not nabbed any of the accused. |
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13 bar dancers held for obscenity
New Delhi, June 4 According to the police, the girls were earlier performing in Mumbai bars. The police said that after the closure of the bars in Mumbai, they came to Delhi and started performing in different hotels and also indulged in the prostitution racket. The police said that the girls were performing in the restaurant of the hotel at the time of arrest. All of them were performing in semi- nude and obscene poses when the crime branch raided the spot. All the girls were in the age group between 20 to 30 years and they were into the profession for the last one to six years, said the police. The police further said that the hotel owner had hired musclemen goons for this purpose and have also installed CCTV and other staff to keep a vigil of any police raid and movement in the hotel. |
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Children rally to spread awareness on environment
New Delhi, June 4 The Delhi Chief Minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit will plant a sapling at the central ridge at Sardar Patel Marg tomorrow morning. Later, in the evening, she will inaugurate an exhibition of eco-friendly products and release a book on “Towards Greener Delhi”. To spread awareness about environmental issues among children, the National Bal Bhawan will organise an rally on the theme of “Desert and Desertification” with the slogan “Don’t desert drylands”. The rally will be led by a palanquin and followed by 5,000 children of the Bal Bhawan and Jawahar Bal Bhawan, Mandi (rural unit of NBB) holding banners on the need to preserve environment. The rally will be flagged off by the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Ms Veena Upadhyaya. The Heart Care Foundation of India and the Federation of NCR Doctors, jointly with the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests, will organise a unique campaign in the slum areas using a tableau on the theme of World Environment Day, ‘Desert and desertification’. The tableau will move all over Delhi along with a team of “Nukkad Natak” (street corner theatre) and distribute pamphlets stressing the need to preserve the environment. The Confederation of Indian Industry, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Forests, is organising a colloquium on ‘Corporate responsibility in environmental protection’ at India Habitat Centre. The objective of the programme is to make Corporate India aware of the various environmental issues including the theme of this years ‘World Environment day’, which is “Don’t Desert Drylands”. The Union Minister for Environment and Forests will be the chief guest at the function. |
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Court’s nod for case against
DDA officials
New Delhi, June 4 According to CBI, Executive Engineer S K Mittal and Assistant Engineer Dharam Singh, both with the civic body, were caught red-handed on February 5, 1991 taking Rs 3,000 from a government contractor in return for passing some of the latter’s pending bills. Both officials were on February 4, 1992 chargesheeted under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The accused, however, thwarted further progress of the trial by contending that the agency had not “properly” sought sanction to prosecute them. “The CBI had not received proper sanction from the authorised person before filing the chargesheet. This is required for any legal action under the Act...”, the accused had submitted before the court. Following this, the court had discharged both accused on March 31, 1996, five years after their arrest. A second chargesheet filed two years later on June 1, 1998 met a similar fate after the accused again got discharged on January 2, 2002 by invoking the same defence. Taking a different stand, Special Judge B. S. Mathur, in whose court CBI filed its third chargesheet on December 15, 2003, has now observed that the CBI had indeed received sanction from the proper authority. |
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Degree racket busted
New Delhi, June 4 They used to charge hefty amount from the candidates for this purpose, said the police officials. The accused have been identified as Rajiv Kumar Ranjan (28), a native of Bihar, Bhopender Singh (32), Rakesh Prasad (27) and Harshvardhan Kumar. The police have also claimed to have recovered five admit cards of DIET examination, one Maruti Alto car, four admit cards of MBBS examination of M.D. University, 38 original certificates and marksheets of CBSE board, Haryana and five mobile phones from their possession. The police also claimed to have recovered Rs 90,000 from their possession. According to the police officials, the accused used to charge Rs 10-15 lakh from MBBS candidates and Rs 2 lakh for the DIET students. |
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Nagar Kirtan procession to Pakistan on June 11
New Delhi, June 4 Addressing a congregation at Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib during Sant Samagam in observance of the fourth centenary of martyrdom of Guru Arjan Devji, he said, “SGPC has failed to perform its religious obligation in Punjab. The new generation has gone astray under the influence of western culture. The Sikh saints should fan out in Punjab villages to bring the new generation back to the Panthic mainstream”. He said that the DSGMC had received verbal permission from the Pakistan authorities to take out Nagar Kirtan procession from Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib, Delhi, to Gurdwara Dehra Sahib, Lahore”. According to the tentative programme, the Nagar Kirtan procession will start from Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib on June 11. The procession will cross into Pakistan at the Attari-Wagha border on June 13. He appealed to the Sangat to participate in the procession in a big way and accord it rousing welcome. Speaking on he occasion, Chairman, Sikh Mission International, Manjit Singh Calcutta, said, “Though we had been observing Gurpurab and other historical days every year, the centenary has provided us an opportunity to introspect and evaluate our achievements and failures”. |
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Campaign on to pay 50 pc
of power bills
New Delhi, June 4 “It is a travesty of the Constitution and quality that honest people pay for those who steal. It is an inequality of the worst order, which is not sustainable either by common sense of fair play or by the laws of the country. The government and its officials cannot be allowed to abdicate their responsibility,” he said, throwing his weight behind the campaign to force the government to stop power theft and stop charging honest bill payers. Responding to suggestions by a discom that the power to fix tariff rests with the DERC and the payment of 50 per cent is not legal, P.S. Sharda, advocate and a group activist, said that the statement is untrue on the first count. Mr Promod Chawla, convenor of
URJA, said, “We have a dispute with the Bill. It has to do with the way in which tariff is calculated and imposed on us. In the context of the Power Secretary’s report, the basis of this calculation is now under scrutiny, both legal and ethical. Until this issue is resolved, our dispute remains. However, we are still paying 50 per cent of it as a token of responsibility”. |
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President releases book
on ‘Dialogue’
New Delhi, June 4 The President said at the function held on Friday that India is the land, which produced great leaders like, Mahatma Gandhi, Buddha, Mahavir, Guru Nanak etc., while the Middle East gave birth and rise to great religious leaders like Moses, Jesus and Prophet Mohammed. He raised the question as to why there is a great amount of conflict and unrest in these regions. Quoting the example of the reformation of Emperor Ashok after the Kalinga War, Dr Kalam pointed out that bloodshed was behind the institution of non-violence and peace. Similarly, bloodshed during the first world war was behind the formation of the League of Nations (subsequently United Nations Organisation). Perhaps the need of the hour is a more comprehensive body and an universal approach to providing compulsory education for all. Among those present on the occasion included Dr N Radhakrishnan, the author of the book and Chairman, Indian Council of Gandhian Studies, Sudhamahi Reghunathan, Vice-Chancellor, Jain Viswabharati Institute, N Vasudevan, Director, Gandhi Media Centre, Dr Y. P. Anand, Director, National Gandhi Museum, Dr Akash K Ouchi, Resident Representative to India, SGI, Gopinatha Menon, Indo-Ganges Publications, Ms Naveena Reddy, Director General, Bharat Soka Gakkai, C Dileep, Secretary, Gandhi Media Centre, Mr S Raghunathan, former Chief Secretary, Delhi, Ajith Radhakrishnan, and K M Sasidharan Nair. |
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Man kills father over minor issue
Greater Noida, June 4 Brahmjeet Singh who had bought a new motorcycle a few days ago refused permission to his son Sanjay, alias Arun, to drive it on Friday. There was an argument between the two. At night, Sanjay attacked his sleeping father with a spade, ripped opening his stomach. It is alleged that the family members did not inform the police to save Sanjay. When the police reached their house, the family said Brahmjeet had injured himself after a fall from the roof. The family members were even preparing for a cremation of the deceased without an autopsy. But the police who reached the scene took possession of the body and sent it for postmortem. SP rural Sudhir Kumar Singh said the police were investigating after having registered a case on their own. |
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Showcasing the natural beauty of Kashmir Valley
Ravi Bhatia Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 4 These pictures, shot between 1934 and 1965 by late R C Mehta of the Mahatta photographic store in Srinagar, are being showcased in the Capital for the first time as part of the ‘Kashmir Views’ exhibition. Some of these remnants of Mehta’s visual history had remained buried in the attic of his studio before being discovered by his grandsons, who decided to put them on display for the benefit of the general public. Founded in 1918, the Mahatta’s photographic store quickly became the favoured destination of the English Sahibs and Mem Sahibs, the royalty, the tourists and of course the local residents. But Mehta carried his sense of beauty and sensitivity beyond the studio, to capture on his lens the virgin natural beauty of the valley. Photographs on conservation
Photographs on conservation by some of the top photographers of the country are being exhibited at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) here to coincide with the World Environment Day on June 5. Among the photographers are Raghu Rai, Avinash Pasricha, Jagdeep Rajput, Achal Kumar, Amit Pasricha, Mahesh Nair and N.C. Dhingra. The WWF is also presenting a Bharatnatayam recital on the occasion by Sharanya Chandran and Shreya Kumar, both disciples of the well-known dance guru, Geeta Chandran. The dancers will strive to present the close link between classical dance and nature. Indus to Gangotri on canvas
India Habitat Centre (IHC) here is hosting an exhibition of paintings by K Jagjit Singh at its Visual Arts Gallery on June 13. The exhibition entitled, “Indus to Gangotri” has some of the selected paintings of the artist on view. On June 20, 26 and 28, the IHC is playing host to an archival exhibition, this time by Osian, on Budhism and spirituality. Exhibition at Krishna’s Collection
The Krishna’s Collection here is holding an exhibition of paintings of artists, Sandeep, Girish and Gauranga from June 3 to June 16. Meanwhile, Ritmari, another art gallery of the Capital, is holding an exhibition of paintings on paper and canvas by Jai Prakash Chauhan and Sonali Pithawe. The exhibition will be on till the end of the month. Remembering Munshi Prem Chand
The Asmita Arts Group is presenting a musical comic-satire, “Moteram Ka Satyagraha” based on a short story by the legendry Munshi Prem Chand on June 10 and June 11. The play has been adapted by Habib Tanveer and Safdar Hashmi and it has music by Sangeeta Gaur. |
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Youth held for raping minor
Noida, June 4 |
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