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Six more dengue deaths in Capital
Thousands of traders take part in march
Customer relationship is about ‘business transformation’
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Bail denied to woman accused of selling house many times
Seminar on universalism held
Artscape
Student killed in clash
Woman’s body found
Health fair opens at Okhla
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Six more dengue deaths in Capital
New Delhi, October 15 While three dengue deaths have been reported by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, two have been reported by Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital here in the past 24 hours. Another death has been reported by Holy Family Hospital. Two senior citizens and a youth, who were being treated for dengue, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the past 24 hours. At GTB Hospital, a 10-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy died of dengue today. At Holy Family Hospital in South Delhi, a 21-year-old resident of East of Kailash died of dengue. The total number of people afflicted with dengue has risen to 1,465, the Municipal Health Officer, Dr N. K. Yadav, said. Kunwar Singh (70) from Delhi’s Rajapuri area, Muzafar Iqbal (60) from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh and Manoj Singh (30) from Gurgaon died at AIIMS. Sixty one patients are admitted to AIIMS, Medical Superintendent D. K. Sharma said, adding that 32 patients were discharged today. Another 170 persons are under observation at AIIMS for suspected dengue. Unhygienic conditions is the cause for the spread of dengue at AIIMS. The municipal authorities had served 27 notices on AIIMS in the past several months for keeping the premises clean and hygienic. However, the hospital administration ignored the notices as the committee had not met during the period. The Union Health Minister also asked the AIIMS authorities concerned to hold a meeting for cleanliness but nothing had been done so far, sources said. Dr Yadav said the MCD was doing its level best to control dengue in the national Capital. Fogging and fumigation were being done in all areas. Cleanliness work was also being done in municipal areas. Citizens were being asked that clean water should not be stagnant in and around their residences. Overhead tanks should be covered. If the citizens felt there was a mosquito menace in their area, they could report to the area MCD office for fogging, he said. |
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Thousands of traders take part in march
New Delhi, October 15 Thousands of traders participated in the yatra. Several tableaus depicting the woes and sufferings of traders on sealing, a few bands reciting patriotic songs and anti-sealing slogans being raised were all part of the yatra. The yatra began from Ashok Vihar, passed through various markets of North Delhi, including Wazirpur, Shalimar Bagh, Pitampura, Azadpur, Model Town, Derawal Nagar and culminated into a public meeting at GT-Karnal Road. Traders’ leaders demanded an amendment in the Master Plan to regularise all business establishments which existed on December 31, 2005. There was a wide disparity between planning and the ground realities. Sealing of business establishments was not the ultimate answer to the problem. Instead of sealing, the government should do planned development of the city, they pleaded. The leaders called upon traders not to celebrate Divali this year as a mark of protest against sealing. Divali is a festival of joy. During the festival season, the traders earn enough for their bread and butter. Since the sealing drive launch by the MCD, traders’ families were tense. In such a situation, the traders would merely perform symbolic ‘Divali pooja’ and there would be no exchange of gifts, the leaders decided. A delegation of BJP councillors led by the Leader of the Opposition in the MCD, Mr Subhash Arya, met the Union Urban Development Minister, Mr Jaipal Reddy, to discuss the sealing drive of the MCD to be started from November 1. The delegation members apprised the Union Minister he had promised to provide relief to the citizens from sealing after making an amendment in the Master Plan. They said the drive had caused a riot in Seelampur, killing four persons. If it is started again, the situation would become serious and hundreds of people would sacrifice their lives. Mr Arya demanded that an amendment should be made in the Master Plan and put in Section 9 of the Constitution. This was the only solution to the problem. “Once the amendment is put in Section 9 of the Constitution, the court will not change it”, he said. |
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Customer relationship is about ‘business transformation’
New Delhi, October 15 Mr Rangarajan asserted that success in customer relationship management required a high level of commitment, which “necessarily takes together different stakeholders under a shared vision focused on customer information management, customer feedback, varied sales solutions ensuring customer satisfaction and providing standardised sales experience across touch points. The Director, Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, Prof Mukesh Chaturvedi, also addressed the gathering on the subject, saying that “customer relationship management is not just about relationship with an individual but also relationship between the customer and his or her different reference groups, including family, friends, colleagues and peers.” Further, Mr Ajay Jain, Editor and CEO, Campus Paper, said, “CRM is a culture and is not simply for sales or marketing professionals. It starts with the doorman of an organisation but it does not end with the CEO.” Other speakers included Mr Nimai Swain, Associate Vice-President, IMRB, Mr Vijay Jassal, Senior Manager, CRM, Hutch Telecom, and Prof M.P. Jaiswal, MDI, Gurgaon. Some of the subjects that came up at this seminar included CRM practices in Indian organisations, innovations in CRM and e-CRM, challenges and issues of CRM and, finally, CRM implementation issues. |
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Bail denied to woman accused of selling house many times
New Delhi, October 15 Rejecting the bail applications of Ruchi Singh Bedi in three cheating cases, Metropolitan Magistrate Pritam Singh observed, “As per allegations, she has cheated several persons in respect of the same property and also there is likelihood of her tampering with the evidence.” According to the FIRs, the alleged cheating came to light on March 17, when retired IPS officer J. S. Bedi published a notice in a national daily that the property in dispute still belonged to him and no power of attorney was executed in favour of Yogesh Kumar. This allegedly prompted three complainants, who had contracted purchasing the property from Ruchi and had even paid lakhs of rupees in earnest money, to rush to J. S. Bedi’s residence where they learnt they all had claim on the same property. They started demanding their money back from Ruchi and lodged complaints with the police when she refused. She had allegedly collected a total of Rs 32 lakh from them. Ruchi, who is in custody since September 20, contended in her bail applications that she was married to Anil Singh Bedi, son of J. S. Bedi. She said her father-in-law was never happy with the marriage and bore a grudge against her since then. After marriage she moved into the property in dispute, situated in Kalkaji Extension in South Delhi, with her husband. According to her applications, Ruchi was told by her father-in-law that the house belonged to him. But he later sold it to one Yogesh Kumar through power of attorney. Not willing to lose her shelter, she purchased it from Yogesh through a sale deed. However, J. S. Bedi continued to harass her and she decided to sell the house and move somewhere else so that she could live in peace with her husband and children, she alleged. Opposing her bail applications, the prosecution told the court there were other complaints of cheating against Ruchi, including one in which she tried to take a loan from a bank in Connaught Place using forged securities and impersonating as Ambika Singh. |
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Seminar on universalism held
New Delhi, October 15 Luminaries from various religious ideologies attended the seminar and spoke on the ways and means to attain the goals of universalism and peace in this world. Dr Karan Singh, chief guest and president of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, said, “Our society is facing the hurdles of complexities in the name of religion which, I think, is harmful to the original religion that speaks of our universality.” “The existence of Brahma is mentioned in the Upanishadas and this Brahma exists within every living creature. Religion is nothing but a system of judgement that helps to lead our life,” he added. Emphasising on the universality of God, he said, “If we take water in a number of pots, we can see the image of the sun in all of them but in reality really it is the only one in the universe. Similar is the existence of divine power that may be God, Allah or Ishwar.” Dr Khwaja Iftikhar Ahmed, founder president, Interfaith Communal Harmony, stressed on the accountability of individual to divinity. |
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Auction of paintings to facilitate Kidman’s visit
Ravi Bhatia Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 15 About 100 works of eminent Indian painters, including Jamini Roy and Ramkinkar Beij, will be auctioned. The organisers of the International Women’s Film Festival, to be held here from December 11, hope that with the funds raised through the auction they will be able to pay appearance money of 50,000 dollars to the Oscar-winning actress Kidman. Among the artists, whose paintings are likely to go under the hammer are Jogen Choudhury, Ananda Munshi, Prakash Karmakar, Isha Mohd, film director Nabyendu Chatterjee and Anita Roy Choudhury, the first woman graduate of the Art College in Kolkata. The festival, being organised in association with the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry and Delhi Government, is aimed at promoting empowerment of women and a portion of the funds raised by the festival would be given to empowerment projects. Photo exhibition
The India International Centre (IIC) here is hosting an exhibition of photographs of well-known photographer, Ravi Agarwal at the Art Gallery (Annexe) from October 24 to November 1. Group show
Agnipath, a registered society of Indian artists, is holding a group show of paintings of women artists from October 12 to October 21 at the Travancore Art Galleries here. Glimpses of Indore
The Dhoomimal Art Centre here is holding ‘Glimpses of Indore’, an exhibition of works of some of the well-known artists from the Madhya Pradesh city from October 13 to October 31. Among the artists are Abdul Qadir, A. K. Raina, Sushila, Shrenik Jain, Sharad Sovani, Shashi Kant Mundi, BR Bodade, Ishwari Rawal, Khanderao Panwar, Harendera Shah and Ramesh Kher. Auction of paintings
Modern and contemporary Indian paintings by well-known artists, including Jamini Roy, M F Hussain and Nicholai Roerich, will go under the hammer here later this month. All these paintings were put on display for the benefit of the public on October 10. The paintings, ranging from the early 1900s right up to the present, will be part of the first auction of Indian works to be held by Triveda Fine Arts on October 25. |
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Student killed in clash
Greater Noida, October 15 The police have registered an FIR against six persons, two of whom have been arrested. After attending a birthday party of a fellow student last night in C-56, Beta -1, some students came down in the park around mid-night. A group of students from Har Lal College was already present in the park. Both the groups of students soon came to blows on a trivial matter. During the clash, Rachit Chauhan was stabbed to death with a sharp and pointed rod-like object. The arrested persons are Dhawan Kapil of IEC College and Gagan Tyagi of Hero Honda, who had come from Gurgaon to attend the party. |
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Woman’s body found
Greater Noida, October 15 The woman, Anita Rawat (25), hailing from Garhwal, was employed in an export company. She had allegedly developed illicit relations with a manager of the same firm, according to a report lodged by her sister with the police. She was missing since the last three days. The victim was last seen allegedly with the manager, Prashant Yadav, in Ghaziabad on Friday night, the police said. Yadav is
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Health fair opens at Okhla
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