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3 murders in two days
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Double murder solved
Land rates up in Noida
Kamlesh Agarwal to be extradited
EFC nod to six projects
3 arrested for woman’s murder
NDMC notice to Menaka Gandhi
Indian Panorama films
at Siri Fort
Produce class managers:
L-G to B schools
Khali arriving on May 7
Bid to fraud bank, one arrested
Iranian V-P visits JNU
Show of Persian manuscripts at Jamia
Cable operator shot
Two held with fake notes
2 get life for making fake notes
Shristi award presented
CM pays tribute to Nirmala Deshpande
Summer vacation in govt schools
Thampu’s degree genuine: UGC
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3 murders in two days
New Delhi, May 1 A 25-year-old youth who ran a dairy business in the Seelampur area of North East area of the Capital was knifed to death by a milkman in a fit of rage. According to police, Rakesh Kumar, who ran Pal Dairy in the Seelampur area in Northeast Delhi, was stabbed by a milkman Parveen, over a petty dispute at around 7 in the morning today. Parveen came to Rakesh’s dairy and asked him to keep his empty milk containers at the latter’s shop. When Rakesh refused, an altercation took place. “Parveen, in a fit of rage, drew out scissors and hit Rakesh on the chest. The scissors pierced through Rakesh’s heart and he died at the spot,” deputy commissioner of police (Northeast Delhi) Jaspal Singh told IANS. A murder case has been registered at Seelampur police station and a search was on to nab Parveen. In another incident, property dealer Salim Phelwan, 40, was gunned down when he was going on a motorcycle to his Kadampura home in Northeast Delhi late on Wednesday. The police said that Salim Phelwan, accused of murdering his sister in Uttar Pradesh, was shot in the Yamuna Vihar area by unidentified assailants. Salim Phelwan suffered a bullet injury on his back. He was admitted to the GTB Hospital, where he was declared brought dead. In the third incident, Ramesh, 25, who hailed from Pondicherry, was stoned to death at his rented accommodation in the Dabri area of Southwest Delhi on Wednesday. |
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Double murder solved
New Delhi, May 1 According to DCP Crime, Anil Shukla, the place where the bodies were found in Ghaziabad is the native village of the lawyer’s landlord Rajender Singh which brought him under suspicion. Police has also learnt that Sri Niwas Rao did not have good relation with his landlord. Harender and Amit, sons of the landlord were thus interrogated in view of the recovery of bodies. The duo admitted to the killings Accused Amit, Harender and their relative Pradeep Gujar who were part of conspiracy of abduction and murder were arrested yesterday and hunt is on for the arrest of their father Rajender Singh.
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Land rates up in Noida
Noida, May 1 According to chief executive officer, Mohinder Singh of Noida Authority, the actual receipts of the authority for the financial year 2007-08 were of the order of Rs 3,332 crore as compared to the target amount of Rs 3,035. As per the report of financial progress presented to the board, receipts were at 111 per cent while revenue receipts were at 106 per cent which reflected a good financial progress, CEO said. The Noida Authority will be laying stress on development of urban infrastructure like building flyovers, underpasses, metro rail, setting up of an ultra-modern multi-speciality faculty district hospital, setting up of educational institution, etc. A sum of Rs 53 crore has been approved for development of infrastructure viz roads, sewerage, drinking water, etc in all Noida villages. The compensation for farmers’ land acquired for development has also to be increased as per the government decision. For commercial sectors, except sector–18, revised commercial rates will be from Rs 55,000 to Rs 1,70,000 per sq mt, the CEO informed. For plots of 10,000 sq mt area and above, the reserve price has been fixed at Rs 1 lakh. In all, Noida town has been divided into five categories of commercial plots. The hike in industrial rates has to be competitive as compared to rates in other states, the chief executive officer said. The Board has taken the decision that allotment of 600 plots in disputed residential scheme of 2004 will be made through a fresh lottery after the receipt of orders from the High Court. The plots will however be allotted on current rates, the CEO said. The CEO said sports city was being set up where facilities and infrastructure of international standard for all major sports and athletics will be developed. Some modern multi-level and underground parking lots are likely to come up in the town to tackle the complex problem of parking in Noida, the CEO added.
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Kamlesh Agarwal to be extradited
New Delhi, May 1 A division bench of justices Vikramjit Sen and Rajiv Sahai Endlaw dismissed Agarwal’s appeal, in which he had challenged the orders of the lower court allowing his extradition. Kamlesh has an option of approaching the Supreme Court. Deepa, 20, a student of University of Central Florida, was murdered in her home in Orlando, Florida, by Kamlesh, who fled to India a year later and has been here since. Her decomposed body was found “sealed” in a cardboard carton in the bedroom closet nine days after the murder. The autopsy report confirmed the cause of death as fracture of the spine from a blow by a blunt instrument. Several knife wounds were reportedly spotted on the body, suggesting a “violent altercation” before death. The suspicion fell on Kamlesh, then 22 and studying computer science in the same university. During the investigation, a neighbour told the police that on the fateful night she heard the sound of a woman screaming from Deepa’s apartments. This was followed by “thumps” - as if “something was being shoved against the wall”. But before investigators could nab Kamlesh, he fled from the US on July 12, 2000. Two days later, the police in India acting on an Interpol alert arrested him from a hotel in Mumbai where he was staying under the name of Pankaj Saraf. A month later, a grand jury in the US charged Kamlesh with “first-degree murder” and ordered that he stand trial. In September 2000, the state of Florida forwarded an extradition request to India. In October 2002, an inquiry report by the additional chief metropolitan magistrate’s court here recommended Kamlesh’s extradition, citing “prima facie” evidence of murder against him. — IANS
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EFC nod to six projects
New Delhi, May 1 Talking to media Delhi finance minister A. K. Walia stated that the city government is committed to ensuring smooth flow of traffic on Capital roads. Hence, the department of finance has been giving its concurrence to various infrastructure development projects of the PWD. The EFC has given its nod for construction of grade separator at intersection of GT Road and road number 56 near Apsara Border and another grade separator at T-Junction road number 56-57 near Anand Vihar ISBT in Trans-Yamuna area. Grade separator at Apsara Border would cost around Rs 226.47 crore whereas another grade separator would cost around Rs 123.44 crore. The grade separators are being constructed to provide free flow of traffic and ensure relief to those commuters who are forced to face heavy traffic jams. Both these grade separators would be commissioned before two years of commencement of work. The new infrastructure would also provide free flow of traffic for Yamuna Sports Complex which is one of the venues of the Commonwealth events. The grade separators would results in saving of fuel and travel time and also bring East Delhi at par with other much-developed localities in South and New Delhi. Walia further stated that an amount of Rs 8.95 crore would be utilized for strengthening and re-surfacing of Guru Ravi Dass Marg road number 14 from junction of Maa Anand Mayee Road to M.B. Road. The work would be completed within six months. Another Rs 305 crore has been sanctioned for infrastructure development by the Delhi Transco Ltd. The amount would be utilized for commissioning of various power-related infrastructural projects at Okhla, Gopalpur, Maharani Bagh, AIIMS and Lodhi Road with an aim to augment power supply and make power supply more reliable with zero level fluctuation and disruption. These projects would be completed between 12 and 24 months. Walia stated that a 200-bedded Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital would be commissioned at Kokiwala Bagh near Ashok Vihar with an estimated cost of Rs 92.68 crore within 30 months after the award of work. This is in tune with the policy of government to provide health care facilities at the doorstep of the people. This new modern hospital would cater to the needs of poor and needy persons of a number of colonies whose residents are forced to approach hospitals situated at far-off places.
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3 arrested for woman’s murder
New Delhi, May 1 According to HGS Dhaliwal, DCP South, Rehana, 32, was pestering Rehman to return Rs 40,000 that he had borrowed from her. However, Rehman did not intend to return the money and so decided to get rid of her. Rehman, a leather garment manufacturer, approached Naim, Zulfikar and Allaudin, his close relatives, who have past criminal records, to carry out the murder. According to the police, he paid them Rs 50, 000. On the night of April 23, Naim along with his accomplices reached Rehana’s house and shot her with a countrymade pistol. The police has recovered the pistol. Rehana, originally from Bijnore in UP, lived with her husband Mohammad Hadis in the Batla House area of South Delhi. She came in contact with Rehman few years back. The relationship between the two was well known in the area, so much so that his wife wanted him to wind off his business and shift to their hometown Bijnore. |
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NDMC notice to Menaka Gandhi
New Delhi, May 1 The notice, dated for April 11, mentions that illegal construction has been carried out on the first and second floors of her flat number 8. It states that the balcony on the first floor has been covered with an illegal roof and the second floor covering an area of 1467 square feet has been constructed illegally. Besides, the notice also states that the residential flat is being used for commercial purposes without any permission. The flat presently houses Market Café, a popular hangout joint and Manan Designs. However, Menaka Gandhi has refused to remove the construction in question claiming that the property has been declared freehold, which means that the penalty and misuse tax were settled before she bought it. She has also referred to the High Court’s order, which gave permission to use first floors as commercial property in Khan Market. Khan Market is one of the posh markets in Delhi where the rent for shops is the highest. According to sources, Menaka has already written to Ajay Maken asking for his help in the matter and the NDMC has been instructed to deal with the case sensitively. Meanwhile, the NDMC has also served notices to defaulter shopkeepers in Sarojini Nagar, Khan Market, Lodhi Road Market and Connaught Places.
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Indian Panorama films
at Siri Fort
New Delhi, May 1 The festival opens with Bagher Bacha, a non-feature film in Bengali directed by Bishnu Dev Halder, a former student of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. The opening film of the feature film section is Ore Kadal (Malayalam), directed by Shyamaprasad. This package of Indian Panorama presents a wide spectrum of contemporary themes and treatments. Debut directors like Sameer Hanchate, Bhavana Talwar and Samir Chanda bring with them a refreshing and incisive style of cinema while stalwarts like Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Budhadeb Dasgupta challenge ideas and established norms with their films, Naalu Penungal and Ami Iyasin Aar Amaar Madhubala.
The non-feature film section offers a large variety. Biographicals like Naushad Ali, Pandit Ramnarayan, Mubarak Begum and Rajarshi Bhagyachandra of Manipur chronicle the lives of important Indian personalities. Films like Bagher Bacha, Hope Dies Last in War, Joy Ride and Whose Land is it Anyway, are stimulating. The Indian Panorama package has been selected by two juries of eminent filmmakers. The feature film jury was headed by renowned filmmaker KS Sethumadhavan. The non-feature film jury was headed by filmmaker Arun Khopkar. The synopses, schedule and all other details of the films are available on the website: www.iffi.nic.in Entry to all film shows is free and passes will be available at Siri Fort Auditorium counters from May 2-9, 2008 on ‘first come first serve’ basis.
The Indian Panorama is one of the most important sections of the International Film Festival of India as it represents the diversity of Indian cinema. The section was first organised in the year 1978. Since then the section has been a regular feature of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). |
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Produce class managers:
L-G to B schools
New Delhi, May 1 Khanna was inaugurating the new campus of Delhi Productivity Council’s Institute of Management at Dwarka Institutional Area. He said that keeping this in view, the business schools have a great challenge to produce such managers with high morals, impeachable integrity and values. Khanna said that if professional managers have faith in the value system then they will not only do their jobs unsupervised but also set an example for others to follow. Delhi Productivity Council was established in 1959 as an autonomous service organization and offers services such as consultancy, training, research and education in the areas of general management, construction management, safety and productivity. Its Institute of Management has been conducting PGDBM programme approved by AICTE for the last 24 years. Institute of Management has been functioning from Jhandewalan since 1984 whereas it was given a one-acre piece of land by the DDA for expansion where the foundation stone of the building was laid last year. |
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Khali arriving on May 7
New Delhi, May 1 The visit is being facilitated by Ten Sports, a sports channel which regularly telecasts free style heavyweight wrestling. Fans will also have the opportunity of seeing the wrestling sensation in action at the NSIC exhibition grounds on the May 7. Standing at an impressive 7 ft 3 inches, the Great Khali has set the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) ring ablaze since 2006. This 420 pound Himachali giant has been a Smack Down Superstar, taking head on, the likes of Undertaker, Kane and John Cena, all well-known American heavyweight wrestlers on the entertainment circuit. As much as his feuds, his great friendships with heavyweight wrestlers like Big Show, Giant Silva and Viscera have kept his fans hooked onto the matches. Khali has even gone beyond the dispatch of mere humans— fighting great Bengal tigers and twisting eight-metre-long pythons into submission much to the delight of his fans. The Himachali giant’s talents were spotted several years ago while he was serving as a head constable with the Punjab police. His senior officers at that time had facilitated his travel to the United States, the mecca of entertainment wrestling. His success since then has been phenomenon. He is said to have the largest fan following among the teenagers both here and abroad. |
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Bid to fraud bank, one arrested
Noida, May 1 After a few days, he reportedly sold the same car to a businessman of Nagloi for Rs 4 lakh. Gaurav Arora, a resident of Pahari Dhiraj, has taken the car from Noida Sector-11 Honda show room posing as a sales manager in Ranbaxy. Arora was otherwise working as a pimp helping people get loans from banks. His friend Ravinder, a resident of Gurgaon, helped him in obtaining the car loan from bank. Gaurav had showed the house in which his friend Ravinder lived in Gurgaon as his own house to the bank for loan purpose. Gaurav had no difficulty in getting the loan sanctioned but when documents were perused again, they were found fake. The show room had filed a report for cheating and fraud with Sector-24 police in Noida, branch manager Brijesh said. The police has arrested Gaurav after confirming his location from his cell phone, SI Pawan Malik said. |
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Iranian V-P visits JNU
New Delhi, May 1 He dubbed India and Iran as culturally rich countries that have influenced the socio-cultural dynamics of the world. “The cultural ties that we share with India are far more stronger than the political relations of the two countries,” said Esfandyar. He also shared his apprehensions about the challenges that the two nations face. “We will face the challenges together and India should lead in ensuring peace in the region.” “We have always considered India’s enemy as our enemy, but our enemy..,” he paused and did not complete the sentence. The office bearers of the Indo-Iran society including, president Nirmala Deshpande attended the seminar. Prof Akhtar Mahadi, general secretary, Indo-Iran society said, “We have been trying to strengthen academic relations between the two counties. Esfandyar’s presence shows that our concerns are being taken positively.”
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Show of Persian manuscripts at Jamia
New Delhi, May 1 Some of the notable works on display at the exhibition include a Persian version of the Mahabharata compiled in 1873 A.D., translations of the Upanishad, the Bhagvad Geeta, and the Majma-ul-Bahrain by Darashikoh (1615-1659). The exhibition will run till May 23. The Jamia library has a collection of nearly 1100 manuscripts in Persian and Arabic pertaining to the period 1591-922 A.D. The manuscripts are on a wide range of subjects including quranic studies, hadith, jurisprudence, mysticism, philosophy, logic, unani medicines, astrology, music, astronomy, poetry, lexicon, history, geography and many more. |
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Ghaziabad, May 1 The attackers, who came in a white Maruti car late Wednesday night, shot dead Dhiraj Tyagi, 36, when he was walking in the residential locality of Govindpuri. According to family sources, the criminals cornered him at the deadend of a lane and opened indiscriminate firing. Tyagi sustained gunshot injuries in the chest and abdomen. Residents of the area rushed him to a hospital where doctors declared him dead. Tyagi’s two brothers, Hari Om and Nirdosh, have criminal records and both are in Dasna jail. Hari Om is under judicial custody for murdering a government doctor at Modi Nagar last month, said Modi Nagar police inspector Radha Krishna. — IANS
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Two held with fake notes
New Delhi, May 1 Jasbir Singh
claimed that he was a disc jockey and visited Singapore and Bangkok frequently. While working as disc jockey in a hotel in Bangkok on a New Year party he came in contact with Azad who lured him into the racket. Since then this was his third consignment of fake notes which he had circulated in the market. He has named Sajjad ,an ISI operative based in
Bangladesh. Khwinder Singh is in the business of screen printing. He was drafted in by Jasbir.
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2 get life for making fake notes
New Delhi, May 1 Additional sessions judge Rajendra Kumar Shastri sentenced Kamil and Neeraj to life-terms in jail and Manoj and Abdul Sani to five years’ imprisonment. The Delhi Police had arrested them on June 7, 2001, while they were trying to sell counterfeit currency. Notes of Rs 50, 100 and 500 denominations, totally worth Rs 200,000, were found in their possession. The police had then raided their hideout in East Delhi and recovered electronic Reserve Bank of India (RBI) blocks, a printer, monitor, computer, scanner and a keyboard. — IANS
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Shristi award presented
New Delhi, May 1 Roopali Shahaney, general manager, Paharpur Business Centre & Software Technology Incubator Park, received the award on behalf of Kamal
Meattle, CEO and director of the park. |
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CM pays tribute to Nirmala Deshpande
New Delhi, May 1 Dikshit recalled her contribution in nurturing values communal harmony, national integration, peace and non-violence. Despande ,an associate of Vinoba Bhave, was instrumental in carrying forward the Bhoodan movement. Dikshit described her as a great social reformer who workedtirelessly till her last breath. “With her passing away, ourcountry has lost a great humanitarian,” the Chief Minister added. |
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Summer vacation in govt schools
New Delhi, May 1 The Directorate of Education will make all the necessary arrangements for smooth admission process, he said. |
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Thampu’s degree genuine: UGC
New Delhi, May 1 Chairman of the DMC, Kamal Faruqui said, “We appreciated the initiative taken by the UGC.” |
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The crime branch has cracked the sensational abduction-cum-murder case of a Tis Hazari Court lawyer S. Sri Niwas Rao and his father S.Sanyasi Rao. The bodies of the lawyer and his father were recovered from village Mewala in Ghaziabad on December 7 last year. Amit Kumar, 26, Harinder Singh, 24, and Pradeep Gujjar, 29, had been arrested for the crime while the manhunt for their other accomplice is on.
