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CRPF constable shoots colleague The bathroom at the Mayur Vihar police station CRPF camp where head constable PC Yadav was allegedly shot by his colleague on Saturday. — Tribune photo
Biker goons strike again
BJP activists clamour for Ramsetu
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DCHFC building stone laid in Dwarka
MCD offices to have biometric attendance
Just one ATM for 8,000 JNU students
Public notary’s affidavit not needed
for poll roll
Hope for arrhythmia patients
Labourer crushed to death by drunk driver
2 sanitary inspectors suspended
Bangalore blasts condemned
End row for kids’ sake, couple told
Noida to become a world-class city in 3 yrs
Efforts on to recapture past glory
of Haryana tourism
Newborn found dumped in Dadri
Criminal held
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CRPF constable shoots colleague
New Delhi, July 26 Head constable Phool Chand Yadav of the 82nd battalion of the CRPF died on the spot after fellow constable Rajveer shot him with his service rifle. The incident took place around 11 a.m. at the CRPF camp, based on the premises of Mayur Vihar police station in East Delhi. The two had returned to the camp after performing the night duty. “The incident happened due to Rajveer’s fear of truth being divulged and he getting embarrassed in public. Yadav had reportedly seen Rajveer stealing some money few days back,” CRPF spokesperson Ajay Chaturvedi said. He added that Yadav had asked Rajveer to come out clean by surrendering the money or else he would report the incident to the Commandant. Fearing this, Rajveer shot Yadav from behind in a bathroom. Rajveer later fired upon himself and has been admitted to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital where he has been placed under preventive custody. Yadav and Rajveer were deployed on duty at Akshardham Temple on NH 24. They were part of the CRPF unit that is monitoring the situation in wake of ongoing ‘Kanwariyas’ pilgrimage to Haridwar this month.
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Biker goons strike again
Noida, July 26 According to doctors, the bullet is still embedded in his waist and he is in critical condition. Rajesh and Abul Hasan, partners in a contracting firm, were carrying Rs 4.39 lakh on a bicycle. They had withdrawn the cash from two banks to disburse wages to workers employed in Fashion Garment Expo in C-33 in sector-63 in Noida. They had withdrawn Rs 2.07 lakh from Punjab National Bank in Madhuban in Delhi and Rs 2.32 lakh from Syndicate Bank in Patpat Ganj, Delhi. As the duo reached NIB police post in Noida, two criminals on a bike stopped them and tried to snatch the cash from them at gunpoint. When Rajesh resisted, the criminal shot him in the back and fled away with the cash. Abul Hasan then immediately reported the matter to sector-58 police station. The police reached the spot and rushed Rajesh to Fortis Hospital in sector-62 and also informed senior police officers. Rajesh was referred to Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in Delhi. SSP R.K. Chaturvedi, SP city Ashok Tripathi and ASP Akhilesh Kumar soon reached the spot. Chaturvedi immediately constituted five police teams under SP city to nab the bikers. According to SSP, the bikers must have been trailing the two contractors from the banks or some informer must have tipped them. The police will be using the CCTV footage of both the banks to identify the robbers who might have been lurking near the victims.
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BJP activists clamour for Ramsetu
New Delhi, July 26 Addressing the demonstrators, Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan said that previously the Congress government had in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court stated that there was no existence of Lord Ram, Ramsetu, Nul-Neel and Ram. These are merely imagination. The government withdrew the affidavit panicked by the protest of Hindus all over the world. He said that now the government advocate has stated in the court that Ramsetu was demolished by Lord Ram himself. Harsh Vardhan said that the Congress government is bent upon committing contempt of court. If the Setu is demolished, India will have to face strategic, social, economic and cultural threats. He further said that not a single religious place connected with all the religions is present in its original form. It is a matter of faith that when, how and where they should worship their deities. The government cannot ban or demolish any historical place. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, deputy leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, said that first of all the government denied the very existence of Lord Ram. Now it says that the Setu does not exist and worship does not take place there. Hence it is necessary to dig the canal by demolishing the broken structure. He further said that if the Congress government, blind in its efforts of appeasement, deliberately breaks the Ramsetu, it will only offend the sentiments of the majority community. Its consequences will be grave, he threatened. Other leaders who spoke on the occasion were Vijay Goel, Ram Bhaj, Abdul Rasheed, Neera Shastri, Pawan Sharma, Alok Kumar, Meera Kanwaria, Vijender Gupta, Yogender Chandoliya, Satyeshwari Joshi, Sahab Singh Chauhan, Shikha Rai, Anil Sharma, Vishakha Shailani, Mohd. Imran Ismail, Rajender Sonkar and Subhash Arya.
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DCHFC building stone laid in Dwarka
New Delhi, July 26 Speaking at a function organised in Sector 20 Dwarka to lay the foundation stone of ‘Sahkar Bhawan’, new headquarters of the DCHFC, the Chief Minister appreciated the role of the corporation for financing housing societies. As many as 1,288 prime housing societies are affiliated to it. It has been offering loan on reducing balance basis. Its rate of interest is the lowest. It has also been providing concession of 0.5 per cent to union the government, Delhi government employees, employees of government undertakings and physically handicapped persons. The society has also offered loan to the cooperative group housing societies for the purchase of land from the DDA. It has been providing home loans for buying flats in group housing societies, financing DDA-allotted flats, extending existing houses swapping of loans taken from other financing institution and purchasing property on first power of attorney in case of DDA flats and group housing societies. She added that the functioning of the DCHFC had been commended by all as it has not been charging any processing and administrative fees and processing procedure is hassle-free. The DCHFC which started its loaning operation in 1982-83 has, in fact, changed the housing scenario in the national Capital. The DCHFC has been functioning from a rented building at Khel Gaon.
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MCD offices to have biometric attendance
New Delhi, July 26 Municipal Commissioner K. S. Mehra said that it was being done to improve work culture in corporation offices. The normal office hour is from 9 am to 5.30 pm and it is mandatory for every one to mark attendance when he enters office and do the same when he leaves. Mehra said that he himself would use biometric machine while arriving at and departing from the office every day. It is being made compulsory for all other senior officers, including additional commissioners, deputy commissioners, heads of the departments. He said that to begin with, this system is being initially started from August 1 at the offices situated in MCD’s headquarters at the Town Hall and Commissioner’s Office Complex at Ambedkar Stadium. Present system of marking attendance in the register is being done away with. To improve office culture and ensure better output of work, it is felt necessary that all the employees and officers should be punctual and regular in their attendance. They must devote full office time to create better civic services. The biometric machines would be installed at the main gates of the office buildings. The officers and employees would be provided with code numbers that will also be set in the machine. They would be required to place their index finger in the biometric machine. It would recognize their already fed finger print and record their time of arrival and departure. Based on the computerized attendance record, the salary bills would be prepared for each month. He hopee that biometric system link to computer would eliminate malpractices in marking the attendance in register. In the new system, the officers or the employees would have to be physically present to mark their attendance.
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Just one ATM for 8,000 JNU students
New Delhi, July 26 For a population of over 8000, JNU has only one State Bank of India (SBI) automated teller machine (ATM). Students say that the machine at times is out of order. Long queues are not a rare sight in front of the machine on the days it is running. “We spare at least half an hour to make a trip to the university ATM. Being the only machine on such a huge campus, there is always a rush at the ATM,” said Parizaad from Lohit Hostel. University residents complain of lack of maintenance of the ATM. “We have one ATM for the entire campus and even this ATM is dysfunctional most of the times,” said Garima Shrivastava, M.Phil student. At times it takes weeks for the bank to fix the ATM machine. “I have spent days in this university without a single penny as there is nobody to ensure that the machine works,” said Amit Ranjan from School of Languages (SL). Employees at the SBI JNU branch say that the machine was not their responsibility. It is not that the ATM was never an issue on the campus. “Almost every student organisation has raised the ATM issue. However, no positive step was taken,” said a PhD student who has lived on the campus for more than eight years. “My experience has been that this ATM would not work at hours of need,” said Garima. When this reporter went to the machine, the cash dispenser chamber looked damaged with a broken air conditioner. “Students residing in far-off hostels like Brahmputra walk all the way to the ATM and face disappointment,” said Prayanka from the Centre of Political Science. The closest ATM is several kilometres from the university in Ber Sarai and Basant Vihar. |
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Public notary’s affidavit not needed
for poll roll
New Delhi, July 26 In many cases, the applicants attach with their applications an affidavit issued by notary in support of their eligibility for registration of electors. These affidavits are not required by election oOffice. In some cases, the affidavits were even not signed by the deponents but duly verified by the notary. This clearly reveals that the notary does not act as required as per his responsibility in respect of verification of signature of deponent on the affidavits, he said. The electoral registration officer of Assembly Constituency has lodged a complaint with the secretary, law, Government of India, divisional commissioner, NCT of Delhi, Bar Council of India and commissioner of police, Delhi in Form XIII under Rule 13 of the Notaries Rules 1956 regarding misconduct by various public notaries, the spokesman said. The applicants may enclose any one of the following documents in support of their eligibility: ration card, pension documents, gas connection, passport, freedom fighter identity cards, telephone bill, driving license, PAN card, railway identity cards, water bill, arms license, SC, ST, OBC certificates, bank account, student identity cards, property documents, certificates of physical handicap by competent authority, identity cards and electricity bill, he said. |
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Hope for arrhythmia patients
New Delhi, July 26 Few know that there’s power in the heart in the form of electric impulses. It sustains the pumping of the heart, and holds the key to its good health within the body. It can increase the rate up to 200-300 beats a minute or bring it down to 30-40 beats a minute. In the initial stages, it can manifest itself as palpitations with the burst of rapid heart rate or fainting spells. It can also lead to cardiac arrest. The easiest recognised sign of this electrical activity is your pulse rate or the thumping that you feel in your chest with each beat. The science that deals with the study and analysis of electrical activity of the heart is known as cardiac electrophysiology. Electrical impulses may arise spontaneously in the ventricles, either because ventricular cells begin to emit electrical discharges on their own or because of the development of many small electrical short circuits, say doctors. According to Dr Mohan Nair, director, Cardiac Electrophysiology, and chief cardiologist, Max Balaji Hospital, here, “All these diseases come under a broad category of heart disease called cardiac arrhythmia. And we’re talking of electrical disturbances. Although more likely to occur in diseased or scarred hearts, a potentially life-threatening electrical abnormality can occur in an otherwise normal heart. Till about 20 years ago, there was no real cure for this,” he adds. “But if the problem is detected in time now, medical science has the ability to control and even cure these abnormalities.” The hospital has been getting a regular flow of international patients who come from nearby countries like Sri Lanka, Dubai, Nigeria and South Africa to get their heart rhythm abnormalities cured by a procedure known as radiofrequency catheter ablation. The technique of radiofrequency catheter ablation consists essentially of two components- the mapping and electrophysiology study, by which, using special catheters and computers, the electrically abnormal tissue in the heart is identified and radiofrequency ablation, where radiofrequency energy is delivered through special catheters to these culprit areas; this makes them electrically inert, leading to cure of the rhythm abnormality. The most attractive features of this technique are that it is conducted under local anaesthesia, requires no cuts or stitches and more than 90 per cent of the patients can be considered cured for life. Other modes of treating the disease include medications or implantation of special devices. “Despite this country having the largest number of heart patients in the world, only a few centres have the capability and infrastructure to perform this procedure,” lamanted Nair.
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Labourer crushed to death by drunk driver
New Delhi, July 26 “The driver has been identified as Manjeet Singh. He was under the influence of alcohol when his car hit the footpath in the Nizammuddin area around 2.30 a.m. One person was crushed under the wheels on the spot while another was injured”, said a police official. Manjeet, a resident of Haryana, was arrested and the car was impounded. His blood samples have been sent for medical examination to detect if he was drunk. Manjeet was accompanied by a friend when the accident took place. |
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2 sanitary inspectors suspended
New Delhi, July 26 The commissioner inspected various areas of Azadpur, Adarsh Nagar, Jahangir Puri, MCD Staff Quarters Model Town and Lal Bagh. He found that the sanitary condition in Lal Bagh area were deplorable.
There were heaps of garbage all around and it was spilling over the road.
The public toilets were dirty. Area residents complained of perpetual insanitary conditions in their locality, a press release said. |
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Bangalore blasts condemned
New Delhi, July 26 “This horrifying act shows the extreme level of cowardice as bombs have been planted to kill innocent and unaware people. One fails to understand what sense it makes to kill ordinary people struggling for day-to-day affairs,” said V. M. Trehan, founder chairman, FANS.—
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End row for kids’ sake, couple told
New Delhi, July 26 The case involves a former judicial magistrate who was dismissed from his post for misconduct. Justice S. Muralidhar last week asked the couple to consider that their troubled marriage was adversely
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Noida to become a world-class city in 3 yrs
Noida, July 26 The Noida Authority is in the process of appointing expert consultants for its various projects. The Noida Board has given a green signal to all such proposals and projects. A Secunderabad-based firm Ernest and Young has been selected as consultants. According to official sources, if all the plans and projects fall into place in next three years, Noida will be counted among the world-class cites. The Noida Authority is understood to have planned projects, which will divide the city into different sectors where auto mart, book mart, medical city, fashion mart, and IT city will be developed. A marketing consultant has also been appointed for giving the plans a practical shape. Now a report is being prepared for an idea of budgetary requirements for each of these projects. After this, the chief consultant will be appointed and projects will be given a practical shape. According to the Noida Authority CEO Mohinder Singh, proposals for sports city, medical city, auto mart, fashion mart, and corporate tower have been suitably amended and modified. Thus the first stage is over. The Noida Board, in its 147 meeting, had impressed upon the need to enhance the utility and benefits accruing from of these projects, CEO added. |
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Efforts on to recapture past glory
of Haryana tourism
Faridabad, July 26 On the occasion of inauguration of a Convention Centre in Hotel Raj Hans, Suraj Kund, near here, the minister said an ambitious plan of revamping
Haryana tourism has been devised which would be implemented in two stages. The time frame is 33 years with regard to the project which contains both short and long-term plans. All this was being done under the tourism policy of the state, she added. She said a design gallery had been started on the Suraj Kund Crafts Mela premises and a food court would be opened shortly. The tourism department of the sate is holding camp for youth at Manali to impress upon them the virtues of tourist sites in Haryana. She said the linkage of the Kalka-Shimla railway route to Yajvendera Park at Pinjore had catapulted Haryana tourism at an international plane. According to her, there were plans to give a facelift to the Morni Hills, Sulatanpur, Suraj Kund, Dharuhera, Dum Duma, Duck Chick,etc. The Haryana government was promoting eco-tourism. She said there were guidelines from the Centre to create 10,000 additional rooms in the state in view of the coming Commonwealth Games to be held in the country. The tourism department would ensure that the rooms were ready by 2009. With regard the Convention Centre inaugurated today, she said it will not only be used by people of Faridabad, but also the National Capital Region as Suraj Kund had emerged as an important and scenic centre. The secretary of tourism, government of India, Sheebhadra Banerjee, said the Convention Centre will meet the demand for conferencing from the government and private sector. The Convention Centre is joint venture of the Haryana government and the Centre. It has conference and committee rooms and a spacious parking area. It has been constructed at a cost of over Rs 5crore. |
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Newborn found dumped in Dadri
Greater Noida, July 26 Brahmpuri resident, councillor Sudhir Vats was passing from Aam Ka Road when he heard a baby crying from a vacant plot. He picked up the baby boy and got him admitted to government hospital, Dadri. The newborn’s condition had become quite serious. Doctors in hospital promptly put him on a ventilator. By the evening the newborn baby appeared to be normal. The word had spread about a newborn being found in the town and quite a few people visited the hospital to have a look at him. One Maksoodan, wife of Jarimuddin, came to the hospital and expressed a desire to adopt the newborn. She said she was mother of five daughters but was keen to have a son which would complete her family. The police has not taken any action in the matter so far. Hospital doctors said the baby was born 24 to 36 hours earlier and was fully healthy now. This is the third time that a newborn had been abandoned in Dadri in the past six months. First child was a boy, then two girls were found in the second incident followed by this baby boy yesterday.
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Criminal held
New Delhi, July 26 Sartaz, 29 is a resident of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. A country made pistol of .315 bore along with two live cartridges was recovered from him. Sartaz was arrested on the basis of specific information that he would be coming near the Old Fort in Delhi in the evening to meet his associate. Accordingly, a trap was laid and he was held around 8 p.m. Sartaz was earlier once arrested in 2004 at Surajpur in Noida in an Arms Act case. 1 arrested for murder
With the arrest of Rahis Ahmed alias Langra, 32 of Bhajan Pura last evening, the North East district police claims to have worked out the murder case of Saleem Pahalwan that took place in the area on April 30 this year. Langra was the only absconding criminal in this sensational case and was carrying an award of Rs 50,000 on his head. He was wanted by various police stations in Delhi in 15 cases of dacoity, murder, robbery, snatching, theft and cases under the Arms Act. |
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