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Cops clueless about Soumya’s murder
AIIMS campus is no-smoking zone
Gandhi Jayanti Utsav to provide glimpse into Mahatma’s life
City gets 11th police distt
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2 armymen, engineer held for Noida bank heist
Aarushi Murder
Tableau depicts Sheila govt’s ‘misdeeds’
Doctor found dead in hostel
International Day of Elder Persons
Nai Dunia launches Delhi edition
Jamia to build more hostels
GDA to launch scheme for 5,000 EWS houses today
Sulabh among top 50 business models targeting poor
Liberated women scavengers from Alwar with Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International, on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti in New Delhi on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal
Govt assures water supply in colonies
Robbers loot cash, revolver, vehicles
1 held with Rs 45,000
fake notes
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Cops clueless about Soumya’s murder
New Delhi, October 1 “We do not know whether a co-passenger killed the girl or somebody outside the car shot her while she was driving. We are waiting for the forensic report and only then we may start the hunt for the killer,” said a police official. Meanwhile, the Maruti Zen car was examined by the forensic experts for any clues. According to information, the forensic team has picked up samples of hair, which does not match the deceased. “The hair may not necessarily be that of the criminal. It could be of a friend who was in the car, two days ago. But all these clues will provide us the lead to start investigation in the particular direction,” said the police official. Vishwanathan, resident of Sector C in Vasant Kunj, was returning home from work in the wee hours of morning when she was shot on Nelson Mandela Marg yesterday. According to police, her car had rammed into the road divider and she was found seated in the driver’s seat with blood oozing from her head. Initially the police thought she had been killed in the accident but a bullet was recovered from her head during the postmortem.
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AIIMS campus is no-smoking zone
New Delhi, October 1 “We have declared our premises strictly smoking-free from today itself,” Dr Bir Singh, professor of community medicine, said. He added that the institute guards had been given the additional responsibility to ensure that no one smokes on the campus. The move comes in the backdrop of the union government’s decision to ban smoking in public places from tomorrow to coincide with Mahatama Gandhi’s birth anniversary. The ban on smoking in public places like offices, restaurants, hotels, court buildings, libraries and railway stations nationwide will come into effect from midnight tonight. A mini-exhibition on smoking and its ill-effects has been organised for the benefit of the general public at the institute’s central lawn and the Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur OPD for a week. Cancer of lungs, lips, tongue, oral cavity, throat and larynx, uterus and urinary bladder are some of the common tobacco-related diseases. The country spends nearly Rs 240 crore every year on tobacco-related advertisements. Every year in India nearly one million people die due to tobacco consumption, said Dr Singh, who is also the secretary-general for the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine.
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Gandhi Jayanti Utsav to provide glimpse into Mahatma’s life
New Delhi, October 1 “Gandhi Jayanti Utsav is an excellent rendition of Mahatma Gandh’s philosophy in a beautifully designed event supported by a wide range of attractions,” a spokesman of Delhi Tourism said. Gandhi Jayanti Utsav will have an exhibition on Gandhi’s life and philosophy. It will be illustrated in an informative way. A glimpse of the Gandhian philosophy will be experienced through a charkha competition from October 1 to 5. There are also numerous attractions at the Gandhi Jayanti Utsav that convey a lot more about the Gandhian style which is a symbol of self-reliance. There is a hasya kavi sammelan, drama, qawwali, folk dance and songs from films on Gandhi. There are stalls for khadi products and naturopathy etc, according to the spokesman. Gandhi Jayanti Utsav is being organised in association with the Delhi government, Incredible India, Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Government of India, DC Handlooms, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, Gandhi Peace Foundation, National Gandhi Museum, Directorate of Film and Field Publicity, Government of India, Song and Drama Division, Government of India, Sahitya Kala Parishad and Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi Academies. The spokesman said the Pitampura, Dilli Haat, was getting quite popular among the people and this was indicated by the growing number of visitors every day. The 7.2 acres Haat situated in the north-western corner of Delhi is well connected with the Metro and Ring Road. The place is a destination of its kind and is a rare harmony with the environment. There are elegant arts and crafts delights to tickle your taste buds, events and shows all in an ethnically decorated and landscaped breathtaking backdrop. Pitampura Dilli Haat, has recently won the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award 2008, one of the only four “best of show” grand awards in the category of Heritage Awards. This award recognises exceptional achievement in a variety of endeavours, bringing acclaim to the best that Asia Pacific’s travel Industry has to offer.
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City gets 11th police distt
New Delhi, October 1 With the establishment of a new police district called South East district, the total number of police districts in the Capital has gone up to 11. The carving out of the district has led to the setting up of 15 police stations. The South East district will comprise 15 police stations, including 11 from South district while one police station each has been set up in Saket, Neb Sarai, Jaidpur and Govindpur. Deputy police commissioner Ajay Chaudhury, currently the in charge of East district, will head the South East district. The South East district will include five sub-divisions — New Friends Colony, Kalkaji, Lajpat Nagar, Okhla Industrial Area and Sarita Vihar. On the other hand, the existing police stations of Vasant Vihar, Vasant Kunj, R.K. Puram, Sarojini Nagar, which are under the South West district, will now be part of the South district. New police stations and district has been created in spite of the fact that the Delhi police is short of man power. According to Delhi police PRO Rajan Bhagat, the new district will not only ease the pressure on South district police but will also go a long way in effective policing.
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2 armymen, engineer held for Noida bank heist
Noida, October 1 Senior superintendent of police R.K. Chaturvedi today said that two jawans on extended leave — Vivekanand Verma and Vijay Chauhan with Raj Narain alias Raju looted the Sector-12 branch of State Bank of India. Rs 9.27 lakh of the looted amount, two pistols and live cartridges snatched by the robbers from the bank gunman have been recovered. He said that the robbers had spent Rs 45,000 from the loot. Chaturvedi said that Raju of Kanpur was the mastermind of the robbery. He brainwashed the other two men by telling them that even martyr Bhagat Singh had looted banks initially to finance the freedom struggle. Armymen Vivekanand Verma son of Dholu of Raipur in Chhattisgarh and Vijay Chauhan son of Sant Ram Chauhan of Kanpur had been on an extended leave. Vivekanand is posted at no. 121 light infantry 665 AIROP Nasik while Vijay is posted at no. 121 light infantry, Amritsar. Both had been together in Tripura and were good friends. They often visited Noida where they came in contact with Raju. The SSP said that Raju had convinced them that he would use the money for some social purpose and kept the major share with him. He gave a paltry amount to his other two accomplices. Some members of their families have been arrested and the owner of house who had rented a portion to Raju is also being questioned. The three had conducted a recce of the bank and had selected it because it was a new branch with no CCTV cameras, no alarm system and the security guard also appeared weak. |
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Aarushi Murder
Noida, October 1 The CBI team did not allow anybody, including the Noida police, to get a wind of its visit. The investigating agency reportedly interrogated Dr Rajesh Talwar and his wife Dr Nupur Talwar for four hours. They were interrogated separately. Later, the team questioned Dr Praful Durrani and his wife Dr Anita followed by quizzing some Nepali domestic helps including the relatives of Hem Raj, Krishna and Raj Kumar. The Durranis too were quizzed separately. Krishna was a compounder with Dr Talwar. While Raj Kumar worked as a help in the house of the Durranis. According to sources, the team that visited Noida on Tuesday was entirely different from the CBI team that had conducted the investigations earlier. This team did not even contact the Noida police. According to sources, this time it is completely a new CBI team that is investigating the case. The Noida police officials were not seen at all in the guesthouse. It may be recalled that initially the Noida police had investigated the double murder which was later assigned to the CBI by the UP state government. But in spite of the forensic and other tests, the CBI could not crack the mystery. |
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Tableau depicts Sheila govt’s ‘misdeeds’
New Delhi, October 1 This was an idea of former union minister Vijay Goel to highlight the Sheila government’s failed promises by depicting a large 12-foot “Sheila’s comic statue with lollipops” in hand distributing them to the voters of Delhi as sweet false promises unfulfilled in nine years. The flag-off was done by Prof Vijay Kumar Malhotra, BJP’s chief ministerial candidate, and Delhi unit chief of the party Dr Harsh Vardhan. Starting from Burari Chowk on October 4 at 2 pm, the tableau will go all around Delhi to raise awareness amongst the people of the various promises made by Sheila Dikshit. The tableau has been named “Sheila’s Lollipops of Fraudulent Promises”. The tableau rally will culminate at the Chattrasal Stadium, Model Town, on October 4 where the Chief Minister is to distribute the provisional certificate. Inviting Sonia Gandhi to distribute the provisional certificates is a clear ploy by Sheila Dikshit to hide her nine-year mistakes, by trying to bring in the union government and the central leadership to give her actions a sense of propriety. Sheila is simply trying to pull a fraud by offering provisional certificates which have no legal sanctity, but are only a pre-election lollipop, added Goel. |
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Doctor found dead in hostel
New Delhi, October 1 No suicide note was recovered from him and the matter is being probed from all possible angles, a police official said.
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International Day of Elder Persons
New Delhi, October 1 Today she has come all the way here to show that old people like her are able enough to work, earn and fend for themselves and even donate for a good cause. But, the government should also look into their problems and work for improving their lot rather than ignoring them. “At least a National Commission for the Aged should be established,” she felt. “Elders are as important part of society as any other group. We need a supportive mechanism and an instrument in the form of National Act of Older Persons and a National Commission of Older Persons to oversee proper implementation of policies and programmes for the older people,” said Muniyappam, 73. Shyam Sundar, 68, another tsunami victim, who lost his wife and a daughter in tsunami, regretted that children treat their elders as a burden. And to avoid that, he prefers to work as a fisherman and earns his livelihood. “I live a life of love, care and respect alone and I am very happy,” said Gopi (80), one amongst the elders present at the function. Hundreds of elder people from remote areas of Tamil Nadu and Kerala converged at the FICCI auditorium here today on the UN International Day of Elder Persons, under the aegis of Help Age India. They submitted a memorandum to some prominent parliamentarians on rights of elders and establishment of National Commission for the Aged. Union science & technology and earth sciences minister Kapil Sibal supported their cause at this meeting. He said, “Around 7.6 crore people are elderly in our country. We need to support them and not abandon them at this age.” He mentioned various measures that can help older persons getting their due. “After my tenure, I would love to serve as a lawyer for the elders in need, free of cost,” Sibal announced. Others who heard the senior citizens included minister of information technology A.Raja, chairman, National Commission for Minority Education, Justice MSA Siddiqui, and MOS, forest and environment, Raghupathy.
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Nai Dunia launches Delhi edition
New Delhi, October 1 In a packed ballroom of the Hotel Shangri La here, media group Nai Dunia also launched a weekly newspaper and a magazine from nine state capitals — Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Bhopal, Ranchi, Mumbai and Raipur. Union home minister Shivraj Patil, minister of state for communication and IT Jyotiraditya Scindia, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit were present. The inaugural function was attended by noted film-maker Gulzar, well-known lyricist Javed Akhtar, classical singer Shubha Mudgal and Magsaysay award winners Sandeep Pandey and Aruna Roy. Nai Dunia has seven editions in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. — IANS |
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Jamia to build more hostels
New Delhi, October 1 The vice-chancellor, Prof Mushirul Hasan, has announced the immediate construction of new hostel buildings for both boys and girls. A university official informs, “Keeping in mind the difficulties faced by Jamia students in finding suitable accommodation, and especially in view of the fact that a number of Jamia students have been evicted by their landlords from the Jamia neighbourhood, we are making special provision for enhanced hostel accommodation.” The problem is more acute for boys and a new hostel for boys will be built to accommodate 500 students and the hostel for girls will accommodate 200 students. Both new buildings will come up in the existing hostel complexes. The university has announced that the hostel for boys will cost Rs 10 crore and that for girls Rs 5 crore. Taking into consideration the extremity of the situation and student distress these buildings shall be completed at the earliest. RITES Ltd, a construction company, has been approached to undertake this building project. In fact, construction work shall commence on the understanding that both buildings will be ready for occupancy in eight months.
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GDA to launch scheme for 5,000 EWS houses today
Ghaziabad, October 1 Besides, a scheme for 5,000 houses for the economically weaker section will also be launched on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. But the houses that GDA is bringing will be cheaper than those being built by builders, according to the sources. According to GDA vice-chairman
S.K. Diwedi, some 10,000 plots will be allotted. He confirmed that builders were also coming up with their scheme for a township at
Sadarpur. The GDA is finalising its Madhuban Bapu Dham scheme on Hapur Road, which will be launched on
Diwali, he said. Over 1,230 acres of land in Sadarpur, Morta, Duhai,
Rasoolpur, Nanglapath and Yakubpur villages has been acquired by the GDA. Some more land would be acquired soon, he said. Farmers would be paid a compensation of Rs 1,100 per sq yd for the land being acquired. The GDA has not yet clarified the expected price of plots, but according to sources it will not be less than Rs 10,000 per sq
mt. Schools, a degree college, police station, parks, markets, parking lots, roads, sewers, hospital, clubs etc. will all be provided in the new GDA township. This will be the first scheme being launched by the GDA after 1997, it is learnt. |
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Sulabh among top 50 business models targeting poor
New Delhi, October 1 The study conducted by the UNDP – ‘Sulabh International: A Movement to Liberate Scavengers by implementing low-cost, safe sanitation system (India)’, reviews the positive outcomes for the poor, key constraints and key strategies used. To relieve them from the sub-human practice of manual cleaning of human excreta, two technologies were developed by Sulabh. Of this one was for individual households while, the other was applicable to toilets at public places. After relieving them from the demeaning practice, we have imparted them education and vocational training, to enable them to become self-employed, Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International said.
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Govt assures water supply in colonies
New Delhi, October 1 She was speaking at a function after laying stone of 146 lakh litre capacity underground reservoirs (UGRs) and booster pumping station (BPS) at Chhattarpur. Area MP Sajjan Kumar, MLA Balram Tanwar and senior DJB officers were present. Dikshit assured that the government would ensure equitable drinking water distribution and adequate availability of water before 2010 in the city. The Chief Minister said that the DJB would construct 53 UGRs before the commencement of Commonwealth Games in 2010. This would lead to a substantial improvement in the position of water supply in coming years. She also exhorted people to avoid wastage of water. Describing this as an important project, she said that once completed Chattarpur and Mangolpuri assembly segments would not face scarcity of drinking water. The UGRs at an estimated cost of Rs 7,221 lakh would become functional by December 2009. The installation of these would cater to the water demand of four lakh people living in 18 villages and adjoining colonies in Chattarpur. The UGRs will get their share of supply from Sonia Vihar Water Treatment Plant. A distance of about 40-km will be covered to bring water from Sonia Vihar to Chattarpur. Residents of Maidan Garhi, Rajpur Khurd, Satbari, Sahurpur, Chandan Hola, Fatehpur Beri, Asola, Dera, Bhatti, Andheria mor, Sultanpur, Gadaipur, Jonapur, Mandi, Manglapuri, Gitorni, Aya Nagar and their adjoining areas would benefit with the UGRs and BPSs. |
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Robbers loot cash, revolver, vehicles
Grt Noida, October 1 The incident took place on Sunday in the Ber area under Kakode police station. A case has been registered under various sections of theft. The police, who immediately started search operations, recovered the Indica car with a punctured tyre on Khurja road. All three tractors were also found abandoned near an octroi post on Aligarh |
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1 held with Rs 45,000
fake notes
New Delhi, October 1 Naushad, 29, is a native of Madhubani district in Bihar. Naushad was arrested when he arrived near Madan Lal Halwai shop on Sadar Thana Road with counterfeit notes. Naushad disclosed that he had been in the trade for the last two years. He had been running a teashop with his uncle near Sher ka pinjra, Kasab Pura, Sadar Bazaar for 18 years. |
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