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Get set for some showers
Students clash with cops in Gt Noida
DU students, staff seek review of internal assessment
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Oblivious of all the campaigns to save the Yamuna, two workers wash bags on the river bank and in the process release colours into it. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal
Three held for kidnap, murder of doctor’s son
The three persons being presented before the media in New Delhi on Sunday. Tribune photo
Special women’s buses start today
Delhi industries to be made hi-tech
Delhi BJP chief poll may be delayed
Mentally challenged
rape victim gives birth
Gang of highway robbers smashed
in Delhi
Two carpenters found suffocated
to death in Gzb
2 engineers killed in hit and run accident
JNU celebrates Lohri with bhangra, Punjabi food
2 killed in mishaps in Noida
7 vehicle thieves held
Man held for killing lover
Man arrested for eunuch’s murder
2 held for loot
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Get set for some showers
New Delhi, January 10 Meanwhile, though Delhiites had some respite from fog in the morning today, the minimum temperature still stayed at 8 degrees Celsius with no sunshine. The maximum temperature dropped three degree below the normal to settle at 17.8 degrees Celsius. “The weather system, popularly known as the western disturbance, affects the daily weather in North India during winters. It is because of this western disturbance that the temperature in Delhi went much below the normal mark several times this season,” said a Met official. However, he added that such extreme cold conditions were not uncommon for Delhi in January. The disappearance of fog today provided relief to hundreds of air travelers, as there was no cancellation of flights at Palam airport. The airport official said the visibility at the airport was around 2,000 meters in the morning, and hence there were no delays in the flight timings. At railway stations though, the scene was not much different from the previous days. Nineteen trains stood cancelled till the end of this month. Another 41 trains have been delayed and seven others have been rescheduled. The Northern Railways spokesperson said though the visibility in Delhi was high today, other areas were still under dense or mild fog conditions. “This affected the arrivals at the Delhi railway stations. We also had to clear the backlog of the past one week so there were not many platforms available,” he said. |
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Students clash with cops in Gt Noida
Greater Noida, January 10 Superintendent of police S.K.Verma said, “A company at Sector Alpha had hired some management students from a college. The students had joined on January 1. Later, they alleged that the company was fake. It had allegedly demanded their salaries as security. Last evening, the company owners and students held discussion for settlement on the college premises.” “The students said they would not allow the company owners to move out till they cleared their payments. A woman company owner called the police in the meantime saying that she was held captive by the students. The police had to use mild force to disperse the agitating students and take the owners out,” said Verma. Medical superintendent of the Kailash Hospital Sannil Kapoor said, “Over eight students had come with minor injuries.” The students alleged that the police was helping the company and ignoring their complaints. They said instead of talking to the college administration, the policemen took the company owners to hostel and assaulted the students with sticks. “I was standing at the gate when some policemen assaulted me with sticks. I suffered injury on the leg.” said a first year student.
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DU students, staff seek review of internal assessment
New Delhi, January 10 Now almost after five years, DU community feels that the system needs to be reviewed and the discrepancies rectified. “Internal assessment system was a good introduction. Even though it meant extra work for teachers, the implementation was welcomed,” said Abha Dev Habib, member of DU academic council (AC). She added that five years after the implementation, the system needed to be reviewed. “Teachers and students feel that there are some problems with the way it has been formulated,” she said. Another teacher said that it was on the agenda of the university administration so that the internal assessment system could be updated. “It is urgent to review the internal assessment system and the vice-chancellor has formulated a committee to look into the matter,” said Rajeev Kumar Kanwar, a DU faculty member. He said the matter had been lying in “cold storage” as vice-chancellor Deepak Pental had been trying to introduce semester system and other matters had become secondary. Earlier, some teachers had met Pental and requested him to put elected AC members in the committee formed to look into the review of internal assessment system. A faculty member from Chemistry department also pointed out that each department was facing problem in the implementation of the system and, hence, suggestions should be welcomed from all departments. Earlier, some students had complained that the system of moderation of marks as part of internal assessment was unfair and needed to be done away with. “The biggest problem is the moderation. Only to bring all colleges at par, the university has decided to scale us down instead of improving the standards of colleges that were lagging behind,” said Roshni, a student of Miranda House. Sources in DU administration said that they were getting feedback on the moderation issue and were looking into doing away with it by improvising some other way. “With the semester system coming into picture, a lot of things would need replacement. The administration is coming up with some changes,” said a university official. |
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Meera’s fan makes questionable compliment
Renowned filmmaker Meera Nair, who was in the Capital last week for the Pravasi film festival at India Habitat Centre, was a hot favourite at the question- answer session which followed the screening of her film, “The Namesake”. As she was pressed for time, she had requested that the questions should be short and pointed. However, a big Meera fan confessed that he had no question but only a comment to make. He then went on to advise the filmmaker that she should continue to practise power yoga to “maintain her beauty”. “A pretty lady such as you has made the entire nation proud. I am flattered how wonderfully you have maintained yourself, your style and your wisdom,” he said and went on to invite her to his home state. “For that, I would require your email address or phone number, whatever suits you better,” Meera laughed off his request and proceeded to the next questioner. The moderator then remarked, “Well that was a very neat way to ask for Meera’s phone number, which I am sorry to say, didn’t work!” This wordy play was received with a big guffaw by the audience. Mail that is not
Toofan-like!
It is ironical that the Northern Railway train popularly known as “Toofan Mail” was the worst hit when fog in the Capital last week threw the rail traffic out of gear. Although one would have expected that the speed of Toofan Mail, as its name suggests, would be faster than the wind, the train coming from Howrah reached New Delhi Railway Station 15 hours behind schedule. Passengers waiting for their trains at the station laughed at this irony as exhausted passengers emerged from the train after their long ordeal. CP facelift: The question
of bread & butter
The renovation work of inner circle and construction of eight subways in the outer circle of Connaught Place have been undertaken by the New Delhi Muncipal Committee (NDMC) as part of the beautification drive ahead of the Commonwealth Games. But the civic body finds itself at the receiving end as traders and shopkeepers in this premier shopping area have been complaining that this venture has driven away their customers who are put off by the unending traffic snarls. Their point is that when the work in the inner circle was already under progress, the construction in the outer circle could have been put on hold till the ongoing construction was over. When ignorance is bliss…
A constable attached to a central district police station was surprised by the ignorance of a lady head constable when she asked another colleague to get an MLC (medical leave certificate) of an Armyman from RTR Hospital. When he corrected her that it was R&R and not RTR Hospital, the lady politely told him, “Harpalji aap na confuse ho rahe ho.” Now, our Harpal is not the one to take such comments lightly. “I may be a constable but I know everything. Armymen are taken to Research and Referral (R&R) Hospital and not RTR (Rao Tula Ram Hospital). It would be better if you correct yourself,” shot back Harpal in fluent English. When complimented on his English-speaking skills by his colleagues, the lady shot back at him, “Yeh English main bas lad sakte hain, bolni nahi aati.” (He can only fight in English, but cannot speak it). Autorickshaw drivers
ride a gravy train
Commuters had a hard time last week getting to office and home when the dense fog resulted in major traffic jams. Harried passengers had to wait endlessly for a bus while the metro was packed to capacity. Delhi’s autorickshaw drivers got an opportunity to fleece the already-harassed commuter. After much persuasion, an autorickshaw driver agreed to drive a colleague to his residence at Jamia Nagar from ITO crossing for Rs 125 though the actual rate is Rs 80 only. On the way, however, the driver changed his mind on the plea that it was dangerous to drive on the Jamia-Kalindi Kunj road at night in the blinding fog. The poor passenger was thrown out unceremoniously at Pragati Maidan. With great difficulty, he managed to hire another autorickshaw, but in this case also the driver dropped him off a little distance away near Delhi Zoo for the same reason. Our colleague did reach home eventually but only after he had spent several hours on the road waiting for a willing driver. (Contributed by Jyoti Rai, Akhila Singh, Himani Chandel, Sandeep Yadav and Syed Ali Ahmed) |
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Three held for kidnap, murder of doctor’s son
New Delhi, January 10 The suspects have been identified as Manish Verma of Sonepat, Viplav Biswas, the victim’s cousin and Deepak of west Delhi. Their two accomplices are still absconding. They allegedly took the victim to Karnal in a car and killed him after withdrawing money from his ATM. The suspects dumped his body in the car and left it on roadside, the police said. The suspects allegedly kidnapped Raju Roy on January 4 from Rohini, demanded a ransom of Rs 20 lakh and later killed the victim. The case was registered the next day. The police received information about movement of Biswas and Deepak in Vasant Kunj. Verma was arrested at their instance from Gannor in Haryana. The police said the suspects wanted to get rich overnight. The plot for kidnapping was hatched by Biswas. He knew that Roy’s father was rich and could pay the ransom amount. On January 4, Biswas, son of a doctor, called Raju to his father’s clinic for a party, where other accomplices were waiting. Considering Biswas as his relative, Roy came at the given place wherefrom he was overpowered and kidnapped in his own Santro car. They took him to Gannor, where they met their other co-accused, Manish Varma, who provided them with all logistical support during the execution of the crime. They went to the agricultural fields of village Beoli in district Panipat, and from there Hardeep, one of the absconding accomplices, made a ransom call of Rs 20 lakh to the father of deceased. At night they also withdrew money from the ATM from the account of the deceased. Father of the victim got a case of kidnapping registered on January 5. Sensing police action, Viplav made a call to Hardeep telling him to eliminate Raju. Thereafter Deepak and Hardeep dipped the head of Raju in a pit full of water and then stabbed him to death. They put his body in the boot of the car and disappeared in a village nearby. Efforts are on to arrest other suspects, the police said. |
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Special women’s buses start today
New Delhi, January 10 The DTC is starting the service. Taking cognisance of a PIL that drew attention to large number of women complaining of molestation in public buses, the court had asked the DTC to make special arrangements for them. The Delhi government had informed a division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Rajiv Sahai last week that the DTC was ready to start special buses for women on six routes. “We have zeroed in on six routes. Initially, the buses would run only during office hours on six routes,” the government counsel stated. The court had then asked the government counsel to give an affidavit explaining their plan by Wednesday. “Molestations have become a norm in DTC buses. Women are scared of travelling on these buses, especially at night,” said lawyer Ravi Chandra Prakash, who filed the petition in the court. The court, however, did not agree to the suggestion by the petitioner’s counsel that Delhi should follow the Bangalore model wherein space is segregated for women in buses.The court said, “This is not feasible as, for this, the design of the buses would have to be changed.” The routes where these buses will ply are: No.212 from Nandnagari to Anand Parbat; No.937 from Sultanpuri to Old Delhi Railway Station; No.205 from New Seemapuri to Fatehpuri; No.307 from Trilokpuri to Kamla Market; No.211 from Mayur Vihar Phase III to Mori Gate; No.721 from Manglapuri to Kashmere Gate. “During the last strike by auto-rickshaw drivers, I frequently travelled on public as well as private buses. I was shocked to see the state of affairs. It seems every girl who takes these buses is molested. Something must be done to stop this horror,” Prakash stated in his petition. Earlier, the DTC had started women’s special buses, but these were discontinued on the grounds that not many women passengers boarded them.
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Delhi industries to be made hi-tech
New Delhi, January 10 He said that as the new policy envisaged promotion of clean, hi-tech, non-polluting and knowledge-based industries, it provided that units engaged in low-skilled activities would continue to operate. “However, the policy does not provide for closure of existing industries but the government will act as a facilitator for upgrading of technology,” Sanghi said commenting on the Capital’s first industrial policy in two decades. The government would persuade units engaged in businesses under the prohibited category to reorient their activities in conformity with the provisions of the MPD -2021. Sanghi said the government would also help transform existing units to knowledge-based industries through skill development, upgradation of technology, tailor-made training programmes for entrepreneurs or start high-tech knowledge-based industries. He added that the government had planned to develop a special economic zone and IT parks on the line of Gurgaon to attract more industries. For this, the government will get financial aid from nationalised banks, Delhi Financial Corporation and union government. The DSIIDC is setting up a centre for excellence to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in hi-tech and knowledge-based industries apart from industry-institute interaction. These will help in creating industrial development in Delhi, Sanghi said. He added that there was no chance of relocating the industries in non-confirming areas. Efforts would be made to pressurise the allottees of plots in industrial areas to construct buildings. He said earlier industrialists used to go to various departments to obtain no-clearance certificate to start construction and production. The government had now constituted a Business Facilitation Council to solve their problem, Sanghi said. |
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Delhi BJP chief poll may be delayed
New Delhi, January 10 Around 15 senior BJP leaders of the Delhi state are trying to get the coveted post. Among them are former leader of opposition Jagdish Mukhi, former mayor of Delhi, Arti Mehra, former Standing Committee chairman Vijender Gupta, former union state minister Vijay Goel, Dharma Dev Solanki MLA, Karan Singh Tanwar, MLA, Dr Kunwar Sain, mayor, Nand Kishor Garg, Shyam Lal Garg and Vijay Jolly. Sources said that these leaders were campaigning for themselves. Nobody has forwarded their names to the party high command. Mukhi, Shyam Lal Garg, Arti and Vijender are considered serious candidates. However, Jagdish Mukhi is seniormost. He was also finance minister during the chief ministership of Madan Lal Khurana, Sahib Singh Verma and Sushma Swaraj in Delhi. He has also raised various issues in Delhi assembly such as financial scam in the privatization of power distribution.
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Mentally challenged
rape victim gives birth
Noida, January 10 Being mentally challenged, the woman could not feed the child and so the baby has been kept at a nursery ward where nurses were looking after her. The staff of the hospital feared that being mentally challenged, the woman would not have a normal delivery. However, the delivery was normal. Two months ago, the police had found the mentally challenged pregnant woman lying along the road and had admitted her to the district hospital. She was five months pregnant then. The woman could not tell anything about the father of the child. “Three childless couples have come forward today and expressed desire to adopt the child. I have sent them to the city magistrate’s office for approval,” said Rajrani Kansal, chief medical superintendent, district hospital.
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Gang of highway robbers smashed
in Delhi
New Delhi, January 10 Roshan was leader of the gang. They were wanted in many cases reported in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. The Ghaziabad police had announced a reward of Rs 5,000 each for the person who would give information leading to their arrest. They were arrested yesterday from Paschim Vihar after a tip-off given by an informer. They operated in luxury cars at night. Around midnight, all the gang members armed with knives and countrymade pistols would look for a truck parked at an isolated place and overpower the occupants by threatening them with knives and pistols. After covering some distance from the place of incident, they would set the driver and cleaner free, police said. |
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Two carpenters found suffocated
to death in Gzb
Ghaziabad, January 10 The deaths were discovered when the site manager, Deepak Kumar Raghav, not finding them on duty, went to their room in the building on Saturday morning. When they did not open the door even after several knocks, he forced open the door and found the carpenters lying in their bed covered with blankets. Thinking that they were sleeping, he pulled off the blankets and found them dead, the police said. Raghav then informed the owner as well as the police. Rajnagar police station officer Ashok Sisodia said the carpenters— Lakshmi, 25, and Ram Pravesh, 30— seemed to have died of suffocation as they had set up a bonfire inside the closed room and gone to sleep without extinguishing it. The construction site at Rajnagar has been sealed for forensic tests and the bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination.
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2 engineers killed in hit and run accident
New Delhi, January 10 The victims identified as Raj Kumar, 25, and Vineet, 28. Raj Kumar was going to drop his friend Vineet at his residence in Sahibabad of Uttar Pradesh when their motorcycles were hit by an unidentified vehicle in Sunlight Colony around 12:30 am. The police said that the they were taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced them dead. Both worked as engineers in a private company and had come to the city to attend an exhibition. “The accident could have been because of dense fog,” a police officer said, adding that nothing concrete can be said until the hit and run vehicle is identified. “We have registered a case,” the officer said.
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JNU celebrates Lohri with bhangra, Punjabi food
New Delhi, January 10 Providing a glimpse of the vibrant Punjabi culture and
flavour, the students organised bhangra performances and Punjabi food stalls. The celebrations are unique as it is the first time that the university is celebrating a Punjabi festival at such a large scale. “All other festivals are celebrated in the university every year. So, we thought of celebrating Lohri also. This will give the students a closer look of our culture,” said Gagandeep Singh, office-bearer of the Punjabi Students’ Association. The central university has admitted the maximum number of Punjabi students this academic year. |
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2 killed in mishaps in Noida
Noida, January 10 The first accident was reported from Sector 8. A motorcyclist was hit by an unknown vehicle. The victim, Mohit Kumar, died in hospital. Another accident took place in the Chhijarshi area under Sector 58 police station. Two persons— Navin Sharma and Mukesh Kumar— were injured in the mishap. They were admitted to a local hospital. Sharma died today, while the condition of Kumar was stable till late evening today.
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7 vehicle thieves held
Ghaziabad, January 10 Circle officer K. D. Singh, said, “The Modi Nagar police arrested the criminals from a kiln in Kadrabad. The accused have been identified as Pawan, Vikas, Badal, Satish, Ravi, Manoj and
Ravi.” “Ten bikes and two cars were recovered from them. They were members of an inter-state gang of vehicle thieves.They confessed to have committed over two dozen vehicle thefts in the area,” said Singh.
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Man held for killing lover
New Delhi, January 10 “After his arrest,
Mohsin, a resident of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, told the police that the deceased
Khushboo, who was his wife’s friend, had begun blackmailing him about revealing their affair,” said a senior police officer. “On December 31, Mohsin went to the girl’s house in Madhu Vihar where he slit her throat with a knife. When she struggled he severed her head from the body. He cleaned himself, changed into a fresh set of clothes, picked up one of her phones and a gold chain and fled to his native town,” the officer
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Man arrested for eunuch’s murder
Noida, January 10 “The Noida Phase-II police arrested dreaded criminal Kale carrying a reward of Rs 15,000 for his arrest. He was wanted in the murder of a eunuch, Rekha. He along with two others had allegedly killed Rekha about 10 months ago in Bhangel. Last night, he had had come to kill another eunuch, Pammi, who was following the Rekha murder case in court and was witness in the case,” said A.K. Tripathi, superintendent of police.
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2 held for loot
Noida, January 10 “Last night, the Sector-58 police arrested two criminals — Jai Prakash Yadav and Sanjay Yadav. On December 20 they had allegedly robbed a rifle from a guard in the Sector-70 area. The robbed rifle has been seized from them,” said
Tripathi.
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The city is likely to receive light showers for the next two days, the weatherman has indicated.
DELHI DIARY
With the arrest of three suspects, the police today claimed to have solved a kidnapping-cum-murder case.
The suspects have been identified as Manish Verma of Sonepat, Viplav Biswas, the victim’s cousin and Deepak of west Delhi. Their two accomplices are still absconding. They allegedly took the victim to Karnal in a car and killed him after withdrawing money from his ATM.
