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Water dispute leads to a murder
Something is amiss in forensic lab
2nd cut-off: Students rush to colleges
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Hope for diabetics
Warrants against real estate firm directors for cheating
Body of missing man recovered from canal
Man killed by creditor’s sons
MCD brings machine to repair potholes
Societies to face action for draw of lots
Exchange bulbs with energy-saving CFLs!
3 held for US immigration racket
Teacher held for car theft
Mystery shrouds woman’s death
Cop crushed by truck
Joint panel to check waterlogging at Games sites
DTC starts buses from Qutab Metro station
to Badarpur today
Meerut trader shot in Ghaziabad
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Water dispute leads to a murder
New Delhi, June 28 According to the police, the incident was reported from the Govindpura Prem Vihar area of Karawal Nagar around 10.30 pm. No arrest has been made in the case so far. "The victim Bhagat Singh was shot in the chest while two others -- Ompal and Pankaj --received bullet injuries in leg and stomach. The condition of Ompal is critical while Pankaj is out of danger. The murder is the fallout of an ongoing fight between the two groups of people in the area," said a senior police official from the district. The victims were rushed to GTB Hospital where Bhagat Singh was declared brought dead. Ompal and Pankaj were later transferred to St. Stephen's Hospital after preliminary treatment. According to the police, the water crisis in the area led to a dispute between two groups of people and a meeting was called last night in this regard. The incident took place after the meeting when the victims were on their way home. 'The water supply in the area is due to DJB's water tanker and everyday a tank would come to the area from which the locals took the water. Three days ago, the DJB had stopped sending the tankers there after it received complaint about fights," said a police official, adding that two persons -- Vijender and Billu (Vijender) -- are at the centre of the dispute. Each party accused the other of stopping the tanker in the area and a meeting of the elders was called last night to sort out the matter. While the matter was not resolved in the meeting, it took an ugly turn after one of the parties abused the person from other side. "Vijender's relatives, Ompal, Satpal, Baleshwar and Bharat, interfered from his side while Pankaj and some unidentified assailants took part in the dispute from the side of Billu. Someone shot a bullet in the head of Ompal when Bhagat tried to resist he was also shot two bullets and he died on the spot," said the officer. A cross-case has been registered with both parties accusing the other, at Karawal Nagar police station. "We have identified some people and they are presently absconding," said the police. |
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Something is amiss in forensic lab
New Delhi, June 28 The Rohini-based FSL is disposing much fewer cases than it receives, leading to bulging load of pending cases over the years while police and FSL officials have blamed "general incompetence" and many vacancies in the institute for its sorry state. Home secretary GS Patanik told The Tribune that the institute was "underperforming". "They have got 35 new scientific officers in the last one year and things have still not improved as expected. They could have done much better," he said. In a meeting held with FSL's top officials on May 26, Patnaik is learnt to have made his displeasure with their below-par performance clear and fixed them a monthly target to achieve. The FSL, records accessed by The Tribune showed, received 5,740 cases in 2009 but could dispose only 3,873 cases. And the number of pending cases at the end of the year stood at a staggering 6,424. In a clear indication that things have been going downhill for a long time in the all-important forensic lab for the Delhi police, it could dispose of 4,236 cases in 2008 against 5,296 cases it had received. The number of pending cases at the end of 2007, 2008 and 2009 stood at 3,497, 4,557 and 6,424, an evidence of how the FSL has been going from bad to worse. A few sources in FSL said the large number of vacancies and the FSL's top brass reluctance in filling them up so that some select few could be promoted after they attain the required eligibility is a significant reason for its unproductiveness. Against 96 sanctioned posts for gazetted officials in FSL, only 46 are filled while 50 were vacant. In the non-gazetted category, as many as 145 posts are vacant against the sanctioned 216 posts for scientific and technical staff. Officials said the government has not followed the recruitment policy, which says that officials could be recruited directly if posts meant to be filled by promoted or on-deputation officials do not get required talents. "The institute wants some juniors to become eligible for promotion to these posts in time and direct recruitment would scuttle their prospects," an official critical of FSL's functioning said. A case in point is the institute's director VK Goyal, who remained at the FSL's helm for many years due to absence of a full-time director and was confirmed after he attained the required seniority. Police officials said the high rate of pendency of cases at FSL is a reason for delayed investigation and court trials. In an attempt to improve the FSL's abysmal record, the home department has set it a monthly target starting from this month. Its chemistry, biology, DNA and document divisions have been asked to dispose of 400, 200, 15 and 60 cases per month while physics, ballistics and computer forensic divisions have been set a target of 30, 80 and 10 cases each month. |
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2nd cut-off: Students rush to colleges
New Delhi, June 28 Ramjas College, one of the most popular colleges this season, saw a huge rush of students. Rajendra Prasad, principal of the college, said, “There has been a constant stream of students coming to us since morning. We have received a lot of applications this time and have been dealing with the rush. Admission to some of the courses like B Com (H), economics (H), history (H) and BA pass course has already been closed. However, admission for English (H) and many other courses are still open and a lot of students are showing interest in these courses.” Another college which is seeing substantial student rush is Kirori Mal College. The college had kept the second cut-off for B Com (H) very high. It is just 1.5 per cent less than the first cut-off. Only three students have taken admission on the basis of the second cut-off list and over 80 seats are still available in the course. The college has seats available in almost all the courses, except the BA pass course. Viniti Bhargav, a student at Kirori Mal College, said, “I have just got admission in the B Com (H) course of the college. I am thrilled. But we were expecting the second cut-off to be even lower.” Another popular college on North Campus, Miranda House, is also receiving huge number of students. However, the college has closed admission for most of its courses. The principal, Pratibha Jolly, said, “Students are coming in large numbers this time and many of them have very good marks. Some of our courses like physics (H) and political science (H) are overbooked. In political science, we have already admitted 71 students against 54 seats.” However, students need not get disappointed, as Miranda House still has seats in popular courses like English (H) and economics (H). At Gargi College also, there has been considerable rush of students, with some courses like English (H) and physics (H) being overbooked. Students, meanwhile, are also complaining of lack of guidance. Many students are confused and feel that there should be some one to guide them. Kartika Desai, a student, said, “I want to take admission in Miranda House. But I think we should have some teachers around to guide us. I am a bit confused with this entire process and there is such little guidance available.” This year, the teachers have decided to stay away from the admission process to protest against the implementation of semester system at the undergraduate level. |
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Hope for diabetics
New Delhi, June 28 If the trial of the new drug “Teplizumab” in controlling diabetes turns out to be positive, it would be good news for those suffering from Type I diabetes, also called as juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The new drug would prevent damage to the pancreas and eliminate the need for insulin injections for ever, doctors said. According to the team involved in the research, this medication if given within first 12 weeks of the onset of diabetes can change the immune system of the patient in such a way that the requirement of insulin may either become zero or may come down significantly. “This is a multicentric randomised global clinical trial which aims to establish Teplizumab as a frontline treatment modality. Teplizumab is an antibody that modulates immune system favouring survival of beta cells in pancreas,” said endocrinologist Dr Dinesh Kumar Dhanwal, who is heading the team which is conducting the trial. It is important to manage diabetes immediately after it is diagnosed or else the patients go on to develop long-term complications, including cardiovascular ailments, chronic kidney failure, retinal damage, poor healing of wounds, erectile dysfunction and gangrene on the feet which may lead to amputation. With the country being home to the highest number of diabetics—50.8 million, by 2030 over 8.4 per cent of the Indian adult population would suffer from diabetes, according to the studies of the World Health
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Warrants against real estate firm directors for cheating
New Delhi, June 28 Issuing the warrants against C. Daryao Singh, Sunil Dahiya and Sanjay Dahiya, additional chief metropolitan magistrate Ajay Pandey said, “There is sufficient material to call accused persons to face the trial for the offences of conspiracy, cheating, forgery and use of forged documents.” The said project was being executed without taking requisite sanctions from various authorities, it added. The complaint has been lodgeg by the director of M/s IMS Mercantile Private Ltd, Amit Saraff. According to him, his firm had paid Rs 13.5 lakh to the accused company for a property (with 1,000 sq feet built-up area) which lacked the requisite sanctions. While issuing the warrants, the court relied upon the newspapers advertisement which the accused company published to allure people to invest money in its project plan at Manesar in Haryana. The accused also used the names of two PSU banks, Punjab National Bank and Bank of India, to lend credibility to the project. Four other FIRs have also been lodged against the accused firm by the investors. |
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Body of missing man recovered from canal
Greater Noida, June 28 “The victim, identified as Toti Singh (34), was a resident of Nangla Patan village. Two days ago, one of Singh’s friends, Babu Lal, had complained that he took his bike on June 20 and had been missing since then,” said Ram Swarup Singh, SHO Rabupura. “Two village residents, Babu and Dhanni Singh, were detained today for interrogation. They revealed that on June 20, Singh had gone with them on a bike to Sikandrabad to visit his in-laws,” said Singh. “On the way, they halted at Babu’s relative’s house at Nagnla Srigopal village, where they drank liquor, after which they proceeded for Sikandrabad. As they were drunk, they lost control of the bike and fell in the canal,” said Singh. “Babu and Dhanni managed to come out of the canal as they knew swimming. But Singh could not come out as he could not swim. The two claim that they were too drunk at the time of the incident and so could not realise that Singh did not come out of the canal. They claim that it was only next day that they realised that he was missing. They searched for his motorcycle, but it too was missing. However, the relatives of Toti allege that the two have killed him,” said Singh. |
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Man killed by creditor’s sons
Ghaziabad, June 28 Narayan was unemployment and was facing financial problems. He had taken a loan of Rs 5 lakh from Saajid Khan, a money lender in his neighbourhood. He was paying the interest in time but was not able to pay the installments of the principal amount. For the last one week, Khan’s son, Arif and Asakib, were pressing him to return the money. They had given him time till Sunday. When he could not pay the money, the brothers came to his house and after heated arguments, cut his throat with a sharp-edged weapon. He died on the spot. Narayan’s wife and kids are in Bihar for summer vacation. The in-charge of the Sahibabad police Rashid Malik said the two accused had been arrested. |
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MCD brings machine to repair potholes
News Service, June 28 It will repair the patches and potholes on the roads with hot bitumen mix. The machine was launched today at Moti Nagar in west Delhi. “It is India’s first pothole repair machine which woks on recycling technology. It is for the first time that a technology that uses infra-red rays is being used,” said Subhash Arya, Leader of the House in MCD. The machine would maintain the smoothness and compactness of road surface. It will take lesser time to repair and will allow opening of traffic on the repaired road in 30 minutes. “This machine has an infra-red hot plate which will cover the pothole. The plate will heat up the road surface in just eight to 10 minutes and the road material is dug up and repaired by adding binder (bitumen) and new mix. The heating is done by using LPG. After the work is finished, the repaired patch is matched with rest of the road and a smooth surface is achieved.” he said. According to MCD officials, the machine can lay 16 patches of 2mx1m in eight hours on an average. If the patches are located nearby, the repair work is done faster. |
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Societies to face action for draw of lots
New Delhi, June 28 He said that six societies - Delhi Apartments, Batuk, Samachar, Pragatisheel, Bairwa, Khattar and Air India - did the exercise yesterday on their own and their power and water connections would be disconnected. He said the government has appealed to the Lieutenant-Governor to direct the police to register FIRs against these societies. So far the police have not taken any action against these societies. A total of 48 group housing societies have not been given the NOC by the registrar of societies. Of them, 28 had been cleared by the urban development ministry a few months back and six were cleared last week. The department is doing a study to clear six more societies. He said that societies have to submit some document to the department to get an NOC from the registrar of group housing societies. The minister said that the government had allotted land on concessional rates for middle class people but some of them had been disposed of to builders who had cancelled the names of original members and enrolled new members with high prices. Sources said that members of these societies are bearing two burdens - payment of rent and monthly installment for the loan they have taken from the banks to finance the flat. Now their flat is ready still they live in rented houses. |
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Exchange bulbs with energy-saving CFLs!
New Delhi, June 28 This is expected to result in a reduction of 100 MW in the peak demand for NDPL and energy savings of over 100 million KWH annually. The company has also signed an agreement with Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and C-Quest Capital in this regard. "The initiative is called Bachat Lamp Yojana where all the NDPL consumers can get up to a maximum of four compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) at Rs 15 each in exchange of equal number of working incandescent bulbs," said senior officials of the company. The entire project is financed by C-Quest Capital as it will earn revenue through sale of carbon credits. NDPL and C-Quest Capital will distribute about 15 lakh CFLs in the NDPL area. "We are confident that our consumers will benefit immensely with the Bachat Lamp Yojana and exchange their incandescent bulbs with energy-saving CFLs. The world is facing the threat of climate change and this initiative will fight it by creating awareness on energy conservation," said the officials. |
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7 get ‘People of the Year’ award
New Delhi, June 28 The awardees were: industrialist Anand Mahindra, cricketer Rahul Dravid, former Nasscom president Kiran Karnik, leading woman artist Anjolie Ela Menon, former chief justice of India J.S. Verma, leading gynecologist and co-founder of Tribal Health Initiative Dr Lalitha Regi, and Dr Tarun Sharma, head of not-for-profit institution Sankara Netralaya. The event was held at the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) auditorium. Atul Singh, president and CEO, Coca-Cola India and Southwest Asia, besides Vijaya Ghose, editor, Limca Book of Records, attended the event. The event started with a performance of Prince Dance Troupe, former winner of the television show, India’s Got Talent. The 2010 edition of the record book celebrates over 10,000 remarkable achievements out of which 6,000 are new records. A special guest, Ramesh Baba holder of 39 Limca Book of Records since 1991 — was presented with two tickets for the FIFA World Cup
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3 held for US immigration racket
New Delhi, June 28 The arrested have been identified as Manoj Pandey (35), Jitender Mohan (49) and Mohan Lal (46), said Neeraj Thakur, Additional Commissioner (Crime). "The arrests came following investigations into police receiving inputs that some travel agents of Delhi and Punjab were involved in sending Indian and Nepali nationals to the US," said Thakur. The accused were arrested after police conducted a series of raids in the offices of travel agents at Barakhamba Road on June 23. As many as 152 passports, fake stamps, four computer systems and Rs 2.89 lakh were recovered from them. "The accused used to get visas of south-eastern countries of Asia like Malasiya, Singapore, etc for their clients after tampering with passports and using/preparing forged documents for enhancing the financial and personal profiles of their clients. Some forged passports have been recovered from their possession," said Thakur. To facilitate the entry of a person into the US, the accused would send them to Latin American countries where 'visa on arrival' facility is available. Thereafter, they managed the illegal entry of their client into the US through the US-Mexico border with the help of their local aides. "It was only after the client gained entry into the US that this group would accept payment of Rs 25-30 lakh from the relatives of the client. The accused have been carrying out their activities for the last seven years and have sent more than 100 people abroad this year alone," Thakur said. |
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Teacher held for car theft
New Delhi, June 28 According to the police, the duo had stolen a Toyota Camry car worth Rs 25 lakh from outside a restaurant-cum-bar in Vasant Lok Market at Vasant Vihar in south Delhi on Friday night. According to H.G.S. Dhaliwal, DCP (south), the accused Sandeep Sawant (23), who works as a trainer with an institute training bar tenders, and Karan Kaushik (26), son of a former defence ministry official, were apprehended from Vasant Vihar. "After stealing the car, they were trying to dispose it of using fake documents. They were posing as officials of an MNC," Dhaliwal said. The car is owned by an East of Kailash resident Eklavya Kukreja. Sawant hails from Orissa and his father is a veterinary doctor. His family shifted to Mehrauli in Delhi around 25 years ago. "After clearing Class XII, he got trained as a bar tender and started teaching bar tendering at a reputed institute in Mehrauli. For the last 4-5 years, he has been working as a trainer. His students are working at various restaurants and bars in Delhi and he used to visit them frequently for free liquor," Dhaliwal said. |
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Mystery shrouds woman’s death
New Delhi, June 28 The deceased identified as Seema had been married about five years ago to Vinod who works in a private company. The couple has a one-year-old daughter. The cause of death is not clear. "Her husband told us that she was not feeling well and died before they could take her to hospital. The body has been sent for postmortem to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital," said the police. However, Surender Pal, the deceased's father, has alleged that his daughter was killed. "They had been harassing her for dowry. My daughter was brave and could not kill herself. She was healthy with no disease and they say she has died suddenly. Something is amiss. They have killed her," said Surender to the police. She hailed from Punjab and was the second wife of Vinod. |
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Cop crushed by truck
New Delhi, June 28 "Ishwar Singh was crossing the road when a speeding truck crushed him. He was rushed to St. Stephen's Hospital but he succumbed to his injuries later in the night. The driver of the errant truck has been arrested," said the police. He was posted with the Bara Hindu Rao police station for the past two years. The driver Joginder Singh was arrested from the spot. |
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Joint panel to check waterlogging at Games sites
New Delhi, June 28 Waterlogging is every year's phenomenon on Delhi roads and agencies concerned blame it on one another. But this year, the PWD minister at a meeting held last month directed them to work in coordination to ensure that there was no waterlogging. The MCD and the Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function, "Co-effective Sustainable Sanitation", Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has also dismissed apprehensions that rains might affect the preparations for the Commonwealth Games. There would be no shortage of water and power either during the Games, she said. |
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DTC starts buses from Qutab Metro station
to Badarpur today
New Delhi, June 28 The bus service will be available from 6:15 am to 9:20 pm at a frequency of 20 to 25 minutes. The service will be available on a 14-kilometre stretch on the Mehrauli-Badarpur road, said a senior DTC official. "This service will be helpful to the residents of south Delhi who commute to Gurgaon, as they can now reach the Qutab Minar Metro station more conveniently," said a DTC official. The bus route will cover Ahimsa Sthal, Lado Sarai, Saket, Khanpur, Batra Hospital and Tuglakabad. The DTC is already running a bus service from Qutub Minar to Central Secretariat at a frequency of 10 to 15 minutes. |
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Meerut trader shot in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, June 28 A case of murder has been registered against unknown assailants. In his statement given to the police before dying, the victim, Feroze, said two unknown youths shot at him in the Shaid Nagar market area. Feroze was a resident of Soti Ganj in Meerut. His father, Mohammad Younis, said he had gone to Ghaziabad to attend a relative’s marriage. On Saturday, he had gone for shopping. However, when he returned in the night, he was bleeding. It was discovered that he was shot at. He was rushed to the Gur Teg Bahadur Hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries. A case of murder has been registered at the Sahibabad police station and investigations are on, said Raguvir Lal, SSP. |
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