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Review of Lancet study shows Delhi water potable
DU likely to change admission calendar
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Strong social fabric cure to such cases: Psychiatrists
Unrecognised pharma colleges play with future of students
Udham Singh’s kin honoured
Reply sought on bail of 2G scam accused
Eminent Himachalis awarded
Fungus found in kuttu atta sample
Five killed as Canter crushes auto on NH-24
Body in Parcel: Sender’s sketch released
Rajni Abbi is BJP’s mayoral candidate
BJP candidate for the post of mayor, Rajni Abbi (2R) and deputy mayor Anil Kr Sharma (R) with the party supporters after filing their nominations at Town Hall in Delhi on Wednesday. Tribune photo
Govt firm on move to divide MCD
Man found murdered
Kids rescued
NE siblings assaulted
Depressed over illness, woman
hangs self
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Review of Lancet study shows Delhi water potable
New Delhi, April 13 The review was done by the experts from Maulana Azad Medical College, Directorate of Health Services, city government, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), union government and Delhi Jal Board. The experts include officiating director, NCDC, Dr D. Chattopadhyay; additional director (Microbiology), NCDC, Dr Sunil Gupta; dean (MAMC) Dr A.K. Agarwal; director (Directorate of Health Services), Dr V.N. Kamat; consultant and head, Public Health, Dr R.P. Vashist, and others. They reiterated their opinion that there is no clinical and epidemiological evidence to suggest any public health impact of the presence of NDM1 containing bacteria in environmental samples. The experts from NCDC have not found either the presence of carbapenem resistance in any of the samples. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has been chlorinating their water supply as per the Bureau of Indian Standards. The DJB has been testing 300-400 water samples every day and their results show the presence of adequate chlorine and the absence of any bacterial contamination. Besides, National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) is separately checking the samples of water in Delhi. Their findings are in line with those of the Delhi Jal Board. The experts assured the Chief Minister that chlorination being done by the DJB is sufficient to kill all types of disease-causing bacteria, including the NDM1 containing bacteria. In view of the summer season when the diarrhoeal diseases usually increase, the public is advised to use chlorine tablets in case DJB water is not available or alternatively boiled water can be used for drinking. The government has made arrangements for free supply of chlorine tablets in dispensaries and hospitals in Delhi. The DJB is also supplying chlorine tablets free of charge through its outlets.
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DU likely to change admission calendar
New Delhi, April 13 These changes in the calendar will be pitched during the meeting of the advisory committee. Senior officials of the university believe that the reason is the intention to wind up the entire admission process from announcing the cut-off lists to the last lap of converting vacant seats before the academic session begins on July 21. Till last year, many admissions in the reserved category lingered on after the academic session began. Last year, the first cut-off list was announced around April 22, according to a senior official. The first cut-off list this year is expected around June 15 as there will be no pre-admission forms this year. "The remaining three lists should be declared and admissions under each list completed around the first week of July," the official added. "Then colleges will be allowed to announce two more cut-off lists in case seats are still vacant. But unlike last year when colleges converted vacant OBC seats into the general category in August, we will ask them to do this before the academic session begins on July 21," the official said. "At the most, this conversion of OBC seats and its admission can spill over to a week after colleges reopen. Last year, admissions went on till the end of August. But we can't have students joining classes in the middle of a semester. We want the full strength to be present right from the beginning. So the proposal is to wrap up the admission process, at least within a week of the new session," the official said. The DU, however, will continue to sell its information booklet and conduct open days. "The information booklet will be available on our website too," said J. M. Khurana, dean, students'
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1 of the starving sisters dies
Noida/New Delhi, April 13 The authorities, meanwhile, ordered a magisterial probe into the circumstances that led to the shocking case of self-deprivation by the sisters Anuradha and her sister Sonali, both in their 40s and holding doctorate degrees, who were self-confined for six months in their Sector 59 apartment. They were rescued by by the police and neighbours. "Anuradha's mouth was bleeding. She was shifted to the ICU but in spite of all efforts we were not able to resuscitate here. And, she breathed her last at 8:05 AM," Dr Amit, chief medical officer of Kailash Hospital where the sisters were admitted, said. The immediate cause of the death of Anuradha (43) was a cardiac arrest, the hospital said. "Due to malnutrition there was a multi-organ failure. This led to the cardiac arrest. A post-mortem will be conducted," V V Joshi, hospital spokesperson, said. "The condition of the younger sister Sonali (41) is stable but she is suffering from depression," he said. The district magistrate has ordered city magistrate Sanjay Chauhan to look into the circumstances of their self-confinement and starvation. "I have been asked to look into the unnatural death of Anuradha. I will conduct the inquiry to know the circumstances under which they had confined themselves and the possible reasons for it," Chauhan told PTI. Superintendent of Police (Noida City) Anant Dev said the police has not registered a case as of now as it feels that no offence has been made out under the IPC. He said the police acted promptly to rescue the women after it was informed about them. "As soon as we came to know about it, we took action," he said. Vipin Behl, the brother of the two women who was not living with them for the past some years, said he had gone to Bangalore and later shifted to Gurgaon where he is currently working. Behl said he had transferred the parental property to the sisters as well as some fixed deposits. "I had shifted to Bangalore and later came back to Gurgaon where I am working now. I had transferred the property in their names. I have also transferred some fixed deposits in their names," he said. Behl said he will take care of his surviving sister and bear all expenses for her treatment. They had apparently become disturbed after their father and mother passed away some years back and their younger brother left them. In the interim period, their pet dog also died after which they got into a state of depression. The police had broken into the apartment after being informed by neighbours and an NGO about the women who had not come out of their home for the past several months. A member of the Sector 59 Residents Welfare Association said , "The two sisters were upset after their parents died some years ago. They had differences with their younger brother who lives separately. Their pet dog, who they were very fond of, died about six months back after which they became even more upset."
NCW orders enquiry
The National Commission for Women (NCW) today ordered an enquiry into a shocking case that came to light in Noida yesterday wherein two sisters had locked and starved themselves in their house for seven months.
According to a statement issued by the ministry of women and child development, the newly-elected chairperson of the NCW, Yasmeen Abrar, has ordered an enquiry into the report of the self-imposed confinement of Behl sisters in Noida. "We are seeking a report from the administration and police there," said Abrar while talking with the media today. She added that the society needed to be more vigilant. A team of the NCW will investigate whether the two sisters were neglected and submit its report within 15 days. "All the aspects, including property issue, will be looked into. We will also check if they were confined by anyone. It seems something was wrong," she said. |
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Strong social fabric cure to such cases: Psychiatrists
New Delhi, April 13 "We should take cue from the strong family and social connections that bound us together in our childhood as we grew. However, with changing times people have left behind the core values. Most of the people don't even know who or what their neighbours are," Dr Samir Parikh, a psychiatrist at Max Healthcare said. "Their complete withdrawal from the society for months together clearly reflects that their mental condition was not stable. To curtail episodes as the one that came to light from Noida, a better social set-up should be in place. A sense of belonging for the next door neighbour should be encourged and practised," Dr Jitendra Nagpal, a psychiatrist with Moolchand Hospital said. Another psychiatrist with AIIMS said, "We live in such an urban set up today where we do not know what is hapepning to our next door neighbour. This is why more cases of severe mental illness and their abandonment by the society is being heard of. The answer lies in checking the detiorating human to human relationship."-- PTI |
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Unrecognised pharma colleges play with future of students
Greater Noida, April 13 Antik, Abhinav, Nitin and dozens of their classmates are now going from pillar to post in search of suitable jobs. They are also worried to return the education loans procured from the banks. While joining the pharmacy colleges, they had looked forward to opening a chemist shop at least. While admitting the students for the B. Pharma courses, colleges had held out promises that soon their college would obtain the needed recognition from the Pharmacy Council of India. The students have often resorted to strikes and dharnas to pressurize the college managements to obtain the recognition. Over a dozen pharmacy colleges in Knowledge Park of Greater Noida, which do not possess the needed recognition included IIMT College, NIET College, BBS College, Sharda College, Innovative College. The students of these colleges have often gone on strike during the past year on the issue. These colleges have not been recognized by the Pharmacy Council of India as they lack the approved facilities and the infrastructure. According to the rules, a college must have at least 12 labs, machine rooms, 16 professors, one director and green belt on the required area of the institute. A team then inspects the college. The students who pass out have a registration number printed on the certificate. But the students from the non-recognized colleges are not given certificate with the registration number printed on it. Dr Bhanu Pratap Singh, director in IEC College, Knowledge Park, said, "According to norms after conducting a course for three years, a pharma college can apply for recognition. My college had applied to PCI for recognition, supported by all the needed documents. A team from PCI also inspected the college last year. However, we have not received the approval from the council." "It is not always the colleges which are at fault, the council also delays the issuing of recognition. It takes its own time in the matter," said Deva Ashish of Innovative College.
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Udham Singh’s kin honoured
New Delhi, April 13 When journalist author Shivnath Jha located Jeet Singh two years ago, he was working as a labourer at a construction site in Punjab. Jeet Singh is no ordinary Indian but grandson of India's freedom struggle martyr Udham Singh, who shot and killed Michael O'Dwyer, who as Lieutenant Governor of Punjab endorsed the massacre on Baisakhi day in 1919. The 55-year-old grandson of Udham Singh lives in Sangrur village of Punjab with his two sons, all of whom live a miserable life despite promises of succour by government functionaries, including late President Giani Zail Singh. Rajya Sabha MP and founder of the Lokmat media group Vijay Darda today honoured the memory of Udham Singh on the occasion of Baisakhi by handing over to Jeet Singh a cheque of Rs 11 lakh, collected through contributions by his media group and from some individual philanthropists. 'Forgotten Indian Heroes and Martyrs: Their Neglected Descendants'--a book chronicling the lives of more than 22 such families of descendants of the martyrs of India's freedom struggle, compiled by Jha and his wife Neena, was also launched by Singh and Darda jointly. Jeet Singh was moved to tears at the felicitation and he mumbled "it feels good to be respected and loved by the people of the country". The book, Jha says, is part of his attempts to bring to light the miserable conditions of such families and bring some dignity to their lives. "There is nothing about Udham Singh in this book that people do not already know. I have but changed the perspective of the story (by encapsulating the present lives of his descendants)," said Jha. The coffee-table book is the fifth in a series of books, which began with a 'Monograph' on legendary Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan. "The least one would expect any government to do is to identify the families of these heroes and to give them a pride of place in all national functions. Needless to say their education and medical care should be the responsibility of the state," he said. Darda said he will take up the cause of these martyrs' families in Parliament and will try to work for their rehabilitiation. "The neglect of Jeet Singh is an example of a black page in our system--one of which we have to be ashamed of," said Darda. "If the government can take care of its parliamentarians for life, don't the families of our national heroes need some attention. I hope various state governments will wake up to the cause of such families," said Darda.--PTI
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Reply sought on bail of 2G scam accused
New Delhi, April 13 Corporate honchos -- Swan Telecom director Vinod Goenka, Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Ltd managing director Sanjay Chandra, and three top officials of Reliance ADA Group Gautam Doshi, Surrendra Pipara and Hari Nair, today appeared before the court of special CBI judge O P Saini, seeking bail on the grounds that they were not arrested during the investigation. The court which took their application on record has asked the CBI to file its reply till April 15. Meanwhile, special public prosecutor U U Lalit opposed the bail plea and said, "The suspects have now become accused after the filing of the chargesheet. Now it is between them and the court. The accused will have to justify their release on bail." The submission was countered by advocate K T S Tulsi, appearing for Sanjay Chandra, who said, "Can the prosecution continue to change its stand? What is the change in circumstances except the change in public prosecutor. The accused who have not been arrested during the investigation are entitled to be released on bail on their appearance before the court of law." The five corporate honchos came to the court today after the special court summoned them to appear before it. The CBI had filed its first chargesheet in the case on April 2 against nine persons and three leading Telecom companies --Reliance Telecom Ltd, Swan Telecom Ltd and Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Pvt Ltd. Former telecom minister A Raja, former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura, Raja's personal secretary R K Chandolia and Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa were arrested earlier during the probe into the case and are presently lodged in Tihar Jail. The agency, in its first chargesheet, has alleged that Behura, Chandolia, Balwa and Chandra entered into a conspiracy for manipulating the procedure for allocation of Spectrum with the aim of favouring companies like Swan Telecom and Unitech Group. The CBI is likely to file its second chargesheet in the case by April 25 and is to complete its probe by May 31.
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Eminent Himachalis awarded
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"Himachal Rattan" award was conferred on former CBI director, Ashwani Kumar for his outstanding government service,
"Himachal Gaurav" to Padma Shri awardee Devender Singh Rana, eminent nephrologists in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, B. R. Sharma Managing Director in Kangra Cooperative Bank in Delhi for excellent cooperative banking services and Sonu Verma for his 50 years of social service to the community. Chairman of the Federation R. K. Sharma said that Himachal was a rich state in natural resources but this had not been exploited due to lack of funds. There has been discrimination in union government in allotment of funds and special economic packages for the state. |
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Fungus found in kuttu atta sample
New Delhi, April 13 A high-level committee, set up to probe the incident, in its report said that out of 72 samples it lifted, 15 have been found adulterated comprising fungus, acid insoluble ash and toxic particles. The incident had taken place in east and northeast Delhi localities early this month. In his report, K S Singh, director, prevention of food adulteration, said that it had lifted 72 samples out of which 62 have been analysed in which 15 have been found adulterated Officials said the PFA department had already filed two cases in the court. In some of the samples, "insects, particles of optical whitener and grit" were also found. 14 cases were registered by the police in east and northeast districts in connection with the incident which was reported from M S Park, Welcome, Nand Nagri, Jyoti Nagar , Krishna Nagar, Farsh Bazar, Shakarpur, Madhu Vihar, Mandawli, Kalyanpuri and Mayur Vihar. — PTI
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Five killed as Canter crushes auto on NH-24
Ghaziabad, April 13 An auto with six passengers was on its way to Noida from old railway station in Ghaziabad at 4 am yesterday via Lal Quan. A DCM mini truck loaded with potatoes was parked near Sales Tax check post on NH-24. As the auto tried to overtake the DCM truck, a Canter being driven at high speed hit the auto from behind. With the impact of collision, the auto hit the DCM mini truck with a great force with the result that all the passengers were crushed. Those killed included Ram Avtar, 55, of Noida Sector-45, his wife Suraj Kali, 46, auto driver Sahil, of Sudamapuri, Ram Rattan of Khoda Colony and another youth. All died on the spot. The Canter driver fled the scene. The police has seized the Canter and is hunting for the driver. |
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Body in Parcel: Sender’s sketch released
New Delhi, April 13 Releasing the sketch, the police appealed that anyone who had any clue about the woman should come forward. "Public at large is hereby informed that on April 2, around 7.45 pm, a man sent an iron box containing the body of woman to Kishan Garh (Rajasthan) from Milap Transport, Pili Kothi, under the jurisdiction of Lahori Gate police station in Delhi," said the police statement. People have been asked to contact the police on the following numbers: 011-23953776 or 011-23925900. The body was parcelled by someone who identified himself as 'B' and it had to be received only by him. The body was discovered by workers of the transportation company on April 8 in their Ajmer office after foul smell started emanating from the parcel. A case in this regard has been registered in Maidan Ganj (Ajmer), Rajasthan. Meanwhile, more families have approached the police following media reports about the woman's body to check whether the victim was anyway related to them. However, none could identify her. The postmortem of the victim has been conducted and it is believed that she was drugged and then stabbed to death.
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Rajni Abbi is BJP’s mayoral candidate
New Delhi, April 13 If elected, she will be the second woman mayor in the BJP's five-year term in the corporation. Arti Mehra was the mayor of Delhi for two years in succession from 2007. The BJP, has, however, witnessed some rebellion in its ranks as councillor Narain Singh has also filed his nomination for the post of mayor. The party leadership though is confident that he will soon be persuaded to withdraw his name. The BJP also got a jolt from its ally Shiromani Akali Dal with all five of its councillors resigning from MCD to protest 'breach of trust' regarding the announcement of names for the key posts. SAD alleged that it was not consulted by BJP on the names of candidates. The step, however, does not appear to pose a threat to the ruling party in terms of numbers. Savita Sharma of Congress has filed nomination papers for the coveted post of mayor, the election of which will be held at a meeting on April 20. Anil Kumar Sharma of BJP, a first-time councillor and N Raja of Congress filed their nomination papers for the post of deputy mayor of Delhi, election to which will also be held on the same day. Today was the last day for filing nominations for these posts. Suman Kumar Gupta and Rekha Gupta of BJP and Tulsi Ram Sablania of Congress filed their nominations for the posts of members of the Standing Committee to be nominated by the corporation. Elected from Mukherjee Nagar ward, Abbi is an associate professor at faculty of law, Delhi University. She is also an alumna of the same university. She is a specialist in commercial and consumer laws. Asked about her comments, Abbi said her priorities will be to ensure a clean Delhi and improve the image of MCD. She strongly opposes its proposed division into five parts. "We are against the Delhi government's proposal to split MCD and we will also send our own report to the Union home ministry so that it can take an informed decision," she said.
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Govt firm on move to divide MCD
New Delhi, April 13 Only two MLAs opposed the move of the government with an idea that it would harm the Congress in the municipal elections to be held next year. Sources said that the meeting decided that one corporation cannot do the development work in Delhi as it is not a city. It has become a state now with a population 1.5 crore. The MCD should be at least divided into five zones with six municipal wards in one assembly constituency. The sources said that proposal now would be sent to the Union government for notification and the next municipal election of the MCD would be according to the current rules to be framed by the city government. The meeting also decided that a high-power committee of group of ministers (GoM) should be constituted to finalise the division. At present, the corporation has 272 councillors. Now there would be more than 400 councillors. However, this issue is being opposed by some senior DPCC leaders on various grounds. A delegation of 60 councillors met the party high command, appealing against the division. |
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Man found murdered
New Delhi, April 13 While New Ashok Nagar police station has registered a case of murder, the body is yet to be identified. The youth has injury marks on his head and face. "The man is in his early twenties and somebody attacked him with some hard object on head and face. He is yet to be identified as we have not found anything upon him. A police team is questioning the locals in this regard," said a police official, adding that the body has been kept at LBS Hospital . The police believes that it can be a case of robbery wherein the victim was killed. |
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Kids rescued
New Delhi, April 13 The raid was conducted by officials of Task Force on Child Labour, Delhi police, Labour Department and members of NGOs Salam Balak Trust and Human Rights Law Network. --PTI |
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NE siblings assaulted
New Delhi, April 13 The brother is critical but out of danger. His sister suffered injuries on head and face. The two, whose names were not disclosed, live in a rented accommodation at Babulal Chowk. The incident occurred around 11 pm when they had a tiff with the landlord after they objected to someone staring in from a window. — IANS |
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Depressed over illness, woman
hangs self
New Delhi, April 13 "Reema was depressed because of long illness and so, hanged herself from a ceiling fan. Her husband and children were not in the house at the time of the incident and a neighbour informed the police about the suicide. The body has been sent for postmortem," said a police official. Reema got married about 20 years ago and had a son and daughter. "Her husband did not earn enough and the expenditure on her treatment was making their lives difficult. It seems she ended her life so that at least the children could be looked after properly," opined a police official. No suicide note was found. |
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The horror case of the two starving sisters, who were rescued yesterday in a very bad shape from their apartment, took a tragic turn today when one of them died at a hospital here while the condition of the other deteriorated.
New Delhi, April 13
