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Mercury tops 40°
In pigeonhole factories, livelihood comes first
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Factory owner, manager held
Cop killed in accident on Gurgaon eway
4 youths held for killing their moneylender
Drunk cops beat truck driver, snatch Rs 5,000
Rs 4.57 lakh snatched from farmer in Javer
Interstate gang of thieves busted
Missing girl traced in Bareilly
Woman raped by dad-in-law
DU gears up for new admission schedule
Metro chief inspects Faridabad link
Cong sees corruption in hoardings of Mayor
across Delhi
4 Bangladeshis held for dacoity
Rs 3-lakh goods gutted in Noida
Hedgewar Hospital docs seek better security
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New Delhi, April 29 The maximum temperature today was 40.8 degrees, three notches above what is an average for this time of the season, an official of India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. "The minimum temperature today was also two notches above average at 26.4 degree Celsius," the official said. The humidity levels wavered between 63 and 21 per cent. The weather is expected to remain the same on Saturday with the maximum and minimum temperatures hovering around 40 and 26 degree Celsius, said the IMD official. "The sky will remain partly cloudy and the temperatures will increase over the weekend," added the official. On April 25 too, the maximum temperature touched 40 degrees. April this year has been the coolest in the last 10 years. According to the IMD, around this time last year, the temperature had soared to 43.7 degree Celsius. --
IANS
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In pigeonhole factories, livelihood comes first
New Delhi, April 29 "We have to work if we have to live," Ramakant, a 40-something labourer at a factory barely 50 metres away, told IANS. The locality is in west Delhi's Peeragarhi area. Some 100 metres away from the building that was gutted, around 15 labourers chatted casually about the fire that broke out Wednesday evening and could be put out only after 12 hours. There was anger, but few wanted to express it openly. Said an unidentified worker at a factory: "There is danger but if the factories are closed, how will we live?" Inside the factories with closed gates, a range of products gets churned out, such as polymer goods, leather and shoes, mostly of which are highly inflammable. But the workers have greater concern about losing their livelihood and would rather not complain. They are overwhelmingly migrants, mostly from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. "What do we do if we don't work. The issues of fire safety is for the sahabs (master) to handle," said Kishan Singh, a worker. All buildings in the locality have iron gates, which are closed while the workers are inside working. That was also the case at the three-storey building housing the shoe factory. A key reason the workers got trapped inside was because there were bars on the windows and cartons blocked the passageways. The police hase said there was a clear violation of fire safety norms. While it is still not clear how many workers were inside the factory, 10 charred bodies were taken out on Thursday. "When the building caught fire, we tried to put a ladder and cut the window grills, but the heat and smoke from inside was so intense that we could not cut it," said Pradeep Kumar, a local. — IANS
Factory owner, manager held
New Delhi, April 29 According to the police, the victims have been identified as Rajkumar, Bittoo, Manoj, Ajay, Ravi, Mohammad Faizad, Mohammad Sattar, Sunil, Chandrashekhar and Anil. "We have identified the bodies and sent them for the postmortem. Apart from this, no more bodies have been recovered and no more people are missing," said ACP V Renganathan. The factory owner, Narender Singla, and manager Suhash Khullar were arrested this morning, he added. Meanwhile, a UP resident Ramvir Singh (45) told mediapersons that his son was still missing. "My son Sunil is still missing. I want to see him, even if it is his charred body. I have to find out what has happened to my boy," said Ramvir Singh. Despite the police claims, factory workers believe that, at least, six persons are still trapped in the debris.
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Cop killed in accident on Gurgaon eway
New Delhi, April 29 "SI Pratap and constable Balbir Singh were posted at Saket police station in south Delhi and had gone to Gurgaon for some investigation. They were returning when their car lost control and overturned after hitting a divider. Both were rushed to the AIIMS Trauma centre where Pratap was declared dead," said a police official. He added that Singh was yet to give his statement to the police.
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4 youths held for killing their moneylender
New Delhi, April 29 He was found dead in the Gharonda area of Karnal (Haryana) three days later. The case was taken up by the Mandawali police station. A resident of Ganesh Nagar in the Pandav Nagar area, Bharat Yadav used to lend money on interest. During investigation, the police learnt that four persons of a nearby area had borrowed money from him. "The police came to know that these four persons might be involved in the crime. A manhunt was launched to ascertain the whereabouts of the four youths. Yesterday night, three of these four youths, Kaushal, Anil and Kamal, were apprehended from Ganesh Nagar. During interrogation the arrested accused confessed that they along with an absconding accomplice, Kishan, met Yadav at Shakarpur and strangulated him after mixing sedatives in his beer," said I.B. Rani, DCP (east). He added that the accused had lured him to have party with them. They sat in Yadav's car and consumed alcohol. Later, they strangled Yadav and dumped his body near Karnal in Haryana. The accused disclosed that they had taken money on interest from Yadav. "They were not able to repay the loan and Yadav frequently went to their houses and abused them in the presence of their family members. So they killed Yadav," said Rani. He added that the accused lured Yadav to the Shakarpur area on the pretext of taking him to a girl in Mangolpuri. On reaching Mangolpuri, the accused told Yadav that the girl was not available and that they would take him elsewhere. Then they mixed sedative in Yadav's beer. Around 10 pm when they reached near Geeta Colony flyover, the youths strangled Yadav with a cloth.
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Drunk cops beat truck driver, snatch Rs 5,000
New Delhi, April 29 The constables-- Pramod Singh and Kaptan Singh-- are presently absconding and a case against them has been registered at Delhi Cantonment police station. "Despite our best efforts to weed out corruption in the traffic police, serious criminal misconduct was done by two traffic policemen on Wednesday night. They intercepted a truck and snatched Rs 5,000 from the driver of the vehicle. The policemen were drunk. When a commotion ensued, they ran away leaving behind their motorcycle," said Satyendra Garg, joint CP, traffic. |
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Rs 4.57 lakh snatched from farmer in Javer
Greater Noida, April 29 The bandits also snatched the victim's cell phone and motorbike. When the farmer resisted, the bandits beat him. The police initially refused to register his complaint. It was only after the Bharatiya Kisan Union activists created a ruckus at Javer police station late in the night, the police registered a complaint. The farmer, Ashok Talan, is the younger brother of Anil Talan, state spokesman of the Bharatiya Kisan Union. Near Alwalpur, four armed bandits stopped Ashok's motorbike. After beating him, they robbed him of Rs 4.57 lakh, his cell phone and motorbike. Two of the assailants fled on Ashok's bike while the other two fled towards Alwalpur on foot. Though Ashok informed the police, it did not visit the scene of loot nor registered his complaint. On this, dozens of angry farmers associated with the Bharatiya Kisan Union gheraoed the Javer police station Javer and raised slogans against the police. On the intervention of senior officers, the Javer police registered Ashok's complaint. The police is suspicious about the loot as Ashok has accused only one person. The police said Ashok had enmity with the person he had named and wanted to get even with him.
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Interstate gang of thieves busted
Ghaziabad, April 29 The four were wanted in connection with a robbery case in the Vijay Nagar area here in February and the goods recovered include ornaments of gold and silver, it added. The accused have been identified as Surender Pahelwan, Sachin Tyagi, Parveen and Vikash. Tyagi is a property dealer in Loni while Parveen and Vikash are college students, Surender Pahelwan is a trader in the city, the police added. - PTI |
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Missing girl traced in Bareilly
New Delhi, April 29 The girl, a resident of Rangpuri Hills in the Vasant Kunj area, went missing on April 23 and a complaint was registered by her parents, a police officer said. "The girl told us that she was lured by Wasim, who lives in the same area. He with the support of his friend Ati Khan took her to Bareilly where the girl was raped repeatedly," a police officer said. Khan has been arrested while Wasim is absconding. The girl has been sent for medical examination. |
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Woman raped by dad-in-law
Faridabad, April 29 He also threatened her of dire consequences in case she reveals the incident to anyone. A case has been registered and investigations are on, it added.
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DU gears up for new admission schedule
New Delhi, April 29 Significant changes in the admission process this year have the students at ease as they do not need to apply for admissions in Delhi University in May unlike previous years. They can just sit back and relax till late June as the centralised OMR forms, introduced in 2007, have been done away with this year. Even the individual colleges will not give out any pre-admission forms from this year. So, the actual admission process will begin once the cut-offs are out which is likely in the third week of June. DU officials are still working out the modalities and schedule for the truncated admission season which is likely to make things simple, at least, for the applicants. However, those willing to know more about the courses and colleges should wait for the university to upload its information bulletin on the DU website. Individual colleges will also release their prospectus prior to the release of the cut-offs. "Since there will be no running around like previous years, students must visit the websites of different colleges to know more about the courses and facilities they offer and also about their faculty. However, outstation students must attend the 'open days' which are likely to be conducted in June," said Gurpreet Singh Tuteja, deputy dean, students' welfare. Even the hostel forms may be available once the admissions start. Also, this time, the university aspirants will get a day extra after the announcement of the cut-off lists for admission and submission of fees. The move aims at making the undergraduate admission process even more student-friendly. Unlike previous years, this time, students will get four days instead of three to complete the admission process. Furthermore, there would be five cut-off lists instead of four. The new admission guidelines issued last month for the undergraduate admission process (2011-12) of DU further mention that admission forms for the categories of sports and extra-curricular activities will be provided by the respective colleges from the date of announcement of the second cut-off list. Dean of students' welfare JM Khurana said, "The students will get a day more after the cut-offs are announced. Earlier, they would get three days for the completion of the admission process."
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Metro chief inspects Faridabad link
New Delhi, April 29 The 13.8-km-long line will be completely elevated and will have the following nine stations: Sarai, NHPC Chowk, Mewala Maharajpur, Sector 27 A, Badkal Mor, Faridabad Old, Ajronda, Faridabad New Town and YMCA Chowk. The detailed project report prepared by the DMRC is under submission to the Government of Haryana and a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has also been sent to them for approval. The empowered committee of the ministry of urban development has already approved the proposal and the approval of empowered group of ministers is awaited. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 2,533 crore and Rs 100 crore has already been allocated by the Central government in the current financial year's budget.
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Cong sees corruption in hoardings of Mayor
across Delhi
New Delhi, April 29 Opposition leader Jai Kishan Sharma alleged that by putting up the hoardings, the advertising agencies were violating the advertising policy rules. "Some of the congratulatory hoardings show messages by BJP workers while others have been put up by advertising agencies on their own," said Gupta. He said that the move could cause revenue loss to the tune of crores of rupees to the civic agency. "When Abbi was a member of the standing committee, she had repeatedly raised the issue of a nexus between MCD officials and advertising agencies. She had stood up against corruption in the advertisement department of the corporation, saying that advertising agencies did not make due payment to the corporation," said Sharma. The leader of opposition said that many of the advertising agencies owed the MCD over Rs 25 crore, an issue that even Abbi had always stressed upon. He alleged that now, by putting up Abbi's posters, the advertising agencies were trying to please her in the hope of getting professional favours from her office. The agencies want that the new Mayor do not stress on collecting the outstanding revenue from them. Gupta also raised questions about the sudden change in Abbi's attitude towards the agencies. "It is astonishing that despite being aware of Abbi's stand on them, these agencies have suddenly become so kind to her. The agencies have attributed all the places allocated for advertisements for hoardings of the new Mayor," Sharma said. He said that Congress councillors would soon take the matter to the Lokayukta. He said that his party workers had prepared a CD of such advertisements in areas under the jurisdiction of the MCD, NDMC and even DDA. "Just like Abbi, Arti Mehra had raised the issue of corruption in advertising agencies and ran a drive against illegal hoardings. But when she became the Mayor, the advertising agencies put her posters across the city to please her. And as expected, Mehra became soft towards the errant advertising agencies," said Sharma. |
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4 Bangladeshis held for dacoity
New Delhi, April 29 Tayyab Chhotu, Mohd Sahin Mullah, Mohd Sentu Seikh and Ahmad were arrested for allegedly committing dacoity in a house in Dilshad Garden in east Delhi, the police said. While Chhotu and Ahmad are of Bangaldeshi-origin, Mullah and Seikh are from the neighbouring country. The dacoity was reported on April 7 in Dilshad Garden in which six miscreants broke into the house and after threatening the house inmates, looted their household items, jewellery and laptop. From the modus operandi and mode of entry, prime facie it appeared to be the work of the Bangladeshis, said DCP (northeast district) Sanjay Kumar Jain. "The initial leads came from the Ajmer police who was also in search of these dacoits. The Ajmer police said the same gang had committed a robbery there on April 2 and 3," he said. A team was sent to West Bengal to nab the accused. "With the hot chase and assistance of the West Bengal police, two accused were apprehended near the border there when they were trying to flee the country," he said. During interrogation, the police got the names of their associates with whom they had committed the crime. Their Delhi-based associate used to provide them all logistic supports and shelter, he said. Based on the inputs given by the duo, the Delhi police arrested Tayyab Hussain, who concealing his identity and living secretly at Loni in Uttar Pradesh. His confession and disclosure led to the arrest of Ahmed. Another four Bangladeshis, who were involved in the crime, have managed to escape to Bangladesh, Jain said. -- PTI
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Rs 3-lakh goods gutted in Noida
Noida, April 29 It took two hours to extinguish the blaze by four fire tenders, it said. The goods worth Rs 3 lakh were destroyed in the blaze.
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Hedgewar Hospital docs seek better security
New Delhi, April 29 The incident happened when some patients in the emergency ward were accompanied by a group of people. When the security staff and the doctors asked the visitors to leave the place, they assaulted the hospital staff. So, in the morning, the resident doctors held a meeting with the medical superintendent and put forth their demand for better security for the hospital staff. "Last night, some hospital staff were manhandled in the emergency ward. The matter has been sorted out and the local police has been asked to increase the number of guards in the emergency section from two to four," said Dr P. Raju, medical superintendent of the hospital. |
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After the coolest April in Delhi for a decade, the heat is rising. The mercury crossed the 40-degree Celsius mark today for the second time in the month and will go higher in the days ahead, said the Met office.
New Delhi, April 29
