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Five murders in 24 hrs in Delhi
9 Nepali girls rescued from brothel
2 held with antique idols
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Servant verification bears fruit
Cool day in Delhi, more rains likely today
DU academic council okays semester courses
Delhi NGOs sanctioned
Rs 96 lakh
Stephen’s gives preference to
Church of North India students
Helpline for labourers
Gt Noida farmers hold meetings to plan action
Tihar inmates show their creative side on canvas
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Five murders in 24 hrs in Delhi
New Delhi, July 8 In the first incident reported last night, a 22-year-old man was beaten to death by a group of youths in the Saraswati Vihar area. According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Dulare. He was attacked by a group of four youths after an argument while they were waiting for an ice-cream vendor. "Dulare, along with his brother Sitare and friend Sohaib, was on a road close to their house and waiting for the ice-cream vendor when another group picked up a fight with them. They were attacked with bricks in which Dulare and Sitare were severely injured. They were rushed to hospital where Dulare was declared brought dead," said the official. A case of murder has been registered and a hunt is on to nab the accused. Dulare lived with his family at I-51, JJ Colony, Shakurpur, and his father is a daily wage worker. In another incident, an unidentified body of a woman was found near Baaz Mall in Sector-24 of Rohini this morning. According to the police, the woman, in her mid 20s, was found in a semi-naked state. Her body has been kept at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital for identification. The woman has several injury marks on her body and was probably beaten to death.A case in this regard has been filed at the Begumpur police station. In another incident, a youth, whose body is yet to be identified, was found lying near Samtha Sthal on Ring Road at the Kotwali police station around 8 am. "The incident came to light when a passerby spotted a man lying unconscious near Ring Road. He was rushed to LNJP Hospital where he was declared brought dead. The body has been kept at the Sabji Mandi mortuary," a police official. No injury marks were seen on the body. A 55-year-old ice-cream seller was found dead under mysterious circumstances at his rented accommodation in Sangam Vihar, south-east Delhi, this morning. The deceased has been identified as Ashok, alias Pappu. "Ashok was found lying dead on the floor by his grandson Santosh. He raised the alarm and informed neighbours about the matter, who rushed him to the hospital where he was declared brought dead," said a police official. Prime facie, it looks like a case of personal enmity as the house was not ransacked, the police added. In the fifth incident, the body of an unidentified youth was discovered lying in a park at Y-Block, Sector-1 of Vijay Vihar in outer Delhi. |
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9 Nepali girls rescued from brothel
New Delhi, July 8 "The police was informed about the girls by an NGO, Rescue Foundation. They are in the age group of 16-18. They have been sent to Nirmal Chhaya, a shelter for woman, after medical examination," ssaid a police official from Kamla Market police station. He, however, added that the girls claimed that they were not forced into prostitution, but were doing it willfully. All the girls hail from Nepal and the police is investigating as to how they reached GB Road.
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2 held with antique idols
New Delhi, July 8 "The police laid a trap around Jagat Cinema Chowk and a decoy customer was deployed. At about 5 pm, two persons came there on a motor cycle with a bag. The customer, along with the informer, met them and on getting confirmation about their possession of idols, they were apprehended by the police," said Vivek Kishore, DCP (central). The bag contained two antique idols weighing 4.6 kg each. According to the police, the idols were got inspected by the officials of the Archaeological Survey of India, Safdarjung Tomb, who said the idols were of Lord Shri Krishna and Radha and made of brass. The idols are antique and were made in the 18th century. The accused said they had come to sell the idols for which they were to get 5 per cent commission. "Further investigation is under progress and efforts are being made to verify the source from where the idols have been stolen," said Kishore. |
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Servant verification bears fruit
New Delhi, July 8 The trio robbed a household June 24 in South Extension when the employer was away. The booty included Rs.7.5 lakh and a mobile phone. As the servants were registered with police, they reached Kumar's parents in Pathankot in Punjab who said the three had moved to Sonauli near the Indo-Nepal border. From there they took a bus to Kashmir. When it halted in Delhi, they were arrested. The police recovered cash worth Rs.6.76 lakh and the stolen phone. -- IANS
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2 held for robbing, murdering jeweller
New Delhi, July 8 The accused have been identified as Suresh Kumar (33) and his brother-in-law Ravinder Kumar (26). Their partner has been identified as Nikhil, a local ruffian. According to Meenu Chaudhary, DCP (northwest), the duo was arrested in Shalimar Bagh. Aggrawal supplied gold ornaments to Najafgarh and Uttam Nagar areas. On the day of the murder, he along with his servant Dhananjay Kumar had gone to Najafgarh for collecting payments from his customers in his car. While he was going to Nangloi from Najafgarh after collecting the money, around 5 pm, two boys on a bike stopped him and snatched the key of his car and also looted two bags containing cash and jewellery. When Aggarwal raised the alarm, one of the boys shot him and fled. Kumar has disclosed that he runs a gold ornament polishing shop in the main market of Najafgarh. Aggarwal used to deliver ornaments to a gold shop close to Kumar's shop, and so he was aware of Aggarwal's money transactions, said the DCP.
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Cool day in Delhi, more rains likely today
New Delhi, July 8 A total of 5.2 mm of rain was recorded in the 24 hours till Friday evening. With the IMD forecasting similar weather for Saturday, more rains are expected to lash the capital. Meanwhile, with rainfall across the city, at least 21 complainants of water logging and two complains of fallen trees were received. One report of a part of a building collapsing was also recorded from Sadar Bazar area of central Delhi.—
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DU academic council okays semester courses
New Delhi, July 8 The executive council will now meet tomorrow to formally pass all the decisions taken in the council meeting today. Council members also tabled the problem of over admissions this year in several departments of the university. Even as no solution was arrived at, the university has assured the members that the issue will be resolved soon. As told by a member of council, the proposition of maintaining sections within a department to distribute student strength was also made. In the 11-hour-long meeting, the council passed several courses, including BA political science (Hons), history (Hons), English (Hons), Hindi, economics (Hons), journalism (Hons). The syllabus for Germanic and Romance studies, which had seen significant delay due to protests of the teachers of the department against the semester system, was also finally passed today. Among the postgraduate courses, MSc food and nutrition, Msc fabric and apparels, Msc human development and childhood studies were also passed. However, majority of the elected members in the council gave their dissent for the "hasty" passage of these courses. "Again, none of us were given a seven-day notification for the meeting. Even with registering dissents, none of the courses are being returned to the departments for improvement. The courses are being passed in an absolute hurry," said Rakesh Kumar, a member of council. "Initially, the university would send its syllabuses for "peer review" outside the university to top-notch experts. This time, for the semesterisation none of these steps have been taken. Even the recommendations of the Empower Committee formed by former vice-chancellor Deepak Pental are being ignored, we feel," he added. Other elected members felt that the haste comes in time for the next high court hearing on July 12 when the court will seek further steps taken by the university in the matter. "The minutes of the council meeting on May 13, 2010, were also tabled to be verified. However, to our surprise, the part where we spoke about the 'point of order' or the problems in different aspects of the sensitisation process was completely missing from the minutes. We fail to understand that what the university will achieve if they pass these courses in haste and then the newly admitted students suffer," said another member of council.
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Delhi NGOs sanctioned
Rs 96 lakh
New Delhi, July 8 The amount was sanctioned at a meeting of the samiti presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Rs 30 Lakh will be released to the Ram Krishna Mission to meet expenses in connection with 150th birth anniversary celebration of Swami Vivekanand. Rs 21.40 lakh has been sanctioned to the Jan Kalyan Healthcare Centre for setting up a dialysis centre and non-invasive cardiac laboratory at DB Gupta Road in Karol Bagh. The samiti has approved an amount of Rs 20 lakh to legends of India for organising an annual "sangeet" festival from September 2 to 4. Chitrakala Sangam will get an amount of Rs 10 lakh as grant in aid for bringing out certain publications. Rs 9 lakh will be released to the Delhi Society for the Welfare of Special Children to upgrade their diagnostic clinic at Okhla. Rs 2 lakh has been sanctioned to RME Samuday Bal Vikas Society for setting up a computer centre. Jan Kalyan Educational and Cultural Society will get Rs 1.5 lakh for setting up a computer training centre at New Seelampur. Rs 1 lakh has been sanctioned to Dr Hahnemann Educational Development Society for setting up a computer centre for the youth of minority at Seelampur. A grant of Rs 50, 000 has been approved for Sarv Bhom Yuva Shakti for an adventurous sport event and Vijaya Lakshmi Sharma. |
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Stephen’s gives preference to
Church of North India students
New Delhi, July 8 The college said the foremost purpose of setting up the college by the Church of North India (CNI) was to uplift students belonging to the CNI. The college in its reply filed before Justice Kailash Gambhir said, "The members of the CNI are the most economically and educationally backward among the Christian community. The foremost purpose of setting up the college by the CNI is for uplifting the students belonging to the CNI." The vacation bench of Justice Manmohan Singh on June 23 issued a notice to the college as well as Delhi University and sought their reply on a petition of Nikhil Neil Das. He secured 89 per cent marks in Class 12 but was not allowed to appear in an admission interview in the college under the Christian quota. The college's reply further states that St Stephen's has its own admission procedure by which it sets aside 50 per cent seats for Christian students and gives preference to the students who belong to the CNI. "It is respectfully submitted that the effect of abolishing the provision for preferential admission to applicants from the CNI would be that the doors of the St Stephen's belonging to the CNI, will be shut against the candidates from the CNI," said the reply. The college maintained that the petitioner had applied under the Christian Others (COTH) quota and did not fall under the CNI category. "He secured 89 per cent in best of four subjects. Hence, he was below cut-off and failed to qualify for the interview, missing the mark by substantial 1.5 per cent or 6 marks as compared to the last candidate called for the interview from his category, which is COTH from science stream," said the reply. Das had applied for admission to BA economics (hons). "Though the cut-off marks were made known to Das on June 6, he did not choose to challenge the same till June 23, till after the list of selected students was put up by the St Stephen's College," said the reply. The reply stated that the petitioner had no genuine grievance. Even without preferential treatment to CNI, the petitioner does not qualify for interview based on merit among Christian candidates. His counsel Ashok Aggarwal said the college illegally and unconstitutionally set criteria of admission to benefit candidates having membership in the Church of North India (CNI). Das is not a member of the CNI. The college came out with two cut-offs for the course - one for applicants who were members of the CNI and those who were not, submitted the counsel. "At the time of submitting the application, there was no mention of a different cut-off of marks within the Christian community," he said. The court posted the matter for August 11 for further arguments.
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Helpline for labourers
New Delhi, July 8 The helpline number is 12789. Addressing a conference, he said till June 30, the department had received a total number of 468 calls. Most of the calls were related to minimum wages. Enquiries were also made about the rates prevalent in Delhi. The callers complained about non-payment of minimum wages. Ten per cent calls were related to non-payment of wages or salaries. Delhi is the first city in the country that has highest minimum wages. The minimum wages for an unskilled worker is Rs 234, for semi-skilled Rs 259 and for skilled worker is Rs 285. The wages announced by the city government for clerical and non-technical supervisory staff, under-matriculate, is Rs 259, for matriculates but not graduates Rs 285, and Rs 310 for graduates and above. He said very soon the government had planned to revise these wages. The department is also planning proper rehabilitation of the rescued children. A meeting of state-level steering committee under the chairmanship of the chief secretary was held yesterday. The committee includes representatives from Bihar and West Bengals as most of the child labbours come from there. When asked about the children work in dhabas and factories, he said on the basis of complaints, the department concerned conducted raids and children below the age 14 recovered from the work places and kept in the welfare houses maintained by the Child Welfare Department. |
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Gt Noida farmers hold meetings to plan action
Greater Noida, July 8 "The SC order is historic and has given hopes to farmers that they will get justice and the authority will not be able to cheat them. The order has exposed the builder-Authority nexus," said farmer leader Manvir Bhatti. "It was decided to hold meetings at all 28 villages and seek their points of view to plan further action. Today such meetings were held at the villages," said Bhatti. Ajay Pradhan said, "The farmers believed that if they moved court against the Authority, it will hold back their land lease. Though more farmers, including those who have accepted compensation for their land, were planning to move the court, they were afraid of doing so." "The Authority has agreed to lease back some of the abadi land after years of battle, and the process is yet to be completed. Moving court against the Authority may hamper the lease back of my land," said Dharmindar Singh, a farmer. Parmindar Bhatti, a farmer and an advocate, said, "Around 120 farmers of Bisrakh, Patwari and other villages have filed fresh petitions in court. We are expecting the hearing of two of the cases next week." "The builders are trying to directly negotiate with the farmers. They are offering Rs 300 to 500 per square metre. The offer is good enough to motivate the farmers into striking a deal. But I request the farmers not to go in to individual interest and bargain with the builders collectively, as this way they can get ten times more price," said Bhatti.
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Tihar inmates show their creative side on canvas
New Delhi, July 8 The exhibition was inaugurated by MP Jayaprada. There were a total of 150 paintings, out of which 78 were made by the nine Tihar inmates. Eight of them are still in Tihar and one of them was released last year. Dal Lama, a former Tihar inmate and one of the painters, was imprisoned in 2000 and was released last year. "I am a simple man and I like realistic art; nothing abstract. Inside the jail, I remembered scenes of the outer world. When I would paint, I used my imagination and drew places which I never saw earlier. I would ask myself that do such places exist," said Dal. Lama is grateful to Siddhartha Vashishta, a Tihar inmate who pioneered the trust and gave him a house, and an opportunity to sell his paintings. A native of Nepal, Lama (32) has been painting since his childhood days. Kamlesh Thakur, a professional painter teaches the inmates the art of painting. "The inmates knew how to paint, but I showed them how to use their creativity," said Kamlesh. In December 2010, he was referred to Siddhartha by the then Tihar Jail superintendent, Vijay Sharma. Kamlesh still goes to Tihar twice a week to teach the inmates. "Siddhartha was providing admissions in the schools to the children of the inmates. He was doing this on a small scale, until he found out that more inmates needed help. We decided to start a trust and therefore, it was formed one-and-a-half year ago," said Dr Prachi Setty, Siddhartha's sister. The trust has sponsored the education of 130 to 135 children of Tihar inmates. It has also provided medical insurance to 215 people, belonging to the families of the inmates. After Prachi was diagnosed with cancer, Siddhartha decided that the trust should also conduct medical camps. "The trust has organised 30 to 34 comprehensive medical camps. Out of these, four were held for cancer detections," added Prachi. She said similar exhibitions would be held every quarter to sell the paintings.
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Two servants and an associate who sought to flee to Kashmir after robbing their employer's house here were arrested because the Delhi police had their records.Sunil Kumar, 22, and
Rakesh, 24, along with Keshar Basyal, 21, who worked in a hotel in south Delhi, were arrested from the Anand Vihar bus terminal on Thursday, the police said today. All three are from Nepal.
