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Bhardwaj’s murder: Key conspirator identified
DU teachers in a fix over four-yr UG course
12 proposed hospitals yet to be built
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Fasting Kejri dares Dikshit
for debate
AKI disease fully treatable: Experts
Close shave for 6 cops as taxi rams into barricade
Woman among five injured as
cars collide
Walled City roads being improved
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Bhardwaj’s murder: Key conspirator identified
New Delhi, March 29 The killers have also been identified. Investigators said they will be able to reveal the plan and motive for the murder and the person who gave them money. The police will soon make arrests in connection with the case. “The motive has something to do with either Bhardwaj’s money or his property,” claimed the investigators. The police has also impounded the metallic grey Skoda car, which was used in committing the murder. They have also detained the car owner, Rakesh, who gave the vehicle to two people, who could be Bhardwaj’s killers. Investigators claim the killers are not professional contract killers, as they have no history of contract killings. The police is meanwhile conducting raids in Dehradun, Haridwar and Haryana to nab the accused. They are also investigating Bhardwaj’s business deals and networks. Investigators have questioned 25 people in connection with the case, including Bhardwaj’s employees and his family members. The police is still questioning Bhardwaj’s wife, Ramesh Kumari, and his sons, Hitesh and Nitesh. They lived separately from him and were running the Shiksha Bharti School in Dwarka. “No one has been given a clean chit in the case. Until the killers are arrested and the motive becomes clear, everybody remains a suspect,” said a police officer. Some months ago, Nitesh had lodged a police complaint against Bhardwaj, who also filed a cross complaint against him in a property dispute. The deceased has 14 to 15 properties, including in Delhi and Haridwar. “Bhardwaj probably didn’t concede any portion of his property to his family. This may have led to strained relations between him and them,” said investigators.
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DU teachers in a fix over four-yr UG course
New Delhi, March 29 The administration had set the March 20 deadline for all departments to submit the course structures for the new undergraduate programme. Teachers complain that such hurry would compromise the academic standards of the university. It’s worse than the course restructuring undertaken during the semesters. At least departments were able to hold General Body Meetings (GBM) and note their dissents in writing, if any. This time around, the hurry is just beyond belief. Can anyone structure a four-year course in three days? Believe it or not, the heads of departments of psychology in colleges were asked on March 12 to prepare the course structure by March 15” said a psychology teacher of the university. Teachers are also apprehensive that these reforms will dilute the honours programmes of the university. The new structure will comprise 50 courses, eight of them non-academic and 11 school-level foundation courses. According to university sources, the majority of the course structures are still being prepared even as the university is planning the admission process. Another move that worries the teachers is the decision to merge the three popular non-technical undergraduate professional courses offered by it. From the coming session, not only the traditional BA, BSc and BCom programmes will lose their identity but Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Bachelor of Financial Investment and Analysis (BFIA) and BA (Hons) Business Economics (BBE) will also be merged into one course. The committee, which is working on the merger, is yet to give the new programme a name. “The merging of courses required time and detailed deliberations. The admission process for these courses begins prior to other courses. And the announcement of the merger of the courses arrived just 20 days ago. The input of the teaching community was carefully “selected”. The move by the university in regard to the four-year undergraduate courses fails to accommodate the will of the teachers at large,” said a senior Economics professor at Sri Ram College of Commerce.
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12 proposed hospitals yet to be built
New Delhi, March 29 Barring a 200-bedded hospital in Ashok Vihar, which has only Outdoor Patient Facility (OPD), the rest 11 hospitals in several parts of the city are stuck in various stages of approval and budget estimations. These include 200-bedded hospitals at Burari, Madipur, Seeraspur, Ambedkar Nagar, Vikaspuri, Jwalapuri, Baprola, a 60-bedded hospital at Molhar Band, 225-bedded hospital at Chattarpur, 100-bedded at Sarita Vihar and a 700-bedded hospital at Dwarka sector-9. “The government is trying to deceive people by announcing hospitals every year and not taking them up at all after that. This shows lack of determination in taking up public welfare projects,” said Jagdish Mukhi, BJP Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA). Citing reasons for delay, Health Minister AK Walia said that there are many technical issues involved in such projects. “There are several technical difficulties that we have to face while devising the project reports of these hospitals. We will try to remove them soon,” said Dr Walia. “The process of starting construction at Dwarka, Vikas Puri, Madipur, Jawlapuri, Ambedkar Nagar, Sarita Vihar has been initiated. The formalities for construction are under way for the remaining six hospitals,” he said.
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Fasting Kejri dares Dikshit
for debate
New Delhi, March 29 Addressing the crowd at Sunder Nagri, Kejriwal said he would prove on the basis of documents that the claim made by Dikshit is allegedly false and misleading. Massive corruption in her government is the root cause of inflated bills. “The prices of power and water in Delhi had gone up many times because of corruption in the Sheila Dikshit Government. Let her come for a debate in front of the public and I’ll prove all her claims to be wrong,” said Kejriwal. Adding, he said some employees of the Delhi Jal Board had come to meet him yesterday. They informed him that Dikshit had recently signed contracts with foreign water treatment companies, Veolia and Dregmont. According to the contracts, thousands of litres of water are allegedly being supplied either free or at a nominal cost of Re 1 to these companies. He said if that water is given to the people of Delhi, the bills could even come down by Rs 5 per month per family. Meanwhile, AAP volunteers have been going door-to-door explaining to people the need for this movement and according to the party, more people are pledging that they would not pay their “inflated” bills. |
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AKI disease fully treatable: Experts
New Delhi, March 29 With time, while 10 per cent of people suffering from AKI go on to develop CKD, 50 pc of them in turn are attributable to hypertension and diabetes, the fallout of the fast-paced stressful life. Studies from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences suggest that 200,000 new patients of end-stage kidney disease every year require renal replacement therapy and of this less than 10 pc have access to renal transplant. Head and Professor of the Nephrology department at AIIMS, Dr Sanjay Agarwal said, “In AIIMS, we see approximately 200 patients daily and 70 pc of them are CKD. Of these at least 30-40 pc patients, in their forties and fifties, require dialysis or kidney transplantation.” Adding that an extrapolation of data from AIIMS further points out that in the country at one time 5.4 lakh patients will be requiring dialysis and or renal transplant and CKD patients are at least 10 times more than this, he said. According to experts, the mortality in AKI remains high (10-19 pc ) with a five year survival of severe AKI at 80 pc and its management involves treating the basic causes, management of complications, such as fluid overload, hypertension, acidosis, anemia, etc along with occasional dialysis. “We estimate that 10 pc of country’s adult population is having some degree of CKD from stage-1 to stage-5. While magnitude is so high, facility for care is meager. Only 10 per cent of patients in India get treatment like dialysis or kidney transplant,” observed Dr Agarwal. Many of these renal troubles, leading to CKD in later years, begin in the childhood, said paediatric nephrologist and CEO of Radiant Life Care Dr Sanjeev Bagai. “One per cent of all newborns have organ abnormalities and significant in 2/1000 live births. Renal anomalies are the commonest (20 pc) and 80 pc of these newborns are symptomatic at birth. Congenital nephropathies are a diverse group of disorders leading to 30 pc of paediatric end-stage renal disease,” he stressed. |
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Close shave for 6 cops as taxi rams into barricade
New Delhi, March 29 Two police control room (PCR) vehicles were damaged in the collision. Head constable Radha Kishan, and constables Ram Gopal and Atmaram were deployed with PCR V-77. Sub-inspector Khem Singh, and constables Sushil Kumar and Sohan Lal were with PCR V-78. None of them was injured. The taxi driver named Sher Singh has been arrested.—TNS |
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Woman among five injured as
cars collide
New Delhi, March 29 The injured have been identified as Arjun Kohli (24), a resident of Sainik Farms, Balakrishna Sarda, who lives in Lajpat Nagar, Damini Passi (24), a resident of Panchsheel Park, Ishan Rastogi (24) from Alaknanda and Savar Duggal (25), who lives in Greater Kailash-II. The accident took place at a traffic intersection near Kamla Nehru College at about 1 am. The police said a Toyota Innova car coming from the Ansal Plaza side rammed into a Skoda car coming from the Hauz Khas side. The Skoda was being driven by Kohli. A case of rash driving and causing hurt has been registered against the Innova car driver at the Hauz Khas police station. |
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Walled City roads being improved
New Delhi, March 29 The work will be taken on six roads under the Ballimaran constituency. The reconstruction of the roads will be done within the next four months with an estimated cost of Rs 14 crore. The existing bad roads are resulting in a loss of business to traders and inconvenience to rickshaw pullers and cart pullers, said Public Welfare Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan. The reconstruction work of these roads was initiated in 2011 by the MCD but nothing moved after the inauguration because the civic bodies have their own priorities, he said. |
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