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Woman killed as bus crashes into auto
Driver, cleaner held for molesting schoolkids
Two held for extortion bid
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SH doctors call off strike
New Delhi, May 9 All through the day, while patients’ services suffered, following two rounds of negotiation with the Union Health Ministry and the hospital authorities, the doctors and students called off their strike in the evening as of now after an assurance that their grievances related to inadequate accommodation, untimely salaries, lack of proper security on the hospital premises, etc would be addressed. It was till 4 pm that the stand-off continued with no concrete assurances coming from the authorities and the Union Ministry of Health Joint Secretary Shakuntala Gamlin while patients had a tough time, with residents withdrawing the elective and OPD services. “Even the basic amenities like drinking water are not available in the wards. We have given several memorandums but till date nothing has happened,” stated senior resident of ENT department Dr Saurabh Jain. Another senior resident said salaries are not paid on time. The salaries of interns have been held back for four months while the security on the campus is a big issue. “Doctors on call report on odd hours for emergency and have to face problems, especially female residents who have on several instances complained of harassment. While there are 400 guards, only 150 are posted at a given time on the premises. We have submitted all our demands and are hopeful that the government will take action. We will wait till Tuesday as another meeting is scheduled with the health secretary,” he said. “We had two sittings and the issues of residents were discussed. It is a matter of concern for us and we have assured them that we’ll chalk out a plan within a month,” medical superintendent BD Athani said. |
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Learn English, stroke by stroke!
New Delhi, May 9 English Strokes, an English learning website that brings together English and cricket is developed by the British Council in partnership with Sun Online Learning. “To learn spoken English through English Strokes is not just knowing the vocabulary, adjective, noun and all those things. The student will start enjoying it because the medium of teaching language is cricket,” said Kris Srikkanth, former captain of Indian cricket team and director of Sun Online. Cricket is chosen to teach English as cricket is religion in our country, said Srikkanth. “Cricket is the most exciting way to teach, learn and comprehend. The main language used on the cricket field is English. So we are trying to bring the same thing in English course. Even the villager will learn English this way,” he said, adding speaking English alone does not make you great, but that adds value to whatever you are. Most of the Indian cricketers learnt English only after coming into the field of cricket. English is the main medium to interact in this sport. They rub shoulders with international cricketers and have to speak the language in team meetings, Srikkanth explained. It is a very interesting website. You get six questions per over and you get runs for the correct answer. The website offers an online English learning course, which is divided into three levels, beginner, intermediate and advanced level. Each level has ten units and each unit has again a range of activities. |
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Woman killed as bus crashes into auto
New Delhi, May 9 The deceased is identified as Vinita, who belongs to Manipur. The woman with her acquaintances had arrived in Delhi from Jammu and Kashmir. She was to return to Manipur in the coming days. Last night, she was travelling in an autorickshaw. The police claimed the driver of the chartered bus lost control and rammed into a car and then collided with the autorickshaw. The errant driver fled and left his bus following the incident. The police reached the accident site and saw that some of the injured were stuck inside the mangled autorickshaw. The injured were taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre, where Vinita was declared dead. Her three acquaintances are recuperating there. |
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Driver, cleaner held for molesting schoolkids
New Delhi, May 9 A police officer said that Mohammad Shamim and Asgar Ali were arrested after a complaint was received by the police that the two made schoolchildren who travelled in the bus watch pornographic clips on mobile phones. The two have been charged with section 10 and 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Earlier on Wednesday, a 57-year old private tutor was arrested allegedly for sexually abusing several children at his house in Rajendra
Nagar. According to the police, the accused who runs a private coaching centre in the area, had schoolchildren aged between 12 to 14 years coming to his house for tuitions. All the victims are boys. |
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Two held for extortion bid
New Delhi, May 9 The accused have been identified as Deepak, alias Babloo Tyagi (39), and Balbir Singh (40), who is the son of the former vice-chairman of Uttarakhand Minorities Commission. They both are residents of Uttarakhand. On April 20, a leading real estate developer lodged a complaint at the Greater Kailash police station about receiving extortion calls on the phone. “The calls were made from an international number by a person who had identified himself as Chima Shahi,” aid Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Sanjeev Kumar Yadav. Technical surveillance revealed that the international number was in contact with several numbers of India, operating along the Indo-Nepal border in Uttarakhand. One of the Indian numbers was subscribed under Deepak’s name, added the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell). |
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