Man killed, 7 schoolkids injured
New Delhi, August 3
A man was killed and seven schoolchildren were seriously injured in two separate road accidents in Delhi in the last 24 hours. In the first incident, a man was killed after he was hit by a Punjab Roadways bus at Palla Village in outer Delhi’s Alipur area. The deceased has been identified as Kuldeep, a resident of Kanpur.

Police personnel take lessons in cardiac first aid
New Delhi, August 3
Nearly 600 personnel today took lessons in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR 10) during a training session at Sahodaya Senior Secondary School in south Delhi.

Pass Bill to safeguard street vendors’ rights: NASVI
New Delhi, August 3
Ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament, the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) has called upon the street vendors across the country to send postcards to the Congress president Sonia Gandhi to push for enactment of a central legislation to safeguard the rights of the section concerned in the coming session itself.

Underpass to connect Okhla with Kalindi Kunj
New Delhi, August 3
Commuters will be able to reach Okhla from Sarita Vihar over a distance of only a kilometre, after the Northern Railway constructs an underpass at Sarita Vihar. Presently, the length of the road route from Sarita Vihar to Okhla is nine km. The underpass at Sarita Vihar is being constructed by the Northern Railway on behalf of the Delhi Development Authority. This underpass will connect the Okhla industrial area with Kalindi Kunj.

‘Broom’ launched to cleanse politics: Kejriwal
New Delhi, August 3
Exactly one year after the launch of Aam Aadmi Party was announced, the party today formally launched its election symbol ‘Broom’ which symbolises cleansing the polity of the country. On the occasion, party leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia assured the people that they would give a credible political alternative in the coming Delhi Assembly polls.

Six IT impersonators held for robbery
New Delhi, August 3
Six persons were arrested this morning for allegedly robbing a man of Rs 1.5 crore in north Delhi’s Kotwali area on July 18 by posing as income-tax officers. The police said the accused had allegedly committed the act after being inspired from a Bollywood movie ‘Special 26’. The accused have been identified as Sudhir Bhati (26), Praveen Kumar (32), Deepak Bhati (26), Devender Tiwari (33), Deepak Kumar (35) and Jitender Negi (30).

Girl raped by tutor
New Delhi, August 3
A 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her tutor in his rented accommodation in west Delhi’s Mundka area on Friday. According to the police, the victim is a class XI student. The accused identified as Joginder Sharma (45) was arrested yesterday. The girl in her complaint to the police alleged that she had gone to Sharma’s house for tuition classes when he raped her. After she returned home, she informed her family about the incident. The girl’s family approached the police. Her medical examination confirmed the crime. Sharma has been booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) at the Mundka police station. — TNS

CLOUDSCAPE — Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal

IGNOU Dip in Elementary Education
New Delhi, August 3
Indira Gandhi National Open University’s School of Education (SOE) has launched a two-year Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed.), offered in ODL mode, for in-service teachers to enhance their competency. The announcement comes during the signing of an MoU between IGNOU and the Arunachal Pradesh Government by the registrar, IGNOU, S.V.S. Chaudhary and the state project director of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Rajya Mission, (AP) Rajesh Kumar Mishra at the university today. — TNS

DUSU polls
For the Delhi University Students Union elections, the Vice-Chancellor has announced the names of the officials who will be conducting all the activities surrounding the polls. Ashok Vohra from the department of philosophy has been appointed the chief election commissioner while D.S. Rawat from the department of chemistry is the chief returning officer. — TNS

Man killed, 7 schoolkids injured
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 3
A man was killed and seven schoolchildren were seriously injured in two separate road accidents in Delhi in the last 24 hours. In the first incident, a man was killed after he was hit by a Punjab Roadways bus at Palla Village in outer Delhi’s Alipur area. The deceased has been identified as Kuldeep, a resident of Kanpur.

According to the police, the incident took place at about 9.30 pm last night, when he was stranded at Palla village, where a Punjab Roadways bus hit him from behind. He was critically injured. The locals rushed him to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead. The driver has been arrested and identified as Prakat Singh (38).

In the second incident, seven students and a driver were injured in a head-on collision between a mini-bus and a van in Alipur this morning. The vehicles are from two different schools. A case of negligent driving was registered and the mini-bus driver Nitin (25) arrested.

The seven children of St. John’s School were travelling in the mini-bus when it collided with the Rana Model School’s van carrying 10 children at Futa Road. Both schools are in Alipur. “Two of the seven children in the bus were injured, while five of the 10 children in the van were injured. Van driver Dharambir(38) was also injured,” said a police officer.

Police personnel take lessons in cardiac first aid
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 3
Nearly 600 personnel today took lessons in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR 10) during a training session at Sahodaya Senior Secondary School in south Delhi.

The camp, a joint project of DCP (South) and the Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI), would train police personnel under DCP (South) in cardiac first aid. Each one of them will be taught CPR 10 technique and also other first aid method, which need to be learnt by the police personnel as they are often the first point of contact in an emergency.

Inaugurating the first such session of CPR 10 for the police personnel, DCP (South) B.S. Jaiswal said “Most of time, the police are the first to reach in an emergency. Training in first aid will not only help them tackle victims of road accidents, but also victims of electrocution and sudden unexpected deaths at home. This training would also help build better police-public relations.”

On the occasion, HCFI’s president Dr KK Aggarwal said, “Death is reversible in the first 10 minutes if CPR 10 is provided to the victims of cardiac arrest, and the fact is that the police can reach a victim in 10 minutes. It may not be possible for the public to take the victim to the nearest medical establishment in the first 10 minutes.”

Dr Aggarwal said that within 10 minutes of death, at least for the next 10 minutes, compress the centre of the chest of the dead person continuously and effectively with a speed of 10x10, i.e. 100 per minute.

Covering 100 per cent police personnel in one district will come out as a role model, which can be adopted and implemented in other districts in Delhi and similarly in other parts of the country, he added.

Basic training on how to handle blast victims was also provided. The weekly sessions will be held at Sahodaya School Auditorium, Safdarjung Development Area, opposite Hauz Khas till every cop has been trained in south district, said the doctor.

Pass Bill to safeguard street vendors’ rights: NASVI
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 3
Ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament, the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) has called upon the street vendors across the country to send postcards to the Congress president Sonia Gandhi to push for enactment of a central legislation to safeguard the rights of the section concerned in the coming session itself.

After amendments were incorporated, the Union Cabinet on May 1 this year approved the revamped Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill but owing to a political logjam, the Bill is still to be passed.

In this regard, NASVI programme manager Ranjit Abhigyan said “On July 8, a NASVI delegation was assured by the new Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Girija Vyas that the government was determined to pass the Bill in the coming monsoon session of Parliament.”

He said, “The level of rights abuse is such that it undermines the fundamental rights of the street vendors, including social dignity in employment and individual rights to work and non-discrimination. This has made access to even basic facilities an uphill task.”

“The revamped Bill had to be passed in the budget session itself, but the session was adjourned before time. There should not be any further delay in introducing and passing it. Inclusive central legislation is the critical need of the time as it would check the growing victimisation of street vendors across cities and towns by the municipal authorities and the police forces,” said NASVI national coordinator Arbind Singh.

Underpass to connect Okhla with Kalindi Kunj
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 3
Commuters will be able to reach Okhla from Sarita Vihar over a distance of only a kilometre, after the Northern Railway constructs an underpass at Sarita Vihar. Presently, the length of the road route from Sarita Vihar to Okhla is nine km. The underpass at Sarita Vihar is being constructed by the Northern Railway on behalf of the Delhi Development Authority. This underpass will connect the Okhla industrial area with Kalindi Kunj.

“The underpass crosses the Delhi-Mumbai rail route, which is one of the busiest rail lines in India. On this rail section, about 300 express, passenger and goods trains run every day. The underpass in the railway area involves the construction of 180-m-long RCC boxes in three barrels. Two barrels are four lanes each for vehicular traffic and one barrel for cycle and pedestrians. The work below the existing railway line has been executed with the advance technique of box pushing, which ensured uninterrupted flow of rail traffic throughout the construction period,” said a railway official.

‘Broom’ launched to cleanse politics: Kejriwal
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 3
Exactly one year after the launch of Aam Aadmi Party was announced, the party today formally launched its election symbol ‘Broom’ which symbolises cleansing the polity of the country. On the occasion, party leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia assured the people that they would give a credible political alternative in the coming Delhi Assembly polls.

Vowing not to give ticket to any tainted candidate, Arvind Kejriwal said, “There are 162 tainted politicians in Parliament and 25 MLAs in the Delhi Assembly who have serious charges against them. The ‘Broom’ symbolises that the time has come to clean the politics of the country. The Aam Aadmi Party has pledged not to give ticket to any tainted candidate.”

The launch happened at Valmiki Colony, home to over 90 per cent of safai karamcharis, on Mandir Marg, which falls in New Delhi Assembly constituency from where Arvind Kejriwal has announced that he would be contesting elections against Sheila Dikshit.

Soon after the party’s symbol was released, the AAP leaders, including Kejriwal, Shanti Bhushan, Prashant Bhushan, Kumar Vishwas, Manish Sisodia, Yogendra Yadav, Dinesh Vaghela, Gopal Rai, Sanjay Singh and volunteers undertook a cleanliness drive in the area.

Six IT impersonators held for robbery
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 3
Six persons were arrested this morning for allegedly robbing a man of Rs 1.5 crore in north Delhi’s Kotwali area on July 18 by posing as income-tax officers. The police said the accused had allegedly committed the act after being inspired from a Bollywood movie ‘Special 26’. The accused have been identified as Sudhir Bhati (26), Praveen Kumar (32), Deepak Bhati (26), Devender Tiwari (33), Deepak Kumar (35) and Jitender Negi (30).

The police have recovered Scoda Octavia and Santro cars used in the commission of the crime. They claimed to have recovered almost the entire amount from the accused.

According to Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Yadav, on July 18, six persons impersonating income-tax officers allegedly robbed Rs 1.5 crore in the area falling under the Kotwali police station.

The police were tipped off that the gang is allegedly involved in the robbery. Accordingly, the police waited for them at Shalimar Garden and Shakarpur and rounded them up as soon as they arrived.