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Surajkund Tradefest: Foolproof security plan Faridabad, December 18 The authorities have also decided to put barriers on all the roads approaching the venue. The securitymen would check and monitor the movement of vehicles. It may be recalled that two alleged Pakistan terrorists had been gunned down by a special team of Delhi police near Tuglakabad Fort recently which is just a few kilometres from the Tradefest venue. While one of the terrorists had escaped, the police said the accused had come from Faridabad and one of them could have escaped back to Faridabad only. Though the district authorities claimed that they were not taking any chances on the security point. The Haryana government has decided to showcase this industry and trade fair at national level and targeted to make the event an annual feature on the pattern of internationally famous ‘Arts and Crafts Fair’ held in February every year. As the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, would inaugurate the fair, the authorities have reportedly decided to requisition the services of hundreds of policemen, especially cops in mufti to keep track of the movement of suspected persons. “As the fair has been made a prestige event, it is learnt that the officials of several departments, including tourism and industry have started campaigning in Surajkund where a large number of rooms have been booked at the Hotel Rajhans and the motels here. The development has reportedly affected the arrival of tourists at this spot. “The unprecedented security could also have an adverse affect on the visit of locals and the people of neighbouring states,” said a local resident. The rude behaviour of the police was quite known to people, he commented. Meanwhile, it is reported that about 226 stalls of total 350 have been booked so far. These include 26 food stalls. The participants include several Haryana government corporations. It is reported that the organisers have ensured the fair up to seven kms of its premises against an amount of Rs 8 crores. Another entertaining feature is the introduction of several ‘jhulas’. It may be recalled that about four persons had died and some others had been injured when a ‘jhula’ had turned upside down in an accident during the Arts and Crafts Fair in February 2001. This year no jhula was allowed in the Arts and Crafts Fair. As the majority of the district officials are busy organising this grand event, the routine work in some of the offices has been affected adversely. While the authorities have created parking facilities at four places including three main gates, the Roadways department here has decided to introduce special bus services for the visitors. According to Mr S S Dalal, General Manager, Haryana Roadways, these buses would ply from the ‘mela’ spot to Sarai Kale Khan (Delhi), Gurgaon and NIT here. The buses would leave from both the sides after every hour for the convenience of the visitors. He said the bus service would start at 9.30 am and would be available till 5 pm daily. The organisers have announced that there would be a cultural feast for the visitors which include several competitions and stage shows. |
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CP caught in the coils of connectivity New Delhi, December 18 The New Delhi Municipal Council has turned a blind eye as the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking, cable operators and the cellphone transmission tower—all vie with each other for space among the colonnaded arcades, the rooftops, and the roadways to string up wires of varying dimensions and uses in the name of instant connectivity. The Delhi Urban Arts Commission, the custodian of aesthetics in the National Capital Region, says it has laid down the guidelines and the implementation is not its business. In a nutshell, the guidelines are that all wires should be conduited, concealed and kept out of sight. Not in CP. They are hanging all over the place giving Lutyen’s showpiece an increasingly decrepit look with telephone wires dangling like junglee lianas from the facades of all the blocks and all set to obliterate their architectural ambience. The sprouting progeny of cable operators are more sturdy and have an amazing resilience as they hang not just between blocks but, amazingly, from the two-storey H Block to the seven-storey flats of the Railway Colony across the width of the Outer Circle in the plot between Chelmsford Road and Panchquin Road, a cool hundred metres away. Similar are the two strands between M Block and the Connaught Circus Fire Station across the road (to name but two prominent transgressors from among dozens on all corners and curves of CP) all of which give the impression that there is something official about it. The criss-crossed cable wires between A and B Blocks in the inner circle and G and H on the periphery tell of an unseen battle between rival operators for aerial space over the crossroads. More and more TV antennae have begun to stare vacantly into the blue beyond from the rooftops of the blocks of buildings collectively known as the capital landmark and historic showpiece, in short, as CP. There is at least one tall tower with a cute-looking microwave antenna adorning it and going by the burgeoning numbers of the gangling cellphone towers, ‘CP’ could well connote ‘crossed pylons’ to the future generations of Delhiites. The older ‘pashindas of Dehli’ will recall that Sadar Bazar of yesteryears had a certain distinctive ambience even as recently as the 1960s till digging up roads to lay them underground became too tedious in the narrow lanes and bylanes and so electric cables, looking very much like mummified tendons, were strung up cheek-by-jowl with the buildings. It is not surprising that every year without fail one of the biggest markets of consumer durables in Asia (and possibly the world) goes up in smoke because of short-circuiting in the overhead electric wires. CP is fast beginning to look like Sadar Bazar in its younger days. And in Sadar too, the wires were first light and lissome but soon grew to three-inch thick tentacles as demands for connectivity grew at exponential pace. Some years ago, a junction box outside Odeon cinema blew up like a string of Diwali crackers. Few saw it and fewer still remember it but it was a sign of the times nonetheless. |
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Ahulana village: Leaders fishing in troubled waters Sonepat, December 18 According to a report, since the incidents of arson and violence after the police lathi-charge and firing, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr S N Roy, had made concerted efforts to solve the dispute arisen over the recruitments of the unskilled employees but failed on account of what is described as a ‘rigid’ attitude adopted by the panchayat of the villagers. Even the Deputy Commissioner had to postpone his foreign tour for this purpose. The Deputy Commissioner is still of the view that the villagers are not aggressive but they are being misled by the vested interests and some leaders of the Congress and other political parties, who are visiting the village after the violent incidents and exploiting the situation through the media. Some Gohana-based media persons, on the other hand, are engaged in levelling allegations against the Sub-Divisional Magistrate-cum-Managing Director of the Chaudhary Devi Lal Sugar Mill. They are allegedly putting pressure on the state government for his transfer. The Ahulana village in the district, it may be recalled, has remained the target of irate residents who assaulted the policemen and pelted stones on them when they tried to disperse them after the incidents of arson and violence in and around the Chaudhary Devi Lal sugar mill. At least 20 policemen were injured in stone throwing and 24 other persons sustained injuries in the police lathi-charge and firing. A criminal case was registered against 36 persons of the village but so far no arrest has been made. |
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Punjab boy rescued from kidnappers, two held New Delhi, December 18 The police have found out that the main conspirator in the case is one Sarabhjit Singh, a relative of former SPGC president Jagir Bibi Kaur. On December 17 at Ram Dev Marg, the beat constables found around 1.30 pm three suspicious persons near a Maruti van in which a young boy was present. When the police asked for the papers of the vehicle, the trio tried to escape. However, the cops managed to overpower two of the suspects, and the victim Gurvinder alias Babloo, (12), son of Jagir Singh, who works in New Jersey, was rescued safely. While the two arrested were identified as Gurvinder Singh alias Ladi (23), resident of Ludiana and Rajinder Singh alias Bobby (20), resident of Gurdaspur, the third who escaped has been identified as Sandeep (22), resident of Gurdaspur. The fourth suspect, Prit Pal Singh alias Lovely (30), resident of Deera Bassi, who went to make a ransom call to the victim’s family while the others were intercepted, is still at large. During interrogation, the accused said that Sarabhjit got Rs 11 lakh from the victim’s mother Harjinder Kaur, promising to send her nephew Sukhbir Singh to a foreign country by using the connections of Bibi Jagjir Kaur. When he failed to keep his promise, Harijinder started asking him to repay the amount. Just to settle the issue, Sarabhjit hatched a conspiracy with his friends to kidnap her son and demand Rs 20 lakh from her. Accordingly on December 16, when the victim came out of his school after finishing the exams, the kidnappers who waited outside the school took the boy and started moving towards Delhi. Around 5 pm, they called up the victim’s family and demanded Rs 20 lakh as ransom money and asked them to pay the amount near India Gate. However, their plan misfired and they were caught. |
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Dreaded criminal escapes from police custody Ghaziabad, December 18 Pehalwan’s friends forced the bus carrying him to stop between Toli and Bareilly and then threw chilly powder in the eyes of the escorting cops and fled. SSP of Bulandshahr Alok Sharma has ordered the arrest of the injured policemen. A resident of Nangla Shiekh village, Parminder is wanted in a number of cases. The hearing of a loot case of the Ranghat police station was in progress in a court in Anupshahr. He was brought from Ghaziabad and presented in the Anupshahr court for hearing at 3 pm yesterday. The judge ordered him to be present in the court tomorrow and ordered him to be kept in a Bulandshahr jail overnight. At about 4 pm, both the policemen, Jag Roshan and O.P. Pushkar, took a bus for Bulandshahr with Parminder. When it reached between Toli and Bareilly, four criminals on two motorcycles allegedly forced the driver to stop the bus. Before the cops could figure out what was happening, Parminder threw chilli power in the eyes of the cops. His companions hit on the cops’ heads with revolver butts a number of times, snatched their rifles and sped away with their friend. The driver took the bus to the Jahangirabad police station. The news of the criminal’s escape shocked the police force. SSP Alok Sharma, Additional SP of Khurja D.P. Srivastava, and COs and SOs of nearby police stations rushed to the spot with their teams. |
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Lawyers’ strike hits work of Delhi courts New Delhi, December 18 The nationwide strike affected the work in the Delhi High Court and the subordinate courts in the Capital with the exception of the Supreme Court. The strike call was given by the Bar Council of India (BCI) in consultation with the State Bar Councils to protest against the Legal Services Authorities (Amendment) Act, 2002, providing for setting up of permanent Lok Adalats in all public utility departments of the government. In the High Court, the work was partially affected while in subordinate courts, Tis Hazari, Patiala House and Karkardooma, the Bar Associations employed proxy counsel who sought and got adjournment of cases on the ground that senior advocates were not available. Work, however, continued as usual in the Supreme Court where lawyers attended the hearing of cases. All the six Division Benches in the Delhi HC continued to hear the matters listed for the day. |
SPECIAL FOCUS ON PANIPAT Panipat, December 18 In fact, the development of the long-neglected parks is the perfect example of community participation in the development of the infrastructural facilities. Under a carefully-worked out plan, conceived by the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Mulk Raj Anand, the participation of the Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs) is assured as they have been asked to contribute 25 per cent of the total estimated beautification cost. The 25 per cent of the cost will be borne by the Municipal Council (MC). The rest of the 50 per cent of the required resources will be raised from corporate bodies including the Panipat Refinery. A visit to the newly developed parks is an eye-opener. The parks, which were in a state-of-drift till a few months back, now present an aesthetic picture. It may be recalled that ‘NCR Tribune’ had carried a series of articles highlighting the sorry state of parks and the action of the administration is seen as a reaction to the news stories carried by this newspaper. Stressing the need for cooperation between the administration and the people for the proper maintenance of these parks, Mr Anand, in a chat with ‘NCR Tribune’, said the participation of the residents was assured as the RWAs were asked to provide chowkidars and malis for the parks. It was my mission to give 101 well-maintained parks to the residents of this city, which earned a foreign exchange of Rs. 1,400 crore through the export of handloom products last year, he added. The administration is not only working on the development of interior parks, but is engaged in three major projects—the Tau Devi Lal Town Park in Sector 6 on the G T Road, the Halli Park in Narain Singh Park and the Hero Park in Model Town. To be developed on a large-scale, the Town Park will have musical fountain to attract the visitors from in and around the city. Mughal style domes would be an added attraction in the park. Similarly, the Hero Park is proposed to be developed at a cost of Rs. 10 lakh, the Panipat refinery contributing Rs. 5 lakh. Meanwhile, a 13-member Halli Park Development Association has been formed to develop the Halli Park, named after Maulana Altaf Hussain Halli, a note Urdu literary figure and contemporary of the legendary Mirza Ghalib, who spent a number of years here. In fact, the Panipat Refinery has already sanctioned the first instalment of Rs. 5 lakh towards the modernisation of the park. And with a view to finance various developmental and recurring costs of the Halli Park, the authorities proposed to set-up a petrol station near the park. |
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Rally for CBI probe into scribe’s death Panipat, December 18 Carrying placards and banners, scores of persons assembled at the PWD Rest House in the morning on a call given by the Patrakar Sangarsh Samiti. Shouting slogans against the Haryana Government and the management of the Dera Sachha Sauda, the protesters marched in procession to the District Court where they were joined by a number of advocates. Later, they marched to the office of the Deputy Commissioner and held a rally there. Addressing the gathering, various speakers criticised the Chautala Government for its dilly-dallying attitude in handing over the case to the CBI. The speakers alleged that Dera Sachha Sauda had become a den of immoral activities and the authorities concerned had been turning a blind eye to these activities. The protesters vowed to continue the agitation till the culprits were adequately punished. Prominent among those, who spoke were Mr K B Pundit, president of the Haryana Patrakar Sangh, Mr Narinder Khokhar, district president of the All Haryana Power Corporation Workers Union, Mr Suresh Kumar, district president of the Sarv Karamchari Sangh, Mr Santokh Singh, district secretary of the CPM, Mr Surender Singh Hooda, spokesman and general-secretary of the Lok Janshakti Party, and Mr Surinder Ahlawat, general- secretary and spokesman of the youth wing of the HVP. Later, a memorandum was submitted to the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Mulk Raj Anand. Besides demanding a CBI probe into the case, the memorandum also demanded a CBI inquiry into the activities of Dera Sachha Sauda, a compensation of Rs 10 lakh and a government job to the family of the deceased were also demanded.
Executive meeting of LJP A special meeting of the state executive of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) will be held here on December 24. According to the general-secretary and spokesman of the party, Mr Surender Singh Hooda, issues ranging from an upsurge in the crime graph to atrocities on the downtrodden and problems of unemployment will be deliberated upon at the meeting. The meeting will be presided over by the state president, Capt Shamsher Singh Malik. Mr Hooda demanded that the decision to shut down the Ahulana Sugar Mill in Sonepat district from December 19 should be annulled, as the sugarcane crop was ready to be crushed. The decision to close down the mill will deal a severe blow to the economic condition of farmers of the region. He also demanded the inclusion of credible local voice on the committee constituted to negotiate with the government on the future of the mill. |
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Panipat Refinery gets award Panipat, December 18 The Vice-President, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, presented the award to the Executive Director of the refinery, Mr Jaspal Singh, at a function held at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi recently. The Power Ministry has selected the Panipat Refinery under the refinery sector for the outstanding contribution toward energy conservation for the year 2002, according to Mr Noorana, Deputy Manager, Corporate Communications. |
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Vendetta alleged in demolition of Cong leader’s school Gurgaon, December 18 The alleged detention of Mr Khazan Singh, who is also a former sarpanch of Jharsa village and known detractor of the Deputy Speaker of Haryana Vidhan Sabha and local MLA, Mr Gopi Chand Gehlot, till the small hours of today has set tongues wagging about the motives of some higher-ups in the government. Significantly, Mr Gehlot also belongs to Jharsa village and Mr Khazan Singh is his sworn critic. The fact that the Punjab and Haryana High Court had given a status quo order regarding the winding up of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) on a PIL filed by Mr Singh has raised doubts about the intentions of the authorities. According to Mr Singh, the 13 acres of land in Bindapur village (also part of Jharsa panchayat) were bought by him and his kin in 1994 from the compensation money after their ancestral land was acquired by HUDA to float sectors. After setting up the school and the residential accommodation, the details were recorded in the revenue books. Thereafter, HUDA declared its intentions to acquire this piece of land falling on the Wazirabad road for development of Sectors 51 and 52. He moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court alleging mala fide intention on the part of the government. Its Division Bench directed the Chief Administrator, HUDA, to listen to his pleas, and if not satisfied he should make a speaking order. The order had certain provisions. One of them was that HUDA must give the affected party 15 days’ notice before tampering with the property and the existing constructions. Mr Singh told newsmen this evening that he and his relatives were not served any notice or intimation before the demolition, leave alone giving them a hearing by the Chief Administrator. When he reached the spot, the Estate Officer, HUDA, Mr Pradeep Daggar, was leading the operations. According to him, he was forcibly made to sit in a vehicle by persons in civil dress and taken to a house near the office of Mr Pradeep Kumar. Some more persons in civvies joined them and some of them brandished revolvers and acted tough with him. They were trying to “intimidate” him to withdraw the PIL regarding the KVK, he alleged. They threatened him of “dire consequences” if he did not fall in line. All this was done in front of Mr Daggar, he said. They let him go at about 3 am, he added. He alleged that the demolition of his property was done in rank violation of the procedures and directives of the high court. Mr Daggar stated that the land belonged to HUDA and the demolitions were done in compliance of a court’s order. The HUDA authorities deny that Mr Singh was kept in detention. |
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IN PARLIAMENT New Delhi, December 18 Responding to supplementaries during the Question Hour, he said the entire House was concerned over the problem, which was not just a matter of criminal jurisprudence. Earlier, the Minister of State for Home, Mr Vidyasagar Rao, said Special Women Cells had been constituted in each district police headquarters of Delhi. Stating that there was a need to evolve a consensus on the definition of rape, Mr Advani said the problem of rape and women trafficking were closely related and added the government would elicit the views of the Law Commission and National Commission for Women (NCW) on whether the definition of rape should be widened. He said the report of the NCW on atrocities against women was receiving attention of the government. On the demand for death sentence for rapists, Mr Advani said if the states agreed to it, the Centre would have no objection. However, he said, some women organisations apprehended that threat to the lives of victims would increase in that case. However, the government was examining other punishments, like public flogging, he said. In his reply, Mr Rao said it normally took the courts one to four years to decide rape cases in Delhi. A consensus among political parties and other stakeholders for granting full statehood to Delhi has yet to be reached, putting on hold the institutional and structural changes that would follow, the Minister of State for Home, Mr I D Swami, said today. In a written reply to a question by the Congress member, Mr Motilal Vora, the minister informed the Rajya Sabha that no definite timeframe could, therefore, be fixed for the process. The Central Government Health Services beneficiaries have been permitted to purchase medicines from the open market and claim reimbursement because of the ongoing strike of CGHS-authorised chemists in Delhi, the Health Minister, Mr Shatrughan Sinha, told the Lok Sabha. He said the government had allocated additional Rs 8 crore on November 5 for pensioners affected by the strike, which began from November 1. To another question, he said a total of 2,838 medical claims received by the CGHS between August 1 and November 30, were pending for want of funds. The rate of conviction in rape cases in Delhi has hovered between 40-49 per cent in the year 1999, 2000 and 2001, the Minister of State for Home, Mr Vidhyasagar Rao, told the Rajya Sabha. He said the cases do not always end in conviction owing to non-availability of witnesses and reluctance on the part of the victims. The WHO Rockfeller Foundation, CONRAD and a number of other national and international agencies have provided funds for conducting anti-fertility studies on primates at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and National Institute of Immunology this year, Mr Rao said. The WHO Rockfeller granted one lakh US dollars, CONRAD 78,286 dollars and DST Rs 1,50,000 for the purpose, he told the House, while replying to a question by former Environment minister Maneka Gandhi. The data and R and D at the two premier institutes on the subject would be useful for contraception and contraceptive devices, he said. Fifty-nine cases were registered in the national Capital till November-end this year against persons violating the permitted noise levels and 32 of them were punished, Mr Rao said. He also informed the House that Delhi Traffic Police had challaned 1,74,031 vehicles for the use of pressurised horns during the period. Sixteen Bangladesh nationals were among the total 4,010 persons arrested this year in connection with theft and robbery cases in the Capital, Mr Rao said. Replying to a question by the Samjwadi Party member, Mr Amar Singh, he said 66 Bangladeshis have been convicted during the past three years. |
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PARLIAMENT ATTACK VERDICT New Delhi, December 18 Soon after Special Judge S. N. Dhingra pronounced the verdict in the case, around 50 Shiv Sena activists burst crackers throwing the police into a tizzy. The cops initially thought it to be gunshots. When the confusion cleared, the Sena activists started shouting slogans like “Pakistan Murdabad” and dispersed. The Sena activists had planned it earlier itself to burst crackers after the judgement was declared. A few of them were inside the court to hear the judgement while their associates stood outside to celebrate their happiness by bursting crackers. As soon as they received the information of death sentence of the three accused, they burst crackers. The police were confused after hearing the crackers and ran in different directions to find out the source of the sound. When the police personnel saw Shiv Sainiks in a jubilant mood, they heaved a sigh of relief. |
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Society representatives meet DP brass New Delhi, December 18 Mr S. R. Sangar, secretary general, Federation of Indraprastha Extn-II Housing Societies, apprised the officers concerned about the security vulnerability of the area due to their closeness of UP border, Shahdara courts and railway tracks. The area of Dayanand Vihar and Anand Vihar, being near the rail track, are facing the maximum security risk. The other security problems discussed by the residents during the meet included labourers working in houses under construction, parking of school buses in inner lanes, rash driving by young without helmets, eve-teasing outside girls’ schools, encroachment on pavements, parking problems and nuisance caused by hawkers near shopping areas. Mr S. S. Saini, president of the federation, demanded removal of the fast food van stationed near Ram Vihar, closing of the cut near Anand Vihar petrol pump and removal of traffic congestion near shopping centres during evenings. Police, on their part, promised full co-operation in the matter in the form of regular beat officers checking the night watchmen of societies and additional policemen to patrol the rail track areas. The police advised the residents to get their servants verified, light up back areas at night and remove kitchen gardens outside their houses for better security. |
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Doctor missing for a month Noida, December 18 The doctor’s wife, who has expressed suspicion about the involvement of the doctor’s brother-in-law in the kidnapping, has given a new twist to the case. The police are unable to come to a conclusion in view of contradictory reports filed by Dr Sharma’s wife and mother. Dr Rajinder Sharma of Mailpur village under Javer police station left for his clinic in Tharyabad in Udaipur district in Rajasthan on November 9 and has not been heard of after that. He is suspected to have been kidnapped by some unknown persons. When there was no news about his safe arrival, his mother called at his clinic and came to know that Dr Sharma never reached Tharyabad. His mother filed a missing person report on November 14. His family denied the possibility of any enmity or rivalry with Dr Sharma, which could have supported the theory of his kidnapping or death. Meanwhile, Dr Sharma’s wife Sangeeta, who lives in Rajasthan, has in a letter to Gautam Budh Nagar SSP Rajiv Jishan expressed the fear that her husband could have been kidnapped by his brother-in-law Deepakar Sharma and Thakur Shahir Pratap Singh and Rajinder of Javer with whom Dr Sharma, she said, had left. Dr Sharma’s mother, Mrs Premwatti, has, however, filed a contradictory report with the Javer police, suspecting her son’s kidnapping by some unknown people. |
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Capacity of telecom exchanges to be increased Rewari, December 18 This was stated at a press conference here today by Mr B. L. Varshney, the newly appointed general manager of the telecom district, which comprises the areas of Rewari, Narnaul, Mahendragarh, Bawal, Dharuhera, Kosli, Jatusana, Kanikna and Nangal Chaudhary etc. He said the expansions were all the more necessary in view of the ever-increasing waiting list for connections, which now stood at 14,000 all over the telecom district. This was in addition to the existing 43,000 odd subscribers in the district. He admitted that even after making the expansions, it would not be possible to provide telephone connections to all the 14,000 aspirants in the waiting list. He also informed that about 80 per cent of the applicants in the waiting list were in rural areas while the remaining 20 per cent were urbanites. As regards the provision of improved services to the subscribers, Mr Varshney said that a new Trunk Automatic Exchange of 5,000 lines would be set up at Rewari by March 31, 2003, which would be instrumental in the elimination of the prevailing congestion in fluency of services. Besides, a new computerised customer service centre would be established at Dharuhera. Making a specific mention of the cellular services, he disclosed that as many as 750 mobile phone connections had been issued at Rewari, Narnaul, Bawal, Mahendragarh etc. He also informed that orders had already been issued for the installation of limited mobile services based on wireless-in-local loop (WiLL) at Rewari, Narnaul, Mahendragarh, Nangal Chaudhary, Kosli and Jatusana. Mr Ravi Goyal, deputy general manager, and other senior officials of the telecom district were also present at the press conference. |
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Load-shedding in ISBT complex New Delhi Nagar Kirtan The ‘nagar kirtan’ to commemorate the ‘Shaheedi Diwas’ of Guru Tegh Bahadur would begin from Gurdwara Guru Singh Sabha, Jitar Nagar, on December 22 and reach Gurdwara Guru Singh Sabha, South Anarkali, Mr Hardev Singh, secretary of the Servants of Humanity, said in a release here today.
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Child killed, 4 hurt in cylinder blast New Delhi, December 18 Smack seized With the arrest of Sanjay Kumar, a resident of Kasturba Nagar, the East district police today claimed to have recovered smack worth Rs 30 lakh. The police had a secret information about the suspect’s involvement in narcotics smuggling. They learnt that he had delivered consignment to his contacts near Sukhdev College of Business Studies in Vivek Vihar. A raid was conducted there and the suspect was arrested. During search, 300 gm of smack was recovered from him, the police said.
Spate of robberies Panic spread in Sangam Vihar area in South district following a robbery committed by three unidentified youths in the house of one Jagdish last night. When the incident occurred, the victim, his brothers, Mahender and Chhote Lal, and a relative were sleeping in the house. The robbers barged into the house, attacked the occupants and robbed Rs 2,200. The victims were admitted to a hospital from where they were discharged after being administered first aid. In another incident, two youths robbed Rs 500 and silver jewellery from the house of Babu Lal, a resident of Sector 20, Rohini. In the third incident, robbers who posed themselves as courier boys entered the house of one Saroj and tied her hands and legs with a cord and decamped with Rs 10,000 and silver coins. |
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1 killed, nine hurt in accident Noida, December 18 When the DTC bus coming from Delhi reached near the Kote police post, a tanker carrying milk suddenly appeared from Bulandshahr side.
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collision Rohtak : As many as 24 passengers were injured, three of them seriously, following a head-on collision between two jeeps, near Mokhra turn today. The injured have been admitted to the PGIMS. According to information, the incident occurred at around 10.30 am when a jeep going from Rohtak to Meham collided head-on with another jeep in an attempt to overtake a vehicle. Both the jeeps were reportedly overloaded.
Murder accused Sonepat : The Gram Panchayat of Chaulka village has succeeded in identifying a youth, Sandeep, who was involved in the murder of a 10-year-old boy, Jaipal, of the same village on Sunday. According to a report, Sandeep was produced before the meeting of the panchayat held in the village chaupal yesterday and he confessed to his involvement in the murder of Jaipal.
Student run over New Delhi: A seven-year-old boy who was going home from a school in Vasant Vihar was run over by a bus today. The victim Hemant, resident of Kusumpur jhuggi, was an elementary class student in the Delhi Public School, Vasant Vihar. He was attending classes under the ‘weaker education scheme’ of the school. Hemant was hit by a bus No DL I PB 3306. The driver Sagar Singh, resident of Bulandsahar, was arrested on the charges of causing death due to rash and negligent driving. |
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