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Trade fair job racket busted, five held
45 persons challaned for violating SC directives on Divali
Faridabad makes light of SC order
No casualty in 271 fires reported on Divali
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Suicide by GDA worker, woman crushed to death
Clamour for shifting
Dhankaur S.O.
Need for special law to curb communal violence stressed
‘Terrorists’, part of magician’s troupe
National integration tour for children from Kashmir
5,000 children to make presentation on Nehru’s vision
‘Indian goods sought-after if Australia’
UTI housing scheme offer
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Trade fair job racket busted, five held
New Delhi, November 13 The police arrested them while they were trying to make their escape from the trade fair area in the evening. The police said that more than 100 youths were waiting outside the trade fair premises today to be informed of the location of their work during the fair. Initially, the suspects were trying to misguide them by telling them that their stalls were not ready yet. However, the picture became clear to them and the candidates informed the police about the racket. According to the DCP in-charge of the Trade Fair, Mr Rajiv Ranjan, “We have arrested all the five accused in the case and are interrogating them. The complainants are still waiting here and we are noting down their statements. We are also trying to find out whether the accused arrested were involved in the cheating or they were innocent and were working for the company without knowing the intentions of the company owners.” He said that the accused were associated to a company called ‘Global Solutions’. They had put advertisements in the local newspapers and invited candidates for the temporary jobs during the trade fair. The accused also collected Rs 500 to Rs 1000 each from the candidates for the purpose. “These people had also issued fake appointment letters to the candidates after taking their passport size photos and resumes,” said Mr Ranjan. He said that the accused charged huge amounts of money for the purpose and did not rule out the possibility of a trade fair staffer being involved in the case.
Youth arrested in rape case
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl in South-West Delhi last month. The girl is hearing and speech impaired. The boy, who is said have been involved in two cases earlier, was arrested yesterday by a police team, which had been posted in the area following the incident. The police had earlier detained several youths from the slum clusters in the area near R. K. Puram. The police were looking for the culprit after a medical examination of the girl at the Safdarjung Hospital had confirmed the rape.
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Feeder services to Pragati Maidan
New Delhi, November 13
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45 persons challaned for violating SC directives on Divali
New Delhi, November 13 Actions were taken against those who violated the court direction, the police said. The direction of the Apex Court and the strictness of the police brought down the noise pollution in the Capital during this year’s Divali, the police said. Meanwhile, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), which monitored these levels at 14 places in the Capital on the festival day also claimed that noise pollution levels in Delhi on Divali day went down, though air pollution increased as compared to the last year. The Chairman of CPCB, Mr V. Rajagopalan, said that the possible reason for increase of air pollution was the use of more crackers and meteorological conditions like low wind speed and low temperature on the Divali day. He, however, said detailed explanation of the phenomena will be available after the Board completes its study on the subject. Talking to The Tribune, Dr S. D. Makhijani, Additional Director, CPCB, who has been involved with the coordination of the monitoring programme, said reasons for lowering of noise pollution was possibly the use of less noisy crackers, following the drive against such crackers by the government authorities. The increase in the particulate matter could be attributed to Chinese crackers flooding the market, which produce more light and colour, he added. Addressing mediapersons, Dr Rajagopalan said the Board had issued show cause notices to 15 manufacturers of crackers before Divali for not complying with the decibel norms. Noise monitoring was carried out for half-an-hour at Connaught Place, India Gate, Raja Garden, Pitampura, Model Town, Mayur Vihar Phase-11, Lajpat Nagar, AIIMS, New Friends Colony and East Arjun Nagar between 6 pm. and 11 pm yesterday. Ambient air quality monitoring was carried out at ITO, Patel Nagar, Siri Fort and Ashok Vihar before and on the festival day. Round the clock air quality monitoring was carried out on November 12, 2004, at the monitoring stations of CPCB in Shahzada Bagh, Shadara, Janak Puri and Nizamuddin, Dr Rajagopalan said.
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Faridabad makes light of SC order
Faridabad, November 13 This led to a severe air and noise pollution in the town. While the government and its agencies had been carrying out publicity and advertisement campaigns, appealing the people to restrict the use of crackers, it appeared that there was hardly any affect of the campaign last evening. Although some people feel that the overall use of the crackers had come down and had been limited to the Divali day only. The government had also instructed the cracker-sellers to display the decibel limit of the crackers. However, the sound emitted by the crackers in any locality was much more than the permitted level and quite disturbing, especially for the sick and old persons, says Sachin, a resident of Sector-9 here. He said there was no checking of the decibel and sound factor of the crackers being sold with the due permission of the authorities. A cracker-seller claimed that the policemen on duty had been demanding money and free crackers. He said there was hardly anybody who enquired about the decibel limit of the crackers. There were at least four spots in the town where the administration had allowed the licensed shopkeepers to sell crackers. “It appears that the local authorities had not made any efforts to inform the residents of the time limit,” said Suresh Kaushik, a social activist here.
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No casualty in 271 fires reported on Divali
New Delhi, November 13 According to a spokesman of the DFS, a total number of 271 fires were reported in the national Capital, though most of them were small in nature. More importantly, there was no casualty reported in the various fire accidents reported in Delhi. A medium-intensity fire was reported from the Azadpur Mandi in North Delhi after midnight, where 15 fire tenders were dispatched to control the fire. Another medium intensity fire broke out in shops in Bada Bazar area of Kashmere Gate and 13 fire tenders were pressed into service to bring it
under control. Medium blazes were also reported from Sangam Vihar area where a mattress godown caught fire in Pili Kothi area in North Delhi, as well as from Kachcha Tihar locality in Janakpuri, the spokesman said. The DFS were quite prepared for Divali and were able to bring the fires reported under control. Such preparations are routine measures every year during the Divali festival. He said the DFS control room received 271 fire alarms between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. today. The number of fake calls received this year were less than last year, as most of the calls were found to be genuine, the spokesman said. Generally, the number was around 30-40 fires a day. Crackers especially rockets were the major cause of the fire reported on the occasion of Divali, he said.
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Suicide by GDA worker, woman crushed to death
Ghaziabad, November 13 In another mishap, a woman working in the State Bank of India was crushed to death by an unidentified vehicle. The police said Naresh worked as an electrician in the GDA and has four children. He had locked himself in a room since morning. Someone in the family then informed the police. However, he had already shot himself dead before the arrival of the police. In his suicide note, he had said his property be distributed among the family members. Ms Shankuntala was an employee of the State Bank of India. She lived in Mussori police station area. As she was going to her house after duty, she was hit by a vehicle and died on the spot. The driver of the vehicle just sped away after the accident. In the third incident Sohan Veer, 45, drowned in a tank in the late evening. Police said Sohan Veer was drunk at the time of mishap. Besides, an unidentified youth succumbed to his injuries in a hospital. He had been found injured at railway station and removed to the hospital by GRP.
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Clamour for shifting
Dhankaur S.O.
Greater Noida, November 13 The campaign for removal of the
S.O. Dankaur is spearheaded by city Panchayat chairman, Mahipal Garg and head of grain merchants association and representatives of six social organisations who have threatened to start ‘a hunger strike and jam the wheel’ agitation if the district administration does not accept their demand. The Dankaur police have allegedly caused a terror in the area that people are scared to approach them for any grievance. According to local people, more and more traders are being subjected to police assaults. Cops brag that they have ‘contacts with the top officials and nobody can touch them’. Mahipal Garg, the town Panchayat chairman, has written to the District Magistrate that a large number of people will gather at Thana Chowk, Dankaur on November 15 and start an indefinite hunger strike. The Shiv Sena chief of Dankaur, Rajiv Singhal has said that people will come on the roads if by November 15, the police station in-charge is not shifted. The
S.O. Dankaur police station, Anil Raghav said that cases have been registered in the police station against some of those complaining against him. Some others, he said, wanted to illegally occupy land in The local police force had checked their nefarious designs and that the reason they are trying to build up pressure against the police, he added.
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Need for special law to curb communal violence stressed
New Delhi, November 13 A resolution was passed to form a committee headed by Justice R. S. Narula, H. S. Phoolka and two more legal experts to finalise the recommendations for framing a special law on communal violence. These recommendations would later be sent to the Prime Minister, it was pointed out. Addressing the meeting, Maj-Gen M. S. Chadha regretted that despite 3000 people being killed in Delhi, the government is yet to pass a condolence resolution. Dr Amarjeet Singh Narang said that despite the UPA government having claimed in its manifesto that a new Act will be enacted to check communal violence and genocide, the government is yet to do so despite being in power at both the Centre and the State. He said that in 1984,1993 and 2002, various state governments have become a party to genocide despite law and order being a state subject. Calling for the need to have the special law, Dr Narang said that it should a legal compulsion of the state to appoint a commission of inquiry and compensation to the victims should also be a part of the Act. Raising the question whether the Central Government would be more effective with the special powers, Ajay Mehra, Director, Centre for Public Affairs, said there are a number of Acts and tools available to the State, which are not being Senior Advocate P. S. Phoolka, citing the example of the then DCP, North, Maxwell Pereira, who had managed to disperse an unruly mob gathered to attack Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib, said that the police need to use their discretion to deal with an unruly mob. During the meeting, it was put forth that the new law needs to include genocide and ensure that those policemen, who have been charged with genocide, are not the investigative authorities. Laying stress on the need for the special law, Justice Narula said that without the complicity of the state and the police, any large-scale riot cannot take place. As such, he emphasised the need for the new law.
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‘Terrorists’, part of magician’s troupe
New Delhi, November 13 Fear gripped the club when some journalists spotted two young men in black dress with their faces covered. It was later explained that the two ‘masked men’ were part of the 25-member team of the magician, who was giving a preview of his forthcoming performance before the newspersons. Titled “Gandhi Mantra Mission,” the first among them will be held at the Siri Fort auditorium on November 15, followed by Tihar Jail on November 17, Gandhi Smriti on November 18 and at the India International Trade Fare on November 19. Though the two youths turned out to be ‘non-terrorists’, they soon donned the role of ‘separatists’ in one of the sequences from Muthukad’s famous ‘Gandhi mantra’ series which seek to propagate the ideals of Father of the Nation through transparent medium of magic. Muthukad told reporters that his 120-minute show at the Siri Fort, to be attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s wife Gurusharan Kaur, would feature a series of dazzling numbers. Its highpoint would be a ‘Speaking Mahatma” who would answer queries from the audience on peace, truth, non-violence and communal harmony among others. A statue of the Mahatma, made in fibre, had already been readied for the purpose. He said he had already travelled 12 countries to propagate the Mahatma’s ideals. The mission would end at Johannesburg on January 30.
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National integration tour for children from Kashmir
New Delhi, November 13 The tour comprising 30 schoolchildren from Surankote Tehsil in Poonch district, have finished its first leg in Amritsar, where it visited the famous Golden Temple. The tour will next move to Jaipur and the national Capital. Even as it is the first ever trip outside the boundaries of the state for most of these children, they are unanimous in admiration for the sights the tour has afforded so far. Distressed by the violence that their home state has been battling for more than a decade, these children find it a welcome break to witness the developments taking place in the other parts of the country. These children are eagerly awaiting their turn to explore the majestic Taj, the Red Fort and the Rashtrapati Bhavan. A trip has also been planned for Sainik School, Kunjpura, where these children can mingle with their counterparts and which could lead to healthy interaction between them.
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5,000 children to make presentation on Nehru’s vision
New Delhi, November 13 The programmes include a power point competition by school students on the topic, “The Vision of Jawaharlal Nehru on Modern India”, on the spot painting competition, run for my dream-India and other cultural programmes. The occasion will provide an opportunity to the children, adolescents and youths to come together and celebrate Nehru’s birth anniversary and know more about his vision of a scientific, technologically advanced and modern India. The function is being organised by the NYKS in collaboration with the National Service Scheme and Sports Authority of India.
Congress membership drive
The president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC), Mr Ram Babu Sharma, has said that he would give priority to the construction of Rajiv Bhawan, the new office of the party at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg. Mr Sharma told the presidents of the district and block committees of the party that the construction of the building would be completed within one year. The meeting was called to review the progress of the membership drive undertaken by the party. It was announced that the drive to enrol new members will end on November 15. In another significant decision, Mr Sharma said that the All India Congress Committee (AICC) would finalise the date for organisational elections after November 15. Extending greetings to the people, he said the Congress was committed to the welfare of the people in the Capital.
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‘Indian goods sought-after if Australia’
Noida, November 13 This was clear from the enthusiastic response given to the first-ever three-day Indian exhibition organised in Australia. Noida and Greater Noida stalls at the Sydney Fair were thronged by a large number of buyers, Mr Deo Dutt said. Three Indian entrepreneurs had put up their stalls displaying the products at Indian Technology and Trade Fair held at Grand Exhibition Centre, Sydney from November 5 to November 8. Besides, all large industrial houses, medical firms and educational institutions have provided detailed information to the visitors.
Special burns ward opens
A special burns ward was opened in Government District Hospital in Sector-30, Noida, to treat cases of burns caused by crackers. An emergency ward has also been started in the government hospital here. The burns ward will have a surgeon, orthopedic surgeon, emergency medical officer, nurses, ward boys, medicines and ambulances. According to Dr R.C. Gaur, the Dy CMO, a control room has also been set up in the special emergency ward with telephone No. 2456174. A call to this number can be made for requisitioning ambulance to convey the injured to the hospital. Dr Gaur said special arrangements had been made in 18 new primary health
centres. — OC
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UTI housing scheme offer
New Delhi, November 13 Under this scheme, the DDA has launched around 2,500 2/3 bedroom flats at Vasant Kunj, Sarita Vihar, Siddhartha Extension, Dwarka, Shalimar Bagh, Rohini, Kondali Gharoli, Gazipur, Jahangirpuri, Bindapur and Nasirpur. To capitalise on this offer, the customer needs to approach the nearest UTI Bank branch with a nominal amount of Rs 3,500.
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