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WHO sample study
Rohini acquires three-storeyed district jail
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Old woman moves HC against kin
Court reserves verdict on MAMC case
Class VI pupil strangled by kidnappers
50 schoolchildren fall ill after having mid-day meal
in parliament
Lid off 15 auto theft cases
Land worth Rs 2 crore freed from usurpers
‘Hop on, hop off’ buses for tourists
Two held for killing bus driver
IIT student held for lewd MMS
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One in 4 senior citizens in city has hypertension
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December 14 One in three women suffers from osteoarthritis in Delhi and every fourth elderly person has high blood pressure, he said, adding that the cases of osteoarthritis are less in men. The multi-centre study has been conducted among 10,000 people, over 60 years of age, in 10 centres across Delhi, Chandigarh, Shimla, Jodhpur, Jabalpur, Chennai, Ellore, Kerala and Assam. “Each centre has completed the study and submitted the data to the sponsor—the World Health Organisation. In a month or two, the national data will be compiled,,” Singh said. He said, “All these non-communicable diseases are silent killers and diagnosed after somebody suffers from extreme events like stroke or heart attack.” Pointing out that the aim of the study was to find out the morbidity and mortality profile of the elderly, Singh said, “We recommend that a separate geriatric department be set up in each hospital and a separate course on geriatric medicine initiated in medical curriculum.” To highlight problems of non-communicable diseases, a medicine ‘Update 2004’ programme is being organised by the Maulana Azad Medical College here from December 16 to 18. Over 350 delegates and 75 speakers would discuss various branches of medicine, Dr S K Agarwal, Organising Director of ‘Update’, said. While the cost of prevention is low, that of treating complications related to the non-communicable diseases, such as, diabetes may be 150 times more, he said, adding with an increase in obesity and diabetes cases, the incidence of renal failure has gone up. In view of the exuberant cost of long-term dialysis or a kidney transplant, the ideal approach is a control of diabetes and high blood pressure, Mr Agarwal said. The incidence of heart diseases is as high as 17-22 per 1000 of the population. Prevention strategy is based on controlling smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and sedentary lifestyle, he said. The WHO has said that by 2025, India was likely to have the largest number of diabetics in the world.
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Rohini acquires three-storeyed district jail
New Delhi, December 14 The jail has been built at a cost of Rs 14 crore. It is three-storeyed and the first of its kind in the national Capital. It has a modern design keeping in view not only the security aspects, but also the well-being of prisoners. Special emphasis was given to follow the guidelines issued by the Human Rights Commission from time to time. The district jail has general wards, a medical ward, nine high security cells, classrooms, a modern kitchen, a library, a gymnasium and an open-air theatre for use by the prisoners. Ramp facility has been provided for the disabled prisoners. From the security point of view, there are a number of watchtowers on the outer and inner periphery walls. Moreover, iron grills have been fixed on the security walls for additional security of the jail. Residential quarters and barracks are also being built on the jail complex for the convenience of jail and security personnel. Both convicts and undertrials will be kept in the jail. The prison department will also provide for a factory unit shortly in the jail where convicts can work and earn wages. The major problem for the prison administration at Tihar is overcrowding of prisoners whose number is three times the number of sanctioned capacity. Similarly, construction of two new jails number 8 and 9 at Tihar complex is almost complete and these jails with joint lodging capacity of 1,200 prisoners are likely to be commissioned in 2-3 months. The prison has also taken a number of initiatives to modernise prison administration. The software on the prisoner profile has been upgraded and all the jails are interconnected through the local area network. The prison department is shortly introducing biometric finger identification system wherein every new prisoner would be photographed with his fingerprints. If he is readmitted or released, his finger impression would be put in the machine which would immediately flash his photograph confirming his identification. This will help the department avoid the wrong release of a prisoner and also to know whether the person is a habitual deviant.
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Old woman moves HC against kin
New Delhi, December 14 Justice R C Chopra today ordered the SHO of Defence Colony Police Station to ensure that petitioner Inder Kaur got “proper ingress and outgress in property No. C-236”. In her petition filed through counsel Rekha Palli, Inder Kaur alleged that her daughter-in-law Gurdeep Kaur and grandson Taranpreet Singh, who lived on the ground floor of the house, put their looks on the doors and staircase on the backyard of the house. They had also put blockage to borewell, water meters and supply lines that went to the first and second floors, the petitioner alleged. Earlier, the court had asked advocate Sunil Kapoor to examine the possibility of an amicable settlement between the parties, but the situation turned even worse as the two respondents allegedly threatened to kill the petitioner. The local police failed to take any action despite repeated complaints, she alleged and sought direction to the police to ensure her safety. Palli said a civil suit was already pending about the property in the court.
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Court reserves verdict on MAMC case
New Delhi, December 14 While prime accused Rahul, alias Budh Prakash, and Amit faced trial for gang rape, two others Mohanlal and Ashok were charged with receiving stolen property (the victim’s mobile) and harbouring the main offender, respectively. Two others, charged with the rape in November 2002, were minors (13 and 14 years) and have already been sentenced by a juvenile court. The footage, screened in the court on October 16, showed accused Rahul taking a police party to the site and enacting the sequence of events, leading to the commission of the crime on November 15, 2002. Besides the defence witnesses, the court examined a total of 30 prosecution witnesses in the case.
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Class VI pupil strangled by kidnappers
Ghaziabad, December 14 According to police, the kidnapers killed the boy Sonu, son of a class III railway employee, who had died a month ago. Sonu’s mother Premlata had joined the railways on compassionate grounds. Sonu had been abducted on December 3, and taken to Dadri, where he was held in captivity. But the abductors had strangled him and stuffed his body in a gunny bag, which was dumped in a drain behind a petrol pump. The kidnappers were arrested today morning after Sonu’s body was recovered. The police are taking the line that the boy had been abducted for ransom. The kidnappers have told the police that Sonu had raised an alarm, even though he had been warned of fire consequences. They had to silence him to ensure that nobody came to know about the abduction. The police have sent the dead body for autopsy.
Mystery shrouds youth’s death
The body of a youth was found in mysterious circumstances in Puja colony in Loni this morning. The deceased reportedly had a tiff with his wife last night. Since there were no signs of any injury on his body, it is suspected that he was killed after consuming poisonous food or was made to swallow it under duress. His body was found on the cot and some empty bottles of liquor and glasses were also discovered. According to the police, Surinder Pahelwan of Garhi Kotiya village under Kotwali Loni was a partner with Pawan of Pooja colony in pearl beads business. He had rented a house near Pawan’s house. On Sunday night, Surinder came to his factory on scooter. In the next room Pawan’s parents were sleeping. Surinder told Pawan’s father Veerpal that since his wife was having an argument with his mother in his home, he had come there to pass the night. Surinder had bolted the door of the other room before going to bed. Veerpal and his wife, Saroj, left the place at 6 am next morning. A little later, Surinder’s paternal uncle Rajveer came looking for Surinder. When he peeped through a small window he could see Surinder lying motionless on the cot. Rajveer somehow sneaked in through the window and found Surinder lying dead on the cot. Two empty pouches of country-made liquor and two glasses were found lying near the body. Subsequently, the Loni police was informed, who have sent the body for autopsy. Police Circle Officer Dinesh Yadav said Surinder was a regular drinker and also consumed smack and charas.
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50 schoolchildren fall ill after having mid-day meal
New Delhi, December 14 The food was given to them without being checked by the school and other authorities. According to the Leader of the Opposition in the MCD, Mr Subhash Arya, “The food should be tasted by two schoolteachers and five outsiders, including the persons supplying the food, as written in the specifications given by the government. But no one is following the rules. If they had did it the children must have not fell ill.” It is shocking that since April, so many incidents of food poisoning have taken place but no one is taking action against the culprits, said Mr Arya. “The dal being served as part of the mid-day meal had a foul smell. About 40 children, in the age group of six to 11 years, who had consumed the meal were taken to the Sanjay Gandhi hospital, where they were examined and given first aid. Twenty of them have already been left while the rest are being examined,” said DCP West Neeraj Thakur.
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DJB’s proposals to meet
Capital’s water demand
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December 14 The Minister said the proposals include a 140-MGD Water Treatment Plant at Sonia Vihar, a 40-MGD Water Treatment Plant at Nangloi and construction of 20-MGD water treatment plants at Bawana and Okhla and a 40-MGD plant at Dwarka. In a written reply to a question, Mr Azad said that the DJB has informed that the assessed demand for water in Delhi is at present 850 million gallons per day and the DJB is at present supplying 675 MGD a day. The Capital is therefore facing a shortfall of 175 MGD. The Minister also informed the House that as per the Master Plan for Delhi 2001, farmhouses are permitted in the rural use zones only. Commercial complexes and shops are permitted in various other use zones, subject to permissibility norms. He said in reply to a question that the MCD has reported that it has not conducted any survey to ascertain areas where farmhouses, shops have been constructed in violation of MPD 2001.
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Lid off 15 auto theft cases
New Delhi, December 14 With a spurt in the vehicle thefts in the district, a special team was formed to nab the auto-lifters operating in the district. Accordingly, the team arrested Sandip Bhatti (32), resident of Chandni Chowk while he had come to Greater Kailash to steal vehicles. During interrogation, Bhatti disclosed that he used to lift vehicles with the help of duplicate keys and disposed them of in places like Nepal, Mizoram and West Bengal.
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Land worth Rs 2 crore freed from usurpers
Ghaziabad, December 14 Some women have come out For the last six years, some people had illegally occupied 2000 sq yd land of ancient pucca talab on the Ramte Ram road. Several dairies and jhuggi jhompris had been allowed to come up on the plot. The dairies had become a source of pollution, dirt and filth in the locality. According to official sources, the authorities could not do anything about the encroachment as some people had gone to court. Recently, the court had given a verdict in favour of the Nagar Nigam. At 10.30 am, the Additional District Magistrate (City) C. P. Pandya, City Magistrate Sarvejit Ram and Nagar Ayukt (Municipal Commissioner) R. B. Morya, along with an an anti-encroachment squad, reached the site yesterday. Later, a bulldozer razed the illegal structures built on public land. The Nagar Ayukt Morya said that officials have been deployed to keep an eye on the plot, which will be used for the extension of the pucca talab area.
Leaks render trade tax raids ineffective
Noida, December 14 The teams had only partial success. In one hotel, a discotheque was stopped and a show-cause notice slapped on it. About a dozen places were raided on Saturday night in Sectors 18, 27, 29 and 15, but all the beer shops and liquor vends seems to have got the information of the impending raids. All the restaurants and beer bars have made dancing floors on their premises without a license in the name of discotheques. No beer bar can have a discotheque without a proper license, according to the tax officials. But these conditions are ignored with immunity by all. But before the tax raids on Saturday, all these beer bars and restaurants had got their dancing floors abruptly cleared of the dancers before the arrival of the raiding teams in Sector-18 and elsewhere.—OC
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‘Hop on, hop off’ buses for tourists
New Delhi, December 14 The tourists can then rejoin the tour on the next bus. “Tourists, both Indian and foreigners, will no longer feel that they are being rushed when they see historical sites or visit markets. They can take their own time,” the Delhi Minister for Tourism, Education and Sports, Mr Arvinder Singh Lovely, told reporters after inaugurating the service. Initially, there will be two 18-seater air-conditioned buses, but the minister has promised that the service would soon be augmented. “We want to make the service absolutely world-class with glass-top buses by the time we host the Commonwealth Games in 2010,” Mr Lovely said. Similar tour concepts are already operational in several European cities, including London, Berlin and Paris. While tickets would cost Rs 100 for the full tour, even local residents can avail of the service as travel from one point to the next would cost only Rs 25, the minister added. “We do not expect profit in the first year, but I am confident it will become a popular concept soon,” he added. Two routes are currently being offered— Connaught Place, Red Fort, Dilli Haat and National Museum; and Connaught Place, Qutub Minar, Bahai Temple and Dilli Haat.. The bus will start from Connaught Place at 9.30 am and keep shuttling till 7.15 pm, picking and dropping tourists. Other places will also be covered by the service. For instance, a tourist can get down at Purana Qila while travelling in the bus proceeding from Red Fort to National Museum. Likewise, a tourist can get down at Safdarjung Tomb while travelling on the Connaught Place-Qutub Minar bus.
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Two held for killing bus driver
Noida, December 14 According to SSP Piyush Mordia, the three criminals had shot Amit Singh while he was sipping tea inside a shop near Shiv Mandir. As he had been shot at from close range, Amit had succumbed to his injuries before he could reach the hospital. The police had registered a murder case against the accused - Vishnu, Jatinder and Amit.—OC
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IIT student held for lewd MMS
New Delhi, December 14 Ravi Raj was arrested by a team of the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police in Kharagpur, police sources said here. The IIT student, who has been brought to Delhi, is being interrogated to ascertain the extent of spread of the MMS, the sources added.—TNS
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The Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila Dikshit, today inaugurated a new District Jail at Rohini. This jail has a capacity to lodge 1,050 prisoners and is spread over an area of about 12.6 acres. Its construction started in 2000.
