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Wife held for chopping dozing hubby to bits
A neurosurgeon’s bid to simplify
Furore over purchase of laptops for councillors
Intensified polio programme in Faridabad
MCD chief told to push civic works
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Health Dept to record births, deaths in villages
1.4 lakh to cast vote without I-card
Three stolen cars seized
Healthy resolutions for a New Year
Residents told to donate to tsunami-hit
Mercury dips to season’s low
Chain snatchers held
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Wife held for chopping dozing hubby to bits
New Delhi, December 29 The accused persons — Pushpa Rathore (35), the wife of the victim, and her paramour, Raj Kumar, alias Raju (20), resident of Kanpur — were both arrested and produced before
the court. The police had received information on December 15 that two severed legs of a person had been found in a vacant plot in Khasra, Shardhanand Colony. The police reached the spot and traced the vacant plot to one Murari Lal, a resident of Jahangir Puri. The police also managed to find a human skull at some distance from where the legs were found. A team was sent to the Missing Persons Squad in National Crime Records Bureau to identify the body; local intelligence was also developed. During the preliminary investigation the police found that a missing person report had been registered via a DD entry and linked the body to Ramesh Rathore, a dealer in ice-creams in Pooth Kalan area. It also came to light that Rathore used to purchase ice-creams from a factory and then distribute them in the nearby areas. With his earnings he also purchased a house in Majlis Park for Rs 10 lakh. The police also probed the business rivalry angle. In the meantime, it was learnt that two persons — Ghan Shyam and Raj Kumar, alias Raju — used to frequent the house of the deceased. In fact, Raj Kumar, a graduate, used to take tuition classes of the children of the deceased. . The police also learnt that Raj Kumar had a physical relationship with Rathore’s wife Pushpa. In fact, once Rathore had caught them in a compromising position. Ever since, Rathore and Pushpa used to have fights at home over Raj Kumar. When the police questioned Pushpa and Raj Kumar, they confessed
to their crime and said since Rathore was a stumbling block in their relationship, they decided to eliminate him. Accordingly, on the night of November 21, Pushpa mixed a sedative in Rathore’s food and when he was asleep both Raj Kumar and Pushpa chopped his legs and head and stuffed them in a gunny bag. They later dumped the legs and the skull in a vacant plot in Shardhanand Colony. The torso and the weapons involved in the offence were recovered after the interrogation of the duo; efforts are now on to recover the remaining parts of the deceased.
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A neurosurgeon’s bid to simplify Queen’s English
New Delhi, December 29 And while the adult might be tempted to dismiss it as gibberish, the child’s ability, say experts, can best be explained as learning through association. “There are many words which are common to both English and Hindi. These words are not the ones which have been incorporated into the English lexicon like bandh and dharna, but are actually derived from the same source”, claims Dr. Surinder Nath
Kundra, a neurosurgeon, who along with his wife Dr. Raman Kundra, a
paediatrician, and his two children has worked out a “technique that makes learning English easier”. The medical practitioners claim to have worked on the “technique” for the last five years and are compiling it into a book. “I often came across children complaining of aches and pains, which were in most cases caused by the stress they faced while learning English and
Maths, generally considered the most difficult subjects by students”, recalled Dr. Raman
Kundra. The revelation that she could actually make it easier for children to learn English got the entire Kundra family working on the concept. “I began with telling my own children to remember words from Hindi or Sanskrit, to memorise words in English and vice versa. Mouse in English could be remembered by linking it to ‘Moose’ in Sanskrit. Similarly, numerals in Sanskrit can be made simpler if they are related to English counting”. The
Kundras, in their study, have pointed out that more than 80 percent of the English words are similar to both Hindi and Sanskrit and are derived from Proto Indo European Language, of which both Greek and Sanskrit languages are an offshoot. And English and Hindi languages have been derived from these respectively. “Words that we use often like dental, advocate, tragedy etc are all similar to Hindi words
dant, adhivakta, traasadi, respectively. We have identified more than 25,000 such English words with varying degrees of similarity to words in Hindi-Sanskrit”, pointed out the duo. The book, which the Kundras are working on, will “prove extremely useful and effective in gaining a good command over the language and creating confident speakers. It has been so developed that a learner of any age group can benefit from it, including school children, BPO trainees and housewives,” it is pointed out.
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Furore over purchase of laptops for councillors
New Delhi, December 29 The practice in the corporation is that anything that costs more than Rs 25 lakh is not purchased without the permission of the powerful Standing Committee of the corporation. All financial decisions are taken in the Standing Committee of the corporation, he claimed. In the stormy meeting, Mr Vijender Gupta alleged that 134 laptops costing more than Rs 25 lakh had been purchased without permission of the Standing Committee. This was a clear violation of established norms as the Municipal Commissioner had no power to purchase goods worth more than Rs 25 lakh. A preamble should have been tabled before the Standing Committee and after getting its permission tenders should have been invited. When Vijender Gupta pointed an accusing finger at the Municipal Commissioner and the ruling party, the chairman of the Standing Committee directed him to close the issue, clarifying that the commissioner had taken permission from him as a certain urgency was involved in the purchase. The purchase had been made as per the DMC Act, he explained. However, Mr Gupta did not find the explanation tenable and sat on dharna. Later, Mr Gupta clarified that he sat on dharna in protest against the unparliamentary language used against him and his party by the Chairman of the Standing Committee. He demanded that the Municipal Commissioner table a report of the purchase of the laptop before the Standing Committee. The Municipal Commissioner said that the Leader of the House, Mr Satbir Singh, had directed him to purchase the laptops which were to be distributed among the councillors on the birthday of Ram Babu Sharma, the erstwhile leader of the House. The laptops were intended to be public property and councillors would have to return them to the Secretary of the Municipal Corporation at the end of their tenure. Before the purchase, permission was obtained from the Chairman of the Standing Committee and a tender was invited. Six companies had offered to supply
the laptops. Finally, IBM think pad was selected as the company’s bid was the lowest. Each laptop had cost Rs 50, 000, he said.
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Intensified polio programme in Faridabad
Faridabad, December 29 Faridabad has been the only district in Haryana where two positive cases of polio were found in this year. A total of 121 cases had been reported throughout the country in year 2004. The department has announced to carry out this drive known as the Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation programme (IPPI) for at least three days starting from January 9. While the vaccine will be given at booths on the first day, the vaccinators will cover each and every house in the rural and urban areas on the next two days in order to ensure that no child is left out. The authorities concerned have asked the officials of the Education and Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) to depute the teachers and all the anganwadi workers for this work on the due date. As many as 1,335 booths will be set up in the district and about 6,000 volunteers and workers will be engaged. Besides, this 74 transit teams and 37 mobile teams will also be deputed for the purpose. The district administration has been asked to make available about 70 vehicles for carrying the vaccinators and other equipment during this period. The village Sarpanches have been asked to make them available at the booth. Besides, members of NGOs and private doctors and practitioners have been appealed to cooperate in this drive. It may be recalled that the pulse polio campaign had been launched in the country in 1995 and the World Health Organisation (WHO) had decided to eradicate this disease by 2004. But since about 121 cases were detected in the country in 2004, the Union government has decided to extend the programme to 2005. Of the total cases, only two cases were found in Haryana, and that too in Faridabad district. While one case surfaced in the Hathin sub-division, the other was found in the Surajkund area of the town here, a couple of months ago. According to figures available, neighbouring Uttar Pradesh is leading with about 72 cases of polio in the present year, while Bihar is second with 36 cases. Two cases were found in Delhi also. In a meeting of the district administration held here today, it was decided to start the operation on January 8 itself in the far away places through the mobile teams. The teams have been asked to cover each of the 238 brick kilns, mining area and the small hutment in any part of the district. The Area Supervisors have been instructed to check the spots personally, where some of the vaccinators had put a false ‘P’ mark to show the work. It is stated that while the house to house vaccination may be extended till late in the evening, the authorities concerned will carry out the publicity and announcement prior to the main date.
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MCD chief told to push civic works
New Delhi, December 29 As residents of unauthorised colonies are liable to deposit property tax under the unit area system, it is the duty of the corporation to undertake development in these colonies. There exist 1071 unauthorised colonies in the records of the government, which comprise one third of the national Capital. At least drains and roads should be constructed in the area, feel the Standing Committee members. Similarly, cleanliness should also be maintained, especially around dispensaries. If there was any court order banning development work in these colonies, the Municipal Commissioner should table the order before the Standing Committee, the members demanded. Sanjaypuri, a Congress Councillor, said that under the new scheme of property tax assessment, 35 per cent of the proceeds should be spent in each colony. Keeping this in mind, the corporation should appeal before the court and seek permission for undertaking development work in unauthorised colonies. The Municipal Commissioner clarified that in 1992 in a case of Common Cause Versus Government of India the court had clamped a ban on development work in unauthorised areas.
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Health Dept to record births, deaths in villages
Faridabad, December 29 The state government has decided to hand over the work of registration of births and deaths in rural areas to the Health Department from January 1, 2005. In this regard, the Director, Census Operations, Haryana has issued a communication to the officials at the district level to ensure the implementation of the new provisions. According to the instructions, the Primary Health Centre instead of the nearby police station will now record births and deaths in the villages. The application forms and other materials concerning the work will be made available with the Anganwadi worker, village chowkidar, Sarpanch or the multi-purpose health worker. From January 1, 2005, birth and death will be recorded by workers of the Health Department posted there after the Anganwadi worker or the Sarpanch attests the same. The authorities have announced their decision to hold a meeting of all employees and officials of the Health Department at various levels to get the process implemented from the aforesaid date. And the authorities have been asked to instruct the Civil Surgeon’s office to call a meeting of the inter-departmental coordination committee to take measures to remove the bottleneck, if any. The process, however, will remain unchanged in the urban areas, where the work was being looked after by the police department. It is learnt that this was done to make the registration work easy and simple for the rural population, which had to visit the towns or the police stations for this work.
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1.4 lakh to cast vote without I-card
Gurgaon, December 29 There are a total of 10,27,814 voters in the six assemblies segments - Gurgaon city, Sohna, Pautaudi, Nuh, Ferojpur Jhirka and Taoru. The election office has been able to issue voter identity cards to about 8.8 lakhs voters. The electoral rolls for the Assembly constituencies of Gurgaon will be published on January 3, 2005, in view of the coming Assembly election in the state on February 2005. However, the residents of the district alleged that They said that 40 to 50 per cent citizens had got their voter identity cards. And these cards were made available only after the masses approached the department for the same. The resident welfare associations (RWA) had played a very vital role in arranging the voter identity cards for the residents of their localities. The District Election officials informed that 65,712 new voters had been included in the Gurgaon district’s voter list. Currently, the electoral rolls are under special This time, 10,27,814 voters will be exercising their voting rights. Out of these, Gurgaon city Assembly constituency has the highest number of voters (2,58,438). Sanjay Kaul, president of People’s Action, an NGO representing resident welfare associations, said that as far as posh areas or new colonies were concerned hardly 25 per cent residents have voter identity cards till today. In most of these colonies the residents might not be able to cast their votes
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New Delhi, December 29 The autolifters have been identified as Afzal Hussain, a resident of Gurgaon, and Ramesh Chand Saini, a resident of Mathura. Based on secret information that inter-state autolifters were active in South and South-West districts of the Capital and that the two autolifters would be coming from the Dhaula Kuan side, the police apprehended the two while they were travelling in a Maruti car. Under interrogation the accused persons told the police that they had started lifting vehicles after they met one Dabbu of Koshi Mathura, a notorious autolifter involved in at least 35 cases of autolifting in Delhi, Agra, Jaipur. In another case, the East district police has arrested two persons and seized 600 grams of smack from their possession. Based on secret information, the police arrested Udai Singh (32), a resident of Rajasthan, and Mohammad Sabir (30), a resident of Lisari Gate. During interrogation the accused s disclosed that they work for one Raj Kumar, a resident of Noida.
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Healthy resolutions for a New Year
New Delhi, December 29 I’m going to quit smoking; I am not going to allow any one to smoke in front of me; I’m going to lose weight; I’m going to begin a regular walk programme; I am not going to eat a lot of refined carbohydrates; I am going to get my check-up done once in a year; I’m going to mediate twice daily; I am going to eat five fruits-cum-vegetables every day; I am not going to a quack for treatment; and I am going to send new years wishes to my family doctor.
Hospital staff donates salary
Noida: About 800 employees of seven Metro group of hospitals have decided to donate their one day salary to the Prime Minister Relief Fund constituted recently for the victims of the tsunami hit southern states. The chairman of the group and an eminent cardiologist, Dr. Purshottam Lal, said that he had also decided to contribute his one month’s salary.
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Residents told to donate to tsunami-hit
Faridabad, December 29 It has been announced that the District Red Cross Society will be collecting the relief material and dispatching it to the affected areas soon. A meeting was held here which the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mr R. S. Kharab, chaired. In the meeting, it was decided to collect items like tents, polythene sheets, blankets, bedsheets, sarees, clothes, shoes, torches, match boxes and slippers in the daily use category. Besides, eatables and water pouches should also be donated. — TNS
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Mercury dips to season’s low
New Delhi, December 29 The minimum temperature fell to 4.5 degree Celsius this morning, two degrees below normal, the Meteorological Department said. Over the last two days, the minimum temperature in Delhi has dropped by more than one degree and chilly conditions were likely to persist, it was pointed out. The bone-chilling conditions were made worse by fog, which enveloped the city in the early hours and thickened steadily after dawn. The minimum visibility in the Palam area fell to near zero level at nine am. While all flight operations were normal till eight am, the Runway Visibility Range (RVR) deteriorated rapidly after that and fluctuated between 75 to 150 metres from 8.15 am to 9.30 am. Flight operations were suspended for about two hours and railway traffic remained disrupted with eight trains being cancelled today. Meanwhile, city commuters found it difficult to drive in the fog. Following a perceptible dip in visibility, vehicle drivers had to rely on fog lights.
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14-yr-old dies in slum cluster fire
New Delhi, December 29 Cops donate one day’s salary :As a gesture of sympathy and support to the families of tsunami victims, the Delhi Police Commissioner Dr K K Paul today announced Rs 1.5 crore in aid. After a discussion with the senior officers today, Dr Paul announced that each of the 57,000-strong Delhi Police force would contribute their one-day salary to lend a hand to the disaster victims.
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28 flee from juvenile home,
14 nabbed
New Delhi, December 29 Later in the day, the police had managed to arrest 14 of the inmates: Six in Jehangirpuri, five from New Delhi Rly Station and three from civil lines. The rest are still missing. The senior police officials confirmed the incident and said that they were searching for the other inmates who are still at large. However, the police officials also said that they would be able to tell more about the case after investigating into the matter.
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Chain snatchers held
New Delhi, December 29 While the chain snatchers have been identified as Sandeep, alias Kalia, and Vinay, alias Deepak, both residents of Mangolpuri, the receivers of the stolen property have been identified as Devender Pratap Singh, alias Monu, and Tana Ji, both residents of Nangloi.
— TNS
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