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Jhuggis gutted in R K Puram, Jehangirpuri
Two held for loot, murder in Ghaziabad
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Two criminals nabbed in Noida
Carrot and stick policy mooted for CBSE evaluation
Answer sheet facilities for Board students
PHDCCI to take up issue of land acquisition
Artscape
Charter of demands to make Delhi a caring city
Farmers protest power cuts
IGNOU accord on teacher training in Mauritius
GHPS governing body takes charge
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Jhuggis gutted in R K Puram, Jehangirpuri
New Delhi, February 27 In the first incident, at least 150 jhuggis were destroyed this evening when a fire engulfed a slum cluster in Sector 9, R. K. Puram area in South Delhi. Sources in the Fire Brigade said that they received a call at around 2 p.m. and immediately rushed 22 fire tenders to the spot to extinguish the fire. The firemen were able to control the fire after an hour. In the second incident in Jehangirpuri, a call was received at around 1 p.m. about the fire in the Jhuggi clusters and immediately 28 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. The fire was brought under control at around 4. 25 p.m.
RI for looting
Rs 70,000 from Nirula’s outlet
Delivering speedy justice, a Delhi court has sentenced a man to rigorous imprisonment of 8 years for looting about Rs 70,000 from a Nirula’s outlet in Paschim Vihar, after injuring an employee about six months back on August 16, 2004. The Additional Sessions Judge, S. C. Mallik, also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on Jagdish Joshi, who inflicted knife injuries on director Satish Kalhan before fleeing with the cash. The police said Joshi, who was earlier posted as a guard at the Nirula’s outlet at the DDA Market in Paschim Vihar, robbed the cash at the outlet after inflicting knife injuries on neck and face of Kalhan. The accused was later arrested from a park in Begumpur area and the looted cash was recovered from his possession.
— TNS
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Medicine godown gutted
Ghaziabad, February 27 The cause of the blaze is not known. Two firefighters even received injuries during the operation in Atul Agrawals’s Superior Agro Food Industries in 17 South, Industrial Area. By the time the firebrigades personnel started operations, the blaze had gone out of control. Additional tenders had to be summoned from Hapur, Sahibabad, Modinagar and Noida, to fight the blaze, besides four tenders and a water-blower from Ghaziabad fire brigade. Had the blaze not controlled in time, fire brigade officer Surinder Kumar said at least goods worth Rs 5 crore more would have been gutted. He said it was surprising that no foolproof security arrangements had been made for the godown where goods worth crores were being kept. Two workers of Ghaziabad fire brigade, Yoginder Kumar and Sunder Lal, also sustained injuries during
the operations.
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Two held for loot, murder in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, February 27 During interrogation, the police learnt that Rs 9.5 lakh of the money had been deposited in a bank. The police have since sealed criminal Pappu’s bank account and also stepped up hunt for the criminals. It may be mentioned that Sector-49 police had arrested two criminals, Nagender Jat of village Umrala of Bhojpur police station area and Budhpal of village Sarfabad of Noida. They confessed to have looted Rs 10 lakh in Nehru Nagar under Sihani Gate police station, Ghaziabad, and also shot dead a youth. They told the police that Pappu had taken the looted money of this crime. A sum of Rs 9.50 lakh of the booty had been deposited in Dena Bank in Kalka Garhi, Ghaziabad. The criminals had used a pistol in the loot and murder, CO Charinjeev Sinha said. The account has been sealed and the police are trying to nab Pappu, Mr Sinha added.
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Two criminals nabbed in Noida
Noida, February 27 One Indica car, rifle, pistol and cartridges were recovered from the criminals who were active in Delhi, Bulandshahr, Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad. A number of criminal cases in these areas will be solved with their arrest, the police hoped. SSP, Piyush Mordia said the police had learnt on Friday that a gang of dacoits was planning a loot in the city. On Friday evening, it was learnt that an Indica car was parked in a lonely area in Sector-47. The criminals in it started firing on the police when challenged from all sides. The Sector-39 and 49 police were able to overpower them. During interrogation, the criminals identified themselves as Nagender of Urmarala, Ghaziabad and Brichhpal of Sarfabad, Noida. Nagender has been once sentenced to life imprisonment while Brichhpal had murdered a youth Sikander, three years ago. Pappu, son of Chupkham, Ghaziaboad and Om Veer, son of Puneer of Sarfabad, Noida, are among six members of the gang. In December 2004, the gang had looted a rifle and a pistol from people in a Maruti car on
G.T. Road Bulandshahr, the police said. — OC
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Carrot and stick policy mooted for CBSE evaluation
New Delhi, February 27 For schools who play truant by not sending teachers for the evaluation process, the CBSE pointed out that the act would lead to withholding of results of the defaulting school. The Board could also consider and initiate disaffiliation proceedings against the erring school. Listing the preparations made for a free and fair conduct of the procedure, the Controller of Examination, Mr Pavnesh Kumar, said, “We will have retired teachers to help us with the evaluation process, besides the regular ones, who have been briefed on the procedure, and we expect no problems in the evaluation of answer sheets. Besides, we have also increased the remuneration fees.” Teachers elected for the evaluation work have been asked to report on the appointed date and time failing which a mention will be made in the annual records. With some schools having desisted from sending teachers in the past, the CBSE has also directed all schools to co-operate with the Board and assign teachers for evaluation purposes. And for those who extend effective co-operation, there will be a mention of the service in the annual records. The CBSE has also announced the appointing of a Chief Nodal Supervisor for evaluation, who will be in charge in cities. The Chief Nodal Supervisor will be in charge of the subject they teach and will oversee the timely completion of evaluation work. The answer scripts of Science and Technology will be evaluated by two examiners. The Board has also directed the head examiner of Social Science to choose an additional head examiner, who along with the head examiner can cover all four subjects of Geography, Civics, History and Economics.
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Answer sheet facilities for Board students
New Delhi, February 27 The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced that from the current examinations all students of classes X and XII will write their answers for the English and Sanskrit papers on a sheet, unlike the previous years when they were required to write them in the space provided in the question paper itself. The decision to change the pattern, it was pointed out, resulted from the feedback that the Board received from the schools. In their suggestions to the CBSE, the schools had pointed out the difficulties faced by the students while writing the answers in the spaces on the question paper. Haling the decision, a student of Modern School, Barakhamba Road, said, “the space provided on the question paper was very restricting and it would be stressful to constantly try and not exceed the limit. Another drawback was that if a student made a mistake and wanted to rewrite the answer, there was no way you could do that, resulting in loss of marks.”
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PHDCCI to take up issue of land acquisition
Gurgaon, February 27 Mr Memani, who was here as the chief guest on the occasion of the 25th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Gurgaon Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), said that the PHDCC had earlier taken up the issue with the state government and it was given to understand that the land would not be acquired. He was responding to the issue raised by the former President of the PHDCCI and founder President of the GCCI, Mr P. K. Jain. While delivering his speech, Mr Jain thanked the PHDCCI for taking up the issue at the highest level. According to him, several industrial units bought the land decades ago in order to take care of their expansion plans. About half a dozen villages, where such land has been under acquisition are spread over in Gurgaon sub-division. The development has come as a sore point in the industrial circle as the industrial units or their parts have already been set. In fact, some units were set up on the land about three decades ago. Mr Jain, who has his industrial base here, lamented that while Gurgaon has expanded exponentially and was a success story, it also has a configurational shortcoming leading to stress. Some of the infrastructure, particularly in the transportation sector, including roads, civic amenities, energy, water supply, etc. have not been able to keep pace with the growth that has already taken place on the ground. A resolution of these problems would require fresh thinking and huge investments. He further said that the other areas of concern were declining water table, need for upgradation of infrastructure in Haryana sub-region of NCR and extension of Delhi Metro project to Gurgaon.
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Spectacular scenery of villages on show
Ravi Bhatia Tribune News Service
The exhibition entitled, ‘People and Places’ was inaugurated by the US Ambassador, Dr David C Mulford, on February 24 in the presence of a select gathering of art aficionados. The exhibition will remain on view till March 13. The photographs in the exhibition depict the poverty and harsh living conditions contrasted by the unfailing gracious hospitality of the Indian villagers. It is obvious that their dignity and optimism has left a lasting impression on the artist. While photographing the people gave Bartlett the greatest satisfaction, it was the breathtaking scenery and architecture of the villages which really inspired him to click the beautiful pictures and keep them for posterity. The photographs leave a lasting impression on the soul of the viewer. Colour & vibrancy
of Rajasthan
‘Elements’, an exhibition of paintings by the upcoming contemporary artist, Alka Mathur was inaugurated at the Open Palm Court Area of the India Habitat Centre here on February 24 by the former Prime Minister, Mr V. P. Singh, who himself has been dabbling with the paint and brush for the last couple of decades. The exhibition is on till February 28. Alka Mathur is a visual artist who works primarily with mixed media. Her involvement with the elements of nature is intense and finds a new meaning in her works. From the blue skies to the bleak deserts of Rajasthan, her paintings add a new dimension to the elements much to the excitement of the viewer. After studying drawing and painting at the famous Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai, Alka has travelled extensively and exhibited her works in most of the metropolitan cities of the country apart from Dhaka and Bangladesh. It is apparent that her artistic endeavours have been greatly influenced by the colour and vibrancy of the desert of Rajasthan where she was born. She is currently involved in studying and exploring natural pigments and dyes used in the traditional art forms which now find a new expression in her recent works.
Drawings for contemporary art buffs
The Kumar Gallery in Sundar Nagar is exhibiting the drawings of 24 masters of Indian contemporary art from February 25 to March 13. Among the masters whose drawings are being showcased are Chugtai, Jamini Roy, Krishen Khanna, Souza, Ganesh Pyne, Satish Gujral, Jatin Das, Hussain and Laxman Goud. Some of the drawings date back to the mid-fifties and were exhibited at the gallery for the first time then. The exhibition is a must for all those who are interested in the study of the evolution of contemporary art in the country.
Rose as subject
of paintings
Obviously inspired by the ambience of the famous Mughal Gardens in the Rashtrapati Bhawan here, artist M. SD. Thakur is holding an exhibition of 40 of his paintings at the Inderprastha Gallery here. The exhibition, which is on till February 28 only, was specially mounted to coincide with the annual pre-spring opening of the Gardens to the general public. Incidentally, Thakur has chosen the eternal rose as his subject of these paintings, and he painstakingly chose 40 varieties, all of them in full bloom in the sprawling Gardens, and transferred them in surrealistic colours on the canvas. A must for all those who like flowers in general and the imperial rose in particular.
Recreating the charm
of Benares
‘Charnamrit’, a solo show of 38 paintings by Sachindra Nath Jha at the Visual Arts Gallery here attempts to recreate Benares Ghats in a spiritual rendering. Organised by Nitanjali Art Gallery and jointly curated by Uma Nair and Mandira Lamba, the show encapsulates the artist’s unending fascination with the “charm of Benares and its deeply complex yet intensely satisfying images”. The paintings in the show focus on the activities around the ghats of the Ganga, depicting Naga sadhus, members of the Hare Rama Hare Krishna sect and pandits performing the daily rituals along the 80 ghats in the holy city. Having grown up in the colourful land of Madhubani in Bihar, Jha loves to paint a colourful picture. He was obviously influenced by the colourful rangolis his mother used to make while he was a child.
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Charter of demands to make Delhi a caring city
New Delhi, February 27 This was the third ‘Mahapanchayat’ of the homeless in Delhi, where they presented their testimonies and formulated a charter of demands for the government. The ‘Mahapanchayat’ highlighted the need for a collective effort of various stakeholders to work for the most vulnerable sections of our society. An initiative of ‘Aashary Adhikar Abhiyan’, it hopes to reach out to more than 10,000 homeless people through diverse programmes. Efforts are on to make a difference to the lives of homeless through various interventions like shelter advocacy, legal aid, food campaign for destitutes, mobile health service, mobilisation of various homeless groups. Moreover, through sensitisation work carried out with the police, RWAs students, corporates and media, the aim is to turn Delhi into a caring city. The MCD Councillor from Chandni Chowk, Mr Brij Mohan Sharma, who was present on the occasion, stressed upon the need to ensure the right to vote and ration card to the homeless.
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Farmers protest power cuts
Greater Noida, February 27 They are quite upset by the frequent power cuts. Their crops are wilting for want irrigation and the children’s studies are also badly affected. The farmers gheraoed NPCL Executive Director,
B.P. Mukherjee and Dy. G.M. Gautam Ghosh. Rakam Singh Bhatti alleged that the NPCL company was supplying power to the farmers only for two/three hours against the administration’s instructions for a 14-hour supply. This is not sufficient for irrigating the crops. Power scarcity has brought the farmers face to face with famine conditions, he alleged. Farmers said the power company has often assured them of an improved power supply, but nothing is ever done. The farmers warned the NPCL that if conditions were not improved in three days, they would put a padlock on the company gate and sit on
dharna. Later B.P. Mukherjee assured the farmers that the villages would be supplied with power for 10 hours daily with immediate effect.
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IGNOU accord on teacher training in Mauritius
New Delhi, February 27 According to the MoU, the MIE will execute the teacher-training programme in Mauritius as its partner institution. While the MIE will provide all pre and post-admission services to students, IGNOU on its part will be responsible for quality of learning material and evaluation of enrolled students through well laid down procedures. The national open university will also assist in developing expert resources for delivery of distance education programme in Mauritius and augment the use of information and communication technologies for education.
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GHPS governing body takes charge
New Delhi, February 27 Mr S Ravinder Singh Kharana, general secretary stressed the need to inculcate the moral values in the students and promised to offer his co-operation. Others leaders S Inderjit Singh Monty, S Arvinder Singh Chhatwal, P S Bawa also spoke on the occasion.
Vidyapeeth annual meet
The annual alumni meet of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Management and Research, Milap, was organised here. Mr J Mehra, Director Essar Group, was the chief guest on the occasion.
— TNS
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