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Fake passports issued from Nepal seized
Lid off land scam in Noida
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Girl student ends life
Mobile squads to oversee Board exams
Students find biology quite easy
Now women can lodge complaints on website
Poor girls married off by social organisations
Fire in perfume unit
First phase of AMR technology implemented: NDPL
Farmers flay hike in sales tax on seeds
Amenities in MCD schools under scanner
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Fake passports issued from Nepal seized
New Delhi, March 7 The accused have been identified as Rashidul-ul-Islam, Mehdi Hassan, Shaiful Islam, Abdul Latif, Ashraful Islam, Aminul Haque, Arif Hussain, Nizamuddin, Emdadul Haque, Lavaan Mathar, Razaul Choudhary, Abdul Khaire, Delowar Hussain, Mohammad Muslem, Ghafiqual Islam, Musud Rana, all residents of Bangladesh. Acting on a tip-off that some Bangladeshi citizens were staying in New Neel Gagan Hotel in Pahar Ganj, the sleuth conducted a raid and nabbed them. During interrogation, the accused claimed that they were planning to visit Malaysia. During scrutiny, the sleuth found that some passports, which were issued from Bangladesh, were genuine while those issued from Nepal were found with fake names and addresses. The accused also told the sleuth that the passports were arranged by one Buttu, a resident of Bangladesh, who runs Ammetic Tours and Travel agency in Dhaka. Buttu told the accused that they were in demand in Malaysia. The cost for arranging the fake passports varied from Rs 60,000-80,000. Air tickets from Kathmandu-Delhi-Mumbai-Kulalampur were also seized from the accused. AIIMS student commits suicide A post-graduate student of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) allegedly committed suicide at his house in South Delhi late last night. According to the police, Pankaj Aggarwal (25), the deceased, hung himself from a ceiling fan in his house in Gautam Nagar where he was staying on rent. Aggarwal was studying for an MD degree in Radiology at the prestigious institute. No suicide note has been found so far, but Aggarwal was apparently depressed for some time, the police said. Last month, a senior resident doctor of AIIMS, had attempted suicide in his hostel room. On January 24, a doctor of the nearby Safdarjung Hospital had killed himself by injecting some poisonous substance into his body.
Pornographic
CDs seized
With the arrest of two persons, the North-West district police today claimed to have seized 225 porn CDs, 1,830 pirated CDs along with a CD writer from them. The accused have been identified as Sarvar Ali, alias Bunty (20), resident of Jehangirpuri, and Sachin Yadav (20), resident of Keshavpuram. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided their premises in Jehangirpuri and nabbed the accused.
Servant held
for theft
A servant, who had stolen Rs 1 lakh, was nabbed by the North district police from the ISBT, Kashmere Gate. The stolen money was seized from him. The accused has been identified as Hira (19) and is a resident of Uttaranchal. Acting on a complaint from one Dev Dutt, a resident of West Patel Nagar, who owns a spare parts shop in the Kashmere Gate area, that his servant Hira had stolen Rs 1 lakh from his shop, the police nabbed the accused from ISBT, Kashmere Gate.
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Lid off land scam in Noida
Noida, March 7 The district administration has since cancelled all the fictitious registries after the exposure of the scam worth Rs 100 crore in village Shahpur Goverdhanpur along the Taj expressway, comprising 100 lakh sq mts. The district administration has now registered a case against Moti Goel and eight others in Sector-39 police station, Noida. Incidentally not a single accused is the native of
the village. According to Dy District Magistrate Sadar, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Shahpur Goverdhanpur village is one of the constituent villages of Noida. Most of the village land has been acquired by the Noida authority. But Moti Goel had got this land worth crores transferred to his syndicate’s name with the
connivance of some officials. After investigations, it has been discovered that Khasra No. 194/1 and Khasra No. 11 are included in the cattle-grazing and agricultural land respectively, according to revenue records. However, on an order from the SDO in 1982 and 1984, an area of 30 bigha was transferred to the name of Charan Singh, s/o Hari Singh, Jai Prakash, s/o Som Nath, Sanjeev Kumar, s/o Ramadhar, Mahaveer, s/o Om Prakssh, Ramchandran, s/o Ram Kaduley and Deepak, s/o Suresh Chandra in the revenue records. Interestingly, the SDM’s order is not available in records neither there is any correspondence covering this transfer of land
on record. All these people, the probe has established, had got their names entered fraudulently by tampering with the records so that they could claim compensation for the land. The court of Dy DM Sadar had, therefore, cancelled all the registries vide case No. 11/2003 and 14/2004 under Sections 33/39 considering them as fictitious and illegal. A case against Moti Goel and eight others has been filed under Sections 120b, 420, 466, 468, 469,
472 and 13 (2) and 13 (i)d of anti-corruption law in Sector-39 police station, Noida.
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Girl student ends life
Ghaziabad, March 7 The girl lay in front of the
Chhattisgarh Express at 6.30 am near Sanjay Nagar railway crossing, SO Kavi Nagar police Anil Sumaniya said. The deceased had acted so fast that none of the people standing on either side of the railway crossing could get time to save her. She died on the spot. A book of social science was found near her body. Santosh, 15-year-old daughter of an engineer, Anand Mohan Tiwari of Sanjay Nagar, was Class X student of Bal Jagat School of the area. She had told her parents that she was going to study on the terrace, and then quietly slipped out. The family started looking for her after about two hours.
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Mobile squads to oversee Board exams
Noida, March 7 The mobile squads will keep a watch over nine more sensitive examination centres. Each team will comprise four members, two policemen, besides the team leader. Besides 22 sector, magistrates have also been deployed to keep a watch on 43 examination centres in the district. Students carrying mobile phone to the examination centres will be strictly dealt with, District Magistrate Santosh Yadav said. The authorities will also take a deterrent action against those anti-social elements who claim to
take contracts for mass copying. Each intermediate examination centre will
be supervised by seven teams of four members each. From Tuesday, the number of members will be increased to five members each. All preparations have been fine-tuned to conduct the examinations in a fair manner, the District Inspector of Schools, Mr Shravan Kumar said. The centre superintendents and supervisors will be responsible for the smooth and fair conduct of examinations.
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Students find biology quite easy
New Delhi, March 7 “It was an excellent paper, very easy and no tricky questions. Most of us finished the exam about half an hour before the scheduled time and had enough time to revise,” said
Astha, a student of Birla Vidya Niketan. The Controller Examination, CBSE, Mr Pavnesh Kumar, said there were no untoward incidents reported. “It went off well, there were no cases of cheating and impersonation reported,” he said.
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Now women can lodge complaints on website
New Delhi, March 7 On the occasion of a function hosted as a part of International Women’s Day celebrations, the Chief Minister launched a website (dcw.delhigovt.nic.in) of the Delhi Commission for Women to help women in distress lodge their complaints without travelling to the office of the Delhi Commission for Women. Ms Dikshit also announced new short-term courses on women’s studies to be conducted by the Delhi University. The Delhi Commission for Women will finance these courses. The courses will not only focus on theoretical aspects of women’s studies but also include a month-long ground level fieldwork with NGOs working in these areas. The chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women, Prof Kiran Walia, said the cooperatives would be run by the women members of self-help groups and shall be assisted by non-government organisations. “It is hoped that these cooperatives will help inculcate a sense of enterprise among underprivileged women,” she observed.
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Poor girls married off by social organisations
Faridabad, March 7 The marriage function was held on the premises of the ‘Manav Dharmarth
Chakitsyalaya’ at Sector-10 here. It was attended by the office-bearers of these social organisations and the girls’ parents. The couples were given several items of daily use as a mark of ‘kanyadaan’ and some financial help to start a new life. While Mr Pawan Gupta was the chief guest, Mr
V.S. Chaudhary, a social activist, was the guest of honour. Mr Gupta asked the Samiti members and the Rotary Club to take to other areas of the social work, so that these bodies could increase their area of operation and provide the required help to the needy.
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Fire in perfume unit
Noida, March 7 The chemicals kept in drums in the factory in Sector 2, Noida, had caught fire which spread in a few minutes. The tenders from Ghaziabad and Sahibabad also joined the Noida fire brigade and it took about 3 hours to control the blaze. The timely action by the fire brigade segregated in time a number of drums containing chemicals, otherwise the adjoining units would have been damaged. The cause of fire could not be ascertained. Prachi, a perfume manufacturing unit in D-11 and D-12 in Sector-2 had caught fire at midnight and the fire brigade got the information at 1.20 am. By the time the tenders from Noida Phase-II reached the site, the
fire had assumed a dangerous form. The drums containing chemicals were bursting like explosives and the flames were touching 30 to 40 ft in the sky. But the godown in D-12, full
of stored chemicals, was saved somehow. Fire officer R.P. Gupta said the cause of blaze could not be ascertained. It might have been caused by a short-circuit.
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First phase of AMR technology implemented: NDPL
New Delhi, March 7 The NDPL, which supplies electricity to North and North-West parts of Delhi, plans to cover 10,000 consumers under this technology by the end of 2005-06 and extend it to over 50,000 consumers by the end of 2006-07. This technology intervention now covers all its high value customers, an NDPL release said, adding for the past eight months all large industrial power and single point distribution consumers were being billed with this technology. “The AMR system provides the utility with accurate data, leaving no room for manipulation. At the same time, the consumers can access their consumption and billing data, use it for load planning and in reducing their electricity bills,” the release said.
Seminar on electronic meters
The North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL) organised a seminar on electronic meters to educate the Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) of North Delhi. The NDPL educated the residents about the functioning of electronic meters vis-à-vis old conventional
electro-mechanical meters. The seminar was a joint initiative of NDPL and leading meter manufacturer L&T that has supplied a significant number of electronic meters to the company. The seminar was attended by about 100 representatives from different RWAs based in North Delhi.
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Farmers flay hike in sales tax on seeds
New Delhi, March 7 Later, a delegation of the farmers met the Chairman, Empowerment Committee on VAT, Mr Asim Das Gupta, and submitted a memorandum demanding an exemption of VAT on seeds. Mr Gupta assured the farmers that he would put their demands in the next committee meeting of state finance ministers on VAT. He also informed that VAT on other agricultural inputs such as chemical fertilisers, pesticides and insecticides would be discussed in the meeting. The demonstration was addressed by the general-secretary of the All India Farmers Association. He said that the poor farmers in the country could not afford the unnecessary burden.
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Amenities in MCD schools under scanner
New Delhi, March 7 The affidavit, filed in response to the PIL filed by the Social Jurist, highlighting the absence of basic amenities in government and MCD schools in Delhi, claims there are 4254 vacancies of primary teachers in MCD schools and lack of drinking water facilities in 30 schools. Further, it states that about 18 to 20 per cent of schools have low water pressure, 60 schools are without electricity connections, nine schools functions from tents and 16 schools are without toilet blocks. Responding to the query about the absence of any school in Mukandpur, the MCD claims that a school building will be built up in 18 months and the establishment of residential schools is under examination. Installation of water coolers in schools is being examined and a high-level committee is being constituted under the Chairmanship of Additional Commissioner (Health and Education) to oversee the building designs. The MCD has also submitted that boundary walls, water, electricity and toilet blocks will be provided in all the porta cabin schools in various resettlement colonies.
Plea to L-G on building plans
The Leader of Opposition in the Standing Committee, MCD, Mr Vijender Gupta, has asked the Lt-Governor, Mr B.L. Joshi, to direct the Delhi Government to withdraw the proposal that aims to end the requirement for sanction for construction of government buildings like schools, police stations, courts, prisons etc. He said that if this proposal is passed by the government, it will be a contravention of the provisions of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, enacted by the Central Government. He said that the provisions of Section 332 of the DMC Act 1957 provides that no person shall erect or execute any of the works specified in Section 334 except with the previous sanction of the municipal commissioner. Besides, the provisions of Section 330-A of the DMC Act 1957 inter-alia provide that the commissioner will exercise his powers and discharge his function under this chapter under the general superintendence, direction and control of the Union Government. He alleged that abolishing the necessity of sanction of building plan is politically motivated and aimed at tarnishing the image of the MCD.
— TNS
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Disruption in water supply
New Delhi, March 7
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Convocation of marketing institute
New Delhi, March 7 He urged the students to imbibe scientific management as a part of their life and also encouraged them to become successful entrepreneurs. As many as 150 MBA students of this institute were awarded degrees on the occasion. Dignitaries like Mr Adesh Gupta, CEO, Liberty Shoes and actress Priyanka Chopra also graced the event. The vote of thanks was given by the founder president of the institute Dr Jagjit Singh.
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