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Husband, wife commit suicide after killing children
Three women killed, one abducted in Ghaziabad
10 officers among 28 suspended in sales tax bribery scandal
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Driver offers ‘prasad’ to BSF jawan, robs him
Sudden showers bring respite from heat
SI on hunger strike against indiscipline
Maths goes well for many
Social Jurists protest school fee hike
Quiz for the differently abled
Chirag Nursery steals the show
MCD plan to generate power from garbage
Tomatoes can prevent cancer of prostate
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Husband, wife commit suicide after killing children
New Delhi, March 9 They were identified as Raj Kamal Khurana (45), his wife Ranjana (35), son Abhishek (6) and daughter Smrita (4). While Raj Kamal and his wife were found hanging in their dinning room, their children were found dead in the bedroom. The police said that the suicide was discovered this morning at around 11 a.m. by their maidservant Munni. This morning when Munni came for work at around 10 a.m., Ranjana had reportedly asked her to come after an hour. When Munni returned to work at 11 a.m., there was no response from inside when she rang the bell. Sensing something suspicious, Munni informed Ranjana’s neighbours and when the half-locked door was opened with the help of their neighbours, Raj Kamal and Ranjana were found hanging with two separate chains in the dinning room. They had apparently strangled to death their children. Abhishek studied in Class one and Smrita was in nursery in the MTH International School. The police said that Khurana had suffered some losses in his business and was depressed for quite some time. Khurana, originally hailing from Pathankot, Punjab, was running an export business in electronic home appliances in Delhi and closed down his business two months back after he suffered huge losses. According to the police, Khurana had taken Rs 7.5 lakh from the ICICI Bank and Rs 5.5 lakh from the Standard Chartered Bank as loans. Since he suffered losses and at the same time could not repay the loans, he was depressed for quite some time. Khurana, who was in Delhi for the last two-and-a-half years, had moved in to his new flat in Dwarka Sector-10 (105, Pocket C) in December. Earlier, he was staying in the same sector in a different flat.
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Three women killed, one abducted in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, March 9 A nephew shot dead his aunt—wife of
father's younger brother—in Loni. Another woman was done to death in a poultry farm under Kavi Nagar police area and her body hanged from the ceiling upside down. In a dispute in Rajinder Nagar of Sahibabad police area, a married woman Garima, 24, was killed. She was married to Jaideep Singh of Rajinder Nagar, Sector-2 about two years ago. The couple had a daughter also. Garima is reported to have been killed in suspicious circumstances, while the police are trying to treat it as a case of suicide. The wife of an NDMC employee was shot dead by his nephew in Indrapuri Colony. The deceased has been identified as Veerwatti. The killer Prempal and his father were reportedly eyeing the land of Veerwatti’s husband. Prempal, son of Bhagwan Singh, had come to his uncle Mahavir’s house in Indrapuri and shot dead his wife Garima on Tuesday evening. The youth has been absconding since then. A woman in a poultry farm between Sadarpur and Raispur villages was murdered and her body hanged from the ceiling to give the impression that it was a suicide. A 15-year-old girl was abducted from Anwarpur village under Pilkhua police station area. Girl’s father has accused Dheep, son of Dheer Singh as the culprit. Police are trying to trace the young girl.
Prisoner’s death shrouded in mystery
Ghaziabad, March 9 Two jail officials, Shyam Lal and Salim had taken the prisoner to the emergency ward of district hospital at 12.30 am yesterday and told the doctors to treat the patient. However, when the doctors examined him, they found that the prisoner had already died. The deceased has been identified as Sallahuddin, son of Allahudin. According to prisoners in the jail, Sallahuddin had been ill for quite sometime and was admitted to district hospital in the past also. He had been admitted to jail hospital also from where
he was referred to the district hospital. The Kotwali police have sent his body for autopsy.
— OC
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10 officers among 28 suspended in sales tax bribery scandal
New Delhi, March 9 Four Sales Tax officers, six Assistant Sales Tax officers and 18 clerical level staff, including 16 upper division clerks, who were identified in the tapes, have been suspended pending inquiry, the Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila Dikshit, told reporters. FIRs have also been lodged against the officers, she added. ‘Aaj Tak’ channel had yesterday aired tapes purportedly recorded by a hidden camera, which showed 82 employees of the department accepting bribe for registration of companies and issuing C-Forms, which are essential for inter-state trading and assessment of sales tax. Mrs Dikshit said the Sales Tax Department had also been directed to identify lower-level staff seen in the tapes and take action against them. The Anti-Corruption Bureau carried out raids on the premises of five of the suspended employees this morning, said the Finance Minister, Mr A. K. Walia. While he did not divulge whether any seizures were made today, he said raids would continue. The Chief Minister also announced that her government planned to install closed-circuit television in all departments where the public had to interact with officials. Meanwhile, the Leader of Opposition, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi, today demanded the resignation of the Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila Dikshit, for the involvement of the Sales Tax Department in the bribery scandal. He demanded her resignation after a television channel exposed 82 officers of Sales Tax Department taking bribe openly. Some of the officers have even accepted on the television channel that they distribute the amount among the higher officials in ministry. As per the data available, 71 per cent of the tax is collected by the Sales Tax Department. To earn more revenue, the government has increased sales tax on 64 items during the last years. It has often been alleged that the officers in the Sales Tax Department force the traders and the industrialists to pay bribe for even routine works.
There is a
breakdown in admn: HC
Disposing of a petition filed by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) over encroachment of land allotted to it for construction of a station, the Delhi High Court has observed that ‘’There is a break down of administration in Government of Delhi.’’ Justice Pradeep Nandrajog observed that ‘’If what is stated in the present application is correct, it would still reflect a breakdown of governance in Delhi for the reason a public utility service provider wholly owned by the government would assert facts, and in response, another government authority would state facts wholly to the contrary.’’ ‘’It would be expected of the Lieutenant-Governor to issue appropriate directions to various statutory authorities or government departments that in future if a petition is to be filed by one authority against another on the allegation that a statutory authority or a government department is not rendering assistance, clearance should be obtained from the Chief Secretary, Government of NCT Delhi,’’ the High Court said. In a petition, the DMRC said the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) had allotted 115 acres of land on September 16, 1998, for the construction of Shastri Park Station. The DMRC had constructed a station on the land, but at the gate there is an unauthorised mazar and some encroachment, the petition filed on December 13, 2004, said. It further alleged that despite repeated requests to the DDA, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Delhi Police, the authorities did not take any steps to remove the structures, the petition alleged. The petition further said, ‘‘The encroachment is totally illegal and is causing obstruction in the free flow of traffic and in the movement of
passengers’’. — TNS
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Two held with skins of wild cats
New Delhi, March 9 The Mukherjee Nagar police in North- West district arrested the accused with the skins while they were trying to escape from there. The skins seized include three skins of Leopard (Tendua) and four skins of other wild cats. Heroin worth Rs 1 crore seized, two drug traffickers nabbed With the arrest of two drug traffickers, the Special Cell of the Delhi Police today claimed to have recovered one kilogram of heroin worth Rs one crore in the international market. Acting on a tip-off that some drug traffickers would exchange the consignment on the Delhi-Noida link road, Mayur Vihar, the sleuths laid a trap on March 8 and nabbed the accused persons. They were identified as Haroon Hussain (29), resident of Bareilly and Anwar (25), resident of Amroha, Uttar Pradesh. In another case, the North district police claimed to have nabbed four auto-lifters and seized three stolen vehicles and two gold chains from their possession. They were identified as Narender, alias Don (22), resident of Jaunti, Ram Kumar, alias Likhi (22), resident of Gautam Budh Nagar, Raja (22), resident of Mehrauli and Ranbir (31), resident of Rohtak, Haryana. Acting on a tip-off that some boys would come in a vehicle near Shastri Nagar crossing in Gulabi Bagh, the police laid a trap and nabbed the suspects. During interrogation, the accused persons confessed to their crimes and told the police that they used to steal vehicles with the help of master keys.
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Driver offers ‘prasad’ to BSF jawan, robs him
Noida, March 9 Rajkumar, a resident of Jammu, is presently posted in BSF Assam. He was on the way to his native place, when he thought of meeting a friend in Delhi. He had detrained from Assam Express in Delhi and hired an auto to visit his friend. The auto driver, after engaging the jawan in conversation, offered him drug-laced ‘Mahashivratri prasad’. The latter took it in good faith. The driver then brought the stupefied passenger to Noida, dropped him on the roadside and sped way with his belongings. Some residents informed the Sector-20 police that a BSF jawan was lying on roadside. He was rushed and admitted to government hospital Sector-30. The police, who are making inquiries from the people in the vicinity, feel that the auto driver must be a resident of Noida. Some auto drivers are being questioned in this connection. Similar incidents have taken place in Sector-24 and 39 also.
Two arrested with 1,800 duplicate VCDs
The Sector-24 police seized 1,800 duplicate VCDs from a shop in Sector-11, Noida. Two persons have been arrested for possessing and marketing these VCDs, illegally. The police are now looking for their other companions. Ber Vikram Singh, S.O. Sector-24 police, said he had been tipped off by informers about the sale of duplicate VCDs in H Block of Sector-11, Noida. The police had sent some decoy customers to the shop to buy the VCDs. After confirmation of the illegal trading, the police arrested two shopkeepers and seized 1,800 VCDs from the shop. The shopkeepers were also selling the VCDs without a receipt. The arrested men identified themselves as Abhimanyu and Rakesh Kumar, both of M Block, Sector-12 Noida. During interrogation, they said that they were getting cheap VCDs from Delhi. Some other people are also involved in the smuggling of VCDs from Delhi.
— OC
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Sudden showers bring respite from heat
New Delhi, March 9 The India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said that the rains were the result of upper air circulation that was fast moving through central part of Rajasthan. The system has been induced by a western disturbance over north Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir. The Met office said that the Capital was likely to get more rains under its influence in the next 48 hours. Meanwhile, the minimum temperature was recorded five degrees above normal.
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11 Kasna policemen giving office the slip
Greater Noida, March 9 Meanwhile, the District Magistrate, Mr Santosh Kumar Yadav, has also ordered a magisterial probe. Three young Dadri junk dealers, Irshad, Asis and Meherban had suddenly disappeared from the Kasna police station last September. A question is being asked as to why it has taken the police and the district administration five months to order a probe in the matter. The SSP had suspended SI Alok Sharma and head constables Ravi Dutt Tyagi and Kunwar Pal Singh on Monday. Meanwhile, a resident of Sirsa Khanpur under Kasna police station had also reportedly gone missing about a month ago. His relatives are visiting the police station almost daily to know about his whereabouts.
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SI on hunger strike against indiscipline
Ghaziabad, March 9 It is learnt that some constables having the support of senior police officers and political leaders had left SI Sanjeev Lochan Tyagi of Hapur police station no other alternative than to take recourse to hunger strike, to highlight his helplessness as also to expose the indiscipline in the police force of UP. The SI said that instead of obeying his orders, the subordinates had misbehaved with him. When he complained to the senior police officers, they transferred him from Hapur police station rather than taking action against the subordinates. And as the last straw, one of the cops is learnt to have threatened the SI with, “I will fix you.” Later, the Police Circle Officer is understood to have persuaded the SI to break his hunger strike. The SI had suddenly started the hunger strike in front of the police station gate two days ago. He said he had challaned a jeep, being driven illegally on Delhi Road on March 4, and ordered constable Sarvesh to take the jeep to the police station. The constable not only refused to do so, but misbehaved with the SI and even threatened him with dire consequences. Sanjeev said the constable was getting a weekly gratification from the jeep owner. When he complained to the senior officers, they transferred him. DSP Umed Singh and SP rural VK Shekhar somehow prevailed upon the hunger striker to call off his protest.
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Maths goes well for many
New Delhi, March 9 Claiming that the paper was easy, Neha said, “the worst is over”. For Ishita Sethi of Rai Public School, it was also a day for thanksgiving. “It was a very easy paper and apart from one question, all others were direct and
simple”. Lokesh of the same school also found the paper easy and “managed to finish in the nick of time”. But for Pooja Malhotra of Daisy Dales, “it was a lengthy paper and the questions were tricky”. Controller Examinations, Mr Pavnesh Kumar, said, “There were no cases of cheating reported today though till date we have received 16 complaints of cheating from the Delhi region alone. As for today, exams were conducted smoothly.”
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Social Jurists protest school fee hike
New Delhi, March 9 “The 295 schools have been allotted land by the DDA/L&DO on the recommendations of Directorate of Education, Government of NCT of Delhi on throwaway prices have to abide by a clause that says they cannot arbitrarily increase the fees. And now, the Directorate has also permitted them to increase the fee by 10 percent,” said advocate Ashok Agarwal. “We are questioning the mathematics of the directorate, which allowed them to quote a 10 per cent hike,” he adds.
In the letter to the CM, it has been noted that as per the rules “the school shall not increase the
rates of tuition fee without the prior sanction of the Directorate of Education, Delhi Administration, and shall follow the provisions of Delhi School Education Act/Rules, 1973 and other issued from time
to time”. Among the schools that have to abide by the above mentioned rule are Delhi Public School Society, R.K. Puram, G. R. Goenka Education Society, Mata Jaikaur Charitable Trust, Ashok Vihar, Phase-II, Sadhu Vaswani Mission, Nutan Vidya Mandir, North Ghonda, Yamuna Vihar, and The Agnal Charities, Agnal Seva Sangh, D-15, NDSE Part-II. “In view of above facts and circumstances, it is requested to initiate appropriate legal actions forthwith against all the unaided recognised private schools that have been given public land and have decided to increase the fee without prior sanction of the Directorate of Education, Govt of NCT of Delhi in violation of the terms and conditions of the land allotment letters. It is also requested that the names and addresses of the schools, who are under obligation to take prior sanction from Directorate of Education to increase the fee be made public,” the letter further reads.
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Quiz for the differently abled
New Delhi, March 9 Showcasing that their mental handicaps are no deterrents, students from various special schools in the Capital participated in the state-level inter-school quiz competition for the persons having special needs. Organised by Four Steps, a research, training and rehabilitation centre for children with special needs, the event witnessed excitement and exhilaration as each team did its best to get the maximum right answers. In the end, it was Joginder and Sharad from Nai Disha Tamana Association who walked away with the first prize. Manoj and Upwan from Air Force Golden Jubilee and Tarun and Hadia from Shristi were the first and second
runners-up. — TNS
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Chirag Nursery steals the show
New Delhi, March 9 Sanjay Lake in Mayur Vihar was the venue of the show
and contest. Sapna Nursery and Darbar Khan Nursery of DDA’s Horticulture Divisions I and II stood second and third, respectively. On the occasion, DDA Vice-Chairman Madhukar Gupta said Aravalli Biodiversity Park was coming up in Vasant Kunj over an area of 600 acres. A Yamuna Biodiversity Park is also being developed over an area of 450 acres. “The idea behind these two mega projects,” Mr Gupta said, “is to resurrect the flora and fauna of two original eco-systems of Delhi–Yamuna eco-system and Aravalli eco-system.”
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MCD plan to generate power from garbage
New Delhi, March 9 The MCD would provide 2000 metric tonnes of garbage per day, which
will be used for power generation. The Chairman of the Standing Committee, Mr Mukesh Goel, said that the Corporation already had such a plant in Timarpur, which had become non-functional. Now, efforts are on to restart this plant and construct a new plant, which would be established in Okhla area of South Delhi. Mr Mukesh Goel said that the project is expected to cost Rs 80 crore. The capacity of each plant will be to generate 15 MV power pre day, which would be sold to the various power distribution companies. Apart from helping reduce the shortfall in the power generation, it would also solve the problem of garbage disposal in the national Capital. The senior officers and leaders of the Corporation held discussions with the consortium of Andhra Pradesh Technology Development and Promotion Centre and the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited to establish the project under public-private partnership. Such projects for converting municipal solid waste into fuel are already being run in Andhra Pradesh.
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Tomatoes can prevent cancer of prostate
New Delhi, March 9 Dr Aggarwal said that high blood levels of vitamin E or alpha-and gamma-tocopherol cut the risk of prostate cancer by about 50 per cent. Daily vitamin E supplementation can reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 32 per cent. The antioxidant activity of vitamin E may be the reason for the same. Apart alpha-tocopherol has also other non-antioxidant properties, such as enhancement of the immune response. Similarly lycopene present in the tomatoes is prostate cancer preventive. This is already available in the market in the form of a medicine.
Tributes to Dr J L Pandit
A special assembly was organised by the Hillgrove Public School to pay tributes to its founder Dr J L Pandit. A special prayer was also performed for the peace of the departed soul who earned a name for himself through his work in the field of education. Late Dr Pandit was the first Indian teacher deputed by the government of India to Australia for higher studies. A member of the Phi Delta Kappa Chapter, an association of eminent educationists of Harvard University, he was a prolific writer and recipient of numerous awards.
— TNS
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New Delhi, March 9
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