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Sheila wants all-woman PCR teams
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DHBVN officials in a fix
over meter reading
Old woman killed in Rajouri Garden
Dozens of diarrhoea cases
in Noida
Seminar stresses need to make ‘save environment’ a
VLS investors clamour for swift IT action
STF to counter hardcore criminals in Gurgaon
DSGMC raps ‘foul’ language in NCERT textbooks
Deputy jailor attacked
by prisoners
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Sheila wants all-woman PCR teams
New Delhi, June 6 Speaking here today at a seminar titled ‘’Rape, Law And Society: Is Marriage An Alternative To Punishment’’ organised by the All India Mahila Congress, Mrs Dikshit noted, ‘’I am ashamed that Delhi tops this list and one way to combat this is by increasing the presence of women in the police force. We do not have enough women in the police force at present.’’ Mrs Dikshit while calling for stringent laws to check heinous crimes like rape, said such laws need to be coupled with speedy justice. It has often been seen that delay in bringing the guilty to book subverts the whole process of justice, she added. ‘’The minimum punishment for rape should be life imprisonment,’’ the Chief Minister said. In this context, she also stressed the role of civil society in tackling the crime. ‘’Rape was as much an administrative issue as a social one,’’ she added. She also called upon women to take precautions for their own safety. ‘’Women in the Capital must be aware and should also take adequate precautions when venturing out,’’ Mrs Dikshit added. All India Mahila Congress president Rita Bahuguna expressed strongly against marriage with the victim as an alternative to punishment to the rapist. ‘’Rape is a crime and it is not an issue only between the rapist and the victim but also the state. A rapist commits heinous crime, which cannot be negotiated,’’ she said. She was referring to two recent rape trials, in one of which the rape convict offered to marry the victim to escape punishment while in the other, the victim agreed to marry the accused. Ms Bahuguna demanded the setting up of fast track women courts to try rape cases.
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Boy scorned, e-mails obscenities
New Delhi, June 6 Police said that the complainant was working in a firm and she had good terms with the accused, but in February 2005, she had broken off with him. To settle scores, the boy allegedly started sending such obscene messages. When the messages were scanned, it was found that the accused has asked the victim to leave the job, otherwise he would show the obscenities which he had exchanged with her, to her parents and other staff of the company. “The accused has sent morphed obscene pictures to her e-mail ID and threatened to e-mail her morphed photographs to all her friends and relatives,” said a police official. During investigation, it was revealed that the accused did his graduation in hardware from ET&T. About two years back, he met the victim through a common friend and developed an intimacy with her. Both of them fell out in February when she turned down his proposal to marry him. Recently he came to know that she had befriended a highly placed executive in her own firm. Stung by rejection, he decided to seek revenge and forced her to quit the firm. After a while, the accused stopped sending e-mails when he learnt that a complaint had been made to the police. The police said that the accused was running his workshop of computer repairing in name of Classic Peripherals in Gurgaon. The police have seized hard disks and the computer at the office of Classic Peripherals and sent them for further examination.
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Gargi launches smart card service
New Delhi, June 6 All this information will be available to the students through a smart card service, which will be unique to all students. “During the first year of its launch, the service will be provided to the students from college alone. The information cannot be accessed from home or outside college,” said the Principal, Ms Meera Ramachandran. She added, “There will be a data on each student. And they can check their academic and personal achievements using their smart cards. The information will keep getting upgraded and can later prove useful for the students while seeking a job.” The Intranet service will be a compendium of all the required information on a student that prospective employers would require. “Apart from the educational qualifications and marks, it will also provide an insight into the extracurricular activities and the overall growth of students, which will be posted on their individual home pages,” Ms Ramachandran said. The college, which has received a special grant from the UGC under the colleges with Potential for Excellence scheme, is also trying to launch additional value courses for students that can be pursued concurrently with the BA programmes. “We are negotiating with a travel and tourism institute to start add-on programmes, then there is a business application programme…we want the students to get the best,” she
said. Gargi is also trying to start an add-on course in financial services in banking, which will be introduced in collaboration with a bank. “We believe specialisation is important and students should be able to gauge their aptitude through these courses and then pursue the subject of their choice,” the Principal said. The college, she said, is also in the process of setting up a multi-disciplinary research wing. “Research in various departments is already taking place. Besides, we are also working on environment-related issues. Our compost manufacturing from solid waster management is popular. We have a water harvesting plant and the chemistry department is already working on a project related to industrial waste management,” Ms Ramachandran said. Explaining that the PGD and a Diploma in Financial Management and Services, which the college was planning to offer in collaboration with Manipal Academy of Higher Education
(MAHE) through a satellite, could not take off because of “prohibitive costs”, she said, “Students can look forward to new options like operational research and computer applications.”
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DHBVN officials in a fix
over meter reading
Faridabad, June 6 Though the employees of the Nigam have begun the meter reading in many areas on the old pattern, the officials seem to be unprepared for the further work, which include preparation of the bills. The department is reported to be considering seeking the help of the company whose contract ended. This development came to light that despite the directions of the authorities to cancel the contract, the officials concerned failed to take an alternative measure. It may be recalled that the Company Secretary of the
DHBVN, which covers seven districts of the state, had issued a letter stating that the contract of the meter reading given to private companies on the outsourcing basis would not be carried on after May 31, 2005. It is learnt that reports of irregularities and the financial loss to the Nigam had forced the latter to cancel the contract based on the manual reading of the meters. The second shock came when the auditors of the Nigam found that there was a huge loss of revenue for the department after it gave the work of the meter reading with help of digital cameras to a company. The areas outsourced under the scheme included four sub-divisions in Faridabad and three sub-divisions in Gurgaon. But the total loss of revenue to the department in this work was reported to be over three crore in the first year itself. The auditors had asked the Nigam to recover the loss from the bills of the company, but it is reported that nothing was done despite the strong objections. This, however, forced the DHBVN authorities to reconsider the move, and as a result, the Nigam did not announce the further continuation of the contract. The authorities concerned instead of taking measures to tackle with the work in view of the cancellation of the contract kept sitting idle and did not make any preparation to carry on the work itself, alleged a spokesperson of the All Haryana Power Corporation Workers Union. He claimed that now the department officials were again trying to involve the contractors in this work by trying to justify that the outsourcing method could be carried on further, which he claimed had been suitable to the vested interests of certain officials. He also claimed that there was adequate staff at present to carry on the work of meter reading internally and the authorities should only tie-up with the government agency like ‘Harton’ to prepare the bills. It may be recalled that the various employees union had been opposing the work given on outsourcing or on contract and had been claiming that the work and performance of the department had failed to improve besides the financial losses to the department.
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Old woman killed in Rajouri Garden
New Delhi, June 6 Police said that three labourers were working in their house to carry out some repair work. Of the three, one had worked on the same premises five years back. At around 11.30 am, the labourers informed Ajit Kaur that they were going to have tea and would come after a while. Ajit Kaur, a victim of paralysis, was lying in the drawing room while the deceased was in her bedroom to keep a watch on the labourers. At around 11.45 am, when a maid working there entered the house, she found the victim strangulated, tied with a rope. While the investigations are still on, the police said that it might be a handiwork of labourers. The motive behind the murder was not clear as the details of things missing were yet to be ascertained. Meanwhile, the police have launched a hunt for the labourers who escaped after the incident. Man held for carrying ‘ganja’
Delhi Police have arrested one person for his alleged involvement in lifting a motorcycle. The police claimed to have recovered the motorcycle and two kg ‘ganja’ from his possession. The accused has been identified as Rakesh Kumar (21), a resident of Sonepat, Haryana. Police claimed to have solved a case registered against him in Chandigarh. During investigation, the accused reportedly said that he had stolen the motorcycle from Chandigarh and changed its numberplate to avoid detection. He was carrying ‘ganja’ tied at the rear seat of the motorcycle.
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Dozens of diarrhoea cases
in Noida
Noida, June 6 One woman, identified as Shafali (26), had succumbed to the disease in the government hospital on Sunday. According to the doctors, Shafali was brought to the hospital in a critical condition from the slum areas in Sector-62. Most of the patients coming to the hospitals are from villages or those living in the slums, the doctors added. There is no decline in such cases reported in spite of the intense heat wave condition prevailing. During the past three days, dozens of patients have been admitted to the government hospital in Sector-30, Noida. Most of the patients like Shafali were brought to the hospital when their condition had become critical. According to the doctors, Shafali had been running high temperature. She was given injection and put on drip. However, her condition deteriorated after three hours, the doctors added. Her family members said that she had been running high temperature for the last ten days. The showers that lashed Noida yesterday could worsen the situation, the doctors warned. Polluted water was playing havoc with the people’s health, said Dr Aklesh Mohan. The doctors have advised people not to eat stale and exposed eatables and cut fruits and vegetables. As a result, the people have been asked to drink water only after boiling. As many as two dozen diarrhoea patients were admitted to the government hospital on Sunday. Most of them came from Sector-10, 9, 8 slum areas.
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Seminar stresses need to make ‘save environment’ a
people’s movement
Noida, June 6 He said a healthy environment was a must for healthy living and environment was closely connected with poverty. Environment, he said, should be everybody’s concern. Unless we all become serious about, it would be difficult to protect the environment. Let us make it a “our movement”, Dr Narain said. This is the only way to control pollution and maintain the environment. He said the countries around the world were spending US $ 900 billion on defence. However, only US $ two billion were spent on environmental protection. A significant suggestion put forward by Dr Narain was that an Environment Board should be set up. In his address, the Additional Secretary, Union Ministry of Environment, Mr P. K Mishra, said earth was our mother and we should all try to keep it clean. Every one of us should pledge to plant five saplings and ensure they grow into healthy trees, he added. The Deputy Director in the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Dr P. K.
Suri, said, India has 18 per cent of world’s population and therefore, it is all the more important to mount special campaigns for environmental protection. It is also important so as not to be caught up by the adverse effects of globalisation and industrialization. The seminar was organised by Shri Ram Publications, Noida.
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VLS investors clamour for swift IT action
New Delhi, June 6 The investors who had set up an association named “VLS Finance Investors Forum” to fight the case of their “vanishing” money, invested in the company, in a statement today said that the attached properties of the company were released by the court due to lack of interest shown by the income tax department. The forum had alleged that the money of investors to the tune of Rs 300 crore had “vanished” due to inaction of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, IT department and other authorities concerned. “For the reasons best known to itself, the Income Tax Department has not taken any action to speed up the court cases which are being deliberately delayed by the VLS Finance,” the forum alleged. Referring to the new guidelines laid down by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for the companies, the investors demanded that the authorities should take immediate corrective measures to safeguard the interests of hundreds of investors who had put up their hard-earned money in the VLS Finance Ltd.
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STF to counter hardcore criminals in Gurgaon
Gurgaon, June 6 The STF is armed with the latest state-of-the-art equipments to overpower the criminals, who have also modernised themselves with the passage of time. Each member of the special force is well-armed, wearing bullet proof jacket whenever tackling criminals or raiding their hide-outs, informed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr Yoginder Nehra. Each member of special force is experienced, qualified and trained to meet such type of eventuality, he added. Elaborating the plan, the SSP said that specialisation was of prime importance in tackling hardcore criminals. The members of special force would soon be trained at the training centre of the National Security Guards (NSG), Manesar. This training at the elite institute would guide them in tackling hardcore criminals in actual operation. The Special Task Force comprises ten police personnel and is headed by an Assistant Sub Inspector. We have chosen the members of the special task force very cautiously and meticulously so that only the best police personnel become the members, added the officer.
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DSGMC raps ‘foul’ language in NCERT textbooks
New Delhi, June 6 In a statement issued here, Jathedar Ravinder Singh Khurana expressed concern that the martyrdom of Guru Gobind Singh and Guru Teg Bahadur has not been presented with accuracy. “It is very unfortunate that this episode earlier appeared in the book issued by the NCERT in 2002-03, when the NDA Government was in power,” the statement said. The “offensive parts” from the textbooks were then dropped following the intervention of the then Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the HRD Minister, Mr M M Joshi. Claiming that the same textbooks have resurfaced, the DSGMC has taken umbrage at the “disrespect shown to the gurus”.
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Deputy jailor attacked
by prisoners
Ghaziabad, June 6 The Mussori police have registered a case under sections 323, 504, 506, 353, 332 of IPC against the prisoners for attacking and obstructing a government servant from performing his duty. Both the prisoners were reported to be witness to the murder of one Kamaruddin in the prison last month. Chander Veer’s father, however, alleged that the jail authorities had been putting pressure on the two prisoners to confess to Kamaruddin’s murder and to become a witness in favour of the Deputy jailor. It is alleged that the Deputy jailor is involved in killing of over hundred pigeons in the jail, for which he is facing a court case. Jailor Rajesh Kasherwani had reportedly ordered an inquiry into the killing of the pigeons in the jail.
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Prostitution racket busted, 7 held
Faridabad, June 6
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Relief from scorching weather
New Delhi, June 6 The maximum temperature was 39.7 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The minimum temperature this morning was 27.4 degrees Celsius. A cloudy sky is forecast for tomorrow with the possibility of a duststorm and thunderstorm, accompanied by squall in some parts of the city. The day temperature will be around 40 degrees Celsius tomorrow, the weather office said.
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