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CP bomb call sends cops into a tizzy
DPCC to take up civic issues with Delhi Govt
360 liquor bottles seized; three held
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Circle rates hiked by 25% in Noida, Gt Noida
BAHA a revolution for hearing-impaired
Faridabad roads in disrepair
‘Cancer can recur even after decades’
Man held with fake currency
Man does huge shopping with stolen credit card
Youth shot dead in Khora
29 couples tie the knot at mass marriage ceremony
Conference on pediatric neurosurgery at AIIMS
Punjabi book on recent Sikh history released
Plane makes emergency landing at IGI airport
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CP bomb call sends cops into a tizzy
New Delhi, November 5 The police force swung into action and encircled the entire Palika Bazar. People were evacuated from the market in panic. Shops were closed immediately and the Delhi Fire Service officials and Delhi Police force with anti bomb squad rushed into the market. Although DCP New Delhi district Anita Roy remained unavailable for comments, police sources said the search was still on. No bomb had been found in Palika Bazar. “We are still searching the entire market area and also its surroundings,” said a police official. Meanwhile, a week after the massive serial blasts in the capital that claimed 63 lives and left over 200 injured, the police are yet to make any arrests in the biggest ever operation launched to apprehend the culprits. A sketch of one suspect had also been released on November 2, but that only led to some people roughing up a daily wage labourer on suspicion in neighbouring Ghaziabad town. Police had to take him into custody to protect him from public wrath. He has since then been found innocent and released. DCP Special Cell Ajay Kumar said they were waiting for forensic report of the evidence collected from the three blasts sites of Paharganj, Sarojini Nagar market and Govindpuri. He said the test findings would help them channelise the investigation more accurately. “So far we have no eyewitnesses to help us draw the sketches of the suspects in the other two blasts,” Joint Commissioner Karnal Singh, who is heading the probe, said. “We are waiting for the forensic reports on the nature of explosives,” he added. The Special Cell said they were working on many vital clues but refused to disclose further about the investigation.
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DPCC to take up civic issues with Delhi Govt
New Delhi, November 5 Listing out his achievements after completing one year in office today, Mr Sharma also noted that the government had to listen to the DPCC when it raised the demand for rollback in power tariff hike and asked for a bill on regulation of groundwater to be reviewed. “We have raised issues pertaining to power, water, industries and unauthorised colonies and the government has had to listen to us. We will keep up the pressure on the government and even clash with them over any problems being faced by the people of Delhi,” Mr Sharma said. He said the DPCC had set up cells where people could register complaints related to power, water and civic amenities. “We are getting around 200-250 complaints everyday, which we are forwarding to the Delhi Government, the MCD and the NDMC,” he said. Noting that the DPCC was committed to fulfilling all promises made in the party’s manifesto, including full statehood for Delhi, Mr Sharma exuded confidence that the Capital would soon be granted complete statehood. “A standing committee under the chairmanship of Mr Pranab Mukherjee is studying the proposal for full statehood for Delhi. And I assure the people of Delhi that very soon the Capital will get complete statehood,” he added.
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360 liquor bottles seized; three held
Gurgaon, November 5 The persons arrested are native of Khawaspur Bawda, falling in Farukhnagar area, near here. In a joint press conference, the district police chief, Mr Hanif Qureshi and the Deputy Commissioner, Excise and Taxation, Mr Ashok Sharma, said that 360 bottles of rum manufactured in Madhya Pradesh, were impounded from a house located in agriculture land in the village. Although the authorities claimed that about five rounds of gunshots were fired by the police as a counter to the gunshots from the miscreants on the raiding party, unofficial sources say that about 15 rounds were fired by each side. The raiding team had to call for reinforcement when challanged by the miscreants. The official version is that liquor was meant to be supplied in Nagaland. But the miscreants managed to divert it to Haryana. They were planning to supply the bottles from the village to some convenient places. There were many more with them who managed to flee. Mr Ashok Sharma said that his department launched a special campaign against bootlegging before Divali. The campaign will be intensified further, he added. The police have registered a case.
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Circle rates hiked by 25% in Noida, Gt Noida
Noida, November 5 The increase has been affected under the UP stamp paper rules. In Noida, circle rate of Rs 7,200 per sq mt has been fixed for sectors 1 to 12 and 16; Rs 21,500 for sectors 14-A, 15-A and 17; Rs 15,500 for sectors 19, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 44; Rs 7,500 in sectors 22, 23, and 24; Rs 9,500 for sectors 33, 34, and 35; Rs 15,300 for sectors 36, 37 per sq mt. A sum of Rs 7,000 per sq mt has been fixed for sectors 45, 49, 53, to 56; Rs 4,100 for sectors 57 to 60 and sectors 63 to 65 and Rs 6,000 for sectors 82, 92, 93, 93-A, 110, 125, 126 and 127; Rs 2,300 for sectors 80, 81, 83 and a circle rate of Rs 7,000 per sq mt for sectors 71, 72 has been enforced. Apart from these, a circle rate of Rs 5,000 has been introduced for all new sectors and Rs 2,300 for all industrial sectors, but will not be less than the rates fixed by the Noida authority. A circle rate of Rs 7,000 has been fixed for sectors Alpha, Beta, Gama, Swaran Nagiri and Golf Link. While Rs 8,000 has been fixed for the residential plots in NRI City, a sum of Rs 3,000 for a 1000 sq mt industrial plot, Rs 2,500 on plots from 1000 sq mt to an acre, Rs 2,100 on a plot of 1 acre to 5 acres and Rs 1,200 per sq mt for the plots above 5 acres has been fixed. Among the institutional plots, Rs 4,200 for nursery schools, Rs 5,000 for nursing homes and private hospitals and Rs 3,000 for a plot of 10,000 sq mt; Rs 2,500 for plots above 10,000 sq mt size and a circle rate of Rs 2,100 per sq mt on other institutional plots has been fixed.
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BAHA a revolution for hearing-impaired
New Delhi, November 5 Cochlear Limited, an Australian firm, which is a pioneer in developing the Cochlear implants that help even the profoundly deaf to start hearing, has come to India with the BAHA products like Divino, which would help the hearing-impaired to hear normally through these devices which are not wound around the ear but are implanted into the skull. Explaining how the BAHA devices work, Michael Mercer, Director (Asia Pacific) for the company, who is here to participate in the workshop being held by the Cochlear Implantation Group of India (CIGI), said that BAHA products were far more superior than normal hearing aids. The workshop is to be inaugurated by President APJ Abdul Kalam tomorrow. Mr Mercer said that BAHA products were good not only for those whose hearing power had gone down but for those who had single sided deafness. The product is integrated onto the skull with the help of titanium screws which within days actually integrate into the skull. Explaining how the product works, Mr Mercer said the device helped sound waves to bypass the middle ear directly onto the cochlea, helping the person to hear clearly. They are extremely effective in patients who have middle ear problems or even those having problems in the ear canal. As of now, the company is looking at establishing two centres in Delhi, GTB Hospital and the Armed Forces’ R&R Hospital. Incidentally, Vice-Admiral V.K. Singh, Director-General of Armed Forces Medical Services, is a specialist in Cochlear implants and is the Chief Patron of the CIGI. The BAHA products, including Divino, which is a first digital device, would be available through these two centres before the company looks at establishing other centres around the country. Mr Mercer said that the BAHA products could benefit 50 per 100,000 people in India. The products are a big success in Europe and the United States of America as they help in increasing the hearing capacity by almost 15 decibles. Explaining how they are implanted on the skull, Mr Mercer said that in all, the surgery takes about 45 minutes and can be done under local anesthesia. All that the patient has to do for the long life of the product is to keep it clean with the help of a soft toothbrush and soap water. A person can lead a normal life, even play football and other games, but has to avoid swimming as excessive water could damage it. All in all, it would be a revolution for the hearing impaired as even a child aged five years can have it integrated on the skull bone.
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Faridabad roads in disrepair
Faridabad, November 5 The Chief Minister had assured here recently that all the roads would be repaired by the end of this year, particularly in the residential areas. The district authorities declared in August that the work of repairing the roads had been taken up on a war-footing and Rs 45 crore earmarked for repair of these roads, both in the urban as well as rural areas. It was claimed that while the Marketing Board had been assigned the repair work of about 64-km-long 23 different roads in the first phase and about The Municipal Corporation Faridabad has also been assigned the repair of the broken roads in the remaining areas. “But after about two and a half months, the state of roads in several areas was still deplorable and there was nobody who could tell when this problem would be solved,” said a local resident. He said a majority of the inner roads in various sectors had been in a bad shape and did not match the property rates that have skyrocketed in the past one year. “There are several roads in the city which have not been repaired for about five years. All assurances in this regard have failed to materialise,” said an RWA activist here. Claiming that the officials concerned repair only those roads where the Chief Minister was to come, he wondered if the residents here would get benefited due to the CM being the Chairman of the district grievances panel. According to sources in the official circles, one of the main hurdles in this work had been the short supply of road material, including tarcoal. It is stated that since all the hotmix plants in the district have either been closed down or shifted due to strict pollution norms, the authorities engaged in this type of work were faced with acute shortage of the material. It is learnt that only a single hotmix plant had been functioning in the district, whose requirement of the material had been huge and if no emergency arrangements were made, the work of roads would continue to suffer. The filling material of roads, which include stones, had been coming from a neighboring state as there had been a ban on mining in the Aravalli Hills in the district. Besides, the authorities have to depend on the hotmix plants of nearby districts for the tarcoal supply. The total length of the roads to be repaired in the MCF limits is around 25 kms, but work on only 10 to 15 per cent has been completed so far.
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‘Cancer can recur even after decades’
New Delhi, November 5 Professor Gupta further said in case of a majority of fresh cases also diagnosis was very late as patients came to specialised hospitals only after the “symptoms” became prominent. He urged people not to fall into the trap of quacks and touts as delay in cases of cancer could cause irreparable damage. In case of cancer in children, Dr Gupta said parents had a great role to play in helping them lead a normal life. Life does not prepare parents for diagnosis of cancer in children, he said, adding that cancer could occur at any age even in infants. Prof Richard Azizkhan, Director, Children Hospital, Cincinnati, USA, said the situation in his country was not different and even there parents needed to be sensitised. Prof Azizkhan said cancer was the third-largest killer after trauma and homicide among children in the USA. Though mortality had decreased with modern techniques of treatment, the number of cancer cases had increased in the past few decades. Several NGOs, parents of children suffering from cancer, doctors, mediapersons and representatives from pharmaceutical industry were among those who participated in the panel discussion at AIIMS yesterday on the occasion of the Childhood Cancer Awareness Day.
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Man held with fake currency
Noida, November 5 According to police in charge, Gole Chakkar, they had tried to nab two youths from Sector-27 bus stand. But one of them managed to give the police the slip while the other was taken into custody. On frisking, police recovered Rs 5,290 from him, including 57 notes of Rs 100 denominations, 17 of Rs 10 and one of Rs 20 denomination. They were all fake notes. He was trying to cheat a bus conductor. The man has been identified as Danish of Aligarh. His friend Shamoon lives in Haldoni Mode area under Bisarakh police station area in Greater Noida. The police said Shamoon was getting the fake currency and passed it on to his friends for circulation. Even the sleuths of the intelligence wing had interrogated the youth for hours. The currency notes had been printed from a colour photostat machine. The police said the gang might have its links in Aligarh district.
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Man does huge shopping with stolen credit card
Noida, November 5 One Danish Hussain, a manager in a private company and a resident of Kalindi Kunj, has lodged a complaint with the Sector-20 police that on October 22 while he had gone to an Airtel office in Sector-18 market for getting a cash card, his card was stolen. It has been used twice since then and shopping worth Rs 63,000 has been done on it. Shopping bill for the first time was Rs 14,492 and the second time purchases for Rs 48,700 had been shown on the bill. Danish has lodged a complaint against the unidentified Airtel staff and some customers who were present when he had visited their showroom.
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Youth shot dead in Khora
Ghaziabad, November 5 According to police, the death occurred as another customer was fiddling with the loaded revolver. But his family alleged that he had been murdered. Shivam Automobile in Rajiv Vihar, Khora Colony, deals with the sale of two-wheelers, who arrange finance for the purchase of motorbikes. Mohan Goel, a Khora resident, had come to deposit his instalment on Friday in Shivam Automobile Co. Two other youngmen on motorcycle No. UP-14-3377 had also come to the showroom. One of them was carrying a revolver. In mysterious circumstances, a bullet was fired from the revolver which hit Mohan in the neck. Both the youngmen then fled from the scene leaving their bike at the shop. The company employees and some neighbours rushed the victim to the nearby Fortis Hospital, Noida, where Mohan succumbed to his injuries. Soon Indirapuram police reached there and sent Mohan’s body for an autopsy. Police said Amit and Sumit had come on the bike. Amit was carrying a revolver which he was tampering with when the revolver went off suddenly. The relatives of the young man said Mohan had been murdered. Police are trying to nab Amit and Sumit. A huge crowd had collected at the showroom and people were guessing as to why the killers had left their bike at the showroom.
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29 couples tie the knot at mass marriage ceremony
New Delhi, November 5 The ceremony was attended by parents, relatives and friends of the couples. Speaking on the occasion, the Head of the Mission, Baba Hardev Singh, congratulated the couples. He recalled that more than 100 marriages were conducted during a similar ceremony in Mumbai in January this year. Babaji said a spiritual base provided at a ceremony as this strengthened the ties both at home and in society. He advised the couples to seek spiritual guidance, serve others and thereby strengthen each other’s faith and devotion.
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Conference on pediatric neurosurgery at AIIMS
New Delhi, November 5 The CME programme covers various aspects of pediatric neurosurgery including pediatric brain tumors and cysts, neuro-endoscopy and spinal malfunctions. Recent advances and newer techniques will also be discussed. The Chairman, Organising Committee and Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, AIIMS, Dr A. K. Mahapatra, said, “in our department of the 3600 surgeries conducted per year, around 900 cases are children. A majority of them are with hydrocephalus, various spinal malformations such as tethered cord and spina bifida. One of the most challenging fields of pediatric neurosurgery is neonatal surgery that is surgery in kids less than one month old, who need special care and well-trained surgical skills to deal with their problems”. With 35 to 40 per cent of the population under 20 years of age, experts point to the need for dedicated pediatric neurosurgeons in the country.
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Punjabi book on recent Sikh history released
New Delhi, November 5 Published by Unistar, a Chandigarh-based publishing house, the 266-page book offers glimpses into the history of Punjab and Sikhs in the last 50 years. Dr Singh said that the book covers several significant subjects as the Operation Bluestar and the then President Giani Zail Singh’s visit to the Golden Temple a day after the Operation Bluestar, the 1984 riots, Rajiv Gandhi’s term as Prime Minister, signing of the Rajiv-Longowal Accord and history of the Akalis and various Akali factions.
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Plane makes emergency landing at IGI airport
New Delhi, November 5 The ground staff present at the airport was put on maximum alert as per the drill as soon as the pilot noticed a problem with an engine and notified the Air Traffic Controller, said police sources. The Airbus 330 had taken off for Abu Dhabi at 0830 hrs, but returned to the airport at 0930 hrs after the snag was noticed, the sources said. The police said that all passengers on board were safe and had been shifted to various hotels till the arrangement of another flight.
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NDMC demolishes shops in CP
New Delhi, November 5
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Elderly couple attacked, wife killed
New Delhi, November 5
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Five-year terms for two for possessing fake notes
New Delhi, November 5
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