New Delhi, May 23
Ms Arti Mehra, mayor of Delhi, today met Laloo Prasad Yadav, Union minister of railways and apprised him of delay in various projects relating to the MCD and being implemented by railways.

The mayor handed over a memorandum to the minister in which she had appealed to provide revenue and other resources to MCD.

Laloo Yadav assured the mayor that the railway ministry would provide all necessary help to implement various projects of the corporation.

He directed S. K. Vij, member, engineering, Railways, to hold a meeting with senior officers of MCD and prepare an action plan to implement the projects in a phased manner. He also assured that the expenditure on projects relating to MCD will be shared 50 per cent by the railway ministry. The mayor stressed that all the culverts under railway in Delhi should be desilted, so that rainy water would smoothly flow from drains under charge of MCD. It will save citizens of Delhi from the problem of waterlogging.

She emphasized that the vacant land on both sides of railway line should be cleaned so that outbreak of dangerous diseases could be avoided.

Ms Arti also stressed the need of a sanitation drive, which should be carried out jointly by MCD and Railways so as to clean the vacant land along the railway tracks before the onset of monsoon.

New Delhi, May 23
As the national Capital struggles to shed its image of being unsafe for women, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) today came down heavily on Delhi Police for not cooperating with rape victims and slack in probing cases of sexual offence.

“The DCW has opened a rape crisis cell (RCC) in 2005 to deal with the rape cases. So far, it has registered 588 cases. Rape victims are harassed everywhere whether it is work place, police station or hospital. The legal procedure is so lengthy that it takes years to get a suspect convicted,” said DCW chairperson Prof Kiran Walia.

She demanded a fast track court to handle crime against women to expedite the conviction.

She said that when a rape victim approached the police for getting registered a complaint the police officials did not behave properly. “There is a legal guideline saying that woman police official should deal with the rape cases but at police stations generally gents handle these cases. In most of the cases complaints are not registered. The victims are forced either take help of the commission or go to court for getting registered an FIR,” she said.

“The victims face same situation in hospitals where doctors on duty generally refuse for conducting medical examination,” she said.

The DCW has set up a helpline for rape victims and all police stations have received instructions by authorities concerned to inform the commission on the helpline. The helpline number is 23370557. However, Kiran said, the policemen never do their duty.

New Delhi, May 23
Edutech India, an upcoming provider of technology-enabled knowledge solutions, has installed a 30-seater SmartClass Symposium digital language lab at the Faculty of Humanities and Languages at Jamia Millia Islamia University.

The language lab will be used to teach English as well as other languages like Persian, Arabic, Urdu, etc to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. It will also be used to teach general English to improve the communication skills of students.

The vice-chancellor inaugurated the language lab on Wednesday. Through this installation, the university will be able to provide language lab facility to its students who learn languages including English. Edutech provides the SmartClass Symposium digital language lab systems that make learning more engaging and exciting for students while making teaching in a language lab easier and more rewarding for teachers.

In a computer-equipped lab, symposium links all computers and provides teachers with a simple touch screen-based desktop control panel, from which they are able to present new concepts using the Internet, computer programs, documents, multimedia materials (tapes and CDs), or live presentations. It also fully engages students with multimedia teaching materials. Further, students can listen through padded headsets designed to isolate them from outside disturbances.

More and more universities and colleges in the country are looking at digital language labs as a solution to improve communication skills of students. University language departments are also looking at language labs to enhance the learning and teaching of foreign languages. Language labs facilitate a broad range of activities that involve students in reading, writing, listening and speaking the target language.

Gurgaon, May 23
The State Vigilance Bureau (SVB) today claimed to have arrested an electricity department lineman while taking bribe for installing electronic meter.

Rajbir Deswal, superintendent of police, Gurgaon range, SVB said at a Customer Care Centre of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (DHBVNL) in Sector 31, a lineman Khillu Ram was arrested while taking a bribe of Rs 1,000 for installing an electronic meter at the complainant’s premises.

Jamal Singh, a resident of Samaspur village, had complained to the SVB that Khillu Ram was not installing electrical meter at his residence and demanding Rs 1,000 for the job. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), SVB Satyawati and duty magistrate Balraj Singh Dangi (naib tehsildar) raided the DHBVNL’s customer care and arrested Khillu Ram when he was taking the bribe.

The lineman had been booked under Prevention of Corruption Act, added the SVB SP. 

New Delhi, May 23
A man who killed his wife, a CRPF constable, three years ago without any apparent cause was today awarded life term by a city court.

This case is a bizarre example of wickedness of a husband who is hardly able to eke out his livelihood but killed his wife without any apparent reason, who apart from giving birth to two of his sons, was earning bread for his family by doing job of a constable (CRPF), Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri said.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on Ramesh Kumar after finding him guilty of stabbing his wife Vimla at their rented apartment in Biharipur village in East Delhi, which led to her death.

Rejecting the leniency plea of Kumar, who worked as a labourer and survived over his deceased wife’s earning, the court said that after inflicting the fatal injuries on his wife, he stood as a silent spectator to the whole episode.

The court lent credence to the testimony of the convict’s tenant and one of their neighbours, a head constable who had escorted injured Vimla to the hospital.

The court, however, refrained from imposition of the maximum sentence of death penalty after the prosecution, which examined a total of 21 witnesses, could not prove any motive behind the killing.

As per the prosecution, the convict, on April 1, 2003, stabbed the deceased at their residence.

Vimla, who cried for help, was thereafter taken to a hospital by her neighbour where she succumbed to multiple stab injuries.

Gurgaon, May 23
The local police claimed that servant Lallan had murdered Vinod Chahal, his wife Saroj and their son Chaitanya on May 19 as he was ill-treated by the family. Lallan also took jewellery weighing around 500 grams after breaking different almirahs before fleeing from the spot.

Addressing the media persons, senior superintendent of police Hanif Qureshi informed that the police had also recovered various gold and silver ornaments and utensils from his possession at village Chamanpur, district Sheohar, Bihar. He had stolen these items after breaking almirahs in the house when he was sure that the three had died.

Lallan had confessed before the police that first of all he killed Vinod Chahal by hitting stone slabs four to five times at his head at about 9 am on May 18 when the latter was sleeping. He was alone at that time in the house as Mrs Chahal had gone to her institution at Manesar and their son had gone for tuition. After some time, he took Chaitanya back home. He lured him to the basement of the house and then strangled him, claimed the SSP.

In the afternoon on the same day, when Saroj Chahal returned from the institution, Lallan hit her with a baseball bat on the head as she entered the drawing room of the house. She succumbed to her injuries soon.

When Lallan was sure that all of them had died, he broke various almirahs and took ornaments and utensils made of gold and silver. He then drove a two-wheeler to Sikanderpur village and left the vehicle there. He reached Delhi railway station and took the train to his village, informed the SSP.

The police had got suspicions about Lallan and a team of Crime Investigation Agency, consisting of sub-inspector Rajender Singh, assistant sub-inspector Prem Singh and head constable Balraj Singh went to his village and arrested him with the help of Bihar police, informed the SSP.

Lallan was produced before the local courts here today. The court ordered three-day police remand. He would be produced before the magistrate on May 26 again.

However, Virender Kumar, cousin of Saroj Chahal, alleged that there must be more facts behind these murders. The servant Lallan alone could not murder three persons, as claimed by the local police. Virender raised the doubt in the SSP’s office just after the press briefing by SSP Qureshi.

Virender demanded that the police must conduct intensive investigation to reach at the bottom of the truth so that the real culprits are arrested and punished. He questioned that the police had stated on May 19 that no valuables including cash and jewellery had been stolen from the house, and now the police mentioned that they had recovered around 40 items from Lallan’s possession.

New Delhi, May 23
A delegation of faculty and students from Hoseo Graduate School of Global Education, Seoul, Korea, and Georgia State University, USA,visited Amity Business School, Noida.

The visit was aimed at learning about Indian business methods, cultures and practices especially in small and medium sized firms. Prof. Daniel Lee, Hoseo Graduate School of Global Education, Seoul, Korea, addressed Amity directors and faculty.He said: “The objectives of the visit are to learn how recent changes in the policies of federal, state and local governments have helped or hindered entrepreneurship in India, learn about the challenges currently faced by an Indian entrepreneur in starting a business, financing it and running it, how the growth of the Internet has impacted entrepreneurship in India, how the dramatic growth in outsourcing of services (call centres, BPOs) from the US to India has had an impact on the culture, family values and finances of the Indian youth and their views on entrepreneurship, learn how governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations encourage and support entrepreneurship in India, learn about views of Indian MBA students at leading management institutes about entrepreneurship and learn how entrepreneurship is taught at leading management schools in India.”

Gurgaon, May 23
A major chunk of the Congress camp in Haryana want immediate involvement of Priyanka Gandhi in party politics to boost up the prospects of the Congress organisation, especially in the wake of a series of poor performances in the recent electoral battles in the states.

The ‘Dalit Pichdavarg Mahasangathan’ having its head office here, emphasised in a statement today the need of the hour to rope in Ms Gandhi by the Congress. It further opined that any delay would not be in the interest of the organisation.

The section wanting active participation of Ms Gandhi is of the firm opinion that the move would not only strengthen Mr Rahul Gandhi’s efforts to gear up the party in the politically sensitive state of Uttar Pradesh, but also invigorate the organisation in other parts of the country, including Haryana.

Those hitching their bet on Ms Gandhi say that her ‘popular appeal’ and ‘charisma’ was yet again demonstrated in the recent assembly election in Uttar Pradesh.

According to them, she campaigned for the Congress nominees in the 10 assembly segments falling in the two Lok Sabha parliamentary constituencies of Rai Barailley and Amethi. Incidentally, while Congress president Sonia Gandhi represents Rai Barailley parliamentary seat, Amethi is represented by Mr Rahul Gandhi.