New Delhi, September 7
Rashmi Singh, a freelance journalist who posed as a schoolgirl victim of a prostitution racket in a fake television sting, was on Friday remanded in judicial custody till September 15 by a magistrate here. Prakash Singh, the reporter behind the sting operation, was arrested on Friday morning.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Delhi Aloke Agarwal remanded Rashmi Singh in judicial custody after the police alleged in court that she was part of the fake sting operation aired by the Live India TV channel that showed a mathematics teacher forcing schoolgirls into prostitution.

Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court also took suo motu cognisance of the news reports on the sting operation Friday and issued notices to the Delhi Government and Delhi Police.

A bench headed by Chief Justice M.K. Sarma asked the state government and Delhi Police to file their replies by Monday to the allegation in the sting operation.

The TV channel's so-called sting report had led to a mob going berserk last week in and around the government-run school in central Delhi where the mathematics teacher worked. The mob manhandled the teacher, Uma Khurana. She was arrested, remanded in judicial custody and promptly sacked by the education department by the Delhi government as a result of what has now been found to be a fake TV sting operation.

"We have arrested Prakash Singh, reporter of Live India channel, for carrying out a fake sting operation, which showed that Uma Khurana was forcing her students into prostitution," a senior police official told IANS on Friday.

"We are currently interrogating him and it seems that he conducted the sting to ensnare Khurana, who had some financial disputes with his friend Virender Arora," the official added.

The official said that Prakash Singh hired Rashmi Singh to act as a schoolgirl victim of the prostitution ring in the sting operation. She was reportedly part of the conspiracy to frame Khurana.

The police arrested Rashmi Singh late Thursday. She has been charged with cheating, fabrication of evidence and criminal conspiracy. The police alleged that Prakash Singh prepared the fake report on the basis of the purported sting operation earlier, when he worked as a trainee in another news channel.

That channel did not carry the report because it found many loopholes in it —IANS

New Delhi, September 7
Opposition leader in Delhi Assembly Jagdish Mukhi has said that the BJP would raise issues of regularisation of unauthorised colonies; scam in privatising power supply; Ashok Malhotra case and law and order situation in the national Capital. The Opposition would also object to the introduction of sex education in schools, he said.

The decision was taken yesterday at a meeting of the BJP MLAs. The MLAs met Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna and appealed him to order a CBI probe into the power scam. Khanna assured them of considering their suggestion.

Highlighting the issue of power tariff, Mukhi said that power companies had controlled over 20 per cent power theft, resulting in Rs 200 crore benefit. In such a situation the government should not accept a hike in power tariff.

The government has been assuring residents of unauthorised localities that it would regularise those colonies. Instead, the government was sealing their business establishments. Poor families live in those colonies. If their establishments were sealed, they would be unemployed. These colonies should be given facilities equal to the approved areas.

The Opposition would also speak about Ashok Malhotra's political connections, through whose aid, he got a canteen in the Vidhan Sabha, was involved a land scam and got issued VIP registration numbers for vehicles.

The government was copying the western education system and introducing sex education in schools. This policy would have a negative impact on children. The BJP would also oppose this, Mukhi said. 

New Delhi, September 7
The Delhi High Court today issued notice to the Delhi Police on a contempt petition alleging that it had failed to take action against those who slap posters on public places in the ongoing Delhi University Students Union elections.

A Division Bench headed by Justice T S Thakur directed the police to file its reply within four weeks stating the action they had taken in compliance with the court's order.

The court had last year directed the police to take action against those who deface public places by putting up posters.

The Bench, however, refused to issue notice to Delhi University vice-chancellor and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi saying they were not issued any directions in the last year's order.

"Delhi University is not violating the order. Instead, it is suffering, because of these activities", Justice Thakur said on a contempt petition filed by advocate Monika Arora.Arora was earlier an office-bearer of the Delhi University Students 
Union.

New Delhi, September 7
In a rare and first allogenic bone marrow transplant performed by a team of doctors at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, 27 -year- old Dev has got a new lease of life. Dev, who was suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) - a severe form of blood cancer -had lost all hopes as his cancer had relapsed twice while still being on chemotherapy.

The team of doctors, including Dr Col. R Ranga Rao, Dr Dinesh Bhurani and Dr Vineet Talwar , transplanted stem cells with his sister's (Daya-35 year old) cells. Dr Dinesh Bhurani said, "Initially he was put on high dose chemotherapy to control his disease and once his disease was under control, we took him for allogenic bone marrow transplant. For eight days he received very high dose chemotherapy as a preparatory regimen for transplant.

On the nineth day he was given his sister's stem cells, which were collected on the same day. He was in hospital for one month in a specially built unit to prevent any infections and complications like excessive bleeding, rejection of graft or damage to the body by the donor cells." Talking about allogenic bone marrow transplant, Dr Col. R Ranga Rao said, "Most of the Hospitals perform Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant and RGCI and RC is the first private centre which is fully-equipped to perform this procedure.

Our team of expert doctors had performed Allogenic BMT in the past in Australia and CMC Vellore, and therefore we were confident of success.

However, to avoid all complications, we had kept a back up of patient's stem cells in case the body is unable to accept the donorcells." 

New Delhi, September 7
Now motorists need not queue up outside traffic police offices to get details of their pending traffic fines. They can get it via SMS, courtesy the Delhi police.

"The SMS service enable motorists to get information about traffic notices/challans pending against them," said joint commissioner of police (traffic) Qamar Ahmed.

"One only has to send an SMS to 50100 from any mobile phone, with the format - N, give a space and, then write the vehicle registration number without any space. In reply, the person will receive an SMS, informing the pending challans, if any against the vehicle," he added.

Ahmed said that people could also access the information through the Delhi police's website- delhipolice.nic.in, which would provide details of violations pertaining to a particular vehicle. The user only has to key in the number of the vehicle.

"People can also access the same information from the 36 traffic circle offices in the city," he added. Ahmed said that the Delhi traffic police in collaboration with the Delhi legal services authority would be organising a 'Mega Traffic Lok Adalat' on September 8 and 9, for traffic violators to settle their pending challans/notices in the traffic courts of special metropolitan magistrates.

"Fines can be paid at any of the four court complexes. People can go to the nearest court complex, irrespective of their residential address. But, manual traffic notices issued at the spot, which are pending, can only be settled in the concerned traffic courts of special metropolitan magistrates," he said..—IANS

Gurgaon, September 7
The proposal for constituting Municipal Corporation for Gurgaon is on the priority list of the Haryana Government and the decision will be taken soon. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda stated this after performing the 'earth-breaking function' of Fortis International Institute of Medical Sciences here on Friday.

While addressing on the occasion, Hooda said that Fortis hospital will have seven star facilities which will cater to the needs of the rich but at the same time, the Fortis group plans to serve the masses by opening hospitals for the poor.

He expressed happiness that the interests of attendants coming to the hospital with patients will also be looked after properly by Fortis.

Hooda said that the globalization of economy has paved way for medical tourism in India.

He hoped that in this field also, Gurgaon would be frontrunner in the country.

At the same time, he said that the state government will promote medical tourism and for this purpose, provision of land has been made along the KMP expressway also.

While briefing about the hospital, Shivender Mohan Singh, MD of Fortis, said that the hospital would be constructed on 11 acres of land at the cost of Rs 800 crore. The hospital would be 950-bedded.

He said the purpose behind setting up such a well-equipped hospital at Gurgaon is that it is easily approachable by the patients from abroad also as the international airport is near.

He said that even though the hospital would be multi-specialty, the focus would be given to trauma centre and treatment for cancer patients.

Harpal Singh, Chairman of Ranbaxy laboratories, said that the Fortis group is planning to make Gurgaon a centre of global health services.

Earlier, the Chief Minister dedicated the MRI machine set up in local general hospital at a cost of Rs 5.5 crore.

This makes Gurgaon general hospital the first hospital in the state to have an MRI testing facility.

The civil surgeon Dr S.S. Dalal said that the MRI facility would be available to the indoor patient on payment of Rs 1000 and to outdoor patients on payment of Rs 2500. For patients admitted in private ward or outsiders, the facility will be made available on payment of Rs 4500. Whereas the BPL families will be given this facility free of cost.

The Chief Minister also dedicated two hydraulic platforms provided by HUDA to fire station of sector 29. He handed over keys of fire brigades mounted with hydraulic platforms to Ravinder Kataria, Chairman of Gurgaon Municipal Council. These had cost Rs 9 crore and are 42 meter high. They will be useful in extinguishing fire in multi-storey high-rise buildings in Gurgaon.

The firemen gave a demonstration of its working before the Chief Minister.

Meanwhile, when mediapersons queried about the action taken by the government on MP, Atma Singh Gill, who was caught with two call girls at Narwana, Hooda replied that as he has not got any written complaint about this incident and action will be taken only after getting the complaint. 

New Delhi, September 7
The Delhi government has prepared a tour policy for school students for taking them to historical places in the national Capital as well as the NCR.

The education department would finance the government schools in this plan, according to sources. This policy will be for the students of class sixth to 12. There will also be a fete in government schools on November 14 every year. Making the government schools better, education minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said that the state government, in association with the CII was planning to open 50 vocational schools in Delhi.

Children would be imparted vocational education in these schools so that they could get better employment opportunities. Apart from helping in getting good employment, it would also enhance their self-confidence.

The minister expressed happiness over the fact that the government-run schools of Delhi had been showing good results for the last three years.

He said the contribution of teachers was very important in this improvement. The day is not far, he said, when parents would prefer to admit their wards in government schools.

He pointed out that to further improve the standard of education in government schools, the government had created 6,000 additional posts of teachers and recruitment for these posts would be conducted soon.

He said the government was committed to protecting teachers' interest. The government was also planning to increase the number of awards, so that more teachers could be honoured for outstanding services. The minister said that the government was committed to providing computer education in every school and, the government wished to open at least one Pratibha Vikas School in every district.

Keeping in view the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the government has also planned to set up a sports school in Delhi, where children would be trained for the mega-sports event.

The minister said the government had planned to open handicapped-friendly schools in 11 districts.

The syllabus for these schools would be prepared as per the requirements of such students. Such schools would also provide wheelchair and other facilities to the handicapped students. 

New Delhi, September 7
The International Management Institute (IMI) organised a two-day IMI HR Summit on 'Managing Talent for Global Competitiveness: Issues and Challenges', here.

The summit was organised by the first PGDM (HR) batch, which attracted industry practitioners to share their experiences. The guest list comprised senior corporate captains like Rachna Bhanot, head (strategic HR), IBM Daksh; Sunita Majumdar, senior manager (HR), ITC Welcomgroup Hotels; Rahul Taneja, head (talent acquisition), Dell BPO and N.S. Iyer, chief manager HR and central functions, Asian Paints. The summit provided a platform to the students and faculty of IMI to interact with the guest speakers, who presented an insight on various facets of the theme.

Dr C.S. Venkataratnam, director, IMI said, "Earlier, the IMI held its first HR Summit believing that a confluence of the best minds from the industry and academia was needed to bring the future HR challenges into focus. However, we realised at the first summit that human resource management is a challenging field. Thereby, we needed to host a series of discussions, that would lead to clarity and concrete ideas on how to manage the complexities that govern human behavior in an organisation, on a continuous basis."

Rachna Bhanot said, "The role of HR managers is changing from personnel to talent management, where they manage competency, succession and 
performance."

Chairperson of Teamlease Manish Sabarwal said, "People or talent build value for the company. They are important for corporate success, and are the primary source of 'intangible value'."

The summit involved five panel discussions. It included themes like- managing attrition and aspirations, non-financial employee motivators, increasing employee engagement, employer branding, etc.

It focussed on ways to motivate high performers and, thereby, making them more productive for an organisation. Moreover, in today's scenario, people are the biggest strength for an organisation and managing them well can provide a global unassailable competitive advantage.

New Delhi, September 7
The Delhi police claimed today to have busted an international drugs cartel with the arrest of four people, including a person from Manipur, and recovered 95 kgs of narcotics from them, valued at Rs 250 million in the global market.

"We have busted an international drugs cartel, with the arrest of the four persons- Vikram Mehandi, 30, his brother Vikash Mehandi, 31, Somanth Pal, 43, and a Manipuri resident A. Gopal Singh, 46. They were arrested from Vikas Puri area and 95 kgs of Phenyl Propanone was recovered from them," joint commissioner of police (special cell) Karnal Singh said. The narcotic is used as a sleep-inducing drug.

Police also recovered nine mobile phones, cash worth Rs 6,00,000 and a car from the accused.

"The Mehandi brothers, who live in west Delhi, had come to sell drugs to Gopal, who had struck a deal with a Burmese national, Robert. Somanth Pal was mediating the deal between the Mehandis and Gopal," Singh informed.aThe Mehandi brothers had procured the drugs from Nehru Place in south Delhi. Police are conducting raids at some undisclosed premises. — IANS

New Delhi, September 7
Now sending a letter to your loved ones is just a phone call away!

The India Post has launched a 24x7 call centre in the national Capital, which will not only answer general queries, but will also rush out a postman to your doorstep to collect the mail. All you need to do is dial the four-digit toll free number 1256, if you are in Delhi and 1800-11-9888 nationally, and ask for a free pick-up of speed post articles.

"The call centre will also provide information regarding speed post, track and trace speed post articles, register complaints, provide for free pick-up of speed post articles, and provide all possible information regarding other services, both premium and traditional," said Raghav Lal, chief postmaster general of Delhi. "The postman or other concerned staff will come to your place to collect the mail. They will also issue a receipt," Lal added.

Asked about if this service would also collect the money- orders Lal said, "We are not accepting money-orders for this service as it requires money handling at a large scale, but we have initiated other services for the speedy disposal of money-orders."

These include the Internet-based instant money order (IMO) service, under which customers can transfer sums of up to Rs 50,000 to any place in India by the click of the mouse.

"We will instantly issue a code to the customers, after sending their money to the required destination. The customer only has to tell the code to the person to whom the money has been sent. This person will get the money by giving the code and showing identification documents at the post-office." Lal said.

He said that the new initiatives were being taken to bring in a more customer-friendly approach.

Post-offices in Delhi serve, on an average, an area of 2.82 sq km each in urban and 1.9 sq km in rural areas, with a population of about 26,000 and 12,000, respectively.—IANS