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Protests against US turban law
Mahapanchayat demands changes in Land Reforms Act
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Conference on mental health held
Property being registered in name of women
Delhi govt urged to replicate Bihar RTI model
Two killed in accident
Family car rally held
Car driver murdered
13 schools participate in Ads Act Competition
Abolition of passenger tax hailed
Mob clashes with police
Doctor makes
complaint against TV reporters
Artscape
Cancer awareness
programme held
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Protests against US turban law
New Delhi, September 16 The national president of the Akali Dal, Paramjeet Singh Pamma held that the law was an interference in their religion. As turban symbolises self-respect in Sikhism, the organisation blamed the United States for being undemocratic. It submitted a memorandum in the American embassy. The memorandum was addressed to the US President. It demanded the abolition of such discriminatory practices that were being institutionalised in America.
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Mahapanchayat demands changes in
Land Reforms Act
New Delhi, September 16 Majority of the villages’ land has been acquired, said the mahapanchayat. Government jobs should be given to youths to curb their poverty. They should be given a relaxation of five per cent, in marks, for admission and jobs. There are no civic amenity facilities in the villages. The agency concerned should lay sewer lines in all villages. These were the demands raised by the mahapanchayat. The mahapanchayat expressed concern over the shortage of teachers in schools in villages and demanded from the government to fill the vacant posts of teachers in schools. It also expressed concern over the lack of transportation facilities in villages. Bus transport facility, RTV along with metro rail facility should be extended to villages, it demanded. President of the Village Sangharsh Samiti Chaudhary Meer Singh, its vice- president Surat Singh Yadav, its convenor Ranbir Singh Dabas and Om Dutt Yadav chaired the mahapanchayat. Outer Delhi MP Sajjan Kumar addressed the mahapanchayat. MLAs Mukesh Sharma, Surender Kumar, Dr S.C. Vats, Jai Kishan, Dr Bijender Singh, Mahabal Mishra, Vijay Lochav, Balram Tanwar, Mala Ram Gangwal, Anil Bhardwaj, Ranbir Singh Kharab and opposition leader in the MCD Jai kishan Sharma were also present. Addressing the rally, Sajjan Kumar said that the Centre had made provisions in the Master plan 2021 that farmers would be free to sell their lands at their own prices. In such a situation, there is no justification to acquire the land from the DDA. Injustice by any agency to the villagers would not be tolerated, said he. Rural people are hard working. Village Sangharsh Samiti would not rest till demands of the villagers are not met, he added. |
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Conference on mental health held
New Delhi, September 16 The Amity Institute of Behavioral Health and Allied Sciences (AIBHAS), in collaboration with the UNICEF organised the Third National Mental Health Conference on ‘The Emerging Trends in Mental Health of Children and Adolescents’ last week. The Conference aimed at training teachers and students about ways to deal with mental distress. Equipped with the latest knowledge and enhanced teaching skills in mental health, professionals shared their views and imparted techniques to teachers, so that they could help students fight against mental unrest. The sessions included issues like- ‘protecting environment for children- UNICEF perspectives’, ‘therapies for children’, ‘learning disability and its ratification’, ‘perception of quality of parenting and mental health programme in foster care residential homes’, ‘children with personality disorder’ and ‘managing stress through positive thinking’ and paper presentations. Dr R.K. Sharma, the chief guest at the conference, congratulated the AIBHAS for its contribution to mental health. He said, “Around 49 per cent schoolchildren are sexually, emotionally or mentally abused. This lays importance to imbibe in youth the knowledge about the socio-cultural environment, understandability of values and self-evaluation techniques. Solving the problems of adolescents does not only help an individual, but also the country.” He added, “Such conferences play an important role in creating awareness about mental health and helping youth in coping up with the ever-changing and stressful environment.” Prof (Dr) S.D. Sharma of the Indian Institute of Behavioral Health and Allied Sciences and V. Veeraraghavan, director, AIBHAS were also present. Prof Sharma commented, “Globally, there is a need for a revolution in the mental health of the youth. The system needs to be geared up in fighting with factors affecting the mental health of children and, develop them into confident
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Property being registered in name of women
Noida, September 16 This trend is also being viewed as having bestowed a new social status to women. Ownership of property also increased the respect for women in their families as well as in the in-laws family. Property ownership would also act as a factor in their favour in families where in-laws tend to ill-treat women. Normally eight per cent stamp duty has to be paid for registry of property but the UP government had decided on February 24, 2005 that women owners of properties will be given 2 per cent relief in stamp duty in registry of property in their name. Men will have to pay 8 per cent stamp duty while women will pay 6 per cent stamp duty in registry of property. The only rider is that the value of the property has to be under Rs 10 lakh. There is no concession in stamp duty in case of property’s value beyond Rs 10 lakh, the officials say. According to officials between 70 and 75 per cent properties in rural area and up to 30 per cent in urban are being registered now in the names of the women in the family. |
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Delhi govt urged to replicate Bihar RTI model
New Delhi, September 16 “We need to simplify the process of filing the RTI applications. The applicant does not know the way to draft an RTI application,” said he. He was speaking at a seminar on the Right to Information Act organised by the YMCA here today. Each department under the Delhi government has several assistant public information officers (APIOs), who are entitled to forward the applications to the public information officer (PIO). Each APIO would deal with specific problems. He added that the applicant was ignorant as to in whose name the application would be addressed. Further, he urged the state government to replicate the RTI model of Bihar, in which, instead of writing an application for seeking information, one has to dial a helpline number. He said that Rs 10 RTI application fee would be added to the telephone call charge. |
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Two killed in accident
New Delhi, September 16 According to the police, Monu and Avinash succumbed to the injuries while, the injured were taken to a hospital. Raghubeer, the truck driver, who was also injured in the collision, is under observation. |
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Family car rally held
New Delhi, September 16 There were a maximum of four participants, from a family, comprising the driver and the navigator. The navigator read out the map and instructed the driver where to go and where to turn, depending on the odometer reading of the car. This fun-filled point-to-point clue car rally covers seven checkpoints. The rally has features that make it special for the participants. It maintains secrecy about the winner till the last participant crosses the finish line. While, allowing a total of four members from a family to participate, the high point of the rally is that it provides an opportunity to participants to pile up scores, by randomly picking up points from sealed envelope available at the marshal booths scattered along the 70 kms route. The participants pick up general IQ questions, fill in the answers and get that sealed from the next marshal. The winner is decided, after adding up the points and the questionnaire picked up by the participants from the marshal booths. Besides, Ford India Limited, the co-sponsors are Kohinoor Foods Limited, J. K. Tyres, Fresh Gold Juices and Gift. |
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Car driver murdered
Noida, September 16 He was hit on the head first and later strangulated. This is the second incident of a car driver having been done to death in one month. Imtiaz, 32, a resident of Jharkhand, was living with his uncle in Harjan Colony in Sector-37, Noida. He drove the car of Deb Shesh of H. No. 1736, Sector-37. The vehicle was attached with call centres. On Friday evening, he had gone to drop City Group call centre employees, from there he went to drop staff of another call centre in Sector-57 to Greater Noida. Later, he was scheduled to drop Chetu company’s employees of night shift at 12.30 am. At 10.30 pm, he met the owner Deb Shesh and handed over Rs 550 received from the company. He told the owner that he was going home for dinner. But when he did not reach to drop the night shift staff, people started looking for him. His owner Deb Shesh contacted his friend Guddu. Guddu told him that Imtiaz had met him on the way to his house. There were four or five persons sitting in the vehicle at that time, according to Guddu. Qualis was found abandoned near community
centre, Sector-37 in the morning on Saturday. Imtiaz’s body was lying on the front seat, face down. SO Sector-39 and SP City reached the spot. There were injury marks on Imtiaz’s head and a thin wire was hanging around his neck. His pants were down to heels. The police also recovered a No. 9 shoe and a half jacket of a guard of company on the rear seat. According to police, their investigations centred on enmity and illicit relations which were probably the cause of the murder. |
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13 schools participate in Ads Act Competition
New Delhi, September 16 This is an annual event at the school and was held at the audio-visual hall. The chief guest for this event was P.C. Jain, principal of Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. The judges were Bhuvani Ravi, mother of one of the students at D.P.S. R.K. Puram, and Director of Abhay Capital Services; Shivani Nagrath, a teacher from Summerfields School; and Lavanya Pandey, a college student from S.R.C.C. |
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Abolition of passenger tax hailed
Noida, September 16 The decision to this effect was taken by the state cabinet and has come as a relief to the passengers especially those coming and going to railway stations and airport in Delhi who had to put up with lot of harassment for coming to Noida. However, the transport department, G.B. Nagar, will lose Rs 80 lakh a month due to this decision. According to ARTO Noida, Jai Shanker Tiwari, some 2,500 taxis having six or more seats used to ply from Delhi every day. The current rate of entry tax was Rs 40 per passenger for entry by non A/c and Rs 50 per seat by A/c vehicles on entering Noida. Though the similar tax was fixed for Delhi autos, three-wheeler drivers seldom paid this tax. They would normally bribe Noida traffic police on their way into Noida, the sources said. There are some 7 to 8 entry points for Noida from Delhi. The taxi and auto drivers used to charge this tax from passengers. Apart from passengers from ISBT, railway stations and international airport, another segment of public which had to suffer most was the large number of patients. |
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Mob clashes with police
New Delhi, September 16 |
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Doctor makes
complaint against TV reporters
Ghaziabad, September 16 Dr Ajay agarwal, an orthopaedic surgeon in the district hospital, filed a complaint against two reporters of a TV channel and the Chief Medical Officer, Noida, Vinod Kumar, district SSP Deepak Ratan said. The television channel had telecast a sting operation against Agarwal on July 29, 2006 purportedly, showing him of amputating the limbs of children and forcing them into begging, the SSP said. The
surgeon, who was dismissed from service following the TV report, later
moved the High Court and got a clean chit from there. —PTI |
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Conference to
celebrate art of storytelling
Ravi Bhatia Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 16
The conference will have celebrity storytellers like Muriel Bloch (France), Tanya Batt (New Zealand), Manolo Silayan (Philippines), Ayesha Dogar (Pakistan), Ellis Vance (US), Wendy Cooling (UK), Keiko Tani (Japan), Ahmed Redza (Malaysia) and from other countries. They will gather to celebrate the art of storytelling to promote peace, cultural integration and the reading habit in children and showcase the diversity of storytelling techniques from many cultures. The four working sessions will focus on the themes of “cultural manifestation through the art of storytelling”, “stories beyond boundaries”, “storytelling to promote the word” and “cultural integration through literature and performing arts”. The eminent litterateurs, scholars and teachers from India like Feizal Alkazi, Geeta Ramanujam and Pavan K Varma, Director General ICCR, Navin Menon (Childrens Books Trust) and others will participate in discussions. AWIC was founded by the renowned cartoonist and promoter of children’s literature, the late K “Shankar” Pillai, and is the country’s pioneering institution for promoting creative literature for children, reaching books to children in far-flung and remote areas, and helping to cultivate the reading habit in them. Switzerland-based International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has designated AWIC as its Indian Section. Pavan K Varma, Director General, ICCR, will head a panel discussion on “Cultural integration through the flow of books from one nation to another”. Participants will be publishers, book experts, writers, storytellers and researchers from different nations. Chetana Kohli of UNICEF India country office will chair the discussion session on the needs of special children. Nuzhat Hassan, Director, National Book Trust, will chair the session on cultural manifestation through the art of storytelling. Prof. Krishna Kumar, Director, NCERT, will chair the session on “storytelling to promote the word”. The art of storytelling through traditional performing arts will be demonstrated by scintillating performances that will include Kathak dance by Shovana Narayan, Odissi dance by Geeta Mahalik, folk dances by Vietnam’s dance, music and theatre group. The repertoire includes amusing puppetry, sparkling ballets by special children and entertaining presentations based on “Panchatantra” stories by Ananda Shankar Jayant. The “Festival of Storytelling”, an integral part of the conference, is designed especially for schoolchildren. Storytellers from around the world will display the rich texture of stories and the diverse ways of telling them that abound in our country and abroad. The conference’s another element will be an exhibition of colourful children’s books published in many countries. “Translator
of Dreams”
De Montage Arts is holding an exhibition of paintings by artist
Sachin Kirkire entitled “Translator of Dreams” at Galerie Romain
Rolland, Alliance Francaise de Delhi in Lodhi Estate here from September
14 to September 17. Seven
colours of the rainbow
Gallery Art Room presents “Satrang”: a group show of new works by
seven artists representing the seven colours of the rainbow. Through the
works of these artists belonging to different parts of India but sharing
a common interest in colour, the show attempts to explore some of the
elements in art–form, palette, line, shape, space, texture and
composition. The show will be on at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre here, from September 19 to September 24.The show will continue at Art Room, J-119, Western Avenue, Sainik Farms from September 27 to October 10. The show can also be viewed at www.artroomindia.com Curated by Sushma Bahl and Archana Bahl Sapra, the exhibition includes works by Bhagat Singh, Pradeep Puthoor, Parvin Dabas, Sonia Chawla, Simrin Agarwal, Subodh Kerkar and Viren Tanwar. Scintillating
dance exposition
Madhumita Raut and Santnu Chakraborty presented a scintillating dance
exposition, “Dashaavatar” celebrating the ten incarnations of Lord
Vishnu in Odissi and Bharatnatyam classical styles on Sunday evening.
The performance was accompanied by a presentation of a slide show of the
Dashaavatar paintings at the India International Centre here. Exhibition
of sculptures
The Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre here is presenting, “Time
Travelling”, an exhibition of sculptures and photographs of the highly
acclaimed Hungarian artist and Munkacsy awardee, Peter Markus from
September 21 to October 1. The exhibition will be inaugurated by
internationally acclaimed, painter, sculptor and muralist, Jatin Das. Acrylic
and mixed media on canvas
Suruchi Art Gallery is presenting an exhibition of mesmerizing
compilation of acrylic and mixed media on canvas, “Transforming ‘RASA’
Ideation and Expression” by Prof. Rajeev Lochan, Director, National
Gallery of Modern Art –a rare exhibition to showcase the creative
works of some of the most renowned artists on a single platform from
September 17. The artists include Mahendra Singh Baoni, Suriender Mishra, Neelanjana Nandy, Budha Dev Mukarjee, Pradeep Sen Gupta, Arunima Sanyal, Soumya Samanta, Deepak Rajbhar, Manoj Kar Choudhary, Raju Bose, Sougata Guha, Deepak Tiwari, Manish K.Rao, Yati Jaiswal and many more. An
evening of dance and music
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam are jointly presenting an evening of traditional dance, music and songs from Vietnam on September 18 at the Kamani Auditorium here. |
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Cancer awareness
programme held
New Delhi, September 16 The programme was organised by the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre in collaboration with the Indian Cancer Society and the Indian Medical Association. The experts said that attention should be paid on the myth that cancer is non-curable. Cancer can be cured, if detected early and, hence, needs awareness. Ironically, 70 per cent cancer cases are detected at the last stage, when it is extremely difficult to cure the disease. Cancer is a lifestyle disease. With an increase in life expectancy, the number of cancer patients has multiplied. It can be checked by generating awareness, the speakers said. They held that lack of awareness was the biggest problem in checking the disease. Girija Vyas, chairperson, National Commission for Women (NCW) said that it was high time to wakeup and work towards sanitising masses regarding cancer. She added that the role of doctors, media and government were important in making people aware about the deadly disease. Further,
she said that women cancer patients suffered more. “I have witnessed
cases, where women face dual agony of being cancer patients and victims
of harassment too”, she said. Dr K.V. Swaminathan, chairperson of the Institute said that cancer incidence was rapid in India due to the changing lifestyle. Current smoking levels and adoption of unhealthy lifestyle, together with the increasing proportion of elderly people would result in doubling cancer cases, from 10 million worldwide in 2000 to 20 million in 2020, with an annual toll reaching to 12 million. Emphasis
was laid on creating awareness regarding lymphoma— cancer that
attacked lymph nodes.. It was revealed that in the last 15 years, there had been 80 per cent increase in lymphoma cases and about 1 million people in the world were living with the disease. It is the third commonest cancer, after leukemia and brain tumor in children. Speaking
about the action plan of cancer awareness programme, Dr (Col) R Ranga
Rao said, “ We will conduct various programmes to create awareness
among physicians, surgeons, nursing fraternity, public and patients. In
these programmes, experts from the Institute will deliberate upon the
growing cancer problem, preventive measures, early symptoms of cancer to
enable its prevention and early diagnosis”. Former Miss India
Nikita Anand released ‘Cancer News—Lymphoma’. She said, “Cancer
is a word, not a sentence. Do not make it a sentence.” Children suffering from cancer presented a cultural programme. The youngest Padamshree awardee, Yamini Krishnamurthi gave a Bharatnatyam performance. |
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