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Court refuses divorce to Navy official
Accused in housing scam gets
Rape of two sisters |
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Delhi Police cops get a beating
Fire in factory
Bonfires, sweets mark Lohri
Man held for calling cops 300 times
Principal arrested
McDonald employees arrested
Hotelier to get alternative site
Rise in temp expected in North West plains
Priyanka’s big splash
Artscape
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Court refuses divorce to Navy official
New Delhi, January 13 Refusing to grant divorce to a lieutenant commander posted at Vishakhapatnam, additional district judge Atul Kumar Garg said that the lieutenant commander had failed to produce any instance of cruelty that had made him file a case of divorce, just 15 days after his marriage. Referring to the provisions of the Hindu Marriage Act, the court observed that a fortnight was too short to arrive at the conclusion that the marriage could not work. Noting that apart from verbal accusations, the husband had been unable to produce any witness to corroborate his charges that the woman had ill-treated or insulted him in front of his friends, the court dismissed his plea. The Navy official said that he was unable to live with his wife owing to her abusive and non-co-operative behaviour. However, the wife does not have any complaints against her husband and is ready to live with him. The couple got married on September 19, 2002.
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Accused in housing scam gets retirement benefits
New Delhi, January 13 A bench of the tribunal headed by member Justice Meera Chhibber held that charge sheet in the case against the petitioner was filed after he retired from the service hence there was no justification to withhold his “retrial” benefits, including gratuity and leave encashment. The bench, referring to rules of the department, also held that the offence of corruption alleged against the petitioner did not involve any finances so nothing was to be recovered from his “retrial” benefits and leave encashment. The bench pointed out from the applicable service rules that mere registration of a case was not sufficient to withhold the “retrial” benefits, gratuity and leave encashment of the personnel. Petitioner Daya Nand Sharma, an assistant registrar in the office of the registrar of co-operative societies,had moved CAT seeking direction to release his gratuity and leave encashment. He had submitted that since the charge sheet has been filed against only six persons since the institution of the case in 2005, out of total 12 persons, the case was bound to take a long time.
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Rape of two sisters
Faridabad, January 13 Extending the ultimatum to January 26,the panchayat expressed disgust at the delay on the part of the police to crack the
case. The two sisters, natives of the village , were students of the Aggarwal Post Degree College in nearby Ballabgarh town. They did not return home from the college on December 17,2007.Their bodies were found at a railway track,3 km from the village. While body of the younger sister was
headless, the body of the eleder one was bruised. The autopsy report has suggested rape of the two
sisters. The two sisters were last spotted at Ballabgarh. Their relatives had reported the matter to Ballabharh Police Station. The police arrested three youths of the village and a girl student of the college,
a friend of the two sisters. The Panchayat today voiced the sentiments of the relatives of the deceased sisters that the police
was pussyfooting in the case. The speakers on the occasion minced no words in alleging that the police had come under political pressure and was trying to shield the culprits. Among others,the local Congress MLA and Charman of Haryana’s Administrative Reforms Commission, Karan Dala,and senior police officers were present on the
occasion. Prithla falls in the Palwal assembly segment represented by Dalal. While the police officers said that it was still investigating the case,Dalal asserted that justice will be provided to the victims’ family. |
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Delhi Police cops get a beating
Ghaziabad, January 13 The residents handed over two Delhi Police cops to the local police while four cops managed to slip away. A resident of Din Dayalpuri had taken a loan from a private company. The loanee said he had already cleared the loan amount. But in spite of this an SI with five cops equipped with a recovery warrant had descended on the house. The cops allegedly man- handled the members of the loanee’s family and throwing the household goods out on the street. A big crowd of neighbours had collected at the house. A few of them tried to reason out with the Delhi cops ,but they insisted. Seeing the inmates weeping and crying, helplessly, neighbours surrounded the Delhi Police team and started thrashing them. Soon the police from the local police station reached the house. In between four cops managed to flee but two were handed over to the Ghaziabad police. |
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Fire in factory
New Delhi, January 13 “Eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire was brought under control in no time,” said fire brigade officials. No casualty has been reported from the spot. Meanwhile, the cause of fire is yet to be ascertained.
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New Delhi, January 13 Marking the harvest of rabi (winter) crops, Lohri celebrates prosperity. “On Lohri, people light bonfires in their paddy fields or in front of their houses and throw edibles like — popcorn or puffed rice into it, shouting chants like ‘Aadar aye dilather jaye’, which means may honour come and poverty vanish,” said Sakshi Sethi, a school teacher in East Delhi. “The chant is a sort of prayer to Agni, the fire god, to bless the land with prosperity. Besides this, people sing folk songs as they gather around the bonfire,” Sethi added. The day started with children, especially in Northern India, doing rounds of the neighbourhood and going from door to door demanding the Lohri loot in the form of edibles like — sesame, jaggery, peanuts and sweets such as gajak and rewri. Six-year-old Seema said, “I got lots of gajak from neighbours. They know that I love munching on them.” After lighting the bonfire, people met and wished their friends and relatives. They also exchanged gifts and distributed prasad (offerings made to god). The prasad comprises five items — sesame, gajak, jaggery, peanuts, and popcorn. Since the festival falls in the mid-winter, consumption of all these food items gives warmth and energy to the body. — IANS
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Two-day Sastha Preethi celebrations conclude
New Delhi, January 13 Palakkadu Brahmins from Kerala participated in the two-day event. The ceremony was organised by the Delhi Sastha Preethi Celebration Committee. The celebration began on January 12 with Ganapathi Homan, which was followed by Rudra Ekadasi, Vasordharai and Dampathy Puja. A cultural programme was held in the evening. It included Karnatic vocal performance by Sumita Lakshman, Sushila Vishwanathan, Alamelu Parameswaran and Lalitha Anand; violin recital by Sneha, Ramya and Vidya and a Bharatanatyam performance by Pavitra Padmakumar. The celebrations ended with ‘Sampradaya Bhajanai’ on the first day. Today, the celebration started with Mahanyasa Ekadasa Rudrabhishekam, followed by traditional Nurani Saastha Pattu and Vanji Pattu. ‘Annadaanam’ was performed on both the days. Devotees of Lord Ayyappa participated in it.
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Man held for calling cops 300 times
New Delhi, January 13 Bhuvan Chander was finally in the grip of Delhi police on Sunday. According to the police sources, Bhuvan made 276 calls on December 10 in the night and 155 calls on December 12. The phone calls were made both from land lines and his private mobile phone. Bhuvan, a private security guard has been arrested under Section 509 IPC and Section 67 IT Act, for using unparliamentary language.
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Principal arrested
New Delhi, January 13 Seven-year-old victim has alleged that principal Chandraketu Virala called her in his office and molested her. The matter came into light when the victim told her parents about the incident after returning from school. Virala,
58, is the principal of the HI-Tech school in the Bhajanpur area. A formal complaint has been registered in the local police station. |
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McDonald employees arrested
New Delhi, January 13 Rohit Dhingra, Ashish and Amit murdered Mahesh Nagar on December 11.
According to the police, Rohit had introduced his girlfriend to the deceased, while they were working at McDonald in Connaght Circus. Eventually, Mahesh developed intimacy with the girl. As a result, Rohit along with two of his accomplices killed Mahesh on December 11 near the Yamuna bank. Rohit, Ashish and Amit hit Mahesh till he died.
After Mahesh’s death, they left McDonald. They, reportedly, have admitted their crime.
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Hotelier to get alternative site
New Delhi, January 13 With the Delhi High Court directing it to allot within 15 days an alternative site to the buyer, who wants to meet the deadline for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The hotel developer had alleged that the DDA in May last year auctioned to it a plot which was encroached upon by the Delhi Jal Board and Jhuggi dwellers. In a recent order, Justice Sanjeev Khanna pulled up the DDA and asked it to pay 8 per cent rate of interest against Rs 3.66 crore, the money which was paid by the hotel company at the time of auction, for the delay in allotment of the land. Directing the housing body to pay the interest in three months, the court asked the agency to issue a formal allotment letter for the alternative plot within 15 days. The court also asked the company to pay the balance amount (Rs 11 crore) within 90 days and start construction of the hotel after completion of formalities. The petitioner, through its counsel S K Agarwal submitted that in pursuant to a tender floated by DDA, a 1,668 square metre plot located in the Vivek Vvihar community centre was auctioned to the company for a total sum of Rs 14.64 crore. In May last year, the company had deposited more than Rs 3 crore with DDA as per the agreement. However, on visit to the site it was found that the land had been encroached upon by the Jal Board, a gas agency, a taxi stand and jhuggi clusters.
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Rise in temp expected in North West plains
New Delhi, January 13 According to the India Meteorological Department
(IMD), a western disturbance is likely to affect the western Himalayan Region and the adjoining plains. With this, people in northwest plains, including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan can expect a rise in minimum temperatures. “The minimum temperature is likely to increase over the northwest plains, after 24 hours,” the IMD says. The Met office said that the lowest temperature was recorded at 1.5 degree Celsius in
Amritsar. Isolated rain or snowfall is expected in Jammu and Kashmir, while dry weather will prevail over the rest of the region. There will be a slight fall in minimum temperatures during the next 24 hours, leading to cold wave conditions over isolated pockets of Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. The Capital recorded the minimum temperature at 7.4 degrees Celsius, two degrees below normal. Yesterday, the minimum temperature was recorded at 7 degrees Celsius. The Met office has forecast a clear sky for the next 24 hours, with the minimum temperature likely to hover around 8 degrees Celsius. |
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Priyanka’s big splash
New Delhi, January 13 For the brilliant Delhi College of Art graduate, who has launched her first solo exhibition: “Big Small Happiness”, her paintings are the window through which she looks at the world of happiness, and all the fantasies it involves. “Things that we often take for granted, if perceived with a third eye, reveal immense power and meaning,’’ she says in front of her oil canvases that show a kind of splendiferous native simplicity. But it was after seven years in the advertising world— three years as art director at two well-known creative agencies— that she found the real meaning of life and her calling. Those seven years, when she painted only on rare weekends, her expression as an artist changed dramatically as did her impressions of life, till she simplified it all to a personal teeny truth: big small happiness.
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When images speak
Ravi Bhatia Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 13 Playful, daring and witty, the recent works of According to critics, there are times when young artists through sheer tenacity and a deep sense of commitment arrive at a style one fine day which would make all their previous works seem experimental. Sharmi Chaudhury has effortlessly and precisely accomplished the leap from the exploratory to a mastery over her medium with this body of works comprising Tempera on Silk, Oil on Canvas, Ceramic Platters and Water colour on paper. Her penchant for story telling continues but the mode of telling has metamorphosed dramatically. What earlier used to be elaborate tableau of puppet like figures set against theatrical backdrops seem to have acquired a life of their own. The man-woman relationship underpins Sharmi’s narratives as a leitmotif, but what disrupts the gendered binary is the subliminal world invoked by the animal world. The animals parody the human world by mimicking it or open up a new world ruled by different norms and morals. At times, markers of femininity from the human world are mapped on to the animals, as when one of the platters depicts a man carrying a crocodile with a red bangle adorning each limb! There will be around 20 works on display in different mediums – Tempera on Silk, Oil on canvas, Ceramic platters, Watercolour on Paper and Drawings. “Let There Be Light”, an exhibition of photographs by Mahesh Nair is being held at the Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre here from January16 to January 21. Curated by Dr. Alka Pande, the exhibition showcases photographic excellence, personifying the beauty of nature. The Hungarian Information and Cultural centre here is presenting a photo exhibition “Thousand Faces of Shakti” by Julia Ekhardt from January 9 to January 25. The exhibition shows the encounter of two cultures. The Centre is also presenting an Odissi recital by Beata Barkoczi on January 9. The India International Centre here is presenting a Hindustani Classical Musical recital by Ganesh Prasad Mishra from Varanasi on January 16 in its auditorium. Ganesh is the son and disciple of late Pandit Mahadev Prasad Mishra. Trained in classical and light classical vocal recital, Ganesh also holds the title of “Sangeet Bhaskar”. The Mint art gallery here is presenting en exhibition of the recent works of artist Ram Bali Chouhan from January 15 to January 31. A meritorious student of the College of Art here, Ram Bali has participated in a several group shows and his paintings have come in for critical appreciation in the art circles. Art Indus here is presenting an exhibition of paintings of Bhaskar Goswami from January 17 to January 24. Goswami, who was born and bred in Kolkata, secured his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in fine arts from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. He has held several shows of his creations in various parts of the country.
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5 hurt as truck rams vehicles
New Delhi, January 13 The police said the truck first hit a two-wheeler and then a tempo before hitting a rickshaw. Later, it lost control and barged into a neraby flat.
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Nagar kirtan held
Noida, January 13 It
passed through Atta crossing, in front of Cambridge school and District Magistrate camp office in Sector-27, wending its way through Sector-26, 25-26 road, DPS school crossing, Sector-28-30 road, touched community centre in Sector-37 before culminating at the Guru Nanak Mission gurdwara in Sector 37 at 3
pm. Devotees in colourful dresses sang Gurbani Shabads. School bands, Gatka parties, Panj Pyaras, Nihang Singh’s on horse- backs participated in the kirtan. |
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