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Ansals tamper with proof: Cops
Sales tax official harassed
Baalu to open Gurgaon-Delhi road
Blueline mows down elderly man
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She rebuffed me so I killed her: Help
Electoral rolls being revised in phases: CEO
GGISPU admission forms available from January 21
Supreme Court
4-day media workshop concludes
More Pratibha Vikas Vidyalayas to be set up
Duplicate mobile accessories seized
Man dupes builder
Balmy weather to continue
Three held for drug racket
Govt official commits suicide
Birds to be checked at entry
Project launched
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Ansals tamper with proof: Cops
New Delhi, January 18 Filing the charge-sheet before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A.K. Kohar, the police pointed fingers at the role of Sushil and Gopal Ansal in tampering with the evidence pertaining to the case. The case will come up for hearing on Feb 15. The Delhi High Court May 5, 2006 - on an application filed by the Association of Victims of Uphaar tragedy (AVUT) - had ordered the police to lodge an FIR and investigate the matter thoroughly. Earlier, a lower court had convicted a court staff, Dinesh Sharma, of tampering with documents, which showed that the Ansals were involved in the day-to-day running of the movie hall. Twelve accused, including Sushil and Gopal Ansal, were convicted by the trial court Nov 20 last year for criminal negligence in the Uphaar theatre fire, which killed 59 people during the screening of a movie June 13, 1997.
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Sales tax official harassed
Faridabad, January 18 Sharma said the neighbour had damaged his makeshift sewerage system and heaped garbage near the entrance of his house. His family members consisting of his wife, 70-year old mother, two grown-up daughters and sons have to go to another neighbour’s place to ease themselves. He has to park his vehicles in the neighbourhood. Adarsh Nagar Colony, which was approved a few years back, still does not have a laid- sewerage system. As a result, the residents dig pits for septic tanks. Sharma said that his neighbour demolished the tank on December 22, in spite of the court’s stay order. He said that on account of his neighbour’s intimidation, he had to move court thrice ever since he purchased a plot in the colony and set up house. Now, he has complained to the National Human Rights Commission. Sharma has told the commission that he and his family members fear the worst from the neighbour, who had been intimidating his family for the past more than a decade. His lament is that neither the police nor the state Chief Minister had responded to his complaint. |
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Baalu to open Gurgaon-Delhi road
New Delhi, January 18 The access-controlled stretch has been making headlines, especially as people inaugurated it this week after waiting endlessly for its formal opening. Though NHAI officials did not allow it to be used for vehicular traffic after “people’s inauguration”, speculation was rife on who will now inaugurate the “already-inaugurated” stretch. It prompted a high-level meeting in the Capital today. In fact, the meeting was held following “instructions” from Baalu himself. Ministry officials say that the road transport and highways secretary held a review of the progress on the access-controlled stretch. The NHAI chairman, senior officers of ministry and NHAI, Concessionaire and Independent Consultant from M/s RITES were present in the review.
During the review, it was reported that major works of the facility were completed on December 31, but some safety-related components such as provision of crash barriers, completion of left in - left out configuration at
Kapashera, removal of scaffoldings at some locations, back-up power supply particularly for street lighting and toll operations, system for tolling and that for operations and maintenance (O&M) of the corridor were remaining so that statutory tests could be undertaken by the Independent Consultant. The Concessionaire said the work was continuing round the clock to complete all these remaining jobs and assured that these works and other activities would be completed by the evening so that an independent engineer could undertake the mandatory safety, reliability and integrity tests.
Based on the commitment given by the Concessionaire that all requirements would be fulfilled by January 23, it was decided that Delhi-Gurgaon access control facility on NH-8 in its entirety would be opened the very same day at 4 pm by the minister in the presence of Haryana and Delhi Chief Ministers. |
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Blueline mows down elderly man
New Delhi, January 18 The bus, plying on route no. 816 between Uttam Nagar and Malkaganj, killed 65-year-old Satya Singh at Moti Nagar crossing in West Delhi, when the bus hit the rickshaw, on which he was seated. Singh fell from the rickshaw and was run over by the rear wheel of the bus. He was going with his daughter-in-law to visit a doctor. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his head injuries. His daughter-in-law suffered minor injuries. The rickshaw puller and the driver of the killer bus escaped from the scene. “A case of rash and negligent driving has been registered against the driver and a search is on to nab him. The bus owner has been called for interrogation,” said a police official. The 4,000-odd Blueline bus fleet, a crucial part of Delhi’s public transport system, has earned public ire for the recklessness of drivers and owners, but officials say they are helpless to check the menace. In 2007, the Bluelines had claimed 120 lives. The Blueline claimed the first victim of 2008 last Saturday in East Delhi.
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She rebuffed me so I killed her: Help
New Delhi, January 18 “Pawan during his interrogation revealed he had proposed to the victim twice in the past six months and each time she strongly rebuffed his advances and also threatened to report him to his employer, her uncle Aneesh Kapoor,” a senior investigating official told IANS on condition of anonymity. Pawan Kumar was arrested Thursday for the murder of Surabhi Kapoor, an aspiring air hostess, in her home in Saraswati Vihar in northwest Delhi. “On Wednesday, Pawan hid himself inside the victim’s house in Rajdhani Enclave. He then entered her room with a knife and a hammer around 2.30 a.m. after ensuring that everyone was fast asleep,” the official said. “Pawan first tried to rape her, but facing severe resistance from her, he stabbed her several times and then hit her with the hammer to make sure that she was dead,” the official added. The investigating official disclosed that Pawan, who is married with two children, had hatched the plot down to the minute detail, but his plans went awry. “Pawan, 32, who was working for Aneesh’s cable service for the past 12 years, didn’t show any regret for the cold-blooded murder. He said he was desperate to have a relationship with Surabhi, but her repeated refusals made him angry. Pawan said he couldn’t bear to see the victim being friendly with any man, so he eliminated her,” the official added. Surabhi stayed in the house with her parents and siblings. Her uncles, Aneesh and Rakesh occupy the other two floors of the house. After killing Surabhi, the man hid himself in a nearby store room and switched on the water motor pump thinking that on hearing the sound someone would wake up and open the door to switch it off, giving him an opportunity to flee. The police said he had also painted his face black, was wearing black clothes and a monkey cap. “Seema, the girl’s mother, who woke up to switch off the pump, noticed a silhouette fleeing from the room. She called her husband and both tried to catch him.” “Pawan, in a bid to escape, then attacked them. Seema had to be given 32 stitches, while Dinesh suffered minor injuries,” the official said. According to the police, after Dinesh shouted for help, his younger brother and a neighbour came up and overpowered Pawan after a brief struggle. Pawan was handed over to the police and the weapons of attack seized from him. Till an hour after catching him, the family hadn’t thought of checking in on Surabhi. When they entered her room, they found her lying in a pool of blood on the bed. Surabhi and her parents were rushed to the nearby Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, where doctors declared Surabhi brought dead. The police official said robbery was not the motive behind the killing as Pawan was taking care of Aneesh’s business completely. “All the monetary transactions were being carried out through Pawan. He was a trustworthy employee for the past 12 years and was enjoying the benefits provided by the family.” “Pawan was close to the family and often dropped Surabhi at her air hostess training institute or at friends’ place,” the official added. — IANS
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Electoral rolls being revised in phases: CEO
New Delhi, January 18 The revision of electoral rolls is being done in phases. The work of first phase started in November 2007 and completed on January 1 this year. Second phase will start from January 21 and will be completed on February 5. The CEO said that during the updating work of electoral rolls, two-thirds of voters are not found either at the given address or there were spelling mistakes in their names. The electorate shift their residences and do not inform the election office concerned. The first phase of updating the electoral list was updated on January 1, “but I am sure if again a survey is done, many residents will be found to have changed their residences”, Bedi said. The department had appointed booth level officers in each locality to update the list. The BLOs visited each residence. If once the person concerned was not found on the given address, the BLOs visited twice and thrice. There were 107.3 crore electors out of which 60 lakh male and 47.3 lakh female. The ratio of female electors come out to be 690 against per 1000 males. She further informed that the information collected by the BLOs are being incorporated in the draft electoral roll. During the second phase, February 2 and 3 have been declared special campaign dates when the citizens will get help to fill up forms. Form six is sought to be filled up for inclusion of names. Electoral list will be available at SDM offices, offices of the electoral registration officers, assistant electoral registration officers, post offices and the schools where polling stations are set up. It will also be available on website, www.ceodelhi.nic.in. |
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GGISPU admission forms available from January 21
New Delhi, January 18 The admission brochure can be obtained from the 48 designated branches of Punjab & Sind Bank. Besides, students can apply online on the University website at . The last date for obtaining and submitting the forms is April
21. GGISPU has devised three brochures (admission brochure I - professional programmes, admission brochure II - engineering and B. Arch and admission brochure III - MBBS) for admissions to its various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. 13,000 students will take admission in 45 courses. Admission to 38 programmes will be conducted on the basis of Common Entrance Tests
(CET), organised by the varsity. The University is in the process of starting several new courses this year, prominent among those are a certificate course in retailing, BBA, LL.B (Honours), Bachelor of Prosthetics and
Orthotics, Master of Architecture, B. Tech in Tool Engineering, and B. Tech (environment engineering and management). “The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India has sanctioned a grant of Rs 4.5 crore to the University to initiate an M. Tech programme in Nanoscience and Technology, under the aegis of the Centre for Nanotechnology,” informed Prof Aggarwal. The University will offer postgraduate medical diploma and degree courses from this year.
GGSIPU will conduct CETs for four of its most sought-after courses MBA, MBBS, B. Tech and Master of Computer Applications, at 12 cities across India, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bhopal, Noida, Jalandhar, Nagpur and Ahmedabad, as compared to eight cities last year. |
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Rapist father’s mercy plea rejected
New Delhi, January 18 A bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat refused to admit the plea of the father, Hanuman Singh, a resident of Ajmer in Rajasthan. Singh was convicted by a local sessions court for repeatedly raping and sodomising his eldest daughter for over six months in 2000. According to the prosecution, Singh’s estranged wife, Shanti Devi, had registered the rape case against him. Shanti Devi, while leaving her husband’s home for her parent’s house at Kishangarh in Rajasthan, left behind her three children - two daughters and a son. She had been married for 35 years. She, however, used to visit her children occasionally. In September 2000, when she went to meet her children, her eldest daughter began sobbing before her and insisted on going along with her. When Shanti Devi took her daughter to her parent’s house in Kishangarh, the daughter told her how her father had been subjecting her to rape for the last six months and forcing her to keep quiet by emotionally blackmailing her or threatening her with dire consequences. Hanuman had argued before the trial court and the Rajasthan High Court that his daughter was implicating him on false charges. However, both courts refused to believe him. — IANS
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4-day media workshop concludes
New Delhi, January 18 The programme, which concluded today, saw lectures from senior mediapersons and parliamentarians on the role of the media, changing news value and the reportage of the proceedings. A panel discussion on the topic “Impact of live coverage of Parliamentary proceedings on news value” was held today in which panelists discussed the environment in which the media was working and the influence of market forces on the choice of news. While there were concerns about the media not giving adequate coverage to less-known MPs even if they had made vital points, there were also suggestions that the parliamentary proceedings should be made more productive. The programme was inaugurated by Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Mohammad Hamid Ansari. He said while the public had the right to know, the media had the right to report and Parliament had the right not to be misreported and all the three rights had to be exercised simultaneously. Among those who spoke during the programme were Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K. Rahman Khan, former ministers Murli Manohar Joshi and Arun Shourie, Rajya Sabha Secretary General V K Agnihotri, MPs including J P Aggarwal, Harish Rawat, Santosh Bagrodia, Chandan Mitra, senior journalists including Harish Khare, Alok Mehta, Madhusudan Anand and Vinod Sharma and Dipankar Mukherjee, former MP. |
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More Pratibha Vikas Vidyalayas to be set up
New Delhi, January 18 The Chief Minister also stressed the need for providing moral education to children in schools apart from the regular textual education. Speaking at the annual function of Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalya number-1 Ludlow Castle, Dikshit said that constant efforts on the part of Delhi government towards improving the quality and standard of education in government schools had led to improvement in the academic results of these schools. The Chief Minister also distributed prizes to meritorious students in the school. She said the aim of the government was to bring Delhi government schools at par with the best public schools in the Capital. The Chief Minister also said that looking at the needs of society, the department of education has identified new curricular areas like computer education, YUVA. The department has introduced continuous and comprehensive evaluation programme (CCEP) in its schools where the students are given tests and evaluate on a regular basis. The mental maths project helps student overcome their handicap in mathematics. |
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Duplicate mobile accessories seized
New Delhi, January 18 A trader, Govind Prakash Singh, was arrested on Wednesday for indulging in selling and stocking duplicate Nokia mobile phones and accessories from his shop in Gaffar Market in Karol Bagh. Several fake mobile phones and accessories were seized from Singh’s shop during a raid. In another incident, two traders of Kashmere Gate involved in selling duplicate products of Tata Motors Ltd were arrested. The police arrested Rajeev Raj Paul and Buta Singh, after their shops in Kashmere Gate were raided on Tuesday. Duplicate automotive parts and packing material purportedly manufactured by Tata Motors were recovered. — UNI
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Man dupes builder
New Delhi, January 18 R.K. Singh, 40, was arrested with his father Balram Prasad, 62, from their south Delhi Badarpur house Thursday. The police said investigations were taken up after builder Praveen Gupta complained that Singh had grabbed his property by preparing forged documents. Gupta in his complaint said that Singh had befriended him nearly a year ago by posing as the chief reporter of a leading newspaper. After some time, Singh took the plea of his father’s ill health and managed to get a room in a building of Gupta’s property in Badarpur. He later took possession of all the four rooms in the building.
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Balmy weather to continue
New Delhi, January 18 According to the Met office, the cloud cover over the Capital was responsible for the rise in temperature. The balmy weather is likely to continue for the next couple of days. The Met office has forecast a partly cloudy sky during the next 24 hours with the possibility of light rain or thundershowers in some areas. |
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Three held for drug racket
New Delhi, January 18 The police laid a trap near the Vivek Vihar Surya Nagar crossing and one Suresh was apprehended while he was coming from Surya Nagar. He was found carrying a packet containing about 800 grams of high quality smack. Two other persons Nirmala and Bharat were apprehended while they were preparing street samples of smack at a Ram Prasth area flat. After checking the criminal records ,the police found out that the trio had been booked for similar crimes earlier. |
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Govt official commits suicide
New Delhi, January 18 Ashiya Rahat, 38, a section officer, was found hanging at her Sadiq Nagar home in the Defence Colony neighbourhood around 4 p.m. The police sent her body for post-mortem examination to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The police said she had married Irfan, a government official, five years ago. The couple was childless.
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Birds to be checked at entry
New Delhi, January 18 Shastri said that the animal husbandry department is fully geared to take on any eventuality. The department of health and family welfare is also fully geared to provide preventive cover to any person handling the suspected cases of bird flu. The department has already constituted state rapid response team and district rapid response teams for the purpose in the nine districts of the Capital. |
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Project launched
Gurgaon, January 18 Swarup said that ‘‘we are happy to announce the community development programme which is a step towards our commitment to the residents of Gurgaon.” He added that these parks are our lifeline and it is in our own interest that we nurture and take care of such public areas. We at DLF are striving to make Gurgaon an ideal city by providing a lifestyle, which is slowly evading the metro residents. |
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