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Cop to be reinstated after 15 yrs
Man gets life term for murder
One dies, 9 taken ill after eating food
Kashmiri food fest, a gastronomic delight
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Chill returns
Muharram observed
Youth held with ganja
Private school flourish on govt land
Greenpeace activists protest
Musicals, action thrillers to return to Bollywood
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Cop to be reinstated after 15 yrs
New Delhi, January 20 His dismissal was reversed by the tribunal on the ground that the official order to sack him was issued while his appeal in the case was still pending in court. A bench of the tribunal consisting of chairman V K Bali and L K Joshi held no order of dismissal could be passed against the applicant (petitioner) till such time the appeal preferred by him against the order of conviction and sentence was decided by the Punjab and Haryana High court. Be that as it may, it is provided in (service) rule 11 that in case, the second appeal or revision of an employee is allowed and he is acquitted, he shall be reinstated in service from the date of dismissal or removal, even though he may be proceeded against departmentally, the bench added. Awarding Rs 10,000 as compensation to constable Chand Singh, the bench observed that he had remained out of service for about 15 years and was illegally deprived of all the service benefits that he might have been entitled to. At no stage of the case of the applicant was properly dealt with and, therefore, there is no manner of doubt that he must have gone through untold misery and hardship, it said. Constable (driver) Chand Singh was dismissed from service when he was accused and convicted in the case of disappearance and alleged dowry death of his wife in
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Man gets life term for murder
New Delhi, January 20 The circumstances proved on record are of exclusive nature, consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused and lead to the irresistible conclusion that Tarsem Singh (deceased) died because of injuries inflicted on his person, additional sessions judge Narinder Kumar said. Vinod, alias Chawani, was held guilty under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC, and awarded a fine of Rs 5,000 apart from the jail sentence. The court, which recorded statements of 19 prosecution witnesses, relied on the version of constable Ashok Kumar, who had seen the accused fleeing from the scene of the incident with a knife in his right hand, besides other evidences to convict the accused. Vinod was arrested on February 25, 2005, about 11 days after a case was registered against him with Mangolpuri police station on the complaint of one Sawan Kumar alleging that the accused had stabbed his father. His father, junk dealer Tarsem Singh had died in a hospital on February 16 two days after being stabbed. In his statement before the court, Vinod denied the charges saying that he was earlier helping the police as an informer and when he refused to work for them, they falsely implicated him in the case. Additional public prosecutor P K Verma, on the other hand, argued that all the circumstances were against Vinod, who was seen running away from the scene of the crime by the constable. The police had also recovered the knife allegedly used in the offence from a school premises at the instance of the accused.
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One dies, 9 taken ill after eating food
Greater Noida, January 20 Some insecticide and pesticides had reportedly got mixed with the wheat grain bought for sowing. The sick have been removed to a private nursing home for treatment. Bhanu Prakash, a farmer lives in village Makanpur Khaddar with his family. He had bought some wheat seeds for sowing the crop in November 2007. The wheat grain got mixed with some insecticide and pesticides. As some wheat was left in the house after the sowing operations, the same was used by unsuspecting housewives for making chapattis for the family members after the grain had been crushed into wheat flour from a mill. On Friday, the same chapattis were sent to Bhanu Prakash and his younger brother Hari Om for lunch at their farm. Bhanu Prakash developed severe headache and started vomiting after eating the food. He told his brother Hari Om not to eat the food. Both ran towards their home to alert other members not to eat the same meal. Hari Om who had eaten a few morsels felt giddy and fell on the way. When some neighbouring farmers took Bhanu Prakash and Hari Om to their home, the condition of eight members including their wives, Bhavna, Asha, two sons – Nishant and Prashant, daughters Kajol, Janki, brother Jatinder and his wife, Anju were also found to be serious. All of them had taken the same food. Neighbours quickly rushed them all to a hospital in Dankore. Due to their serious condition, they were shifted to Sarvodya hospital in Faridabad. Here Bhanu Prakash breathed his last while others were still under treatment.
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Kashmiri food fest, a gastronomic delight
New Delhi, January 20 The cuisine, unique to Kashmiri Pandits, to be more specific, was very light with each dish having a distinct flavour. Therefore, despite being served together in a platter, each dish could stand out on its own. The food festival at the Maurya Sheraton hotel in the Capital will be open to all from January 18-27. S. Suman Kaul, the head chef said that the best thing of this cuisine is that since it is not laden in oil or other spices, it does not make you feel bloated after eating even a large meal. “You can eat as much as you want without getting that bloated feeling!” Kaul said. “The speciality of the cuisine of Kashmiri Pandits is that it does not use garlic or onion, like other cuisines do. Instead we use lots of asafoetida (hing), fennel seeds (saunf) and yoghurt. We generally use curd in our curries, which gives it the creamy consistency. We also use saffron, pure ghee and mustard oil,” Kaul told IANS. Chilli is used mostly to give colour to the food instead of adding pungency, which is given by dry ginger. A typical Kashmiri fare should ideally begin with a steaming cup of kahwa or Kashmiri tea, which is laden with spices, particularly saffron, and makes your senses more receptive to the gamut of flavours and aroma to be served later. A cup of kahwa down and it is time for the real fare to begin. A plate of steaming rice with some lamb cooked in yellow gravy (nayne qaliya) and chicken cooked in yoghurt curry (kokar yakhni) was next. Light on the taste buds and yet titillating to the senses...the start was perfect. Next came kabargah! A winter delicacy, this dish, which is lamb ribs cooked in milk and saffron for a good five to six hours. The result: a piece of meat that simply melts in your mouth and yet not so tender that it breaks at the touch of the fork. The traditional Kashmiri saag or haakh, as it’s called is another delicacy, cooked in some oil and chilli. There was also nadre yakhni, which is lotus stem cooked in yoghurt, munge chaman qaliya, which is knoll khol with cottage cheese in yellow curry and steamed potatoes flavoured with fennel seeds and asafoetida. “The difference between the usual Kashmiri fare and this kind of cuisine is that in the former there is a lot of oil and spices used. So two pieces of Kashmiri roghan gosht and you feel full but in the latter, it is not the case. — IANS
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Chill returns
New Delhi, January 20 The minimum temperature was recorded at 7.5 degrees Celsius yesterday. It had sharply plunged from Friday’s 14 degrees C, causing a chill in the air and ending a weeklong spell of warm weather. The Met department has attributed the sudden change to western disturbances crossing Jammu and Kashmir and strong north
westerlies. The nip in the air could continue for the next few days, with the minimum temperature likely to dip to five degrees C
tomorrow. The Met department forecast a mainly clear sky and mist in morning for tomorrow. |
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Muharram observed
New Delhi, January 20 On the 10th day of the month of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, Muslim across the globe remember the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, grandson of Prophet Mohammed, some 1,400 years ago, at a place called Karbala in Iraq. On Ashoora, as the 10th day of Muharram is also known as, special prayers were offered at historic Shahi Masjid Fatehpuri and shrine of Khwaja Nizam-ud-din Auliya in South Delhi, where Muslims paid homage to Hussain. Shia Muslims took out tazia (mourning) processions from various places in the national capital. The processions included some of the oldest, like the one taken out from Shia Jama Masjid in Kashmiri Gate to Punja Sharif Karbala in the same locality and from Pahari Bhojla in Chittqualam near historic Jama Masjid to Karbala in Jorbag near Lodhi colony. Dressed in black, Shia Muslims, both men as well as women, were crying and beating their chests to mourn the Hussain’s martyrdom. They were also were holding flags. After reaching the Jorbag Karbala, the mourners performed rituals of tearing up their flags and burying them there. The occasion was marked by the story of Hussein’s martyrdom being told in a sombre voice as the day-long affair of tazia processions continued. It is said that during this month only, soldiers of Yazid, an Arab Muslim ruler, surrounded Hussain, his family and some followers at Iraq’s
Karbala. In the days that followed, they were denied food and water and many of them were killed in the war that lasted till Muharram 10 in 680 AD. Keeping with the country’s secular traditions, Hindus and Muslims also took out a joint tazia from Bhairon Mandir near Pragati Maidan to Jorbag karbala. “It’s one of the oldest tazia processions of Delhi where Muslims and Hindus keep up with the country’s secular traditions and bond of fraternity,” Imran Ahmed, a participant of the procession said.
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Youth held with ganja
New Delhi, January 20 The personnel of Railway Protection Force arrested Ramesh, when he was found moving suspiciously at the platform of Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station on Friday morning, RPF officials said. The youth, who was carrying a brief case and a hand bag, hails from Vaishali district in Bihar. He had arrived from Patna by ‘Garib Rath’ train. When stopped by the RPF personnel for checking, he tried to run away from the spot but was overpowered, officials said. About 30 kg of ganja, packed in polythene and hidden in the bags, was recovered from his possession, they said.
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Private school flourish on govt land
Greater Noida, January 20 This private school has been functioning there for quite some time while the authorities were oblivious of the fact that it had been built on the land belonging to the government school. So much so even the headmaster and teachers had never felt the need to lodge a complaint against it with the district administration. When on Tuesday, the chief development officer visited the village to review the development work in the school, which is covered under Ambedkar village scheme, the facts came to light. Three days ago, the district basic school education officer ordered the assistant district school officer to file a case against the private school management. The case has not, however, been filed yet. While the primary school in village Kamrala was in a dilapidated condition, a new school building was proposed to be built on this land. A village tough had, a year ago, occupied this land and built his own private nursery school, encroaching on the government school land. He had also lured a large number of government school students to his own school. While only 27 students are on the roll of government school, the private school is flourishing with 350 students. Though Rs 1.50 lakh was sanctioned for repair of government school building, so far no action could be taken on it because according to principal “the owner of neighbouring school, (the usurper), did not allow us to build a boundary wall even”. The district basic education officer Dharam Vir Singh has now ordered ABEO Karuna Sharma to file a case against the owner of the private school. |
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Greenpeace activists protest
New Delhi, January 20 The activists appealed to the Prime Minister, who is also the chairperson of the climate council, to look into the problem. “The power minister has no idea of the urgency required in acting on the issue of climate change to safeguard the future the country’s people and the planet,” said Brikesh Singh, climate and energy campaigner, Greenpeace India. “We demand that the Yojana be announced on the Republic Day.” The activists held balloons to bring to notice the fact that each day’s delay generated 2,50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the environment. The Yojana, announced in July last year, would address problems related to energy and climate change in the country. |
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Sonal Mansingh to present classical dance recital
Ravi Bhatia Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 20 This year too, she will be presenting her Adbhutam at the India Habitat Centre here on January 25, an event which has now come to be recognized as part of the annual Republic Day celebrations. The danseuse, who has been active on the classical dance stage for the last three decades, also runs the Centre For Indian Classical Dances. Exploration of
Verbal Photography
Khoj International Artists’ Association is presenting a body / text exhibition at its Khirkee Extension Studios here from January 18. The exhibition, organised in association with ‘The Deaf Way’ and supported by the Spanish embassy here, is an exploration of Verbal Photography by the artist Jose Abad Lorente. It came out of a set of workshops that were run with the deaf community in Delhi at the KHOJ Studios. Visual Poetry and Body Calligraphy Project was based on interdisciplinary arts that blend together Spanish poetry, photography, Indian sign language, body movement, and gesture. The aim of the art project was to explore disability and representation through a range of different concepts. The goal was to explore the body as tool for language and visual communication. Look into the male world
An exhibition of paintings of the well-known artist Papia is being held at the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society here from February 2 to February 8. In her desires and fantasies, Papia is a complete female and also a complete male, she professes to the core Yevtushenko’s idea that -WOMEN ARE THE BEST MEN. Critics maintain that Papia likes to see the distorted realities around her through the filter of her personal fantasies. Being born in a traditional, orthodox Hindu Brahmin background, she has shown great courage to express her mind and desires. The artist Papia has considerable creative latitude. She is a painter by profession. All her expressions are strongly rooted, both in her paintings and her poetry. The most favorite word in her life is ‘Pleasure’. Her life is all about pleasure—pleasure in painting, drawing, furniture designing, garment designing, dancing, music, cooking, photographs, theatre and films. She happens to do all these at ease, like a normal course of one’s daily life and in each of these fields she is quite a remarkable example and name. She feels all these art forms are intrinsically linked with one another and they have to be expressed when ‘they’ demand to be expressed. The rare union of mind and fantasy finds potent expression in RITUR DINGULO (The Days of Menstruation), the book of poems by Papia Ghoshal, translated by powerful English poet Christopher Arkell, in English. Her imageries not only manage to overcome the dangers of excessive subjectivity, but also skillfully fashion her own laws as the architect of a new feminine logic. In her paintings, Papia takes a free and open look into the male world - a bold and deliberate attempt to break through the boundary between desire and reality. “The Living God – Bahurupi” The India International Centre here is holding an exhibition of photographs by Bijoy Chowdhury, “The Living God – Bahurupi” at its Art Gallery from January 24 to February 1. Bijoy’s photographs have appeared in many international magazines. Exhibition of
photographs
The Stainless Gallery here is holding an exhibition of photographs of Martine Franck, internationally acclaimed photographer and social worker, from January 17 to January 25. Born in Antwerp, Martine spent her childhood in the United States and England. Currently she is focusing on artists at her Henri Cartier- Bresson Foundation. Henri Cartier – Bresson is her husband. Sale of NE
products
An exhibition-cum-sale of traditional north eastern products is being held at the Central Cottage Industries Emporium here from January 15 to January 24. Exhibition
of sculptures
Art Konsult here is presenting “Enduring Stones, Deep Woods” an exhibition of sculptures by Neeraj Gupta at the Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre from January 28 to February 7. The Gallery Espace here is also holding an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by artist Nagji Patel. Entitled, “The Enshrined Object”, the exhibition will be open to public from January 19 to February8. Auction of antiques
Bid and Hammer, the country’s first auction house which is all set to bang the hammer on January 24 in Bangalore gave a preview of the goodies it is planning to put up for sale earlier this week. These include paintings by some of the well-known contemporary artists and rare antiques collected painstakingly over the years. This will be its maiden auction. Creations of
Sahajahan
The Chawla Art gallery here is presenting an exhibition of the creations of artist S.K Sahajahan from January 30 to February 10. |
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Musicals, action thrillers to return to Bollywood
New Delhi, January 20 After regaling cinegoers with their comic streak last year, Bollywood heartthrobs like Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Abhishek Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt will send testosterone levels of cinegoers soaring with on screen action stunts in many action thrillers. Leading the action hero brigade in 2008 will be Bollywood’s original khiladi and the industry’s ‘Mr Dependable’ Akshay Kumar. Akshay, who last year tickled many a funny bone with his successful shot at comedy with ‘Hey Baby’, ‘Namaste London’, ‘Bhool Bhulaiya’ and ‘Welcome’, will this year return to his first love - action. Having made a successful makeover from action roles to intense and comic roles over the last few years, Akshay Kumar will display his stunts and biceps in films like — ‘Singh is King’, ‘Tashan’ and ‘Chandni Chowk to China’, this year. The year will also see veteran actor Anil Kapoor, who sent cinegoers laughing in the aisles with his comic act of the don Majnubhai in Anees Bazmee’s ‘Welcome’, change gears to action roles in Abbas Mastan’s ‘Race’, Subhash Ghai’s ‘Black and White’ and Yashraj Films’ ‘Tashan’. While ‘Race’, an action thriller featuring Anil alongside Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif, will hit theatres in March, Subhash Ghai’s ‘Black and White’, an action thriller in the backdrop of terrorism, will release in theatres in April. Yashraj Films’ ‘Tashan’ will release in theatres in June. Incidentally, ‘Race’ and ‘Tashan’ will also have Saif Ali Khan don the ‘Action Hero’ mantle after his not so successful outings in ‘Ta ra rum pum’ and ‘Eklavya’ last year. After his career best performance in Mani Rathnam’s ‘Guru’, which had both cinegoers as well as film critics raving, Bollywood heartthrob Abhishek Bachchan will also be seen in an action hero avataar this year in Goldie Behl’s ‘Drona’ and Ramgopal Verma’s ‘Sarkaar Raaj’. ‘Drona’ and ‘Sarkaar Raaj’ will release this summer. Abhishek pairs with with his wife Aishwarya Rai in ‘Sarkaar Raaj’. Also donning the action hero mantle this year will be superstar Aamir Khan, who is still basking in the huge accolades and overwhelming audience response to his directorial debut venture ‘Taare Zameen Par’, which seeks to stir the conscience of society over ‘’carefree childhood lost under the pressure of the societal norms’’. Aamir will be seen in the Hindi remake of the Tamil superhit ‘Ghajini’. In fact, he is reported to have undergone strenuous workouts to develop six pack abs for his role in the film, which is also being produced by him. Not to be left behind, teenage heartthrob Salman Khan too will feature in an action thriller ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’. The film, a remake of the South Indian hit ‘Pokhiri’, features Salman alongside Ayesha Takia and yesteryears’ action star Vinod Khanna. It also marks the Hindi film directorial debut of Prabhu Deva. Other much-awaited action thrillers in 2008 are ‘Mission Istanbul’, based on a major international terrorist’s life, and Sanjay Ghadvi’s ‘Kidnap’. While ‘Mission Istanbul’, being produced by Suneil Shetty’s Popcorn Entertainment Limited, will have Suneil, Viveik Oberoi and Zayed Khan in the cast, Kidnap will feature Sanjay Dutt. After the stupendous success of Farah Khan’s ‘Om Shanti Om’, 2008 will also mark a return to romantic musicals in Bollywood. Releasing in the beginning of the year will be Ashutosh Gowarikar’s much-awaited magnum opus ‘Jodha Akbar’, dealing with the never-told-before love story between Mughal emperor Akbar and his Hindu queen Jodhabai. Featuring the ‘hot’ pairing of Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai, the lavishly mounted period film is the most awaited film of the year. Being produced by UTV, ‘Jodha Akbar’ is scheduled for release on February 15. Also releasing in February will be the Aamir Khan produced ‘Jaane tu ya jaane na’, which introduces to the silver screen Aamir’s nephew Imraan Khan. Featured opposite him is Pune girl Manjari Phadnis (earlier seen in ‘Rok sako to rok lo’, ‘Faltu’ and ‘Mumbai Salsa’). ‘Jaane tu yaa jaane na’ also marks the directorial debut of Abbas Tyrewala (scriptwriter of ‘Munnabhai MBBS). — UNI
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Minor fire in Mundaka
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World Meditation Day observed
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