New Delhi, March 11
Students who appeared for the CBSE class XII English paper on Monday found the paper rather easy to write. Though teachers and some students complained of many spelling and grammatical errors in the core paper.

“Some questions were unclear. For example, the question mark was missing in question 6 in set-3. In section B, there was a question, which asked, if there should be more old homes for aged? But instead of the question mark it ended with a full stop and there was an article where ‘the’ was dropped in the phrase ‘Joint Family System,” said Udita Ganguly, head of the English department.

“There were a lot of grammatical errors in the paper and some questions did not make sense, they were vague, we are a bit disappointed with the paper,” she added.

However, according to majority of students, the paper was overall an easy one. Mira Sethi from DPS R.K. Puram says, “The questions were easy and the paper went well however, the paper did have some glaring grammatical errors. The other papers are also fine so far but the physics paper was extremely tough.”

New Delhi, March 11
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit assured a statue of Baba Baghel Singh will be installed at Tis Hazari.

This longstanding demand of Sikhs was today put before the Chief Minister by Pushpinder Singh, a member of the Delhi Minority Commission.

All sites of gurdwaras and other religious places of Sikhs community were identified in Delhi during the period of Baba Baghel Singh in 1783.

She has expressed confidence that the new 15-point minorities welfare programme of the Prime Minister would accelerate pace of prosperity of minorities in Delhi.

Addressing a one-day seminar on “Role of Minorities in the Development of Delhi” organised by the DMC, she appreciated role of the commission in on-the-spot redressal of various grievances of the minorities through open sessions organised in various minority-dominated localities of the Capital.

Among the participants were:former vice-chancellor Jamia Millia Islamia, Syed Shahid Mahdi; director, Bhai Veer Singh Sahitya Sadan, Mahendra Singh; general secretary, YWCA Joseph Benjamin, an eminent Buddhist Dharam Pal Sehra and president, Delhi Parsi Society Dadi Mistry.

Besides, chairman DMC Kamal Faruqui, members DMC Pushpinder Singh and Arnold James and its secretary V.K. Singh also participated in the deliberations.

She stressed the need to impart modern and computer education in madrasas along with traditional education.

Gurgaon, March 11
Three persons committed suicide here in the past 24 hours. Amit Kumar, first year pharmacy student of Ram Gopal College of Pharmacy resident of Faruknagar, village Sultanpur, committed suicide by hanging himself in his room.

No suicide note was found at the place of incident. Police official informed that Amit’s friend, Devender found him hanging from the fan in his room in the morning. He immediately informed the college administration about the incident.

The father of the deceased, Jarup singh, resident of Sonepat, said that Amit had returned from home last Sunday after getting some money for repair of his computer. Singh is the chief pharmacist in Maharishi Balmikhi Hospital, Delhi.

In another case, Vishwapriye Dutt, salesman at a mall here committed suicide by hanging himself from the shower in his bathroom. A suicide note was found in bathroom.

Dutt, a resident of West Bengal,was found hanging in the bathroom with plastic ropeby his maid and landlord.

In third case, chartered accountant Prem Hans of Arthbridgde Company committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance. A suicide note was found in his room.

According to the police, Prem was living in Gurgaon for the last two years. He was a tenant of Dr Sanjay Sharma.

On Monday night, when Prem came back from his office he consumed some poisonous substance, due to which his condition became critical.

Dr Sharma got him admitted at the Kalyani Hospital where he breathed his last. Official said that Prem had an affair with his colleague.

Gurgaon, March 11
The long-pending controversy about the refunding of compensation of the land acquired by HUDA in 17 villages on the outskirts of Gurgaon district has still not been resolved.

The farmers of these villages are confused whether they have to reimburse the extra amount of compensation paid to them as per the direction of the court or go by the assurance of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda who promised to look into the matter.

The affected villagers met union minister of state for defence for production Rao Inderjeet Singh here today who constituted an 11-member committee to present their case before the Haryana government for resolving it amicably.

The HUDA had acquired the land in 17 villages for the development work about eight years ago and gave compensation to the villagers as per decided by the department.

As most of the farmers were not satisfied with the amount of the compensation, they approached the lower court for enhancing their compensation. The lower court gave decision in favour of villagers and increased the amount of compensation.

After that HUDA filed a petition in the High Court against the order of the lower court and the court in its verdict reduced the compensation and directed HUDA to recover the increased amount paid to the farmer.

After this decision, some of the villagers returned the increased compensation amount of Rs 20 crore.

Singh said that he would also ask the government to fulfill its commitment made to the affected farmers of the area.

While asking about the construction of subways on the NH8, Singh said that a team of NHAI would soon visit the area to identify the places where these subways would be constructed.

On the plea of the residents of Palam Vihar whose houses were being demolished for constructing a road, Singh assured that he would take up the matter with the government and if possible get the road constructed on the vacant area lying adjoining to these houses.

New Delhi, March 11
The reported deaths of some labourers at the Commonwealth Games village site in the Capital has caused considerable concern among workers’ organisations, medical fraternity and the authorities concerned. It is suspected that they are dying due to some infection.

The Commonwealth Games Citizens for Workers, Women and Children (CWG-CWC) today demanded from Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to look into the deaths.

They urged her to set up an investigation team, a monitoring committee and health infrastructure at the sites.

They also demanded compensation for the next kin of the deceased. The CWG-CWC sought that the workers’ rights must be protected.

“Over 50 workers have died at the Commonwealth Games site at Akshardham,” said Kapil from the Youth for Justice. “We cannot prove it as we do not have access to the site. But we have substantial poof to back our demand for an inquiry into the deaths.”

The Youth for Justice has camped around the site for six days and has documented interviews of some labourers.

“Most labourers are unregistered,” said Anjali Alexander from Mobile Crèches. “The Delhi Construction Workers Welfare Fund has allocated Rs 120 crore to be spent on these people.”

“Asiad 1982 is remembered for its labour violations and the sub-human living conditions of workers and their families,” said Devika from Mobile Crèches. “Recognising this challenge, the CWG-CWC dialogued with stakeholders over the last 8-10 months.”

In the video documentary shown by the organisation, workers have accepted that the conditions at the CWG village are not livable.

“Many people have died here either due to disease or accident,” said one of the workers in the documentary. “I was really scared and left the place,” he added.

“We are trying to meet the concerned officials to voice our concerns. We have already sent letters to the respective authorities,” said Anjali.

“Our organisation does not want to disrupt the construction work and that is the reason we are not planning any public action. We want the Commonwealth Games to be remembered pleasantly and not for the wrong reasons,” she added.

She sought the help of her neighbour Rohit in using the cards, as she did not know how to use them.

Rohit contacted his friends Nitin and Manish, who worked as loan agents at ICICI Bank. He and gave them the cards.

New Delhi, March 11
The Crime Branch has arrested two bad characters Shakil and Shakila wanted in a murder and attempt to murder case of Krishan Nagar and Shakarpur police stations.

Head constable Raj Kumar had received a specific information that accused Shakil, responsible for the murder of one Mohammad Salim, would be coming on motorcycle No. UA-06G-02759 black Pulsar, at Gagan Cinema Nand Nagari.

It was also informed that he would be carrying arms. On this information, a police team immediately swung into action and laid a trap near the expected place of arrival, i.e. in the vicinity of Gagan cinema.

At about 7.00 pm, the bike was seen coming from Seemapuri side with one woman as a pillion-rider and stopped in front of Gagan cinema.

The source informed that the woman is Shakila who has been externed from Delhi. Both were arrested immediately while one loaded sophisticated pistol 7.65 mm bore made in the USA with four live cartridges were recovered from their possession.

Shakil was released on bail about one year ago in the case of robberies. After his release, he came in contact with Shakila who is a bad character of Preet Vihar police station and was externed from Delhi for two years.

He indulged in bootlegging and betting in the area of Preet Vihar. When her brother Anis who is a transporter and wanted to take over the whole business of Shakila, she decided to marry accused Shakil who is half of her age.

Both of them married. The act of Shakila infuriated Anis who started harassing and threatening accused Shakil and his family members. He used to beat the family members of accused Shakil.

They finally decided to teach a lesson to transporter Anis. On the night of February 28, they shot at him with the intention of killing. Anis survived with injuries only.

He lodged a complaint against the accused and other for attempt to murder. Both the accused were wanted in the case and were absconding.

New Delhi, March 11
If you are a woman and fond of junk food, you could be inviting trouble. A recent study has shown that lifestyle changes and overdependence on junk food is leading to an increase in the incidence of colon cancer.

It would be significant to note that out of the total patients diagnosed of colon-rectum cancer, the number of women patients is double the number of men, says Dr Amit Bhargava, senior oncologist at MaxHealthcare.

Colon is a five feet long muscular tube which joins the small intestine and colon cancer is commonly used to describe colon-rectal or bowel cancer.

The known symptoms of the disease include abdominal pain, diarrhea and constipation, blood in the stool and decreased appetite.

Ironically in a majority of the cases, the symptoms go unnoticed by the patient and the cancer spreads out to the lymph nodes.

According to medical reports, there has been an increase in the total number of patients diagnosed with colon cancer in the last five years, where the number of women exceeds men.

“On an average, five to six patients are diagnosed with colon cancer every month, whereas four out of six patients happen to be women,” says Dr Bhargava.

Changes in lifestyle and diet are considered to be the cause of killer cancer with higher pre-disposition in women.

“Urban women these days consume less roughage and fibre thereby inviting the threats of colon cancer. Earlier genetic causes were the sole reason for colon cancer in women but today drinking and smoking habits in young women aggravate the problem,” says Dr Bhargava.

Checking for blood in the stool is the simplest method to screen colon cancer along with sigmoidoscopy, in which a flexible optical device is used to examine the inside of the rectum and colon.

The doctor can also determine the presence of lumps in the rectum by a physical check-up of the patient.

“Surgery is the only treatment for colon cancer, followed by chemotherapy depending on the nature of the case. Radio frequency ablation treatment is given to the patient, if the cancer cells spread to liver,” explains Dr Bhargava.

Noida, March 11
One accident death takes place on Noida roads every 36 hours.Sample this.

Two 3rd year students of Amity University died when their Alto car had a head-on with LCV on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway yesterday evening. one biker was crushed by a dumper on Saturday late night.

The main causes are :over- speeding, drunken driving,wrong parking of dumpers and tractor trolleys at night.

During past three months 78 lives were lost .In January and February 2008, the toll was 29 and 21 ,respectively. Out of these 20 victims were so mutilated that they could not be identified.

For every one death at least two persons are seriously injured or maimed. Out of 50 accidents, 11 each have taken place near educational institutes, 9 near villages and 10 each near bus stops, according the analysis made by traffic police.

Out of these 15 had died on National highways, 12 on Expressway and 23 in side cities and towns, police said.

The petrol pump in Sector 62 is one spot which had accounted for maximum road accident deaths.

Ghaziabad, March 11
Visit to Delhi from here will be very smooth as NH- 24 is being converted into an eight-lane highway.

Three under -passes will be constructed on the Indirapuram-Noida section. According to the National Highway Authority ,NH- 24 will be eight-laned from UP Gate to Dasna— a distance of 8 km. An NOC also has been issued for the three under passes.

The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) will bear the cost of the additional four lanes while the work will proceed under the NHA’s supervision.

A meeting of officers of Ghaziabad district administration, Nagar Nigam, GDA, Avas Vikas Parshid is being called to discuss the details.

Greater Noida, March 11
The Greater Noida Authority’s residential scheme – BHS- 09 has drawn a blank. The lacklustre response is due to no change in the layout of flats.

Also there is a high rate— Rs. 30 lakh per unit and three years’ gestation period. The GNIDA had to extend the last date of the scheme.

The Greater Noida Authority had announced the 09 scheme for 3000 flats in three sectors with each unit on a 120 sq mt area.

The last date for application was March 8. Besides the cold response from realtors , the farmers of the area are putting spokes in the development work.

New Delhi, March 11
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will start another feeder bus service from Netaji Subhash Place Metro Station from Wednesday.

The route for the service would be Azadpur PRS, Jhulelal Mandir Marg, Maharaja Agarsen Marg, Tikona Park, Guru Govind Singh College and Netaji Subhash Place Metro station.

Three buses will run on this six-km route with a frequency of about 16 minutes and the route will be run on an experimental basis initially.

At present, 85 feeder buses are plying on 13 different routes covering over 100 km network for the residents of the eastern, western and northern parts of the Capital.

The buses are running with an average ridership of 30 passengers per trip. The Delhi Metro has already short-listed 36 feeder bus routes for which 419 buses are required.