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EFC nod to two projects worth
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Heart Foundation for safe Holi
Chaat Sammelan at JNU today
Blood donors cheated
Conman held for cheating banks
300 Noida farmers to get plots
Table quota Bill: Women groups
A disabled-friendly corridor
IMT convocation held
Youth gives eunuchs the slip
T.K.A. Nair(R), Prinicipal Sec. to the Prime Minister receves a cheque of Rs 17 lakh as donation on behalf of the Arsha dharma Parishad from Gautam Kanjilal(L), chief manager, State Bank of India, Delhi Circle. — A Tribune photograph
MCD function on World TB Day
Ghaziabad safe haven for terrorists
Sanitary worker dies of asphyxia
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EFC nod to two projects worth
Rs 400 cr
New Delhi, March 20 Delhi finance minister A K Walia stated the need of providing suitable infrastructure to facilitate smooth flow of traffic on roads before Commonwealth Games -2010. The committee has given its nod to a proposal of the PWD for the corridor improvement of UP link road from NH-24 crossing Noida Mor to Chilla Regulator at an estimated cost of Rs 334 crore. The project would be executed within 27 months after the award of work. It involves construction of UP link road corridor and widening of this road from six lane to eight lane with grade separators to bridge the five T-junction and one four-armed junction and also construction of an additional four-lane bridge at Hindon Cut at Chilla Regulator. This will provide smooth flow of traffic in East Delhi and Noida. It would also go a long way in saving huge quantity of fuel and travel time apart from curbing air pollution. Walia added that an amount of Rs 66.18 crore has been sanctioned for the construction of 500 lawyer’s chambers at Rohini district courts. The chambers would come up within 30 months after the award of work. The minister expressed confidence that new chambers of lawyer’s would facilitate proper dispensation of justice. The chamber would be constructed over an area of over 20, 300 square metres. The district court has been fully functional from January 6, 2006 and over 3000 lawyers are practising there. At present there are no lawyer’s chambers at the court complex. |
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Heart Foundation for safe Holi
New Delhi, March 20 Singer Shibani Kashyap said: “This festival should not end up with quarrels, violence and eveteasing,” she said. “We should use floral colours instead of chemicals,” she added. The doctors present at the press conference briefed people about staying safe this Holi. Doctors advised people to wear full sleeved clothes with socks to cover the skin. The colours should be washed off in lukewarm water with eyes and lips tightly closed. The use of abir should be avoided due to its mica content. Parents were advised to discourage children from playing with eggs, mud or dirty water. People have also been advised to keep their car windows closed while travelling.
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Chaat Sammelan at JNU today New Delhi, March 20 Organisers start looking for a donkey, days in advance. The winner, most boring of all the participants, is taken around the campus on this donkey at the end of the sammelan with a barat of students dancing on the beats of dhol. Shahzadi Ibrahimi, popularly known as Mamu and a few others conceptualised the idea of Chaat Sammelan way back in 1993. Mamu now runs a dhaba on the JNU campus after completing his PhD from the university. “We were all in the Jhelum Hostel then, when we came up with the idea,” recalls
Mamu. “I could not be defeated for six years, so I was declared Chaat
Samrat. But younger chaats were not getting enough appreciation and then I decided not to participate anymore.” Mamu is now a permanent judge for the occasion, where he goes dressed in a Samrat’s (king) attire. “The idea of the Chaat Sammelan could be traced to the folk traditions of different states in North India,” said Prakash from the School of Arts and Aesthetics and the senior-most chaat on the campus at present. One can also categorise it as urban folk tradition that has been reinvented.” Prakash has been participating in the sammelan since 1997. “However, we do not allow any nonsense here. Chaat Sammelan is a progressive, democratic platform, where no rude remarks of a sectarian outlook are tolerated,” said
Prakash. Being part of a gender-sensitive JNU community, the organisers made special efforts in getting women participants all these years and finally, succeeded last year with one entry. “We ensure that no patriarchal remarks are made from the stage. We want the girl students to participate in the
sammelan,” said Prakash. The festivities for Holi would end on Saturday in JNU with bhang-laced celebrations on the Ganga Hostel
lawns
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Blood donors cheated
Noida, March 20 The victims said they had been enticed with a promise of payment of Rs 10,000 for this. The head of a research lab, however, said the blood was taken out with the consent of the women so that medicines could be developed for the treatment of some ailments in human beings. According to SSP, the matter is being probed as to why the blood samples of only poor woman were taken out. Meena and Afsana, two women living in Sector-8 Noida, have narrated their story to police. They claimed a nurse of the hospital in Sector-62, Indu Tiwari and another woman, Shanti, had contacted them a few days ago. They had enticed them with a promise of free health check-up and treatment. Besides they had also been promised payment of Rs 10,000 by the hospital. Accordingly, both of them reached Sector-62 on March 15. And after sometime they reached a research lab in Faridabad. Here dozens of women were already waiting in the lab. Their fingerprints were obtained on a form before their blood samples were taken.
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Conman held for cheating banks
New Delhi, March 20 Lal, who was presently residing in Mohali, Punjab was arrested from the ISBT, while on his way back to Mohali from Delhi. He was originally a resident of Jahangir Puri in Delhi. The kingpin of the gang Sarabjit Singh alias Raja and his two associates were arrested earlier but Lal was absconding. Sarabjit Singh and Sunder Lal met in Tihar Jail while they were lodged there for different criminal activities. After their release from the jail, they formed a gang with the intention to dupe banks. The gang opened three companies Russel Health System Ltd, Remsons Medical & Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Clark Schneider Bio India Ltd. The offices of these companies were located at different addresses in the Capital. Thereafter, as per their plans, they appointed people as their employees and opened their salary accounts in different multinational banks including ICICI, HSBC, HDFC etc. After the accounts were opened, the gang applied for various kinds of loans –auto loans, personal loans and credit cards. These loans were procured with fake identity and forged documents of the employees. The gang members posed as directors and employees of these companies Within a short span of one year, the gang duped the banks of over Rs 8 crore. Four cases of cheating and forgery have been registered at the Connaught Place police station. |
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300 Noida farmers to get plots
Noida, March 20 The officers have just 11 days to do the job pending for the past 11 years. The officials have to ready a plan to allot 5 per sent land to the farmers living in villages along the Expressway. Allotments letters for 300 plots are ready.The 400 sq mt plot is worth Rs. 3.5 crore. Even a 112 sq mt plot is also reported to be worth over Rs. 1crore. In all 300 farmers from 14 villages are to be allotted a residential plot each ranging from 112 sq mt to 450 sq mt in area. The plots are to be allotted in Gajho, Hajipur, Multanpur, Barolla, Asgarpur, Raipur, Salarpur, Banghel, Rohillapur, Sorkha, Sarfabad, Garhi Chowkhandi and Mamura villages.
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Table quota Bill: Women groups
New Delhi, March 20 At the consultative meeting titled ‘Women’s Reservation Bill- the way forward: Call for action’ ,organised by the Women Power Connect, women’s groups demanded immediate action on the quota bill and pledged to vote out parties that are showing resistance to it. “Thirty-three per cent reservation of seats in bodies of local governance has resulted in women becoming active and valuable participants in decision-making structures,” said Ranjana Kumari, president, WPC. “If such strategy was employed across all levels, higher level decision would also benefit from the leadership of women.” Some of the participants included Sangeeta Singh Dev, member of Parliament, Gomti Nayar from the All India Women Conference, Kiran Maheshwari from the BJP Mahila Morcha and Latika Sharma from the Lok Janshakti Party. The participants stressed the need for mounting a mass movement, mobilising women at the grassroots throughout the country. |
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A disabled-friendly corridor
New Delhi, March 20 The soon to be operational BRT corridor spread on a stretch of 5.6 km in phase I — Ambedkar Nagar to Moolchand—has incorporated many features which make it accessible for all. The corridor has been audited by Samarthyam, National Centre for Accessible Environments. Samarthyam was also part of the ‘mock-up’ exercise held here yesterday for the corridor and the low-floor buses with dedicatedlanes. Commenting on the system, Manoj Aggarwal, Head of Transport DIMTS said, “The concept of BRT was designed and devised to empower every citizen of Delhi. We have made special efforts to ensure that persons with reduced mobility/ disabilities / visual impairment / hearing impairment have ease and convenience while commuting on the corridor. We are also thankful to Samarthyam for their support and we have ensured that their recommendations have been incorporated to make the BRT corridor easy and convenient to navigate.” Features that make the corridor accessible for persons with reduced mobility and disabilities include warning strip to orient pedestrians with vision impairment, good resting spaces, consistency in placement of lighting poles, Braille signage, well-planned segregated lanes for vehicles, cycle path and pedestrian route. According to Sanjeev Sachdeva, founder member, Samarthyam, “We appreciate the efforts of DIMTS that has made the dream of accessible transportation for the public a reality through the BRT. We have been actively involved in studying this corridor and have given our suggestions to DIMTS on a regular basis.
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IMT convocation held
Ghaziabad, March 20 Some 736 students, including 112 girl students received their degrees at the convocation. Significantly, the students of Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, have received the highest placement offers from foreign companies of $85,000 and domestic package of Rs 17 lakh per annum. These placement offers are much higher than the ones received in previous years. NR Narayana Murthy, chairman of the board and chief mentor of Infosys Technologies and the guest of honour at the convocation, in his keynote address, urged the students to “identify as Indians first and foremost and to rise above affiliations of religions, castes, and regions”. The president of the board of directors of the institute, Kamal Nath, union minister of commerce and industry, awarded the postgraduate degrees and diplomas. The distinguished Alumni Award was awarded to Subhinder Singh Prem, managing director ,Reebok, India. the directors, IMT Ghaziabad, Nagpur, BS Sahay, Prof. Anwar Ali, read out their annual reports .
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Youth gives eunuchs the slip
Faridabad, March 20 Jaswant, who escaped and returned home on March 17, alleged to the local GRP police station that while he was in the train, three fellow passengers started talking with him. He had boarded the train at Ballabgarh railway station. He works in a shop in Ballabgarh. According to him, the passengers soon got friendly during the course of the conversation and they said that they could offer a better job to him. Before long they made him inhale something and he became unconscious. When he regained consciousness, he found himself at Ayodhya. He was then taken to Akbarpur near Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh and handed over to the eunuchs. He alleged that the three persons threatened him with dire consequences if he did not obey them while on the way to Akbarpur from Ayodhya. He further alleged that he used to be sexually exploited by his captors and was made to beg during the day in the surrounding villages of Akbarpur. He impressed upon the eunuchs that as he had become one of their company, he should be allowed to go home on the occasion of Holi festival. The captors agreed but warned him of dire consequences if he did not return or disclose the matter to anyone. The relatives of Jaswant, who are quite poor, allege that the police does not seem to be serious in pursing the case. They allege that the police has not even registered the case so far. GRP police station refuses to comment on the matter. When contacted on telephone in the evening, the personnel on duty expressed complete ignorance of the case. However, it is unofficially learnt that the police has rounded up four persons from Akbarpur. The relatives alleged that the police had been showing apathy in the case right from the day Jaswant went missing. According to them, when they had gone to GRP at Ballabgarh, they were told that as he was a resident of Palwal, the Palwal GRP police station should be approached. The GRP at Palwal did not show interest in the case either.
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SBI donation
New Delhi, March 20 This facility at the centre will benefit the residents of East Delhi and its surrounding areas including the resettlement colonies. T K A Nair, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, was also present. |
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MCD function on World TB Day
New Delhi, March 20 Ten thousand citizens are expected to participate in the event, Delhi Mayor Aarti Mehra said. The Mayor and the Chairman of the Health Committee, MCD, in a joint statement said that there were about one lakh TB patients in Delhi. Out of them 40,000 are sputum positive. Thousands of lives in Delhi can be saved if public is given information on preventive measures. They said that India has one third of the world’s TB patients. It kills more people in the country than HIV, malaria and leprosy. Two persons die every three minutes in India. Eighteen lakh cases of TB are added in India every year. It does not spare any class, creed, age and religion. Three lakh children have left school as they are suffering from TB. |
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Ghaziabad safe haven for terrorists
Ghaziabad, March 20 The arrest of Hapur resident, Javed by Delhi police from Jama Masjid area has again proved that terrorists are finding their hideouts in Ghaziabad as safe havens. Many past incidents have proved that terrorists’ network in Ghaziabad is far superior to that of official agencies. That is why terrorists like Abdul Karim Tunda and Javed have been accomplishing terrorist strikes while local police have been oblivious of their designs. About 20 years ago, Kashmira Singh had exploded serial bombs in 1987 in Sahibabad, Apsara border and Shahdara areas. He had exploded cycle bombs in seven places then and he himself was also blown into shreds while transporting such bombs on a cycle. During 1988, four persons including a woman were killed in a bomb explosion in DTC bus at Hapur Mode tri-junction. This time terrorists exploded car bombs. One woman and a man had died in this explosion near Kaushambi. During 1989, a bomb exploded near Duhai in a bus from Delhi to Meerut and during 1991, a bomb exploded near Modi Nagar. Fifteen passengers were killed in these explosions. Bombs in these buses had been planted at Delhi bus stand. The biggest explosion took place in Chhatisgarh Express train going to Punjab in 1994 which claimed the life of 19 persons. After these explosions the name of Abdul Karim, alias Tunda, of Pilkhua came up as a dangerous terrorist. Tunda’s name was linked with Mumbai serial blasts also. Due to pressure and hot chase by police and intelligence agencies, Tunda reportedly crossed the border over to Pakistan. Tunda was rated as a mastermind for manufacturing bombs. Even the killers of Punjab Chief Minister, Beant Singh also took refuge in Ghaziabad after accomplishing their task.
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Sanitary worker dies of asphyxia
Greater Noida, March 20 His condition is reported to be critical. They were, reportedly, sent in the stinky sewer in CM Market, Sector Beta-I here, without an oxygen mask or other such equipment. Pinto, 21, a resident of Jahangirabad in Bulandshahr, was employed six years ago on contract to clean sewers.
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