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Essay on Ramayana
Seeks better land compensation
IAS officers appointed as electoral roll observers
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Murder of encounter speciallist ACP Rajbir
Singh
Vijay’s statement being probed:
police
Property dealer alleges cheating
Stay goes on recruiting DU teachers
Panchayat land worth Rs 1 bn restored
Imposters pull a fast one on power thieves
IDSA refuses access to JNU students
New look for Noida, Greater Noida ahead of Games
Akalis’ role in freedom
struggle lauded
Rs 1,045 cr for educational
infrastructure
IIFT convocation held
Judiciary last resort to raise issues: court
AOKANG opens showroom
Stolen copper recovered, 4 arrested
Gang of auto-lifters busted
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Essay on Ramayana
New Delhi, March 26 The essay by the celebrated translator and poet shows that the story of Rama has more than one version. The story has been told differently in various communities of South and Southeast Asia. Leader of opposition Jagdish Mukhi asked the Chief Minister through Speaker Chaudhary Prem Singh that she should talk to the vice-chancellor of Delhi University and union minister of human resources development to get deleted the controversial portion from the history book. He said that whatever is written in the book “Culture In India: Ancient” hurts the feelings of Hindus in the whole world. This book was compiled by Dr Upender Singh.
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Seeks better land compensation
New Delhi, March 26 Three thousand farmers of six villages of Delhi— Khanjhawala, Sultanpur Dabas, Karala, Pooth Khurd, Tikri Khurd and Tikri Kalan—are sitting on indefinite dharna at the Khanjhawala DC office demanding compensation for their land at the present government rates. They did not celebrate Holi this year. But the government has expressed no sympathy, Delhi unit chief of the BJP, Harsh Vardhan said. He said that only Rs 15.90 crore have been provided by the government in the budget for agriculture and allied services.
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IAS officers appointed as electoral roll observers
New Delhi, March 26 The following officers have been appointed as roll observer: Rajendra Kumar,secretary IT for North West District,Archana Arira, Commissioner Trade and Taxes for West District, Manoj Parida, Managing Director DSIIDC for South District, V. K. Dev, Commissioner Food Supplies and Consumer Affairs, for New Delhi and North East Districts, Naresh Kumar, Additional Commissioner, Engineering, MCD for East and Central Districts and J. K. Jadoo, Secretary Environment for South West and North Districts. The Roll observers will be making first visit to their allotted districts between March 23.and April 5, second visit from April 15 to April 30, third from May 15 to May 31, fourth between June 15 and June 25 followed by subsequent regular visits and checks with District Electoral Officers and meetings with Chief Electoral Officer. The visit will be of five to seven day duration and each observer has to submit a written report along with personal debriefing to the commission whenever need be.
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Murder of encounter speciallist ACP Rajbir Singh
New Delhi, March 26 He said it was very difficult to say for sure whether the bullet was fired from the front or back unless the scene of crime was studied thoroughly. However, as the forehead of the deceased had a clear-cut hole while the back had a large hole, it can be estimated that the bullet was fired from the front, Sharma said. He said the second bullet just grazed the left temple above the ear and did not do much damage. According to Sharma, Singh might have survived the injury if he was not hit by the bullet which went through. Real estate agent Vijay Bhardwaj, accused of having shot the Delhi Police ACP after an altercation with him on money issue, was meanwhile remanded in police custody for two days. He was produced in a Gurgaon court of chief judicial magistrate-cum-additional civil judge Arun Kumar Singhal who granted a remand for police investigation. |
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Vijay’s statement being probed:
police
Gurgaon, March 26 Gurgaon joint commissioner Manjeet Singh Ahlawat told media persons that the servant of Vijay was being examined. He also stated that the call details of Singh and Vijay were being looked into. A police team had been sent to Kanpur to know about the make of the murder weapon. The weapon which was used by accused Vijay had been found with two live cartridges and two bullets from the place of incident. Ahlawat said that Vijay told the police that he had to pay Rs 95 lakh to Singh because of which hot words were exchanged between them and he could not control himself and killed Singh. He denied that there was any other accused involved in this murder. |
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Property dealer alleges cheating
Ghaziabad, March 26 Chaudhry has his office in B-36 in DLF colony in Dilshad Garden. Harish Chaudhary’s associates Anil Kumar, Kapil Kumar and Rakesh Kumar live in Bhagwan Enclave of Delhi. All the four property dealers had signed a deed for the purchase of a plot with one Rajesh Sharma resident of A-104 Vigyan Vihar in Anand Vihar. Rajesh Sharma had assured them that he could buy a 210-sq mt plot, No A-131 in Jhilmil Colony, New Delhi. He had allegedly shown fictitious documents of the plot to the property dealers, they said. The plot was stated to be worth Rs. 60 lakh at that time. After this the property dealers had given Rs 10 lakh to Rajesh Sharma on April 10, 2007. But later enquiries revealed that the plot shown was owned by Rajinder Singh Malik of Jalandhar and Rajesh Sharma had nothing to do with the said plot. When Harish Chaudhary and his friends pressurized Rajesh Sharma to return their Rs 10 lakh, he gave them a cheque for the amount, which bounced at the bank. It was alleged in the FIR that Rajesh Sharma was not only refusing to return their money, but was even threatening all the four with dire consequences. SO in-charge Sahibabad police station said Rajesh Sharma’s real name was Ajay Sharma.
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Stay goes on recruiting DU teachers
New Delhi, March 26 A division bench of Justices T.S. Thakur and Siddharth Mridul, while vacating the stay, asked the institutes to abide by the Disability Act in future too. But the court refused to lift the ban on other Delhi University colleges that have not implemented the Act as yet. The recruitment of staff members in the Delhi University administration, Shyam Lal College and Delhi University Vocational Studies College will be on after the stay was lifted. Some colleges submitted that despite placing advertisements in newspapers they had failed to get the adequate response from candidates. The court asked the university registrar to prepare a list of colleges which are ready to provide three per cent of vacancies to the disabled candidates and submit it by May 21. The stay on the recruitment of the teachers in colleges was slapped a year back following a public interest petition seeking implementation of the law on quota for disabled candidates. The court April 4, 2007 restrained the university and all its affiliated colleges, which failed to provide three per cent reservation for disabled candidates, from recruiting faculty members.—IANS
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Panchayat land worth Rs 1 bn restored
Gurgaon,March 26 A state government spokesman said here on Wednesday that R.K. Mishra and his wife of New Delhi’s Vasant Vihar sold 10 acres of prime ‘panchayat’ (village council) land in village Bajghera of Gurgaon to the Sri Shankar Siksha Yatan Trust in May 2001. This was done with the condition that an educational institution would be set up on this land within two years and the land would not be sold to anyone.However, the trust did not set up any educational institution on this land and the village panchayat filed a petition with the district collector December 2005 seeking return of the land. The trust sold the land off to another resident of the village in March last year. The panchayat complained to the district collector again. In his order, District Collector Rakesh Gupta ordered the trust and the buyer to vacate the land and declared the panchayat as the owner. Gurgaon is a bustling suburb of the national capital and has seen unprecedented economic boom in the last few years. This is not the first instance of the Gurgaon district administration intervening in saving costly land from falling possibly into the hands of land mafia. In January this year, a 19-acre piece of land worth several millions of rupees in village Badshahpur was handed over to the panchayat after administration got it vacated from a big construction company. Another 2.5 acres of land was also saved earlier in the same village from the land mafia.—IANS
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Imposters pull a fast one on power thieves
New Delhi, March 26 The case came to light, when the trio— Mahesh Mishra, Vikram and Ramesh—all residents of C 1/25, C 1/40 and C 1/38 Madhu Vihar respectively, visited the BSES’s vigilance office and narrated the sequence of events. They also confessed to tampering with their electricity meters. Narrating the case, they said on January 17, 2008, an inspection by BSES enforcement teams found their electricity meters tampered. The following day, they were visited by two persons Vinod Kumar and Sanjay Anand posing as BSES officials. They reportedly informed them that cases of Dishonest Abstraction of Energy (DAE) have been booked against each of them for tampering with their meters and power theft bills of around Rs 2 lakh are being raised against each of them. The imposters offered to settle the case on a payment of Rs 70,000 each. The deal was finally stuck for Rs 30,000 each for reducing their bills and installing new meters. The impostors again visited the trio to collect the settled amount, install new meters and hand them enforcement bills. They even handed over the Meter Change Reports (MCRs) to the consumers for their newly installed meters. They also promised to give the three residents letters from the BSES’s enforcement department, intimating the closure of the enforcement cases again them. The residents grew suspicious when even after six days, the promised intimation letter from the enforcement team did not come. They then decided to visit the enforcement department themselves and enquire. At the BSES enforcement office, to their utter astonishment, the trio of Mahesh Mishra, Vikram and Ramesh were told that the DAE cases against them were still on and no bills had yet been processed. They were further informed that the bills and MCRs provided to them were fake and that nobody had been authorized to visit them to settle the case. The trio then realized that the alleged BSES officials who had visited them were in fact impostors. The trio also informed BSES officials that they had managed to locate the address of Sanjay Anand, one of the impostors, but had not found him there.
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IDSA refuses access to JNU students
New Delhi, March 26 The library was located at JNU old campus initially, where the students of the university used it freely. But then, the IDSA authorities, citing reason of lack of accountability on part of the university students, stopped issuing books. However, students were permitted inside the library and had access to the material that they could photocopy. “Students were relying on the DELNET and inter-library loan facility through JNU central library to issue books from IDSA,” said Tiainla, councillor, SIS. But after the library shifted to Palam, the authorities refused to entertain JNU students. “Even students with recommendations from their respective teachers, are not allowed to use the facility.” said Tiainla. “IDSA library has always been a source of reference and guidance to students from SIS. The library has been of much use not just for researchers but also the MA level students while they work on their assignments,” she added. According to SIS students, there are many students whose dissertations and theses are due by July this year. “These three months are extremely crucial for them and limitations like these would have serious ramifications for them,” she said. Earlier also the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union- SIS (JNUSU) had approached the IDSA regarding this matter.
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Four medical camps held
New Delhi, March 26 One of these camps was organized in Jagatpur in North-East Delhi where 241 patients came for check-up. It was inaugurated by Delhi Municipal Councillor Chaudhary Surinder Singh, while the Mission was represented by Brig (retd) P S Cheema, co-member incharge, Medical Healthand Social Welfare department. The second camp was held in Najafgarh in West Delhi with 312 patients. This was inaugurated by Delhi Municipal councillor Bharat Singh. Dr A C Chawla led the Mission’s team. As many as 371 patients were checked up at the third camp organized in Loni near Ghaziabad. A similar camp was held at Samalkha in Haryana where 120 patients came for check up. A special factsheet on TB was distributed to the public at these camps.
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New look for Noida, Greater Noida ahead of Games
Noida, March 26 Noida and Greater Noida authorities have planned special projects to spruce up the towns, construct new roads, flyovers, underpasses and star-hotels of international standard for the stay of thousands of foreign tourists expected to visit NCR in connection with the Commonwealth Games. The Noida Authority has earmarked Rs 100 crore in its budget for 2008-09 for improvement of roads, construction of flyovers and U-turns to improve road transport. Three main flyovers have already been completed in Noida. Work is on a number of U- turns and under-passes. The work on new flyovers is expected to start in April, this year. During the next financial year the work on new flyovers, under-passes and U- turns is expected to be completed. The plot allotment for 15 five star, four star and three hotels in Greater Noida has been finalized. The allotment will be on the basis of auction. The scheme for hotels will be opened next month which is expected to set new norms for urban development, according to sources. Hotels will come up in Chi Phi extension, City Centre, Delta-1, Alpha-2 and KP-5 sectors. Five star hotels will come up on a plot of 5- acre each in Chi Phi sector by the side of Taj Expressway.Other hotels will come up on 2- acre plots each. Five ordinary hotels will be built on 1800 sq mt plots each. The construction of all hotels will be completed by February 2010 in a time-bound schedule. Only those groups or organizations could bid for 5 -star hotels with a turn- over of Rs. 75 crore. For four- star hotels a turn -over of Rs 50 crore and Rs. 20 crore turn over for three star hotels has been made mandatory, sources said.
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Akalis’ role in freedom
struggle lauded
New Delhi, March 26 Releasing Mohinder Singh’s latest books, “The Akali Movement” and “Biography of Baba Kharak Singh”, he paid rich tributes to the vision of Akali leadership that broadened the scope of their initial struggle for Gurdwara reform, linking the movement with the larger movement of country’s struggle for freedom. He said, “Triumphant march of the Akali Jathas and their victory in the Keys’ Affair was hailed by Mahatma Gandhi as the first decisive victory of the forces of nationalism.” Gujral also complimented the author on presenting an account of the Akali movement and the role of Baba Kharak Singh in a brief but lucid style and urged publisher National Book Trust that these books should be published in Hindi and other regional languages of India. In his remarks, Mohinder Singh highlighted two essential features of the Akali struggle—non-violent and non-communal nature of the movement and the role of Press and the public opinion. In this regard, he paid glowing tribute to the past Akali leaders for their vision and mentioned that it was S. Mangal Singh who gave up his government position to start “The Hindustan Times”. “The Tribune especially its Trustee Prof Ruchi Ram Sahni, greatly contributed in creating a favourable opinion for the Akali movement through the columns of The Tribune. Leaders of those times also purchased shares in daily “The Nation” that was published from Lahore,” he said. Speaking in panel discussion, former pro-vice-chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University P.S. Kapur said while Akalis made major contribution towards the movement of non-violent and non-cooperation not much was known about their contribution outside Punjab. He complimented the author on highlighting the essential features of the five-year Akali struggle between 1920-25, linking it with the larger movement for country’s independence. Political scientist Harish Puri discussed the role of the Akalis in the larger Indian context and lamented that the Akalis have not been able to uphold their glorious tradition of secularism and nationalism. Prof K.L. Tuteja highlighted Baba Kharak Singh’s role in the freedom movement, stressing that while other leaders changed their loyalty with the changing times, Baba Kharak Singh stood like a rock so far as his nationalism was concerned. |
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Rs 1,045 cr for educational
infrastructure
New Delhi, March 26 The budget speech on Monday clarified that the NCT government would take all necessary steps for overhauling the educational infrastructure in the NCT region. The government has appointed the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) for upgrading 198 schools with a total spending of Rs 250 crore. Among other initiatives, the government would establish institutions like the University of National Law School, Delhi Knowledge Development Foundation and Indraprastha Institute of Informational Technology (IIIT) in the next two years. The government has also decided to increase the uniform subsidy from Rs 300 to Rs 500 per annum. |
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IIFT convocation held
New Delhi, March 26 Speaking on the occasion, minister of commerce and industry Kamal Nath congratulated the convocating batch and said, “Climate change may be a bad thing for the environment but ‘trade climate change’ is a good thing! India’s merchandize exports have been increasing in the last four years by an average of 24%. From 63 billion dollars in 2004, our exports this year will touch in excess of 155 billion dollars.” He added, “Foreign Trade in IIFT’s name reflects its heritage, but the courses it offers and the degrees it awards today encompass the entire gamut of management sciences.” |
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Judiciary last resort to raise issues: court
New Delhi, March 26 “Things are not so bad that you have no other place to go to raise your problems and get it solved. Parliament is the best place to raise issues. Even media is very active in highlighting the issues,” said a division bench of Justices T.S. Thakur and Siddharth Mridul. Coming down heavily on a voluntary organisation that sought the court’s intervention in checking illegal construction in the Capital, the bench asked: “What have you done so far for public interest? What are your grounds for claiming to be an activist to raise these issues?” “We also want that Delhi should become a good place to live but we have our limitations,” it said while posting the matter for Thursday to pass any order.— IANS
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AOKANG opens showroom
New Delhi, March 26 The launch celebration saw leading models showcasing casual and party footwear range. “Indian consumers are very conscious about their footwear,” said Wang Zhentao, president, AOKANG. “Footwear crafted and designed by the international shoe makers have been extremely popular in Indian market. To carry forward the legacy of contemporary styling AOKANG brings to India the latest international designs,” he added. Choreographed by Pranav Hamaal, the fashion show featured Bollywood stars like Priyanshu Chartterjee and Shaana Diya along with fashion designer Shaahid Amir. |
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Fire in Kapashera wood godown
New Delhi, March 26 About 100 fire tenders took more than five hours to control the fire. Although no casualty has been reported, but about 50 shops near the fire venue were destroyed. The cooling operation was under way till late evening. “The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained”, told a fire official. It is being assumed that wood worth lakhs of rupees has been lost in the fire. |
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Stolen copper recovered, 4 arrested
New Delhi, March 26 The accused along with some other accomplices had forced their entry into a factory at B-21, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-II, Delhi last week. They overpowered the guard and tied him with ropes and tape. They then brought in a tempo inside the factory and loaded six tonnes of copper and fled. Inquiries were made from tempo stands and the factories in the areas. During verification in various areas in Delhi, a tempo with copper wires was tracked down in the Cantt area. Looted copper and other goods were recovered. Arvind, 24 ,worked as a field boy in a tool company in Okhla Phase-I and during his stint there ,he came in contact with Lakhan, who was previously working in the targeted factory. Arvind and Lakhan hatched a plan to loot the factory with the help of others. Anil brought the tempo on which he was working as a driver in Fena Company. Anil and Mukesh are drivers in the Okhla area whereas Sunil is a loading labour. |
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