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No loadshedding this summer: Ramesh
Noida, Ghaziabad cry for better security
Ghaziabad in grip of diarrhoea
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2 raped, 1 molested
Illegal colonies to be history: Sheila
Artscape
Engineer commits suicide at Gt Noida
Pitampura Dilli Haat inaugurated
18 injured in dumper accident
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No loadshedding this summer: Ramesh
New Delhi, April 13 Dikshit expressed her gratitude towards the Centre for considering the power demand of Delhi. She expressed hope that the Union ministry of power would contribute in making the lives of city dwellers more comfortable. The gap between projected power demand and power supply rendered in Delhi during summer was discussed. Ramesh assured that Delhi would regularly get 200 MW from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) from the next month. Delhi has tied up with DVC for supply of around 2,500 MW by 2011. “My ministry would consider increasing Delhi’s share from the last year’s 22 per cent to 40 per cent from unallocated power reserve,” he added. It was stated that Delhi’s own generation and the expected supply would reach around 9,000 MW in next four years. Delhi presently generates around 3,200 MW. Delhi power minister AK Walia, chief secretary Rakesh Mehta, power secretary Rajendra Kumar and senior officers of the Delhi Transco Limited were also present.
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Noida, Ghaziabad cry for better security
Noida/Ghaziabad, April 13 Some 32 loots took place in six police station areas from January 1 to March 31 this year—ten in January, eight in February and 14 in March. However, the Noida police registered reports of only 13. Criminals on bikes pose a serious challenge to the defenders of law. They have a nuisance value for women and young girls. Even people travelling in cars feel scared. Three months saw 91 cases of chain snatchings and 42 of purse snatchings in Noida. Police records show only 11 chain snatching incidents. To cap it, five murders, two in January, two in February and one in March and 455 cases of thefts involving bikes, took place during the period. The hot city Ghaziabad, however, topped with 40 murders, 47 chain snatchings and loots and 76 incidents of thefts and house-breaking in the first quarter of 2008. Ghaziabad registered a sharp rise in the crime graph as its land prices went up during the first three months of 2008. Hardly a day passes here without a murder, loot or any other major crime. In January alone, 20 persons were done to death. As many as 31 thefts, five loots and nine chain snatchings were recorded in the Mahanagar. February saw 12 murders, 22 thefts, 15 snatchings and five loots. In March, there were 22 thefts and 10 chain snatchings. All these prove that criminals have an upper hand over the police force. They have better communications, mobility, intelligence and automatic weapons. The state government has been making tall claims on revamping the police force for the last 10 years, but its plans seem to be bogged down in red tape or lack of will. When will the promised improvement in police come about is the big question, people ask, especially the victims of crimes.
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Ghaziabad in grip of diarrhoea
Ghaziabad, April 13 According to doctors, taking precautions against diarrhoea is the only safeguard. Cut fruit and stale food should be avoided, they advise. Dr Raminder Singh of government hospital said this disease is basically caused by drinking polluted water. Chief Medical Officer, Dr Subodh Kumar, after visiting Vijay Nagar area said that at nine different spots, chlorine was found to be missing in the drinking water. He said samples of drinking water would be tested regularly. Most of the patients admitted to hospital were from Pratap Vihar, Kela Bhatta and adjoining areas. CMO Dr Subodh Kumar said in view of diarrhoea cases, a control cell for communicable diseases has been set up in government hospital with Deputy CMO as its in-charge. Doctors have suggested to the Municipal Corporation to ensure supply of chlorinated water in the city, else the corporation will be held responsible for the spread of communicable diseases in Ghaziabad.
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New Delhi, April 13 A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a neighbour in the Najafgarh area of the Capital last evening. Pappu, 22, who works in a dairy farm, raped the girl who had gone to play at his house along with her sisters. Pappu locked the victim in a room and asked her sisters to leave. He was later assaulted by the locals. Pappu has been arrested. A case of rape has been registered against him at the Najafgarh police station. The girl has been admitted to the Rao Tula Ram Hospital. Her condition is said to be critical. The victim’s father is a rickshaw puller and lives with his family in the Pankaj Nagar area of Najafgarh. In another such case, Sandeep Rawat, 27, a mini-bus driver, on Saturday night raped the 12-year-old girl in New Kondli area of East Delhi, the police said. “My daughter was sleeping with her grandmother when Rawat tied up the old lady and raped my daughter in the bathroom. We could not hear her cries,” the victim’s distraught mother told reporters. Rawat, who lived in the same building, has run away after the incident. “The medical examination of the victim has confirmed rape,” a police official said. In the other case, an eight-year-old girl was yesterday molested by Attar Singh, a fourth grade railway employee. “Singh called the girl, who was playing outside, to his house and asked her to write down her father’s mobile number in a diary. He then asked the victim to sit and watch television and started feeling about her,” a police official said. Singh, who lives with his wife and two children on the first floor, was arrested late on Saturday following a complaint from the victim’s father. “When the incident happened, the family members of the accused were not at home and the victim’s father, who is an auto rickshaw driver, had gone out. The incident came to light when the victim told about it to her father, who then lodged a complaint,” the official added. On April 3, three men allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl in a stationary car in West Delhi. Among the accused was the victim’s neighbour Raju Porwal. — TNS/IANS
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Illegal colonies to be history: Sheila
New Delhi, April 13 Sheila Dikshit said that the government has prepared a time-bound development plan, for which an amount of Rs 2,800 crore has been earmarked. She said this at a public meeting after inaugurating four chaupals at Rampura. “In a few months, most unauthorised colonies would become part of planned development, which would go a long way in making Delhi a better place to live in,” she said. “There would be no dearth of funds for the development of unauthorised colonies,” she assured. “The government would strive to provide clean water, sewer lines, electricity, roads and clean environment to residents.” “The government has decided to give a facelift to unauthorised colonies where poor and other middle class families live,” she said. “The government is responsive to the requirements of the needy such as — physically challenged, widows and senior citizens.” DPCC president Jai Prakash Aggarwal and MLA Anil Bhardwaj were also present. |
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Artscape
New Delhi, April 13 Graham Clarke, artist, author and humorist, is one of Britain’s most popular and best-selling printmakers. He has created some five hundred images of rural life and history. Responding to the comedy of everyday life, he brings his own unique brand of humour to his interpretation of past and present through the eyes of the common man, maintain critics. Graduating from the Royal College of Arts in 1964, he launched his career with commissions from Editions Alecto and London Transport Publicity. In 1969, his first hand-printed ‘Livre d’artiste’, was published and won recognition from the most influential patron and connoisseur of the day, Lord Clark. He has attracted universal admiration for his revival of beautiful, hand-coloured prints in the tradition of Thomas Rowlandson. The famous ‘arched top’ etchings, which Graham Clarke established a widely successful reputation in Britain and overseas, came to public attention in 1973 when the first one of these, ‘Dance by the Light of the Moon’, was exhibited in London at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, and sold out. ‘Vivid Hues’The Art Gallery in Gurgaon is holding “Vivid Hues”, a group show of paintings by five contemporary women artists, Sarita Agarwal, Pooja Hada, Suchi Basavraj, Madhu Bhandari and Rashmi Loyalka from April 9 to April 13. Painting expo
The Dhoomimal Gallery here is holding an exhibition of the paintings of the senior Kolkata-based artist, Amitabha Bannerjee. The exhibition entitled, “Imprints of a Sensitive Soul” will be open for public viewing from April 12 to April 22. Amitabha was born in 1928 in a small village in the then East Bengal (now Bangladesh) and graduated from the Government School of Arts and Crafts in
Kolkata. Fluid Structures
The Vadehra Art Gallery is holding its latest exhibition Fluid Structures: Gender and Abstraction in India 1970s – 2008 from April 9 to May 3. The show is a dialogue between two generations of women artists who are individual practitioners-–Nasreen Mohamedi, Zarina Hashmi, Arpita Singh, Manisha Parekh, Sheila Makhijani and Gargi Raina. It is a historical show that locates itself between two time frames–the first of 1970s and 1980s showcasing works of Nasreen, Zarina, Arpita (all incidentally born in the same year 1937) and the second of the 1990s and 2000s with works by Manisha, Gargi and Sheila (born in the early 60s). East and West fusion
Draupadi Trust Organisation is presenting ‘Fusion’, an exhibition of paintings by Rajesh K. Baderia and internationally acclaimed American artist Dana Lynne Andersen, from 14-17 April at the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre here. In this new font of global culture, two noted artists with distinctive styles come together to celebrate the form of abstraction through their oeuvres d’art. Their combined majestic creative work embodies the fusion of East and West, man and woman, Spirit and Matter. The exhibition has been curated by Alka Pande. The exhibition is the brainchild of Alka Pande, who saw in both artists a commonality of spiritual aspiration and approach. Both artists create paintings imbued with a palpable presence, radiating a sense of a numinous divine intelligence. Both artists create works of “sublime beauty; majestic in scale, transportive in effect”. |
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Engineer commits suicide at Gt Noida
Noida, April 13 Srivastava was working with Bhairav Engineering Co at the Greater Noida industrial area. Srivastava’s wife called the police when his room remained closed for more than two hours and even after she knocked at the door many times. The police found a suicide note from the spot in which Srivastava wrote that he was committing suicide because of family reasons, rural superintendent of police Avdhesh Kumar Vijaita said.
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Pitampura Dilli Haat inaugurated
New Delhi, April 13 Sahitya Kala Parishad had organised a colourful programme on the occasion. Bhangra, giddha, dandiya and mewasi from Gujarat, Manipuri dhol, charkula dance from Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthani dance enthralled the audience. Delhi minister for tourism and education Arvinder Singh, MP Sajjan Kumar, MLA Ravinder Nath Bansal and Anil Bhardwaj were also present. |
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18 injured in dumper accident
Ghaziabad, April 13 Most of the injured were from Dasna and Mussori who were waiting for buses to return home. The dumper driver fled from the site after the accident. |
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