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Brother-in-law held for businessman’s murder
Child raped in Raghubir Nagar
Dalit student alleges abuse by principal
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Government gets tough with
foodgrain hoarders
Josh presents sword to Sonia Gandhi
Dayal Singh College refuses land for Metro
Fervour marks Ramnavami celebrations
Scrap dealer robbed of cash, jewellery
Army doctor fakes suicide to elope; lands in jail
DMRC builds 3 towers to elevate power supply
715 high-rise buildings fail to comply with fire safety norms
30% youth take to sports: ASSOCHAM
Salesgirl held for stabbing elderly man, seeks bail
IIM Lucknow starts business programme
Course in mathematical finance
Lachhi’s accomplice caught
Jolly demands refund of excess power bill
Car hijacked
150 shops raided
Acid attack accused denied bail
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Brother-in-law held for businessman’s murder
New Delhi, April 14 According to sources, the arrested have admitted to the crime. According to the police, Dinesh Kumar Mittal had hired killers — Mohammad Haroon and Mohammad Parvaz to eliminate Arun. Mohammad Haroon, an employee of Dinesh Kumar Mittal, clinched the deal. Property dispute is said to be the reason behind the murder. Dinesh Kumar Mittal has paternal property worth crores at different locations in the Capital. After his father’s death, he suspected that Arun might try to sell the property. He also got to know that his sister was fraudulently trying to grab his father’s fixed deposits worth over Rs 10.5 crore. “Irked by the acts of his sister and brother-in-law, Dinesh contacted Haroon and hatched a conspiracy to eliminate Arun,” said Delhi Police Commissioner YS Dadwal. Mohammad Parvaz was apprehended from Jamia Nagar on April 12. He disclosed that Dinesh Kumar Mittal had contacted him and his associate Afroz in January this year to eliminate Arun Gupta. They were offered Rs 10 lakh for it. Dadwal added that the killers had received an advance of Rs 5 lakh for executing the crime along with the photographs of Arun Gupta and his wife. “Initially, Mohammad Parvaz and Afroz had planned to kill Arun Gupta, but later they hired Ible Hassan for Rs 2 lakh,” he said. However, Ible could not execute the plan, as he was arrested in another crime after two days. Then Mohammad Parvaz gave the contract to his brother-in-law, Junaid. Junaid along with Shakeel and Abu Zar arrived on two motorcycles with weapons. “They waited outside Arun’s house in Kalkaji and shot him while he was leaving his residence in a car,” said Dadwal.
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New Delhi, April 14 Lalan Prasad, 23, took the victim to a secluded place in Raghubir Nagar area late on Sunday on a pretext and allegedly raped her. The police said Prasad, who is from Bihar, then dropped the girl home but the family caught him after seeing their daughter bleeding profusely. The family informed the police, but Prasad managed to escape before the officials could reach the spot. The girl was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, where her condition was stated to be critical on Monday afternoon. Deputy commissioner of police (West Delhi) Sharad Agarwal told IANS that Prasad was a distant relative of the victim. “We have sent a team to Bihar to arrest him,” he said. The incident comes in a series of crimes targeting minor girls. A 12-year-old girl, who is mentally challenged and hearing and speech impaired, was raped in her east Delhi home in the early hours on Sunday. She was going to the toilet when her neighbour Sandip Rawat attacked and raped her, police said. On Saturday, Attar Singh, a Railway employee allegedly molested an eight-year-old girl in his North East Delhi neighbourhood. A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Najafgrah area of South West Delhi last Monday. On April 3, three men allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl in a stationary car in West Delhi. The victim’s neighbour was among the accused. — IANS
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Dalit student alleges abuse by principal
Ghaziabad, April 14 Superintendent of police Vijay Bhushan said that the case was registered on April 11 following a complaint by Prem Narayan who accused the principal of Shiva Institute of Management of having abused him verbally. Prem Narayan had been selected for admission to the Bachelor of Education course of the Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj University, Kanpur, by a common admission test. Shiva Institute of Management was allotted to him as his study centre. In his complaint to the police, Narayan alleged that when he approached the institute for admission on March 28, he was asked to pay Rs 45,000 as donation. On expressing his inability to pay the amount, he was asked to come the next day. When he returned to the institute, the principal humiliated him by allegedly hurling casteist abuses. Circle officer CP Singh, who is investigating the matter, said the principal was yet to be arrested. — IANS
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Government gets tough with
foodgrain hoarders
New Delhi, April 14 “Nobody is going to be spared if found guilty of violating the storage norms. Criminal proceedings will be initiated against traders for not maintaining the stock limit provisions,” Vijay Dev, the Delhi government’s food and civil supplies commissioner, told IANS. As per the norms, a licensed trader can store up to 1,000 quintals of wheat and 2,000 quintals of pulses at any given point of time. The city government is short-listing the wholesale traders and will randomly check their storehouses. The Centre’s cabinet committee on prices (CCP) on March 31 had urged all state governments to impose the stock limit norms so that prices of essential commodities do not rise on account of shortages caused by hoarding. Non-compliance with stock norms create artificial shortage of food grains, leading to price rise, the official said. Delhi’s food and civil supplies minister Haroon Yusuf Sunday alleged that some unscrupulous elements, including the ruling Congress’ political rivals, were trying to create artificial crisis of essential goods in the city. “There is shortage of essential commodities in the city, but efforts are being made to create artificial crisis of food items in the market. It is being done in connivance with our rivals,” Yusuf told reporters at his residence here. Raids were conducted on Sunday at various godowns for edible oils, rice, pulses, and other cereals. The government has so far raided over 250 places since the drive was launched on Saturday. The drive will resume on Tuesday. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday held an informal meeting of her cabinet and reviewed the price situation in the city. It has become an embarrassment for the Congress, which has decided to sell edible oil at Rs 55 to Rs 60 per litre through 25 outlets. The government has formed some 60 teams to conduct raids at the primary wholesale and retail markets like Chandni Chowk, Lawrence Road, Alipur, Azadpur, Najafgarh, Narela, and Krishna Nagar. Some 7,000 quintals of pulses were recovered from godowns in Lawrence Road. Teams from the weights and measures department of the city government on Saturday also raided godowns for gas cylinders and prosecuted around 46 people after carrying about 100 inspections. The issue of price-rise is haunting the Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government, as the city is scheduled to elect a new assembly in November this year. Price rise was even discussed last week at a Congress co-ordination committee meeting. AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot, Delhi Congress president JP Aggarwal, Union minister of state Ajay Maken, Delhi ministers AK Walia and RK Chauhan and legislator Tajdar Babar attended the meeting. — IANS |
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Josh presents sword to Sonia Gandhi
New Delhi, April 14 Sonia Gandhi said that the Indian culture was unique as it gave a message of oneness. It is an auspicious day today as we are celebrating Baisakhi, Ram Navami and Ambedkar Jayanti together, she said. The delegation later met Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary. Sikh Manch
Delhi Sikh Manch, Delhi Pradesh jathedar Amreek Singh congratulated citizens on Baisakhi. He appealed to the people to take pledge to end hatred among different communities. Hatred is created by the political parties to consolidate their vote bank. Baisakhi brings the message of peace and prosperity, he said. |
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Dayal Singh College refuses land for Metro
New Delhi, April 14 “The Delhi Metro has resorted to high handedness. They are hell-bent on taking our land meant for developing college infrastructure. But we will not allow them to do so, as our protest is for a larger cause,” said Sachin N, president of the Dayal Singh College Teachers Association. “After the Supreme Court verdict (last week) on reservation for other backward classes (OBCs), we are going to construct a girls’ hostel, additional classrooms and laboratories. If Metro takes our land, it will be impossible to provide even minimum infrastructure to our students,” Sachin told IANS. He said that the Delhi Metro is trying to “grab nearly 10,000 square metres of our college land for construction of a Metro station”. Sachin, who teaches English literature, said the college, which was originally established in Lahore and shifted out to New Delhi after the partition, had played a role in India’s freedom movement. “We are in Lodi Road for nearly 50 years and Delhi Metro cannot take away the land of an academic institution that imparts education to over 5,000 students,” Sachin said. —
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Fervour marks Ramnavami celebrations
New Delhi, April 14 Celebrations began with a worship to the sun god early in the morning as devotees kept fast throughout the day breaking it only at the midnight. Religious discourses and Ram Leela (the play depicting the major life events of Lord Rama) were held at many places to mark the occasion. People made a beeline to temples to pay obeisance with places like Ayodhya, where Lord Rama was born, Ujjain and Rameshwaram attracting thousands of devotees. At midday, when Lord Rama was supposed to have been born, special prayers were held in different parts of the country. —
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Scrap dealer robbed of cash, jewellery
Ghaziabad, April 14 S.P. City claimed that the gang had been identified and the accused would be nabbed soon. Anwar Malik, a scrap merchant lives in House No. 4/6 at Rajender Nagar Sector-2, in Sahibabad. The marriage of his niece living in Kela Bhatta area of Ghaziabad is to be solemnized this week. So some cash and jewellery were kept in the house. At 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, a car screeched to a halt in front of their house. Three persons, including a woman got off the car and straightway headed for Malik’s house. On being asked by Anwar Malik, the woman said they had come to deliver wedding invitation cards. One criminal then put a revolver at Malik’s ear-pits and demanded the keys to the steel almirahs. The other man frightened women and kids in the adjoining room. On not getting the keys, the intruders broke open the almirah, looted all valuables, cash and artefacts worth Rs 9 lakh. Malik’s wife Yasmin, daughters, a sister-in-law Shamin and two sons, Asif and Shoab were all present in the house. The criminals spent about 45 minutes in Malik’s house.
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Army doctor fakes suicide to elope; lands in jail
New Delhi, April 14 In between, the doctor, a major in the Army Medical Corps (AMC) even set up practice as a cancer surgeon at a hospital in Sangli in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. So confident was he of the ruse that he didn’t even think of changing his name. The story, details of which have just come to light, begins last June when the major, then posted at an army hospital in Assam’s Tinsukia district, crafted what he thought was an ingenious ploy to quit the army. The officer’s car was found on the banks of the Brahmaputra river with a “suicide” note saying he was unhappy with his life and was taking the “extreme step”. Three months later, MI sleuths tracked him down to a private hospital in Sangli, where he had begun life anew as a surgeon. The major was arrested in September 2007 and cashiered from service earlier this year. Detailed investigation and surveillance by a team of MI officers had led to the arrest, but the missing link in the story was the wife of a colonel from the Regiment of Artillery who had also disappeared from Tinsukia at the same time and was found to be living with the major as his “wife” in Sangli. The names of the two individuals have been kept under wraps given the sensitive nature of the case. Sources say the dual disappearances raised the antennae of the MI, which “meticulously” followed this lead. After zeroing in on the major in Sangli, an MI team established a surveillance network and exposed the officer. Investigations revealed that the major, whose wife was posted on a UN mission, fell in love with the wife of a colonel who was also posted abroad on a UN mission - and cooked up a plan to desert the army and begin life afresh. — IANS
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DMRC builds 3 towers to elevate power supply
New Delhi, April 14 The elevated metro would be commissioned by December 2009. The towers built by the DMRC are three-fourth of Qutub Minar (72.5 metres). DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal said that The towers were erected in a record time of 15 days without any disruption of power supply to residents of Patparganj and Geeta Colony, which get power supply through these lines. The work was executed at a cost of Rs 2 crore. “Since such work had never been done in Delhi before, the design for the system was taken from Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) and the clearance for it was obtained from the Delhi electrical inspector. The total length of electricity lines between towers built by the Metro is 890 metres,” Dayal informed. The new towers will rejuvenate electrical supply in the area, as the life of all Metro structures is 120 years. The wiring will ensure better transmission and will be a boon for residents of Lalita Park, as the old transmission lines almost touched the roofs of their houses thus, posing a danger especially during the rainy season. The new transmission lines will have adequate clearance from these buildings. Moreover, one of the roads in Lalita Park was 4 metres wide on either side, as one of the towers was in the middle of the road. Now that this tower has been removed, the road has become 14 metres wide without any disruption on the road.
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715 high-rise buildings fail to comply with fire safety norms
New Delhi, April 14 “We had identified a total of 2,377 high-rise buildings and issued notices through the press to those failing safety standards,” chief fire officer RC Sharma told reporters on the sidelines of the Fire Service Week from April 14-20. High-rise building is one that is 15 metres and more in height. About 483 buildings were found to be complying with the norms of the total number in city. “We had to disconnect the essential services like electricity and water supply to about 715 buildings as per the Delhi Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Act. Other buildings are in different stages, like height verification, court cases and some of them are sealed,” Sharma added. The 86-year-old organisation is also in an expansion mode. “Currently, we have 43 fire stations across Delhi and the number will be increased to 70 by the end of this year. In May, about eight fire stations will be ready for inauguration,” Sharma said. The organisation will also be adding 15 more water tenders to its current fleet of 139 and provide 600 protective suits to its firemen. The increase in the number of vehicles - mainly cars - catching fire on Delhi roads has not escaped the notice of the organisation. “Earlier these were rare incidents. But off late, a lot of vehicles have been catching fire. So far, no vehicle company has come to us and it is something to be looked into technically,” Sharma said. “The reasons can be anything, ranging from vehicles having fittings other than from authorised dealers to ill-fitted cooking gas cylinders used in the vehicle,” Sharma said. Like in the past, the organisation will go to schools during the Fire Service Week with the motto — “Fire Prevention: Do it for life”. “We will be conducting evacuation drill in high-rise buildings, other buildings such as schools, hospitals, cinema halls in different parts of the Capital,” Sharma said. — IANS
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30% youth take to sports: ASSOCHAM
New Delhi, April 14 However, not surprisingly, a majority of those interviewed preferred to opt for high profile and high earning game of cricket. The study had also interviewed a cross section of youth in the major cities of Maharashtara, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and the findings were similar. The study ‘Sports: A Career Path for Youths in States’ was based on a survey of over 760 youths. The study, however, revealed that over 69 per cent rural and tribal youths from states like Orissa, Punjab, Chattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Kerala, Goa, North-Eastern States and Uttarakhand see sports as a lucrative career as most of them get jobs in railways, state government departments, PSUs, corporate houses, etc. The study also warns that in future, hockey, football, archery, shooting, boxing, weightlifting will lose their sheen among the rural youth as cricket’s quick earnings are attracting more and more young men towards this game. The key factors for this negative response among youths from these major states comprise the lack of corporate sponsorships for the games like boxing, athletics, hockey, football, archery, failure of various urban sports programmes promoted by the ministry of youth affairs and sports, lack of marketing and awareness campaigns and the huge corporate money garnered by the cricket and golf players, says ASSOCHAM president Venugopal N. Dhoot. The other reason for this depressing scenario is that corporates have been totally lukewarm towards extending sponsorship to games like hockey, football, athletics, boxing and weightlifting. The study also revealed that over 30% of urban youths had no knowledge even about any academic courses run by SAI-Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education and Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports. The study says that over 78 per cent of respondents suggested total revamping of the sports programme and designing of an urban sports programme on the lines of the rural and tribal sports programmes in major metros, emerging cities and towns.
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Legislators honoured with Ambedkar Awards
New Delhi, April 14 The Ambedkar Ratna Awards were conferred to Delhi assembly speaker Chaudhary Prem Singh for 2001-02, PC Patanjali and Gopal Paharia for 2002-03, RL Kain for 2003-04, OP Maurya and Dharam Kirti for 2004-05. While Nationalist Congress Party MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Congress MLAs Tajdar Babar and Bheeshm Sharma and BJP MLA OP Babbar received the best legislator awards for the years 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008 respectively. BJP MLA SP Ratawal and Congress MLA Surender Kumar were conferred the best legislator awards (special). Former secretary general of the Lok Sabha, GC Malhotra was given a special award. The best legislator award is recognition to the parliamentary norms practiced by the recipients over the years. Giving away the awards, Somnath Chatterjee said that Ambedkar’s life would continue to inspire people in contributing towards building a strong, prosperous and inclusive nation. Lieutenant Governor presided over the function. He congratulated the recipients of the awards. |
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Salesgirl held for stabbing elderly man, seeks bail
Gurgaon, April 14 Soni Shah, 28, has been charged with attempt to murder Vivek Sood, 64, and has been sent to 14 days’ judicial custody. “She has filed a bail application and it will be heard tomorrow,” a police official said. Shah, a native of West Bengal, alleged that Sood and four others attacked her for failing to deliver a DVD on time and tried to tear off her clothes in Sushant Lok shopping complex here late on Friday. According to Shah, she stabbed Sood in self-defence with a kitchen knife. Sood was later admitted to the Max Hospital where his condition was said to be stable. Earlier, a girl and a boy from Shahi Mahendru’s house came to inquire about when a DVD they had ordered would be delivered and got into an argument with Shah. The duo called up their elders who allegedly thrashed and abused Shah. —
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IIM Lucknow starts business programme
New Delhi, April 14 IPMX is designed to prepare mid and senior level professionals for leadership roles. The course aims to accelerate understanding of business at functional and strategic levels and prepare students to manage enterprises engaged in global business. The course offers specialisation in finance and economics, marketing strategy and consulting as well as operations and technology management. “We at IIM Lucknow try to build a global school with social conscience. Our initiatives have been footstones in the right direction, whether it is starting an international programme, or looking into concerns like environment, public health and agriculture,” said Devi Singh, director, IIM Lucknow. Hari Shankar Singhania, former chairman, IIM Lucknow, inaugurated the full time, one-year residential executive programme. |
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Course in mathematical finance
New Delhi, April 14 Under this course, students will acquire knowledge about portfolio design, stock price models, financial derivatives and risk analysis. Anil Somani, executive chairman of FBS and an IIM Ahemadbad alumnus said that mathematical finance is useful in corporate sector, investment banks, financial & academic institutions along with insurance sector. “Mathematical finance programme is based on extensive numerical work based on data,” said Somani. He added that the programme would be suitable for a wide variety of students — from undergraduates to those who are already employed. He informed that four teachers from IIM Ahmedabad have joined FBS from this session. |
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Lachhi’s accomplice caught
Noida, April 14 According to police sources, Lachhi has stated that Sheeba’s murder was a step taken in haste and anger. This was corroborated by Mukesh, alias Mukhiya, nabbed in a Hapur village on Sunday night. In his interrogation, Mukhiya told the police that on the night of the crime, they had drunk a lot of liquor at a shop in Hoshiarpur village. They tried to target Sheeba Thomas, but when she reacted violently and tried to beat them up, an irate Ashok had shot at her. Later, Lachhi parked his bike in the house and all of them went to sleep outside the village. Lachhi and Mukesh indicated that they had participated in Sheeba’s murder as well as in three other incidents in Sector-61 on last Tuesday night. However, both of them maintained that it was some other gang which had tried to rob retired Lt Gen TJS Gill in Sector-44 and later shot at him in Noida, the same night. General Gill is steadily improving in the RR Hospital. |
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Jolly demands refund of excess power bill
New Delhi, April 14 Jolly charged private discoms with cheating and looting the citizens of Delhi. He said that the grievances of people regarding fast running meters stands vindicated as per the first report of the Electricity Consumers Advocate Committee constituted by the Delhi government. The ECAC is headed by retired justice RC Chopra and includes chief secretary of Govt. of NCT of Delhi Rakesh Mehta and secretary, power, Rajender Kumar. Jolly welcomed the observations of the committee that most of the electronic meters tested by the Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore, were found to be running fast and not conforming to prescribed standards in Delhi. |
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Car hijacked
Noida, April 14 According to sources, at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, Pushpendra was coming from Delhi in his employer’s car. Near Amrapali crossing at Noida, four criminals in another car intercepted his car and overpowered him.—
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150 shops raided
New Delhi, April 14 Over 150 shops were raided across the city to seize huge amounts of edible oil. The government had started raiding shops on Saturday. |
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Acid attack accused denied bail
New Delhi, April 14 Faizy Alam was arrested on March 22. He had appealed for a bail stating that there was no evidence against him.
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