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DDA to offer 5,000 flats on freehold basis
Cops seek citizens’ help to check terror strike
Teej festival at Pitampura Dilli Haat
Congress woos minorities
HIGs spend lavishly despite inflation: Survey
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IGNOU, AIMA tie up on E-learning
Artscape
Youth drowns in Ganga
Crime File
Men write more suicide notes: Study
Valuables worth lakhs stolen from flats
Beef smugglers fire on cops, escape
Rs 1.50 lakh looted by smashing car window in Gt Noida
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DDA to offer 5,000 flats on freehold basis
New Delhi, August 3 To provide housing to all sections of society, flats with one bedroom, two bedrooms, three bedrooms and expandable flats are on offer. These flats are located in Pitampura, Dwarka, Motia Khan, Paschim Vihar, Dilshad Garden, Vasant Kunj, Narela, Shalimar Bagh, Jhilmil, East of Loni Road, Nand Nagari, Peeragarhi, Sarai Khalil, Rohini, Lok Nayak Puram, Bindapur and Zafrabad. According to the DDA, the tentative cost of the flats varies from Rs 7.2 lakh to about Rs 77.00 lakh depending upon the location of the flat and the plinth area which ranges from 39.39 sq. meters to 158 sq.mtrs. Besides, an allottee has to pay freehold charges. The allotment will be made only on cash down basis. Multi-storey flats with lifts in Pitampura, Dwarka and Motia Khan are being offered besides there are some double-storeyed, three-storeyed and four-storeyed flats. There is no income limit for the applicant and he can apply according to his requirement and affordability but an applicant must be a citizen of India holding a Permanent Account number [PAN] issued under provisions of Income Tax Act. The applicant must have attained the age of majority and should not have any flat allotted in his name. One person from a family is only eligible to apply and he can submit one application only. The application form along with brochure giving detailed terms and conditions shall be available from August 6 fromthe Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Sales Counter at Vikas Sadan, in almost all branches of AXIS Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and IDBI Bank. The forms are also available at Vikas Sadan branches of State Bank of India and Central Bank of India besides the Nehru Place branch of Union Bank of India. The cost of the application form and brochure is Rs 100. The application form completed in all respects along with registration money can be submitted in one of the prescribed bank branches mentioned in the brochure. The registration money under the scheme is Rs 1.5 lakh. This will have to be deposited along with application form by a banker’s cheque / demand draft only and no payment by cheque will be accepted, the DDA said. The applicant can have five preferences for flats for all categories and has to submit self-attested copy of PAN, proof of residence, etc. Those who apply under Reserve Category, a certificate to that effect will have to be submitted. The allotment to eligible applicants will be made through a computerized draw based on Random Number techniques and the result of the draw shall be on notice board at Vikas Sadan and will also be available at DDA website
http://www.dda.org.in . DDA has so far allotted 371215 flats of various categories under its 42 schemes launched so far and there is no backlog of registrants under any scheme. |
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Cops seek citizens’ help to check terror strike
New Delhi, August 3 Delhi Police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal had launched the eyes and ears scheme, referred to as local intelligence. Under this scheme, citizens’ assistance was sought to provide necessary input on suspicious activities and persons. Other than its own staff, the police has more than 1,00,000 citizens as part of the scheme to provide timely inputs to check criminal activities in the city. The assistance of residents especially vendors, security guards, parking attendants, drivers, porters, people sitting on sidewalks, pavements, roads or railway platforms are sought. “It is essential to make people a part of policing to ensure law and order in the city and avoid any unfavourable incident,” said a senior Delhi Police official. “Those people like porters at railway and bus stations, workers at tea and refreshment stalls, newspaper hawkers and vendors are active at most of the public places that can be targeted by anti-social elements. They can help us in checking crimes just by being alert while on their job,” he said. With this initiative, the police claims to have solved nearly hundred cases of robbery, murder and abduction in the Capital. |
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Teej festival at Pitampura Dilli Haat
New Delhi, August 3 As the capital of a nation with its varied population, Delhi relishes its heterogeneous character and celebrates every festival with gaiety and abandon. Dilli Haat in keeping with this character celebrates everything from harvests to the changing season, the love between a brother and sister to the festival of lights. Dilli Haat visited by the young and old alike makes the new generation fall under the spell of this medley of worship and rejoicing, an official of the Delhi Tourism claimed. Special stalls selling monsoon delicacies like ghevar have been put up during the festival. In addition to the normal art and craft stalls, a number of other stalls, handicraft and a lot of other attractive souvenir items are some of the attractions of the festival. |
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Congress woos minorities
New Delhi, August 3 Agarwal was addressing the members of the Samaj at a special meeting convened by Abdul Sami Salmani, chairman of the National Minorities Vikas Morcha here last evening. Others who addressed the meeting were AICC general secretary Mohsina Kidwai, Hafeez Matloob Karim, Rafi Kamran, Zakir Hussian, Mohd. Alam and A.R.Azad Raju. The DPCC president hailing the Muslim community said it had stood by the Congress during the freedom struggle, and ever since, Muslims have been keeping their unwavering faith in the Congress. He said that the Congress’ strong secular credentials were established during the freedom movement itself and towering Muslim leaders like Rafi Amhad Kidwai, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, former Presidents Dr Zakir Hussain and Fakhruddin Ali Ahamd shed their blood and sweat to build up the Congress as a national party of eminence. Agarwal said the Congress has taken major steps to improve the economic status of the minorities, and on the educational front too, a number of steps had been implemented and were being implemented to help the Muslims. |
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HIGs spend lavishly despite inflation: Survey
New Delhi, August 3 On the contrary inflation has hardly had an impact on the High Income Groups (HIGs) as they continue to spend lavishly on shopping, entertainment and eating out. The Middle Income Groups (MIGs) and those below it, however, have drastically cut down on leisure spending to compensate for the extra expenditure incurred on essentials. This revelation was made during a recent survey conducted by Assocham. The survey broadly refers to Middle Income Group as those with an annual salary of up to Rs 5 lakh (including perks), while those above this fall in the Higher Income Group. The survey, which included about 2,000 people and was carried out in July reveals that double digit inflation and higher cost of money virtually unaffected the HIG group in the period. The survey found that when the inflation rate was less than seven per cent, the MIG was spending about Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000 per month on shopping, entertainment and eating out. This has now fallen by nearly 55 per cent in the last 10 to 12 months and come down to less than Rs 2,800. ‘’The HIG in urban and other part of the country has remained totally immune with rising cost of economy as their income levels hardly got severed with rising cost of inputs,’’ said Assocham president Sajjan Jindal while releasing the findings of the survey. On an average, the HIG spending per month on shopping, amusement including eating out are estimated around over Rs 20,000 per month, which is almost the same when the inflation was within below seven per cent. Nearly 1,000 people belonging to the HIG gave this impression that even its commuting patterns, primarily by cars, did not witness any shift despite fuel costs going up abnormally. The survey also revealed that the HIG, particularly the younger lot and working couples with twin salary benefits, during every weekend spend more than 30 per cent of their income on clothes, shoes, movies, buying CDs of films and music, eating out, among other things. It is interesting to note that inflation has not fully impacted the urban males and females’ personal expenses. While the urban male spends almost Rs 400-1,000 per month on cigarettes, gutka, pan etc, urban women spend about Rs 300-1,200 per month on cosmetics and beauty treatments. |
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IGNOU, AIMA tie up on E-learning
New Delhi, August 3 The MoU is directed towards capacity building, sharing of resources, E-learning, exchange of faculties and sharing areas of knowledge. This cooperation also looking towards sectoral requirements, technical upgradation and providing knowledge and skills. The MoU would result in directing combined efforts towards developing and delivering sectoral management programmes, MDPs and FDPs through E-learning mode. The areas that it would cover are energy, education, infrastructure, retail management sector, etc. Later in the afternoon, AIMA-Centre of Management Education also held its 13th convocation at the Stein Auditorium in Habitat Centre. Gracing the occasion as the chief guest, Prof. V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai, vice-chancellor and chairman of Distance Education Council, said, “Today, when our country is witnessing tremendous progress and making huge strides in information and technology domain, the E-learning can essentially help in the emergence of a knowledge-based economy.” Elaborating further, he said, “India being a treasure house of technical expertise, has tremendous amount of untapped potential, backed by a good know-how of nuances of the industry. By reaching on this cooperation we’ll try to identify the large pool of expertise, discovering new innovative pedagogues. Hopefully, this would envisage an effective, continual passage between the two organisations of higher studies.” India is still lagging behind, with 66 per cent of our adults illiterate. Hence, Pillai stressing the need of development of innovative education paradigm, outlined three educational parametres, namely universal literacy in developing countries, better training of man-force and post-school higher education development opportunities. |
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Artscape
New Delhi, August 3 ‘The Melody of love’ is an adaptation of ‘Le jeu de l’amour et du hazard’ —a French piece of literary work by Marivaux, a supreme French playwright of comedies. ‘Melody of love’ is originally a play relevant not only to its own time but also to the social system today. Falling under the genre of romantic comedy, the play is about two young couples that wish to carefully examine their future life partners. To test their partner’s heart, the couples operate under a masquerade, portraying what they are not. With time, love becomes strong and deep for each couple. Slowly the masks fall as the dupes themselves get duped. This romantic comedy in a most entertaining manner also educates with the message on disability awareness and sensitizes to gracefully accept the differently abled as equal human beings, hereby supporting the cause. Like each one, they also have the right to be loved and love…not just on stage but also the same to transcend into real life society. The Hotel also hosted a musical evening of magical performance by ‘Gautam Ghosh Collective’ —the renowned nu-age, free form jazz based world music band. Gautam Ghosh Collective in its concerts showcases the collective’s unique soundscapes that are both transcendental and extempore. Playing unrehearsed and in real time, the band digs into its collective memory of sounds and textures from all over the world and weaves in splendid patterns and images fused with the energy of ethnic and tribal colours. The members of Gautam Ghosh Collective include Gautam Ghosh , Siddartha, Amit and IB Singh. Works of poetic intensity
“My heart is not enough…” a solo show of recent water colours by V. Ramesh is being held at the Gallery Threshold here from August 8 to August 30. In this body of work, V. Ramesh, instead of his usual oils has worked on large format paper with gouache and water colours. His longstanding interest and engagement with the idea of ephemeral and transcended aspects of the human self continues in this body of work as well where he alludes to them by the recurrent use of lines from medieval bhakti poetry along with a metaphorical usage of imagery hinting at the importance of the human body. Juxtaposing broad areas of washes with delicate and decorative linear elements, he manages to create works of great fragility as well as poetic intensity, say critics. V. Ramesh was born in Andhra Pradesh in 1958. He graduated in Fine Arts from M S University, Baroda, following it with postgraduation in Fine Arts from the same university. Exhibition of sarees and dupattas
Utsav is presenting “Rang Alive”, an exhibition of finely handcrafted sarees, fabrics and dupattas from August 7 to August 9 at the Aga Khan Main Hall on Bhagwan Das Road here. Rang Alive celebrates the potent symbolism of colour in India, especially expressed through its vibrant textile traditions of weaves and prints in cotton and silk. From time immemorial, colours in India have been linked to religion, seasons, festivals, special occasions and rites of passage. These colours have been interpreted in traditional handloom weaves specially created for Utsav from India’s heritage weaving centres. Several of these weaves have also been specially hand block-printed in unique colour variations to bring their Rang Alive! For over 15 years, Shashiv Chandran has plodded through the villages of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu offering a vital lifeline to handloom weavers who create magical sarees on ancient looms. Chandran’s Utsav was founded to link these weavers with an urban clientele. Utsav educates the weavers on colour and design and encourages them to be creative within the matrix of their own native traditions. Santoor recital
Seminar on Arts and Culture
Kalaikoodam-Komala Varadan Institute of Art in collaboration with the India International Centre here held a three-day national seminar on Arts and Culture For Indian Resurgence from August 1 to August 3. A large number of experts presented their views during the seminar which was organised to celebrate the founder’s day of the institute. Dr Bharat Gupt, associate professor, Delhi University, was the seminar director. |
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Youth drowns in Ganga
Ghaziabad, August 3 The boys were with a group of people who had gone to the village under Bahadurgarh police station in connection with the cremation of a woman at the Ganga
Ghat. Local people with the help of the divers were able to save three boys while the fourth one could not be rescued. The 18-year-old youth could not be traced despite a long search in the
river. Dulari, 45, wife of Satbir, a resident of Bahadurgarh had died due to some ailment. Relatives and villagers had brought Dulari’s body for cremation on Ganga bank. After the cremation,
Naresh, son of Charan Singh, Satish, son of Prem Singh, Shibbu, son of Tika and
Ratru, son of Ramesh had gone into the Ganga for a bath. But as they lost their balance, the young boys got swept with a strong current of water. Villagers alerted the divers, seeing all the four being swept away. After lots of efforts, divers were able to rescue
Satish, Shibbu and Ratru from the river but Naresh, son of Charan Singh could not be saved. |
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Crime File
New Delhi, August 3 Musharraf Ali, 45, has alleged that Sharaful, whom he had sacked last year, came with his three friends to his shop yesterday in Chandiwali Gali, Paharganj and demanded him to re-employ him. When Musharraf refused, he threw acid on him and escaped with 130 grams of gold. Sharaful had worked at Ali’s shop for six years and was staying in the neighborhood. He had been working in a cloth shop near by after he was sacked. Ali was taken to a hospital where he was treated and soon discharged. Ali in his complaint has alleged that when he refused to employ the accused they threw acid on his hands and fled. He further alleged that after they left he found 130 grams of gold and some silver articles missing from his shop. However, not every body is convinced with Musharraf Ali’s story. Senior police officials have expressed suspicion and did not arrest Sharaful. “Shopkeepers in the area have denied that any such incident had taken place. The nature of acid burns also suggest that it could be a mere accident. We have detained Sharaful though he will be arrested only after we verify the matter,” said a police official. 1 arrested with leopard skin, nails
The special operations squad has arrested one Sandeep Kumar and seized a leopard skin and five nails of leopard. According to the police, the accused was demanding Rs 1 lakh for the sale of the skin of the endangered species. On August 1, an information was received about one boy who had planned to sell the skin and nails of a leopard. A trap was laid near Central Market, Lajpat Nagar and the accused was arrested. A case was registered under the Wild Life Protection Act and the skin was seized in presence of the Wild Life Crime Control Bureau officials. It was found that the accused purchased the skin from Garhwal last year. Gang of
pickpockets held
The Delhi Police personnel dressed in civilian clothes nabbed a gang of pickpockets near Faiz road bus stand on August 1. The police said that the alleged gang comprising four women and four men was nabbed when they were trying to flee after committing theft in a Blueline bus. It was learnt that the accused used to operate in buses plying in the areas of West district, Central district and North district. Due to an increase in theft cases in buses, the Delhi Police has constituted special teams to nab pickpockets operating in buses running on the city’s roads. The gang members led by Geeta operated in crowded buses. Two persons, Geeta and Jai Prakash, used to carry out pickpocketing while, other members of the gang immobilised the victim. Three knives, one surgical blade and Rs 3,000 were found. |
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Men write more suicide notes: Study
New Delhi, August 3 The study, which went through 425 suicide cases including 291 men and 134 women over a period of two years revealed that suicide notes of men differed a lot from that of women, giving an insight into the thinking of the depressed mind of both the sexes. “We have found that the tendency of leaving behind a suicide note is more among men rather than women,” said Shalini Girdhar, senior research associate at the department of forensic medicine, AIIMS. According to the study, men in their suicide notes write about their jobs, financial arrangements, concern and care for their family while women concentrate on forgiveness for the step taken. Variety of results came up projecting how men and women think differently. “We found that suicide notes of men differed a lot from that of women,” said Girdhar. Of the 425 cases, it was found that suicide notes were left behind in 68 cases. And out of the 68 cases, 54 cases were of men and just 14 were of women. “Men blame someone or the other in their suicide note for their act while women do not blame anyone in their suicide note. Men are more depressed and it is well reflected in their suicide notes,” said Dogra. |
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Valuables worth lakhs stolen from flats
Greater Noida, August 3 This was the fourth theft in the flats of this society in a week. Two days ago three bandits, including a woman, had tried to enter the society by scaling the boundary walls but security guards were vigilant and checked them. Chander Shekhar, a manager in a multi-national company lives in Tata Steel Society flats. On Saturday he had locked his flat and gone to his office while his family had already gone out. When he returned in the evening, Chander Shekhar was surprised to see his flat door ajar. When he went in, he found steel almirah lock had been broken. The thieves had decamped with cash, jewellery and valuable articles from his house. Kasna police was promptly informed. Last week three intruders had beaten up a security supervisor Vijay Kumar who had raised the alarm on seeing them scaling the boundary wall to enter the colony. The intruders had fled waving their weapons. Kasna police reached the spot at night, but could not nab the criminals. Locks of four flats have been broken by intruders about which police has been informed. But the police has not been able to nab any one of them so far. In a mobile shop near a petrol pump on Railway Road, Dadri, bandits broke into a mobile phone shop at midnight and decamped with valuables and goods worth two lakhs. In spite of a written complaint, the police has not taken any action, says Mohan Bhalia, the shopkeeper. The thieves stole mobile phones worth Rs 1.50 lakh, recharge coupons worth Rs 40,000 and Rs 5,000 in cash from the shop by breaking the pad locks of his shop at midnight. In Jalalpur village under Bisarekh police station, villagers overpowered two criminals while they were stealing the valuables. The robbers were thoroughly thrashed with lathis and later handed over to police. |
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Beef smugglers fire on cops, escape
Faridabad, August 3 The police did not receive injuries in the firing. However, two policemen were injured when the dumper on which the criminals were ferrying beef and skinned cows banged into the PCR van. The news of the transportation of beef and cows on the dumper was reported to the police by the “Gau Raksha Samiti”, a voluntary organisation active in the area for a long time. The dumper was coming from Mewat side and was headed towards Delhi. The police stepped up its vigil and the dumper and the accompanying Bolero were intercepted at Sector 31 near Sahni Chowk. The criminals reported to be heavily armed, opened fire on the police. Finding the noose tightening on them, they abandoned the dumper and escaped on the car. However, before escaping as a last-ditch effort, they banged the dumper into the PCR. Its driver and an ASI received minor injuries. The PCR was totally damaged. The SHO of Sector 31 police station stated that the personnel had a miraculous escape. The police team intercepted the car at Sector 7. Finding themselves squeezed, they abandoned the vehicle and escaped. According to the police, about 10 tonnes of beef and some cows were recovered. This is not the first time that the incident of smuggling of beef in the area has come to light. According to the president of the Gau Raksha Samiti, Ashok Malik, cows are slaughtered in a number of villages of Mewat and beef is then smuggled out to Delhi. It is felt that smuggling on such a large scale and for such a long time could not be possible without the collusion of a section in the police and the other administrative machinery of the state. |
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Rs 1.50 lakh looted by smashing car window in Gt Noida
Greater Noida, August 3 The village Pradhan Mehar Chand had gone to the market for buying marble when bandits broke open the glasspane of his car and fled with the money. Mehar Chand had drawn Rs 1.50 lakh from Corporation Bank and kept the money in the brief case in the car. Besides the cash, his bank chequebooks, documents of land etc, were also in the brief case. Mehar Chand lodged a report with Kasna police station. |
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The India International Centre (IIC) here is presenting a Hindustani classical music santoor recital by Shruti Adhikari from Bhopal in its auditorium on August 7. Shruti, who heads the department of music in the NCERT’s Regional Institute of Education in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, is a disciple of the famous Shiv Kumar Sharma.