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Assembly poll
JNU students’ poll panel dissolved
Noida residential draw from Nov 5
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Teacher beats 13-yr-old
boy, arm fractured
CCTV cameras installed at Gaffar Market
The cream of 20th century art on show
Bigamist commits suicide in Shastri Nagar
BJP wants views of guardians on fee hike
Sangeet Samman Awards presented
Ayurvedic institute to be set up in Delhi
Drive against adulteration at full blast, shops raided
4 held with fake notes worth lakhs
Khurana made advisor of BJP
poll panel
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Assembly poll
New Delhi, October 25 This list was submitted today to the central election committee of the Congress by the DPCC, said Jai Parkash Agarwal, state Congress president. The list of candidates is as follows: Sheila Dikshit from New Delhi; Ashok Kumar Walia, Lakshmi Nagar; Arvinder Singh Lovely, Gandhi Nagar; Haroon Yusuf, Ballimaran; Mangat Ram Singhal, Adarsh Nagar; Raj Kumar Chauhan, Mangolpuri; Ashok Ahuja, Cantonment Board; Amrish Gautam, Kondli; Barkha Singh, R. K. Puram; Balram Tanwar, Chhatarpur; Chaudhary Prem Singh, Ambedkar Nagar; Anil Bhardwaj, Tri Nagar; Anjali Rai, Moti Nagar; Bijender Singh, Nangloi; Baljor Singh, Gokulpuri; Kunwar Karan Singh, Model Town; Mukesh Sharma, Uttam Nagar; Rama Kant Goswami, Rajender Nagar; Jai Kishan, Sultanpuri; Zile Singh, Burari; Malaram Gangwal, Madipur; Mahabal Mishra, Dwarka; Mateen Ahmed, Seelampur; Nerendra Nath, Shahdara; Ram Babu Sharma, Rohtas Nagar; Surender Pal Singh Bittoo, Timarpur; Vijay Singh Lochhav, Bijwasan; Prahlad Singh Sahni, Chandni Chowk; Rajesh Lilothia, Patel Nagar; Subhash Chopra, Kalkaji; Surender Kumar, Bawana; Jitender Kumar, Greater Kailash; Beer Singh, Seemapuri; Parvez Hashmi, Okhla; Harnam Singh, Deoli; Hasan Ahmed, Mustafabad; Mahender Yadav, Palam; Mahmood Zia, Matia Mahal; Deepa Khullar, Krishna Nagar; Anil Chaudhary, Patpar Ganj; Madan Khorwal, Karol Bagh; Shambhu Dayal Sharma; Devender Yadav, Badli; Suresh Malik, Hari Nagar; Dayanand Chandela, Rajouri Garden; Sheeshpal, Tughlakabad; Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Badarpur; Akhil Bansal, Shalimar Bagh; Anita Babbar, Tilak Nagar; Deepak Arora, Janakpuri; Tek Singh, Sangam Vihar; Naseeb Singh, Vishwas Nagar. In the list of 53 candidates, 13 are being given ticket for the first time. Sources said that from Greater Kailash former mayor Jaishri Panwar was also asking for ticket. But Jittu, former Leader of the House, MCD, has been successful as he has strong clout in AICC. Deepa Khullar who will contest assembly election against BJP’s state president Harsh Vardhan had won the councillor’s election as an independent candidate. Daynand Chandela has joined the Congress after resigning from the BJP. The same is the case of Ramvir Singh Bidhuri who resigned from the NCP and joined the Congress.
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JNU students’ poll panel dissolved
New Delhi, October 25 Putting the outgoing JNUSU officer-bearers back in charge, the students decided to hold an urgent University general body meeting tonight. A meeting that would go on till early morning tomorrow would decide the course of action the students are going to take while resisting the ban on their “democratic” elections. “The students of the university are going to adopt a few resolutions regarding the course of agitation,” said Avdesh, a member from the All India Students’ Association (AISA). There are speculations that a joint co-ordination committee would be formulated to make important decisions regarding the conditional stay on elections. “Most likely the students would demand a judicial review committee to be set up to look into the stay order,” said a student activist. A mass deputation of students would also be sent to meet the Chief Justice of India asking for the review petition. While all other student wings at the university are united in resisting the “attack on their democratic culture,” the Youth For Equality is likely to be sidelined in tonight’s general body meeting. “They are not clear in their stand on the issue. The general body meeting would decide on their position in the agitation,” said Avdesh. Meanwhile, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union is receiving positive response from the university alumni and faculty members, who have extended solidarity towards their movement.
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Noida residential draw from Nov 5
Noida, October 25 According to sources, the main draw will be conducted from November 5 to 8. There are four categories of plot sizes and draw for each category will be taken out on a separate day to avoid confusion. On November 4, a mock draw will to conducted to make the applicants aware of the methodology to be followed in conducting the draw. The actual draws will however be held on November 5, 6, 7 and 8 for each category of plots to be attended by applicants of that category. A two-members team of CBI had visited Noida Authority offices on Friday for about six hours. The CBI is expected to file a report about the transparency of the draw during hearing in the High Court on November 7. Earlier, it was learnt that the draw will be commenced on November 4, but during the hearing in the High Court on Thursday complete details were presented to Justice Ambawat and Justice Dilip Gupta by members of the committee and Noida officials. The court had called for full details in this connection from the CBI also. The High Court is performing twin functions—hearing the case as well as monitoring the progress of the case including the conduct of the draw under the special team. The court is thus keeping itself informed of the every aspect of the CBI investigations of the case. According to well-informed sources, no authoritative announcement will be made till the list of applicants is signed by members of the high-powered committee appointed by the High Court. Even the details of the names of applicants who do not figure in the final list, will be available on the Internet. The CBI officers had finalized the list with Noida Dy CEO N.P. Singh and later with officers of residential department of Noida Authority. |
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Teacher beats 13-yr-old
boy, arm fractured
New Delhi, October 25 The victim, Garvit Gola is a class VIII student of Government Senior
Secondary School in Dakha village. Garvit was medically examined in the Bara Hindu Rao Hospital where the fracture and bruises on his lower body were confirmed. After the medical report, the police has lodged an FIR against the teacher, Ashok Chauhan. According to Garvit’s mother Manju Gola, the teacher got enraged when he heard some abusive words in his class. Ashok Chauhan thought that it was Garvit who used the words and started beating him with a cane. “Garvit protested and told Chauhan that he did not abuse, but Chauhan did not believe him and kept hitting him. He let him go only when his arm was broken and he fell down,” said Manju. Garvit’s father is physically handicapped and his mother runs the house. After Garvit told his mother about the incident and the pain in his arm, she took up the matter with the school authorities. She alleged that school authorities did not take her complaint seriously and shooed her away terming it a minor incident. It was only then that she approached the police and got an FIR lodged. According to S.N. Bundela, DCP (North West), the police is investigating the
matter.
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CCTV cameras installed at Gaffar Market
New Delhi, October 25 The cameras were inaugurated by Karnal Singh, joint commissioner (Northern range) in a function held in the afternoon. Gaffar Market, which recently came under a terrorist attack on September 13, has 276 shops largely dealing in wholesale and retail marketing of electronic items particularly mobile phones. The initiative for the installation of cameras was taken by the Gaffar Market Vyapar Mandal led by Ram Lal (president), Sanjeev Khurana (vice-president), Sardar Satender Singh (general secretary), Mukesh Channa (secretary), Sardar Gajender Pal Singh (cashier) and other members along with the police authorities of the district. The police believes that the presence of cameras will strengthen the security of the market and help keep vigil over any kind of untoward incident. According to information, altogether 16 cameras have been fixed at important junctions to cover the movement of public. The system has a control room with monitors where an operator will keep an eye on any suspicious movement or any abandoned object and will alert the security guards and the market in case of any emergency. |
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The cream of 20th century art on show
New Delhi, October 25 Frame. Figure. Field: a group show of an eclectic collection of artworks by 22 Indian artists highlights some of the best of the pictorial propositions manifested in the 20th century. The show would be on till November 20 and is accompanied with a well-illustrated catalogue with essays by art critic and independent curator Roobina Karode.
The participating artists include Shobha Broota, Avinash Chandra, Amitava Das, C Douglas, Shanti Dave, Jaya Ganguly, Sheela Gowda, Satish Gujral, M F Husain, P Khemraj, Ambadas Khobragade, Sovan Kumar, Altaf Mohammedi, Rabin Mondal, Gogi Saroj Pal, Sohan Qadri, G R Santosh, Paritosh Sen, Nataraj Sharma, F N Souza, Vivan Sundaram and Vasudha Thozhur. According to Ashish Anand, director, Delhi Art Gallery: “The exhibition highlights the constant challenge for the medium of painting in present times to reinvent itself and reconfigure meaningful equations between the frame, figure and the pictorial field. It emphasizes the co-existence of a range of options with artists, especially from the 1970s onwards.” The works in the exhibition embody radical acts performed by artists within the pictorial frame or field. The purpose of exhibition is not to display brilliant rendering and drafting skills but to attempt the shaping of a personal language that translates formal, conceptual as well as thematic concerns into creative expression. The show brings together expertise of artists from different generations and different regions. For instance, while veteran artist Ambadas Khobragade brings out non-representational genre on canvas, young artist Sovan Kumar utilizes the truck as the main motif for a tongue-in-check portrayal of the destruction of the rural life. Late artist P. Khemraj ploughs the vast terrain of his canvas titled Charpai that communicates depth, surface, illusion, movement and mystery within the medium of painting. Veteran artist Satish Gujral blurs the divide between painting and sculpture through his architectonic sculptural piece meant to be hung on the wall in the manner of painting. Yet another veteran artist Sohan Qadri makes use of challenging techniques in painting. He allows the colour to percolate through the thick hand-made paper he paints on, allowing forms to develop on the other side that he then textures by tearing and blending the surface. However, the most breathtaking of all is the untitled work of the great M.F. Husain and a nude painted in oil by another great F.N. Souza. Looking at the works of some women artists, one experiences an extremely vivid response to space, articulated through feelings of nostalgia, claustrophobia or longing. In Gogi Saroj Pal’s paintings, woman’s desire vis-ŕ-vis prescribed societal roles is scrutinized quite persistently. Often her female figures acquire wings or extra limbs, expressing unspoken desires or predicament. In Valley of Flowers, Gogi has transformed the pictorial space into dreamy landscape, the crimson colour representing both the earth and sky in which the female protagonist appears in effortless flight. Acquiring cloud-like wings, her airborne body moves gracefully above the infinite landscape that carries no mark of place or people. While Gogi revels in the openness of the imaginative landscape, Vasudha Thozhur’s jigsaw composition in Still Life with Cat and Bananas presents an unsorted view of life. Inventing ripped anatomies, Jaya Ganguly’s audacious display of disarticulations on the female form symbolizes an inquiry into the ‘unspoken’ depths that engulf a woman’s life. The female body here is not merely a form but bearer of pain, conflict and stressful situations. The ugliness of decadent female flesh represents the body as a speaking subject rather than an object of male gaze. Artist Shobha Broota, one of the strong feminine artists of Indian abstraction, uses the very basic geometric forms to visualize the unseen and links soul, body and mind in their abstract renditions. Thus, these artists formulate an interesting mix, especially the ones who have now embraced other media and formats, using computer-generated imagery, organic and recycled materials and the sculptural-installation format. While artists in present times move on to explore and master new media and formats in their art practice, using the video, photograph and site-specific installations, the medium of painting faces a constant challenge to reinvent itself and reconfigure meaningful equations between the frame, figure, and the pictorial field.
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Bigamist commits suicide in Shastri Nagar
New Delhi, October 25 The police received the information around 10 pm that Jitender committed suicide at his friend Surinder’s house in Shastri Nagar by hanging himself from a ceiling fan. Jitender worked at a shop in Gandhi Nagar. Surinder said that Jitender had not left any suicide note and the exact reason of his suicide was not yet known. He said that his deceased friend had two wives and he often remained tense. When Jitender came to his house last night, Surinder was not present. When he returned after some time, his children told him that Jitender had come and was resting in the room on the first floor of the house. When Surinder went upstairs to meet Jitender, he found the room locked from inside. In spite of repeated callings and banging at the door, Jitender did not respond. After some time the door was broken and Surinder found Jitender hanging. A case of suicide has been registered in Geeta Colony police station. |
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BJP wants views of guardians on fee hike
New Delhi, October 25 The issue being sensitive, fee hike by the public schools should not be allowed without ascertaining the views of the guardians. The committee constituted by the government should also ensure that all the public schools provide free education to the poor children. Most public schools do not provide free education to the poor children. Even after 61 years of the independence, Delhi has not become a fully literate state, said the Delhi BJP unit chief Harsh Vardhan He said that the national Capital should have got the status of ‘city of knowledge’ where the young men and women might get education according to their choice. The Capital should be made such a city where ultra-modern facilities related to knowledge should be available easily. Harsh Vardhan said that students in Delhi pay the highest fee in the country. If the public schools are allowed to increase fee arbitrarily, economically weaker section will be compelled to get their children out of these schools which will result in fall of standard of education in Delhi. Besides, there is need to encourage education of women in Delhi.
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Sangeet Samman Awards presented
New Delhi, October 25 This year, Pt. Abhay Narayan Mallick (Dhrupad - Vocal) and Pt. Krishna Ram Choudhry (Shehnai) were jointly awarded the Bharat Ke Sangeet Ratna. Jayant Kastuar (Kathak) was honored with the Sangeet Shree and Aditi Mangaldas (for creativity in Kathak) was conferred the Delhi Ratna for their tremendous contribution to the world of Indian classical music and dance. Justice Mukul Mudgal, judge of the Delhi High Court was the chief guest. The function was also attended by luminaries like Vinod Khanna, film star and member of Parliament, Shovana Narayan, renowned Kathak dancer, celebrated painted Naresh Kapooria and Ashok Chauhan, chairman of Amity (education group). The founder-president of the trust, Thakur Chakrapani Singh, said, “The trust was established with a view to re-establish classical music in India which was increasingly losing its patrons, students and performers to western music forms like hip-hop and pop. We may appreciate many other forms of music, but Indian classical music is an integral part of our society and the country’s cultural heritage and we are keen to protect and promote it.” Speaking on the occasion, Lalit Bhasin, chairman, the Art and Cultural Trust of India, said, “Indian classical music has always been a part of our rich cultural heritage and I laud the efforts of these veteran artists who have done so much to preserve its purity and spread awareness about our performing arts. I heartily congratulate the winners and wish them the very best in their endeavours.” |
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Ayurvedic institute to be set up in Delhi
New Delhi, October 25 The institute would also offer postgraduate and doctoral courses in the above-mentioned disciplines.
Panabaka Lakshmi, the minister of state for health and family welfare earlier informed the Rajya Sabha that the institute will have a 200-bed research and referral hospital for facilitating clinical research. “The All India Institute of Ayurveda will be set up on the lines of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),” Lakshmi added. It would be functional by the end of the 11th Five Year Plan i.e. by March, 2012. When fully functional, the institute will treat about 250-300
O.P.D. patients daily in addition to IPD patients initially. Meanwhile, union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss has also said that six new AIIMS would be coming up in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Orissa, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand and will be ready in the next three years. |
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Drive against adulteration at full blast, shops raided
Noida, October 25 Teams of policemen and food inspectors under the city magistrate have been conducting raids in shops. Two sweet shops in Sector-5, 2 in Sector-30 and 2 in Banghel were raided and samples of sweets were collected for the adulteration test. The collected samples have been sent to Lucknow forensic lab for test. In Sector-24 of the town and Banghel, shops of arms and ammunitions owned by Pitambar Sharma and Vipin Tyagi, were verified and sales register and ammunitions stock checked. The campaign was started by Sanjay Chauhan, a Provincial Civil Services (PCS) officer. Sharma appointed by the city magistrate of Noida township, to check the sale of adulteration sweets and illegal arms and ammunitions in the area in order to make Divali safe for the citizens. |
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4 held with fake notes worth lakhs
New Delhi, October 25 Mohammad Murtaza was arrested from the Rajouri Garden area with Rs 2 lakh fake notes. Suhaib, Dilawar and Shamim were arrested on Murtaza’s instance. Rs 210,000 fake notes were seized from them. Sharad Aggarwal, deputy commissioner of police (west) said that Murtaza and Suhaib hailed from Bihar and were relatives. They stayed in Madhu Vihar and worked as tailors. Murtaza, reportedly, was involved in two such cases earlier too. Shamim is a Nepali citizen and supplied fake currency to people here. He disclosed that the currency was supplied from Bangladesh. The fourth accused Dilawar works as a moneylender in the Mohan Garden area. He circulated the notes to people who came to him for loan on interest. |
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Khurana made advisor of BJP
poll panel
New Delhi, October 25 With the appointment of Khurana, five members out of six are Punjabis. Besides Khurana, the other members are Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Omprakash Kohli, Mayor of Delhi, Arti Mehra, Leader of the House, MCD Subhash Arya and Mange Ram Garg. Khurana was expelled from the party a few years ago, but was recently taken in the party again.
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Book on post Godhra Gujarat
New Delhi, October 25 Minister of minority affairs
A.R. Antulay was also present on the occasion. |
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