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Youth stabbed to death by uncle over business rivalry
Shastri elected Speaker
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Warm day, pleasant breeze
Nanda gets interim bail to meet ailing grandpa
MCD website gets award
MCD staff take the yoga path to fitness
Schools gear up to hike fees by 50%
28 child labourers rescued
Bikers snatch 5 lakh near bank
CBI gets 6 more courts
Pak national held in Ghaziabad
Maximum murders in Delhi’s NE distt
BSNL all set to launch IPTV in January
JNU mulls cancer research lab
Sketches of bank robbery suspects released
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Youth stabbed to death by uncle over business rivalry
New Delhi, December 19 Ajay bled to death and was declared brought dead when taken to Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital. The accused has absconded while a police team has launched a manhunt to nab Sohan Lal. He is the brother-in-law of Ajay’s uncle. Ajay was to get married on February 14, 2009. According to the police, Sohan Lal ran a rehri of fried meat items in H Block Market of Jehangirpuri and did a brisk business. However, his business saw a dip lately when some months back Ajay too started selling them same food items close to Sohan Lal’s rehri. This bothered Sohan Lal and he asked him to shift his rehri to some other place. According to Ajay’s father the duo had often fought about this in the past and Sohan Lal had warned him of dire consequences. Last night, Sohan Lal did not put his rehri as usual and reached the marked around 10.30 to kill Ajay. He carried a heavy meat cutting knife with him and attacked Ajay after abusing him. The bleeding Ajay was taken to hospital by the PCR van after somebody informed them about the incident. However, precious time was lost in this and he had died before they reached hospital. Ajay was to get married on Valentine’s Day next year and was busy preparing for the occasion. “He was very happy and looking forward to the day. We had booked the banquet hall and band for the marriage well in advance and Ajay was to get his clothes stitched in a couple of days. But all is lost now,” said Ajay’s father. A case of murder has been lodged in Jehangirpuri police station. |
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Shastri elected Speaker
New Delhi, December 19 The election was conducted by the pro-term Speaker and BJP MLA Jagdish
Mukhi. Taking the seat, Shastri, dressed in a traditional attire of white
kurta, dhoti and waist coat, said he would try to deliver honestly any duty assigned to him by the House and would maintain the sanctity of the House. He also welcomed Malhotra for returning to the house after four decades. Shastri sought his cooperation to run the House proceedings positively. He, at the same time, assured the opposition members of protecting their rights in the House. Shastri reminded the members that they have been elected to do public welfare works and should work to make Delhi a world-class city. Summing up his address, he recited a few lines of the Rigveda containing inspiration for people to live together peacefully. |
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Warm day, pleasant breeze
New Delhi, December 19 “The minimum temperature recorded was 13.8° Celsius. The maximum was recorded at 27.4° Celsius,” said an official of the Safdarjung Met office. The minimum temperature has gone up by 3° Celsius in just three days, while the maximum temperature too is a notch higher than what was predicted a few days back. The days have become windier over the past few days with a gush of cool winds, but the temperatures are not likely to lower at least for the coming two days, the official said.
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Nanda gets interim bail to meet ailing grandpa
New Delhi, December 19 The bail was granted by Justice Kailash Gambhir. Sanjeev’s grandfather, former Naval Chief S.M. Nanda had a distinguished career in the Navy and played a significant role in the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
“In order to help the 1971 war hero to meet his grandson, three weeks interim bail is granted to Nanda,” the court said. On December 16, the court had issued notice to the Delhi police on contentions of Nanda’s counsel and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani that the convict’s grandfather was not well and wanted to see him. “He is 93 years old and had been at an advanced stage of Parkinson’s disease. He is afflicted with various other diseases besides having suffered two heart attacks,” Jethmalani told the court while seeking Nanda’s release on bail. |
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MCD website gets award
New Delhi, December 19 The award has been conferred in view of the convenience that it has offered to the property taxpayers for assessment of their payments. The award was received by Dr A.K. Ambasht, assessor and collector (AC), along with his team members R.K. Gupta, joint (AC)-IT and Amit Prasad, the then joint (AC)-IT, at a conference on e-governance held here. The website, which was also awarded by ministry of human resource and development, enables people to file their property tax assessment return online and pay tax as it saves them interface with employees of the MCD. The website was launched in April 2007 to facilitate self-assessment of property tax, online calculation and payment of tax through credit card. Gupta said the website is accessed by taxpayer from as may as 97 countries and from 80 cities in India. “Till now 5,20,742 property owners have made the payment of tax by using this website and an amount of Rs 213.39 crore has been collected.,” said Gupta. |
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MCD staff take the yoga path to fitness
New Delhi, December 19 Municipal employees have started coming for their day’s work a little early in the morning to practice yoga. The municipal commissioner said he would start taking the sessions soon. “The act is appreciable as it promotes interaction among employees and creates a friendly atmosphere within the organisation,” said Mehra. The initiative has been taken by municipal secretary Meira Akolia, along with her staff members. “Government servants are generally termed as slow and lethargic. They were blamed for improper working because of their dull attitude. Therefore, we decided to start some recreational activity which would help us stay fit and healthy. As everybody know nothing can be more suitable for health than yoga,” said Meira. “The other benefit is that employees have become punctual. Earlier, they used to come after 10 am. Now they are coming at eight to attend the exercises,” she said. The exercise is done in the Azad Park located in front of the Town Hall at Chandni Chowk. The initiative has been aimed to follow the corporate culture where they have gymnasiums for their employees. “The idea is to involve more employees and make it a success because every organisation wants it employees to look fit and healthy,” said an employee who comes for yoga. “Initially, we were a group of few people but later, other employees also joined us which is very motivating,” he said. The employees also hold discussions on a particular social issue to increase interaction and good communication skills. |
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Schools gear up to hike fees by 50%
New Delhi, December 19 The schools are awaiting the decision of a committee appointed by the Delhi government on fixing school fee. The committee, reportedly, had ignored the matter with the fear of losing votes in the recently concluded assembly election. Though private schools have been calling for fee hike since September this year, the Congress-led city government had postponed the matter to avoid popular backlash in the run to the assembly election. Now that the Sheila Dikshit government is back to power, the school authorities expect the committee to start working on their demands. Many schools have already issued notices to parents indicating the probable fee hike that would likely be implemented as soon as they are approved by the government. Meanwhile, some schools have even announced to increase their tuition fee by around 200 per cent. However, according to the members of public schools association, since the recommendations on the proposed fee hike are yet to be approved by the government no school can raise its fee. “It depends on the government and we are ready to go by it. If it decides to hike lesser percentage, then every school will follow it,” said S.L. Jain, chairman of National Progressive School Conference. Meanwhile, schools are in a fix as the enormous increase in teachers’ salary can only be compensated by increasing school fees. “Teachers’ salaries will increase by 55 to 80 per cent. Therefore, we have recommended a raise of 50 to 60 per cent. But as the government is still in the final stage of formation, no hikes can be implemented,” said R.C. Jain, president of Delhi State Public School Association. Whereas, some schools are awaiting the government’s final nod and are not preparing for any hikes. “We have not yet decided about any fee hike,” said Jyoti Bose, principal of Springdales. “We too are a part of the committee but we cannot say anything till a decision is reached,” said Anju Mehrotra, principal of Kalk Public School. Meanwhile, members of the committee were not available for the comment. |
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28 child labourers rescued
New Delhi, December 19 Made to work for17 hours daily with no wages since the last one year, the children were found in a pitiable condition Trafficked from Darbhanga district in Bihar, they were saved from Karampura yesterday by the police and labour department officials, with assistance from an NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan. — IANS |
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Bikers snatch 5 lakh near bank
New Delhi, December 19 The incident took place outside the Vijaya Bank branch of New Krishna Park in Vikaspuri around 12.45 pm. According to the police, Kamla Prasad Yadav (57), working with the NTC in Narela, had withdrawn the company’s Rs 5 lakh from the bank branch. He had come to the bank along with his colleague Pankaj Mishra. While Pankaj went to fetch the parked car, Yadav was standing with the two bank managers on the road along with the money bag. But before he could get back to the car, two people on motor cycle came and sped away with the money bag. According to the statement given by Yadav to the police, he could not see their faces but noted that the pillion driver was wearing a white pullover and black trousers. He, however, remembered the number of the motor cycle. “Yadav gave us the number, but as expected it was fake. The number which the criminals used turned out to be that of a scooter,” said the investigating officer Nahar Singh. Kamla Prasad Yadav who lives in Mahipalpur is a field manager along with Pankaj Mishra. The duo had been withdrawing the company’s money from the bank often and were well known to the Vijaya Bank staff. |
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CBI gets 6 more courts
New Delhi, December 19 Until now, there were five courts of Special Judges, one at Patiala House Courts, three at Tis Hazari Courts and one at Karkardooma Courts Complex. Out of these five courts, only three — one at Patiala House Courts and two at Tis Hazari Courts— exclusively hear offences investigated by the CBI. Due to this, the Courts are overburdened all the time. With these six new courts, now a total of nine Courts of Special Judges would hear CBI cases. The break-up of the Courts is, one at Patiala House Courts; four at Tiz Hazari Courts; three at Rohini Courts Complex; and one at Karkardooma Courts. Out of these nine courts, eight are exclusively dealing with corruption cases investigated by CBI. “Appointment of additional judges will now curtail the long pendency of corruption cases because now the courts will be in a position to take up cases on a day-to-day basis”, CBI spokesman, Harsh Bahl said. As on date, there are about 986 corruption cases pending in the courts. Forty four cases are 20 years old and 39 cases are pending for more than 15 years. To assist the courts effectively and for speedy disposal of cases, the CBI has decided to appoint court-wise prosecutors and prosecution. Moreover, the monitoring of the cases will be entrusted to the anti-corruption branch of Delhi, the spokesman added. Earlier, the cases were being prosecuted and monitored by different branches based at Delhi, he said. “It is hoped that the system of court-wise prosecutors will be more effective because the prosecutors will always be readily available for assistance to the court and there shall be minimum adjournments because of non-appearance of the prosecutors,” he added. |
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Pak national held in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, December 19 Alam was staying in the Seemapuri area of Delhi for the last three years and obtained a fake voter-I-card and ration card in the name of Ali Khan. “Alam had come to India through Bangladesh. We are trying to find out the motive of his coming to India,” Umesh Roria, Vijay Nagar police station chief, said. — IANS |
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Maximum murders in Delhi’s NE distt
New Delhi, December 19 According to the police records, out of a total of 505 murder cases registered across the Capital till November 30 this year, 84 murders have been reported from North East alone. This is 13 more than the 61 murders recorded by the district last year during the corresponding period. With 84 murders so far, North East district has left behind Outer Delhi district that recorded the maximum 83 murders last year. This year the Outer Delhi district has recorded 68 murders so far. According to statistics, this year, the total number of murders in the capital has already shown an increase of 52 murders. This is because almost all the police districts this year have recorded increase in the murder cases compared to 2007. So much so that the New Delhi district which comprises some of the posh areas of the country and mainly include Lutyens Delhi also recorded 8 murders this year compared to four last year. According to Delhi police statistics, South East Delhi is third in the list with 60 murders this year as against 44 in 2007 followed by South West with 55 (40 in 2007) and North West 49 (49 last year as well). However, compared to increasing number of murders in the capital, rape cases have recorded a decline with 446 cases this year as against last year’s 580. East Delhi district topped the list with 65 cases followed by Outer Delhi 58 and North West 56. Outer Delhi and North East Delhi, which topped the list, last year in rape cases, saw a sharp decline this year. While Outer had 100 cases last year, North East had 87 in 2007 as against 38 this year. |
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BSNL all set to launch IPTV in January
Noida, December 19 The BSNL, it is understood, has tied up with Gurgaon-based Smart Digivision and Delhi-based Time Vision for the service. Smart Digivision has already installed a server at its premises in Gurgaon and has also connected it to the Sector-62 Noida Exchange through a Multiplay Broadband Server. About 50 homes have already been provided with IPTV connections. The service also includes video on demand services, which is similar to watching video CDs/DVDs using a VCD/DVD player. |
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JNU mulls cancer research lab
New Delhi, December 19 As the first step in this direction, the school has organised a two-day international symposium on ‘Novel Strategies for Targeted Prevention and Treatment of Cancer’ at the university campus, starting today. More than 300 delegates, including 50 international scientists are participating in the symposium. “This is the first time in JNU that so many international scientists have come up to share their experiences,” said Rana P. Singh, organising secretary of the symposium. He added, “Oriental countries have a variety of cancer-preventive substances. We want to make a cancer research laboratory at JNU and this symposium would help us broaden the scope of our research.” The scientists predicted that cancer would become the deadliest disease in India in three decades if not controlled. “Cancer does not cause the immediate death of a person. His/her family suffers with him/her. By treating and preventing cancer, we can save many patients and families from suffering,” said Rajesh Agarwal, professor, University of Colorado Denver, USA. “I am here to share my observations regarding skin cancer. We are also looking at cancer-preventing agents in nutrition. We have observed that green tea helps prevent skin cancer,” said Richard Eckert, professor, University of Maryland. Professor Roger Griffin from Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, said he was looking forward to learn about some anti-cancer ayurvedic components in India. “Being a medicinal chemist, I wanted to share my experiences with Indian scientists on modulation of DNA,” he said. Scientists said they were also looking at appropriate nutrition that would help fight cancer. “Indian nutrition has components like — curry, tea, spices, red wine and strawberries — which are effective in fighting cancer,” said Rajesh Agarwal. Talking about habits that would help keep cancer at bay, Eckert said, “Eating right food in appropriate quantity always helps. One should not consume tobacco. India has high number of patients suffering from oral cancer. While red wine helps prevent cancer, it is dangerous to consume too much alcohol. People must exercise.” The School of Life Sciences has four professors and over 20 students, who are researching different aspects of cancer. “We are working on nano-technology to detect breast cancer at an early stage,” said Atul Johri, professor. More than 30 lectures on cancer-related topics are lined up for tomorrow’s sessions. |
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Sketches of bank robbery suspects released
Ghaziabad, December 19 “We have informed the Delhi police about probable identities of the robbers,” said Ghaziabad district police chief L. Ravi Kumar. “We are also in touch with the bank officials,” he added. Kumar said the robbers took away Rs 3.16 million from the bank branch at Kaushambi. “One person has been identified. The sketches of other three have been released,” the police officer said. The police said despite all counters having individual alarm systems, nobody bothered to press the alarm bells to call the police. “Had the officials raised alarm, we would have zeroed in on the bank there and then,” a police constable in the Kaushambi area said. But Sandeep Mehta, the regional head of the bank, said the police arrived about 15 minutes after the robbery. “There was no police patrol nearby when the incident happened. Even after raising the alarm, the police reached late.” — IANS |
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New Delhi, December 19
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