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Body of schoolboy found
Smile Pinki Oscar ‘a win for Indian docs’
Hospitals strike enters 5th day
Yamuna Authority to launch residential scheme
22 bonded kids freed
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Traffic challans fetch Rs 6.99 cr
Couple perishes in accident
DSGMC gives parking lot to
NDMC; flayed
Sectt security goes hi-fi
Delhi Blasts
Faridabad medical college stone laid
Extortionist held
Drunk youths beat passers-by
Coop Bank MD suspended
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Body of schoolboy found
New Delhi, February 27 Chander was resident of Nepali Jhuggi slums in R K Puram and his father works as a painter at a shop in Munirka. A missing complaint was lodged in R K Puram police station. Chander’s classmate Shabnam told the police that Chander had received a call on his mobile phone while they were coming back from school yesterday after which he immediately left for Malai Mandir in R K Puram. According to information, when Chander did not return, the anxious parents panicked and approached the police which registered a missing complaint. The R K Puram police station officials maintain that they could not trace the boy despite their best efforts. Even Chander’s mobile was found to be switched off. His parents were too shocked to react when they heard the news that the body of their son was found. Police suspect that an old enmity may be the reason behind the crime. “We have registered a case of murder and are investigating the matter. Preliminary investigations reveal it could be case of personal enmity,” said a police officer. Although the victim’s mobile phone was not found with the body, the police is trying to get details of the call received by him after which he went to Malai Mandir. “It is a matter of time before we apprehend the criminals,” added a police officer working on the case. |
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Smile Pinki Oscar ‘a win for Indian docs’
New Delhi, February 27 Dr Singh said, “‘Smile Pinki’ (SP) is a harbinger of a happy life, it is a real life story and not a theatre-made film. It’s a tribute to the Indian medical expertise of surgeons who relentlessly do their duty with limited resources.” According to Satish Kalra, regional director (South Asia) of The Smile Train, an NGO that cures cleft lips and palates, Megan Mylan, director of SP, created a level-playing platform that mends the slip in the balance of nature, thereby transforming the outcast lives of patients living with clefts. Dr Singh said, “It was a great honour when Megan walked into our organisation in Varanasi to document the life-transforming process of curing clefts of lips and palates. He feels that this Oscar is not only a win for Megan, but also for the medical fraternity.” Satish Kalra outlined, “The Oscar is a testimonial to the genius of Indian surgeons.” Cleft lips and palates, an early congenital anomaly though not fatal are the reason for 4.7 million children of developing countries living an ostracised life. This is actually an economic problem, with a huge population living below the poverty line, both nationally and internationally. “Though the cost of this treatment is just Rs 12,000, today, 400 million patients around the world are unable to afford cleft surgeries, with two million in India alone,” he informed. Another reason for the prevalence of cleft is lack of awareness, hence Dr Singh recommended that the government and the society should take up the plight of cleft-hit children. Meanwhile, today in the morning, when the Oscar winning Smile team called upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it received a warm welcome from the PM’s wife, Gursharan Kaur, who congratulated the team and gifted a wrist watch to the young
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Hospitals strike enters 5th day
New Delhi, February 27 Lalit was trying to cover the body of his dead brother, waiting for the postmortem. He says, “Today, I feel how miserable it is to be poor. I cannot perform other formalities because the postmortem is yet to be done. It seems that the government is poking fun at our miseries.” This was a common scene outside every government hospital in the city today. Medical services in around 36 government hospitals in the national Capital were badly hit as the strike which involves around 75,000 group C and D employees and paramedical staff entered the fifth day today leaving several patients helpless. Protestors under the banner of All India Health Employees and Workers Confederation burnt the effigies of health minister Anmbumani Ramadoss here in the city, asking the government to fulfill their demands soon, confirms a hospital spokesperson. Sources in LNJP Hospital say that more than 350 bodies are waiting for postmortems in around 10 hospitals. The condition is terrible. The scene at every government hospital is becoming pathetic day by day. Almost all the OPDs and operation theatres have closed down causing a lot of hardship especially to those who cannot afford the bills of private hospitals. Moreover, with 750 employees striking work in around 80 dispensaries, the protest has gained momentum in the city. Besides, services in X-ray departments, wards, kitchens, laundry, blood banks, path labs, ultrasounds and mortuaries in the hospitals came to a halt which created a terrible scene outside the hospitals. “People are suffering badly and had to go back without treatment,” says a hospital guard. Sources confirm four deaths of patients in hospitals yesterday due to lack of care. The Delhi government has already imposed Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) on the paramedical staff and Group C and D employees. All India Health Employees Association coordinator Ramkishan said that their demands are genuine. He warned the government that if their demands are not heard, they will fill up the jails following the path of non-violence. A protestor said, “We know that many people are suffering because of the strike, but we are also helpless as the government is not paying heed to our problems.” |
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Yamuna Authority to launch residential scheme
Greater
Noida, February 27 The scheme will be launched on March 2. Forms for the same will be available from March 5 onwards and it will cost Rs 500 each. The scheme will be open till May 4 and the draw for plots will be taken out on August 10, it is learnt. According to sources in the authority, the scheme comprises 8,350 plots of five categories. About 5,000 plots are of 300 sq metre size for which the security amount is Rs 1 lakh. There would be 2,000 plots of 500 sq metre size for which the security money has been fixed at Rs 3 lakh and Rs 5 lakh. The price for the plot of 300 sq metre has been fixed at Rs 14.10 lakh. These rates are claimed to be the minimum in the national capital region. Application will be available at branches of various banks –
HDFC, Allahabad Bank, OBC Bank, Union Bank, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank,
SBI, Axis Bank in Noida, Greater Noida, Delhi, Faridabad, Gurgaon,
Lucknow, Allahabad, Agra and many other cities. |
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22 bonded kids freed
Greater Noida, February 27 The police has booked 16 owners of roadside restaurants under various sections of the Child Labour Act. On SSP Navin Arora’s order the Noida and Greater Noida police had raided various dhabhas and restaurants in the district. The Kasna police freed nine minors from Amritpuram and Jagat farm and booked eight owners of dhabhas and roadside eateries. Thoses booked include
Babu, Sanjay, Mahavir, Narinder, Madan, Nanuwa Jaswant and Rakesh. Action will be taken against all of them under the Anti-Bal Shram Act. Similarly, the Surajpur police freed 13 children and initiated action against eight employers. The police raids have created considerable panic among those forcibly employing minor children at their work places. |
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Traffic challans fetch Rs 6.99 cr
New Delhi, February 27 More than four lakh challans were issued by the traffic police during the period which showed an increase in action against jumping red lights, parking vehicles improperly and overspeeding. Acting tough, the police managed to arrest 7,400 drivers, mainly of commercial vehicles, for violating traffic rules, besides impounding more than 5,000 vehicles. The figures include 21,000 cases of red light jumping alone, while about 98,000 motorcycle drivers have been challaned for breaking various traffic rules since January 1 this year. According to traffic police officials, more than 1.25 lakh people in the city were challaned for traffic offences in the first fifteen days of February during which an intensive traffic drive was launched. Pleased with the money coming into the coffers through challans, the Delhi police plans to launch another drive in this regard soon. “It is a good idea to have an intensive traffic drive for at least 10 days every month. Not only we will collect money, but it will also pinch the violators. It is important to install traffic sense in violators,” said an official from the traffic department. The traffic police has deployed 12 Qualis cars for 24x7 patrolling of the national highways passing through the Capital. Commercial vehicles passing by during nights indulge in violations like overspeeding and drunken driving leading to fatal accidents.
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Couple perishes in accident
Greater Noida, February 27 The police said that the couple was on its way from Jhajhar to Rabupura, when they had a head on collision with a jeep coming from opposite direction. The collision was so powerful that the bike was thrown many metres away, while the jeep fell into a ditch on the roadside. The man was killed on the spot, while his wife was seriously injured. Drivers of some passing vehicles rushed the woman to a private hospital in Kokode where she also succumbed to her injuries. The detail about the couple was recovered from their cell phone that was found on the site. Their relatives have been informed, but the names of the couple could not be confirmed, said the police. The jeep was being driven at a high speed and the driver was probably drunk. According to an eyewitness, there were three persons in the jeep. However, he could not see which direction they went as it was dark.
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DSGMC gives parking lot to
NDMC; flayed
New Delhi, February 27 This act of the committee has hurt the feelings of the entire Sikh community in Delhi as the land was donated to the gurdwara after many sacrifices of senior leaders of the community. The parking was constructed by Baba Harbans Singh Kar Sewa Wale. Addressing a conference, Manjit Singh said that the Akali Dal (Badal) would organise an “Ardas” outside Gurdwara Bangla Sahib on March 1 in this regard. The Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee is led by Paramjit Singh Sarna. Manjit Singh said that besides the parking lot, the Sarna group had given an under-construction hospital on the premises of the gurdwara to a private company. They have also appointed themselves as trustees of the hospital managing committee. |
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Sectt security goes hi-fi
New Delhi, February 27 The experts today demonstrated the system at a central control room (CCR) in the Secretariat. The CCR has a total of 21 monitors, four large plasma displays along with two camera controllers to keep a constant vigil over happenings around the building. The Electronic Corporation of India, a union government enterprise under department of Atomic Energy, has been entrusted with the responsibility to design and supply the key installation of modern security system for the building. The Chief Minister stated that around 110 cameras have been installed. All cameras can be viewed and controlled from CCR. A secure and dedicated two-way communication system has been installed to allow the 16 communication nodes located at various points in the building to facilitate the two-way communication with control room. |
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2 more charge sheets filed
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 27 Three persons were killed and 39 injured in the blast at Central Park on September 13 while no casualty or injury was caused at India Gate as the bombs were defused in time. The police had earlier filed three charge sheets in connection with the blasts at markets of Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash. The five charge sheets and two supplementary charge sheets filed so far in the five bomb blasts that killed 21 people and injured around 100, has named 29 persons as being involved in the dastardly serial attacks.
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Faridabad medical college stone laid
Faridabad, February 27 The college will be set up on 31 acres at a cost of Rs 500
crore. The move to set up the hospital by the ESI Corporation was part of its programme to set up medical and dental colleges to provide more medical manpower and
para-medical personnel in a phased manner. The land to set up the hospital was provided to the ESIC by the government. The Chief Minister said his government was committed to improving the medical services in the state. |
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Extortionist held
New Delhi, February 27 According to Alok Kumar, DCP (Special Cell), Khalil is involved in more than 32 cases of heinous crimes, including extortion, kidnapping, attempt to murder, robbery/dacoity, criminal intimidation, etc. A stolen Lancer car has been recovered from him.
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Drunk youths beat passers-by
New Delhi, February 27 According to a complaint given by Satya Mishra to the police, he, along with his friends Guddu and Suresh, was returning home when they were accosted by four drunk youths at Indira Chowk in Suleman Nagar. The youths, who were heavily drunk, then abused them, he said. A case is yet to be registered in this regard. According to the police, three of the four men involved in the incident have been identified as Rakesh, Roshan and Vashisht Yadav, while one managed to flee. The police, after reaching the fight scene, they were taken to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital after which they were allowed to go. |
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Coop Bank MD suspended
Gurgaon, February 27 As per an order faxed to the authorities on behalf of Haryana financial commissioner and principal secretary (cooperation department) Manik Sonawane, the Haryana Governor has suspended him with immediate effect. It directs Dahiya to remain present in the office of the registrar, cooperative societies, Panchkula, during the period of suspension. The department is tight-lipped over the reasons behind the suspension. |
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Sick of poverty, mom
burns 4 kids, kills self
Ghaziabad, February 27 In another incident, a heap of straw that caught fire burnt to death another two children. |
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Media focussed on the smiling Pinki (8) and Dr Subodh Kumar Singh as they walked down the red carpet today at India Habitat Centre here. Back from Los Angeles last night, the proud team of “Smile Pinki”, which bagged the Oscar for best documentary category, is rejoicing in warmth.
