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7-yr-old raped, murdered
CBI seeks a month for ’84 riots probe
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Six-day hospital strike ends
18 robbers decamp with loot worth Rs 10 lakh from Gt Noida house
Summer still far, but water crisis is here
Gurgaon in for crisis as water
level going down
2 grooms ride to weddings
in choppers
Poll roll up for inspection: CEO
A rare depiction of today’s urban society
Sex racket smashed; 9 girls rounded up
Govt refusal to hike councillors’ fund critised
Terror suspect Peerbhoy in police custody
Bad management of DTC causes losses: CAG
3 die, 50 hurt as bus falls into dam
109 MCD staff retire with dues
CM for rainwater harvesting
Cash stolen from parked car in Ghaziabad
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7-yr-old raped, murdered
Ghaziabad, February 28 A one-rupee coin and two packs of bidi were found near the victim’s body. The police said that situation tells that the poor girl might have been enticed with the one-rupee coin. Two bidi bundles indicate that two or more persons might be involved in the crime, the police said. The victim had gone missing on Thursday night. There was a marriage function in the
neighbourhood, and so her family first thought that she might have gone to the see the celebrations. But when they tried to trace her, she could be found nowhere. Her naked body was found in Khaddar on Friday morning. There were injury marks on her body and she had bled a lot. She had been throttled to death, the police said. When the police tried to take possession of the body, the villagers did not allow it. They raised slogans against the police. When DIG and DM assured the villagers of fast action they relented and permitted them to take the body for post-mortem. |
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Six-day hospital strike ends
New Delhi, February 28 The strike was called off after a meeting was attended by health minister Kiran Walia, principal secretary, Health, Rakesh Bihari, additional secretary Rashmi Krishnan and All India Health Employees and Workers’ Confederation leaders, Rajpal Singh, Raghuvir Singh and Mohan Singh Gehlot. Kiran Walia assured no victimisation against the hospital employees. In the meeting the minister assured them that their demands would be placed before the cabinet soon and necessary recommendations would be submitted to the union government. Moreover, parity between technical and nursing staff would be maintained and their grievances in respect of 6th Pay Commission would be referred to the anomalies committee, confirmed a spokesperson of government hospitals. The cabinet has also assured the health workers to take up the issue of revision of the uniform allowance. It needs to be revised, said the spokesperson. It has also been decided to take immediate steps to fill vacant posts as this matter comes under jurisdiction of the city government. It is expected that normalcy would soon return in the government hospitals. |
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CBI seeks a month for ’84 riots probe
New Delhi, February 28 The investigating agency submitted before the court that it has already examined 10 witnesses in the case and the final report will be submitted by March 28. Senior counsel for Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee H.S. Phoolka, however, expressed concern over the delay in the investigation and pleaded before additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Pandit to direct the agency to expedite the inquiry. The CBI earlier told the court that it had examined California-based witness Jasbir Singh in the case. Initially, it expressed reservations over going to the US to record his statement and issued notice to Jasbir to come to India. Jasbir in an affidavit before the Nanavati Commission stated that on November 3, 1984 he had overheard Tytler rebuking his men for nominal killing of Sikhs in his constituency.
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18 robbers decamp with loot worth Rs 10 lakh from Gt Noida house
Greater Noida, February 28 The intruders carried out the robbery after overpowering the lone servant at house no- N-61 in Greater Noida’s Delta-3. P.L. Tikku, the owner of the house, is the proprietor of a fiber tube manufacturing factory— National Hydro Products P. Ltd— located in Surajpur. At the time of the incident he and his wife were away at their native place in Srinagar. His sons— Arun and Ajay Tikku— had left for factory. Arun’s wife Bhawna, who is a teacher, had left for school, while Ajay’s wife Ranjana had gone for her yoga class. Their kids were in school. Only a factory hand, Ram Naresh, originally from Jhansi, was at home. At around 10.30 am, the door-bell rang and the visitor told Ram Naresh that he had come from factory and that he had to collect some documents and wanted sahib’s signatures on them. But, as soon as Ramesh opened the door, about 18 criminals forced their way into the house and one of them put a revolver on his ear-pit. They then beat him and locked him in a bathroom. They then broke the almirahs and collected cash, jewellery and electronic gadgets. The robbers also took away with them five brief-cases containing important documents. The incident came to light at around 11 am when a factory employee Nand Lal reached the place. He freed Nand Lal from the bathroom and informed the brothers in factory. The police, along with dog squad and fingerprint experts, reached there in an hour. It has registered the incident as a case of theft under Sections 454 and 380 of the IPC. Ram Naresh has been detained for questioning. However, the family members are angry over the fact that the police has registered the incident as theft and feel that it should have registered a case of dacoity, as 18 criminals had raided their house. |
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Summer still far, but water crisis is here
New Delhi, February 28 Normally, the level of water in Western Yamuna Canal remains around 710.5 feet, but currently it has dipped to 709 feet. Besides, sources confirm that recently the Wazirabad water treatment plant also closed down due to shortage of raw water supply. Officials of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) say that Haryana has cut down Delhi’s supply of raw water without any formal intimation. Though DJB CEO Ramesh Negi is in talks with Haryana, sources in the board say that the situation might take some time to normalise, as no formal response from Haryana has been received yet. This has become a reason to worry, as officials say, “In such a situation, there are chances that more than 60 per cent of the city will have shortage of water. The shortage of water has mainly affected the Southwest, Western and Northern parts of the city. Moreover, outskirts of Delhi is also witnessing the shortage, with some of the blocks receiving no supply at all. Areas to which Wazirabad and Chandrawal water plants supply water are Chandini Chowk, Nai Sadak, Tis Hazari, Rajniwas Marg, Daryaganj, Kamla Nagar, Gulabi Bagh, Timarpur, Minto Road, Shastri Nagar, DU, Model Town, Delhi Cant and some parts of South Delhi. Whereas, areas to which Haiderpur and Nangloi water treatment plants supply water are Rajouri Garden, Bali Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Janakpuri, Uttam Nagar, Dwarka, Paschim Vihar, Rohini, Mangolpuri, Shalimar Bagh, Pritampura, Palam and outskirts of Delhi. |
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Gurgaon in for crisis as water
level going down
Gurgaon February 28 A report by the Central Ground Water Board mentions that the water-level in Gurgaon is going down every day. The level, which was 19.09 metre in June 2004, went down to 25.40 metre in June 2008. It was 19.10 metre in June 2005, 19.85 in June 2006 metre and 24.80 metre in June 2007. The town uses around 125 million gallon water per day, but is getting just 40 million gallons of water. Better known as the cousin of Delhi, this cyber city is surrounded by huge buildings, which are also considered to be one of the main reasons of water shortage. Although the administration accepts the fact that the water-level of the city is going down and that they are planning to do the needful to check it, it is blaming less rain and residents’ carelessness for the situation. Additional commissioner Praveen Kumar agrees that the report shows that the level of the water in the city and its surrounding area has been going down. “We had put up harvesting system at many places in order to improve the water-level, but it is heartening that they are not in working condition at many places, and sadly this is the only source left to save water,” and added, “We have made arrangements to gather rain water at empty places in the surrounding area. Government departments are also involved in the same, as the Hooda administration has been asked to support the move.” While talking to The Tribune, Kumar mentioned that Hooda administration must install rain water harvesting system in its area. Small plots covering around 40-50 houses must have one harvesting system. R S
Rathi, president of the DLF Association said, “The city is getting water from Basai canal which can fulfill only the need of old area, that too only up to a certain limit. The new city is getting 70 per cent of water from ground water and so the water-level is going down by one metre every year, and we have even complained about it to the administration many times.” “The administration is planning to get a canal to the city from Yamuna by December this year,” ADC retreated. |
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2 grooms ride to weddings
in choppers
Noida/Ghaziabad, February 28 There was, however, a slight difference: the grooms were most definitely rich but famous they certainly were not.
Umesh Yadav, a 28-year-old wrestler in Noida’s Sarfabad village, travelled in a helicopter to the bride’s place at
Behlolpur, situated merely 1 km away - and spent Rs 2,50,000 for the short ride.
Umesh is a wrestler practising at Indira Gandhi Stadium in Delhi and also owns an akhara (wrestling arena) at
Sarfabad. His father Shailesh Yadav is a farmer. “We had sought prior permission from the administration for the use of the helicopter. Marriage is a one-time occasion and one should enjoy it to the hilt,” said Gajendra
Yadav, Umesh’s cousin. The wrestler wed Ruby Yadav, daughter of Hazari
Yadav. In the second wedding extravaganza, a groom at Shahpur Bamheta village in Ghaziabad travelled by chopper to the wedding venue located just 1.5 km away.
Prashant Yadav, also a farmer’s son, flew to Inder Colony in Vijay Nagar to tie the knot with Preeti
Yadav, who runs her own school, said Phoolkumar Yadav, councillor of the area in
Ghaziabad. Prashant’s trip cost him Rs 3,10,000.
Taking aviation security measures into account, the administration has made it mandatory for people to seek prior permission for using a helicopter during weddings. And in light of the widespread use of helicopters in the wealthy Greater Noida area, the district administration had in March, 2008 imposed security charges on using a chopper. As per the new norms, an individual has to shell out at least Rs 70,000 for a helicopter trip (for an hour) besides an additional Rs 10,000 for security, Rs 8,000 for fire safety and Rs 10,000 as helipad charges.
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Poll roll up for inspection: CEO
New Delhi, February 28 This is also available at the website of election office, ceodelhi.nic.in, she said. Silas Bedi said that the hard and soft copies of the electoral roll have been made available to the Delhi state units of all the national recognised parties. The citizens whose names are missing can still submit their applications in the VREC of their assembly constituency under continuous updation period by filling names in form – 6, for deletion of names form – 7, for correction in the electoral roll form number 8. Addressing a conference, the CEO said that with the conclusion of this exercise, the number of electors has now become 110.6 lakh. Of them the number of male electors is 61.7 per cent, female 48.9 per cent. Talking about the electoral roll, the CEO said that the age group of 18-19 years is still under represented. There is need to motivate the younger group to come out for registration. All the district election officers have been directed to take necessary steps to start the exercise in the area for preparation and issue of photo identity cards to all the residual electors. |
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A rare depiction of today’s urban society
New Delhi, February 28 Shanghvi’s imagination seems to have poured out literally from his book onto the stage as he regaled the audience with witty repartee while engaging his friend Koel Puri in a discussion on his book. Next the room was darkened and music specially created for the launch played as Shanghvi’s voice spoke surreptitiously of love, affairs and
sadness. Shanghvi’s book was launched on Friday night at the British Council in the Capital. “I wrote in secret and I am so amazed that I got published,” recalls
Shanghvi. “I really cannot write with an audience in me, I write about people like you and me, people I have grown up with and that surround me. I am not here to do issue-based writing. I feel that people’s lives are the real thing.” On a personal note Shanghvi adds, “I wrote this book for my mother who could not walk and I read parts of it to her every day. She really wanted the book published but last year she died and never heard the end of the book. When someone dies what dies is not just a relationship but also what you were around that
person.” Shanghvi’s new novel is the gripping story of Karan Seth, star photographer at The India Chronicle, who is in Bombay on a private mission: to immortalize the city in a unique photo-record of its hidden faces. The book is a rare depiction of contemporary urban society and its obscene obsession with celebrity as well as an affecting tale about love’s betrayals and the redemptive powers of friendship. |
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Sex racket smashed; 9 girls rounded up
Noida, February 28 The accused were nabbed from Designer Park in Sector-62 and a house in Sector-12. The police has booked the girls under the provisions of flesh trade Act. According to Noida police, this sex racket was earlier being operated from Mayur Vihar Phase-3 in Delhi and its woman leader was arrested twice by the Delhi police. Later, she shifted her base to Sector 12
Noida. Two of her pimps Noor Mohd and Devinder Kumar used to arrange clients on cell phone and fix rates with them. The rates ranged from Rs 1,000 to Rs 3,000 for a day. They used to entice high-profile customers offering them tour packages, rates for which ranged from Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000. Sector 58 police had got the wind of this racket. Noor Mohd and Devinder Kumar were contacted on their cell phones. Late on Thursday evening, the police nabbed Noor Mohd at Designer Park along with his two accomplices, Mohan and Saurabh and four young girls. After questioning them, the police raided a house in Sector-12 and arrested
Divinder, Nayeem, Sandeep, Manoj and five young girls. The police has registered a case against all of them. |
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Govt refusal to hike councillors’ fund critised
News Delhi, February 28 The MCD has expressed anguish over Delhi government’s decision to reject the civic body’s proposal to increase municipal councillors local area fund from Rs one crore to two crore. MCD’s Standing Committee chairman Vijender Gupta today said the Delhi government has no authority to interfere in the working of the corporation. “The Chief Minister cannot meddle in this. The House is the final authority on the allotted amount,” said Gupta.He termed the move as a hypocritical act of the government, which boasts of Bhagidhari and de-centralisation. “The local area development fund is the MCD’s main instrument to reach at the grass-root level of development. The 272 municipal councillors work as the nerve-system for the entire area. ,” he said.
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Terror suspect Peerbhoy in police custody
New Delhi, February 28 Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja passed the order after agreeing with Delhi police’s contention that they required to interrogate Peerbhoy in connection with the September 13, 2008, serial bomb blasts in the capital that killed 24 people. Peerbhoy, 31, was arrested by the Mumbai Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS), and was brought to Delhi Friday. Public prosecutor Rajeev Mohan appearing for the Delhi police said Peerbhoy, who was heading the media cell of the terrorist outfit, hacked WiFi networks in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai and sent emails to media houses minutes before the Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts last year. — IANS |
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Bad management of DTC causes losses: CAG
New Delhi, February 28 The report said that the DTC entered into an agreement with the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) for issuing passes to commuters through a computerised system. The ECIL was to collect Rs 10 for ID card that was to be issued to each pass holder in addition to the cost of the pass at rates prescribed by the DTC. While auditing the account of the DTC and the ECIL, it was observed that ECIL collected Rs 10 from each pass holder towards reactivation penalty in case of delay in the renewal of passes. However, penalty amount was not mentioned in the agreement. |
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3 die, 50 hurt as bus falls into dam
Palwal, February 28 The bus, which started from Palwal, was headed toward Sohna, when it fell into the dam. The accident took place when the driver of the bus tried to avoid a head-on collision with a Zen car coming at a very high speed. The deceased and injured are from villages surrounding Palwal. They were rushed to Civil Hospital, where some of the injured were referred to Badkshah Khan Hospital in
Faridabad.
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109 MCD staff retire with dues
New Delhi, February 28 Before June last year when the system of paying the terminal benefits on the day of retirement started, many retired employees had to run from pillar to post for the clearance of their final emoluments. A majority of the retiring employees were today paid their remaining dues. However, a few weren’t lucky in getting their provident fund dues, which the commissioner said was on account of technical reasons. Municipal commissioner K. S. Mehra assured that the matter would be sorted out within 10 days.
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CM for rainwater harvesting
New Delhi, February 28 The water harvesting project should be taken up by group housing societies to the improve ground water level, the CM said while inaugurating a rainwater harvesting system in Milan Vihar housing societies at Patparganj. The system has been installed in association with the Central Ground Water Board, Bhagidari Cell (CM Office), Delhi Jal Board and a company under public-private partnership. This is the first big rainwater harvesting project in East Delhi. This would be able to recharge 82 lakh litre rainwater per year from the rooftop and surface.
— TNS
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Cash stolen from parked car in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, February 28 Mayank Jain, an iron trader, went to meet his relative on a second-floor office in Arjun Nagar with his mother and sister, leaving the cash in his car. When he returned, he found the front windowpanes broken and the cash missing. Jain informed the Kotwali police station where the police registered a case of theft.
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