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High drama at airport
Rs 77-lakh fraud by farmer
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Three toll plazas set up for revised fee
BJP to rope in star campaigners
Man kills uncle over money
Shooting Case
Trader claims being robbed of Rs 10 lakh
Cancer initiative launched
AIIMS pulled up for negligence in treating child
45-year-old GK-I club bids adieu
Bus kills youth
Auto driver kills lover
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High drama at airport
New Delhi, March 31 Even before the Kolkata-bound an Air India flight could take off from Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) this morning, it was diverted to the starting point after a passenger on board suspected the behaviour of three fellow passengers and took them to be ‘unlawful elements’. The flight was delayed by two hours and could only take off only at 9 am. The Air India’s flight IC-401, with 104 passengers and cabin crew, was scheduled to take off for Kolkata at around 7 am. According to Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officials, the suspect passengers turned out to be employees of a security agency and were allowed to go on the flight after checking their credentials. “The plane had almost reached the take-off point, when a female passenger, an off-duty airhostess, become suspicious over the behaviour of her three fellow co-passengers and informed the cabin crew about it,” said a senior airlines official. According to information they were talking about terror situation in north-east India and the use of words like ‘guns’, ‘bombs’ & ‘killings’ which were overheard by the woman passenger . The airhostess informed the pilot, who decided to abort the take-off and asked the Air Traffic Control to allow him return to the parking bay from the take-off point. According to sources, the security forces on the ground were alerted. They surrounded the A-320 aircraft as soon as it reached the parking bay. “The CISF personnel and commandos boarded the air craft and took the three passengers for questioning. The surprised passengers showed their identity card which was cross checked by the officials and found that the three were clean. They were in fact security officials and were on their way to Imphal from a connecting flight they would catch from Kolkata,” confirmed a CISF official stationed at the airport. |
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DDA scam: Goel questions Maken’s role
New Delhi, March 31 Calling Maken’s role suspicious in the scam, Goel accused the DDA of deviating from its main purpose of providing affordable houses to the people and alleged that the department fleeced people of Rs 800 crore. “Under the able guidance of the urban development minister, the DDA has become a big commercial builder. It is selling MIG flats for Rs 60 lakh and auctioning schools and residential plots,” said Goel. He added, “The move is beneficial only to the land mafias. DDA’s current policies have made the common man’s dream of owning a house or a shop almost impossible.” Goel also appealed to the 6,00,000 applicants of last year’s DDA flat scheme to write to the President of India to intervene on their behalf and help them get interest on their deposits. “The role of the union minister is suspicious. He is allowing the DDA to work in the interest of the mall lobby and the land mafias.” “Working in collusion with the Congress and the land mafias, the DDA is denying the general public a roof over its head. The DDA is claiming to have conducted an internal inquiry, but has not announced the findings of the inquiry. The Delhi police too had conducted an inquiry in this scam, however, somebody is sitting over the report, even the police officers involved in the inquiry were transferred,” he said. Goel also accused Maken of cheating the slum-dwellers. “On one hand, the Delhi government returned Rs 400 crore to the central government saying it has run out of land to construct houses for poor, but on the other hand, Maken inaugurated a plan to allot flats to jhuggi residents.” Welcoming the Delhi High court verdict that called the DDA officers “property dealers”, Goel demanded stringent action against the “corruption- ridden” agency. Moving on to the Congress government in Delhi, Goel, while talking to his supporters in Pusa Road recently, ridiculed the new traffic rules introduced by it. “If allowed to continue its current working style, the government will make sure that the average citizen of Delhi will live only to pay fines,” he said. He said that without acknowledging the ground reality that there were no parking spaces around the city, the government was planning to raise the fine for wrong parking to Rs 1,500. “Similarly, fixing the speed limit of 50 kilometer per hour within the city limits is illogical. If the new laws are implemented, private car drivers will have to shell out Rs 1,000 and commercial drivers Rs 2,000 for crossing the speed limit,” said Goel. |
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Rs 77-lakh fraud by farmer
Greater Noida, March 31 According to Deepak Agrawal, district magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar, when the administration realised the fraud, the farmer’s bank account was frozen and Rs 60 lakh was seized. However, by that time, the farmer, Harwant, had already withdrawn Rs 17 lakh from the account. The administration has issued a notice to the farmer for the recovery of Rs 17 lakh. The DM said that Harwant’s land in Tughalakpur is disputed. The Greater Noida Authority had acquired the land in 1997. The case pertaining to the ownership right of the land has been heard by SDM, district magistrate and even the commissioner of the zone. And they all had stayed the payment of compensation for this land to any of the claimants. However, it is being alleged that some people managed to replace the real file of the land from the ADM’s office record with a fake file, having names of new heirs. On March 3, the additional district magistrate, without knowing of the fraud, signed the duplicate file, issuing a compensation of Rs 77 lakh to one Sada Singh. When some farmers informed the ADM about the fraud, he in turn reported the matter to the district magistrate. The DM then immediately ordered freezing of the farmer’s bank account. Sada Singh has also been asked to deposit Rs 17 lakh in the government treasury at the earliest. |
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Three toll plazas set up for revised fee
Gurgaon, March 31 For this purpose, three toll plazas have been erected on the project highway, one at the Delhi-Haryana border (24 km), second at the end of the project reach, i.e. at 42 km and one more toll plaza at the intersection of a loop leading to Indira Gandhi International Airport (International Terminal). A company spokesman while talking to The Tribune said that the passes for local commercial and personal traffic would be issued on monthly basis. The discounted rates for local personal traffic would be 50 per cent of the applicable fees for the specified category of vehicles and for local commercial traffic, it would be 66 per cent. The present volume of tollable vehicles on the stretch (three toll plazas) is close to 2,00,000 vehicles of which almost 40% are using the Smart Tag facility. “Today it’s commendable to state that through these series of initiatives, the waiting time at the toll plazas has been significantly reduced to less than five minutes in cash lanes,” he said and added, “We urge motorists to follow lane driving and adhere to the desired speed limits while driving on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway.” |
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BJP to rope in star campaigners
New Delhi, March 31 This includes Hema Malini and Vinod Khanna who will address rallies and public meetings in the coming weeks. They will be followed by the former cricketer Navjot Singh Siddhu, who is tipped to be the key campaigner in Delhi. Siddhu campaigned extensively for the party in the last year’s assembly polls. Apart from that, Delhi BJP is gearing to bring Shatrughan Sinha for campaigning. He himself is contesting this time from Patna Sahib constituency. Though the party is yet to finalise its star campaigners in Delhi where campaigning will pick steam in the second half of April. In the list of chief ministers, the Delhi BJP is hopeful that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would campaign for it. The party is said to be working on the strategy to impress upon more than 30 lakh Poorvanchalis, and settlers from Bihar and eastern UP, to swing in its favour in the elections. The party has also listed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for campaigning though he may not devote much time in Delhi given his engagements in other parts of the country. The BJP will also be bringing in the Uttarakhand Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri in the Capital to appeal to the Garhwali voters in the East Delhi and North-East Delhi Lok Sabha seats. BJP’s candidates in Delhi are also working on their individual plans to bring in their favourite leaders to their constituencies. This is apart from the big rallies that the BJP will be holding in each of the seven constituencies which will be addressed by its top leaders, including L.K. Advani and BJP chief Rajnath Singh. |
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Kawariya meets women voters
New Delhi, March 31 However, the Congress candidate for the NW Delhi constituency Krishna Tirath is yet to formally begin her campaign in the first week of April and is busy holding meetings with her workers. On Tuesday, Kawariya was campaigning in Rohini and in the Budhvihara Chetra and specifically in Rithalavidhansabha. “I have adopted a two-pronged strategy. On the one hand, I am meeting groups of people , discussing their problems and on the other hand, I have been meeting party-workers. The workers are enthusiastic and confident of success.” Kawariya met with a big group of nearly 500 women on Tuesday at the Rithalavidhansabha. Addressing the women, she said, “We need to be very aware of the implications of Pakistani de-stabilisation for India. I lay great stress on strengthening of internal security. Our government must take action on this.” Kawariya also spoke about rising prices, “Prices are on the rise continuously . Prices have been rising and the government has to deal with this problem.” Kawariya also listed out local issues and problems faced by people in their day to day living. “I realise that people have suffered a setback in children education with the rise of fee prices in public schools across Delhi. This is a setback that has to be righted and I would personally work towards this. Also, schools in this constituency do not offer science and commerce streams I am well aware of this and will do my best to help bring these streams to schools here. The constituency also needs a well equipped state of the art hospital and we are aware of this and am working towards solving this problem.” |
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Mishra is Cong’s W Delhi man
New Delhi, March 31 After discussion at various quarters and studying the constituency profile thoroughly, the AICC declared the name of three-time MLA from Vikaspuri, Mahabal Mishra. In the beginning, eight Congress leaders were in the race for ticket. But after scrutiny, names of Mahabal Mishra, Mukesh Sharma, a sitting MLA from Uttam Nagar and K.T. Tulsi were submitted to the AICC, sources said. According to sources, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit supported Mahabal Mishra’s candidature for West Delhi. Secondly, the party can use his name in Bihar, saying that it has given ticket to their leader in Delhi. Talking to The Tribune, Mishra said, “The high command gave me ticket so that I win the election and I assure it that I will do so. I am representative of Poorvanchalis. I will work not only in the West but in other six constituencies also appealing the electorate to vote for the Congress which is a secular party,” he said. Mishra, who claimed to be a representative of people of Bihar and east UP, has been a corporator and MLA. |
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Man kills uncle over money
Greater Noida, March 31 Miltam took his uncle Ayub, a resident of Javer, to a jungle near Chhatrang village and strangulated him to death with the help o his three friends — Abraj, Yusuf and Rashid when Ayub demanded his money back. All four accused have been arrested. Ayub’s body was found from the jungle. The murder weapon has been found. A few months ago Ayub had lent Rs 60,000 to his brother’s son Miltam. Ayub had sold his land and Rs 60,000 was part of the money that he had received as the land’s price. According to the police, for past few months Ayub had been asking Miltam to return his money. On March 25, Miltam took his uncle to the jungle. Miltam’s friends Abraj, Yusuf and Rashid were already there. Miltam with the help of his friends tied Ayub and frisked him. They snatched Rs 8,000 that Ayub was carrying. Later Abraj hit Ayub with a rod on his head and Ayub slumped down unconscious. After this Miltam strangled his uncle to death with his shirt. Ayub’s body was dumped in a wheat field nearby. When Ayub did not reach home in the evening his family started looking for him. Next day someone told them he had seen Ayub going with Miltam the previous evening. Ayub’s cousin Anis lodged a report with police. |
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Shooting Case
Gurgaon, March 31 However, Anil and driver Radhika Prasad Pandey have been sent to a 14-day judicial custody. The three were traveling in a BMW car when the incident took place. They fled after a mob gathered there and started pelting stones on the car. They were caught near the barricade at Gwalpuri Naka. A case has been registered on the complaint made by the victim, Vikram, a resident of Damdama village near Badshahpur and the owner of a taxi stand.
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Trader claims being robbed of Rs 10 lakh
New Delhi, March 31 According to complaint filed with the police, Sandeep Jain, owner of a factory in Seelampur, was returning to his Surya Nagar residence in neighbouring Ghaziabad, when the incident took place last night around 10.30 pm. Jain claimed that the five men on two motorcycles waylaid him near Nandnagri and opened fire at his car and then decamped with a bag containing Rs 10 lakh, a senior police official said. However, the police have suspicion about the incident, saying that many things did not match the robbery theory. Jain claimed that bullets were fired at his vehicle but the official said they did not find any bullet marks on his car. The windowpanes of the car were found broken, which Jain claimed were broken by the robbers. But the official claimed that an examination has revealed that the windowpanes were not broken from outside but inside. “We feel that the case is cooked up. We are investigating the matter. We will file a case against Jain if it is found that he had filed a bogus complaint,” the official said. |
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Cancer initiative launched
New Delhi, March 31 The initiative by a consortium of medical practitioners and like-minded people, who are presently based in Delhi, Mumbai and Thiruvanthapuram would focus on holistic management of cancer by infrastructure-building and awareness generation. Dr Sidharth Sahni, consultant breast surgeon, Artemis Health Institute, Gurgaon, outlined, “One of our essential mandates is to overcome the fear of cancer and make people aware about the facts associated with cancer, which is easily curable if detected at an early stage. Early detection through screening, particularly in the case of cervical and breast cancer, enables prevention, besides a successful cure.” As a part of the initiative, in the coming few months various outreach programmes, like portal, automated IVR facility and ‘Conquer Cancer Campaign’, under which cancer helpline would be set up in all the metros, would be started. “With India having 106 dialects in vernaculars, there would be a pan India helpline by the May this year at people’s access,” said Tejinder Kataria, radiation oncologist of Artemis Health Institute. Working on the lines of ‘APD- Awareness, Prevention and Diagnosis’, the CRFI team aims for fluid exchange of information and synergising public-private partnership, and currently, it has already taken two NGOs, Rotary Club and Khushi on the board. |
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AIIMS pulled up for negligence in treating child
New Delhi, March 31 A bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah expressed concern over patients not being treated properly due to ego clashes among different groups of doctors in the institute. The court’s observation came after it took cognizance of a letter from a mother of a month-old child, accusing AIIMS doctors of callousness in treating her child. In the letter, Rekha told the court that her baby was suffering from heart ailment and was admitted to the AIIMS under the supervision of A.K. Bisoi, a cardio-thoracic surgeon. However, the baby was neglected after Bisoi was suspended by the health minister on March 9, she alleged. “We are interested in saving the child. Tell us how you are going to do it. We are not concerned about internal disputes in the hospital,” the court said, adding, “patients are suffering because of internal fighting.” “Nobody should be victimised because of ego clashes,” it said while directing the hospital to file an affidavit and listed the matter on Wednesday.
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45-year-old GK-I club bids adieu
New Delhi, March 31 The club stood on an MCD land and was leased to Lal Chand Public Charitable Trust. The land was further sub-leased to the club in 1965. The lease was to expire in 2015, but due to a lapse in the payment of the lease to the trust, the club has been closed. The members even protested against the closing down of the club on Monday. However, the trust claims it had approached the High Court on the issue and had won the case. The lease was terminated, but the members maintain they were not informed. “The management did not tell us anything about the issue. It was a bolt from the blue when we got to know the condition just a month ago. We do not know why the management failed to pay the quarterly rent. We had enough funds since each member paid Rs 75,000 as the membership fee and there are around 1,500 members. This is probably the outcome of the management’s irresponsible behaviour,’’ said an irritated member. Another member was quick to add, “We plan to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court. We cannot allow this club to be shut down.” Meanwhile, a managing committee representative has denied the allegations. “AGM meetings were conducted and everything is on record. In fact, we cleared all dues of the lease. We plan to approach the Supreme Court on Tuesday,’’ said Naveen Bhandari, who was the general secretary but resigned recently. The building firm has refused to comment. The members who lived their life by participating in the activities of the club are agitated, the new members too feel cheated. Savitri from GK-I said, “I became a member of the club the previous year and now the club has been shut down. I feel cheated after paying a hefty membership fee.” Kishori Kapoor, who calls this club her maternal home, said, “Today is the last day. I remember the way I use to play rummy here everyday. This is hurting me.” |
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ONGC defeats Pune Club 2-0
Gurgaon, March 31 The match, being played at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium, was evenly poised with both the teams having equal chances to score, but it was ONGC who utilised both the scoring chances in the second session to collect full points from the match. Jatin Singh Bisht scored the 1st goal through a set-piece in the 63rd min, his shot from the top of 18-yard box found its way to the far post after deflection from the wall. ONGC took a defensive approach after opening their account while on the other hand Pune FC tried everything to level the score, but failed, as their strikers were totally off-color today. Mangut Mbwas sealed the victory with his stunning volley from 25 yard in the 93rd minute to start ONGC campaign on a high note. |
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Saree shop in Chandni Chowk gutted
New Delhi, March 31 According to fire officials, the blaze was reported from the third floor of ‘Varun Saree Bhandar’ situated at 4158, Nai Sadak of Chandni Chowk around 10.15 am. Twenty fire tenders were rushed to the spot, and according to fire officials, the fire was brought under control by 12.35 pm. “As soon as the call was received, 21 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. It took nearly two-and-a-half hours to quell the flames. No one was injured in the incident,” said a fire official. The fire had engulfed the third and fourth floor of the saree shop and destroyed clothes worth lakhs of rupees. Officials claimed that narrow lanes in the area, delayed the fire fighting operation. According to the police, initial investigation has indicated short-circuit to be the reason behind the fire. The owner of the shop could not bear the heavy losses and fell unconscious after seeing the damage and is currently under treatment. |
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Bus kills youth
New Delhi, March 31 The incident took place at around 7:20 a.m. at Dhaula Kuan flyover today. “Ramesh was on his way to his residence at Pusa Road when a Haryana Roadways bus hit his bike from behind due to which he lost balance and fell on the road. He came under the wheels of the bus and died on the spot,” said a policeman. The erring bus driver Dharamvir (56) has been arrested and the bus has been impounded.
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Auto driver kills lover
Faridabad, March 31 A case has been registered. The accused is absconding. The police said the deceased, Shahnaz, had not married the accused, Bharati, but was staying with him. The lovers, reportedly, were not getting on well for sometime. |
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