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Trader shot in robbery bid
Cop loses teeth trying to stop DJ
2 die, 5 hurt as van catches fire after accident
Two peddlers held with 46 kg marijuana
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Man attacked by in-laws
Road mishaps crush 2 to death
Murdered boy’s family vandalises police station
Kohli takes potshots at govt on economic issues
e-courts to help in speedier disposal of cases
IIT-JEE pattern change surprises students
GGSIPU to reward toppers
with cash
Gupta rebuts Sibal’s charge on code
Unperturbed by 13, Chetan to file papers today
Officials to greet Metro users during Games
No nomination filed on day 1
Survey: Job creation halved in Jan-March
Footwear major Pavers expanding
Games:100% foreign fund in tourism projects urged
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Trader shot in robbery bid
New Delhi, April 12 According to the police, the incident took place around 10.30 pm near the Geeta Colony Bridge in the area. Rajendra Pal Singh (45) was returning to his house in Krishna Nagar from Chandni Chowk in a shared auto when the auto was intercepted by three motorcycle-borne unidentified assailants in the middle of the bridge. “The assailants asked Singh to hand over his hand bag containing Rs 40,000, but when he resisted, one of them fired at him with a countrymade pistol. They fled the spot after snatching the bag,” said the police. Injured Singh was rushed by the auto driver to Walia Nursing Home where he was declared brought dead. Singh was a wholesale dealer of grains and he owned a shop in the Lal Kuan market of Hauz Qazi. A police officer said that initial investigations suggested that some insider could be involved in the incident. His family members reportedly told the police that he never carried more than Rs 1,000-1,200, but on Saturday evening, he had received a payment of Rs 40,000 and was returning home with the money. “Some payment related records and files that were lying in the hand bag were also taken away by the robbers,” said the police officer. Singh, a resident of the Gopal Park area of Gandhi Nagar, is survived by wife and two sons — Puneet and Raj Kumar Anand. Raj Kumar complained that the area around the bridge had became unsafe for the past few months and such incidents had happened in the past also, but the police did not take any appropriate actions. “There have been several incidents of robbery in the area in the past, as it isn’t lit up after 10 pm and there is no police patrolling either. It is very unsafe to pass from that area in night,” he said. |
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Cop loses teeth trying to stop DJ
New Delhi, April 12 While Suresh lost his two teeth, Balbir suffered injury in the stomach and legs. According to police officials, the two are undergoing treatment at Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital. The police has arrested five people for assaulting government officials and causing public disturbance. As per the police version, the two constables reached the venue of the marriage function around 11pm after they received a complaint about loud music being played in the O-Block area of Mangolpuri. “The two officers tried to reason with the revelers and told them about the disturbance they were causing to the neighbours. However, some of the drunken men in the group refused to comply and attacked the two officers without any provocation. Hugely outnumbered, our men suffered injuries,” said officials at Mangolpuri police station. A wireless message regarding attack on the police officials was given to the police station, after which huge contingent of police force reached the spot. SHO of the Mangolpuri police station Satish Chander and the local ACP reached the place and took stock of the situation. More than 14 people, including three women were picked up by the police last night, but nine of them were let off after questioning. “We have arrested five people, including two women in this regard. The women include the mother of the groom and his aunt, as they were the chief cause of trouble last night,” said SHO Satish
Chander. |
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2 die, 5 hurt as van catches fire after accident
Nuh (Mewat), April 12 Kuldeep Thakur and Jitu, sitting on the front seat, died on the spot while the remaining five Meen Thakur, Deepak Saini, Danny Kohli, Kuldeep Pandit and Surjit were referred to Safdarjung Hospital in a serious condition. All of them belonged to Uncha village near Balabgarh and had come here to attend a wedding. According to sources, some were drunk. They were travelling in the van. When they reached near Salamba village, the two vehicles banged each other and the van caught fire as it had LPG gas kit in it. DSP Devinder Singh said after giving the first-aid to all of them, they were sent to the hospital. The police has registered a case against the driver who had fled. |
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Two peddlers held with 46 kg marijuana
Noida, April 12 According to Sector 20 police, the narcotics had been brought here for distribution among the economically weak jhuggi dwellers by political parties to influence them to vote for them. Giving the details of the arrest, the SP City said that two suspicious looking men, carrying two trolley bags and two hand bags, were detained at Sector-16. In the course of investigation, 46 kgs of marijuana and Rs 25,000 were recovered from their possession. The two peddlers have been identified as Shankar Kumar from Jharkhand and Ajit Kumar from Bhagalpur in Bihar. They were living in jhuggis in Noida’s Sector-9. They have revealed that one Nakesh Shah had handed over these drugs to them at Roorkela railway station, and it was to be delivered to an agent in Noida. According to the police, Nakesh Shah and two other men— Shekhar and Sikander— are drug peddlers living in jhuggis. They deal in ganja, opium, marijuana and smack. The police said that professional peddlers of narcotics hire people who are paid railway fare to and fro and some incentives for carrying the drugs from one place to another. These narcotics are packed in such an attractive way that even the GRP and RPF officials find it difficult to detect them. |
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Man attacked by in-laws
New Delhi, April 12 Police said that Bhisham Kumar along with Kuldeep was returning to his house. Both of them were allegedly attacked by the family members of Bhisham’s wife as they were against his marriage. The two were taken to a nearby hospital from where they were discharged after medication. Police stated that Bhisham Kumar had married a girl in Lado Sarai village against the wishes of girl’s parents. He reportedly told the police that the girl’s brother along with his associates attacked him and his friend, Kuldeep last night when the duo were going home. The accused escaped after the incident. The police has registered a case in this regard and a hunt is on to nab the culprits. |
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Road mishaps crush 2 to death
Greater Noida, April 12 On the Expressway, a Tata-407 had crushed a youth while on G.T. Road near Beel Akbarpur village a Roadways bus coming at high speed had hit a Tata-407 coming from other direction, killing Tata-407 driver. The police has informed the next of kin in both cases. Sanjay, a resident of Faridabad was returning home in his Santro car, but his car developed a snag. While he was trying to repair his car after pushing it to a side, a Tata-407 coming at high speed allegedly rammed into him. He was rushed to Kailash Hospital by way-farers, where he succumbed to his injuries during treatment. The police is trying to nab the accused driver of the Tata 407. In the second accident, Kishen Kumar of Bandayun was going to Sikanderabad on Friday morning when near Beel Akbarpur village a Roadways bus coming at high speed from opposite direction had hit his vehicle. The collision was so forceful that Tata-407 was smashed like a tin box and driver Kishen Kumar died on the spot. |
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Murdered boy’s family vandalises police station
New Delhi, April 12 The relatives of Arif Khan (24) and some of their supporters gathered at the police station today afternoon and damaged property and smashed the windscreen of the Gypsy of the station house officer. They were protesting against alleged police inaction in the case. The police had to resort to mild baton charge to quell the crowd that had gathered on the police station premises. However, contrary to victim’s family’s claim, the police claimed that they had already arrested the persons named by them in the FIR. Arif Khan, owner of a restaurant in the Bhajanpura area, was badly beaten by some people on Saturday and was found lying unconscious around 11 pm. He was rushed to the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital where he died during treatment. “Initial investigation suggests that it could be a case a personal enmity and we have arrested one person, Gagan, while hunt is on to nab two more suspects— Rohtas and Pintu. One of the three accused, Pintu has a criminal record and is involved in various cases of assaults in the area,” said the police. Commenting about the vandalism carried out by Arif’s relative and their allegation of slack investigation, the police said that Arif’s family had named more that a dozen persons in this regard and demanded that all of them should to be arrested. “How could we arrest all of them unless there is any proof of their involvement? Moreover, the two parties have a history of rivalry on financial and religious issues,” said the plice. Investigations in the case have revealed that the accused and the victim had an argument in a drunken state after which Arif was assaulted which caused his death. |
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Kohli takes potshots at govt on economic issues
New Delhi, April 12 He said the fear of unemployment is gripping the professionals of Delhi with as many as 20 people have lost their lives due to unemployment. Seven people were saved while they were trying to commit suicide. “A manager of a multinational company, Vasudev Kaushal, became a robber after he lost his job. In Saket, an unemployed person tried to kidnap his cousin. The government should prepare an emergency plan to deal with the people who lose their jobs. It should make optional arrangements or compensate such families,” said Kohli. Taking up the issue of price rise, he said that despite the tall claims of the government, prices are actually increasing day by day. “The government claims that inflation has gone down to 0 .26 per cent, but according to government data, the prices of food items have gone up by 17 per cent. Grain has become costlier by 9.61 per cent, pulses 8.46 per cent, fruit by 8.02 per cent and milk by 6.22 per cent. Even the price of salt has increased by 11 per cent,” he said. Kohli said that this year India would have to import 10 lakh tonnes of sugar despite the fact that India is one of the biggest producers of sugar. “On the one hand, the public life is badly affected by price spiral, and on the other hand, industrial production is decreasing fast. In February 2009, the industrial production was 2.8 per cent whereas last year this was 8.8 per cent. There has been sharp decrease in the production of basic commodities, semi-finished or recycled products, consumer goods, durable, construction and mining products,” he added. |
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e-courts to help in speedier disposal of cases
New Delhi, April 12 When Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Rakesh Pandit was told by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) counsel that the court was not empowered to hear a case involving murder and cited an apex court ruling of 1994 to back the argument, the magistrate was not convinced. Judge Pandit asked the court staff to bring his laptop and began searching for the apex court ruling. Within seconds, the apex court ruling was in front of him. He informed the CBI counsel that the judgment cited has been set aside by the apex court in 1998, and therefore the contention of the investigation agency held no ground. The CBI counsel had no option but to seek time to prove his contention over the magisterial court’s jurisdiction. The court slated the matter for April 28. The idea of giving laptops along with internet connection to judicial officers was mooted by the e-committee of the apex court in 2007. “It saves a lot of our time. We now don’t have to read and carry bulky books with us. We read even during travelling, which also saves us a lot of paperwork,” said a judicial officer not wishing to be named. The establishment of e-courts is also helping in speedy disposal of cases in the lower courts. “One of our objective is to enable judicial officers access judgments of the apex court, high courts and even international courts at the click of a button and speed up their research work for a judgment, thus improving rate of disposal,” the e-committee headed by Justice G.C. Bharuka said in his report to the law ministry’s five-year plan to computerise all courts for speedy disposal of cases. For the common litigant, the e-courts project is lending greater transparency to the judiciary as well as speedy disposal of cases. With web connectivity, the moment a judicial officer passes a judgment it gets automatically uploaded on the national judicial website (www.indianjudiciary.in) - thus reducing the waiting time for litigants to get copies of the order. They would earlier have to wait for hours outside the courts to get a copy of the order. Judges now don’t have to depend on the steno or other court staff to dictate orders. Many of them do the keying themselves while travelling or at home. “With this system, our dependency on the stenos and other support staff of the courts has also come down,” added the judicial officer.
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IIT-JEE pattern change surprises students
New Delhi, April 12 “In JEE 2009, the major changes were disappearance of assertion reasoning type of questions, subjective questions were back in the paper, and negative marking in (multiple) choice types,” according to an analysis of the IIT-JEE 2009 examination by Career Launcher, a counselling firm. “There was a qualitative shift in the kind of questions asked - these do not require a lot of rigorous problem solving, but rather a fairly good understanding of the concepts and the ability to comprehend and analyse,” it added. Saurabh Kumar, who is the national academic head of Career Launcher, said there was a change in the pattern that “was slightly difficult as compared to last year’s paper.” “But change in pattern in IIT-JEE is nothing new,” Kumar said. “Overall, the number of questions were reduced from 135 last year to 117 this year,” Kumar added. “In all, there were 24 subjective questions. Mathematics was the most difficult followed by physics and chemistry,” he said. The paper evoked a mixed response from the students as well. While some termed it as very difficult, others said anyone with clear concepts would not have faced much difficulty. “The main problem was negative marking and subjective questions that too so many. They were not expected at all. Overall, the paper was very difficult,” Class XII student Arpit Gupta, who is a student of Bal Bhavan Public School, told IANS. “Definitely, the diffculty level was high as compared to the last year. But the questions were concept based and required a clear understanding,” said Rakshit Aggarwal, a student of Sachdeva Public School, Rohini. But Aditya Bindal, a Class XII student of St.Xaviers School, said he “enjoyed” writing the exam. “We were prepared for the pattern change. So, tackling it was not much of a difficulty. The questions were concept based. But I was a bit surprised with negative marking,” Bindal said.
— IANS |
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GGSIPU to reward toppers
with cash
New Delhi, April 12 Under the University School Annual Toppers, students securing the first, second and third positions in the academic programmes conducted at University School of Studies (USS) and GGSIPU’s constituent college, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT), will be given prizes of Rs 15,000, Rs 10,000 and Rs. 5,000 respectively, along with a Certificate of Merit, on an annual basis. There will be one award for a sanctioned intake of up to 60 seats, two awards for up to 180 seats and three where the sanctioned intake of students is more than 180. The eligibility for the award will be decided on the basis of total weighted marks obtained by the students during two semesters in each academic year. Similarly, the top position holders in all academic programmes conducted at USS, IGIT, centres of learning and all institutes affiliated to the university will be awarded cash prizes of Rs 15,000, Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000, annually, as a part of the scheme for University Programme Annual Toppers. In the existing scholarship scheme for economically weaker sections students, the university has revised the family income slab from 60,000 per annum to Rs 1 lakh. |
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Gupta rebuts Sibal’s charge on code
New Delhi, April 12 He said that Sibal has never served people and now trying to spoil his image by making false allegations. “Sibal has nothing to do with the problems of common man. That may be the reason why he is considering the works done by MCD for the well-being of people as violation of code of conduct,” said Gupta. In a letter written to the EC, the Congress’s Chandni Chowk MP Kapil Sibal has accused him of violating the model code of conduct. Gupta said that the MCD has increased the pension given to elderly people, widows and physically challenged people from Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 in the MCD budget for the year 2009-10 passed in February. “We have implemented the increased pension scheme. MCD spends Rs 220 crore per annum for the welfare of senior citizens, widows and physically challenged people,” said the Standing Committee chairman Vijender Gupta. While making the allegations, Sibal also released a CD to prove his case on Saturday. Declaring Sibal’s CD as a complete flop show, Gupta said that all the allegations raised in the CD are baseless. “Sibal is raising all useless points because he has got nothing concrete to discuss.” |
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Unperturbed by 13, Chetan to file papers today
New Delhi, April 12 According to information, Chouhan will start from his residence in Nagarjuna Apartment in Mayur Vihar, Phase-I and pass through New Ashok Nagar, Kondli, Kalyanpuri, Chand Cinema, Trilokpuri, Acharya Niketan, Pandav Nagar and Mother Dairy to reach the BJP election office on Vikas Marg. Thereafter, around 12 noon, starting from the BJP office, his procession will pass through Vikas Marg, Vijay Chowk, Krishanganj, Geeta Colony and Pusta, and will reach the Returning Officer’s office in Shastri Park at 1 pm where he will file his nomination papers. Earlier in the day today, Chauhan met the residents of Krishan Nagar assembly constituency with local legislature Harsh Vardhan and urged them to vote for him. Addressing the people on the occasion, the four-time legislature from the area Harsh Vardhan said that the atmosphere was conducive for the BJP in the entire country and that the people wanted to see Lal Krishna Advani as the Prime Minister of the country. He said that every seat was important in this election and it was the duty of the people to make Chetan Chouhan victorious from East Delhi and put this seat in the bag of Advani like a lotus flower. Chauhan’s procession also passed through Ghondli, Anarkali, Double Sidhi Mandir, Chandra Nagar, Lala Lajpat Rai Chowk, Lal Quarter, Geeta Colony and main markets in the assembly constituency. |
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Officials to greet Metro users during Games
New Delhi, April 12 The Delhi Metro carries an average of 850,000 people daily on its operational network spanning 74.56 km. There are around 97 stations at present. However, ridership figures are expected to grow to 200,000 when the second phase of network construction is completed by the Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in October next year, thus increasing the Metro network to 190 km. The number of stations would also increase to 144. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
(DMRC) is creating a special cadre of employees trained in spoken English and communication skills who will be posted at Metro stations to greet and respond quickly to travelers’ inquiries and suggestions. “A large number of foreign visitors, who are expected to use the Metro during the games, will greatly benefit from the customer relations personnel,” said DMRC spokesperson Anuj
Dayal. So far, the customer care centres at stations have been manned by junior station controllers. Now the DMRC intends to have personnel or “customer relations assistants” with specialised training for customer-handling. The first batch of 86 employees has been posted at stations for getting hands-on experience, and the process to recruit the next batch of 192 customer relations assistants has also begun, Dayal said. During a rigorous eight-week training at the Metro Training School at Shastri Park, a specialised agency will give them training in customer care, communication skills, handling public complaints, behavioural management, team building and spoken English. The personnel will also be imparted training in station management and other Metro-related tasks.
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No nomination filed on day 1
Greater Noida, April 12 In all 11 candidates, including those from BSP, BJP, Congress and Samajwadi Party had obtained the nomination forms. Around the Collectorate, a heavy police bandobast had been made. District election officer Deepak Agarwal said that after the issuing of the notification, Saturday was the first day for filing nomination papers. But no candidate filled in the form. Now the filing of nomination papers will be done on Monday and Tuesday being closed on account of Ambedkar Jayanti, the filing of nominations will then resume on Wednesday. There is a strong police presence in and around the Collectorate, the district election officer said. |
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Survey: Job creation halved in Jan-March
New Delhi, April 12 “The Assocham placement parameter (APP) Index (the body’s index for measuring employment generation) has shown a steep fall of 49 percent,” the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(Assocham) said. The APP index series consist of 26 sectoral indices and a composite index giving an overall picture. The study, which tracked employment generation across various sectors , said most of the highest employment-generating sectors have curtailed their hiring. The worst performer in terms of job creation is the IT sector. “The IT sector is facing challenges with low demand due to recession in the primary client countries of the US and Europe, ” the report said. The sectors that have recorded maximum decline in employment generation include education, hospitality, IT , real estate, banking and media. textiles, auto, construction, and engineering.
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Footwear major Pavers expanding
New Delhi, April 12 “The agreement with Fly Flot is to set up a plant at Ranipet in Tamil Nadu at a cost of five million euros ,” said Pavers England Footprints chief executive Utsav Seth, referring to the pact with the Britain-based footwear maker and a subsidiary of Italian footwear major Lones
Spa. — IANS |
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Games:100% foreign fund in tourism projects urged
New Delhi, April 12 According to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, 100 per cent foreign investment in developing tourism infrastructure in India will give a major boost to this sector. Delhi alone needs 30,000 rooms to cope up for the 2010
Games. — IANS |
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