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Biker goons strike again
Another realtor in police net
Professional training for students not studying after Class X, XII
CBSE helplines flooded with calls
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Child faints at Rajiv memorial function
Sheila reviews power scene
Parents to intensify fight against fee hike
Anti-Terrorism Day observed
36 run away from juvenile
Father alleges in-laws killed daughter
Jilted lover shoots self
Hit by truck, girl dies on spot
2 youths stabbed, 1 dead
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Biker goons strike again
New Delhi, May 21 The incident comes just two days after some bike-borne robbers killed a security guard and snatched Rs 18 lakh from a petrol pump owner outside Bank of India in Patparganj on Monday morning. According to information, Zulfikar (37), who runs a meat packaging business, had withdrawn Rs 7 lakh from the Preet Vihar branch of ICICI Bank and was walking towards his car when the robbers struck and fled with the money bag. Zulfikar was accompanied by one of his office staff Aamir when the incident took place. According to Zulfikar, the robbers were wearing helmets and it would be difficult to recognise them even if confronted with them. “The whole thing happened so fast that we could not even react. By the time we realised what had happened, the robbers had sped away quite far,” said Zulfikar recalling the incident. According to him, they were only a couple of feet from getting into their car when the pillion driver on the speeding motorcycle snatched the bag. The two shouted for help and ran after the motorcycle, but could not catch them. “There was no guard outside the bank today. We tried to chase them but failed,” he said. Zulfikar said that he often visited the bank for monetary transactions and had withdrawn much more money in the past. According to the police, Pardeep, an eyewitness who runs a paan shop nearby said there were actually four criminals. The other two were waiting for their accomplices and they all fled together, he added. The east Delhi police once again blamed the bank for not installing a close- circuit camera which could have helped them to nab the criminals. “There are no close-circuit cameras. Now where do we go looking for them? People are careless and the police is held responsible for all problems,” said a police official when asked about developments in the case. The cases of snatching and robbery by bikers in east Delhi has been on the rise since the past few months. On Saturday morning, a woman journalist was robbed of Rs 3,000 by some bikers near Mother Dairy. While the police assures of strict vigilance and barricading after every incident, things return to normal laxity in no time.
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DDA Scam
New Delhi, May 21 Kumar had allegedly sold a flat allotted to a fake applicant. “Verma had helped accused Vijay Pal in selling one of the flats allotted in the name of a proxy applicant at a premium of Rs 4,00,000,” said a senior police officer. The police said Verma had alowed his office, Lucky Properties in Shalimar Bagh, be used by accused Vijay Pal, Suresh and Deepak Kumar for the purpose. Over 5,00,000 people had applied for 5,238 flats under the DDA housing scheme last year. The draw for which was announced in December. The draw got into controversy after an applicant told the police he had not applied for a flat. So far, nine persons have been arrested in connection with the scam, including the kingpin M.L. Gautam and the whistle-blower Deepak Kumar.
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Professional training for students not studying after Class X, XII
New Delhi, May 21 The training will be free of cost and will begin in mid-July. Training and will be imparted in 360 single shift government schools. Students will be trained in automobile repair, beauty and hair dressing, electronics, fashion and garment designing, Indian food, hospitality, information technology, refrigeration and air-conditioning, travel and tourism, retail, security and media, said Delhi education minister Arvinder Singh Lovely. The programme aims to improve the employability of students by utilising the infrastructure in government schools. The duration of courses vary from 90 to 270 hours depending on the nature of the trade, Lovely added. Short-term courses in Modular Employable Skills (MES) are demand driven. But they are optional. Lovely further said the courses were being offered after the successful trial under which over 4,000 students have been imparted training. The minister expressed confidence the scheme would benefit large number of students coming from lower and middle class families. He said the step would go a long way in helping students, who are not in a position to pursue further studies, professionally qualified and competent enough to earn their livelihood in a respectable manner.
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CBSE helplines flooded with calls
New Delhi, May 21 The results are available for Airtel customers on Voice as well as on SMS. Subscribers can dial 54321202 and register the roll number. Meanwhile, with one day to go before the class 12 results were declared, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) helplines on Thursday were flooded with phone calls from anxious students and parents. Helplines are being operated by 37 principals, trained counsellors from CBSE-affiliated government and private schools, psychologists and social scientists. These helplines will be functional till June 3. According to counsellors, the parents of students are more anxious than their children and are burdening them with the weight of their expectations. This year, 637,578 students—264,248 female candidates and 373,330 male candidates—took the class 12 board exams in the country and abroad. Many students are also seeking career guidance from the CBSE counsellors about what courses and subjects they should opt. |
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Child faints at Rajiv memorial function
New Delhi, May 21 The child is a student of a Delhi government school. The programme was organised by the central government. Records of Rajiv Gandhi’s speeches were played on the occasion. President Pratibha Patil, Vice-President M.Hamid Ansari, UPA chief Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Robert Vadra and other dignitaries were present on the
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Sheila reviews power scene
New Delhi, May 21 The issue of non-availability of determined 200 MW power from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) was also discussed. It is supplying only 50 MW, causing difficulties in meeting the demand. It has been decided that the Delhi government would take up the matter with the new union power minister in a week. Delhi has been getting power from Himachal Pradesh and additional 100 MW from J&K. Dikshit justified Delhi’s requirement keeping in view its pattern of consumption which is different from other states. She expressed satisfaction over decline in power theft cases which has come down below 20 per cent. |
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Parents to intensify fight against fee hike
Faridabad, May 21 The parents, agitating against the private schools under the banner of the “Haryana Abhibhavak Ekta Manch”, are now gearing for intensified struggle against the private schools and the government. Almost all the trade unions in the state as well as large a number of resident welfare associations and social organisations have extended support to the parents and the
Haryana Abhibhavak Ekta Manch. The general secretary of the Manch, K.L.Sharma alleged that the “apathy” on the part of the government machinery with regard to grievances of the parents was startling. The parents’ only demand was that the private schools must stop bending the rules and subject themselves to the rules before raising the fees. The Manch alleged that district administrations and the district education officers in Haryana, especially in Faridabad and Gurgaon appear to be soft on school managements. The agitation of the parents had begun much before the parliamentary elections in Haryana. The parents burnt the effigies of the district administration, the Haryana government, “education mafia” and politicians on April 1, April 13 and April 26 at various places in the district. The managements have raised the fees
citing the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission under which they had to raise the salaries of the teachers. A number of parents said that if the government did not intervene, they would galvanise themselves in a big way in the coming assembly election in Haryana. |
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Anti-Terrorism Day observed
Gurgaon, May 21 Deputy commissioner Deepti Umashankar administered a pledge to combat terrorism to the government officials at a solemn ceremony organised on the premises of the local mini secretariat. Those who paid floral tributes to the late Prime Minister included deputy commissioner of police (HQ) Kulwinder Singh, DCP (East) Jagdish Nagar, SDM (North) Shakti Singh, SDM (South) K.K. Gupta, city magistrate Veena Hooda, district revenue officer Ram Avtar Gupta, district development and panchayat officer Lala Ram, RTA secretary Narender Yadav and local tehsildar Narender Kadian. —
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36 run away from juvenile home
New Delhi, May 21 The inmates fled the Balgrah (observation home) at Kingsway Camp in Mukherjee Nagar at around 1:30 p.m. A team has been formed to track down the missing inmates, a police official said. “There was a division among the inmates over the arrangement of food. One group demanded that the food should be cooked in the home only and no homemade food be allowed while the other group was asking that the food, made by the parents of inmates should be allowed,” the official said. According to the police, it was decided last year that no outside food would be served to the inmates. The inmates had a heated argument over the issue this morning and the group demanding homemade food thrashed others before fleeing the observation home by jumping over the gates, the officer added. However, till late evening, the police was yet to register a case in the incident. — IANS |
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Father alleges in-laws killed daughter
Gurgaon, May 21 According to Madan, Reena’s in-laws used to ask her to bring money from her parents and when she refused, her husband and other family members started beating her. Madan complained that on Wednesday he received the news that his daughter had consumed poison and had been admitted to the hospital in a serious condition. When he reached the hospital, he was told that his daughter had died. He asserted that her in-laws gave her poison. The police has started investigation against the four accused.
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Jilted lover shoots self
Noida, May 21 The police has sent the body for autopsy. Thirty-year-old Arjun was having an affair with the woman, a resident of Chirag Delhi. The woman had come to stay with her maternal uncle in Sadarpur village, At 1.30 p.m. yesterday, Arjun went to her uncle’s house. Putting a revolver on the earpit, he pulled the trigger. Police is trying to find out as to what had transpired between Arjun and that woman and other members of her uncle’s family.
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Hit by truck, girl dies on spot
Noida, May 21 Aiysha is a student of class X at Noida Army School. Abhisek (18), who is a student of class XII in the same school, was seriously injured. The dumper truck reportedly hit the scooty from behind. The impact of the hit was so powerful that Aiysha was thrown on one side of the road while Abhisek fell on the other side. As she fell, Aiysha came under the wheels of a truck and died on the spot. The SHO of the Sector 39 police station Anil Somarya said that the driver of the trucl Ramesh had been arrested and the vehicle had been seized. The dumper truck is owned by one Ram Veer of Hari Nagar in Delhi. According to Dr Ravindra Singh of Prayaga Hospital in Sector-41, Aiysha was brought dead while Abhisek was brought in a serious condition. His condition is said to be stable now. He has multiple fractures in lower legs and injuries on the face and chest. According to hospital records, the two were brought at 8.10 am. The family of the victims lives at I-102, Vivek Vihar, Sector-82 Noida.
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2 youths stabbed, 1 dead
New Delhi, May 21 Shahid told the police the incident took place when he with his friends Nazim and Sarfraz was taking a walk last night in the area. He alleged that
Riyaz, an old acquaintance of Nazim, stabbed them. Shahid said Riyaz attacked Nazim with a knife. When he tried to save him, he too received stab wounds. Meanwhile, Riyaz was arrested today from the Jama Masjid area. |
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motorcycle-borne men robbed a businessman of Rs 7 lakh today afternoon outside ICICI Bank in the Preet Vihar area of East Delhi.
Faridabad, May 21
