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Gzb reeling from severe power crisis
Cracks, power shortage delay Metro run in Noida
Allow us to treat swine flu cases: Pvt hospitals
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‘Green economy, need of the hour’
Protest against minor’s rape
Alert auto driver foils kidnapping of 3-yr-old
Jobless doctor found hanging
Criminal escapes from custody twice
Emergency landing at IGI Airport
Protect Pak Christians, appeals minorities commission member
Campaign for Arya meet launched
Now, licence for arms a click away
Cash missing
Court suggests Salem’s trial through video conferencing
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Gzb reeling from severe power crisis
Ghaziabad, August 4 Besides, outages of 18 to 22 hours are reported from semi-urban zones and industries in the district have been asked not to operate between 8 pm and 6 am. Posh residential areas like Kaushambi, Vaishali, Raj Nagar, Kavi Nagar, Chiranjeev Vihar and Gandhi Nagar are going powerless whole night. “Inverters have failed due to insufficient power and intense power fluctuations, with the supply around 100 volts while the minimum requirement is 220 volts,” complained Major (retd) Vishamber Singh, a resident of Govindpuram. “We have to be without power throughout since our inverters are not operating due to insufficient power to charge batteries,” said Rajiv Bhalla of the Kaushambi residents welfare association. Power supply to district industries is also being cut for seven to nine hours from 8 pm to 6 am. Terming the present power supply in Ghaziabad as “extremely grave,” a senior official of the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd. (UPPCL) said they had received many complaints from industrialists but were helpless as there was scanty supply of power. The official said that apart from the presently ailing units, some more units of Anpara power station have been shut down — further reducing the power supply in the state. “We are facing a demand of about 950 MW from the district but are able to supply just 400 MW only. The current crisis is due to less generation of power in the state,” the official said. The superintending engineer (urban distribution) refused to comment and said he had no figures available with him. However, district magistrate R. Ramesh Kumar said they were trying to feed the demand as much as possible with the limited resources available. “We cannot do much to improve the situation unless we get more supply,” he
said. — IANS |
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Cracks, power shortage delay Metro run in Noida
Noida, August 4 DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal said no date seems to have been fixed by the DMRC management for the Metro trial run from Yamuna Bank to Noida City Centre in Sector-32. A trial run from Yamuna Bank to Ashok Nagar bordering Noida was conducted on July 25.
DMRC officials say that the Metro trial runs will have to be conducted for 10 hours daily for a month.
Zamrudpur Metro mishap and detection of cracks in cantilevers of pillar no. 10 and 14 in Noida are the main cause of delay. Besides, the DMRC has not yet signed an agreement with the UP Power Corporation for supply of power to Metro in
Noida. The Noida administration had decided to charge the DMRC for power. Another obstacle is that Parliament is yet to pass a bill that would allow the Metro to go out of Delhi.
DMRC chairman Sreedharan has already made it clear that only after defects detected in Metro pillars are rectified, Metro trials in Noida would proceed. If defects in pillars are serious, the pillars might have to be changed, it is learnt. According to UPPCL deputy general manager, all formalities have been completed. Only Metro authorities have to sign the agreement and the power supply will be started forthwith. |
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Allow us to treat swine flu cases: Pvt hospitals
New Delhi, August 4 They maintain that the high-end private tertiary hospitals and independent labs should be permitted to undertake treatment tasks for H1N1 infections, and the ministry should actually rethink its decision of keeping the Tamiflu (the medicine for swine flu) stock under the public domain. However, the Delhi health department says there is no need to panic and relays that there is no change in the combative strategy until any formal directive comes from the ministry concerned. The chairperson of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Dr B.K. Rao, said, “Private hospitals desirous of diagnosing and treatment H1N1 virus should be allowed to do so after inspection by a committee appointed by the government. The charge should be given only after the health facility passes the scrutiny test of the government”. Adding that it would be of great help in the battle against the virus, as many people prefer visiting private centres, Rao said private health facilities were believed to be better equipped and more efficient. Countering the stand, principal secretary J.P. Singh said, “In Delhi, with only 10 positive cases of influenza A presently undergoing treatment at the 11 designated hospitals, the situation is under control. We have been quite successful in containing the disease through aggressive contact tracing, for which there are 20 teams of paramedics on the move.” Among others, director of Fortis Hospitals, Dr Ashok Chordiya, believe that for a concerted fight against the epidemic, it is important that both the public and the private sections should come together. It would enhance the capacity because of which the medical services would be more efficiently delivered, he said. Dr Ashok thinks the government should extend the supply of Tamiflu to private health facilities as well. He added that for any patient with symptoms of swine flu checking into the hospital, all Fortis branches had been directed to ensure that the patent’s travel movement was tracked, and once identified, he/she is sent to the designated health facility. Meanwhile, with the country reporting its first death due to H1N1 infection on Monday, the health ministry has removed the mandated stay on quarantine for suspected cases, and now, the discretion for the same lies with the government doctors. However, in serious cases, the patient and his/her family would be given the choice of home quarantine. |
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‘Green economy, need of the hour’
New Delhi, August 4 Winner of the United Nations’ Sasakawa Environment Prize 2002, Khosla was delivering the 13th Kailash Sankhala memorial lecture on “Ecosystem Services- the Ultimate Source of Wealth” here today. It was organised by Tiger Trust in association with WWF India. Providing alarming figures about the decreasing number of tigers the world over, Khosla said in 2000, there were fewer than 4,000 tigers around the world, out of which India had a tiger population of fewer than 1,500. He said tigers could not be saved merely by the declaration of national parks and reserves, but serious attempts had to be made to conserve ecosystem. “Some of the biggest economists in the world got together and estimated the total cost of services (of ecosystem) to be around 33 trillion US dollars,” said
Khosla. In his lecture, he said around 70 per cent of the population, who lived economically marginalised lives, were living in harmony with the ecosystem. He called them the “biosphere people”. The rest 30 per cent, who consumed maximum resources, lived off the nature and never returned anything. He said the services provided by the ecosystem were infinite, but the price was nothing. Talking about the developing countries of the “third world”, he said, the countries had never collected the data on their ecosystem. “Since Independence India has been dealing with the urgent issues and not the important ones,” said
Khosla. He estimated that if the world kept consuming its resources at the same pace we would require two more planets of earth to survive by
2030. Khosla also spoke about a unique initiative started by him and other environmentalists in Columbia where they bought completely waste land and transformed it into a “Republic of Music”. A whole new ecologically self-sufficient civilisation was created that sustained itself on natural resources produced in the same land. The memorial lecture was attended by Ravi Singh, secretary general of WWF India, Anjana Gosain from Tiger Trust and Amit Sankhala from Tiger Trust. Every year, the memorial lecture celebrates the contribution of
Sankhala, the first director of Project Tiger, who expressed his concern on the dwindling tiger population as early as in 1969. |
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Protest against minor’s rape
New Delhi, August 4 According to family members and neighbours of the victim, the police did not book the accused for attempt to murder despite of the girl’s statement and visible injuries on her neck. According to the police, a minor girl, who lives near Metro Apartments in the area, was returning home after her tuition class on August 2 when a youth lured with a toffee. ‘’ The girl ate the toffee, which had some sedative due to which she felt unconscious. Thereafter, he took her to the apartment terrace and raped her,” said the police. However, the girl has alleged that after raping, the accused tried to strangulate her. According to the girl’s family, when they went to the police to file their complaint, a case was registered under sections related to rape, but the accused was not booked for attempt to murder. Angered with this, hundreds of people blocked the Outer Ring Road and disrupted traffic for close to three hours. The police had to resort to minor lathicharge to disperse the crowd. It was only when senior police officer, including DCP N.S. Bundela, reached the spot and assured full justice that the people dispersed. The alleged rapist could not be identified or arrested till late evening, with the police claiming to arrest him soon. |
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Alert auto driver foils kidnapping of 3-yr-old
New Delhi, August 4 The incident took place last night when the kidnappers hired the autorickshaw of Vijay Kumar in the Karol Bagh area. The kidnappers were carrying the child too who kept on weeping throughout the way. Vijay suspected some foul play. Instead of questioning the kidnappers, he stopped his autorickshaw close to a police van posted in Shakarpur and raised a hue and cry – thus, attracting police intervention. DCP Jaspal Singh said Vijay would be suitably rewarded. According to the police, Manju Sharma of Baljeet Nagar had complained yesterday that her son Vansh had gone missing. She suspected he was kidnapped. Manju’s neighbour told the police he had seen Vansh going with three persons at around 8 pm yesterday. A case of kidnapping was lodged at Anand Parbat police station. The information was delivered to the missing persons’ squad and the child helpline. The Anand Parbat police learnt that the Shakarpur police had rescued a child of similar description. A police team along with Vansh’s parents reached Shakarpur police station and it was found that the child was Vansh. The police has caught hold of a kidnapper who has been identified as Vipin Sharma. Vipin disclosed he along with Vijay Kumar Yadav and Shiv Kumar had kidnapped Vansh to extort ransom from his family. He revealed that Vansh’s father was settled in Canada and he had handsome earnings. His mother had recently purchased a flat worth Rs 12 lakh in the Baljeet Nagar area. Earlier, Vijay Yadav lived in the child’s neighbourhood and was familiar with his family’s status. He was in dire need of money. So he along with Vipin Sharma and Shiv Kumar planned to kidnap Vansh. Meanwhile, Shiv Kumar and Vijay Yadav are absconding. |
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Jobless doctor found hanging
New Delhi, August 4 The police said Mukesh Das was found hanging around 11 pm last night at his residence in E-block of Vikram Vihar. He used to work as a neurosurgeon with the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital and his contract had ended a few days ago. He was looking for a new job since then, but had not got any success till now.
The police suspects that this could be a case of suicide, but are awaiting the medical reports before reaching to any conclusion, as no suicide note was recovered from Mukesh’s possession. Mukesh, a native of Jharkhand, was married to Meena, a doctor, one and half years ago. The police has informed his parents and are waiting for their arrival to have their permission for his postmortem. For now, the body has been preserved at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Further investigations in the matter are on. |
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Criminal escapes from custody twice
Ghaziabad, August 4 This happened despite the cops having been cautioned to take care of Rahimuddin as he had escaped earlier also. The police realised after 15 minutes that Rahimuddin had escaped. Delhi police had escorted Rahimuddin from Tihar Jail in Delhi for a court appearance for four cases. Two years ago, he had escaped from another court which was trying him under Gangster Act. After his court appearance in the afternoon yesterday Delhi cops were escorting him back to Tihar Jail, Delhi. As the police van was parked a little distance away in Collectorate complex, the cops walked him up to that place. As he was getting into the police van, his family members came and said they had brought food for him. The cops allowed him to eat inside the van. Not only Rahimuddin’s handcuffs were unlocked, but even the van door was left unlocked . According to eyewitnesses, as Rahimuddin started eating his lunch, escorting cops took it easy and strayed away. When he found that the van door was open and none of the cops was around, Rahimuddin briskly walked towards the main gate and then made a dash towards Kavi Nagar across the road. |
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Emergency landing at IGI Airport
New Delhi, August 4 The pilot of the flight, which was on its way from Delhi to Vadodara, detected problems in the undercarriage wheels around 40 minutes after the take-off and made emergency landing by around 6:10 pm, airport officials said. “The wheels are supposed to retract after taking off. But there were some technical problems so the wheels did not go in. The pilot could have continued flying, but it is not advisable as unretracted wheels cause lot of air resistance to the aircraft,” informed V. Soma Sundaram, executive director of Airports Authority of India (AAI). The flight landed smoothly and all passengers are safe, he said.
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Protect Pak Christians, appeals minorities commission member
New Delhi, August 4 Hundreds of Christians were killed in Pakistan but the Pakistan government did nothing to protect them, James stated in the letter. He alleged Islamic countries always talked of justice, but they did not follow their sayings in their countries. Islam preaches the government is duty-bound to protect people. But it seems that the Pakistan government does not follow the teachings of Islam. DMC chairperson Kamal Faruqui said it was strange that the Pakistan government did not remember the teachings of Prophet Mohammad who protected the Jews in Arab. The act of killing innocent Christians tarnished the image of Islam, he said. |
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Campaign for Arya meet launched
Faridabad, August 4 The president of the Haryana Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, Acharya Baldev, who has been canvassing support in Faridabad and its neighbouring districts in south Haryana for the past few days, said that the event was being organised at an international level to commemorate the 150th year of the first visit of Swami Dayanand Saraswati to the holy city of Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) and his meeting with his ‘guru’ Swami Birjanand Saraswati. Swami Dayanand Saraswati was in the vanguard of social and religious reform in the 19th century. He strengthened the movement of “Arya Samaj”. His dedicated work influenced the people of the area, especially in Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh With regard to religious reforms, he stressed human values and spiritual aspects of religion. He was a staunch critic of the Brahmanical order in Hinduism which, according to him, was eroding the innards of the religion. He propounded a revolutionary way of life based on the Vedas and Vedantic philosophy. He was especially against child marriage and dowry system, and supported education of women. A retired IAS of Uttar Pradesh, Bhagat Singh Verma, who was also here for the mass mobilisation campaign, revealed that several dignitaries from the country and abroad have given their consent to take part in the three-day event. Several jathas of Arya Samajis from all over the country and abroad will attend the event, he added. |
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Now, licence for arms a click away
New Delhi, August 4 Delhi police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal inaugurated the website www.delhipolicelicensing.com at the Delhi police headquarters today. The website has all information regarding the procedures and papers required for procuring a license. However, the Delhi police has requested the government to increase the license fee as it has not been revised for the last 30 years. “We have moved a proposal before the government to increase the licence fee. The increase would be realistic,” said
Dadwal.
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Cash missing
New Delhi, August 4 The incident came to light this morning when employees of Himgiri Constructions reached office. “Nanhe Yadav was found dead with a wire of mobile phone charger tied around his neck. When the employees checked the safe of the office, they found the cash missing,” said the police. The police said Nanhe was the last person to leave the office. Nanhe was working with the company for the past five years and lived in Janakpuri. The police suspects that someone known to the victim could be behind the murder, as the assailants had a friendly entry. A case of robbery-cum-murder has been registered at the Vikaspuri police station, however, no arrests have been made so far. |
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Court suggests Salem’s trial through video conferencing
New Delhi, August 4 Chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja issued notice in the wake of security threats to Salem from other underworld gangs. Salem was brought to the Tis Hazari Courts here for every hearing in an extortion case amid tight security arrangements with scores of paramilitary personnel deployed in and around the court complex. — IANS |
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