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Batla
Shootout
MC to sterilise stray
dogs in Gurgaon
Book unfolds the making of Delhi
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Deshmukh tells BHEL to sort out Bawana project problems
Rare heart surgery saves woman’s life
Polling for 5 MCD wards today
Lashkar suspect in police custody for 14 days
Kidnapped 18-yr-old rescued in 4 hrs
Youth held for killing mom’s lover
Delhi impostor cop caught fleecing truckers
Study focuses on drug patents
Illegal cosmetics factory unearthed
8 kids among 30 fresh swine flu cases
Environment dept reaffirms polybag ban
2 caught for throwing acid on minor girl
Soon, flyovers atop trees!
Be ready for rains today again
A motorist drives through a waterlogged street after heavy downpour in New Delhi on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal
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No further probe: Court
New Delhi, August 26 A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan turned down the plea for any judicial inquiry or a probe by a special investigation team into the matter. The petition was filed by an NGO called Act Now For Democracy. “The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is a statutory body and its investigation into the case is satisfactory. It is very difficult for us to now send the matter to a third party for any further enquiry,” the bench said. The bench further said the NHRC’s prestige and dignity should be maintained. The NHRC had given a clean chit to the police in the south Delhi shootout last year, but the NGO termed the probe as “not fair” and filed the petition. Counsel Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, had said, “The NHRC did not conduct a fair probe into the matter. It just relied on the police’s version and filed the report on the same lines.” He added, “The NHRC did not visit the spot, nor did its members talk to Mohammed Saif, the lone survivor of the gunbattle and relied only on the police’s version.” Bhushan had said there was urgent need of a judicial probe by a retired Supreme Court judge into the incident. Also, the court today issued notice to the Press Council of India asking for laying down guidelines on how the media should cover such an incident, and slated the next hearing for October 21. — IANS
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MC to sterilise stray
dogs in Gurgaon
Gurgaon, August 26 Addressing a meeting with residents welfare associations (RWAs) organized here today, municipal commissioner Rajesh Khullar said Friendicoes and People for Animals (PFA) had been engaged for the purpose. As per the agreement, Friendicoes would neuter 400 stray dogs while PFA would neuter 300 dogs in a month under the Animal Birth Control programme. “The PFA would take the stray dogs to Sadrana village while Friendicoes would take them to Harsaru village or Bhim Nagar,” Khullar said, adding that only the rabid and critically sick dogs would be eliminated, while efforts would be made to treat other sick dogs. The municipal commissioner said the representatives of RWAs having high number of stray dogs in their localities could contact these NGOs. “Specific areas have been allocated to these NGOs, the list of which has been provided to the RWAs,” Khullar maintained. The NGOs would take signatures of a representative of the RWA concerned while taking away the dogs from their locality. The commissioner said if the RWA representatives wanted to ensure that the purpose was being served, they could accompany the NGO members to the sterilisation centre and put their signatures afterwards. He advised the RWAs to contribute Rs 10 per dog for bringing transparency in the project. The NGOs would leave the dogs back into the same locality after sterilisation. Such dogs would have notches on their ears so that the residents could identify them. He said the NGOs would organise special camps for giving oral vaccination to these notched ear dogs after a year because the sterilisation usually lasts a year. Khullar further disclosed that the MCG was constructing a ‘gaushala’ in 6 acres at Karterpuri village and it was likely to be completed by the end of this year. “After that, all stray cows in the city would be put there,” he asserted. Giving a presentation at the meeting, Dr Kartick of the NGO Wildlife SOS advised the residents not to kill snakes or wild animals. He said of the 272 species of snakes found in India, only four were poisonous. “Whenever you spot a snake or some wild animal, give a call at our helpline numbers 09817963535 and 09818201987. Our workers will reach the spot, catch the animal and take it to an animal care centre,” he maintained. He, however, failed to clarify as to what would happen in case the snake spotted by a resident happened to be of any of the poisonous species and some untoward incident took place before his workers reached the scene. |
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Book unfolds the making of Delhi
New Delhi, August 26 Malvika said, “I married into the family that helped build Delhi. This is the Sobha Singh family. In the early 20th century, they were contractors selected by the British Raj to build Delhi. So, the subject of this book is very close to my heart and my background.” The book was released by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Malvika added, “I really love this city and it was really my publisher Pramod’s daughter who asked me to do a book on the early builders of Delhi. As one of the leading builders of that time was from my family, I was attracted to the idea of writing this book. We spent two years pouring through old pictures, journals, letters, etc and the research for my book took me overseas. I visited many libraries. I really did this book as a dedication to the unsung Indian builders that helped build Delhi.” Malvika’s co-author for the book, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, is a renowned historian and scholar, He said, “The subject of the book comes under my area of expertise. I was particularly asked to do a section on the transfer of Capital. I enjoyed working on the book. For me it was like writing any piece of history, each time you discover something new about the past.” The photographs and letters for the book were painstakingly collected by Pramod Kapoor, a collector of historical records as well as a publisher. Pramod said, “It was just wonderful working with Malvika. My job revolved around conceptualization and research for visual materials and this was most exciting work. My research took me to England where I researched many libraries and archives for material. It was exhaustive and fascinating work.” Pramod pointed out, “In my research, I came across most interesting material and I strongly feel that if we even bring photocopies of this to India, it will be a service to the nation. We also have plans of distributing the book across the Commonwealth.” ‘Making of a Capital’ puts together the story of the eighth incarnation of this historical city. The book showcases century-old telegrams, maps, plans, drawings, letters and scraps of paper from the early 20th century. The book also presents the agreement that the chief architects of Delhi, Edward Lutyens and Herbert Baker signed. It gives an account of the many arguments the two had on architectural matters. Numerous newspaper reports, articles and editorials about the city, rare photographs and letters are presented in the book. |
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Deshmukh tells BHEL to sort out Bawana project problems
New Delhi, August 26 The Chief Minister apprised Deshmukh about the 1500-MW plant, the foundation stone for which was laid by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in March 2008. The plant is vital for Delhi as it would provide power during the upcoming Commonwealth Games. The Chief Minister informed that BHEL had been facing shortage of skilled staff since the beginning of the work. The pace of the civil construction job was very slow and it was affecting the work of plant, she said. The foundation of gas turbine-I and II had problems and needed to be rectified as soon as possible, she added. She also mentioned that equipment and other materials needed for the plant had not reached as per the requirement. Dikshit requested the minister to intervene in the matter so that the project could be completed within the stipulated time. Deshmukh directed BHEL to ensure equipment, manpower and other material for Bawana power plant. He also directed that monitoring on a daily basis was needed so that all problems faced by agencies concerned would be sorted out. He asked the authorities concerned to post a general manger to look after the project and submit a detailed report on a daily basis. The chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of BHEL Bandyopadhyay said gas turbine-II had already arrived in India and was on its way to Bawana. He added that the foundation of gas turbine I and II would be fixed on September 26. The CMD also assured that BHEL would chalk out a plan to sort out all problems relating to the plant.
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Rare heart surgery saves woman’s life
Gurgaon, August 26 The procedure was carried out on Shailesh Devi, a Gurgaon resident who was admitted to the Artemis Health Institute with chest pain and breathlessness along with palpitation induced by exertion. The surgery which involved ‘aortic valve replacement, aortic arch grafting, artery reconstruction and patient revival’ was performed by a team of doctors led by the Artemis chief executive officer and chief cardiothoracic surgeon Kushagra Katariya on Aug 10. Kataria said: “This was one of the most complex surgeries I have undertaken . The highest risk that we encountered was due to the abnormally large size of the aneurysm, which led to the aneurysmal aorta being stuck to the back of the chest. The tear extended to the artery that supplies blood to the brain. Therefore, it meant that utmost care had to be taken from the time we entered the chest cavity. The chances of perforation were very high, which could have led to instant death.” Despite the risks involved, the surgery had to be carried out, Katariya said, as “this was Shailesh’s only chance.” Doctors had also found that her “aortic valve was not functioning properly” for which an artificial valve had to be implanted. Still recuperating and preparing for another corrective surgery, Shailesh said: “This is incredible for me and my family. I had been declined treatment by some of the leading private and government healthcare facilities in Delhi, due to the complexity of the case and low chances of survival.”
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Polling for 5 MCD wards today
New Delhi, August 26 The wards where the bypolls will be held are Samaypur Badli, Mayur Vihar Phase-II, Hastsal, Dichaun Kalan and Anand Vihar. While the ruling BJP in MCD has nominated Anup Yadav from Samaypur Badli, the Congress has fielded Sandeep Chaudhry. The BJP candidates from Mayur Vihar Phase-II, Hastsal, Dichaun Kalan and Anand Vihar are Devendra Kumar, Vijay Solanki, Sandeep Shokeen and Mahendra Jain, respectively. The Congress candidates in the four seats are Nitendra Nagar, Rakesh Solanki, Padam Singh Dagar and Ratan Singh Pawar, respectively. While, all the BJP contenders are new, the Congress candidate from Anand Vihar has been councillor once. In 2007 municipal elections, the Congress had won four of the five seats, whereas the BJP could bag only the Anand Vihar seat. Four of these five municipal seats were vacated by councillors after being elected as members of legislative assembly while election for one seat has been necessitated because of the death of the sitting member. There are many independent candidates in the fray. The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) had also constituted a three-member committee of MPs for the bye-elections to the MCD. The committee, constituted by DPCC president Jai Prakash Agarwal, includes MPs Krishna Tirath, Sandeep Dikshit and Mahabal Mishra. They have been made in-charge of their respective parliamentary constituencies and will discuss with the area MLAs, district and block Congress committee presidents, local leaders and workers about the candidates and submit the report to the DPCC. |
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Lashkar suspect in police custody for 14 days
New Delhi, August 26 The accused LeT operative was arrested with explosives from the Ajmeri Gate terminal of New Delhi Railway Station. He was carrying chemicals, explosives and a Pakistani passport issued in the name of Yusuf with him. The police has also seized a Jammu and Kashmir voter identity card, issued in the name of Saleem Mohammed. Special cell of the Delhi police today produced the accused in the Tis Hazari district courts before metropolitan magistrate Manish
Yaduvanshi, who sent him for custodial interrogation till September 9. Seeking his police remand, the prosecution said that Aslam was allegedly carrying explosives in sweet boxes to be delivered to his accomplices in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. On interrogation, the accused has disclosed the names of his other two accomplices who are still absconding and yet to be identified. He has links in Gujarat and Maharashtra, said public prosecutor Rajiv
Mohan. Aslam was also alleged to have been involved in several criminal cases in Gujarat and Maharashtra. The court said that the accused is handed over to the police for custodial interrogation for the purpose of obtaining further inputs. He would now be taken to
Aurangabad. His previous involvements in the cases in Maharashtra and Gujarat are also to be ascertained. Earlier this month, the Delhi police has also arrested two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists from the Daryaganj area of central Delhi. |
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Kidnapped 18-yr-old rescued in 4 hrs
New Delhi, August 26 The accused have been identified as Avdhesh Kumar Dubey, Kamlesh Kumar Mishra and Anil Mishra. Rahul Kumar of Old Jasola Village complained on Monday that his brother-in-law Sonalal who had gone to watch a film in the morning had been kidnapped. He had also received a ransom call of Rs 40,000 around 12:30 pm. Initially, he thought it to be a prank. But Rahul took the matter seriously when the kidnappers made him speak to Sonalal. Sonalal was crying as he was being tortured by the kidnappers. Rahul called the police control room around 4:15 pm. A police team was constituted and asked Rahul meet the kidnappers. “The kidnappers asked Rahul to come with the amount at Khoda colony in Noida. A police party followed him in plain clothes. The kidnappers approached Rahul straightway and started frisking him. This led to a scuffle between Rahul and the kidnappers. The policemen deployed in plain clothes overpowered the three kidnappers and rescued Sonalal,” said a senior police official. Anil Mishra, a resident of Faizabad in UP, said he worked as security guard at Great India Palace Mall in Sector-18, Noida. He had gone to deposit Rs 26,000 in a bank on August 12 where Sonalal had allegedly cheated him. He somehow obtained Sonalal’s mobile phone and planned with the two other accused to kidnap him. They made a woman call up Sonalal to Great India Palace. When Sonalal reached there, he was kidnapped and taken to Khoda Colony. Avdhesh Kumar Dubey is a graduate and works as a security supervisor at Odean Cinema, Connaught Place. While Kamlesh Kumar Mishra works as a security supervisor at Big Cinema, Sector-18, Noida. All accused are first timers and do not have any previous crime record. |
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Youth held for killing mom’s lover
New Delhi, August 26 The accused have been identified as Naveen and Sunita Devi (41), residents of Mahavir Park, Bahadurgarh. DCP Atul katiyar said the deceased was identified with the help of his driving license found from his pocket. Anil Kumar (40) was found dead with head injuries near Bawana Canal on August 20. “When we reached Anil’s house in Badli Extension, his wife Sunita said Anil had left home on August 18 but had not returned since then. It was later found that Anil was having illicit relations with Sunita who lived in Bahadurgarh,” DCP Katiyar said. The police traced Sunita on the basis of her mobile number found from the call details of Anil’s phone. Initially, Sunita tried to mislead the police. But on sustained interrogation she divulged the details of the crime. She said Anil had come to her house on his bike on August 18. He was drunk. When Naveen saw her with Anil, he became furious and smashed Anil’s head against the wall. Anil succumbed to his injuries after which Sunita and Naveen worked out a plan to get rid of his body. Naveen abandoned Anil’s bike at Sectoe-18 in Rohini. They wrapped his body in a ‘tat bori’ and bed-sheet, stuffed it in their Santro car and dumped it near Bawana Canal behind a DTC depot. The Santro car, blood-stained mattress, Anil’s gold ring and his bike have been seized.
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Delhi impostor cop caught fleecing truckers
Ghaziabad, August 26 “Shahid, a resident of Ghaziabad, has been making money from the truck drivers for the past three months. He would park his car near Ghaziabad New ISBT and flag down buses and trucks. He mainly targeted drivers of overloaded trucks and would threaten them with prosecution for carrying illegal weapons. Most drivers would get frightened and pay up before moving on, ” said a police officer. On Monday, too, he was out using the same technique to extort money. But a truck driver ran away and reported the matter to the nearby police post. When the police reached the spot, the gutsy Shahid initially tried to overawe the junior cops. But when senior officers arrived, he was on his knees, begging for forgiveness. A case of cheating has been lodged against him,” said a police officer. |
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Study focuses on drug patents
New Delhi, August 26 Touching upon the issues of judgement, negligence in relation to medicine, the report elucidates the impact of restrictive policies in India, with respect to medical and pharmaceutical innovation. According to Greg Kalbaugh, director and counsel of the USIBC, “The voice of the patient has been lost in the debate on intellectual property and drug patents. Incremental pharmaceutical innovation has real benefits for Indian patients since it leads to the development of life-saving drugs as well as drugs that markedly improve quality of life for Indian patients.” Explaining it, he continued, “Heat stable versions of anti-retroviral drugs may not be critically important to people in large cities where there’s easy access to electricity and refrigeration, but they’re surely important to people in rural areas.” |
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Illegal cosmetics factory unearthed
Ghaziabad, August 26 A large quantity of shaving cream tubes , facial powder packs, etc were seized which the police said commanded a market value of Rs 50 lakh. Three machines used for manufacturing cosmetics were also impounded by the team. Pandey said they had received a tipoff that at the back of the Nirmal Banquet Hall on Dhukna Sihani road, an illegal cosmetics factory was being run The raiding party arrested one worker, Shrawan, from the premises. Bina Tuteja is reportedly the proprietor of the factory. The license for this factory had been obtained from Delhi-24 and the unit was being run in an illegal way in Ghaziabad without any license. All equipment and raw materials have been seized and the building sealed. The police had unearthed an illegal life saving drug manufacturing factory from a building in Nand Gram Colony two months ago. |
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8 kids among 30 fresh swine flu cases
New Delhi, August 26 With currently 54 cases undergoing Tamiflu medication in the city, seven cases are admitted to various designated hospitals and the remaining 47 cases are under home quarantine. According to the city health department, among the fresh confirmed cases of H1N1, nine are in Dr RML Hospital, five in GTB Hospital, three cases each in Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, Yellow Fever Hospital and Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital. Then two cases each are in Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital and St. Stephen Hospital and one case each has been identified at Safdarjung Hospital, Hindu Rao Hospital and National Centre for Disease Control. Urging people to see a doctor at the earliest if any symptom of the H1N1 appears, the city health minister Kiran Walia said the situation is under control and the government is doing its best in providing treatment to H1N1 patients. |
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Environment dept reaffirms polybag ban
New Delhi, August 26 An official from the department stated, “It has been brought to our notice that plastic bags are still used in main markets, local shopping centres and in major branded outlets of stores.” This is in clear violation of the norm, which underlines that the sale, use or storage of all kinds of plastic bags shall be forbidden in the notified places, and the exception are areas like hospitals. But even there the plastic used should be in compliance with the prescribed standards, outlined the official. He added the use of jute, cloth or recycled bags has been mandated, and use of degradable bags, manufactured and advertised by several firms is strictly prohibited.
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2 caught for throwing acid on minor girl
New Delhi, August 26 The girl was rushed to
Hedgewar Hospital and is undergoing treatment with 18 per cent burn injuries.
“Sanjay and Deepak have been arrested while the third accused is absconding. He will be nabbed very soon,” the police officer added. According to information, the girl’s parents have alleged that Deepak often troubled their daughter and is the main culprit.
Further investigations are on and efforts are being made to arrest the third accomplice in the crime.
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Soon, flyovers atop trees!
New Delhi, August 26 The government is considering the unique proposal to present a soothing scenario to people commuting on and around flyovers, a statement issued from Chief Minister’s office said. Pillars below flyovers would be covered with greenery, which would make travellers believe that they have been built over trees. This would add to aesthetic value to the city during the Games. Besides, greenery would be developed on both sides of the carriageway over the flyovers. A presentation was made before Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at the Delhi secretariat here on Wednesday. |
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Be ready for rains today again
New Delhi, August 26 The maximum humidity recorded on Wednesday was 90 per cent and the minimum was 69 per cent, whereas the total rainfall was recorded as 4.0 mm. The maximum temperature on Wednesday was 33 degrees Celsius and the minimum was 26 degrees Celsius. There were intermittent showers across the Capital on Wednesday accompanied with the inevitable traffic snarls and long queues of vehicles stuck in it. |
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