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4th swine flu death
2 HINI cases in Noida
Child kidnapped, killed over
gambling dispute
1,200 booked for Gzb violence
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Gujjar, Meo candidates likely in Sohna
Killer of traders’ body president nabbed
Power bills high due to changed consumption pattern: BSES
DJB explains ‘erratic’ water supply in Shahdara
198 govt schools to get facelift
Games 2010
Cong begins shortlisting applicants for poll ticket in Faridabad
4 robbers who assaulted constable arrested
4 lives lost in road accidents
Smuggler held with
22-kg charas
Man stabbed in road rage
Newborn girl found abandoned
Aspirants protest after channel cancels audition
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4th swine flu death
New Delhi, September 7 Besides, 52 fresh cases, including 29 children, were confirmed today. Three schools announced closure as three students tested positive. Durga Prasad Sharma of Tihar Jail Road had come to the RML Hospital after visiting two private hospitals, and according to RMLH medical superintendent, his condition was critical right from the day one. “The old man came to us for treatment of renal failure, but as he showed symptoms of H1N1, we sent his sample to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and he tested positive for the virus on September 1. He had been on ventilator. He passed away due to chronic real failure at 11:30 am,” stated Dr Nitish. Meanwhile, the 12-year-old girl, who has a history of epilepsy and had tested positive for the virus earlier, has shown marginal improvement. However, she continued to be serious. Besides, the hospital confirmed seven more cases of the virus today, said Dr Nitish. With three students of Vishwa Bharati Public School in Dwarka, Heritage Grove School in Vasant Kunj and Banyan Tree School at Lodhi Colony being tesed positive for H1N1 flu, classes at the three schools were suspended from today. While students of Vishwa Bharti have been directed to stay at home for two days, classes at Heritage Grove won’t be held for one week. However, Banyan Tree send all students travelling by the bus—in which the infected student of Class IX had travelled—on a week’s leave along with shutting Class IX for a week. A source from Banyan Tree School says, “After the parents of a student of Class IX called up on Saturday to inform about his child’s H1N1 positive status, the management yesterday decided to shut the class for a week. Besides, all the students travelling by the same bus have been isolated.” Adding that the response is a careful approach, the source said the step had been taken to safeguard the health of the children in keeping with the precautionary norms for preventing the spread of the flu.
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2 HINI cases in Noida
Noida, September 7 The two cases have taken the total number of swine flu cases in the Gautam Budh Nagar district to eight. The two recent victims have been identified as a 14-year-old boy from Greater Noida’s Sector Alfa and a 47-year-old man in Noida. Chief medical officer Dr M.L. Mishra said both the patients were being treated at their homes. Meanwhile, samples of 50 other patients from this district have been sent for testing. Chief medical officer Dr Raj Rani Kansal said there was not a single patient in government ward, as patients prefer to take treatment at their homes. |
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Child kidnapped, killed over
gambling dispute
Ghaziabad, September 7 The incident came to light on Monday when the police nabbed the culprits and recovered the child’s clothes. The boy, a student of Class X, was kidnapped by his father’s gambling partner and neighbour Chetan Prakash on Saturday, the police said. When the boy’s father Prem Kumar Arora found his son missing, he lodged a complaint with police and said he suspected that Prakash had a role behind his son going missing. On the basis of Arora’s complaint, the police on Sunday night called Prakash and his 13-year-old son for questioning. “Prakash, during sustained interrogation, confessed that he with the help of his son and one other accomplice had kidnapped the child and had taken him to Muzaffarnagar where they had murdered him and thrown the body into a canal,” a police officer said. The Ghaziabad police then contacted the Muzaffarnagar police and took the accused to the spot. The local police confirmed that an unidentified body of a child was recovered from the canal. They had cremated the child and kept his clothes, on the basis of which Arora made the identification. “Prakash confessed that he had a dispute with Arora over sharing the money they had won in gambling. He was angry with the boy’s father after he refused to share the money. So, he hatched a plan to kill his son,” the police officer said. “Prakash and his son have been arrested while their accomplice is absconding,” the police officer added.
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1,200 booked for Gzb violence
Ghaziabad, September 7 The police has booked over 1,200 rioters sunder Sections 336, 307, 147, 148, 149 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code and also under the 7th Criminal Law Amendment Act. Several companies of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) have been deployed in the area, said SSP Ghaziabad. On Saturday, over 5,000 residents of unauthorised colonies in Rahul Vihar, Budh Vihar and Chijarsi had clashed with the police and had resorted to large-scale violence. They had resorted to violence as they feared that their colonies near the Hindon river would be demolished, as the Irrigation Construction Division (ICD) officials were marking a flood zone of 400-metre on either sides of the river. The unruly mob damaged 24 vehicles, including UP Roadways buses, private buses, trucks and cars. The mob also blocked the highway for over six hours. Commuters coming from or going to Delhi railway stations, ISBT and patients who had to go to hospitals faced a lot of inconvenience. However, the figures of loss of public and private property has not been compiled yet. The police said the loss might be over Rs 1 crore. Commissioner (Meerut range), inspector general of police, district administration and police officials from Ghaziabad and Noida reviewed the situation on Sunday. “We are trying to find out the land’s owner. Besides, we are trying to figure out how electricity connections and registries were made in names of people who have built houses in the prohibited area. The District Magistrate will conduct an inquiry,” said Shravan Kumar Sharma, commissioner (Meerut range). But it seems that nobody has answers to how the construction of nearly 5,000 houses along the Hindon bank went unnoticed or how the officials allowed the constructions without considering environmental hazards. It could have been due to the connivance of the staff of electricity department, officials in revenue department and some officials in development bodies. |
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Gujjar, Meo candidates likely in Sohna
Gurgaon, September 7 In Sohna, traditionally the contest has been between Yadavs and Gujjars, but post delimitation, majority of Yadav voters have shifted to the newly-created Badshahpur Assembly and Pataudi Assembly (reserved). So now in Sohna, majority of the voters are either Gujjar or Meo, as Meo voters from Taoru Assembly constituency, which stand abolished after delimitation, have shifted to Sohna. In the last Assembly polls, the Sohna seat had gone to an independent Gujjar leader Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria. Jaunapuria had defeated Congress candidate Rao Dharampal despite a strong pro-Congress wave in the state. However, in the recently held Lok Sabha polls, Jaunapuria tried for a Congress ticket from Rajasthan, but could not succeed and had to contest as an independent to finish a poor third. Recently, there were reports that Jaunapuria was trying to join Congress, but his application for Congress membership has been reportedly rejected by the party high command. As far as Congress’s nominee from Sohna is concerned, the party has many options. Congress president of Sohna block Jitender Bhardwaj is a prominent name among the contenders. Apart from Jitender, a string of Gujjar leaders too are in line for the ticket. However, none of them has ever won an MLA election, but have a strong claim as party loyalists. Rao Dharampal, a strong contender for Congress ticket from Sohna has shifted to Badshahpur. Similarly, INLD too has a string of Gujjar leaders like Anantram Tanwar, Madan Lal Gujjar, etc, who have unsuccessfully contested MLA elections in the past. The HJC- BJP coalition is still to mature and under these conditions, speculations are high that if Sohna seat, in the proposed coalition, goes to BJP, then it can field a Gujjar or a Rajput candidate to make the contest evenly poised. However, if the seat goes to HJC, then it is likely that the party will field a Gujjar candidate— either Rohtash Khatana or Mahesh Dayma. Meanwhile, the BSP is in a dilemma about its candidate from the seat. Its strong Meo leader ex-MLA Chaudhary Zakir Hussain has still not announced as to from where would he contest. Also, many independents from various castes are also expected to contest the election after denial of party tickets, as they are economically very sound. |
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Killer of traders’ body president nabbed
New Delhi, September 7 Narender Bhatti, alias Ravana, was arrested on late Sunday from south Delhi and an automatic US-made 9mm pistol, two live and two used cartridges, three live cartridges for .315 bore pistol and a stolen motorcycle were seized from him. “During the last three months, the gang of Bhatti, alias Ravana, had unleashed a reign of terror in the Gautam Budh Nagar area (Noida). In Dadri area of Uttar Pradesh, Bhatti and his gang members had opened fire on police many times,” deputy commissioner of police (south) H.G.S. Dhaliwal said. He said the gang’s terror was further increased when they gunned down Vinod Goel, the president of Dadri Traders’ Association, in broad daylight for raising a voice against their regular extortion demands on the business community and mounting pressure on the local police to take action against the gang. Various teams of the Delhi Police and Uttar Pradesh police were pressed into service to arrest members of this gang. A reward was also announced by the Uttar Pradesh police for Bhatti’s arrest. Dhaliwal said the movements of the gang members were tracked for two to three days and a specific input received that Bhatti would go to the Kotla area to meet one of his relatives living there. Immediately a trap was laid and two teams, with sufficient fire power, were deployed. He said when intercepted by the police, Bhatti ran inside an alley as well as opened fire at the police squad. The police retaliated and succeeded in overpowering him, Dhaliwal added. According to the police, Bhatti has been involved in crime since 1998, and many cases of murder, robbery, extortion and attempted murder have been registered against him. He has been arrested several times. Dhaliwal said Bhatti usually travelled by bus and other public transport in an attempt to avoid arrest. He maintained hideouts in bordering areas of the trans-Yamuna area and kept on changing hideouts from one area of Uttar Pradesh to another, he added. — IANS
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Power bills high due to changed consumption pattern: BSES
New Delhi, September 7 BSES CEO Arun Kanchan said the phenomenal change in the bills was common throughout Delhi and not only in the areas of BSES. “There is a drastic change in the power usage pattern of residents due to the unprecedented heat wave, which has resulted in increased power bills,” said Kanchan. “Bills of 20% NDPL consumers have also increased by more than 70%,” he said. On government subsidy, he said it had been extended for only those consumers who use less than 200 MW per month. “Their arrears would be refunded when we receive the final notification from the government. But the 10% subsidy has been permanently withdrawn, the effect of which has been reflected in the increased bills,” said Kanchan. He said there was an overall 16 to 17% increase in power consumption in comparison to last year. For those who use three phase connections, the usage has increased to almost 25 to 35%. “The per hour power usage of an appliance depends upon the ambient temperature,” he said. He supported his fact by saying that even if one had used AC for one hour last year and this year, the bill would be higher for this year because of the increased temperature this summer. He said new record had been formed this year with the peak consumption going upto 4,500 MW. The national per capita usage was 606 per annum whereas in Delhi, it was 1,265 MW per annum, he added.
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DJB explains ‘erratic’ water supply in Shahdara
New Delhi, September 7 The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in its reply to the court said, “The area is in the tail end, so low pressure sometimes lead to erratic supply from the Bhagirathi water treatment plant.” It also pointed out the population of the area has almost doubled over these years, leading to a rising demand compared to the supply. DJB was replying to a notice the court had issued to the chairperson of the city water authority, CM Sheila Dikshit and other executive officers. The court was hearing a public interest petition filed by advocate Surendra Sharma, a resident of Mohalla Ganga Ram in Shahdara, last Wednesday. He had pleaded before the court that there had been no water supply in his area for the past 87 days. Seeking an explanation, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan issued notice to the chairperson, CEO, the executive engineer and the chairman of the Trans Yamuna Area Development Board. “We have written letters to the DJB authorities for the restoration of water supply but they turned a blind eye and paid no heed to our problem,” Sharma contended before the bench adding that water bills are sent to them regularly despite the lack of supply. However, the DJB rejected the petitioner’s contention that there was no water supply for the period and said the bills sent to the residents are the proof of water supply. The petitioner also demanded a compensation of Rs 2,00,000 from the DJB for the inconvenience caused to residents of the area and also sought directions from the court to quash the water bills. The court will hear the matter on September 23.
— IANS
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198 govt schools to get facelift
New Delhi, September 7 Speaking after inaugurating a renovated building of Government Sarvodaya School at Old Seelampur in East Delhi, Dikshit said the education department had assigned 198 schools in northwest, northeast and east Delhi to the Delhi State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) for refurbishment. The DSIIDC has engaged a private agency to prepare school-wise improvement plans. The DSIIDC has taken the initiative under ‘Roopantar’, a project aimed at upgrading the physical infrastructure of Delhi government schools in consultation with the IL and FS, a consultancy service agency, to the basic minimum acceptable standards of health, hygiene and safety. The Chief Minister further said that out of the 198 selected schools, works in 48 schools had been awarded and has already begun. Further, out of these 48 schools, works in 16 schools have already been completed and in another 29 schools, it is likely to be completed this month. In the second phase, renovation works at 150 schools would be completed within two years. While expressing his pleasure over the development, education minister Arvinder Singh said the renovation works of school building at Old Seelampur were completed within the stipulated time at a cost of Rs 215 lakh. He said that the new building had three floors, excluding the ground floor. The building consist of 11 rooms, including two laboratories, six classrooms, a library, principal’s room and a hall with four toilet blocks at each floor. According to him, the premises have the provision of rainwater harvesting, underground water tank, septic tank, drinking water module, RO plant and miscellaneous development works, including horticulture. In all, there were 34 rooms, 11 toilet blocks for boys, girls and staff and one toilet and ramps for children with special needs, he added. While expressing his gratitude towards the Chief Minister, East Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit said the Delhi government was providing quality education and implementing the new projects for upgradation and improvement of education. He also thanked the Delhi government for bringing East Delhi at par with other developed parts of the Capital. He also appreciated education department’s efforts of opening two schools every month in Delhi in the last 10 years.
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Games 2010
New Delhi, September 7 Dikshit inspected flooring area, air-conditioning process, athletic track area, visitors’ gallery and the place earmarked for escalators and lifts. She instructed the officials concerned to make arrangements so that athletes could practice inside the stadium. The Chief Minister also asked the public works department (PWD) to provide clean public conveniences. Dikshit was told that the process of installation of lift and escalators would be completed as early as possible after completion of the civil work. She was told that it would take two months to complete all the remaining works. She was also told that international standards would be kept in mind while laying synthetic athletic track and that the tiles used in construction of stadium were fireproof. The stadium would have parking space for 450 vehicles at the surface level. The three-storey stadium would be a marvelous piece of architecture with five tennis courts. The Chief Minister gave instructions for commissioning of a well-managed cafeteria. Further, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has been especially asked to upgrade roads leading to the stadium. After going through the VIP lounge and visitors’ gallery, the Chief Minister expressed satisfaction over the pace and quality of work. The Chief Minister said that the stadium would cost Rs 297 crore and would be used as the venue of netball tournament apart from being utilised as a practice place.
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Cong begins shortlisting applicants for poll ticket in Faridabad
Faridabad, September 7 Congress observer for Faridabad Maj Krishna Mohini, a former MLA from Himachal Pradesh and vice-president of the AICC’s women wing, interviewed applicants from Badkal, Tigaon and Faridabad. She will interview
applicants from the remaining three assembly segments tomorrow. The interview was a close-door affair. Supporters of the applicants were asked not to indulge in commotion and raise slogans for their leaders. An applicant said
Mohini inquired about a number of things, including why he should be given a ticket. An office-bearer of the District Congress Committee informed the observer would shortlist the applicants and prepare a panel. The panel would be sent to the State Election Committee, which is headed by the president of Haryana Congress Phool Chand Maulana. The State Election Committee would consider only those names which would be included in the panel prepared by the observer. Former MLA from Himachal Pradesh Harbhajan Singh has been appointed as the observer for assembly segments in Palwal. He would interview applicants on September 12. According to the Faridabad Congress Committee chief B.R. Ojha, many applicants did not appear before the observer today. |
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4 robbers who assaulted constable arrested
New Delhi, September
7 The arrested people have been identified as Chanderkishor, Mukesh, Santosh, Kaniyya, Dheeraj Soni. The police tracked the accused from Raj Nagar petrol pump at main Ring Road near Safdarjung Enclave where they came to loot the petrol pump as it is located in a secluded area. The team of police officials spotted five robbers and apprehended four out of them. One of the accomplices Dharmender, alias Gujar, managed to flee in the commotion. The police has recovered a countrymade pistol, a spring actuated Knife and an iron rod from their possession. On interrogation, the accused confessed their involvement in a total of 12 cases of snatching in the past five months. The accused have been involved in several robbery cases, says police records.
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4 lives lost in road accidents
Greater Noida, September 7 Of the three accidents that happened on Saturday, the first one was reported from Surajpur. One Beni Prasad Srivastava of Varanasi was going to Greater Noida in a three-wheeler with his daughter Niti and son Aman. Near Surajpur, their three-wheeler collided with a JCB. Niti and the driver of the three-wheeler were seriously injured. They were rushed to a private hospital in Greater Noida where Niti succumbed to her injuries. In the second incident, two residents of Salarpur— Rajpal and Biru— were going to Dankore on Saturday night on a tractor. Near Rajpur village under Dankore Kotwali, their tractor went out of control and Rajpal was crushed under its wheels. But his brother Rampal has filed a murder complaint against three men— Biru, Tejpal and Dharampal. The third case was reported from the Kakode Kotwali area near Bhora village. One Sonpal of Bulandshahr was hit by a jeep. He was rushed to a hospital in Bulandshahr where he succumbed to his injuries. |
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Smuggler held with
22-kg charas
New Delhi, September 7 Raids were conducted to apprehend him. Anil was arrested near Hazrat Nizamuddin Flyover. On sustained interrogation, Anil said he had been smuggling charas since 1994 with his associates Dhruv Kampani and Sudam, residents of Veerganj in Nepal. The drugs was supplied from Nepal. He further disclosed he used to supply narcotics in Bahadurgarh and Rohtak. Anil Vishwas was earlier arrested at Najafgarh and convicted in a number of cases, according to the police records. Further investigations in the case are on.
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New Delhi, September 7 Harish, who was driving a scooter, allegedly hit two men— Rakesh and Sachin— in the Shahbad Dairy area in Outer Delhi on late Saturday. Following this, a heated argument broke out between them. “Both sides called their relatives to the spot and the fight took an ugly turn when Naveen, a friend of Rakesh and Sachin, was allegedly stabbed by a member of the other group,” a police officer said. The victim’s relatives have alleged that Harish’s father, Baljeet and another relative, Sandeep, had allegedly stabbed Naveen before fleeing the spot. “Both of them have been arrested and a case of murder has been registered. Further investigations in the case are on,” the police officer added. — IANS
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Newborn girl found abandoned
Noida, September 7 “The infant was discovered by a woman named Radha, who was passing through the forested Morna area near Sector 35,” a police officer said. She brought the new-born to Sector 39 police station and the infant was rushed to government hospital. “The baby is in good and healthy condition,” a doctor at the hospital Naresh Raj said.He added the baby was born in the same hospital two days back and they suspect the mother of the child to be a woman named Kiran.
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Aspirants protest after channel cancels audition
New Delhi, September 7 “The channel was conducting auditions at Kamani auditorium here and had made arrangements for around 400 people only. However, nearly 2,000 people gathered at the place following which the channel cancelled the audition,” a police officer said. “But as organisers decided to cancel the audition, the aspirants, many of whom were from distant places, started protesting. They also raised slogans against the channel, the police officer added. “The situation was brought under control before things turned serious,” the police officer said. The police refuted allegations that they resorted to baton charge to disperse the crowd.
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