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4 get death for killing relatives for property
Daughter is a joy for ever, feel parents
Platform to bolster economic empowerment of PWDs
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Kahlon’s book celebrates life amidst adversity
Delhi’s new police stations short of men, weapons
Cricket satta racket busted
Fake Notes
Birth certificate: Govt proposes, MCD disposes
DU launches automobile course
Lover held for woman’s murder
Vehicle thieves held
2,700 pirated CDs
seized in Noida
MCA student found hanging
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4 get death for killing relatives for property
Ghaziabad, September 27 Pinki Singh’s husband, father, mother and brother were brutally murdered in front of her house in Nabipur in Murad Nagar of Ghaziabad district by her own relatives in a property dispute. She was the lone witness to the murder of her family members. Despite facing threats to her life, Pinki persisted with the court case against the culprits who were her distant relatives. After the judgment, Pinki Singh said, “Two generations were slaughtered that night and it was tough to get justice as they knew my strengths and weaknesses.” Her sturdy resilience bore fruit on Thursday when the court of an addl district judge at Ghaziabad pronounced death sentence to four accused in the case. Pinky Singh herself was a victim of violence two years ago which had left her disfigured. Her jaw was completely crushed–she now manages with a steel strip inside her mouth. Besides, she had lost two fingers and bears deep cut marks all over her body. The court awarded death penalty to accused Mukesh, Ajay, Ravi and Brijpal. While Mukesh, Brijpal and Ravi are Pinki’s relatives; Ajay is a friend of Mukesh. One of the six accused in the case, Abrar, was shot dead by Meerut police in an encounter earlier. The sixth accused Promod – a hired killer – is still absconding. |
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Daughter is a joy for ever, feel parents
New Delhi, September 27 Bhawan is a strong believer of the fact that today daughters are no less than a son, for he says, “She is the one who touches parents’ life and keeps them in heart always.” Child educationist Anjana Chawla and her hubby Vinod also share the same view. Anjana has two daughters. Reminiscing about her past, she says, “We did not have any child so we adopted Radhika. After five years, Gauri started working in our house. She was an orphan. A maid brought her to us. We never came to know when Gauri became a part of our small family. My in-laws always opposed to our decision to adopt two girls for they wanted a boy who can take their name forward.” Today both these girls are working in the top IT companies and have supported their parents in all the ups and downs of their life. “On Daughters’ Day, the only thing I can give my parents is the assurance of the fact that the world may go against me but I would continue to take your name before God in my morning prayers,” said an emotional Gauri, hugging her parents. Apart from those who cherish the moments they spend with their daughters, a few couples in the city feel incomplete without the presence of daughter. “We have two boys and we feel that a daughter is a gift to have. I particularly miss a daughter when depressed and alone, for she is a mother’s best friend,” says Navneeta Sharma, a resident of Mayur Vihar. A saying goes that “a son is a son till he takes a wife but a daughter is a daughter throughout her life” came out to be true in the case of Anuj Rajpal and Kirti Rajpal who reside in Saket. In their early seventies, the couple was thrown out of their own house by their son. “We both are not highly educated. So my daughter-in-law used to feel humiliated in front of her friends as we do not answer them in English. One day she threw us out of our house,” said Kirti. At the time when the son betrayed them, their own daughter, a schoolteacher, helped her parents and fought a case against her brother. “Even after marriage our daughter proved to be our real son,” contended Anuj. In many cases where a girl child is not given convent education because of financial problems, the parents manage to send their son to a convent school. This happened with Amrita Malik who is now keeping her parents with her, for her brother has shifted abroad. |
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Platform to bolster economic empowerment of PWDs
New Delhi, September 27 The expo, launched by minister of social justice and empowerment Mukul Wasnik on Friday evening, attempts to facilitate a wider visibility to the PWD and weaker sections by promoting their art. This platform aims to empower them economically by enabling them to get a better exchange for their products. The minister stressed encouraging PWD and disadvantaged groups to enable them to create a space for them at a time when the whole world is becoming competitive. For making a stand at any competitive market, it is important to provide them with proper training as quality is the buzzword nowadays. If need be, crafts people should be sent abroad for having the taste of the global trends, especially at a time when we are facing a tough competition with nations like China, Thailand etc, he said. Participants at the fair ranged from single beneficiary to groups of 20 from the National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporations (NHFDC), National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation, National Safai Karmacharis Finance and Development Corporation and National Scheduled Castes Finance Development Corporation besides 12 national institutes under the ministry. The 197 stalls, spruced up with delicate fabrics, articles of household, leather and wood products, eatables etc, grabbed the attention of almost every visitor, with people flocking to see the best of exhibits. Items, which were the outcome of hard toil included items brought from all corners of the country—intricately designed carpets from Srinagar, artistic and colourful lampshades from Orissa, fascinating candles with arresting fragrance and packeted seafood from south, attractive diyas in multiple shapes from several states through NGO ARUNIM. There were crafts people like Sunil Kumar (32) from Sonepat, who has been carrying on the legacy of his father and making leather shoes for nine years. This time Sunil hopes to get a good price for his displays as he has tried to create new designs to cater to the ever-changing tastes of urban people. To 55-year-old Ramchandra Babu Rao, who had lost his left eye to polio, the only way to live a life was to carry his parental work forward in Kolhapur. Being in the business for over 25 years, now he feels that handicraft and homemade products have always had a good market, but it is only when they reach the malls and emporiums. “We have never got the proper value for our products. It is only the big business houses that reap the profits. Because of this our children don’t wish to enter the family work. The next generation is losing interest in handicrafts,” stated Ramchandra “People should come and buy the goods made by disabled people and help those who are trying to find a name for themselves in society,” said Nadeem Khan, a final year student of Institute for Integrated Learning in Management, Greater Noida. |
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Kahlon’s book celebrates life amidst adversity
New Delhi, September 27 The book was released by Praneet Kaur, minister of state for external affairs. Jagmohan, former union minister of tourism and culture was also present on the occasion. Kahlon added, “I felt impelled to write about the partition as my family had lived through its aftermath and this aftermath stayed with us in our thoughts long after it was over. I felt I needed to write this book for my children and really started the book for them after that it took a life of its own.” Praneet Kaur commented, “This book is most truly a celebration of life and human courage in the face of adverse circumstances. It is a story of survival and hope and an intense love story spanning three generations. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.” “Neena Kahlon is a born storyteller. I feel that the younger generation should read this book as it will give them a fair idea about partition and the trials that people lived through at that time,” said Praneet. The book ‘Remembering the Juice Mango’ is set in the violent era of the partition. The book is the story of Ratna and Dev, two young Hindu orphans, one a servant and the other the master. The story revolves around the two children sitting by Dev’s dead mother and takes the reader through a gamut of emotions that play across the children’s minds at this time and their lack of ability to fully grasp the situation in which they find themselves. A further twist in the tale is provided by the entry of a Sikh couple, fleeing the newly created Pakistan into independent India. This Sikh couple reaches out to these bewildered children through their own pain and trauma and adopts the children. Difficult days follow, as Ratna and her newly forged family journey across unfamiliar land. As the story progresses, with help from nurturing adoptive parents and the power of remembered love, nine-year-old, shell-shocked Ratna soon grows into a powerful woman. The narrative is essentially her story and her refusal to allow tragedy to control her life. This is a story of survival for those who like Ratna, are forgotten after being branded ‘collateral damage’ in various human conflicts. Neena Kahlon, the author, is originally a native of Amritsar in Punjab and has her Masters in English Literature from Panjab University. She and her husband have lived in the United States since 1974, and raised two sons. Neena has been commended in several national short story competitions. She was a finalist in the National Faulkner/Wisdom Competition. Neena also won the second prize award in Oklahoma Writer’s Conference. |
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Delhi’s new police stations short of men, weapons
New Delhi, September 27 The home ministry sanctioned two police districts, 11 sub-divisions and 40 police stations in 2008 and 2009 in the city. The first of the sanctioned police stations opened only after the Mumbai terror attack in which Pakistani terrorists slaughtered over 160 people in November last year. In the process, the number of police stations in Delhi has shot up from 116 in September 2008 to 155 now — the most among all Indian cities. Besides, the Delhi police has 14 non-jurisdictional and specialised police stations at railway stations, Metro, Indira Gandhi International Airport, crime branch, economic offences wing, crime against women and special cell. According to sources, most new police stations are working with half their strength and fewer weapons. Because of shortage of men, the new police stations have been given only 50 personnel. The usual strength is 100-125 people depending upon the area and population under the jurisdiction of a police station. Also, only one weapon is sanctioned now for every policeman at a police station. “Around 50 men are given to each new police station because of the shortage of personnel,” said a police officer. “And most of these men were drawn after diluting two of the reserve battalions of the Delhi armed police. “The sanction to raise more men came only one year ago. In the past, we ourselves raised an entire police district by pooling in all the existing resources with us for better policing.” While inaugurating 22 new police stations on Wednesday, home minister P. Chidambaram had stated that policemen should be walking on every street. “Senior citizens and students must be safe - even lovers in parks must be safe.” With the newly-created police stations, Delhi police aims at a paradigm shift in policing the national Capital. The priorities, Delhi police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal said, should cover better handling of complaints and criminal intelligence, improvement in the quality of investigation, good preventive measures and crime control, effective surveillance and improvement in detection rates. Asked about the shortage of men, Dadwal said this gap would be bridged before the start of the Commonwealth Games to be held in October
2010. — IANS |
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Cricket satta racket busted
New Delhi, September 27 According to information, the trio were arrested late Saturday from a Geeta Colony house in east Delhi when they were taking bets on the India-Pakistan match played in South Africa yesterday. Betting is illegal in India. According to Anand Mohan, addl. commissioner of police (East), the accused had been running bets for the last six months and used to keep changing their locations. Police has recovered 13 mobile phones, two laptops and one TV set from them. The accused has been identified as Tarun Deep Bhatia @ Jaggi (34), Vijay Kumar (36) and Vijay Chand (51). Acting on information received by SI Satendra Khari that satta was going on during the Indo-Pak match, the police team raided house number 13/122, Geeta Colony and arrested the trio. “At the time they were apprehended, they had booked satta amounting to Rs 70 lakh,” said Mohan. On interrogation, the accused revealed that they would take betting rates on telephone from Faridabad. After the match they distribute the money accordingly. |
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Fake Notes
New Delhi, September 27 Several banks in Delhi have failed to detect fake currency coming to them. According to an FIR lodged at the Parliament Street police station last month by M.P. Gupta, manager, Reserve Bank of India, they have received fake currency notes worth Rs 4,838 from 23 branches of 13 banks in the Capital alone. These fake currency notes were detected between April-July 2009 and include not only the sophisticated Pakistan-made Indian currency notes but also the indigenous ones made with the help of computer, scanner and printer. “If bank officials fail to detect fake notes, one can understand the plight of the common man. Almost every day we are getting complaints of ATMs churning out fake notes and hapless customers running from pillar to post for rectification,” said a police official from the Parliament Street police station. According to information, the banks that have sent fake currency notes to the RBI include ICICI, SBI, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Corporation Bank, Union Bank of India, Overseas Bank, Axis Bank, Dena Bank, HDFC, Standard Chartered, and Syndicate Bank. “These fake currency notes have been collected from about 23 branches of these banks located in Darya Ganj, Pushp Vihar, DDU Marg, Sultanpuri, South Extension and Mayur Vihar. Virtually every area of Delhi is experiencing the problem,” said the police official. According to him, the fake currency notes detected by the banks are sent to the RBI with their likely source and suspect customers. “RBI then sends the fake notes to its printing press in Deva, MP, to find the details of its make and take future action and precautions,” added police. Meanwhile, the RBI has once again issued instructions to the banks to take the issue of fake currency notes very seriously. “We are teaching over customers to detect fake notes and to bring it to our notice and police at the prompt. The problem can be tackled only with the help of public,” said senior manager, ICICI Bank, Mayur
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Birth certificate: Govt proposes, MCD disposes
New Delhi, September 27 In the light of the centre handing over the administrative control of MCD to Delhi government, the officials have attributed the civic agency’s refusal to political non-cooperation. However, MCD had also announced to open its own 2,000 service utility kiosks in various parts of the city, but nothing seems to have come of it. Though, the proposal was passed in the standing committee meeting and in House, no action has been initiated so far. While the Delhi government has decided that its service kiosks, popularly called ‘Jeevan kiosks’, will now enable people to buy movie tickets as well as insurance policies apart from booking airlines tickets. The ambit of services is set to further expand, with the city government aiming to make these kiosks a single platform for financial services in its initiative for government-citizen interface. “Among the new services added at Jeevan kiosks are booking of movie tickets for three cineplexes of the Fun Cinema, airlines tickets and buying and paying premiums for insurance policies of the LIC and ICICI,” said one of the senior officers in IT department. Further, the city government is soon to begin collection of application forms for all kinds of telecom services offered by the MTNL. The people just need to drop an application at the Jeevan kiosks, after which the MTNL will come at the doorstep of the applicants to execute the request. The Delhi government is aiming to further expand the number of Jeevan centres from the current 250 to 500, though there is a demand for 1,000 such centres in various parts of the Capital. “The idea is that people need not go more than 2 km from their residences for their utility services. In the recent meeting with the resident welfare associations, we have been told that the RWAs are willing to offer their premises for the opening of new Jeevan centres,” said the officer. As part of the e-governance drive of Delhi government, Jeevan centres are offering 26 services in all so far, including booking of railways tickets, while more utilities would be added in the coming time. “The cyber cafes are doing a big business in railways ticket booking but at a cost. At Jeevan centres, the people do not need to pay anything extra and can take the printout of their railways tickets,” he added. |
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DU launches automobile course
New Delhi, September 27 The course was launched by Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit at the Campus of Open Learning in Keshavpuram. The programme has been introduced in association with private partners like the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). For the course, an automobile lab has been developed to provide in-house training and internship to the students. “Such initiatives would certainly help in providing quality training to students and equip them with technical skills and help them become financially independent,” Dikshit said. The six-month course offering a diploma in automobile component, service, sales and management would help students develop interpersonal and communication skills. DU vice-chancellor Deepak Pental said, “Such industry and university collaborations would help us in overcoming the dearth of skilled labour in our country.” |
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Lover held for woman’s murder
Greater Noida, Sep 27 Police says the woman was strangled by her lover. The accused was arrested by Surajpur police yesterday. SP Rural Surinder Kumar Verma said the body of an unidentified young girl was found last year. The identity of the deceased was established two months ago after publication of an advertisement. She was a resident Subzi Mandi Kotwali, Delhi. Her cell phone call details indicated that she used to have prolonged talks with Sonu of Aamka village in Dadri, a painter. He had just been released from jail of a charge of attempted murder.. During police interrogation on Saturday after his release from jail, Sonu spilt the beans. The woman wanted to marry Sonu. Her father had sold his house in Patna a few days earlier. The girl stole Rs 2 lakh of her father and eloped with Sonu to Dadri. With that money Sonu first bought a bike from Ghaziabad, saw a movie, bought jeans from a mall for her. In the evening, he returned to Santosh Nagar colony, Dadri. According to police, the woman told Sonu that she would have lodged a case against him if he had not brought her along. This angered Sonu so much so that he murdered her at night. |
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Vehicle thieves held
New Delhi, September 27 Esrar has disclosed that he has two persons from Manipur, Ammu and Sana, in his gang who has links in the north-eastern region where they dispose of the bikes. Efforts are on to trace Ammu and
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2,700 pirated CDs
seized in Noida
Our Correspondent Noida, September 27 The police conducted a raid and recovered the CDs. These included many CDs of new films. The arrested persons have been identified as Zuker and
Rinku. |
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MCA student found hanging
New Delhi, September 27 According to the police, the incident was reported from F-block of Dakshinpuri under Ambedkar Nagar police station. The deceased, Aftab, was discovered hanging by his family members. He was studying MCA from IGNOU and was in the first year of the course.
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