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Delhi Cabinet okays new Wazirabad bridge
Sheila ignores MP in development of NE
Talkatora Stadium upgraded for Games
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Single window suggested for housing allotments
DU teachers to intensify stir against semester system
Board Exams
Two juvenile burglars arrested
Man dies, son hurt in truck mishap
Gang of robbers busted
Noida petrol pumps to get CCTVs soon
DTU, NPL sign pact for new courses
Noida authorities offer funds to upgrade police
‘Partial knee replacement better in many cases’
Seven held for stone-pelting, arson
1 caught for stabbing man
Another death at Asha Kiran
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Delhi Cabinet okays new Wazirabad bridge
New Delhi, February 24 Wazirabad Bridge earlier was known as Signature Bridge. But it has been changed to, sources said Briefing the media after the meeting, the Chief Minister stated that the cabinet had given its nod for the construction of the new Wazirabad Bridge and its approaches over Yamuna downstream of existing bridge at Wazirabad. The construction would be held in two phases. The bridge will bring a positive change in traffic scenario on both sides of river. The Delhi government has felt the need for construction a new bridge at Wazirabad as the old bridge is not enough to take load of fast-increasing quantum of traffic causing lengthy jams resulting in loss of time and fuel. Dikshit stated that new bridge would become a new landmark of Delhi as it would facilitate un-interrupted traffic and help in smooth movement of traffic between the national Capital and Uttar Pradesh. The bridge will have a main bridge, western approach, eastern approach, pedestrian sub-ways, road signages, horticulture and landscaping works. Meanwhile, the cabinet has decided to raise the security amount from the existing rate of Rs 1000 to Rs 28,000 from each tree to be removed under the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994. It is being done with the twin objective of ensuring effective implementation of the provisions of the Act and compensation on account of loss of greenery. An applicant has to submit Rs 1000 when he seeks permission for felling a tree. |
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Sheila ignores MP in development of NE
New Delhi, February 24 Expressing surprise, Jai Prakash said, “I am the Member of Parliament from North East district but I was not involved in the discussions about the development process in the area. Had it been the BJP or other party government, I would not be surprised,” he said. “The Chief Minister should have consulted the public representative while taking decision of development of any area. I am not aware of the meeting”, he said. The Chief Minister was not available for comments. According to sources, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, had called a meeting yesterday and constituted two committees – state level and district level – for the development of North-East district that was known as minority dominated area. State-level committees will be headed by Chief Secretary, Rakesh Mehta and area MP, Jai Prakash Agarwal, principal secretary, revenue and a few senior officers of the revenue department would its members. The district-level committee will be headed by the deputy commissioner, North-East, district revenue commissioner, SDM and others. Local MLAs will also be its members, sources said. The committees will draft a proposal for development that would be submitted to the Union Minority Affairs Ministry. The ministry would sanction finance for development on the basis of the proposal. On the basis of recommendations of Sachar Committee, 90 districts were identified as minority dominated and backward in comparison to other districts in the country. North East district of Delhi is one of them. On the basis of recommendations of the committee, the union government had decided to sanction Rs 40 crore for development of each district. |
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Talkatora Stadium upgraded for Games
New Delhi, February 24 The stadium has been upgraded with an estimated cost of Rs 150 crore and selected as a venue for boxing competition during the Commonwealth Games-2010 It has been designed to meet the international standards with a new sports facility block having underground parking facility. the two-level extended basement with surface area for parking 500 cars has been created. “Natural resources, habitat and landscape are preserved and integrated into the overall design of this stadium. The entrance of the competition venue has been designed to create a sense of identity for the Commonwealth Games and will continue to generate the spirit of sports thereafter,” said the Chief Minister. This stadium has been connected to a tunnel which will be used by the athletes during the Games. “A number of environment-friendly material and energy-efficient devices have been used in this block to make it a green building. This facility block is a multi-purpose air-conditioned building constructed under the green building concept to conserve energy,” she said. The Talkatora Stadium upgraded with the state-of-the-art facilities has a seating capacity of 2,700 persons. The sports facility block has been constructed with the recyclable construction material and flyash bricks. Other facilities at the stadium include athlete cubicles, medical office and physiotherapy, warm-up area, athlete lounge and a doping control office on the first floor, federation office, technical official lounge, committee office, meeting room and change room. |
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Single window suggested for housing allotments
Gt Noida, February 24 The buyer has to pass through cumbersome process while private builders hike the rates without justification. Many times the allottees do not get the ownership rights. Even at sub-registrar office, they are asked to get stamp papers for which they have to go to the collectorate treasury office in Greater Noida. It has become quite unsafe to carry lakhs of rupees. “Authority official, builder representative, bank official for finance, stamp vendors and sub-registrar representative should sit at the single window and the allottee should just come at one point and select the apartment and get the property papers there itself. This will prevent frauds. The system has been functioning successfully in America,” said Narain. There is advice from the subregistrar office too. “One can get one’s allotment letter, issued by the private builder, by paying the 2 per cent stamp duty which will be adjusted during the final registration of the property. This will ensure that the registry will be done at the circle rates. The builders will not be able to hike the rates either,” said sub-registrar J.N.Singh. |
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DU teachers to intensify stir against semester system
New Delhi, February 24 Their week-long relay strike did not reap the desired results as the administration refused to budge from its stand of implementing the semester system from the upcoming academic year 2010-2011. The strike got over on February 19. “If the administration is bent on its implementation even after receiving massive opposition from the teachers, we too will take it head on,” said Aditya Narayan Mishra, president, DU Teachers’ Association (DUTA). With only a few months left in the starting of admission process for undergraduate courses in DU in May, university faculty has refused to work towards the implementation. The teachers are keeping themselves away from all kinds of semester system related work and without teachers’ contribution it would become impossible for the administration to implement the system, said Mishra. After the vice-chancellor came up with the blueprint of the semester system, it is up to the 7000 teachers of DU to distribute the syllabus into two semesters. At present, the syllabi for all courses offered by DU are meant to be covered in year, but with the semester system the syllabus would need to be divided in two halves. The teachers are now going to different faculties in the university to stop some of the contract-based teachers to stop working on towards the semester. “We are going to different places and asking other teachers not to work on the special tasks given to them related to semester system,” said Mishra. The teachers said they were not even consulted before the implementation of the semester system and so the responsibility does not lie on them. “Semesters would ruin the unique character of DU. The vice-chancellor would leave the university after implementing it, but the teachers and students would have to bear the repercussions of it,” said Rajib Ray, member of academic council of DU. The further course of their agitation would, however, be decided in the coming days after the teachers call their next general body meeting. “We would soon call our meeting and decide the future of agitation which is bound to get intensified,” said
Mishra. |
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Board Exams
New Delhi, February 24 Dr Pramod Kumar, a clinical psychologist and counselor, said, “There is a substantial increase in the number of students seeking counselling during the examination season. This takes place both in the pre and post examination phase and the main culprit behind this is parental pressure. Parents do not know how to calm their kids and unduly pressurise them. A student studies best on his own. Parents should interfere the least and let the child prepare on his own. They must not monitor the child while preparing. Over-active parents create disastrous situations. Children during exam time respond best to encouragement and calm atmosphere.” Dr Kumar stresses that the board examination phase is crucial for a student’s future. And the period is very stressful for students. “It is vital that parents handle the period right. Teenagers and adolescents have to handle a lot of stressful issues. Parents must create a peaceful atmosphere at home.” The helpline run by the CBSE has received numerous calls seeking help from both parents and students. Arpita Sharma, a counsellor who has worked with the helpline, said, “We receive queries from both students and parents. Students at this time are already stressed out and parents tend to make the situation even worse. There is no point on parents’ un-necessarily burdening children during exam time. Their panic and worry works negatively on students who get distracted and lose focus.” She further said, “What is avoidable is a student completely losing his/ her peace of mind and confidence due to parents pressurising him/ her. This only leads to bad results, sleeplessness and trips to the counselor.” The counsellor advises that parents should set aside recreation time for students even during examination period. Students must exercise, meet friends and follow a set routine. It must not be study all the time, but rather study in an intelligent manner. |
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Two juvenile burglars arrested
New Delhi, February 24 According to the police, both juveniles are active members of the gang headed by a 17-year-old juvenile who escaped from the Observation Home, Mukherjee
Nagar, in December 2009 for the fourth time after his detention. “After escaping from the Observation Home, members of this gang first targeted the house of Parvesh in Laxmi Bai Nagar yesterday morning and escaped with the cash, jewellery and mobile phone. Just after the incident, the police staff in plainclothes were deployed on strategic locations to plug the escape routes and two juveniles namely Pawan (name changed) and Mahesh (name changed) both aged about 16 years were apprehended the same day,” said HGS
Dhaliwal, DCP (south). According to the police, the two confessed to committing burglary at House No. 595, Laxmi Bai Nagar along with notorious leader Satte (name changed) and others. Out of the stolen items, one mobile phone and Rs 1100 were recovered from the possession of Pawan which was stolen during the
burglary. Pawan (Name Changed) is an active member of the gang and was apprehended in 2008 for committing the burglary and setting houses on fire. He has come out of Observation Home after remaining there for 18 months, and was released nine months ago. He is involved in five cases of theft and burglaries. According to
Dhaliwal, both gang leader Satte and Pawan started committing crime in 2002 and gradually formed their gang of juveniles who were mainly operating in South Delhi government colonies. “They used to adopt unique modus operandi by targeting houses fitted either with padlocks or situated at secluded corners with definite information of house owner going out of station. They used to assemble through their accomplices roaming in the area in the garb of collecting waste,” revealed
Dhaliwal. The kingpin of the gang is still at large and concerted efforts are being made to nab him. |
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Man dies, son hurt in truck mishap
New Delhi, February 24 “The truck turned turtle near DMRC Depot as its rear tyre burst. Two labourers who were working at roadside came under the truck. The two have been identified as Ghanshyam (50) and his son, Santosh (22). They were the natives of Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh. They were rushed to the Fortis Hospital where Ghanshyam succumbed to his injuries while Santosh’s condition is serious,” said the police. Biker crushed
A 23-year-old man was crushed to death by an unidentified vehicle in the New Friends Colony area of south-east district last night. Police said that the incident took place in E-block at around 1.30 am. “The victim, who could not be identified, was found dead and his bike with broken helmet lying on the road. Initial investigation suggests that he his bike might have been hit by some vehicle after which his head came under the tyres,” said the police. |
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Gang of robbers busted
New Delhi, February 24 The arrested have been identified as Anzar Ahmed (28), Mohd Bilal (24), Rehmat Ali (28), Mohd Parvez (25), Bharat Singh (22), Kalia (24) and Alakh Ram (21). Three countrymade firearms, a stolen Tata-407, eight stolen motor cycles, eight mobile phones, two knives and a bunch of keys have been recovered from them. According to the police, while five of them were arrested from Malaviya Nagar first, Mohd Bilal and Rehmat Ali were caught later. “This gang is involved in murders, burglaries, auto thefts, robberies and dacoity in Bihar, UP, Haryana and Delhi for several years,” said H G S Dhaliwal, DCP (south). Anzar Ahmed is the leader of this gang who is absconding from the Bihar Police and UP police as he is involved in murder and robberies in these states. |
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Noida petrol pumps to get CCTVs soon
Gt Noida, February 24 Many petrol pumps have initiated the installation process. Two CCTV cameras were found installed at Subhash Automobile petrol pump of Bharat Petroleum at Udyog Kendra here. “Local goons create nuisance in the area. They come, get the tanks of their vehicles filled and assault the salesmen on demanding money. Moreover, at night petrol pumps are soft targets,” said Subhash Gupta, owner of the pump. Gautam Buddha Nagar petrol dealers’ association president Dharamvir Singh said, “We have appealed to the members to install CCTV cameras at all corners of their petrol pump premises. This will help reducing crime incidents and check petrol pump robberies. This will also help them keep an eye watch over their staff.” “The CCTV networks will help the police in cracking vehicle-theft cases. There are many petrol pumps in the district. Criminals get their vehicles filled at any of these pumps. The CCTV footage will help in their arrest. Moreover, other absconding criminals may also get traced,” said Deepak Aggarwal, district magistrate. |
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DTU, NPL sign pact for new courses
New Delhi, February 24 The MoU was signed by Prof. P.B. Sharma, Vice-Chancellor, DTU, and Prof R.C. Budhani, director, NPL on the occasion of the ‘National Science Day’ being celebrated by NPL. Professor Sharma, said, “The new knowledge age which is ushered by talent and driven by innovation, requires the practice of science and engineering in the environment of scientism such that the thin line of divide between science and engineering disappears when a scientist is working in his lab or a technologist is exploring new ways of innovations.” Under the MoU, a joint academic committee with five members of matching expertise from both sides will be constituted to implement the various initiatives proposed under the collaboration, including advanced professional courses (M.Tech.) to be offered in the areas of advanced electronic materials, thin film technology, advanced engineering materials, materials characterization, instrumentation, and biomedical methods and instrumentation, joint M.Tech. thesis supervision. |
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Noida authorities offer funds to upgrade police
Greater Noida, February 24 “Authorities have offered a blank cheque to police. Funds will not be a constraint for upgradation of police force. We want to raise the status of Noida police and make it one of the best in the world,” said Mohinder Singh, chairman, Noida, Gt. Noida and Yamuna Expressway authorities. “Four CCTV cameras have been installed at Pari Chowk in Greater Noida and more cameras are being installed on Expressway and at Noida crossings and commercial complexes. MMS and SMS system introduced by Greater Noida was getting good response from the public,” said S.K.Verma, superintendent of police. Authorities have provided video cameras, digital cameras and laptops to every police station. Even institutions are providing assistance. “I have offered to fund the cost of construction and maintenance of police chowki outside the college in the Knowledge Park area. Proposal is still lying in police files,” said Naveen Gupta, chairman, IEC Group of Colleges. |
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‘Partial knee replacement better in many cases’
New Delhi, February 24 Chief of joint replacement and arthroscopic surgery at Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, Dr J. Maheshwari said options to TKR have come up in the form of partial knee replacement and reconstructive surgeries. Generally, patients who suffer from advanced knee arthritis are advised TKR, but it should be the last option, suggested Dr Maheshwari. “In the early stages of arthritis, especially in younger patients, a timely intervention of partial knee replacement or reconstructive surgery could delay the need for knee replacement,” she stressed. |
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Seven held for stone-pelting, arson
New Delhi, February 24 According to information, about 200 people whose jhuggis were demolished in Mumbai have been sitting on protest at Jantar Mantar under the aegis of Navjivan Sangharsh Samiti. They are demanding houses. “They have been in the Capital for the last four days. One of the children from their group met with an accident with a bike last night. These people then started pelting the vehicles with stones and damaged the government property in the area. Seven persons have been arrested today,” said the police. However, the families of the arrested said that the police turned them out of the police station without listening to their grievances and as a last resort they raised slogans against the police. As per information, police forces from several police stations in the district were summoned to check the protestors even as some policemen received minor injuries. The agitation carried on for almost two hours before things came under control. |
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1 caught for stabbing man
New Delhi, February 24 “The victim, Dilip (23), was on his way home when three robbers accosted him near Gorakh Park and demanded his valuables. When he resisted, one of them stabbed him. However, some people chased the robbers and managed to catch one of them,” said a police official. Jitender was severely beaten by the people before he could be rescued by the police. Dilip has been admitted to the GTB Hospital where his condition is stable. |
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Another death at Asha Kiran
New Delhi, February 24 According to the police, the woman Pammo breathed her last around 2 am at the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital where she had been undergoing treatment for the past 15 days. “Pammo was admitted to the hospital 15 days ago, after she suffered a bout of feats. She died in the wee hours today. It is a natural death,” said a police official from Vivek Vihar police station. Pammo had been living at the home since 1978. |
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