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Tilak Nagar GHP school de-recognised
DTU suspends two teachers for leading protests
Varsities gear up to welcome
Hindi-speaking students
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City lawyers observe strike
MCD to recover money from ghost pensioners
Auto driver held in hit and run case
Woman found hanging
Wanted criminal shot
by accomplices
BPO staffer held for killing colleague
Gangster held for killing
2 RPF men
2 FIRs for 6 burglaries!
Dowry Death: Husband, MIL jailed for life
2 get life sentence for murdering man to rob Rs 40 lakh
Life term for murdering acquaintance
Order on Tiwari’s paternity suit reserved
‘Lots of work still needs to be done’
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Tilak Nagar GHP school
de-recognised
New Delhi, March 11 The Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) confirmed this today. Addressing a press conference, Delhi SAD (Badal) president Manjit Singh said that they had received the news through an RTI query. He accused the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), run by Paramjit Singh Sarna’s party, of complete mismanagement which led to the school’s de-recognition. Deputy director of education (west) K.S. Yadav confirmed that the school’s recognition had been withdrawn by the directorate of education. The de-recognition would come into effect from April 1. The school authorities have filed an appeal before the Lieutenant-Governor against the move. Director of education, P Krishnamurthy, said the school was recognised without aid in 1973. In July 2007, the school authorities were asked to submit documentary evidence of paying transport allowance to its staff, clarification regarding charging of development fee without maintaining depreciation reserve fund and no-objection certificate from chief fire officer. The reply submitted to directorate of the education in August 2007 was not satisfactory. The director said even the school principal, Shukhdev Singh, was not qualified for the post. He was neither a B.Ed nor a post-graduate. Moreover, the school did not submit a proof of tax deduction at source. The school authorities also failed to comply with the directions given by the department concerned. A notice to rectify the deficiencies was issued in October 2008 and a reminder was sent in June 2009. Finally, its recognition has been withdrawn. However, Sarna said that he had not been informed by the school principal of the development. “The gurdwara committee is a big organisation. De-recognition of a school is a small thing. It will be sorted,” he claimed. |
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DTU suspends two teachers for leading protests
New Delhi, March 11 The two teachers are N.K. Bhagat and Naresh Kumar from electrical and civil engineering departments, respectively. Though the university administration did not provide any reason for the suspensions, it appeared to be a clear indication that dissent would not be tolerated. The teachers along with other 50-odd faculty members participated in a candlelight protest held on the university campus last night. They were singled out by the authorities as they were seen leading the teachers. The protest was a part of the students’ agitation taking place since last one week. However, it was the first time that the teachers had joined the protest openly. Coming out in support of the suspended teachers, the teachers of Delhi University (DU) have strongly condemned the step. “The action by the DTU vice-chancellor is aimed at suppressing the protests by the students against the conversion of Delhi College of Engineering into DTU,” said Shaswati Mazumdar, president, Democratic Teachers’ Federation (DTF). The teachers said suspension of a government servant was a serious action and completely uncalled for. “The students and teachers of DTU have been peacefully protesting and they have full right to do so,” said Rajib Ray, member of the academic council of DU. When contacted, the DTU spokesperson refused to entertain any query and disconnected the call. The action, meanwhile, has instigated the students further. “The whole college stands in union at this juncture when the vice-chancellor is taking such dictatorial actions against both students and teachers,” said Ravi Shekhar, president, Students’ Association, DTU. He said the agitation would now be intensified and no classes would be allowed to be held on the DTU campus till the suspensions were revoked. The students are also considering boycotting their mid-term examinations scheduled for March 15. Sources have also indicated that the matter could now be raised at the Lok Sabha which is in session.
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Varsities gear up to welcome
Hindi-speaking students
New Delhi, March 11 Kirori Mal College in north campus has taken the first step in this direction and has decided to start Hindi sections in popular courses. “We are duty-bound to make education accessible in the language of hundreds of new students,” said Bhim Sen, principal, Kirori Mal College. He said though his college was the first one to start separate sections in political science, history and commerce, all other colleges of DU would have to take similar steps from the coming academic year 2010-11, as a big chunk of new students would be likely more familiar with Hindi than English. Out of the funds given to colleges to create extra infrastructure, Kirori Mal College would recruit teachers to teach in Hindi. “We anyway have to recruit teachers for the extra students this year, so we have decided to hire teachers who can teach in Hindi,” said Sen. DU gives option to its students to attempt question papers in either Hindi or English as its medium of teaching is bilingual. “Question papers are made available in both languages and students can chose to attempt them in any of the two languages,” said Gurpreet Tuteja, deputy dean of students’ welfare, DU. In the classrooms, teachers use both Hindi and English while terminology essentially remains in English. Books of some of the subjects like social science are available in both the languages while for some subjects like mathematics and science books are available only in English. On the other hand, even with almost 50 per cent of its students coming from disadvantaged sections, JNU on record is an English-medium university. The university administration maintains that JNU is for post-graduate courses and mostly students catch up by that time. “Though it would help students in a longer run to pick up the language, we are holding remedial classes for the students who require extra help,” said Ramadikari Kumar, rector, JNU. The university also started a Hindi website before the admissions started for the year 2010-11. Students could attempt the JNU entrance exam questionnaire in either of the two languages. “We also try to make arrangements to get the entrance exam papers checked even if they are in some third language, but students have to pick up English once they are enrolled in the university,” said Kumar, adding that mostly students gradually perform as good as English-speaking students. |
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Preity ambassador of UNAIDS
New Delhi, March 11 Accompanying Charles Gilks, the country coordinator of UNAIDS, Zinta, co-owner of Indian Premier League’s (IPL) Kings XI Punjab team, said she would donate 25 per cent of her team’s profit for the cause. Also, during the IPL matches, the players of Kings XI Punjab would wear red ribbons and for their first match against Delhi Dare Devils on March 11, the toss would be done by someone suffering from HIV. To take the cause of HIV/ AIDS forward, Zinta would be making films in English, Hindi and Punjabi with public service messages, detailing out associated facts and preventive measures. “The films would feature me and my team players and the awareness campaign would begin in Punjab, where drug use is very prevalent,” said Preity. “We have already taken up the issue with the Punjab government and work would be taken up at the grassroot level in the form of field trips where the problem essentially lies,” Zinta said. Charles said with nearly 2.6 million people in the country living with the dreaded disease, the government should ensure that paucity of funds was not a factor in dealing with the issue. “India is in the middle of the third phase of the National AIDS Control Programme (2007-2011), yet the number of people catching HIV/ AIDS has been on the rise. Challenges have to be dealt with collectively for eradicating HIV/AIDS by 2015, which is one of the millenium development goals of the United Nations (AIDS),” he added. Charles said health workers noticed many incidents of discrimination happening both within the families as well as at the community level.
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City lawyers observe strike
New Delhi, March 11 The decision to go on strike was taken following a meeting of the co-ordination committee of all bar associations of Delhi. The agitating lawyers demanded that there should be necessary amendment in the Prevention of Corruption Act to remove the provisions with regard to prior permission to probe charges against judicial officers. Rajiv Khosla, spokesperson, co-ordination committee said, “We are abstaining from work to protest the increasing corruption in the judiciary.” He added that the high court should increase the jurisdiction of the lower courts in monetary disputes from the present Rs 20-lakh limit. Sof the Delhi Bar Association, Sanjeev Nasiar, said, “Lawyers of the Patiala House, Tis Hazari, Kakardooma, Rohini and Dwarka district courts abstained from appearing before the presiding officers. Even the urgent matters or bail applications were not argued.” A delegation of lawyers would meet UPA chairperson, union law minister and Delhi Chief Minister to demand an appropriate legislation in respect of corruption in the judiciary, Nasiar said.
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MCD to recover money from ghost pensioners
New Delhi, March 11 “There must be around 50 people from each ward who were taking pension cheques illegally,” said Ram Kishan Singhal, MCD standing committee chairperson. The civic agency grants monthly pension to widows, senior citizens and physically challenged people which makes the total number of pensioners 1,90,000. The number includes people who are not entitled to receive the pension. MCD commissioner K.S. Mehra has ordered a survey of pensioners across the Capital. |
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Auto driver held in hit and run case
New Delhi, March 11 Ruhi Anjum (35), her husband Haider Ali and their son Hamja Ali (10), of Paschim Vihar’s Ekta Enclave, were returning home from Pritampura by a bus. The bus dropped them at Peeragarhi Chowk. They were crossing road. Haider crossed the road, when Ruhi and Hamja were hit by the auto. Ruhi died on the spot while Hamja died on way to hospital. The auto driver has been apprehended. The police has registered a case against the auto driver, confirmed a senior police officer. |
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Woman found hanging
New Delhi, March 11 A suicide note was found where she stated that no one should responsible for her taking the extreme step. The incident was reported from Amar Colony last night. The victim has been identified as Shelly. Shelly reportedly stayed with her husband in a rented accommodation.She was found hanging by her husband Gautam when he returned from his office. They were married for the past one year. An enquiry in this regard has been ordered, said police. |
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Wanted criminal shot
by accomplices
Greater Noida, March 11 The victim, Iswer, son of the gram paradhan, was released on bail about a fortnight ago. On Wednesday evening, Iswer received a call on his cell phone from an acquaintance who asked him to come outside the village. According to eye witnesses, Iswer reached Luxur Road on his bike and was talking towards some people in a white WagonR car. But soon an argument ensued between them and the car-borne men fired indiscriminately on Ishwer. The assailants then fled away in the car, while some people Ishwer to the Kailash Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. The police suspects that the murder could be the handiwork of a gang with whom Ishwer recently looted Rs 24 lakh from a petrol pump owner in Kasna. The police had even raided Ishwer’s house on Wednesday morning in connection with the loot, but he was not in house. According to circle officer Shailender Lal the police has not yet received any complaint from Ishwer’s family. |
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BPO staffer held for killing colleague
Noida, March 11 According to
A.K. Tripathi, superintendent of police, “the victim, Pooja Bhatia (23), worked at Sparsh Intelnet at Sector 4 in
Noida. Bhatia was missing since March 1. Her relatives had lodged a missing person’s report with the Sector 24 police station.” On Wednesday, Bhatia’s sister Sonia lodged a kidnapping case against her team leader, Daljit Singh. The police arrested Singh, and on interrogation, he accepted that he was with Bhatia on
Holi. They had gone to Badkal Lake. On March 2, the Surajkund police recovered
Bhatia’ body from the canal and cremated it three days later as an unidentified body. On Wednesday evening, on the basis of her photo and clothes she was identified by her family. |
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Gangster held for killing
2 RPF men
New Delhi, March 11 Parvez Chaman, who carries a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head, was apprehended from Yamuna Vihar yesterday, said deputy commissioner of police (special cell) Alok Kumar. — TNS |
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2 FIRs for 6 burglaries!
Gurgaon, March 11 As many as six apartments in a housing society in Sector-55 were robbed yesterday. This came to light when the occupants of flats returned last evening and discovered their locks broken and cash and other valuables stolen. However, the police lodged only two FIRs clubbing all six incidents – one under complainant Saurabh Agarwal and another filed by complainant Sunil Kumar. No arrests had been made till the time of filing the report. |
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Dowry Death: Husband, MIL jailed for life
New Delhi, March 11 Terming it unfortunate that the deceased’s parents and siblings changed their stand in the court to favour the accused, the court said the case highlighted discrimination against the girl child. “The present case highlights the unfortunate plight of the girl child where the parents and siblings of the deceased girl betrayed the love and trust reposed by the deceased in them by helping her wrongdoers to go scot-free,” a bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Suresh Kait said. In this case, victim Pinki Kaur got married to Balbir Singh in 2001 but was continuously harassed by her in-laws for dowry and was found dead in her room in mysterious circumstances. Pinki’s brother had filed an FIR saying she was killed by her husband and in-laws. But when the matter came up for trial, he and his parents turned hostile and contended they never alleged Pinki was being harassed by her in-laws. The court, however, refused to give credence to their version and after considering all the circumstances held her husband and mother-in-law guilty. Both of them were sentenced to life imprisonment. Aggrieved by the decision, they approached the high court which dismissed their appeal. — PTI
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2 get life sentence for murdering man to rob Rs 40 lakh
New Delhi, March 11 Additional sessions judge Arun Kumar Arya, rejecting a plea for awarding capital punishment to Chander Shekhar and Ashok Kumar, said “the manner of killing the victim cannot be said to be brutal. The present case does not fall in the category of ‘rarest of rare’. Both the convicts are sole earning member of their families and are not previous convicts. I, therefore, sentence them to rigorous life imprisonment,” the ASJ said. According to the police, Chander and Ashok had on October 15, 2004 killed one Kajoramal by stabbing him after he declined to hand over the keys of the room at a building in Greater Kailash where Rs 40 lakh in cash was kept by him. After remaining elusive for about 15 days they were arrested by the police from the Badarpur area here along with around Rs 35 lakh and other materials. Accused Chander was employed as peon with Gautam Mitra, an advocate, at his office at Nizamuddin here. The victim was also employed with Mitra at his residence at the Greater Kailash-II area as a security guard. — PTI
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Life term for murdering acquaintance
New Delhi, March 11 Additional sessions judge Poonam Chaudhary also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on Faisal Khan after holding him guilty under Section 302 (murder) of the
IPC. It rejected a plea of the prosecution to award capital punishment to the convict, saying since only one injury was inflicted upon the deceased it could not be described as brutal and rarest of rare.— PTI |
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Order on Tiwari’s paternity suit reserved
New Delhi, March 11 A Bench comprising Justices Vikramajit Sen and Manmohan Singh reserved the order after the octogenarian politician vehemently opposed against entertaining the petition which has been filed 31 years after the youth was born. The court was hearing a petition filed by Rohit Shekhar, seeking its direction to declare Tiwari as his biological father.
Shekhar filed an appeal before a division bench challenging a single-bench order which had dismissed his petition on the ground that it was not maintainable. Justice S.N. Dhingra had on November 3 last said the suit filed by Shekhar was not maintainable and allowed the plea of 84-year-old Tiwari who had sought dismissal of the petition. The court had said it had no territorial jurisdiction to hear the case as Tiwari, then Andhra Pradesh Governor, was in Hyderabad and a suit against him could be filed only in that city. — PTI |
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Games 2010 Himani Chandel Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 11 He said this today on the concluding day of ‘Chef De Mission seminar’. The event was attended by delegates from all 70 participating countries. Fennell showed apprehensions about the ongoing work at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium where the opening and the closing ceremonies are scheduled. “Work at weight-lifting and swimming venues in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is going on at a fast pace, but it should have been finished by now,” he said. The delegates discussed various aspects of the Games like — transportation, ticketing, accreditation, catering, completion of work at venues, facilities, technology, sports referee and judges. “Our objective is to assist the organising committee with all information and consultations required to host the Games,” said Fennell. He said that the committee needed to do a lot of work. “We cannot deny that some of the work should have started more in advance. We have been assured of no further delays,” he said. During the four-day seminar, the delegates were taken to various competition and training venues. Meetings with various departments undertaking the construction work for the Games were also organised. “We had meetings with various departments involved in the construction of stadiums. They have assured of timely completion of venues,” said the Fennell. He said the stadiums were required to be ready before time so that we get enough time for the test events. The other area of concern, Fennell said, has been the catering facility for athletes. “High quality food and water is important. We cannot expect players to perform well, unless they have good and hygienic food matching their taste,” he said. Talking of security, Fennell said that security had been high on their agenda at the seminar. “Security is the most concerned area in every sports event around the world. We had meeting with the Delhi police head. Our consultant looking after the security of Games has also submitted the report to us, which is satisfactory,” added Fennell.
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