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Family of four consume poison
CM disappoints
DTU students
Maid goes missing,employer
booked
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Mayor assures disease-free Games
Godman held for trying to rape 4-yr-old
Ichchadhari baba sent to 14-day judicial custody
Gangsters trigger-happy
with Chinese guns
Noted Muslim citizens back quota Bill
Gurgaon gets Haryana’s first evening court
DU awards record number of
Ph.D. degrees
Killer of student leader gets life for murdering witness’ dad
Illegal parking worries traders
Cab driver shot dead in Noida
Jobless man held for theft
Lover ends life outside girl’s home
Co executive kidnapped
Woman robbed of necklace
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Family of four consume poison
New Delhi, March 20 According to information, Pramod stayed in the Mahavir Nagar area on a rented accommodation with his wife and two children. His father and mother live at another place. "Last night, A N Sachdev had gone to meet Promod's family and found three of the family members in an unconscious condition. When he asked about the matter to Sonali, his daughter-in-law, she also fainted. He rushed them to the hospital and reported the matter to the police," added the police officer. According to the police, it was reported by the neighbours that the couple had been going through a financial crisis for some years and that could be the probable cause of the extreme step. "We did not recover any suicide note," confirmed a police official adding that the reason is being investigated. The police further stated that after giving poison to the children, Pramod and Sonali consumed the same poisonous substance. Further investigation is in progress while the postmortem report is awaited.
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CM disappoints
DTU students
New Delhi, March 20 Though the meeting was seen as a step towards resolving the crisis at DTU over change in its status from (DU) Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), a Delhi University-affiliated college to a state-level university, the students said their voices were not heard by the Chief Minister. “She refused to listen to us and instead kept telling that the government was funding the college and so can give it any status it wanted,” said Ravi Shekhar, president, DTU Students’ Association.The students said Dikshit threatened them that if they did not follow the academic schedule of the university, they would have to face dire consequences. “She conveyed to us that our demands did not matter to the government and that if students do not go back to their classes all of them could be expelled,” said Shekhar, who was expelled from the college along with another student for allegedly instigating students to protest the conversion. Even while the suspension of one teacher was revoked, DTU has not revoked the suspensions of the two students. The students have now decided to intensify agitation. “We would hold a meeting in the night to decide our future course of action,” Shekhar said, adding that the students were not going to give up . |
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Maid goes missing,employer
booked
New Delhi, March 20 After Juli, the owner of Juli Placement Agency, failed to trace the maid, she filed a complaint at Hauz-Khas police station. In her complaint, Juli alleged that nearly three months ago Sadhwai Suri, a resident of South Extension, had come to her office and hired a maid named Kanti, a native of Jharkhand. But after that both Suri and Kanti went missing. Juli went to Suri’s address as furnished by her, but it was found to be fictitious. “We inquired about her and learnt that she was living at some other address. When we went there, Suri denied having hired a maid from us,” said Juli. Juli said that Suri had given Rs 4,000 to them as advance. While Kanti’s salary was fixed as Rs 1,200 per month. But after a month when Juli went to Suri’s address, she did not find Kanti. “Suri has sent Kanti to her son’s place in Mumbai. She is being tortured there,” alleged Juli. |
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Mayor assures disease-free Games
New Delhi, March 20 “We assure full political commitment and all types of assistance to host a successful Commonwealth Games as far as occurrence of any disease is concerned,” said Sain. He was addressing a workshop held by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on prevention and control of vector and water-borne diseases in Delhi during the Commonwealth Games Sain inaugurated the workshop organised by the health department of the MCD at the India Habitat Centre. “The vector surveillance and control measures have been strengthened in view of the large-scale construction activities going on across the city. Twelve sentinel surveillance teams have been constituted and 3,500 domestic breeding checkers will be engaged from April 1 for strengthening vector control measures. Additional fogging machines, equipment and insecticides will also be procured,” said N.K. Yadav, municipal health officer. Yadav gave the status of vector and water-borne diseases in Delhi along with activities being undertaken by the MCD for prevention and control of these diseases in view of the Games.
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Godman held for trying to rape 4-yr-old
Faridabad, March 20 The police swung into action after the parents of the victim took up the matter with it. The parents of the girl got alarmed when the victim, who went out to play with her two-year-old brother today morning, did not return by afternoon, even after her brother’s return. When the parents enquired about the girl from the children of the neighbourhood, they learnt that her daughter was last seen going to the accused godman’s house. The godman had constructed a temple on his residence’s premises. When the mother of the girl barged into the godman’s house, she found her daughter there. The godman told the mother that he was trying to make the girl fall asleep. He further told the mother that the girl had come to his house for prasad. However, when the girl reached home, she spilled the beans, saying that the godman had tried to sexually assault her. On the complaint of the girl’s parents, the police registered a case against the godman and arrested him.
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Ichchadhari baba sent to 14-day judicial custody
New Delhi, March 20 Special judge S.K. Sarwaria sent Dwivedi to judicial custody, after his police remand under the MCOCA ended today. Dwivedi is lodged in Tihar Jail. The court sent him to judicial custody after the Delhi police submitted that the investigations in the case were still incomplete. Earlier, Dwivedi, accused of running a multi-crore prostitution racket was taken in police custody, to verify the entries made in his eight diaries seized from his property in Chitrakoot. On March 8, Dwivedi was sent to police custody. Arrested on February 26, with a man and six women, including two air hostesses, Dwivedi is alleged to be involved in four cases under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and one case of robbery. A fresh case against him was filed on March 9 under the MCOCA.
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Gangsters trigger-happy
with Chinese guns
New Delhi, March 20 Cops were a little surprised when they recovered a slick 9 mm gun of Chinese make from Om Prakash, alias Bunty, the head of a biker gang, whom South Delhi police killed in an encounter in August 2008. Several gangsters have since been arrested with these Chinese guns. Narender Bhati, alias Ravan, a notorious criminal of NCR, who was nabbed in September last month, had one such gun. Another gangster Satish, wanted by police of several states and carrying a reward of Rs 50,000 on his head, was also found with one such Chinese killer. Sat Prakash, alias Satte, arrested after an encounter on January 19 in the Green Park market, had one as well. “We had recovered Chinese pistols not only from Satte, but also from another member of his gang who was arrested a few days later. More criminals than ever are carrying Chinese pistols,” said HGS Dhaliwal, DCP (South), who led a police team in an encounter against Bunty and received a bullet from his Chinese pistol in his bullet-proof jacket. A crime branch official says the Chinese guns are not only easily available but are also cheaper compared to Indian or British make. What is more, they are considered better than the 9 mm guns that the police carry as they make less noise and are more stable in hands while firing. Rough police estimates say every third criminal involved in heinous crimes in the Capital is found to have these pistols nowadays. “The pistols come to India from China via Nepal and cost anything between Rs 15,000 and Rs 20,000. They were once priced around Rs 40,000. The porous Indo-Nepal border and money transactions through hawala sources have made the supply of these weapons frequent and easy,” said the senior crime branch official. “These pistols are quite good during multiple firing,” Dhaliwal says. With these weapons in hands, criminals have become more emboldened and managed to keep cops at bay for hours in encounters. “Earlier, the countrymade pistol (katta) was the norm and it would fire one shot at one time and needed reloading. Now, criminals go on firing and are more accurate in firing. They have become more confident in facing the police now,” an SHO said. Factories in Bihar are also churning out these prohibited bores which are picked by even petty criminals. |
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Noted Muslim citizens back quota Bill
New Delhi, March 20 They also condemned clerics for their criticism of the Bill. Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) organised the event after a few Muslim groups opposed the Bill in its present form and demanded changes to provide quota to Muslims. Condemning the “pseudo religious assault” on the gender-friendly Bill, the state convener of BMMA termed the women’s reservation bill the first step towards equality and justice for women. “Some men claiming to be clerics have made statements in the media like ‘Allah sent women on earth to give birth to children and raise them to be doctors and engineers. They don’t know politics’. We just wish to tell them that they need not speak on our behalf. If the Bill is passed, Muslim women in the future will participate in politics and there will be no stopping them,” Shabnam Hashmi, who heads NGO ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Development), said. As Indian Muslims and secular-minded citizens, they are seriously concerned that these fascist and chauvinistic utterances have come to signify the voice of Muslim community, said the BMMA members through a signed statement. Javed Akhtar also made some strong statements against these groups and blamed them for misrepresenting the concerns of the community. “The Muslim Personal Board never woke up to the fact that out of the 52 Muslim countries, 50 do not permit divorce by the word of mouth. But Indian Muslim women are subjected to this ridiculous mode of annulment. Instead of focusing on the problems of Muslim women, they now oppose the reservation Bill and are trying to delay it. They aren’t looking after the interests of Muslim women but their own,” said an agitated Javed Akhtar.
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Gurgaon gets Haryana’s first evening court
Gurgaon, March 20 The evening court, which has been set up with a view to reducing the burden of cases in the regular courts, will function from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Such evening courts have been started in four districts—Gurgaon, Faridabad, Hisar and Karnal— on an experimental basis. If these succeed, such courts would be established in other districts of the state. Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Justice Sathashivam said piling up of cases in the regular courts was a cause of concern for all and by disposal of petty cases in the evening courts, the burden would be lessened. He maintained that the cases pertaining to traffic challans, Factories Act, Punjab Shops and Establishment Act and Motor Vehicle Act could be taken up at these evening courts. The apex court judge further pointed out that the evening courts would also be beneficial for those who could not spare time to appear in the court during the day. In his address, Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Mukul Mudgal observed that with the setting up of evening courts, the senior advocates would be able to concentrate on serious cases as they could send their juniors to the evening courts. He asserted that such courts had proved successful in Gujarat and assured the Bar members that no new subject would be added to the purview of the evening courts without their consent.
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DU awards record number of
Ph.D. degrees
New Delhi, March 20 In 87th Annual Convocation, DU awarded maximum number of undergraduate degrees in the B.A. (programme) to 22,347 students. As many as 67,000 degrees were awarded. Three medals were constituted for the first time for the disabled students and two were awarded. The highest number of gold medals, seven, were awarded to Shikha Gupta in M.Sc. mathematics. The ceremony, presided over by the university vice-chancellor Deepak Pental, was addressed by principal scientific advisor to the government of India, Dr.R.Chidambaram. While inviting the students to face new challenges in scientific endeavours and help the country achieve the developmental goals, he stressed the need for scientific understanding and research. “There should be researches taken up on the issues that the country faces time and again and interdisciplinary research should also be focused upon,” said Chidambaram. For the first time the convocation was transmitted through the DU website. The plasma screens were also placed near the venue for the convenience of the parents of the recipients. It was also broadcast live through DU community radio 90.4 Mhz. |
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Killer of student leader gets life for murdering witness’ dad
New Delhi, March 20 Slapping a fine of Rs 3 lakh on Kalla, additional sessions judge Kamini Lau pronounced him guilty of murdering the witness’ father. She said, “I award rigorous life imprisonment to Kalla.” However, the court specified that the sentence in the case would start only after the jail term awarded to Kalla in the Bhadana murder case ended. A week ago, Kalla was awarded 30 years’ jail for killing students’ leader Bhadana in 1999. On March 10, 1999, Kalla had pumped three bullets in the chest of Bhadana, 26, with his licensed pistol at a marriage function. Bhadana’s friend Sumit Nayyar, who was also present there, informed the police. To terrorise and threaten Sumit, Kalla went to his home in Mukherjee Nagar and shot dead his father K.L. Nayyar. Kalla was arrested on January 24, 2000. He is also facing trial for fleeing from police custody in August 2000.
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Illegal parking worries traders
Noida, March 20 Its president Kidar Bansal said they have been requesting the Noida Authority about traders’ concern for the last 17 years, but of no avail. There is a chaos in Sector-18 market due to unauthorised parking. The situation may cause serious consequences leading to terrorist activities in this busy market, Baansal said. Multi-row parking is encroaching on the roads, which hinders the flow of vehicular movements. One cannot get out from the Metro station as the entrance and exit from station are blocked with vehicles parked illegally in Savitri market. The situation is the same in B-Block (in front of Punjab National Bank). Noida Authority and UPPCL have to take effective measures to improve the situation within their jurisdictions, Bansal said. As regards the multi-storeyed parking, the traders’ association has stressed that the existing parking plot which is well located, be developed into multi-storeyed underground parking. The association has also stressed that roads should be widened and central verge needs to be constructed, leaving another 30 mtr between the underpass and GIP Mal. There is urgent need for widening and cement lining of existing drainage systems and its cleaning needs to be undertaken on priority.
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Cab driver shot dead in Noida
Noida, March 20 Around 4 am some assailants sprayed bullets on the victim, Guru Prasad. The woman, Malti Devi, said that she had not seen the assailants. She woke up only after hearing Guru’s shrieks. Guru, who was shot in the chest and stomach, was rushed to the Fortis Hospital with four bullet injuries. According to the police, the murder took place on a vacant plot adjacent to Windsor Cyber Park in Sector-58. Malti, 40, from Ghazipur, runs a tea shop. Guru, 46, of Jonpur district lived with her. He worked as a cab driver with Arena Travel Co of Jungapura. Guru had gone to bed on Thursday night after parking his vehicle at Malti’s tea shop. Malti had gone to sleep in the cab after putting on the car’s A/C. Circle officer of Sector-58 police station Vikas Chander Tripathi said the police was investigating the murder. |
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Jobless man held for theft
New Delhi, March 20 The accused was arrested while he was fleeing after committing theft in a house at Rajiv Nagar Extension. The accused told the police that he was unemployed and had to look after his deaf and dumb wife and two children. As he did not have any means of livelihood, he started committing thefts. Traffic advisory Two lanes of ITO bridge from ITO to East Delhi via Vikas Marg will remain close from March 20 to 22 till 2:00 pm to facilitate work at Yamuna Barrage on ITO Bridge. Motorists taking I.P. Marg and Ring Road towards Vikas Marg are advised to avoid ITO Bridge. They should take either Nizamuddin Bridge or Shanti Van Bridge to cross the
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Lover ends life outside girl’s home
New Delhi, March 20 A police official from the district said the victim, Rahul
Goel, was a tutor and ran a coaching institute at Karnal in Haryana. “He had come to the Capital yesterday to meet his girlfriend who lives at Gautam
Nagar. It was around 3 am he reached near her residence and consumed the poisonous substance. He was rushed to the Max Hospital where he succumbed,” said a senior police official. The police official added that he did not leave behind any suicide note.
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Co executive kidnapped
Ghaziabad, March 20 Sanjay
Tyagi, an executive with Dudheswar Packing Company, was allegedly kidnapped around 11 am from Pilkhuwa locality here while he was going to his office. A police officer said the armed men dragged Sanjay in a car and fled towards
Dadri.— IANS
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Woman robbed of necklace
New Delhi, March 20 “Bimla said that the men held her throat and snatched her gold necklace. She shouted for help, but by then they managed to flee,” said a police official.
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seven-month-old child, died while another family member is battling for life in a case of suicide when a couple allegedly consumed some poisonous substance with their two children in the Tilak Nagar area of west district last night.
Prominent Muslim citizens, including lyricist and newly appointed Rajya Sabha MP Javed
Akhtar, activist Shabnam Hashmi and scientist Gauhar Raza, were joined by hundreds of Muslims in a demonstration held in support of Women’s Reservation Bill at Jantar Mantar today.
