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Another death on BRT
City rejoices in ‘the hour of darkness’
Golden Gulzar set to author two books
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60 jhuggis gutted
Student, eatery worker hurt
in firing
Lawyer’s wife found hanging, dowry case filed
Crime File
Congress MLA bereaved
Phone details helped trace Amity boy's killer
BPO staffer dies in mishap
Riots accused’s jurisdiction
plea rejected
Rs 1.1-crore stolen electronic goods seized
Low response to traders’ strike
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Another death on BRT
New Delhi, March 27 According to the police, the incident was reported around 10:45 pm from Archna Crossing in the Ambedkar Nagar area. “The victim identified as Satyendra Narayan was a native of Andhra Pradesh. He was returning home when an unidentified vehicle hit his bike from behind and sped away. He was rushed to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre, where he was declared brought dead,” said a police official. Narayan worked as a call center executive in a Gurgaon-based BPO. “He stayed in a rented accommodation in the Madangir area with his family. A case of rash and negligent driving has been registered against the unidentified errant driver and a hunt is on to nab him,” added the official. Biker mowed down
In another incident, a speeding vehicle mowed down a biker in the Mukherjee Nagar last night. The police said the incident was reported around 10 pm. “The deceased has been identified as Pawan, a resident of Christian Colony. The accident took place when he was going to a nearby market after dinner on his bike. An unidentified speeding vehicle hit his bike from behind. He was rushed to the Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital where he was declared brought dead,” said a police official adding that a case has been registered in this regard. The deceased owned a printing press and is survived by wife and two children. |
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City rejoices in ‘the hour of darkness’
New Delhi, March 27 The awareness campaign went on a larger scale with several corporates and celebrities joining the cause. Last year, Delhi was the lead city for Earth Hour 2009, saving around 650 MW, more than half of the entire country’s power savings, and this year the figure is expected to go up. India accounted for saving 1000 MW as five million people in 56 Indian cities participated in the movement last year. “It is a small step and I don’t see why anyone should not participate in the campaign. It’s high time people contributed their bit to curb climate threats. We managed to get our hostel lights out after speaking to the warden and got together for a candlelight dinner in the lobby,” said Shruti, living in a private hostel in east Delhi. Several historical buildings, office complexes, Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), shopping centres and hotels switched off lights this year. “Some people were not very pleased with the idea of switching off their television sets at prime time. But we managed to convince them promising them the episode of their daily soap on Youtube later. More than 80 households in our locality participated in the hour,” said Ashima, a resident of Dwarka. |
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Golden Gulzar set to author two books
New Delhi, March 27 On being asked, “What you are working on currently?” He replies with a frown, “Yahan bhi filmein. Aaj kuch aur, filmein nai,” (Let’s talk something else other than movies) and then says, “I am working on two books, one a book on poems and the other a collection of short stories.” It’s the lunch hour at the festival and Sampooran Singh Kalra–Gulzar being his pen name— is queuing up at the buffet while speaking of the importance of a platform such as this festival in getting talent from across south Asian countries on a common platform. He says they need to hear what writers and poets from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Pakistan and other countries feel and write about. “Cultural exchange never flows one way. It is a two-way street or more, so a give and take matters,” he says to underline the importance of the festival. Talks soon veer to how he is reinventing himself in the age of pop lyrics as many of his once-illustrious contemporaries have lost their relevance. He says technology has become important and most writers of the old school are stubborn. “In a time and age with 75 television channels, mobiles and the Internet, you can’t make a child sit with a book. The elder generation needs to adapt and learn from the young,” he says. The man who penned soulful melodies of Andhi in the 70s also wrote sensuous numbers of Omkara and it is obvious that he is the right man to judge both the eras. He says the gap between Indian cinema and art has reduced over the years and the exchange of ideas improved tremendously. “Song composers and music directors understand and respect the value of lyrics. Directors know it for a fact, no matter how big the budget is, a good script and a gripping screenplay are essential to a film,” he says, giving the thumbs-up to the mainstream cinema. |
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60 jhuggis gutted
Faridabad, March 27 As soon as the news of fire outbreak reached the fire service department, the authorities swung into action and dispatched two firefighting engines to the spot. The residents of adjoining village Jharsetli also helped the firefighters in dousing the flames. It took about two hours to fully douse
the fire. The sub-divisional magistrate of Ballabgarh, Inderpal Bishnoi, has ordered an enquiry to find out the cause of the fire. According to some of the slum dwellers, the fire broke out in one of the jhuggis and soon spread to others. The wind velocity was high at the time of the incident and this helped the fire to spread faster. The majority of the adult inmates were at work when the incident took place. The ill-fated jhuggis belonged to migratory labourers and industry workers. The sector has a good number of industrial units. The slum area has more than 200 jhuggis. These jhuggis are built, partly on the land of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) and partly on private land. This is the third time in as many years that fire has broken out in the slums in Sector 59. |
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Student, eatery worker hurt
in firing
Noida, March 27 According to inspector Pritam Pal Singh, the in charge of the Sector 20 police station, the police has started investigation on the basis of the statements given by the victims and the evidence collected from the spot. The owner of the eatery cart is one Upender Kumar, who hails from Madhubani in Bihar. He lives in a rented accommodation in Atta village and sells pranthas near DLF Mall in Sector 18. On Friday, around 2.30 am, Kumar was selling paranthas with his 12-year-old cousin, Baiju, while about a dozen customers were standing around his cart. Suddenly, a bullet hit the left hand of Prashant Kumar Verma, a B.Tech (architecture) student of Apeejay Institute, Greater Noida. Soon, another bullet hit Baiju’s hand and chest. Kumar rushed his wounded cousin to the Vinayak Hospital in the Atta area. Prashant was admitted to the Kailash Hospital by his friends. According to Dr V.P. Singh, senior surgeon treating Baiju, the bullet has made a 14-cm wound in his chest. “The shot was fired from a close range. It has created a hole in Baiju’s lungs. His lever and chest have also been damaged,” Singh said. |
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Lawyer’s wife found hanging, dowry case filed
Ghaziabad, March 27 According to Rajesh Dwivedi, inspector in charge, Indirapuram police station, Teresa (21) was found hanging from the door bolt of her house in the Sector-6 area of Vasundhara on Thursday night. “Around 12.30 am on Thursday night, her husband Sushil Kumar noticed that she was hanging from the bolt of the door from inside and informed the police,” Dwivedi said. Sushil Kumar is a lawyer with a Delhi court. Originally from Sondha locality under Newari police station area, Teresa married Palwal resident Sushil nearly two years back. The couple had a one-year-old daughter. For the last few days, Sushil’s work was not going very well and he was nearly jobless. The two shifted to Sector 6 in Vasundhara some time back. The police said the body of Teresa bore several injury marks. Claiming that she did not commit suicide but was murdered by her husband, Teresa’s brother Krishna Kumar said: “She told us often that her husband used to beat her for no reason. We had even paid Rs 50,000 demanded by him a few days back.” A case of dowry death was registered at the Indirapuram police station against Sushil Kumar and others on the complaint of the woman’s brother. —
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Nepalese held with 2 kg hashish
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 27 According to police, the accused has been identified as Kesh Bhadur Gurung, resident of Tanhau district in Nepal. According to Neeraj Thakur, additional CP (Crime), they had received a tip-off about a Nepalese gang engaged in smuggling hashish to their clients in foreign countries. The gang concealed it in parcels and then sent it through courier companies. "We received specific information about a suspicious parcel booked for Bangkok from a courier company's office in GTB Nagar. Our team checked the parcel which was found booked in the name of one John Michael of Bangkok, Thailand. The parcel contained antique-looking gramophones. However, on checking the gramophones, 2.5 kg of fine quality hashish was recovered from the cavity of two gramophones," said Thakur, adding that the drug was wrapped in carbon paper and kept in six packets. Later, the person who had booked the parcel was identified as Kesh Bhadur Gurung. He was found in a rented accommodation at Nathupura in Burari and arrested. During interrogation, the accused revealed that he was working for one Dev Bhadur Gurung of Kathmandu, and earlier also, he had sent such parcels containing hashish to Holland. Further investigation is in progress to ascertain the details of other members of the gang and the source of the contraband. Dead Nigerian
had cocaine in stomach
A Nigerian national who died in a hospital last week had three packets of high-grade cocaine in his stomach. “The cocaine packets were found during autopsy on John Nwachukwu at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Thursday. Nwachukwu was taken to hospital after he had complained about severe stomachache. He died a day later,” said a police official adding that efforts are on to trace his passport to know the details. 9-yr-old dies
in mishap
A nine-year-old girl was crushed to death by an unidentified vehicle near Andhra Bhavan
in the wee hours of today. The incident took place around one am. The victim has been identified as Kavita. She and her family slept on the pavement when the incident took place. A case has been registered. |
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Congress MLA bereaved
Gurgaon, March 27 According to the family, the condolence meeting will be held at the Tikeli farmhouse on Sohna Road from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on April 5. Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee president Phool Chand Mulana, Delhi MLA Brahm Yadav, Haryana chief parliamentary secretary Rao Daan Singh, Badli MLA Naresh Sharma, former Gurgaon MLA Dharambir Gauba and others paid floral tributes to the departed soul. Former MLAs Rao Narbir Singh, Naresh Yadav and Dr Sushil Indora, local Congress leader Khazan Singh and DCC (Urban) president Madan Lal Grover also extended condolences to the bereaved family. |
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Phone details helped trace Amity boy's killer
Noida, March 27 Vivek knew that after Rohit's abduction, the police would investigate his cell phone details. Therefore, Vivek bought a cell phone. He bought a SIM card from Aligarh on fake documents of one Promode Sharma. On March 20, Vivek with Saurav and Vishal reached near Rohit's paying guest accommodation in Sector-40 and called him out. He made a call from his new phone. When Rohit came, Vivek took him to Panipat on a vehicle. When the police came to know about Rohit's abduction, the call details of his cell phone were examined. It was found that the last call was made from a new number. The police then found that the number belonged to one Promode Sharma in Aligarh. The paying guest house inmates told the police that on March 20 Rohit went out smiling. That day, Rohit had talked to his girlfriend, his brother and Vivek Patel. As Vivek was a resident of Aligarh and close to Rohit, the police became suspicious. The police tapped Vivek's phone and heard the conversation with his girlfriend about Rohit's abduction. He also told his girlfried about his plan of fleeing to Mumbai. The police nabbed Vivek on the basis of his telephonic conversation. |
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BPO staffer dies in mishap
Noida, March 27 Ram Narayan, 42, was hit by a speeding dumper truck near the Great India Palace (GIP) mall in Sector 18 Noida, the police said. Narayan of Sector 22 was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead. “A case of negligent driving has been registered against the absconding driver,” SP (city) A.K. Tripathi said. —
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Riots accused’s jurisdiction
plea rejected
New Delhi, March 27 “The grounds taken in the application that the present court is not competent to try the case, is without any force as every additional sessions judge is competent to try every sessions trial pertaining to entire area in the territorial jurisdiction of Delhi,” said special CBI judge P S Teji while hearing the plea. The court, however, sent the files relating to the two cases to the district judge, Tis Hazari court, for the proper allocation of the matter. “A request is hereby forwarded to the learned district judge to issue instructions to proceed with the matter,” the court said. Meanwhile, the court directed all the accused, including Sajjan Kumar, who were present before the court, to appear before it on April 1. |
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Rs 1.1-crore stolen electronic goods seized
New Delhi, March 27 The accused has been identified as Rajbir (28), a native of Tonk in Rajasthan. He was apprehended from a godown in Nangloi while trying to sell off a stolen television. “The goods were loaded in a truck at the Samsung godown in Noida on March 16 and were to be delivered in Pune. However, the driver of the truck, in connivance with a supervisor of the transport company, Bhoop Singh, misappropriated the goods and abandoned the truck near Indore,” said Neeraj Thakur, ACP (crime). During investigation, Rajbir disclosed that about three months ago, he and Bhoop Singh had planed to steal some electronic goods. “On March 16, Rajbir was asked to take a consignment of Samsung TVs and ACs to Pune. However, he brought the truck to Nangloi and off-loaded the goods at a godown at Kamruddin Nagar there. After dumping the goods at the godown, Rajbir abandoned the truck near Indore bypass. Bhoop Singh has been absconding ever since,” said Thakur. |
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Low response to traders’ strike
New Delhi, March 27 However, the CAIT claimed in a statement that commercial markets in the Capital obeyed the call for protests and strike against the Delhi government’s proposal to hike VAT slabs on different commodities. It said Delhi has an annual turnover of about Rs 2 lakh crore from trade. The VAT hike will result into migration of over 30 per cent traders to neighbouring states like UP, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and MP as markets in these states are cheaper in comparison to Delhi. |
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He is the only Indian lyricist who has the prestigious Grammy and Oscar awards to his credit. Over the last 47 years, he has given unforgettable lyrics, dialogues and movies to the Hindi cinema. However, films are the last thing Gulzar would like to talk about as he joins the SAARC festival in the Capital.
