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Games: MCD lags in road work
Monsoon may further hit projects
AIIMS sacks 2 ad hoc SRs without notice
Jat groom refuses to accept Dalit bride
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Married woman seeks protection from parents
DERC tariff report unacceptable: Chief secy
Use fewer pesticides, CM advises farmers
MCD to build 1,000 shelters for sanitation workers
Survey to identify homeless in Delhi
Godman’s custody extended by 30 days
Missing realtor’s body found floating in Yamuna
Journalist assaulted in Gt Noida
Police backed ’84 rioters: Victim
Delhi to remain hot
Seminar on saving water
Fake cold drink factory raided
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Games: MCD lags in road work
New Delhi, July 2 While the municipal authority started work on the beautification of 23 roads leading to CWG venues a year ago, only half the job has been done to date. And there is an impending speed- breaker in the form of the monsoon. The project report given by the chairman of the Works Committee, Jagdish Mamgain, states that only 50 to 55 per cent success has been achieved in works, including the improvement and strengthening of 5th Avenue road from India Habitat Centre to Kushak nallah, Guru Teg Bahadur road, Shriya Marg and Roshanara Road on the university campus, improvement and strengthening of Chhatra Marg and Boulevard Road from Bhagwan Das Chowk to St Stephen’s hospital. However, 70 to 80 per cent work has been done on projects like the improvement of Bhishma Pitamah Marg, improvement of Lodhi Road from India Habitat Centre to Nizamuddin roundabout, the improvement and strengthening of Maharishi Valmiki Marg from INA to Prem Nagar, improvement of Harsukhdev Marg and Jhandu Singh Marg in Safdarjung Enclave, road from Kingsway Camp to NG Drain. “Regular and close monitoring and inspection at every step is being done to enhance the speed of the projects so that these Commonwealth Games (CWG) projects can be completed by the end of July. Any delay will be viewed seriously and work will be done on a war footing by arranging more resources and equipments to complete the projects by the end of this month positively,” said Mamgain. |
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Monsoon may further hit projects
New Delhi, July 2 On the condition of anonymity, the officer said that work on major projects the elevated road, Ring Road bypass, UP Link Road and beautification work of various areas will be hit. He said that this issue was discussed today at a review meeting held today with urban development minister A. K. Walia. Games projects being undertaken by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) were discussed at the meeting in which the civic body claimed that 90 per cent work had been completed and the remaining would be done by July 15. While taking stock of each and every project, Walia underlined the importance of quality work which would enhance the image of the city. Projects should be completed with due care. Nothing should be left unattended. The games have provided an excellent opportunity to the city to move ahead of other Capitals in the world, the minister said. The covering of Sunehri and Kushak Nullahs for creating huge parking facility near Nehru Stadium is near completion with more than 93 per cent work having been completed. It will provide ample parking facility near the main venue which will be used for opening and closing ceremonies. The MCD has also completed the covering of Delhi Police School drain where only 3 per cent work is yet to be done which include some finishing touches. The MCD has also been undertaking streetscaping of all important roads leading to the stadia. It has completed improvement and upgradation work between 75 per cent to 100 per cent around hotels and guesthouses in Karol Bagh and Paharganj. In all, Rs 912 crore has been spent on this head. The MCD also took up the construction of the drainage system and footpath and strengthening of carriageway in the university area around Chhatrasal Stadium. Out of 12 works taken up, 11 have been completed and one is scheduled to be completed before July 15. |
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AIIMS sacks 2 ad hoc SRs without notice
New Delhi, July 2 AIIMS registrar V P Gupta expressed ignorance on the matter though both the doctors confirmed the development and lashed out at what they said to be an arbitrary and unfair decision. Both the doctors—Dr Malik Azharudin and Dr Amit Singla—who completed their MS in December 2009, followed by their appointment as SRs at AIIMS trauma centre, did not receive any notice about their dismissal and it was only day before yesterday that they learnt it from the department concerned. “When we reached the hospital, we were told verbally that our appointment is ceased and even our salaries have been blocked without any reason. It was actually surprising as we did not have complaint or memorandum against us. Though we have not received anything in written, we have submitted a letter to the director, registrar and the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA),” Dr Malik told The Tribune. As per the AIIMS guidelines, dismissal of any resident doctor would not happen without the knowledge of the authorities at the academic section, which takes care of all the medical appointments. Sources said the file was sent to the registrar’s office on June 25. He, however, assured a team of resident doctors, including the two dismissed ones, today that he would look into the matter. “As per the institutional code, termination could only happen after the third warning and that too on the direction of an enquiry board. Two resident doctors did not have any disciplinary action against them and it is strange that they have been dismissed without any written memorandum or explanation,” said the RDA president, Dr Debjyoti Karmakar. Doctors said the ad hoc appointments made by the institute make their job insecure. Under the ad hoc system, the bond is renewed every month. |
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Jat groom refuses to accept Dalit bride
Ghaziabad, July 2 The incident took place in Inder Garhi village in the Mussourie police station area. The groom, Rohit, son of one Nepal Singh, had gone to the bride’s house in Bulandshahr’s Shikarpur village for the marriage. Rohit works at a factory and lives at Bhangel in Noida. After the groom side cancelled the marriage, the bride family asked them to pay the expenditure incurred by them on the arrangements, which the groom side refused. “The matter went to police station. After a few hours of discussion, the family of the groom agreed to pay the amount. They sent a man to their home village to bring the money. It was only after the girl’s family got the money that the groom’s family was allowed to go back home without the bride, said Gajender Singh, SHO Mussourie police station. According to the bride’s relatives, the marriage was fixed on May 23 with help of two middlemen— Galand village resident Ajay and Inder Garhi resident Bala. However, Rohit claims that Ajay did not tell his family that the girl is a Dalit. He said that he was told that the girl was a Jat. He alleged that the bride’s family misled his
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Married woman seeks protection from parents
Ghaziabad, July 2 SSP Raghuvir Lal has issued directions to the Indirapuram police to probe the matter and provide security, if needed. The woman wrote in the fax sent to the senior superintendent of police of the Muzaffarnagar district that one Ravindra Kumar was in love with her and on June 27 last year, they married in a Delhi temple. Since then they had been living happily. Following the recent honour killings in Delhi and Ghaziabad, she too received threatening calls from her parents. Her uncle threatened to even kill both of them if she did not leave her husband and return home. As the couple was living in Indirapuram, The Muzaffarnagar SSP directed the fax to the Ghaziabad police for action. Indirapuram incharge Rajesh Dwivedi said he has initiated the investigation. Interestingly, just four days ago another married woman had sent fax to the SSP seeking protection and pleading safety of goods in her Indirapuram house. |
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DERC tariff report unacceptable: Chief secy
New Delhi, July 2 Chief secretary Rakesh Mehta said that this could not be called a report of the DERC as it did not have consent of its members. The chairman alone cannot claim to be the commission. It’s only a chairman’s report, he said. He said both the members of the commission are not satisfied with the recommendations made by the chairman. However, he refused to give details of the recommendations. On the other hand, the BJP alleged that power regulator DERC’s latest report on the tariff issue “exposed” the government’s “connivance” with the power distribution companies to “increase the burden” on the common man. BJP workers staged a demonstration in front of the DERC office. In its report to the government, the regulator had said that the three private power discoms–BSES, BRPL and NDPL—were earning an additional profit of Rs 300 crore monthly due to the government’s decision to hold back revised tariff prepared by it. “DERC’s letter to the government exposed the loot by the private power companies in connivance with the government,” Delhi BJP chief Vijendra Gupta. The DERC in its report also indicated that it was planning to cut down tariff as discoms will get power from several under-construction power generation plants in Delhi. |
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Nigerian, 2 others held for visa racket
New Delhi, July 2 The trio allegedly cheated people on the pretext of providing jobs in Canada, America and European countries. They used to charge between Rs 20 and 25 lakh for their services. They were apprehended after complaints were received from one R Suresh and his friends hailing from Chennai and later from the Canadian high commission. Suresh along with nine boys from Chennai had applied for a job through the Internet in Toronto-based Village Farm and Sea Food Inc in April 2010. They also received an employment contract letter from the executive director of the company. Later on behalf of the company, one Thomas contacted them and asked them to apply for visa through his contact Neil Narcis in Delhi. For the job, the victims paid Rs 15 lakh to Narcis. On June 26, they again paid Rs 2.35 lakh and the amount was collected by one Riya, alias
Roshani. She handed over two passports with the Canadian visa. The remaining passports were to be handed over to them in 4-5 days. Thereafter, they stopped responding on phone. The complainant and his friends made enquiries at the Canadian high commission and found that the visa was fake, said additional commissioner of police (Crime) Neeraj
Thakur. On June 30, police received a tip-off and arrested the three from Sector-7, Dwarka. An accomplice of the Nigerian was also arrested from Uttam Nagar. He used to receive the money from Gautam and send it to Nigeria. Police has recovered 55 passports of Indians, Nepalese and Bangladeshi nationals, around 11 scanned visa copies and job letters. The culprits disclosed that they created a website, www.Midasgoldimmigration.Com and offered jobs in a farming company in
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Use fewer pesticides, CM advises farmers
New Delhi, July 2 Dikshit was speaking at the inauguration of the 22nd Mango Festival. Opening the fest, she said that Mango Festival showcased how mango still held the prime position among
fruits. The fest has on display around 400 varieties of mangoes, including the rare varieties. At the festival, one can see mangos as small as litchi and as big as a papaya. The mango is believed to be indigenous to the Indian sub-continent and is as old as the land itself. Mango has been under cultivation for over 4,000 years. There are more than 1,265 varieties of mangoes all over the world and in India, about 1,000 varieties are available, the Chief Minister said. The fruit is much in demand in countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Amsterdam, China and United States. India exports mangos to UAE, China, USA and Australia. The festival this year has tremendous participation from the traditional growers of mangos who have attained expertise over the years like Central Institute for Sub-Tropical Horticulture, Lucknow; UP State Horticultural Co-Operative Marketing Federation, Lucknow; Rajaya Krishi Utpandan Mandi Prishad, Lucknow; IARI , New Delhi; Bihar Agriculture College; GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttrakhand; Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana; CCS Haryana Agricultural University; Directorate of Horticultural and Food Processing, UP; Horticultural Experiment and Training Centre, Saharanpur and Malhiabad; Musta Orchards, UP and Shehnaz Export, Naseem Mango Graden, Amroha. |
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MCD to build 1,000 shelters for sanitation workers
New Delhi, July 2 “We will build about 1,000 shelters for safai karamcharis with facilities of toilet, store and biometric attendance system. These stores can be used by the workers for keeping brooms and other sanitary material. It is for the first time that the civic body is building such shelters,” said Chandolia. He also said that the MCD had already started the work of regularisation of the services of the sanitation workers. “In the first phase, the services of 426 safai karamcharis who were engaged between April 1994 and June 1994 will be regularised. Orders have been issued to this effect. In the second phase, the services of about 2,000 workers inducted up to March 1995 will be regularised,” he
said. Chandolia gave assurances that the services of the sanitation workers will be regularised at par with other employees of the MCD. The sanitation workers have been protesting since June 21 for timely payment of wages and regualrisation of their jobs. Though some unions withdrew the protest earlier this week, others are continuing with their agitation. |
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Survey to identify homeless in Delhi
New Delhi, July 2 The survey is part of the UNDP-supported project, ‘Innovation Support for Social Protection: Institutionalizing conditional cash transfers in Delhi’. It will identify the homeless in Delhi. The survey was launched from the residence of Chief Minister in the presence of UN resident coordinator and UNDP resident representative in India, Patrice Coeur, country director UNDP, Caitlin Wiesen and other senior officials. It will be conducted by enumerators in 500 zones in the Capital. They will reach every homeless person at night to ensure that the particulars are recorded properly. The enumerators will be issued with photo identity cards. The survey will enrich the government’s understanding of the health, education, etc. of the homeless. With the data base, the government will be able to plan their rehabilitation. |
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Godman’s custody extended by 30 days
New Delhi, July 2 Meanwhile, in another case lodged under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, involving Dwivedi, a Delhi court adjourned the proceedings as the counsel was not present. In this case, the court would now frame charges against Ichchadhari Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakootwale and others on July 16. Police, which had earlier filed a chargesheet under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act against Dwivedi and others, is yet to complete the probe in the case lodged under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act. All the accused are out on bail except Dwivedi. Arrested on February 26, Dwivedi was alleged to be involved in four cases under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and one case of robbery. A fresh arrest against him was, however, made on March 9 under the provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), according to which an accused cannot apply for bail for six months from the day of his arrest. Dwivedi, who belonged to Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh, came to New Delhi in 1988 and initially worked as a security guard. He was arrested on prostitution charges in 1997 and 1998. |
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Missing realtor’s body found floating in Yamuna
New Delhi, July 2 "Yesterday evening, some people saw the body floating in the river near ITO, after which the police was informed. We took the help of divers and retrieved the body in an hour. However, it took us another five hours to identify the body, which was in a decomposed state," said a police official. According to him, Tuteja was identified from the visiting cards found in his pockets. The family members identified the body, after which it was sent for post-mortem. Although the police believes it to be a case of suicide, investigations are on to check any foul play. "There is no external injury on the body, but things would become clear only after the post-mortem. However, we have been told by the relatives and neighbours that he was not on good terms with his son, who was into bad company. In fact, he had a fight with his son on the day he went missing," said a police official from the Gandhi Nagar police station. The neighbours and relatives of Tuteja have told the police that he was very depressed about his son's activities. |
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Journalist assaulted in Gt Noida
Greater Noida, July 2 Noida Media Core Committee comprising Anil Nigam, Mukhram Singh and others today held a meeting and gave representation to the SSP A.K.Singh demanding arrest of the assailant. Leaders of some political parties have also condemned the assault and expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order. “Criminals are striking at will and police was unable to check the deteriorating law and order in the city,” said Sunil Bhatti of the BJP. Ajay Singhal, brother of the injured journalist Deepak Singhal, has lodged an FIR against the history sheeter Deepak Kumar, son of Mahesh Kumar. He stated that around 9 pm on Wednesday, his brother along with some friends was standing in the market. Suddenly, the history sheeter came on bike and assaulted him with a steel rod. He hit him on the head. Deepak was critically injured and admitted to Kailash Hospital. “Deepak had deep wounds on the head and was bleeding profusely. He was immediately operated upon at night. He was on life support system till late Friday evening. His condition was still very critical,” said Dr S Kapoor, medical superintendent of Kailash Hospital. “The cause of the assault was being investigated. Initial investigations revealed that the history sheeter lives in Haryana. It appeared that he had been hired by someone against whom the journalist might have written adversely. A police team was sent to arrest the accused, but he could not be found so far,” said Ambesh Tyagi, deputy superintendent of police. |
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Cop dies in accidental firing
New Delhi, July 2 The victim, T.P. Illyas, was hit in the chest and was rushed to the hospital where he was declared brought dead. He was posted with the armoury of the New Delhi district police. He job was to train new recruits and maintain arms. "There was a training/inspection session at the Connaught Place police station and Illyas and other personnel were standing in the courtyard near the 'maalkhana' (inventory) of the police station. Illyas was checking a 9 mm pistol of a recently-recruited constable, Mohit. He was standing on the right side of Mohit. Illyas asked Mohit to open the pistol, but forgot to remove the magazine. While trying to open the firearm, the pistol accidentally got fired and the bullet passed through the right side of Illyas' chest," said a police official. Illyas was rushed to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. Illyas, a native of Kerala, was residing in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar with his family. |
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Police backed ’84 rioters: Victim
New Delhi, July 2 Explaining the whole scene inside the courtroom, she added that when she approached several times the official in-charge, he bluntly told her that she was playing with fire by blaming powerful people. She claimed that the official had told her, “Where will you run after filing complaints. They won’t spare you. Don’t name those people or where you will go with the surviving family members.” Day-to-day hearing is going on in this case. The court would now cross-examine Kaur. Kaur lost five family members, including her husband, in the riots that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. The CBI had filed two chargesheets against Sajjan Kumar and others on on the recommendation of the Justice G T Nanavati Commission which inquired into the sequence of events leading to the riots. |
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Delhi to remain hot
New Delhi, July 2 “The day temperature will remain high on Saturday and is expected to touch 39°C,” an official of the IMD said. Monsoon was expected to hit the city by June 29 but it will be delayed for a few more days. The city recorded a minimum temperature of 27.7°C today and a maximum of 39.4°C — both two notches above average. — IANS |
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Seminar on saving water
Noida, July 2 “In urban areas, the problem is not of water scarcity, but of inequitable distribution . Several areas get just 20 literwater per capita daily (LPCD), while other areas have over 300 LPCD,” said Batra. |
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Fake cold drink factory raided
New Delhi, July 2 “The factory owner, Rakesh Tomar, is absconding," said Yadav. The raids followed after the residents tipped the police. |
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