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DTTDC looks at pvt hotels to house CWG guests
Babus told to make Gurgaon greener before Games
CM tells ministers not to give any statement to media on CWG work
Foreign delegates satisfied with CWG security
Low carbon drive for Games
Semester System
Jamia distance learning admissions from Aug 1
Childless couple held for kidnapping child
Techie found stabbed on road
Threat to life real and not show, 69-yr-old riots witness tells court
SC reserves verdict in Mattoo rape case
Man perishes as car catches fire
Firing at moving bus, none hurt
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Help kills woman
New Delhi, July 29 The police was informed around 7:30 am after the family discovered the murder. The police has arrested Anil, the servant of the family, and is interrogating him. "Anil strangulated Meenakshi to death as she opposed her husband's decision to adopt him. Anil was with the family for the past 16-17 years," a senior police official said. "Meenakshi and her husband shared a strained relationship. Though they stayed in the same house, they were not on talking terms and slept in different rooms," said police officials. Gopal, who runs a property business, wanted to adopt Anil, who lived in the servant quarter of the family. However, Meenakshi was opposing his decision, and so, Anil killed her. "On the night of the incident, when Meenakshi was asleep, Anil made an eight-year-old child enter the room through the mouth of an exhaust fan. The child then opened the lock of the room. Anil entered the room and strangulated Meenakshi to death. He then ransacked the room to make it look like a case of robbery," a senior official said. "We have registered a case against Anil. Prima facie it seems that he murdered Meenakshi to ensure his adoption," the police said. |
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Crime graph rises in Delhi
New Delhi, July 29 The available data till June 30 this year, when compared with the corresponding period of 2009 indicate an increase in not only cases of robbery and vehicle theft but also heinous crimes like murder, rape etc. As a result, the total number of crime incidents reported in the capital during the first six months this year stands at 25, 633 compared to 23, 461 incidents recorded till June 30, 2009. According to Delhi police records, the city has witnessed 272 murders while 251 were recorded in the first six months last year. Murders over petty issues continue and a murder for Rs 10 was reported from the Kabir Nagar area of North Delhi while another murder for Rs 200 was witnessed in the Kotwali area. "Crimes like this are unpreventable. In both these cases, the accused and the victim were friends and if one day one decides to kill the other, how do we stop it. It is simply not possible for the police of any city in the world to stop such incidents," said an official. He added that the police should be held accountable if it is unable to crack an organised crime syndicate or some mafia is involved in murders. Also, in several cases, servants of the house has been responsible for murdering their masters but people still seem careless about getting police verification about their servants. Apart from murder, the cases of rape too have gone up from 241 last year to 277 till June 30 this year. Similarly, the incidents of snatching, robbery, molestation, vehicle theft too have gone up. Till June 30 this year, 859 cases of snatching have been recorded compared with 681 last year and 320 cases of molestation compared with 261. As many as 322 incidents of robbery have been recorded while there were 259 incidents last year. The incidence of vehicle thefts has also gone up by 6,872 this year when compared with 5,511 incidents last year. However, the police can take solace from the fact that the cases of burglary have come down to 799 when compared with 851 till June 30, 2009. |
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DTTDC looks at pvt hotels to house CWG guests
New Delhi, July 29 A senior official of the DTTDC lamented that Delhi was the only state whose tourism department did not have a single hotel or restaurant, while all other states in the country have their hotels and restaurants. However, DTTDC chairman and managing director P.K. Tripathi; Reena Ray, principal secretary, and Devinder Singh, director tourism, were not available for comments. The official said that the DTTDC's role was just to assist the CWG organising committee. The DTTDC has appointed four nodal officers to guide volunteers who have been selected by the organising committee to help visitors in identifying appropriate locations they would need to put up during the Games. The nodal officers will operate from the Delhi Institute of Hotel and Catering near Lady Sri Ram College. The nodal officers are Usha Ravi Chandran, Rashmi Gehlot, Harjeet Kaur and Harish Govil. As far as bed and breakfast scheme of the Delhi government is concerned, the DTTDC has collected 1,200 applications from prospective hosts. The maximum are from south Delhi areas, as property owners there fulfill the condition of furnished room with attached washroom and other facilities for guests. They have sufficient accommodation. Under the scheme, residents can rent out their rooms to tourists, provided they have additional space. In the Trans-Yamuna area, the maximum applicants for bed and breakfast are from the Preet Vihar area. An official of tourism department said there were two categories- silver and gold-- for the scheme. Those who want to get registered for silver category, they will have to pay Rs 3,000 for three years while, for gold, the fee is Rs 5000. Sources said the DTTDC had submitted 14,700 applications of youths willing to work as voluntary guides during the Games to the organising committee. Of them, the committee has selected 3,500 volunteers who are being imparted general training by Amity International. They will also be imparted skills for special works that they would be assigned. The volunteers will not be paid remuneration, but they will be given certificate from the organising committee. They will be deployed in important markets, malls, historical buildings and other important places. |
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Babus told to make Gurgaon greener before Games
Gurgaon, July 29 Arora, who was here to review the preparations for Commonwealth Games pertaining to the forest department in Gurgaon, said since Gurgaon was a city of international fame, players and tourists from within the country as well as abroad were expected to visit the city in large numbers during the games to be held in Delhi. “Hence, it is our duty to make Gurgaon a beautiful and green city by carrying out plantation along all major roads in the city. Special attention should be given to beautify the road-crossings and roundabouts,” she said, adding that support and cooperation of the corporate houses can also be sought in the implementation of the plantation programme. Arora assigned specific duties to different government departments to undertake plantation in different parts of the city. She asserted that plantation should be taken up along the roads leading to the Kadarpur shooting range located on the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) campus on priority basis. One route for reaching Kadarpur shooting range is via Badshahpur. The other route is through the newly constructed road from IFFCO Chowk via Sector 56 where the PWD (B&R) was assigned to carry out plantation along the 2.8-km patch which it had constructed. On the other portion, the forest department would carry out plantation. The superintendent engineer of the PWD was asked to coordinate with the officials of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for taking up beautification along National Highway No.8. Local HUDA administrator Nitin Yadav apprised the meeting that HUDA would repair the Sohna road and make it presentable before the Games. Municipal Commissioner Rajesh Khullar said plantation was going on. Divisional forest officer MS Malik said the department had produced 11.5 lakh plants for the district during the current year. Of these, about 5 lakh plants would be distributed to various government departments free of cost for planting in their areas. “Nurseries of medicinal plants have also been raised in Sector 52 and at Raipur (Sohna),” he said, adding that these plants were available at a nominal cost. |
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CM tells ministers not to give any statement to media on CWG work
New Delhi, July 29 Sources said Dikshit was not satisfied with the progress of one of the ministers and asked him to try to meet the deadline. She called the Cabinet meeting after negative reports appeared were aired on news channels. Even state finance minister A.K. Walia said in his report yesterday that work at Yamuna Sports Complex was running behind schedule. Since the ministers have been directed by the Chief Minister to monitor the Games projects, Walia always pointed out the weaknesses and warned the authorities concerned to speed up the work. Sources said after the Cabinet meeting, all ministers had left to monitor work at their respective project sites. Education and transport minister Arvinder Singh Lovely went to monitor the bus queue shelters. A few days ago, he had visited the BRT corridor to find out the exact traffic situation. Public works minister Raj Kumar Chauhan is taking rounds of all PWD projects in addition to the work he has been assigned by the CM. Dikshit has set August 31 as the deadline for the Games-related projects. |
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Foreign delegates satisfied with CWG security
New Delhi, July 29 The delegation was accompanied by police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal. "The commissioner briefed the officials about the security arrangements the Delhi police has made for the Games. A security demonstration was also given at Games Village and Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies will be held. The foreign officials seemed satisfied with the four-layered security ring that we would provide to the venue and sportsmen," said a police official. Over 10,000 athletes from 71 countries and 5,00,000 spectators are expected to take part in the Games from October 3 to 14. A final security review by top home ministry officials is likely on August 15.
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Low carbon drive for Games
New Delhi, July 29 The project has been developed with the assistance of the Global Environment Facility. The OC has received a grant of $0.95 million from GEF for the project. The project aims to develop and promote a low carbon campaign for the CWG by encouraging the citizens, athletes and visitors to adopt environmentally sustainable practices like plantation drive along the Queen's Baton Route, developing 30 public service messages, 10 Shera pop-ups and radio messages on environmental and energy issues. |
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Semester System
New Delhi, July 29 The VC was reacting to a Delhi High Court order of July 27 wherein the court had asked DU to consult the students' union on the issue. "The system has already been introduced in 12 science courses this year and it will only better the educational standards of the university," said Pental while speaking to the media today. He also reiterated that semester system would be introduced in arts and commerce streams in the next session. On the issue of consulting the students, the VC said, "The post-graduate students have already been consulted last year and hence nothing more needs to be done." He added that the matter needed to be handled diplomatically and not with confrontation. The VC also "clarified" that semester system and its implementation was not the issue under discussion in the Delhi High Court. The issue in the court is related to a restraint order sought by the university to be served on the Delhi University Teachers Association to prevent it from disrupting the teaching process under the semester system, said an official statement by the VC. The next court hearing on the issue is scheduled for August 5. Calling the move by the teachers to teach under annual system "illegal," Pental said that the science courses would run in the semester mode only and that the faculty should not waste time in trying to do otherwise. Meanwhile, the DUTA also released an official statement after the VC's conference, saying that the VC was "misinforming" the public and that the teachers would continue to teach in the annual mode. "The DUTA wishes to categorically state that the teachers are teaching according to the annual scheme. The DUTA asserts that neither the desirability and feasibility of the semester system was debated in the university nor the VC allowed any structured debate in the academic council on the issue. He merely announced outside the academic council on June 5, 2009 that semester system would be introduced at the undergraduate level from 2010-11 session," the statement further read. |
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Jamia distance learning admissions from Aug 1
New Delhi, July 29 The Centre for Distance and Open Learning will start the sale of admission forms for various undergraduate, post-graduate, diploma and certificate (professional and non-professional) courses from August 1. While admission to a few programmes like B.Ed. and B.A. (general) is through an entrance test, for admission to most of the courses the applicant does not require to take an entrance test. While the admission forms and prospectus will be available at different locations across the country, in Delhi, the forms can be obtained on all working days from Maktaba Jamia Ltd., near SRK Campus, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025. The application forms can also be downloaded from the university's website:
http://jmi.nic.in.
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Childless couple held for kidnapping child
Greater Noida, July 29 Rajiv Das, the father of the child, said, "I and my wife work at a shop. We used to give our son, Ritik, to our neighbour Seema to look after him till we returned in evening. On Sunday, when we came back home, Seema's house was locked. We thought she might have gone to the nearby market. But when she did not return, we searched for her everywhere, but to no avail." "When we called Seema's husband on his mobile phone, he told us that as they were childless, they had decided to adopt Ritik and that they were taking him to Kanpur. They said that we could have another child, but they couldn't," said Das. "But when we repeatedly requested him to return Ritik, he agreed, but demanded Rs 10,000 in return. He warned us not to inform the police otherwise he would kill Ritik. But I informed the Surajpur police," said Das. "A case of kidnapping was registered against Seema and her husband Maiuddin Ahmed. Today, the child was rescued and the kidnappers were arrested," said Ajay Choudhary, SHO, Surajpur police station. "Ahmed worked as a watchman at a factory here and Das," said Choudhary. |
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Techie found stabbed on road
Greater Noida, July 29 He had stab wounds on his chest. His mobile phone was missing. However, cash and ATM card was found intact in his pocket,” said Manoj Pathak, Kasna police station in charge. “Through an identity card recovered from him, the victim has been was identified as Abhinav Ratnavat (26). He was working as a software engineer at an IT company in Noida’s Sector 127. He had joined the Noida unit of the company only a month ago. He was living at Ambe Bharti Apartments in Sector Pie. He hailed from Jaipur. His family has been informed about the murder,” said Pathak. “The body has been sent for postmortem. The cause of murder is being investigated. Beside robbery, other angles like love affair or professional enmity too are being investigated,” said Shailendra Lal, deputy superintendent of police. “The company of the victim told the police that on the day of murder, Ratnavat had left his office around 9.40 pm. Details about his personal and professional life are being collected to know the possible suspects,” said Lal. |
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Threat to life real and not show, 69-yr-old riots witness tells court
New Delhi, July 29 Terming her security to be important as everybody knew of the time when she would come to Delhi, Kaur submitted before additional sessions judge Sunita Gupta, "In the last 25 years, whenever I used to come to Delhi, nobody was aware of it. Therefore, I did not ask for security. Now, people know when I am coming, so I need security." The remarks came after Kaur had apprised the court yesterday that she had written to the CBI director, seeking protection and therefore, security guards from the Punjab police were provided to her. Opposing the remarks that a 69-year-old witness was demanding security to show that she had threat to life, Kaur said, "I don't know of any witness being provided with security cover in the case or not. It is incorrect to suggest that I have asked for security in order to show that I apprehend danger to my life." Kaur was cross-examined by defence counsel Anil Kumar Sharma for the 11th day in a row today. The cross-examination of the witness remained inconclusive and is likely to resume tomorrow. On July 3, Kaur had identified senior Congress leader Kumar and his nephew Balwan Khokkar, other accused Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal as accomplices who had allegedly instigated mobs during the 1984 carnage. Mahender Yadav and Krishan Khokkar are two other accused in the case. The CBI had filed two chargesheets against Kumar and others on January 13 in the riots cases registered in 2005. |
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SC reserves verdict in Mattoo rape case
New Delhi, July 29 A Bench comprising Justices HS Bedi and CK Prasad heard the arguments of both sides - the CBI which had prosecuted the accused and the convict. The 23-year-old law student was found murdered at her South Delhi residence on January 23, 1996. The trial court had acquitted him on December 3, 1999, giving him the benefit of the doubt. Aarushi case
Another Bench comprising Justices Altamas Kabir and AK Patnaik today listed for August 9 the hearing of an application filed by Dr Rajesh Talwar seeking curbs on the media while reporting the case relating to the murder of his daughter, Aarushi, on May 16, 2008. The SC had on July 22, 2008 passed an order asking the media to desist from irresponsible reporting. Dr Talwar has maintained in the present application that the media was again carrying reports which were damaging the reputation of Aarushi and his family. |
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Man perishes as car catches fire
New Delhi, July 29 The incident took place around 1.45 pm in the afternoon when Sharma, a resident of East Punjabi Bagh was going to his paint shop at Karol Bagh in his Maruti Swift car. He was alone in the car. When he reached near road number 77 in West Punjabi Bagh, the car suddenly caught fire. He tried to open the door, but the interlocking system failed and the doors got jammed, resulting in his death. "It looks that the car caught fire due to some leakage in the CNG kit," said a senior police official. Sharma is survived by his wife and two
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Firing at moving bus, none hurt
Noida, July 29 "The bus, coming from Delhi, was going to Sector 37, Noida. As it reached near the Chilla Regulator Bridge, someone in a Santro car fired at the bus. However, no one was hurt. After firing at the bus, the car speeded up into Noida area. The police is searching for the car. The place where the incident took place lies in Delhi police's jurisdiction," said H. N. Singh, superintendent of police (city). |
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