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21 CBI, 18 Delhi cops honoured
Security beefed up for R-Day
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OPD for elderly at AIIMS a boon
Gurgaon pledges to cast votes
Make custodian properties leasehold, demands Cong
Onion selling at Rs 5-20 in wholesale mkt
Unable to repay bank loan, 70-yr jumps to death
Three arrested for kidnapping girl
Sweeper held for friend’s murder
Train from Anand Vihar to Kathgodam flagged off
Chill is back
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R-Day: CM hails UID nos
New Delhi, January 25 Dikshit said unique identity (UID) numbers would enable people to establish their identity while applying for a bank account and will also enable them to get SIM cards from MTNL. Dikshit, who is the only Chief Minister of Delhi to hoist the national flag on the Republic Day for the 13th consecutive time, congratulated schoolchildren and citizens of the Capital for their cooperation in hosting the Commonwealth Games. Talking about the achievements of her government, Dikshit said that Delhi, despite being a small state, bagged four gold, eight silver and three bronze medals in the Commonwealth Games, the Chief Minister said. She referred to the expansion of Metro network, introduction of pollution-free buses, construction of foot overbridges, widening of roads, landscaping, improvement in streetlights and overall beautification of the city. The government has now implemented Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure delivery of services by its departments within the prescribed timeframe. Addressing the gathering, Dikshit talked about Jeevan Centres which are working as a single window for payment of various bills and issue of forms and certificates. Further, 125 Samajik Suvidha Kendras are also providing single window services, she said. The Chief Minister lauded the Vidyalaya Kalyan Samitis which have resulted in an improvement in the performance of government schools. She assured that with the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, more and more schools will be opened. She said around 1,500 unauthorised colonies will be regularised within the next few months, she said. About the situation of power supply in the city, Dikshit said the city has a surplus of power, she claimed. |
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21 CBI, 18 Delhi cops honoured
Gallant act Inspector Rajender Singh, SHO/Lodhi Colony, (presently SHO/Saket), along with inspector Jarnail Singh and HC Satyender performed an exemplary gallant act that led to a successful operation in which seven members of the Satte-Bittu gang were arrested after a shootout incident which took place in Green Park on January 19, 2009. Four automatic pistols, cartridges, nine cellular phones, two daggers, one SX-4 car, one Zen, one Honda Accord, one Santro and one motorcycle were recovered from them.
New Delhi, January 25 The CBI said the President's Police Medals for distinguished services have been awarded to five officials, while the Police Medals for meritorious services to 16 others. Joint director Suman Bala Sahoo, senior SP Bhupinder Kumar Chhabra, SP Ganesh Verma, AIGP Jogendra Nayak and inspector Prakash Chand have bagged the medal for distinguished services. The officials who received the medal for meritorious services are S Suresh, PS Salunke, Gollapalli Nageswara Rao, all DIGs, Deepak Kumar Kabi, Ashesh Kumar, Partha Mukherjee, all DSPs, Sundravel Murugavel, Prabhanjan Chakarborty, Chanda Rani, all inspectors, Ishwar Singh, Ajeet Singh, both sub-inspectors, Kailash Shivanna Bore, an assistant sub-inspector, Amar Singh, Naresh Kumar, Mahmood Ali Khan, all head constables, Tribhuwan Shankar, a constable. A DIG posted with the NHRC has also received the President Police Medal for meritorious services. SP Singh, an IPS of '95 batch and a DIG in investigation wing, has been awarded with the Police Medal. The Delhi police has received three President Police Medal for Gallantry (1st Bar), two Police Medal for distinguished service and 13 Police Medal for meritorious service this year. IPS Taj Hassan Mohamed presently posted as Joint CP/Security and ASI Rewat Ram have been awarded with Police Medal for distinguished service while inspector Rajender Singh, inspector Jarnail Singh and HC Satyender Singh have been awarded with the Police Medal for Gallantry. Inspector Anil Kumar Mittal, SI Kali Charan, ASI Uday Vir Sharma, W/ASI Pushpa, constable Ghanshyam Dass, HC Virender Singh, HC Bhoj Raj Singh, W/H constable Gyan Amba, constable Nihal Singh, constable Girish Kumar Singh, constable Hari Kishan, constable Satpal Singh, constable Kusum Pal Singh have been awarded with the Police Medal for meritorious service. |
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Security beefed up for R-Day
New Delhi, January 25 Senior policemen are giving last minute touches to the security arrangements and taking on the spot assessment. According to a senior police official, unprecedented security apparatus has been put in place for the parade route with increased number of snipers and CCTVs compared to the last year. A multi-layer security ring has already been put in place at Rajpath, where President Pratibha Patil will unfurl the Tricolour and take the salute of marching contingents. Besides the air defence measures, helicopters of the Indian Air Force will hover around Rajpath and all along the route of the parade. Meanwhile, the Delhi police visibility on the roads increased with intensified patrolling in crowded market areas, frisking at the Metro stations, railway stations and various bus terminuses in the city. "Hundreds of police officials in plain clothes are keeping vigil at the railway stations and airports. Security at the IGI airport has also been strengthened in coordination with the CISF," said a police official from crime branch. Sealing and checking of buildings along the 8-km parade route were also in full swing with the police officials from New Delhi and central districts engaged in the process till late evening. |
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OPD for elderly at AIIMS a boon
New Delhi, January 25 AIIMS officials said that lack of the proposed 30-bedded general ward, which has been blamed on the paucity of space, has forced the institute to go slow in promoting its services at the geriatric centre even as the clinic happens to be the Capital's first such unit to offer OPD services to the ageing. The elderly patients, 60 years and above, visiting the geriatric clinic are at present adjusted in the medicine wards in case they needed to be admitted. While, in keeping with its mandate under the National Programme of Healthcare for the Elderly (NPHE), the Union Health Minsitry has already issued an order that a geriatric ward be set up, the institute is finding it difficult to identify a place for it. "The geriatric clinic has come as a great help as now the elderly patients do not have to stand in long queues. Also, earlier we had weekly OPDs and since August 2010, we have been seeing 50 to 60 patients everyday. However, the ward facility has not come up yet and patients have to be sent to medicine wards," the chief of the geriatric services at AIIMS, Prof A. B. Dey, told The Tribune. "Ofthe about Rs 288 crore allocated for the NPHE, AIIMS has received between Rs 2 and 3 crore to upgrade the geriatric centre with the general ward, special clinics, facilities for day-care for facilitating comprehensive care to the old patients," informed Dr Dey. The NPHE plan was rolled out in October last year with an idea to make the hospitals elderly-friendly as the number of old patients afflicted by chronic ailments like cataract, dementia, osteoarthritis, hypertension, obstructive pulmonary disease, ischaemic heart disease and type - 2 diabetes mellitus-has been rising. Under the progarmme, 100 districts would be identified in 21 states for setting up a 10-bedded geriatric ward and an OPD. And, for training of experts for geraitric care, an MD programme in geriatric medicine would be introduced in eight regional medical colleges where regional geriatric centres would be instituted and each centre would have a 30-bedded geriatric ward and an OPD facility. |
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Gurgaon pledges to cast votes
Gurgaon, January 25 The first-time voters were given voter identity cards and all those present were administered an oath to cast their vote during elections. Addressing the voters, the DC remarked that most of the Gurgaon residents were interested only in getting their voter cards, as very few turned up to cast their vote. Kataria gave away cash prizes to the students who bagged positions in slogan-writing and poster-making competitions. In the slogan-writing competition, Sanjeet of SD Public School stood first, Ropal of Rotary Public school was second while Mohit of Government High School, Uncha Majra, was adjudged third. In poster-making, Bharti Yadav stood first, Arwina Kaur of Rotary Public School stood second and Arushi Bhargava of Amity International School stood third. The DC also launched the 'VoteForGurgaon' programme, which is a joint initiative of the district administration and different NGOs like iamgurgaon and NASSCOM-backed Cyber-city Welfare Society. Details of the initiative, voters' help-line, and information query screens are available at www.voteforgurgaon.in, Kataria said, adding that steps had been taken to motivate citizens to vote and facilitate voters' registration. |
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Make custodian properties leasehold, demands Cong
New Delhi, January 25 Leader of Opposition in MCD J.K. Sharma told reporters that the municipal commissioner should bring a time-bound scheme for converting these rented properties to leasehold ones as it would benefit the civic agency too. He said 10,625 residential and 3,770 non-residential custodian properties were given by the Central government at nominal rents to the refugees who came here from Pakistan during the partition in 1947. These properties were transferred to the MCD in 1966. "In most of these properties situated in areas like Old Delhi, Mehrauli and Lajpat Nagar, the rent is negligible while the MCD is spending Rs 1 crore on their maintenance every year," he said. He said the tenants were ready to give the fee for converting these properties to leasehold which will bring revenue for the civic body. |
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Onion selling at Rs 5-20 in wholesale mkt
New Delhi, January 25 However, the fall in the wholesale prices is still not reflected in the retail prices, and onion is selling for Rs 35 to 45 in the retail market. Ajay Gupta, a vegetable trader, said fresh onion crops from Maharashtra and Rajasthan had arrived and the supply was likely to rise in the coming days. He said the wholesale prices would stabalise between Rs 10 and 20 and the retail prices would also fall. Gupta added that onion prices could fall to Rs 10 in the retail market in the coming weeks. Traders, however, cautioned that farmers in Nasik, the nerve centre of onion production, had been agitating against a steep fall in the prices of onion over the past few days. They have even boycotted the auction of onions as they believe that they are being given a raw deal. |
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Unable to repay bank loan, 70-yr jumps to death
New Delhi, January 25 "We got information about the incident around 10.30 am today. Anand jumped off the fourth floor of his house in west Patel Nagar. It has emerged that he was unable to repay some bank loan and was probably harassed for it. We are investigating the matter and would reach on a conclusion after talks with the concerned banks," said a police official. The body has been sent to the DDU Hospital for postmortem. Upset by divorce, man tries
immolation
Angry and depressed over his divorce, a 33-year-old man tried to immolate himself outside the Delhi Police Headquarters in ITO this evening. According to information, Dharmender Saini first poured petrol over his bike and set it on fire and later self-immolated. The police presented in the area doused the fire and rushed him to LNJP Hospital where he was admitted with over 70 per cent burns. According to the police, Saini alleged that his family members and the Jaitpur police station sleuths forced and convinced his wife to divorce him. In his statement to the police, Saini also accused the judge who put a final stamp on his divorce despite his reluctance. Saini is a fashion designer and was divorced in 2008 after five years of marriage. The police is investigating the
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Three arrested for kidnapping girl
New Delhi, January 25 Their arrests came on the complaint of a man who stated that some persons kidnapped his juvenile daughter, Pinki (name changed), from his house. When the father of the girl resisted, they injured him and took the girl with them forcefully. The girl was rescued from near ESI Hospital. "She revealed that she was picked up by accused but they panicked when they saw the police patrolling on the way. So, they threw her from the car near the ESI Hospital," said a senior police official. On January 24, the police held all the accused when they were trying to escape from Delhi in a Tata Sumo. |
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Sweeper held for friend’s murder
New Delhi, January 25 On January 23, the police found the body of a young boy in Nangloi. The victim was identified as Rakesh. "The body was lying in a pool of blood with the throat slit," a senior officer said. It was learnt that the victim was last seen with his friend Nirmal. He had gone to Nirmal to take back the money which Nirmal had borrowed from him a few months ago, a senior officer said. Nirmal was held while planning to escape to Haryana. He confessed to the crime and disclosed that he killed Rakesh as he was fed up of him asking his money back.The police has seized a dagger used to kill Rakesh and blood-stained clothes of Nirmal. |
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Train from Anand Vihar to Kathgodam flagged off
New Delhi, January 25 The Anand Vihar railway station is becoming a crucial transport hub as it is having Delhi Metro and Inter-State Bus Terminus in its vicinity. |
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Chill is back
New Delhi, January 25 The minimum temperature was recorded at 6° C, while the maximum temperature today rose to 23° C which is one degree above the normal. Tomorrow, the temperatures are likely to be between 6° C and 23°
C. — TNS |
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