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Minor boy kills 3 women over
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Govt to give financial aid
to MCDs
Sonia will decide cabinet, DPCC reshuffle: Sheila
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Solar water heating scheme to be extended
Soon, water recycle plant
in Okhla
Patient services hit after strike at LNJP
Constructions demolished
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Minor boy kills 3 women over
Rs 50
New Delhi, April 23 According to police officials, the boy worked in a hosiery factory at Jahangirpuri. Around a month ago, he had got Rs 50 for his work and he spent it without telling his mother. When the mother confronted him, the boy borrowed Rs 50 from his neighbour Vineeta and gave it to his mother, pretending that he had never spent the money. However, when Vineeta later went to the boy's house to take back the money, the mother got to know that the boy had lied to her and she thrashed him publicly. To avenge his humiliation, the boy last night stabbed Vineeta with scissors. He also stabbed Vineeta's landlady Santra and her daughter Jyoti who had intervened to save her. The boy was later arrested from a bathroom where he had locked himself up. The police said it received a PCR call about the incident at 9.30 pm. "We received another call at 9.40 pm about the same incident from Santra's son Satya Parkash," said deputy commissioner of police (north-west) Meenu Choudhary. Satya Parkash told the police that he along with his family members was present in his house when the incident happened. Prakash and his family members were downstairs when the boy had attacked Vineeta on the third floor. On hearing Vineeta's screams, he along with his mother Santra Devi (40) and sister Jyoti (24) rushed upstairs. There, they saw the boy repeatedly stabbing 30-year-old Vineeta. "His mother and sister tried to overpower the boy. But the boy stabbed both of them in their abdomens and tried to flee. Satya Parkash chased him. On hearing the commotion, people blocked the street and the boy could not escape so he locked himself in a toilet on the second floor of the house. Satya Parkash then locked the toilet from outside and called the phone," said Choudhary. Vineeta, Santra Devi and Jyoti were rushed to Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital. Vineeta died within a few minutes and Santra Devi and Jyoti died hours later. Meanwhile, the boy was arrested from the toilet. The police called a juvenile welfare officer and the boy was questioned. The boy told the police that Vineeta was his so-called aunty as his mother used to treat her husband as her brother. The police said the boy used to visit Vineeta's house frequently and was familiar with landlady Santra. Since the slapping incident, over the month, the boy had made around six attempts to catch Vineeta alone in her house, but every time he had found her sitting with Santra. Vineeta lived with her husband Pawan Kumar.
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Govt to give financial aid
to MCDs
New Delhi, April 23 Briefing the media after the cabinet meeting, Dikshit stated that the city government is alarmed to note that there are outstanding contractors' liabilities amounting to Rs 600 crore and the increase in revenue has not been commensurate with the increase in expenditure. The government has advised the municipal corporations to ensure that revenue resources are adequately tapped. Rationalization of tax base needs to be considered seriously and efficiency in collection revenue also needs to be addressed. In order to overcome the problems of the new MCDs, the government has decided to give Rs 5,326 crore, to bridge their budget deficit. This amount includes budgetary allocation of Rs 1,724 crore (Non-Plan) and Rs 1,771 crore (Plan) for 2012-13. The decision has been taken, keeping in view the city government's commitment to promote democratic decentralization and strengthening of local bodies. The cabinet also decided to phase out country liquor by introducing Delhi Medium Liquor. The BIS specifications for country liquor are less strict than for Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL). Delhi would become the first state in North India to phase out the country liquor. The cabinet has decided to introduce the Delhi Medium Liquor having 60 degree proof. It will involve rigorous batch testing and mandatory sampling as per standards being followed in case of the country liquor. The Delhi Medium Liquor will be introduced on experimental basis. Depending upon the experience of the first phase, the next phase of substitution of country liquor by Delhi Medium Liquor will be undertaken. The licences in case of Delhi Medium Liquor will be granted as is being done in case of economy Indian liquor sector. Price structure may also be fixed in the same manner. |
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Sonia will decide cabinet, DPCC reshuffle: Sheila
New Delhi, April 23 Talking to mediapersons after a Cabinet meeting, Dikshit admitted that the results of the MCD elections were shocking for the party. Reasons for the defeat were being collected by talking to party workers on block levels and others. The report would be submitted to Sonia Gandhi. Changes is required to make the party strong in Delhi would be decide by her, she said. The election outcome was seen as disappointment for Dikshit who had pushed hard to trifurcate the MCD despite stiff resistance from a number of party leaders who had warned that splitting the 53-year-old body ahead of the polls will cost the party dear. Sources said that for East Delhi, she had never thought that the Congress would be defeated. The party lost all four seats from the assembly constituency of AK Walia, the senior most minister in the Sheila government.
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Solar water heating scheme to be extended
New Delhi, April 23 The Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, said that the Cabinet had also approved a proposal to modify the Delhi Government Employees Health Scheme that was introduced in 1997-98 for providing medical facilities to the Delhi government employees, pensioners and their families on the lines of the Central Government Health Scheme. It has been decided that the system of reimbursement of individual medical bills of pensioners be decentralised and claims be processed by the departments concerned, from where the pensioners retired, as was being done prior to the current centralised system. The payments to private hospitals, diagnostic centres for cashless treatment provided to pensioners will continue to be made centrally through the DGHES cell, she said. |
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Soon, water recycle plant
in Okhla
New Delhi, April 23 DJB officials said that the recycled water would be supplied to the bus depots of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) at commercial rates as per the agreement signed by the two bodies. The water would be priced at Rs 4 per kilolitre and used to clean buses at the depot. The recycling plant will treat sewage water and will be built to a capacity of 2.2 million gallons per day (mgd). The officials said that it would be completed in one year's time at a total cost of Rs 17 crore. "The plant will be useful in reinstating the falling groundwater levels in the city," said a senior DJB official. Apart from supply of water to the DTC, the board is also looking forward to extend its delivery network to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), where it can be used for the construction work and other purposes. "The recycling plant will fill the technological vacuum that exists today in the water sector and reduces the exploitation of groundwater which occurs owing to the lack of another source of water," he said. Delhi produces almost 500 mgd of sewage, of which about 350 mgd is treated. "In other cities, people are penalised for digging illegal borewells to draw water. Although it is illegal to draw groundwater, there is not enough implementation in Delhi. |
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Patient services hit after strike at LNJP
New Delhi, April 23 Though senior doctors tried to man some of the emergency services, it didn't help much with the ailing patients queuing up outside the OPDs and hospital many of whom had come from far-flung areas. Representatives of the hospital's Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) approach the hospital authorities with a list of demands, including tightened security at sensitive areas on the hospital premises and ensuring that the one patient-one attendant norm was strictly implemented. With the matter going out of the hands of the hospital authorities, the ministry had to intervene to mollify the resident doctors who protested against the lack of seriousness of the authorities about their security. It was only in the evening after they got assurance from the ministry as well as the hospital authorities that the residents called off the strike, said sources. Following the complaint of the intern to the chief medical officer yesterday, the local police station was approached and a case registered at I P Estate police station with charges of assault on a public servant.
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Constructions demolished
New Delhi, April 23 The action was taken against one property in Chattarpur Enclave, three properties in Vasant Kunj, three in Khirki Village, one in Sainik Farm, one in Yusuf Sarai and one in Vasant Enclave. "Our staff was busy in the MCD elections so the demolition activities were on hold,"said the official.--TNS |
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