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Four dead, six injured in five accidents
Nightmarish wait for water in several areas
Kondli tragedy: BJP wants workers’ safety
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Online tax payment to check evasion
Ex-journalist’s house burgled
Jail inmate sodomised by fellow-inmates
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Four dead, six injured in five accidents
New Delhi, June 17 Sources said that the police control room (PCR) received a call regarding it at 2.15 am. When a PCR vehicle reached the site of the incident, they found the man's body near a road divider at the flyover. The police has preserved the body at the mortuary of the AIIMS Trauma Centre. A postmortem will be conducted after it has been identified. In the second accident, one Arun (25) was killed when a speeding grameen seva rammed into the motorcycle he was riding on at Labour Chowk in Mayur Vihar Phase III. His friend, Libo, was injured. Sources claimed that Arun worked in the FNB department of the Taj Hotel. Libo works in another hotel. Both of them were returning to their residences on the motorcycle at 4.30 am today. When they reached Labour Chowk, a speeding grameen seva allegedly coming from the opposite side of the road drove into them. They both were thrown off. Sources said that both the victims were rushed to the Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) Hospital, where doctors declared Arun brought dead while Libo is undergoing treatment. According to sources, the grameen seva driver left his vehicle and fled after the accident. The police has registered a case and is investigating the matter. Arun's body has been given to his family after the postmortem. Yet another accident occurred at 5 am today at Gokulpuri in northeast Delhi. According to sources, Naseem (32) on Saturday went to Brijpuri to buy property from an acquaintance. Today at 5 am, he was reportedly waiting for an auto-rickshaw at the main road of Gokulpuri, to return home at Kashmiri Gate. An unidentified vehicle rammed into him at the main road. Sources allege that the accident was so brutal that Naseem's head was completely crushed. His body has been preserved at the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital for a postmortem. The police has informed his family and is investigating the matter. An accident between an auto-rickshaw and a tempo was reported from a traffic light at Welcome in Seelampur. Rajesh (33) and his friends, Deepak, Setu, Karan, Dayanand were reportedly travelling in the auto-rickshaw at 3.45 am today. Sources said that they were heading to the Red Fort to set up their stalls at the Sunday market. A speeding tempo coming from Shahdara rammed into the auto-rickshaw. Five people were injured in the accident. They were taken to the GTB Hospital. The tempo driver allegedly fled the spot. A man was killed when a speeding car rammed into a motorcycle he was travelling on at Lodhi Colony on Saturday night. Vijay Singh was a resident of Aliganj village. He was reportedly the pillion rider. Sources said that Bharat Joshi was heading towards Khanna Market when Vijay asked for a lift near Aliganj around 10 pm. They were about to reach the market when a Hyundai Accent car rammed into their vehicle. Sources added that Vijay was not wearing a helmet. Due to the impact of the accident he was thrown above and fell down on the car's windshield. He succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
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Nightmarish wait for water in several areas
There is total chaos on the water front as several areas of Delhi have been receiving no water supply for the past 15 days. Even after the Supreme Court asking Punjab, Haryana, UP and Rajasthan to devise a common formula for sorting out the crisis, the problem seems to have become the biggest challenge annually for the state government which is busy in passing the buck on the neighbouring states. Reshuffle rumours
Rumours of reshuffle in the Delhi cabinet have discouraged many a minister from going to hill stations this summer. According to the grapevine, there may be some changes as Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit is not quite satisfied with the functioning of a few ministers. The assembly election is just one and a half years away. In such a short time, she wants some effective work to show to the voters. She prefers work that is visible to woo the electorates, according to a city politician. Personality development
A personality development programme launched by the Delhi Minorities Commission at Jamia Millia Islamia was widely appreciated by the Muslim community. This is the only programme that has been initiated by the commission for the graduating students in order to prepare them for job interviews. A group of students on campus said that most of the times, the applicants are rejected due to weak personality. They fail to get jobs. Good personality developed through this programme will help them get good jobs. Treatment denied to accident victim There have been several instances of denial of treatment by private hospitals to road accident victims, but in a recent case the country's premier hospital, AIIMS drew the ire of many youngsters following a post on a Delhi Traffic Police line's account on the Facebook by a road trauma injured Aditya Sharma. Sharma, an employee of MNC XL Capital in Gurgaon, was allegedly referred to AIIMS' Trauma Centre by doctors of the main casualty. This even as he had a head injury and a severe leg pain later diagnosed with a fracture. Apparently, he wasn't even given first-aid and had to go to the trauma centre without any assistance in an auto on a busy Saturday evening. He said doctors told him as per protocol they could not attend him as he was a road accident case. All such cases are referred to the trauma centre, he was told. "The incident shows the insensitivity of the staff and doctors at the government hospital…," reads the post. (Himani Chandel, Syed Ali Ahmed, Ananya Panda) |
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Kondli tragedy: BJP wants workers’ safety
New Delhi, June 17 Questioned the functioning of the DJB, headed by Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit, he said it was due to the negligence of the DJB that such tragic incidents happened. Six other workers had also been hospitalised in the incident. "It's shocking that the men given the job of cleaning sewers had no safety equipment or gas mask. It clearly shows how insensitive the administration has become towards the employees who work at the risk of their lives," he said.
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Online tax payment to check evasion
New Delhi, June 17 The Delhi government had collected a total revenue of Rs 19,972 crore in 2011-12 and set a target to generate Rs 26,150 crore from tax revenue in 2012-13, an increase of 31 per cent from the previous fiscal. The officials said that there was a scope for improving tax collection and the government had decided to streamline the tax administration to punish tax evaders and ensure transparency. In the report filed earlier this month, the CAG had said that it found discrepancies such as cases of irregular claims of tax exemption, grant of confessional rates of tax, non- realisation of taxes and under assessment. The report said it also found cases of exemption of tax against "fake forms" submitted by the dealers in support of inter-state sale as well as concealment of sale by them. However, the officials said the government had already introduced a number of "concrete measures" for checking tax evasion and leakages, which includeS doing away with manual filing of sale and purchase details by the traders. "There will be stress on focused enforcement of tax compliance, drive against fraudulent refund claims and expeditious disposal of appeals," an official said. The government has already extended the facility of online payment through 17 banks. "More banks are being added for the online payment facility during the current year to provide a wider choice to our dealers," he said. The government will soon completely dispense with the physical issuance of statutory forms needed to be filed by inter-state traders, he added. |
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Ex-journalist’s house burgled
New Delhi, June 17 Salma Zaidi (61) has worked with the BBC for 17 years. The theft occurred on Thursday evening. Salma and her husband Zargham were not present in the house. Shesaid that gold bracelets, earrings, diamond rings, 150 pounds and $100, a mobile phone, laptop and a portable DVD player were found missing. |
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Jail inmate sodomised by fellow-inmates
New Delhi, June 17 The case was registered against the inmates and two jail officials. The court also directed the police to conduct a medical examination of the victim. Sources alleged that the medical examination of the victim has not confirmed his allegations. But, the police may conduct another medical examination. The police is yet to make arrests in the case. According to sources, the jail authorities claim that they were the ones to inform the police about the victim's complaint. Later, the court directed the police to register the FIR. |
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The people of Delhi, struggling to quench their thirst, are forced to shell out nine times more taxes compared to the residents of
Mumbai.
The people of Delhi, struggling to quench their thirst, are forced to shell out nine times more taxes compared to the residents of Mumbai. Still they get little water or no water at all sometimes, said BJP leaders hitting out at the Congress-led state government over the issue of water shortage in the national Capital.