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NDMC cordons off mosque site
Dark weekend for north Delhi
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Punjabi Academy’s literary awards announced
Wanna keep cancers at bay,
go vegetarian!
40-year-old CMO found hanging
Two held for killing property dealer
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NDMC cordons off mosque site
New Delhi, July 21 The court has put a stay on the construction of the mosque near the proposed Jama Masjid Metro station and told the municipal corporation to hand over the site to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for the investigation. The corporation will hand over the site to the ASI for further investigations. "The area was cordoned off from all places in presence of the police. It will be handed over to the ASI which will investigate the matter," said Pawan Sharma, Additional Commissioner, NDMC. The ASI will soon start its investigation in order to establish the historical importance of the area. Senior officials of the NDMC said that nobody will be allowed to enter the premises and no religious activities could be take place. "The ASI will conduct a survey to ascertain whether the structure is of historical relevance," said Mira Aggarwal, NDMC Mayor. Any further action will be taken after the investigation. However, Matia Mahal MLA Shoaib Iqbal said that there are relevant land records which confirm that the place belongs to the Mughal era. "The NDMC officials have taken away the belongings in the mosque. Since the area has been closed, no activity can be take place at the site," said Iqbal. After the intervention of the high court, the ASI has to excavate and study the artifacts, authenticate them and then preserve them. The process is likely to take several months and there are several branches within the ASI like the Institute of Archaeology or the excavation branch that can be roped in. The civic agency accused the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) of allowing locals to construct the mosque. "A few months ago, DMRC officials told us that they needed the land for the metro work. Suddenly, they don't want it. They didn't even inform us. Why did the DMRC allow locals to carry out construction work?" asked Aggarwal.
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Dark weekend for north Delhi
New Delhi, July 21 "Supply from several generating stations has been hit due to various reasons like breakdowns and shortage in availability of fuel (coal/gas)," said spokesperson for the TPDDL. He said that the prevailing heat condition, along with delay in monsoons, has led to an unprecedented increase of power demand. Against a peak demand of around 1,400 MW this year, peak demand in the TPDDL area has crossed 1,570 MW. "Efforts are being put to minimal discomfort. It is also being ensured that there is no interruption to essential services," he said. The shortage has affected power supply in several areas like Mukherjee Nagar, Model Town, Civil Lines and Kashmere Gate.
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Punjabi Academy’s literary awards announced
New Delhi, July 21 All through the year, the Punjabi Academy organizes programmes in different parts of Delhi in the form of theatre, music and dance festivals. Nachhattar has been given the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the Punjabi literature while Som Dutt Battu has got the Lifetime Achievement Award for contributing to the Punjabi culture. They have been honoured with a cash prize of Rs 1,50,000. Balbir Parwana won a cash prize of Rs 50,000 in the category of 'Punjabi Media Award'. 'Fiction Book of the Year' has been won by Rattan Singh for his book 'Baat'; 'Poetry Book of the Year' goes to Jagtarjeet for his book 'Amaltas'; and 'Children Book of the Year' to Prof Indey for his book 'Asin Udange'. In addition to cash, the award also carries a citation and a memento. The awards will be conferred by the Chief Minister in a special function. The Academy was established in September 1981 to promote the Punjabi language, literature and culture.
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Wanna keep cancers at bay,
go vegetarian!
New Delhi, July 21 There may not be the documented evidence to support that non-vegetarians are prone to develop cancers even as the intake of fibre-rich food lowering the body's bad cholesterol stands as a fact, said Dr S P Kataria, head of the medical oncology department at Safdarjung Hospital. "About 65-70 per cent of cancers are preventable if detected early. With lifestyle changes, one can further bring down the risk. Most of them, such as lung and oral cancers, are due to tobacco and its use. Also, vegetarian diet helps though in a subtle way with many of our patients reporting to come with better outcome after switching to a good vegetarian diet," said Dr Ramesh Dawar, director of Dharamshila Hospital and Research Centre. Dr Dawar said, "If you follow the traditional diet that grandmothers used to suggest, no disease, including cancer will come your way. Cancer survival has picked up with the early screening programme. In the cities where breast and cervix cancers are of concern to women, oral, prostate and lung cancers are more common in men." For the women above 40 years, self-screening is the primary way of detecting cancer at an early stage. Any unexplained inter-menstrual spotting could indicate a cancer in the cervix. Herself a cancer survivor, Dr Ashe Sahai, a gynaecologist at the hospital, was diagnosed with cervix cancer around the mouth of the uterus. "After the initial symptoms, I enrolled myself with the screening programme and was shocked when I tested cancer-positive. Luckily, it was detected at a very early stage," said Dr Sahai. Experts say that sudden change in the bowel habits, unexplained loss of weight accompanied by unusual lumps, bumps, masses and changes in skin colour or texture on different body parts are some of the common signs which go unnoticed, but play an important role in the formation of cancer. "We need to practise a monthly head-to-toe self-examination of our body, so that we can find any new or changing lesion that might be cancerous or precancerous" said Dr Sharan Choudhari, surgical oncologist at the hospital. |
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40-year-old CMO found hanging
New Delhi, July 21 Sushma Rani Singh worked as the chief medical officer (CMO) at the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre in Govindpuri. Sushma was found hanging from a ceiling fan by her husband Khalil Ansari around 1 am on Saturday. He took her to Batra Hospital in Tughlakabad Institutional Area, where she was declared 'brought dead'. Sushma's brother Jugal Kishore has alleged foul play and claimed that Ansari, a criminal lawyer, may have killed her. "I don't think my sister committed suicide. Ansari had been physically and mentally torturing Sushma for the past 16 years. There is definitely a foul play in the incident. Ansari is making up things and there is a possibility that he may have hung the body after killing her," alleged Kishore. Kishore has also told the police that he visited the couple on Friday evening and saw them fighting. "When I was returning home, Sushma told me that everything between her and Ansari would be all right and that she was fine," Kishore added. Ansari, however, claimed that there was no marital discord between him and Sushma and insisted that it was a suicide. To prove his claim, he has handed over a suicide note to the police. Ansari claims that the note, dated January 20, 2012, was written by Singh. "We had a happy family. Anybody who says that I killed my wife or prompted her to commit suicide is just leveling baseless allegations against me," he said. The police, meanwhile, has taken statements of Singh's relatives and lodged a case of abatement to suicide against unknown persons at the Govindpuri station. The body has been kept for postmortem at the All India Institute of Medical Science. The exact cause of death could be ascertained only through postmortem, said a police official. |
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Two held for killing property dealer
New Delhi, July 21 The accused are identified as Manoj, alias Bhola (22), and Dara (42), both are residents of Patil Nagar, Bhalswa Dairy, the same locality where Sushil used to stay. They said they did it out of enmity. Majoj said his brother Harish, who has a criminal history, was having enmity with Sushil who also had a criminal record, said P Karunakaran, DCP (northwest). Investigation revealed that Sushil, who was staying away from his family, was habitual of drinking and then creating nuisance and was also having enmity with some neighbours due to his arrogant, abusive and violent behaviour. On the intervening night of July 14 and 15, Sushil was seen roaming under drunken condition and abusing and threatening Manoj outside his house. Initially he kept mum when Sushil was abusing him in front of his house, but later followed him along with Dara and decided to eliminate him. Overpowering Sushil, they smashed his head with two stones and then fled the spot after ensuring that Sushil had died in the attack, said the police.
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The disputed site at Subhash Park, where a temporary mosque has been built recently, was today cordoned off by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation
(NDMC). 
