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Bus crashes into tree,
14 injured
The tree after being hit by a DTC bus near Batra Hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday. Tribune photo
DU teachers sit on relay hunger strike
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Relief for JNU students involved in pork festival
Annashree Yojana to make Delhi hunger-free, says CM
Lawyer of Defence Col heist accused arrested
EDMC eases norms for trade licence
Student jumps off Metro station
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Bus crashes into tree,
14 injured
New Delhi, October 10 The incident happened around 9.30 am in front of Batra Hospital in Sangam Vihar. “The passengers of the bus, plying on Route Number 463, were rushed to different hospitals. They were discharged after first aid,” said a police official. “The bus driver, whose name is yet to be confirmed, told investigators that as soon as he realised that the brakes of the bus were not functioning, he rammed the vehicle into a tree to save the life of the passengers,” said the official. The accident is being probed, the official added. |
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DU teachers sit on relay hunger strike
New Delhi, October 10 Throughout the day, hundreds of teachers thronged the venue of the strike to express their solidarity with the DUTA. Office-bearers of the DUTA and activists spoke in unison against what they referred to as a ‘hostage situation’ in the university, attributing the crisis to the vice-chancellor’s ‘coercive’ modes of governance within the university. “We are fighting to safeguard at all costs the democratic rights of the university community and prevent any further demoralization of teachers, students and karamcharis,” said a senior DUTA official. “A candlelight vigil will be observed on Friday from 5 pm to 6 pm, wherein the candles will symbolize the 4000-odd young teachers who continue teaching in an ad hoc capacity and despite being eligible, are faced with little prospect of regularization in the near future,” said DUTA president Amar Deo Sharma. Tomorrow teachers from other colleges like Kirori Mal College, SGTB Khalsa College, Sri Venkateswara College, Ram Lal Anand College (E) and Aurobindo College (morning) are expected to carry on the relay hunger strike. |
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Relief for JNU students involved in pork festival
New Delhi, October 10 The administration today revoked the suspension of Patel Singh, an Mphil/Phd student at the Centre of African Studies, and withdrew show-cause notices served to three others— Abhay Kumar, Anandha Krishna Raj and Kusum Lala. All these students were named members of the orgainsing committee of the beef and pork festival. These students had initiated a discussion regarding the food culture at JNU under the banner of an organisation called The New Materialists as well as the Committee for the Democratic Right to Choice of Food (CDRCF). After many meetings and discussions between the JNU administration and the students over the past two weeks, the proctorial enquiry was concluded today and all charges against the students were dropped. The students have submitted undertakings to abide by the law of the land and refrain from organising such a festival in the future. JNU vice-chancellor SK Sopory said, “Students have assured that they will not hold any such festivals in the future.” “We received a letter from the administration today evening which says that all charges against the four students have been taken back,” said Abhay Kumar, CDRCF member. However, the students said that discussions and public meetings about the “saffronisation” of the food culture at JNU would continue. On receiving the show-cause notices, the students had approached the students’ union and the teachers’ association for support on the ground that why should they be punished when no such festival ever happened. The students’ union approached the administration and demanded that no student should be punished due to “political pressures from outside the university” But when the administration did not respond with a firm answer on the rollback of the enquiry, four students started an indefinite hunger strike on October 4. The hunger strike was supported by the JNU Students’ Union and the JNU Teachers’ Association. |
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Annashree Yojana to make Delhi hunger-free, says CM
New Delhi, October 10 There are around 4 lakh households with below the poverty line and Antyodaya Anna Yojna ration cards in Delhi. They get subsidised foodgrain under the public distribution system. But the government was keen to provide relief to those families which were not covered under the BPL and the AAY categories, said the Chief Minister. Dikshit was speaking after inaugurating the renovated food and civil supplies office building at Balli Maran in the Walled City. She said that under the scheme, a monthly food subsidy of Rs 600 will be transferred to the bank account of the senior-most female member of the household. An outlay of Rs 150 crore has been provided in the current financial year to cover 2 lakh vulnerable households identified as per the approved parameters of Mission Convergence. The amount would be utilized for purchase of foodgrains such as rice, wheat, sugar and other essential eatables. |
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Lawyer of Defence Col heist accused arrested
New Delhi, October 10 The police has recovered Rs 80 lakh from the 27-year-old advocate, Jyoti Batra. Batra is the counsel of the main accused in the case, Deepak Sharma. Jyoti is a resident of Raghuvir Nagar in Khayala. According to the police, Jyoti did her graduation from Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, in 2007. “She had represented Deepak Sharma once before in a case of murder. It was during that case that she became friends with Deepak. Deepak treated Jyoti like his sister and visited her house frequently,” said Chhaya Sharma, DCP, south district. |
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EDMC eases norms for trade licence
New Delhi, October 10 The government or non-profit organizations engaged in social work have been kept out of the purview of general trade licence, said Mehak Singh, chairman Standing Committee, EDMC. “We have simplified the procedure for acquiring the licences for running the business in the jurisdiction of EDMC. We have increased the validity of licence to three years (optional). The fire safety certificate would be required in the cases where it is mandatory as per the guidelines of the fire department,” said Singh. |
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Student jumps off Metro station
New Delhi, October 10 The victim has been identified as Chetan. He lives with his family members at Mahendra Park and is pursuing B.Com. from Swami Shraddhanand College. “Today at around 1.15 pm, he went to the Jahangirpuri Metro station and tried to jump off in a bid to commit suicide,” said the police. The police reached the spot and rushed the victim to the nearby Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital, said the police officials. He is out of danger. |
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Fourteen people, including four women, travelling in a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus were injured this morning when the driver rammed the vehicle into a tree after he realised that the brakes had failed.
