Govt waives power bills of Punjab migrants
New Delhi, June 10
The Delhi Cabinet today gave its nod for the payment of an accumulated electricity dues amounting to Rs 6.57 crore in respect of Punjab migrant families who were allotted flats at Peeragarhi Camp.

NSIT to get status of university
New Delhi, June 10
The Delhi Cabinet today gave its approval to upgrade Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology (NSIT), Dwarka, to a university called NSIT University, Delhi.

Autos to have colour coding, alarm buttons
New Delhi, June 10
The autorickshaws plying in Delhi will now have a colour coding for their identification. The Transport Department today decided to put coloured strips of six types on autos to segregate them into different zones.

Man kills daughter, commits suicide
New Delhi, June 10
A 42-year-old man allegedly killed his nine-year-old daughter and then committed suicide by consuming poison in the Malka Ganj area of north Delhi.

Cop shot at by chain snatcher
New Delhi, June 10
A Delhi Police constable is battling for his life after being shot in the neck in broad daylight today by a fleeing chain snatcher, who when cornered by a chasing police team shot himself in the head in Narela.

Govt waives power bills of Punjab migrants
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 10
The Delhi Cabinet today gave its nod for the payment of an accumulated electricity dues amounting to Rs 6.57 crore in respect of Punjab migrant families who were allotted flats at Peeragarhi Camp.

The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting presided over by the Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit.

"The Cabinet has decided to make payment of accumulated electricity dues amounting to Rs 6,57,03,149, which is up to September 2012 to BRPLas a one-time measure," said Dikshit.

However, it was decided that further payment of electricity charges in respect of families of Punjab migrants will be borne by the households themselves since electricity connections with separate meters have been provided by the BRPL.

"Henceforth, no liability shall accrue towards the district administration under the Department of Revenue on this account,” the Chief Minister said.

NSIT to get status of university
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 10
The Delhi Cabinet today gave its approval to upgrade Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology (NSIT), Dwarka, to a university called NSIT University, Delhi.

The institute has at present six undergraduate programmes in the areas of emerging technologies and three postgraduate programmes leading to the award of MTech degrees along with research programmes leading to PHD degrees in all the engineering disciplines and applied sciences. It has a green campus of over 145 acre in Sector 3, Dwarka.

NSIT which was established in 1983 emerged as a technological institute for education and research in hi-tech area of engineering and technology. Presently, it is affiliated to the University of Delhi for its academic programmes. It was granted administrative autonomy in 1986 with the direction to keep in mind the long-term goal of achieving the status of university.

Autos to have colour coding, alarm buttons
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 10
The autorickshaws plying in Delhi will now have a colour coding for their identification. The Transport Department today decided to put coloured strips of six types on autos to segregate them into different zones. This would help bring down the cases of refusal to carry passengers.

Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami said that the department has decided to use the services of the Delhi Traffic Police, Delhi Integrated Multi-modal Transit System (DIMTS) and the Police Control Room to evolve a mechanism whereby harassed commuters would be able to report any incident through the emergency buttons provided in the autorickshaws.

"The Transport Department has decided to go ahead with the implementation of the emergency alarm button scheme. Once the passengers press the button, a message would be flashed to the DIMTS-operated control room at ISBT from where the Police Control Room would be alerted," he said.

Man kills daughter, commits suicide
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 10
A 42-year-old man allegedly killed his nine-year-old daughter and then committed suicide by consuming poison in the Malka Ganj area of north Delhi. Praveen Kumar and his daughter, Khushi, were found dead on the second floor of their house in Julahan Basti on Sunday.

Kumar’s nephew, Naveen, saw their bodies. The police were informed at about 1.30 pm.

Their bodies were sent to the Sabzi Mandi mortuary, where a postmortem was conducted. “Prima facie, there was no foul play in the incident. However, we are investigating it from all possible angles. We suspect that the deaths took place between 7 pm on Saturday and 1 pm on Sunday,” a police officer said.

Naveen informed the police that Kumar had allegedly been depressed after his wife, Pooja, died while undergoing an abortion at a clinic in Subzi Mandi in October last year. Thereafter, he became suicidal, claimed Naveen. The couple had married in 2002.

Sources claimed that Pooja’s photograph was found in Kumar’s hand and he was also wearing his wedding attire.

The police have recovered a suicide note from the house, purportedly written by Kumar.

Cop shot at by chain snatcher
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 10
A Delhi Police constable is battling for his life after being shot in the neck in broad daylight today by a fleeing chain snatcher, who when cornered by a chasing police team shot himself in the head in Narela.

The injured man has been identified by the police as constable Satender. He is being treated at the Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh. The chain snatcher is named Kuldeep, who is a resident of Narela.

“Kuldeep fired at the police party, but finding no chance of fleeing , he fired a round on his temple from his countrymade pistol. He was rushed to hospital, where he was declared dead,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Northern Range), Virender Singh Chahal.