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Providing food to poor is not wastage of money: Rahul
Bidhuri blames Cong for country’s bad economic situation
Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
One person commits suicide in every 4 mins
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Academicians condemn govt’s stand against Prof Yadav
Woman denied anticipatory bail for making casteist remarks
Govt releases journal on homoeopathy
CBSE announces 4th edition of global aptitude index
Dera Sacha Sauda launches cleanliness drive
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Providing food to poor is not wastage of money: Rahul
New Delhi, September 10 While slamming the Opposition for stating expenditure on the Food Security Scheme a waste, Rahul said the government would not hesitate in making such expenditure on the poor. "Money spent on providing meals to the poor cannot be called 'wastage' of financial resources," he said, while speaking at a function after distributing ownership rights to the residents of 45 re-settlement colonies. "We have brought a number of legislation in the past 10 years which have changed the development paradigm. The aim of the legislations was to ensure rights to the people. Apart from providing Right to Food, the government has given Right to Information, Employment Guarantees and Right to Education," he said. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that the government faced a number of difficulties due to the existing multiplicity of authorities in the past 15 years. "The city government would approach Gandhi on taking over as Prime Minister, to demand redressal of difficulties arising due to multiplicity of authorities," she said. In view of the coming assembly elections, the Delhi Government has initiated the process to grant ownership rights in 45 re-settlement colonies which will benefit 2.5 lakh households in 45 re-settlement colonies housing around 15 lakh people. |
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Bidhuri blames Cong for country’s bad economic situation
New Delhi, September 10 Besides him, three
councillors of the NCP - Dharamveer Awana, imsy Kasana, Phoolkali Narwaal - also joined the party. While Bidhuri expressed gratitude at the welcome extended to him by
the party, Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel said that his coming into the BJP had not only strengthened the party, but would also dampen the spirits of the
Congress. Bidhuri joined the BJP in presence of its national president Rajnath Singh, former BJP national
president and Delhi election in charge Nitin Gadkari, Leader of the Opposition in Delhi Assembly V.K. Malhotra, former Delhi Health
Minister Dr. Harshvardhan, and former Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta. Rajnath Singh said that he was happy to learn about Bidhuri's joining the party and gave his
nod promptly to induct him. While urging the partymen to keep up the fight against the
Congress, he said that leaders like Bidhuri, who had a huge credibility, were an asset to any party and would prove so
for the BJP. Gadkari said that this is just the beginning and many other leaders from different parties who want Delhi residents to get rid of the Congress "misrule" would be joining hands with the BJP in days
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One person commits suicide in every 4 mins
New Delhi, September 10 In this regard "Let's talk it out," an initiative to raise social awareness on the psychological aspects of suicide and ways to prevent it by Cosmos Institute of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences (CIMBS) has been announced in observance of World-Suicide Prevention Day on September 10. This year's theme is "Stigma: A major Barrier to Suicide Prevention". Talking about their campaign Director, CIMBS Dr. Sunil Mittal, said "Worldwide experience and our own in India has shown that many lives are saved when those at risk or actively contemplating suicide or those who have attempted suicide are identified, engaged in dialogue and provided help in time. In order to do this it is important to consider suicide as a mental health priority and talk about it as we do about other health problems and not keep it shrouded in shame and stigma." "It is not just one person who dies, those around, whether family or loved ones are traumatised forever as something inside them dies too," said Dr Mittal. Studies suggest that for every person who commits suicide, between 10 and 20 persons attempt suicide. "It is a myth that those who attempt suicide do not do so again. The motives behind an attempted suicide could vary," said Dr. Sameer Kalani, consultant psychiatrist and co-coordinator, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, CIMBS. The National Crimes Record Bureau data for 2012 shows that 1, 35,445 Indians committed suicide in 2012. This translates to 371 suicides per day or one suicide in every four minutes. Almost twice as many men commit suicide than women and most of the persons who kill themselves are young.
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Academicians condemn govt’s stand against Prof Yadav
New Delhi, September 10 The notice was served on September 4 to Prof Yadav to explain within seven days why he should not be removed from his post citing "conflict of interest" due to his political allegiance to the Aam Aadmi Party. In a petition from over 200 educators cutting across the board sent to HRD Minister M. Mangapati Pallam Raju, they have expressed shock on the ministry's stand and view it as one inspired from the fact that the political scientist has pointed out irregularities in the conduct of commission meetings, putting some officials in an uncomfortable situation. This indicates the government's "intolerance" towards voices of free opinion, they observed in the petition signed by academicians and legal activists from DU, JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia, AMU, IIT-Delhi, apart from several others. According to them, the decision stems from the fact that Prof. Yadav have objected on matters of national importance, including the introduction of the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme, bypassing of the recommendations of the UGC committee in the notification of the API scheme and the decision to set up a inter-university centre on teacher education in a technological university in Kakinda, the Lok Sabha constituency of the HRD Minister that does not even have a department of education. Prof Yadav will
submit the official reply tomorrow. |
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Woman denied anticipatory bail for making casteist remarks
New Delhi, September 10 Dismissing the plea of Pooja Jha, a resident of Sangam Vihar, Justice Sunita Gupta said, "So far as Pooja is concerned, there are clear allegations that she, along with others, addressed... In view of the clear allegations against her, she is not entitled to be released on anticipatory bail." The court, however, allowed another plea of her relative Aarti Jha, saying there are no allegations against her under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. "Petitioner Aarti Jha is ordered to be released on bail in the event of her arrest on furnishing a personal bond of Rs 15,000 with one surety of like amount to the satisfaction of the SHO concerned," the order said. The court also directed Aarti to join investigation as and when required besides, asking her not to contact any prosecution witness or tamper with evidence. According to the FIR against the Jhas, on January 19, they had assaulted their neighbour and his wife, who received six stitches on her head. They had also made casteist remarks against the couple, according to the FIR. The complainant alleged that the accused women in connivance with the area councillor had threatened them to influence the police to implicate them in
false cases. — PTI |
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Govt releases journal on homoeopathy
New Delhi, September 10 Health Minister Dr. A.K. Walia said that using this convenient and fast mode of communication, doctors can share their knowledge, experience and work with the entire medical fraternity. He said that it is imperative to provide evidence-based research findings to promote homoeopathy. The journal would contain the news from India and abroad pertaining to homoeopathy, updates in homoeopathy world, book reviews as well as information about conferences, seminars and events. Although the homoeopathy is already very popular amongst public, the homoeopathic doctors have to put in still greater efforts and dedication to further raise the acceptance of this system of medicine. He asked them to come out with new findings and highlight their kno ournal. "It would provide much valuable information to the doctors of different disciplines," he said. |
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CBSE announces 4th edition of global aptitude index
New Delhi, September 10 The purpose behind rescheduling the test is to provide students the assessment reports well ahead of their entry into Class XI. Further, no separate registration for SGAI is required this year as the process is clubbed with the online list of candidates of Class X students for academic session 2013-14. Schools may register students for SGAI on payment of Rs 100 per student with the last date of registration for SGAI fourth edition being September 30, 2013, but not later than October 15, 2013. There is no late fee for SGAI. In the past three years, around 4, 00,000 students from 6,000 schools across the globe have opted for CBSE-SGAI. The Himachal Board of Higher Education has also partnered with CBSE and conducted SGAI for students of Class X. |
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Dera Sacha Sauda launches cleanliness drive
New Delhi, September 10 Another noticeable thing was that the volunteers were going around asking the citizenry to fill up and sign written pledges to maintain cleanliness. "Worn out clothes could be easily and inexpensively converted into bags and they would be an extremely safe and eco-friendly option to carry shopping stuff," he said. "Even if the authorities were making all out efforts to maintain cleanliness, the tendency of society was such that all their efforts would soon go to naught as we are in the habit of littering without
thinking. Such irresponsible thinking would definitely reflect badly on the part of the authorities," he said. |
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Senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, who joined the BJP, today said that the Congress would be defeated in the assembly election due to its anti-people policies, inflation, corruption issues, etc.
