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Cong workers protest support to AAP
Dense fog hits over 12 flights
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BJP urges Nath to allow repair work in Badarpur
IT Deputy Commissioner held in
bribery case
Serial rapist in police net after seven-month-long probe
Man nabbed with 10 kgs of heroin
Kidnap case worked out, four arrested
Progressive DMRC sets in train two projects
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Cong workers protest support to AAP
New Delhi, December 24 The protesters raised slogans 'Anna ke sath dhokha, hum nahi denge Kejriwal ko mauka (We won't give a chance to Kejriwal to cheat Anna), demanding the immediate withdrawal of Congress support to AAP. They were demanding a meeting with newly appointed DPCC chief Arvinder Singh Lovely and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. AAP on Monday ended the 15-day-long speculation over the next government in Delhi by staking claim and announcing Kejriwal as the Chief Minister-designate. After surprising everyone with its spectacular political debut, AAP announced its decision to accept Congress's outside support to form a minority government in Delhi. The decision came after a five-day exercise in which the party returned to the electorate with an unofficial referendum on whether to form a government. However, this seems to have created a rift among Congress workers as they are demanding a withdrawal of support to AAP. Senior party leader Janardan Dwivedi today said that the party should have raised people's issue while being in opposition and should not have supported AAP and that the party should have left it to others to form the government. Dwivedi's remarks came on a day when Congress workers are protesting the party's decision to support Arvind Kejriwal's bid to form the government. Ever since AAP decided to form the government, Congress leaders have been repeatedly emphasising that their support to AAP is not unconditional. "There is also an opinion that perhaps the decision to support AAP in this manner was not correct. Some people feel this," he said. "Their argument is that Delhi voters have not given their support to Congress to the extent that the party could win only eight seats and it has not even got the post of Leader of the Opposition. Perhaps, it would have been appropriate if we had left it to others to form the government," he said.
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Dense fog hits over 12 flights
New Delhi, December 24 The minimum temperature today was recorded at 8.5 degree Celsius, which is one degree above normal and the maximum was registered two notches below normal at 19.7 degree, said an IMD official. Three flights--one freighter aircraft, a Jet Airways flight from Abu Dhabi and a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul--had to be diverted as the pilots were not trained to land aircraft when the visibility is less than 200 metres, airport sources said. Fog started to descend at the airport early in the morning and the runway visibility kept fluctuating, causing problems for airport authorities to maintain the schedule of the flights. According to airport Met officials, the runway visibility was around 100 metres at the third runway (29/11) and around 125 to 200 metres on the main runway (28/10), while the general visibility was less than 50 metres. This led to delay in departures of some flights as the minimum runway visibility for low visibility take off is 125 to 150 metres. This also brought take-offs from the third runway to a halt but landings were taking place. There was no suspension of flight operations at the airport due to fog, an airport official said. Last week, dense fog had badly affected the flight operations at the airport. Yesterday, Delhi witnessed a clear morning and operations at IGI were normal after eight days of foggy conditions. |
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BJP urges Nath to allow repair work in Badarpur
New Delhi, December 24 The unauthorised colonies located at the bank of the Yamuna river fall in the 'O' zone, said a BJP spokesperson. The delegation led by Goel brought to the notice of the Union Minister that due to the application of 'O' zone in these colonies and villages, no developmental activity such as construction of hospitals, dispensaries, community centres, and schools can be carried out. This is highly discriminatory to lakhs of residents living in these colonies and villages. They should get justice without any further delay. The delegation also pointed out that these regularised colonies are situated on more than 300 meters away from the Yamuna. It also appealed to the Minister to issue directions to the Delhi Development Authority to allocate adequate land in these areas for construction of schools, community centres, etc.
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IT Deputy Commissioner held in
bribery case
New Delhi, December 24 He was produced before the Special Judge of CBI cases in Patiala House Courts and was granted three days' police custody The prime investigating agency registered a case of corruption on January 9 this year against a Deputy Commissioner, Income Tax, a private person and others. The Deputy Commissioner was posted in its Jhandewalan office of the Income Tax. The CBI said that the private person gave huge cash to the accused during income tax raids at his offices. |
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Serial rapist in police net after seven-month-long probe
New Delhi, December 24 Deputy Commissioner of Police P. Karunakaran told mediapersons here that Azad Khan, 27, of Tughlakabad in south Delhi raped three minor girls. A police team was sent to Khan's native village in Bihar from where he was arrested last week. Khan chose Tughlakabad forest to rape all the victims, whom he picked up on the pretext of giving some eatables or something else. "The sexual assault cases were reported this year in June, September and December. In every case, he fled leaving the victims at the spot," said Karunakaran. Khan, a labourer, was working in various factories of Tughlakabad and residing with his wife. "After fulfilling legal formalities, he would be taken on remand to ascertain his involvement in other cases of assault on minor girls," said the officer.
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Man nabbed with 10 kgs of heroin
New Delhi, December 24 Mohammad Dharick (35), a resident of Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu was arrested in this connection. The accused allegedly is a part of an international drug cartel. He was arrested by a team of Crime Branch from New Delhi Railway Station. According to the police, "On questioning, Mohd Dharick revealed that in the last days of November, he along with Nazir Ali came to Delhi to do a recce and returned to Tamil Nadu. On December 11, Dharick, Nazir Ali, Mujibur Rahman and Abdul, alias Abbas, came to Delhi from Chennai by air. They stayed in a hotel near Nizamuddin, arranged by Nazir Ali. On the morning of December 13, on the instructions of Nazir Ali, Dharick went to Paharganj and Kashmere Gate to receive the consignment," said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav. They took the bag containing heroin from a bearded man near Kashmere Gate Metro Station and returned to Paharganj. All the four then decided to return to Chennai by train from New Delhi Railway Station, he said. At the railway station, Nazir Ali instructed Dharick to wait at a place with the bag and took Mujibur and Abbas to make arrangements for the journey to Chennai. The DCP said that Dharick was nabbed by the police team. Seeing him being caught, the remaining three accomplices fled. The police are conducting raids to apprehend other accused. |
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Kidnap case worked out, four arrested
New Delhi, December 24 The accused have been identified as Dinesh, Satveer, Virender, alias Kallu, all residents of Sambhal while their fourth accomplice Rajender lived in Badau, Uttar Pradesh. "Dinesh, who is the mastermind, had information that the victim Raffique had recently sold a property and had a large amount of money," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Alok Kumar. Dinesh with his accomplices made a plan and abducted Raffique on December 22. They made a ransom call of Rs 10 lakh to his relatives to release him, he said. On receiving the information of the incident by a relative of Raffique, a case was registered and investigation was taken up. "The police initially made several raids in the area based on technical inputs but it did not yield much result. The kidnappers gave police a clue when they made a call and demanded money to be paid at Chandausi Railway station," said Kumar. Immediately, a trap was laid at the railway station and they were apprehended.
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Progressive DMRC sets in train two projects
New Delhi, December 24 The foundation stone for the construction of a Metro corridor between Mundka and Bahadurgarh was laid at Sector 9, Bahadurgarh on February 2. The 11.181-km-long corridor between Mundka and Bahadurgarh will be entirely elevated with seven stations (four in Delhi and three in Haryana). It will be an extension of the already operational Inderlok - Mundka corridor (Line 5) and will run on standard gauge. An agreement regarding the same was also signed between the DMRC and the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) on the same day. It also started the construction work on the upcoming Dwarka-Najafgarh Metro corridor on September 12. The elevated section of the corridor between Dwarka and Najafgarh will be 4.4-km-long with three stations. The length of the elevated section will be 2.75 km; the ramp towards the underground section will be 595 metres while the underground section 1.085 km. Besides, the DMRC will have trial runs for the Central Secretariat-Mandi House section of the Central Secretariat-Kashmere Gate corridor of Phase 3 on December 30. It also completed the tunnelling work between Central Secretariat and ITO on October 1 with the breakthrough of a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) at ITO after completing a 700-mt-long tunnel on the down line of the Mandi House-ITO stretch. The other initiative started by Metro included a facility of online recharge of Metro smart cards through the Internet. With this new facility, the commuters can top up their smart cards through credit and debit cards. The DMRC launched a dedicated mobile number 8527405555 for its passengers to enquire about the items lost by passengers. It introduced its first eight-coach train on the Blue Line (Dwarka Sector 21-NOIDA City Centre/ Vaishali) from August 19. Eight-coach trains were already in operation on the HUDA City Centre-Jahangirpuri corridor. First six-coach train on Line-1 (Dilshad Garden to Rithala - Red Line) was also inducted from November 24. This is the first of a total of ten six-coach trains which are planned to be introduced on Line-1 in a phased manner. The DMRC entered into several agreements in 2013 to encourage the use of Metro. The DMRC and the Delhi Technological University (DTU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on March 19, with the purpose of jointly taking up projects in the fields of design development, research, indigenization of technology, etc. The agreement between the DMRC and the Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation (DTTDC) was signed on July 17 with the purpose of jointly promoting tourism and facilitating tourists in the capital city.
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Seemed to have split over the party's support to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to form the government in Delhi, Congress workers today held a protest at the party office in Delhi.
