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Govt slams discoms for announcing power cuts
Kejriwal hand-in-glove with discoms: Cong
Rs 7.69-cr heist: 17-yr-old mastermind in police net
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Amrita Sher-Gil's work on display
ITBP organises medical camp
BJP seeks rollback of hiked tariff
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Govt slams discoms for announcing power cuts
New Delhi, February 1 "The power companies are saying that they do not have money, so where has their money gone. "After CAG's report, we would get to know whether they are really facing a financial crisis or not," said Kejriwal. Asked if the government would take action against discoms, which have announced eight-10 hour power cut effective from today, he said, "Let the CAG report come out and then we would proceed as per its findings". Kejriwal had yesterday accused BSES discoms of trying to "blackmail" the government by threatening power cuts up to 10 hours a day, and warned them of strict action, including possible cancellation of licenses. Kejriwal said Tata and Ambanis, who run three electricity distribution firms in Delhi, were not the only companies in the country and government was willing to bring in new players. "There are no reasons for power cuts. I want to give them a warning that if they try to create panic in future, the government will take strict action against them," Kejriwal added. Dismissing any valid reasons for such extreme steps, the Chief Minister said there were many question marks over the discoms account. |
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Kejriwal hand-in-glove with discoms: Cong
New Delhi, February 1 "It had been established that despite announcing 50 per cent reduction in the power tariff, the fact that the DERC raised the rate of the power, showed that the power discoms, Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party were acting in league," said Singh. He alleged that the threat of power cuts by the discoms was a deal between the companies and Kejriwal so that power tariff could be hiked in future. He asked Kejriwal whether he would sit on a dharna in front of the DERC office. Former Congress MLA Mukesh Sharma said that there was no connection with the decision to audit the accounts of the discoms by the CAG and the reduction or hike in the power tariff. They said the people of Delhi were being deliberately misled and misguided on the electricity issue. Demanding a rollback in the power hike, Congress leaders said the attention of people was being diverted from core issues, as Kejriwal was deliberately creating problems on the electricity front. The Congress accused Kejriwal of cheating the people by making announcement to give 50 per cent reduction in electricity bills. They said the Chief Minister should make his stance clear to the people of Delhi. |
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Rs 7.69-cr heist: 17-yr-old mastermind in police net
New Delhi, February 1 Rs 1.5 crore has been recovered and raids are conducting to arrest six other accused in the case. On Tuesday, Kalra's employees and his business partner Rakesh Kumar were transporting Rs 7.69 crore in a Honda City car to deposit the money in two banks in Karol Bagh. At the BRT corridor, a gang of robbers intercepted their vehicle and stole their car, robbing the cash. The juvenile said he was allegedly aware of Kalra's monetary transactions and had contacted a criminal named Shakti Naidu to plan the heist. Shakti, who was arrested for a bank robbery in 2002, roped in another alleged criminal Pradeep from Karala village, North-West Delhi. Pradeep then approached nine others for the robbery and charted the route to transfer the cash. "On January 27, the juvenile had tipped off the gang about the money transaction. He was inside the car during the robbery and was using more than five mobile phones to inform the gang about the movement of the car through text messages," said a senior police officer.
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Amrita Sher-Gil's work on display
New Delhi, February 1 Describing the exhibition as "remarkably well-curated", the renowned painter, S.H. Raza said, "I have never seen so many works by her at a single exhibition and felt grateful that I could finally see them, so many." The collection includes many significant paintings that have never been displayed before, such as a series of four self-portraits in which Sher-Gil looks at herself as a painter, expressing different moods. The exhibition, The Passionate Quest, curated by Yashodhara Dalmia, marks the closing of the great modernist painter's birth centenary year. Many Indian and foreign artists, scholars, museum directors and art-lovers attended the inauguration of the show by Union Culture Minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch. The exhibition will remain open from Tuesday to Sunday between 10 am and 5 pm, until March 2. |
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ITBP organises medical camp
New Delhi, February 1 Patients came in this camp were treated by the ITBP's specialist medical officers such as surgeons, ophthalmologists, orthopedics specialists and child specialists. The patients were given medicines free of cost. Dr. Subedar, Commandant, Base Hospital, ITBP, supervised the camp and gave advice on common health problems and Children were treated for ailments such as malnutrition, rackets, osteoporosis, osteomyelitis, mental retardness and diseases such as TB, measles, pneumonia, typhoid, cholera, chicken pox and dysentery. Women were treated for diseases such as STD, infection, infertility and breast cancer. |
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BJP seeks rollback of hiked tariff
New Delhi, February 1 The government must resolve the issue with the discoms in such a way that auditing must go on and people must not suffer from power related problems. Why Arvind Kejriwal do not ensure uninterrupted power supply to Delhi in case discoms do not agree to do so? Why he has not yet announced the time frame within which the CAG audit of the discoms will complete? Why is he not coming out with a clear time frame on this? Why Kejriwal did not try to break the monopoly of these companies by, at least, allowing both of them to operate in whole of Delhi. This would have allowed consumers to have some choice and the companies would have been compelled to bring down power tariff. |
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