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DDA to be revamped
DDA responsible for death in sewer: NHRC
Circus owners get show cause notices
DU Holi guidelines to rein in hooligans
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Cong decries 'Namo Gulal' campaign
Lawyers resent posters supporting Modi
Students clamour for release of KMSS leader
Metro tunnel built on Majlis Park corridor
‘U and Me' campaign against dengue starts
Sahitya Akademi honours literary greats
Married constable commits suicide
Man accused of daughter’s rape ends life
Man held for robbing scribe
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DDA to be revamped
New Delhi, March 12 The DDA will restructure its processes, including the working of its departments. This will be done to revamp the authority and equip it with modern processes. The decision was taken at a meeting called by the LG, attended by the Chief Secretary, Vice-Chairman (DDA), Director General (National Productivity Council) and other officials of DDA. "The meeting discussed the detailed plan to restructure its operations which are consistent with the present and future challenges of a large organization such as the DDA. A comprehensive road map was arrived at the meeting," said a senior Delhi government official. The road map for restructuring aims to analyze the present role of the DDA and its future undertakings, which is in line with Delhi Master Plan 2012. The restructuring will involve a comprehensive study of the processes used for implementing various schemes of the DDA. It will identify improvement of such processes by adopting customized computerization, automation, multi-tasking, multi-skilling, etc. The plan will make an assessment of existing manpower and suggest optimization for its present and future operations. "It will also involve an examination of various activities and functions of the DDA and suggest effective alternative so that greater productivity can be infused into its day-to-day functioning. It will revisit the organizational structure of the DDA and suggest measures to be adopted for improving its productivity and better delivery of services to the public," said the official. The LG has instructed the DDA to finish this exercise in the next four months.
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DDA responsible for death in sewer: NHRC
New Delhi, March 12 The NHRC has recommended Rs 3 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 25,000 to the injured man. It also asked the Chief Secretary, Delhi government, to submit proof of payment within six weeks, an NHRC spokesperson said. The commission took cognizance of the incident suo motu and registered a case on basis of media reports. |
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Circus owners get show cause notices
New Delhi, March 12 CZA's action also follows news reports of Moonlight Circus animals who were left hungry in Goa after the circus owner was arrested for alleged rape and human trafficking. CZA in its show cause notice conveyed that it is considering withdrawing the recognition of circuses as a 'captive animal facility', making them an illegal establishment to keep the custody of any wild animals, such as elephants. Currently PETA India is calling on the Ministry of Environment and Forests to ban the use of animals in circuses following in the lead of Cyprus, Bolivia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina-countries that have already done so.
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DU Holi guidelines to rein in hooligans
New Delhi, March 12 To prevent such acts and entry of rowdy elements into the varsity, the varsity has issued its annual Holi guidelines banning playing with colours in any educational institution while entry to departments/colleges/hostels/halls would be through identity cards only. Security guards will be posted near the gates to check identity cards. Principals, heads of the departments and provosts of halls/hostels may form committees of teachers, students and karamcharis to combat any untoward situation in the name of Holi. The administration has said it would take disciplinary action to curb any disturbance during the festival. "Anyone who is found indulging in such acts of indiscipline and harassment of any kind would be subjected to strict disciplinary action under the provision of University Ordinances, and the Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place Act-2013," stated the notification issued by the university. Law enforcing agencies have been asked to maintain constant vigil and prevent any act of rowdyism. The DTC crews have been instructed to take the buses to the nearest police station in the event of any hooliganism taking place in a bus and drive the buses with lights on so that the nearest PCR van can intercept such a bus and take action. The Delhi Metro Rail Cooperation and DG, CISF have also been asked to stop any hooliganism by commuters in the name of Holi at and around the Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station.
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Cong decries 'Namo Gulal' campaign
New Delhi, March 12 Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) spokesperson Mukesh Sharma said that BJP is desperate to come to power by even shedding ethics. "Delhi BJP leadership, after being rejected by the people of Delhi during the assembly elections, would now adopt any method to disturb the communal amity," said Sharma. Lashing out at the BJP, he said the 'Namo Namo Jap' of BJP is giving the campaign a religious slant. |
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Lawyers resent posters supporting Modi
New Delhi, March 12 As resentment among lawyers has started brewing, following an emergent meeting, they have resolved to boycott all such steps by interested lawyers and not allow them to malign the section by propagating any political agenda. Miffed over the recent move which according to majority of them is an attempt of a few 'communal' lawyers to portray the lawyers' fraternity as supporters of Modi, lawyers asserted that the community of lawyers as a whole cannot be connected with any of the party or individual. Advocate Shahid Ali said that in the present regime of Modi in Gujarat, women are not safe and many of his ministers are allegedly involved in criminal cases even in heinous crimes like encounter, murder, etc. Thus, there is no question of supporting the Modi in any manner, he stressed. According to him, more than 80 per cent lawyers are secular-minded and at no cost will they tolerate the selfish move of a bunch of lawyers. Another like-minded lawyer Vijender Kasana condemned such acts of misrepresentation that the lawyers here are with Modi.
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Students clamour for release of KMSS leader
New Delhi, March 12 Protestors questioned the use of sections alleging criminal conspiracy and demands that Akhil Gogoi's police custody be brought to an end at the earliest. |
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Metro tunnel built on Majlis Park corridor
New Delhi, March 12 This tunnel was built by DMRC engineers without any disturbance to the surface traffic running on Ring Road above. The TBM completed the tunnelling of a 1,247-metre-long tunnel from Netaji Subhash Place to Shalimar Bagh consisting of 1,037 rings with a diameter of 5.7 metres. "The TBM was lowered in October last year. The tunnel also crossed the elevated viaduct of the currently operational Dilshad Garden-Rithala Metro corridor near Netaji Subhash Place, which was a major engineering challenge," said a DMRC senior official. "This section of the alignment had passed below a drain near Netaji Subhash Place, due to which tunnelling was done 19 metres below the surface. While carrying out the tunnelling work, the engineers had to be careful about the piling work of a flyover, which is in progress right above the tunnel on Ring Road at Shalimar Bagh," said the official. The tunnel also passed below the Kasturba Polytechnic which is another major landmark in the area. While this tunnelling drive was for the up line, the drive for the down line (parallel tunnel) is expected to start in April. The 59-km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor of Phase III consists of about 14 kms of underground lines. At present, five other TBMs are working in different parts of the corridor across the city. In total, 19 TBMs are operational for the tunnelling works of Phase III. The DMRC is slated to construct 53 kms of underground Metro lines as part of its Phase III work for which about 34 TBMs are expected to be used. A total of 74 tunnels will be constructed in this phase.
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‘U and Me' campaign against dengue starts
New Delhi, March 12 The two-month-long campaign across six cities, including Delhi, will create awareness on dengue and share real-time updates on the progress. The campaign will reach out to more than 65,000 children across 130 schools and 85,000 households across 170 Resident Welfare Associations. |
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Sahitya Akademi honours literary greats
New Delhi. March 12 Eminent poets, including Javed Akhtar (Urdu), Subodh Sarkar (Bengali) and Ambika Dutt (Rajasthani) and renowned novelists Mridula Garg (Hindi), Manmohan (Punjabi) and R.N. Joe D' Cruz (Tamil), were among the awardees who graced the festival with their presence and accepted the awards from Dr. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari, president, Sahitya Akademi. |
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Married constable commits suicide
New Delhi, March 12 The deceased has been identified by the police as Pavan Sharma. He was deployed with a Police Control Room vehicle in south Delhi's Katwaria Sarai area. He was married in November last year at Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The police said that Pavan and his wife were allegedly facing marital discord. He was also allegedly troubled over the interference of his in-laws in his personal life. The police have not found a suicide note, but claim that the SMSes in Pavan's mobile phone hint that he may have allegedly committed suicide, following repeated quarrels with his wife and in-laws. The police were informed of the alleged suicide at about 1.30 pm on Tuesday. Passengers at platform number one of the station told the police that they saw Pavan walking on the tracks near the platform. "They didn't find his behaviour suspicious. Suddenly he jumped in front of an approaching train. He was already dead by the time he was pulled out from the train," said a police officer. The police said that minutes before Pavan died, he had reportedly sent an SMS to his cousin about the regular fights he had with his wife and her family. The cousin did try to contact him, but it was late by then.
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Man accused of daughter’s rape ends life
New Delhi, March 12 The deceased worked as a driver with the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. He belonged to Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh. He lived with his family in Govindpuri. "He consumed poison on Saturday and died at the AIIMS Trauma Centre on Sunday," said a police officer. On March 8, the woman's father became aware of her complaint to the police. He consumed poison in the absence of his family. He was rushed to the AIIMS Trauma Centre, where he died during treatment on Sunday. |
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Man held for robbing scribe
New Delhi, March 12 The man has been identified by the police as Mayank Goswami, who is a resident of Shalimar Garden in Ghaziabad. The police said that at about 2.30 am on January 12, a reporter working with Zee News had arrived outside his house in East Delhi's Mandawali area. "While he was parking his car, five youths in a Santro car accosted him. They robbed him of his belongings, including a ring, at gunpoint," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (East District) Ajay Kumar. The police collected CCTV footage of the site of the incident. While examining it, they saw that the car which was used in the commission of the robbery is a white Santro with a carrier meant for luggage on top of it and a white sticker on its rear windshield. "More than 100 such Santro cars were checked during the past two months," said Kumar. The police was tipped off on Goswami's whereabouts. They apprehended him from Mandawali on March 7. The police recovered the white Santro car from him. Goswami was earlier arrested in a kidnapping case registered at the Mansarovar Park police station in
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