New Delhi, April 27
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has tied up with the Tunnel Training Academy in Kuala Lumpur to train its engineers on the latest techniques and skills needed for underground tunnelling work.

The training is aimed at increasing the levels of skills of the DMRC engineers in underground tunnelling as about 53 kms of the total length of 143 km is being constructed underground and 35 boring machines are going to be used to achieve this target, said Mangu Singh, Managing Director, DMRC.

He said that this kind of intensive tunnelling activity will require specialized engineering skills in different aspects of the operations of the tunnel boring machines such as cutting wheel erection, erection simulators for ring building, gap filling or grouting, etc., which are an essential part of the boring operations.

The Metro engineers will be able to get hands-on training in a classroom underground tunnel environment using audio-visual 3-dimensional tools to erect tunnelling segments using wireless controls in Malaysian Academy. In addition, they will be able to construct tunnel archs using concreting in the training laboratories. The trainees will also be exposed to the use of cutting tools such as disk cutter and cutting knives which are used to cut through soil and rocks encountered by the tunnel boring machines.

As part of the module, Metro engineers will make sure that there is no movement and surface settlement in the building above under which tunnelling takes place.

The first batch of 10 Delhi Metro engineers will be sent for training next month to Kuala Lumpur, and this training will help the DMRC increase its internal expertise in underground tunnelling engineering.

The DMRC is planning to establish its own such tunnel training academy in Delhi.

New Delhi, April 27
A fire broke out in a lawyer's chamber on the Supreme Court premises today and ten fire tenders were rushed to douse the blaze.

A Delhi Fire Service spokesman said that they received a call at 12.49 pm that a fire broke out in a lawyer's chamber number 134.

Immediately after receiving the call, ten fire tenders were rushed and the fire was controlled within minutes.

There was no major loss. Just a few files were gutted, he said.

The spokesman said that according to preliminary inquiry, shortcircuit could be the cause of fire. 

New Delhi, April 27
The decomposed body of a 40-year-old British national was found outside a shop in Bhogal area of Nizamuddin in southeast Delhi today.

The body was identified that of Rodick Andrew Raymond, police said, adding, his body was found stuffed in a plastic bag at Church Road after a passerby informed police about it.

From the body's condition, it appears that Raymond might have been murdered three-four days back, police said.

A PCR call was received around 9 am this morning. The body was first spotted by a local shopkeeper who raised the alarm, following which a mob gathered at the spot.

"A police team reached the spot and took out the body from the plastic bag. Police have now kept the body in AIIMS' mortuary," a senior police officer said.

"Police have found injury marks on Raymond's head. Some injury marks were also found on other parts of his body. Police are also scanning the video footage of CCTV cameras to identify the person who dumped body," the officer added.

A case against unidentified persons has been registered and further investigation is on, the police said. — PTI

New Delhi, April 27
The two-day fourth national conference on Gynae Endocrinology, which was organised by the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), concluded here today. The event witnessed a good participation of delegates and experts from India and abroad.

The scientific programme included guest lectures, symposia, debates and controversies around topics like infertility, obesity, cosmetology, diabetes, recurrent pregnancy loss, thyroid, osteoporosis, endometriosis, female sexual dysfunction, etc.

On multidisciplinary lines, there were six pre-congress workshops on ovulation induction and IUI, controversies and advancements in IVF, obesity-basic management course, gestational diabetes mellitus, contraception and menopause.

The scientific committee had received more than 140 abstracts from researchers which were presented as free posters during the conference, said organisers.

New Delhi, April 27
With the arrest of five accused, the Special Cell of Delhi Police claimed to have busted an interstate narcotic syndicate. The accused were identified as Ram Avtar, alias Rama, Girdhari Lal, alias Piddu, Sangita, Pankaj, alias Bunty, and Indal. Fine quality heroin weighing 15 kg was seized from their possession, the police said.

The police received information that a woman drug peddler would come to receive a consignment from Ram Avtar and his brother Girdhari Lal near Mother Dairy booth in Tilak Nagar Market between 1 pm and 2 pm. The police laid a trap and arrested Ram Avtar, Girdhari Lal and Sangita.

Sangita who came to purchase heroin from the accused was given 5,600 small packets.

The packets were recovered from her possession and one kg of heroin was recovered from Ram Avtar.

During investigation, it was revealed that Ram Avtar has many houses in Delhi. One house in Vishnu Garden is being used as a store for heroin. About 10 kg heroin was recovered from there and 15 kg phenobarbital chemical that is used in processing heroin was also recovered from the house.

During interrogation, Ram Avtar disclosed that his son Pankaj used to supply heroin to him from Ruderpur, Uttarkhand where he is presently residing. Ram Avtar also said that his son used to take supply of heroin and other incriminating material, including phenobarbital, from Bareilly UP.

Ram Avtar used to supply the packed heroin to Sangita, Indal Kumar and other small drug peddlers.

A team of police was sent to Ruderpur to arrest Pankaj and other accomplices of Ram Avtar, the police said.

New Delhi, April 27
An interstate dacoit, Intizar, alias Chhota Don, who used to introduce himself as younger brother of criminal don Dawood Ibrahim, was arrested from Kashmere Gate by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police. He belongs to Badaun in UP.

The police nabbed Chhota Don after an informer identified him to be involved in a bank dacoity case in Karnataka. The case was reported by Ritesh Narain, office-in-charge, Syndicate Bank, Masankatti Branch, Haveri under Abdur police station.

The incident was had held on the intervening night of January 31 and February 1, 2014, the police said.

During sustained interrogation, the accused disclosed that he was coming from Jaipur after identifying one bank, the gang's next target. The other members of the gang are in Badaun.

The accused disclosed that since his childhood, he tried to imitate Dawood Ibrahim and always kept his photo in the pocket. He used to introduce himself as younger brother or cousin of Dawood Ibrahim and became famous as "Chhota Don" in the area.

He formed the gang along with local criminals and started committing crimes. In 2003, he with other accomplices looted a bank at Chandosi, Muradabad (UP) where the guard of the bank was brutally killed.

After coming out from the jail, he became more desperate and started committing robberies in the garb of fruit and vegetable transporters in different states.

In March 2013, his gang looted gold and cash from a cotton vendor's house at Chandrapur, Maharashta. The Maharashtra Police conducted several raids to nab him, but in vain.

Thereafter, he along with other accomplices went to Karnataka and committed burglaries in bank with the help of gas cutters and other house-breaking equipment, the police said.

New Delhi, April 27
A 5-year-old boy, who was found dead near a drain after being kidnapped from northeast Delhi's Wazirabad area on Friday, was allegedly killed by his uncle and his friend.

According to police, the duo, identified as Amit Gupta and Rahman, were today arrested for their involvement in the crime.

Police said the accused uncle Amit Gupta had kidnapped Vashu for ransom of Rs 30 lakh, adding that police were also investigating the possibility of personal enmity between the two families.

Vashu had been found murdered near a drain at Waziarabad, a day after the duo had allegedly kidnapped him while he was playing outside his home in Brahmpuri Colony.

"The police are now interrogating both accused and further investigation is on," said a police officer. — PTI

New Delhi, April 27
Two persons wanted in murder cases committed in Jharkhand were arrested from here, police said today.

Ram Vinay Shahu (27) and Ashok Singh (20), both from Gumla district of Jharkhand, were arrested yesterday after police received information that they were staying at Nihal Vihar in West Delhi, police said.

"As per details from Jharkhand police, Shahu and Singh are the members of 'Pahadi Chita' gang, which was involved in extortion. They had killed a pradhan of Morang Panchayat in Jharkhand in November last year. Both of them were also wanted for trying to kill one Ram Vinay," a police officer said.

"Police yesterday got information that the duo was coming towards 50 ft road, Nihar Vihar area. Police laid a trap and arrested them after chasing them," officer said. —PTI

New Delhi, April 27
Expressing concern over increasing crime against senior citizens who become vulnerable targets as they live alone, a court here awarded life imprisonment to four people for dacoity and killing a 76-year-old man.

The court was hearing a 2012 dacoity case in which Kishan Lal Manchanda, 76, a resident of Gujrawalan Town in west Delhi was killed.

Manchanda suffered from multiple ailments, including coronary artery disease. His wife, Kamla Devi, 70, was paralytic from the waist down.

According to police, Kali Charan, a fruit seller used to visit the couple and, in course of time, befriended them. He also got his sister Bimlesh to work at the old couple's house.

The prosecution said Kali Charan hatched a criminal conspiracy along with his sister and five others and committed dacoity on June 9, 2012, killing Manchanda.

Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau, in an order dated April 16, said: "In the present case, the victims were soft vulnerable targets since the victim Kishan Lal Manchanda was an old man aged about 75 years and his wife Kamla Devi was paralytic waist down and was totally dependent upon an attendant."

The judge noted that the manner in which the offence was committed in broad daylight showed that the convicts held no respect for the law of the land.

The court said the convicts deserve no leniency and sentenced four of them - Kali Charan, Ram Kumar, Chander Bhan and Amit - to life imprisonment and further slapped a fine of Rs. 14,000 each on them. Bimlesh was awarded four years' jail.

They were held guilty on the basis of the witnesses' testimonies and medical, electronic evidence like CCTV footage, call detail records and other circumstantial evidence.—IANS

New Delhi, April 27
The Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre is organising a graphic exhibition, Life is like that, caricatures by Édua Sz?cs who is an eminent artist, cartoonist and illustrator from Hungary.

On view at the art gallery of the Hungarian Centre till the end of this month, the exhibits have the power to take the art connoisseurs into the space and time of the creations that depict life in its various phases.

Driven by the spirit of the modern age, the artist's thinking is capable of changes and has got a characterising strength that turns her experiences of life into a picture, transmitting them through visual means.

The works stand as independent work of art owing to the intensity of the subject matters, the demands of graphics, the certainty of composition, beauty of the details and the competence visible.

In the contemporary art, Édua Sz?cs belongs to those mature graphic artists who practise their expertise based on their belief and proficiency. She is said to have amazing drawing skills and her connect with the humane sensibilities clearly shows in her caricatures.

As her great ancestors, she likewise has the concept of the unit of image and notion.

Her cultural knowledge provides her with a certain demanding quality proving that her literacy is universal and well founded.

It is never the usual common humour but the sublime, mild-and-bitter, scraping mood for filliping, the intention for improving mankind that drives her to drawing pencil.