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Outer Ring Road corridor hits religious hurdle
Woman set on fire for dowry, succumbs
Bangla Sahib parking land belongs to NDMC: Sarna
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Govind Mishra gets ‘Saraswati Samman’
LG inspects sewerage at Dwarka
Drive to clean night shelters, slums
Auto owners asked to furnish house proof
Circle rates for land valuation revised
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Outer Ring Road corridor hits religious hurdle
New Delhi, September 22 The Public Works Department (PWD) has not been able to carry the work for the last one year after talks with the caretakers of these buildings failed. "The matter has now been sent to the religious committee which may decide something," said a top PWD official. The project was targeted to be completed by the end of 2015. However, according to sources in PWD, the matter is too sensitive for the political brass to handle in the prevailing scenario of the city. "Delhi has seen two major elections in the past one year. Hence, the political leaders are too scared to intervene in the issue which might hit their vote banks. Now again, elections are awaited in Delhi, which means that the matter is going to be stuck for an indefinite time," said a source in PWD. The re-engineering of the nearly 20-km stretch will help commuters avoid traffic jams from Vikaspuri through Janakpuri, Paschim Vihar, Pitampura and Rohini to Wazirabad. The project has been divided into three parts which includes construction of road from Vikaspuri to Meerabagh, Mangolpuri to Madhuban Chowk, Madhuban Chowk to Mukarba Chowk. The road will be a six-lane corridor lifted on a single pier. This technology is being used in Delhi for the first time. The elevated structure will occupy only three metres on the ground and 24 metres in the air. The road is expected to help decongest traffic on the route saving fuel and travelling time. According to an impact study carried out by PWD, the new corridor between two points will help save Rs 430 crore per annum, including Rs 130 crore per annum on fuel. About Rs 75-80 lakh would be saved every day. The study has shown that 58,000-litre fuel will be saved daily implying that Rs 130 crore per annum will be saved. The cost of the project which is Rs 2,400 crore, may be recovered in four years. Corridor of contention
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Woman set on fire for dowry, succumbs
New Delhi, September 22 The victim, Usha Singh, was admitted to the Safdarjung Hospital in south Delhi with 65 per cent burns on Thursday. She had told a sub-divisional magistrate in her statement that her husband Nitin and father-in-law Gyan had set her on fire for refusing to meet their dowry demands. She had also alleged that Gyan had first slit her wrist with a blade before pouring kerosene over her. Usha's brother Subhash claimed that Gyan had intended to give a "slow and painful death" to her for which he first slit her wrist with a blade. "But she resisted and screamed for help. They then set her ablaze," Subhash alleged. Usha's family also wants her mother-in-law and sister-in-law arrested, alleging that they also harassed her for dowry. "They first wanted a car. Then they began demanding Rs 5 lakh. When we said we were incapable of giving so much money, they beat her. When we would threaten to report their behaviour to the police, Usha's father-in-law would mock us saying that it was impossible for us to report about a Tihar Jail official," alleged Usha's another brother Rajender. "He would say he knows policemen and would land us in Tihar and then harass us there," he added. The family said they would fight for justice until all the people involved in harassing Usha were punished. |
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Bangla Sahib parking land belongs to NDMC: Sarna
New Delhi, September 22 He said when Prahlad Singh Chandhoc was president of the DSGMC, an agreement between the NDMC and the gurdwara committee was signed for construction of the parking. "When I was president of the DSGMC, I never signed any agreement. It was signed by DSGMC officials." When the agreement was signed by the general manager, secretary and general secretary of the DSGMC, Manjit Singh (GK) of SAD (Badal), who is heading the gurdwara committee now, was executive member of the DSGMC. But, he never raised his voice against the agreement. A spokesperson for the DSGMC, Parminder Singh, said when Sarna was president in 2005, an agreement was signed between the DSGMC and the NDMC that the parking would be transferred to the NDMC after 30 years. He said the agreement was not justifiable as parking was constructed with the permission of the NDMC. About Rs 100 crore was spent on its construction. Returning it to the NDMC is injustice. Chandhoc said, "I had signed the agreement, but when Sarna was president, another agreement was signed between the then gurdwara committee and the government. What was in the agreement, I do not know." |
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Govind Mishra gets ‘Saraswati Samman’
New Delhi, September 22 Referring to the earlier speech of Govind Mishra, Singh said that it was true that those who had not read the works of our litterateurs, they remain uneducated. "The way science and technology can be found in different Indian languages, it can't be found in any other language in the world," he said while giving the example of Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty which many people thought was his original. Singh said that Heisenberg's friend, an Australian scientist has written that when he was discussing the issue with Heisenberg and asked as to where did he get his theory's basic concept, he had replied that he had got it while discussing Vedant with Rabindra Nath Tagore, the Home Minister said. Referring to the Booker award, Singh congratulated the Foundation for keeping the name of the award not on some person's name but on Goddess of knowledge - Saraswati who he said was the "goddess of creation". Giving the example of how Google too is acknowledging the importance of Hindi as a language, he referred to the new Android One which the company had launched
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LG inspects sewerage at Dwarka
New Delhi, September 22 "Under the project, a 59 km of sewer length along three major drains namely at Najafgarh, supplementary and Shahdara are to be modified and mould for treating waste water and intercepting sewer," said a government official. The aforesaid project involves interception of sewer flowing in and around subsidiary small drains and conveying it to nearest sewage treatment plants to ensure that only treated sewer is discharged into major drains. This would help in reducing the waste and toxic affluent being discharged into the Yamuna by up to 70 per cent. The LG also went to see water ATMs at Dwarka, which are water dispensing machines based on the technique of Reverse Osmosis and is a part of decentralized drinking water treatment plant. Water ATMs are environment friendly as it operates on solar power. |
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Drive to clean night shelters, slums
New Delhi, September 22 "A special drive to clean night shelters in collaboration with the NGOs will be launched. It will be ensured that water supply, toilet facility, mattresses, caretaker, safai karamchari, etc., are in order," said Amar Nath, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DUSIB. De-silting of drainage system, regular sweeping of area, removal of garbage and maintenance of desired level of cleanliness of toilet complex "The awareness programme is being launched with the help of leading NGOs working in the field to educate the residents of JJ clusters and to make them more aware about benefits of cleanliness and hygiene," Nath said. Mass awareness programme will specially include children and women. In the sanitation drive people can take initiative and participate in the cleanliness effort, added Nath. |
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Auto owners asked to furnish house proof
New Delhi, September 22 The department has also issued the list of registration certificates of these vehicles. "We have asked the owners of 3,057 taxis and autos to furnish their correct addresses before the department by October 15. If they fail to comply with this direction, action would be initiated that includes cancellation of their registration," said a senior department official. "Police have recently sent us the list of such owners whose addresses could not be verified following which we have come up with this direction," he added. According to the department, it doesn't mean that the Delhi Police found all such owners' addresses incorrect as some of the cases are such that police sent traffic challans to their addresses, but they could not be delivered. "In some cases, the police sent owners of these vehicles traffic challans, but they could not be delivered. Perhaps, at the time of delivering challans, the owners were out. However, we are taking all efforts to make necessary correction for registration records on the list sent by the police," the official added. |
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Circle rates for land valuation revised
New Delhi, September 22 The rates were last revised in 2012. "The rates will be taken into consideration for registration of instruments relating to immovable properties by all the registering authorities under the provisions of the Indian Stamp Act 1899 and the Indian Registration Act 1908. The revised rates will come into force tomorrow," said a senior Delhi government official. |
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