Delhi

The Election Commission received 550 new electoral forms after organising a day-long enrollment campaign for the people from the northeast here Wednesday.

There are over 2.5 lakh voters from the northeastern states in the national capital.

The camp, organised in Chanakyapuri area of south Delhi, was a bid to woo the people from the northeast to take part in the electoral process.

On March 8, a campaign was organised across Delhi to raise awareness and increase the participation of women in the electoral process. A total of 5,000 forms were received by the commission.
(IANS)

The Delhi Metro Wednesday completed a 1,247-metre tunnel below the busy Ring Road in the 59-km corridor between north Delhi’s Majlis Park and Shiv Vihar in northeast Delhi, officials said.

The tunnel was built from Netaji Subhash Place to Shalimar Bagh using a tunnel boring machine without causing any disturbance to the surface traffic.

The machine was lowered in October 2013.

The tunnel also crossed the elevated viaduct of a currently operational metro corridor.

The new corridor is part of Delhi Metro’s Phase III.
(IANS)

A court here Wednesday issued notice to Delhi’s chief electoral officer (CEO) on a plea that said Bangladeshi migrants and people from other states have enrolled in Delhi’s voters lists only to satisfy the vested interests of political parties.

The court was hearing a plea filed by Delhi resident Satyavir Singh, who has alleged that domestic migrants, who are registered as electors in other states, have also been issued voter identity cards.

The Delhi High Court Wednesday stayed the nursery admission process.

A division bench of Acting Chief Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul also stayed the fresh draw of lots in the nursery admission process for all seats.

“The draw of lots…shall not take place. No admission be made till next date of hearing,” said the bench, posting the matter for March 24.

The NHRC Monday issued notice to the home ministry and Delhi Police over the alleged false arrest of a Delhi youth accused of being involved in terrorist activities.

Citing a media report, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Mohammad Amir was arrested in February 1998 from Old Delhi area. He was 18 years old at the time of his arrest. Amir was released from prison after 14 years in January 2012.

Force India deputy team principal Robert Fernley has said the Formula 1 team is “saddened” by the arrest of its co-owner and Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy but hastened to assure that the off-track activities will have no bearing on their performance this season, beginning March 16 in Melbourne.

Indian companies can play a key role in the Republic of Congo’s march towards becoming an emerging economy by year 2025, a senior minister of the central African country said here Monday.

“Indian companies could partner the Republic of Congo government in converting the country’s comparative advantage in different sectors into competitive strengths,” Industry Minister Isidore Mvouba of the Republic of Congo, also known as Congo Brazzaville, said addressing delegates at the 10th CII-EXIM Bank conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership.

After its successful showing at a Brussels art museum, “The Body in Indian Art”, an exhibition that brings together 220 artworks with the aim to explore complex understandings of the human body, will open here March 14.

Curated by Naman P. Ahuja, the exhibition will be mounted at the National Museum from March 14 to June 7 that has artworks from 36 museums, archaeological institutes and private collectors. Some of the artworks will be displayed for the first time.

India Inc. Monday said it can help build infrastructure and expand growth in Africa by using cheap funds from third countries like Japan and Singapore.

“Patient capital funds from Japan can be ustilised in Africa. Singapore can be another place from where funds can be accessed,” said Noel Tata, chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Africa Committee and managing director, Tata International.

President Pranab Mukherjee will Tuesday present the Presidents’ Standard to 112 Helicopter Unit (HU) and Presidents’ Colours to 4 Base Repair Depot (BRD) of the Indian Air Force in Kanpur, a statement said.

“The president will visit Uttar Pradesh where he will present the Standard to 112 HU and Colours to No.4 BRD of Indian Air Force,” said an official statement of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Thousands of Sikhs celebrated Delhi Fateh Diwas, the anniversary of a historic event when the Nishaan Sahib — the holy symbol of the Khalsa Panth — was unfurled at the Red Fort.

Eighteenth-century Sikh warrior Sardar Baghel Singh had unfurled the saffron Nishaan Sahib on ramparts of the Red Fort March 11, 1783, for the first time.

This historic event was 231 years later being marked by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee in a two-day event March 8-9.

The Election Commission Sunday received more than 1 lakh new voter enrolment forms after organising a day-long special voters’ campaign in 11,000 polling stations of nine districts in the national capital, an official said.

The forms received were of those who could not find their names in the electorate list.

A Delhi Metro employee was arrested for stealing over Rs.3 lakh in cash from the locker of the control room of Rohini (West) Metro station, police said Sunday.

Satish, 20, a house-keeping employee, was arrested after a CCTV camera caught him cutting the feeder to two other cameras placed opposite the station control room to escape getting captured while committing the crime.

“Satish was aware of the timings and the place where the cash is kept in the station control room,” said a police officer.

Following his arrest, Rs.3.73 lakh in cash and a knife cutter were recovered.

(IANS)

A 22-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan. She left a note blaming her husband and her younger sister for her death, police said Sunday.

The body of Kiran was found by a relative at her home in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar area Saturday night.

A suicide note was written on the wall of the room that said her husband and her younger sister were responsible for her death.

Police said her husband Jitu, who works in a factory, and her sister were absconding.

Kiran and Jitu got married four years ago. They have a two-year-old daughter.
(IANS)

The Election Commission has received about 5,000 new voter enrolment forms after holding a day-long voting awareness campaign for women in the national capital Saturday, said an official.

“The Election Commission received 1,286 forms from northwest district, 1,185 from northeast, 1,098 from southeast and 1,453 from southwest,” Chief Nodal Officer Ankur Garg told IANS.

During the campaign, emphasis was laid on areas where low turnout of women has been observed in constituencies during the last assembly elections, he said.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli) and vice president Rahul Gandhi (Amethi) figure in the first list of party candidates for the Lok Sabha elections released Saturday.

Apart from the two Gandhis, the list has 192 more names including union ministers Mallikarjun Kharge and Girija Vyas.

Sonia, Rahul in Congress’ first list of 194 candidates (Lead)
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli) and vice president Rahul Gandhi (Amethi) figure in the first list of party candidates for the Lok Sabha elections released here Saturday.

They are illiterate and come from non-electrified villages in remote parts of the world. But, besides being all grandmothers, the one thing they all have in common is they are trained solar power technicians now.

At the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, a grandmother from inaccessible areas of the world that lack electricity can enrol for the international solar training course that helps light up their lives and those of others.

BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday said discrimination was a big problem faced by women and called for them to have freedom to make choices about their career and marriage.

Interacting with women from different parts of the country through video conferencing at “Chai pe Charcha (discussion on tea)” at the Bharatiya Janata Party office here, Modi said that there should be more women in legal profession as well as in police.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that a four-year-old boy died after he slipped into an open manhole in Jaitpur in southeast Delhi on Wednesday evening.

The body, however, could be fished out only Thursday morning after rescue work by the Delhi Police and the Delhi Fire Service.

The NHRC observed that the media report, if true, seriously violated the human rights of the child and issued a notice to the Commissioner, South Delhi Municipal Corporation, calling for a report within two weeks.

With the arrest of three more people, Delhi Police have solved the more than Rs.7 crore heist that occurred in south Delhi in January, it was said Saturday.

The incident happened Jan 28, in which robbers looted over Rs.7 crore at gun point near the Moolchand flyover.

With the arrest of the three identified as Praveen, Gulzar and Tilak from Mohali (Punjab) following a tip-off, the police have arrested all the 13 involved in the crime.

India has serious concerns about terrorism in Pakistan and there were “harsh realities” in that country which need to be recognized, Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh said Saturday.

“We have to deal with Pakistan in the best manner possible given the fact that we cannot respond to terrorism with terrorism. We are seen as a force for moderation, reason, stability and good sense and that is a huge asset that we should never let go,” Sujatha Singh said at an interaction with women journalists here on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

The Election Commission will hold special camps across the country Sunday to help voters check if their names are included in the electoral rolls.

The commission’s move comes in wake of the complaints that some people with EPIC (Elector Photo Identity Card) in the past have been denied the right to vote because their names were not found in the electoral rolls.

The camps will be organised in all polling stations, where booth officers will have the electoral rolls displayed.

A law student died here Saturday after being beaten up by two other students over a row over parking outside their college, police said. The assailants were arrested.

Ayush, 22, a first year student of a private college in east Delhi, was attacked up by Amit Nagar and Tanuj Tiwari outside the college gate Friday afternoon, police said.

He was taken to a government hospital from where he was referred to another hospital where he died Saturday morning.
(IANS)

A new club aimed at making cancer survivors feel special was launched here Saturday on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

The club, Le’ Flamingo’, an initiative of the Roko Cancer Charitable Trust, was launched at a mall in south Delhi’s Saket area Friday.

The club intends to be a network area for cancer winners (survivors) to come together and engage in various activities.

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in New Ashok Nagar area of East Delhi, police said today.

The incident took place yesterday morning and Raju, 24, who is pursuing B Com at a private college, has been arrested in connection with the case, police said.

“The victim was on her way to school when Raju offered to drop her on his bike. As Raju was known to the girl, she agreed. But instead of dropping her at the school, he took her to a secluded area where he allegedly raped her,” a senior police officer said.