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 Cash, jewellery worth Rs 1 crore looted from Sainik Farms |
| The house of an automobile businessman was robbed of cash and jewellery worth at least Rs 1 crore in the posh Sainik Farms area of South Delhi on Friday. The robbery reportedly took place between 12 and 5 am on the intervening night between Thursday and Friday but the family came to know about it only around 8 am the following morning. |
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| Ex-Navy personnel’s home robbed |
| The house of a retired Indian Navy personnel was also robbed of cash worth Rs 3 lakh by unknown burglars in the Hauz Khas area of South Delhi on Thursday. |
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| HC orders Rs 10 lakh relief for widow of cattle menace victim |
| Criticising the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for its failure to prevent menace of stray cattle in the Capital, the Delhi High Court has allowed a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to a widow whose husband died due to the fighting between two stray bulls on the road. The Court, however, asked the civic body to deposit the amount with the registry within four weeks, which would be deposited as fixed deposit subsequently for three years and after maturity, the amount would be disbursed to Shakuntala, wife of the deceased. |
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| Study finds DJB unable to track demand |
| Delhi Jal Board has no mechanism to check the demand of water in the city, which is the cause of its failure to identify and hence avoid water crisis in the Capital. The problem was highlighted by DJB's UK-based consultant company, Ernst Young, in its study presented to the DJB on Friday. |
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| Pleasant weather in Capital |
| A comfortable day greeted Delhiites on Friday with mercury remaining at tolerable levels even as there were no rains. However, humidity was as high as 86 per cent during the day. |
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| Power dept seeks clarification from BSES on plan |
| The power department of Delhi Government has sought clarification on the Detailed Action Plan submitted by the BSES on Tuesday. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had given a four-day time period to BSES to submit 15 days detailed plan for power supply in its areas and also measures to handle public grievances and deployment of maintenance staff. |
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| BSES advocates continuance of security cover |
| Power distribution company BSES on Friday made out a strong case for the continuance of CISF cover at its installations, saying the Centre's decision to withdraw the security force will severely hamper the company's crusade against power theft in the city. The company said, it will appeal against the decision as "it violates a 2004 Supreme Court order," which had directed the State and Union Governments to provide the necessary protection to officials of the discoms during anti-power theft drives. |
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| No hike in theatre tax, says MCD |
| The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has refused to hike the theatre tax in the Capital to Rs 1,000. Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain said on Friday that the civic body will review the policy of increasing theater show tax. Sain said that the proposal, which was sent to the Delhi Government about five years back, seeks amendment of the fourth schedule of Delhi Municipal Act (DMC). |
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| Bijwasan railway station facelift on track |
| The newly appointed Union Railway Minister, Mamata Banerjee is aiming high to make railway stations of the national Capital ‘world-class.’ While Anand Vihar Railway Station is all set to operate from early next month, the Union Minister rekindled the hope of developing yet another world-class station in the Capital at Bijwasan. With Bijwasan, the development of which as a full fledge station had been put on hold for several years, Delhi will boast of three world-class railway stations-- New Delhi, Anand Vihar and Bijwasan. The other stations at Hazrat Nizamuddin, Delhi Junction, Subzi Mandi and Delhi Safdarjung will also be developed as Adarsh Stations. |
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| Juicy treat for mango lovers on offer at Dilli Haat |
| For all those who relish luscious mangoes, the three-day Mango Festival in the Capital is the place to be in, where mango lovers will have an option to choose their favourite food from a range of 400 varieties of mangoes. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday inaugurated the 21st Mango Festival at Dilli Haat, Pitampura. |
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| DDA brass sent to judicial custody |
| A city court on Friday sent an assistant director of Delhi Development Authority, who was arrested for allegedly accepting Rs 3,000 from two employees for stalling their transfers, to 14 days of judicial custody. Ved Prakash Gautam, the Assistant Director, was arrested on Thursday by Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) sleuths of Delhi Government following a complaint by the two employees. |
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| Actor nabbed for murders |
| The Delhi Police arrested an infamous criminal involved in two murder cases in the Ghaziabad area of Uttar Pradesh. He had escaped from police custody while being brought to jail from the district court on Thursday. The accused was carrying a reward of Rs 10,000. |
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| IM suspects on the run get ‘proclaimed offender’ tag |
| Two alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists, who escaped after a controversial encounter which claimed the life of a Delhi police officer here last September, were on Friday declared proclaimed offenders by a city court. |
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| Graft accused dies in police custody |
| A 46-year-old New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) inspector, who was arrested by the Anti Corruption Branch under the charges of corruption, died in the police custody on Friday while he was being taken to Rohini based Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for investigation purpose. |
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| Bouncers give their job a bad name |
| The reputation of professional bouncers at discos and pubs plummeted further with the arrest by Delhi Police of two such persons who committed house burglaries during daytime to earn easy cash on Friday. |
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| Wall collapse kills elderly couple, grandson |
| A senior couple and their 12-year-old grandson were killed after a wall of a mill collapsed on their house in the Narela area in Outer Delhi in the small hours of Friday. According to police, the incident occurred around 12.15 am on Friday when the three victims. Quayamuddin (70), his wife Noor Bano (65) and their grandson Shoaib were sleeping in a room in their house in Qurani village. |
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| Third cut-off list offers hope to general category |
| Even as most campus colleges of Delhi University have closed down its admissions for its popular courses with not many choices left in off-campus colleges either, a ray of hope persisted for category students on Friday. With most of the colleges — campus as well as off-campus one -— struggling to fill Other Backward Class seats that became evident with the release of the third cut-off list, many general category students may still be able to secure a berth in these colleges. |
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| Car robber lands in police net |
| The Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Friday arrested a 25-year-old interstate gangster involved in robbing luxury cars while he was travelling in a Honda CRV SUV which was robbed from Pathankot. |
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| Gujarat cops told to pay family of detainee |
| The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Gujarat Police to pay a compensation of about Rs 3 lakh to the family of a minor Muslim boy for detaining him in a lock-up for a week last year after suspecting him as an illegal Bangladeshi. The court also slapped the police with a cost of Rs 25,000 for illegally picking him up from Delhi and detaining in a lock-up in Ahmedabad and also subjected him to mental torture for a week. |
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