Khora Colony (Ghaziabad)

खोड़ा : खोड़ा में बिहार असोसिएशन ने सोमवार को भारत के प्रथम राष्ट्रपति डॉ. राजेंद्र प्रसाद का 129वां जन्मदिन मनाया। कार्यक्रम की शुरुआत में असोसिएशन अध्यक्ष जितेंद्र शर्मा ने राजेंद्र प्रसाद के चित्र पर माल्यापर्ण किया। इसके बाद एक आम बैठक में राजेंद्र प्रसाद के व्यवहार और उनके कार्यों पर प्रकाश डाला गया। इस मौके पर मौजूद सभी लोगों ने उनके आदर्शों पर चलने का संकल्प लिया। इसमें सर्व समाज के लोगों ने हिस्सा लिया। बैठक में रामानंद सिंह, मुरारी चौधरी, अमन शर्मा, विकास राय, कृष्णा, श्याम लाल, किरन प्रसाद, सतेंद्र कुमार समेत कई लोग मौजूद रहे। 

GHAZIABAD: The Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad  authorities didn't seem to take traffic snarls into consideration while opening two lanes of the link road between Holland Factory in Greater Noida and NH-24 earlier this month. The under-construction T-point where the link road meets NH-24 has become a site of major chaos with commuters trying to wedge past their vehicles to use the road to travel between Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Delhi. Peak hours have been witnessing major jams due to lack of traffic personnel being posted there to monitor movement of vehicles.  Only two lanes were opened to traffic earlier this month for commuters travelling between Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Meerut since the GDA is yet to complete work on the service lanes and the central verge of the link road. However, in spite of the incomplete construction work, people have been using the stretch. With no traffic cops stationed in the area to check such violations and with the ongoing work adding to the

GHAZIABAD: The  CBI  on Monday filed charge-sheet against senior IAS officer  Pradeep Shukla  in connection with alleged irregularities in upgrading of 89 district hospitals in the state, under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scheme, causing a loss of Rs 16 crore to the exchequer.  The agency had received sanction to prosecute Shukla on November 30 from the Centre after that a charge-sheet was filed before special CBI court in Ghaziabad on Monday.  Shukla and officials of UP Processing and Construction Cooperative Federation Ltd (PACCFED), including its managing director V K Chowdhary, the then director general of family welfare S P Ram, Moradabad-based businessman Saurabh Jain, and his firms were booked by the agency in January this year.  While remaining accused were chargesheeted in May this year, the charge-sheet against Shukla was pending because CBI was awaiting sanction for his prosecution.  The 55-year-old IAS officer was the NRHM mission director and principal secretary,

Ghaziabad:  A day after allowing traffic to pass through free of cost, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) continued to lay siege to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) Dasna toll bridge in Ghaziabad on Monday. The BKU plans to make the toll road in Saharanpur and the DND (Delhi-Noida-Delhi) Flyway "toll-free" from December 4 and December 7, respectively, BKU Meerut division president Rajvir Singh said. "Our next target will be to liberate commuters from paying toll at the DND Flyway in Noida," he said.  Rajvir Singh also threatened to make all the highways in Uttar Pradesh toll-free and termed the collection of toll on the national highways as "extortion" from the commuters. He said the collection of toll at the Dasna toll bridge was in violation of the norms laid down by the NHAI.  "According to the NHAI rules, a toll bridge cannot be established within a 10-kilometre radius of any municipal body. The Dasna toll bridge is hardly two kilome

A man was on Monday booked for allegedly losing his wife during gambling in Nehru Nagar area in the Ghaziabad district, police said on Monday.  According to the complaint lodged by the woman, the accused lost her in gambling ten days ago following which the fellow gamblers reached her residence to abduct her, she said. However, she managed to flee from the spot and later filed a complaint against her husband at the Jarcha police station in Noida. "My husband lost me in gambling. A neighbour I had confided in informed my parents. My father came and took me home. My husband visited me thrice, and I ultimately agreed to patch up with him against my family's wishes," the woman said. "But my husband continued to abuse me. Once he pushed me off the staircase," she said.  She alleged that after few months of marriage, the accused even asked her to have a sexual relationship with her brother-in-law to which she refused only to get beaten up badly at his hands. Furthe

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to withdraw all cases against late liquor baron Ponty Chadha in the state. The decision was taken in a Cabinet meeting in Uttar Pradesh. Ponty Chadha, who was the sole liquor distributor in Uttar Pradesh, died after a shootout between him and his brother Hardeep at his farmhouse in Delhi. Hardeep was also killed in the shootout. Ponty Chadha's other business interests included real estate, sugar mills and film production, which he used to look after along with his two brothers - Hardeep and Rajinder. The business empire was reportedly worth Rs 6,000 crore. However, no arrests have been made in regard to the double murders case. The police are yet to find significant leads into what led to the shootout. The police have said that a clash between the two brothers had taken place in another farmhouse, located a few kilometers away, on the morning of the shootout. Ponty Chadha, who was the sole liquor distributor in Uttar Pradesh,

A major blow to Bollywood is the death of liquor baron and film distributor Ponty Chadha. Many movie producers and directors worked closely with Chadha in the past. At least 6-7 prominent filmmakers were in serious negotiations with Chadha over big-budget projects which would now have to seek a different outlet for financial sustenance. Apparently Bollywood financier Bharat Shah was the last person from the Hindi film industry to have negotiated with Ponty Chadha. Bharat Shah has major financial stakes in director Anand Kumar's Sanjay Dutt-Arshad Warsi-Vivek Oberoi production Zilla Ghazibad. Shah was to fly Delhi on Saturday, the day tragedy struck Ponty Chadha's life, to screen the film for Chadha who showed a keen interest in the distribution of the film. Barely an hour before Ponty was to view Zilla Ghaziabad, he was shot dead. Confirming this, the Zilla Ghaziabad producer Vinod Bachchan says, "Bharatbhai is closely involved with my film. He was in serious n

RBI also asked the UP commissioner of Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies to issue an order for winding up Ghaziabad Urban Cooperative Bank as well as appoint a liquidator for the bank Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the licence of Ghaziabad Urban Cooperative Bank as it had become insolvent, reports PTI. "In view of the fact that Ghaziabad Urban Cooperative Bank, Ghaziabad (UP), had ceased to be solvent and with all efforts to revive it having failed ... the Reserve Bank of Indiadelivered the order cancelling its licence to the bank on 16 November 2012," RBI said in anotification today. RBI said it has asked the commissioner of Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies of Uttar Pradesh government to issue an order for winding up the bank as well as appoint a liquidator for the bank.  

India has requested  Interpol  to come up with a special notice for terror cases, which is not a part of the existing red corner notice. The request was made at the recently concluded general assembly of Interpol in Rome, which was attended by home minister  Sushil Kumar Shinde  and CBI director A P Singh. "It will simplify the process for all the investigating agencies to know about terror suspects if the notice's colour or style is changed," said an officer. Interpol is reported to be examining the request. In the general assembly, it was also decided that Interpol will hold training programmes at the CBI academy in Ghaziabad, for the Asia-Pacific nations. Training will be imparted to law enforcement officers of various countries on bio-terrorism, investigation of maritime piracy and anti-corruption cases, and there will be focused attention on fugitives involved in terror cases. "This was agreed upon at the Interpol's 81st general assembly which was held

Your car is approaching a toll booth, what do you do? Fumble for change, switch the frequency on the radio, look around to see other glum faces queuing up? If you were at the Ghaziabad-Meerut toll plaza on Friday afternoon, however, you would've got your autograph book out as the man in the SUV parked next to your car was cricket star Suresh Raina. And, so it was... Ever willing to give back to the ones who cherish it the most, Raina took time out – he was excitedly being chauffeured to the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit – to sign autographs and pose for photographs with frenzied fans who jumped out of their cars to catch a glimpse of the man who two years ago scored a century on his Test debut. "It's the fans who make you who you are. It's very important to acknowledge that and show gratitude," said Raina, who played a record 98 ODIs before making his Test debut. However, in a country where cricketing stars are worshipped like gods, things can sometim

IMS Ghaziabad has announced the admission process for its PGDM programmes for the 2013-14 batch. An applicant should have a three-year bachelor degree with 50 per cent marks in any discipline recognized by the UGC/AICTE. Candidates appearing for the final examination for the bachelor degree can also apply. Applicants for the PGDM program must have valid CAT/MAT/CMAT scores for the academic session 2013-14. How to Apply According to the institute, a candidate can apply by filling in an application form enclosed with the prospectus and attaching the duly attested copies of the following: (a)  CAT/ MAT/ CMAT/ GMAT score. (b)  Certificates and mark sheets of qualifying examinations passed. (c)  Relevant certificate to verify date of birth. The prospectus and the application form can be obtained from the IMS Ghaziabad counter against the payment of Rs 1,100. Candidates can get the form via post on payment of Rs 1,150 or can download the same from the website: http://www.ims-ghaziabad.ac.

More than 16 months ahead of the scheduled general election of 2014, the  Samajwadi Party  has declared the names of its candidates for the Lok Sabha seats of Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar. The names of the candidates for the two seats of UP-NCR figure amongst a list of 55 candidates released by the party on Friday.  Samajwadi Party spokesperson, Prof  Ram Gopal Yadav , released the first list of candidates comprising 55 seats from a total of 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in Lucknow.  In Gautam Budh Nagar, the SP has re-fielded its candidate of the 2009 general election, Narendra Singh Bhati. Bhati had lost to rival  Bahujan Samaj Party  candidate  Surendra Naagar and had secured the third position in the number of votes polled. In the neighbouring seat of Ghaziabad, the party has fielded a new candidate,  Sudhan Rawat , for the 2014 polls. Rawat had unsuccessfully run for the post of mayor of Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam for the municipal election of 2012. SP had not fielded a can

Actor Imran Khan's rustic look in Vishal Bhardwaj's  Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola  and Arshad Warsi's get up in upcoming film  Zila Ghaziabad  bear a striking resemblance. Arshad, who plays the role of Mahender Fauji in  Zila Ghaziabad , sports a beard, which is very similar to what Imran sports in  Matru ki Bijlee .... "When I saw the first look of  Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola , I was really amazed by Imran's look. This is really very surprising that both of them are seen in a similar look for the film, we wanted to keep it exclusive for Arshad," said  Zila Ghaziabad  producer Vinod Bachchan.

Lucknow:  Suspended under the Mayawati regime, IAS officers Rakesh Bahadur and Sanjiv Saran have been appointed as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Noida Development Authority by the Uttar Pradesh government, official sources said on Saturday.      Both the officers were posted in the same capacities under the earlier SP government.      They were suspended in 2009 on charges of allegedly allotting plots to 14 hotels, including 3-star, 4-star and 5-star ones, at throwaway prices in 2006 in a scam of over Rs 4,700 crores.      In 2009, the Mayawati-led government cancelled the allotment and refunded Rs 283 crore to the allottees. The Supreme Court last year quashed her decision and directed the allottees to pay an additional premium of Rs 70,000 per sqm. 

The Allahabad high court has overturned the appointment of two controversial IAS officers as the chief executive officer and the chairman of the Noida authority. CEO Sanjeev Saran and chairman Rakesh Bahadur, who will have to relinquish their positions immediately,  had been appointed to  their posts after the Samajwadi Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh. Bahadur was also the chairman of the Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway authorities. The Akhilesh Yadav government had drawn flak for appointing the duo, who were accused of allotting 14 plots in Noida to hoteliers at throwaway prices since 2001, causing an estimated loss of over  Rs.  4,700 crore to the state. In June, Allahabad-based NGO Madhav Samaj Samiti had gone to court, challenging the appointments. “Both were chargesheeted in Noida’s sector 20 police station for the hotel land deal, and an economic offence wing (EOW) inquiry is pending against them, they being at influential postings can hamper the inquiry and als

GHAZIABAD: Police have arrested the four criminals who committed the daring bank robbery at the District Cooperative Bank in Sihani Gate area of Ghaziabad and casually took a city bus to escape. Cops said the four accused went on a spree across Uttar Pradesh, spending their recently acquired money in fancy hotels across Meerut, Moradabad, Lucknow and Agra before returning to Ghaziabad from where they were arrested. Police said that accused have been identified as Mukesh, Ajay, Monu and Javed, aged between 25 and 35. The four criminals had entered the bank and held the manager at gunpoint before proceeding to disconnect the CCTV cameras and steal over Rs 15 lakh on October 31.

Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Mart has expanded its presence in the north by setting up a hypermart in Ghaziabad. The store is spread across over 70, 000 sq ft. This is the 26th Reliance Mart outlet in the country. The stores house over 20,000 stock keeping units in categories such as food & fresh produce to grocery, consumer electronics to stationery, toys personal care, apparel and furnishing, among others. Rob Cissell, CEO, Reliance Value Formats, said, “Ghaziabad is an important destination from commercial perspective, and is one of the fastest growing cities. The city has an evolving consumer segment who will appreciate the unique retail experience that Reliance Mart offers in terms of range of products and services.”

GHAZIABAD: Almost 100 parents staged a protest on Thursday outside the playschool in Indirapuram area of Ghaziabad where an employee had allegedly molested pre-nursery girls two days ago. The ensuing scuffle between the parents and the school management abated after the latter agreed to meet some of the demands of the protesters. The demands were related to increased security of students, participation of parents in the management of the school and greater accountability of all employees. The management has also promised to arrange a meeting between the parents and the school's chairperson, who has been absent during the entire episode.

GHAZIABAD : The main players in the  Sahibabad Industrial Area  assembled last week in the Radisson Blu hotel in Ghaziabad for their annual general meeting (AGM) to reflect on the work done by the  Sahibabad Industrial Association  in past one year. The meeting also saw many important decisions being taken with members tenure being extended and  SK Maheswari becoming the new vice president of the association."As an association we have achieved a lot this year substantiating the fact that unity is strength," said Prem Khanna, president of the industrial association.  While there were many high points this year for the association but a few of them were noteworthy, emphasized the president. "The association took some of the infrastructure issue in site 4 to the municipal corporation. We have successfully persuaded the body to improve 42 roads in the area along with the installation of interlocking tiles on the sides of the road," said Khanna further.  The association

Ghaziabad : Two intelligence officials of Uttar Pradesh Police have been suspended while another official may face the same fate over failure to provide intelligence inputs in Friday night's violence in Ghaziabad's Masuri area in which six people were killed in alleged police firing.  A senior sub-inspector (SSI) and a sub-inspector (SI) with the local intelligence unit (LIU) have been suspended, while suspension of circle officer-LIU has been recommended to the state government, a police official said.   "In addition to these punitive actions, a high-level probe by the divisional commissioner is on. No arrest has been made so far for rioting," Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Ghaziabad Prashant Kumar said here Sunday.  Masuri police station in-charge P.K. Singh has also been suspended and transfer of Circle Officer-Sadar Ajay Kumar and Sub-Divisional Magistrate Keshav Kumar has been recommended, he said.  A police station in Masuri town was set afire by an ira

The Uttar Pradesh government's decision to stop buying power from energy exchange, while at the same time not resorting to overdrawing from the central grid, has led to a sudden shortage of electricity in the state. The two decisions together have resulted in a significant shortfall of around 3000MW.  The shortage has forced the state government to resort to rostering not only in Lucknow, but also cities in the national capital region (Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad) which give maximum revenue to the exchequer. The shortage is despite pleasant weather when the demand for power dips significantly. The present demand for power has been hovering in the range of around 12,000MW, while the state's own generation has been only around 8,500MW.  Managing director of  UP Power Corporation Limited  (UPPCL),  AP Mishra , confirmed that the corporation was not buying any power from the exchange causing a shortage of around 700MW.  Mishra added that the decision of not overdrawing from

MASURI, GHAZIABAD: Four days after violence erupted in Ghaziabad, the police are still clueless about what triggered the riot. According to  Abdul Qadir , the muezzin of the local mosque, he was misled about the contents of the FIR and the allegedly desecrated religious book has now been returned to him by the police. According to Qadir, the man who had written the complaint at the police station was his neighbour, Matik-ul-Rehman, and he is nowhere to be found now. "I can't read or write Hindi. The FIR was read out to me but the content was different from what I had said. Contrary to the FIR, I never saw torn pages being thrown out of the train at the Adhyatmik Nagar station," he said.

GHAZIABAD: Even though various reports have mentioned that the man who had made the complaint regarding defacement of a religious book, which led to riots in Masuri of Ghaziabad, has been  missing , TOI managed to track him down. The man, identified as Mateui-Ur-Rehman, has been living in the area from the past 16 years along with his father  Jalilu-Ur-Rehman , mother, wife and two daughters. He added that there was no question of him fleeing the area. Rehman also denied the version of the complaint with the police. "We came to know about defacement of the book at 1pm on Friday. The matter was raised before seniors of the colony and we went to the police station in the evening to lodge a complaint. While we narrated the sequence of events, a sub-inspector wrote it down. After the complaint was written, muezzin  Abdul Qadir  was the one who signed it," said Rehman. "The defaced religious book was found by some people, who had handed it over to Abdul Gaffar, a menta

LUCKNOW: The state government on Wednesday appointed  Feedback Infrastructure and Services Private Limited as consultants for developing the access-controlled, green-field, Northern Peripheral Road in Ghaziabad. The proposed 20 km four-lane stretch, extendable to six lanes, will be developed through the public private partnership (PPP) model. The government has also designated Ghaziabad Development Authority  (GDA) as the nodal agency for implementing the project at an estimated cost of Rs 440 crore. Ghaziabad town planner  SC Gaur said a period of 34 weeks has been fixed for the selection of the concessionaire for the project. Feedback Infrastructure has been asked to expedite the studies that are to be conducted on the project, its technical feasibility and financial viability. In addition, the consultant will also have to ensure that the entire bid process management system conforms to public private partnership (PPP) guidelines and other state government rules. GDA vic

Ghaziabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday submitted an application to the Ghaziabad court where it said a prosecution witness Kalpana Mandal has been won over by dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, who are key accused in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. The CBI also refused to question Mandal at the Ghaziabad court in connection to the case. Mandal worked as a maid at Aarushi's residence. "It has been learnt that prosecution witness Kalpana Mandal has been won over by the accused and is not going to support the prosecution case. Therefore, she is not to be examined," said the CBI in its application. Talwars lawyer Satyaketu Singh filed an application stating that the CBI refused to question Mandal “for the sole and oblique purpose of defeating the right of accused Nupur Talwar to seek bail”. According to reports, Mandal took a 10-day break in May 2008 and went to her home in West Bengal. She had referred a woman named Bharti to wo

NOIDA: A year after the Uttar Pradesh government laid down rules for developers and authorities under the  UP Apartment Act , 2010, which contains provisions meant for welfare of owners of housing units in residential societies, a petition has been filed by an Indirapuram resident in the Allahabad high court to ensure its strict implementation.  "Despite rules laid down by the state government under the Act, they are not being followed by developers and the  Ghaziabad Development Authority ," said Alok Kumar, the petitioner, resident of a housing society in Indirapuram. "In several instances, purchasers of flats are not given the amenities promised to them at the time of signing of the agreement with the developer," added Kumar.  The  PIL  has urged upon the court to ensure that developers submit the mandatory 16-point "form of declaration" as contained within the rules, which specifies all amenities to be made available to the purchaser of a housing un

Ghaziabad:  A 45-year-old woman, who was separated from her husband, was found dead in her sister's house in Vasundhara area on Thursday, police said. Police said the victim, Sunita Singh, was the estranged wife of Satyvir Singh. She had been living with her younger sister Vineeta Singh, employed with Delhi Police's women's cell, in Sector 2, Vasundhara. The death was discovered by Vineeta when she returned from office on Thursday and found her sister lying motionless in bed. She then informed police. "Sunita had been strangulated," said Circle Officer R.K. Pandey. Two years ago, an attempt had been made on the life of Sunita. Following the attack, she had left her husband's house and sought the safety of her sister's home. According to sources, Sunita's husband and adopted son had been exerting pressure on her to transfer the house she owned in Maliwara to them, but she had refused. Vineeta indicated to police that she suspected the duo's hand