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डॉ. राजेंद्र प्रसाद जन्मदिन मनाया

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। 

NH 24-Link Road T-point turns major bottleneck

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

CBI files charge-sheet against Pradeep Shukla

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,

Bharatiya Kisan Union continues siege of Dasna toll bridge

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

Ghaziabad man arrested for putting wife on gamble

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