Khora Colony (Ghaziabad)

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 m...

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 ru...

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...

The Indian arm of Honda Motor Company, the Japanese multinational automotive marque, has convened a new strategy to sustain its loyal clients by shelling out jaw dropping discounts and schemes. Honda Cars India luring Indian buyers with Re 1 insurance scheme   Honda Cars India is luring Indian car enthusiasts by doling out enticing insurance offers on both its entry-level and premium offerings in the car market. Indian buyers can now avail a Re 1 insurance plan on the purchase of Honda cars like the Brio hatchback and City, Civic and Accord saloons. Interestingly, the actual cost of the insurance schemes for the mentioned Honda cars fall in the range between Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 60,000. Further, the company has also devised new loyalty bonus schemes to retain its faithful customers. Accordingly, the Honda car owners, who are eyeing an upgrade from their current vehicle to another member of the same family, will be provided with a bonus concession along with the buy ba...

Lenovo's latest ultrabook,  ThinkPad X1 Carbon , is now in India priced at Rs 85,000.  The Chinese computer-maker  also said it plans to scale up its Think range of exclusive retail outlets to 30 in the domestic market. Lenovo shaved the 14-inch (35.5 centimeter)  laptop computer's weight to 1.3 kilograms  from 1.7 kilograms of last year's model and claims it to be the world's lightest business Ultrabook. According to the company, it would have up to eight hours of battery life and the startup time was reduced by as much as half to under 20 seconds. Lenovo Group acquired the ThinkPad brand with IBM Corp's personal computer unit in 2005.  "Currently, we have two  exclusive Think Business Stores  at Jaipur and Pune. We put up only Think products in these stores based on customer feedback. We now aim to put across 30 such stores," Lenovo India MD Amar Babu said. Babu, however, did not offer a timeline for the rollout of these stores. Besides, the ...

NEW DELHI: Reserve Bank today said the liquidity situation currently is comfortable and indicated that monetary policy action in the forthcoming mid-quarterly review next week would depend on latest developments in the money market. "For the last several weeks..., liquidity levels have been within our comfort zone... (but) we monitor this on a daily basis", Reserve Bank Deputy Governor  Subir Gokarn  told reporters on the sidelines of a function here. RBI, he added, would take note of emergence of "signs of stress, particularly if they are likely to be persistent. We will take that into account...we have for quite some time realised there was stress in the market both in terms of quantity of LAF (Liquidity Adjustment Facility) borrowings and in terms of the behaviour of the call rate which is the number we look at. There are no signs of stress at the moment". The central bank, in its mid-quarterly review of monetary policy to be announced on September 17,...

New Delhi: More than 42 million people in India have fallen prey to cybercrime in the past 12 months, suffering about USD 8 billion in direct financial losses, estimates a report by security solutions firm Norton. The 'Norton Cybercrime Report 2012' found, based on experiences of more than 13,000 adults across 24 countries (including 1,000 from India), said direct costs associated with global consumer cybercrime are pegged at USD 110 billion over the past twelve months.  "In India, it is estimated that more than 42 million people fell victim to cybercrime in the past 12 months, suffering approximately USD 8 billion in direct financial losses," it said.  According to the report, 66 per cent of the Indian respondents (online adults) said they have been a victim of cybercrime in their lifetime. In the past 12 months, 56 per cent said they have experienced cybercrimes.  The average direct financial cost per victim of USD 192 has also gone up 18 per cent over 2011, w...

Ghaziabad:  The parents of the 7-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by her school bus driver and cleaner, took out a protest on Sunday seeking action against the principal of the school. The girl's parents and the families of other children who attend the school, gathered outside the school gate and attended the protest march which ended at Indirapuram police station. They raised slogans against the school management and threatened to continue with the protest on Monday if a case was not registered against the principal and the in-charge of the transport company which provided the bus to the school. SP City Shiv Shankar Yadav said probe in the case is being headed by the Circle Officer, Indirapuram. "Legal action would be initiated against anyone found guilty in the investigation," he said. A Class I girl student was allegedly raped by the driver and the conductor of the school bus over a period of nearly 15 days. On the complaint lodged by the girl...

इंदिरापुरम में काला पत्थर से मंगल बाजार चौक तक अतिक्रमण से निजात नहीं मिल पा रही है। कुछ दिन पहले ही जीडीए की टीम ने यहां पर बड़े पैमाने पर अतिक्रमण हटाने की कार्रवाई की थी, मगर कुछ दिन बाद यहां दुकानदारों ने फिर से उसी तरह से अतिक्रमण कर लिया है। अतिक्रमण रोकने के लिए जीडीए की ओर से रेलिंग लगाने का प्रपोजल भेजा गया है। अप्रूवल नहीं मिलने से काला पत्थर से मंगल बाजार चौक तक रेलिंग का काम शुरू नहीं हो पाया है।  जीडीए के ओएसडी डी. पी. सिंह की देखरेख में अतिक्रमण हटाया गया था। अब फिर से दुकानदारों ने उसी तरह से सड़क पर अपने सामान फैलाना शुरू कर दिया है। काला पत्थर से मंगल बाजार चौक तक कई दर्जन दुकानदार गाडि़यों की रिपेयरिंग करते हैं। वे सड़कों पर ही अपने सामान फैलाकर रख देते हैं जिससे सड़क की एक लेन पर उनका कब्जा हो जाता है। दूसरी लेन पर बाइक और कारें पार्क कर चले जाते हैं। इससे अन्य वाहन चालकों और पैदल चलने वालों को परेशानी होती है। फुटपाथ पर कब्जा रहने से पैदल चलने वालों को सबसे ज्यादा समस्या होती है। 

Delhi-Ghaziabad route to be decongested Ghaziabad:  The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA), in its 130th board meeting Monday, approved an elevated road project to shorten the distance between Delhi and Ghaziabad, officials said. The ambitious project concerns building an elevated road from UP gate (on the National Highway 24) to the Northern peripheral Expressway passing through the Hindon-cut canal in the Vaishali, Vasundhara and Raj Nagar Extension areas in Ghaziabad. "The project would cost between Rs.750 to 800 crore but would sharply cut the distance between Delhi and Ghaziabad," said Satosh Yadav, chairman-cum-vice chairman of the authority.At present, the UP gate is over 30 km from the zero point of Northern Expressway but after the construction of the proposed elevated road, the distance would be shortened to 18 km and that too hassle-free without any red light and crossing. It would hardly take 10 minutes from the city to UP gate which would be nearer...