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 Duty calls 300 cops to secure DU during admissions |
| Delhi police will deploy about 300 of its personnel in the Delhi University area to check huge traffic and students’ rush, besides anti-social elements, during the admission season that begins from June 1. |
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| Women cops buckle up |
| In an encouraging initiative, the Delhi Police has decided to deploy women personnel from North-East States to provide special security to students of the ‘seven sisters’ during DU admissions. |
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| Nigerian imprisoned in drug case |
| A city court has awarded varying jail terms to a Nigerian and a resident of the Capital who were carrying over seven kilograms of contraband heroin here in 2008. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain awarded 12 years rigorous imprisonment to Yasin alias Pehalwan of Delhi besides imposing a fine of Rs 2.5 lakh on him for trafficking commercial quantity of the banned drug. |
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| Cops turn land grabbers Court order FIR |
| Sensing malafide intentions of grabbing the property of a widow in the Karawal Nagar area of North East Delhi, a city court has ordered registration of FIR against the SHO and Additional SHO of Khajoori Khas police station in North East Delhi area. |
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| Custody of blasts accused extended |
| A city court on Saturday extended by 28 days the judicial remand of five suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists accused of carrying out the serial blasts here on September 13 last year. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja sent accused Zeeshan Ahmed, Mohd Shakeel, Mohd Hakim, Saquib Nissar and Zia-Ur Rehman to further judicial remand till June 27. It also issued fresh production warrants against accused Mohd Saif, Mohd Sadiq Sheikh, Quamuddin Kapadia, Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, Mobin Kader Sheikh and Asif Bashir Sheikh for June 27. Saif, Sadiq and Quamuddin are in the custody of Gujarat police while Peerbhoy, Mobin and Asif are in Maharashtra for their alleged involvement in other cases. |
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| Faridabad boy tops AIEEE |
| Results of All India Engineering Entrance Examination were announced by Central Board of Secondary Education on Saturday. About 10 lakh students had appeared in the test conducted at around 1460 centres across the country. Nitin Jain from FIITJEE has topped the exam. It’s a double jackpot for him in 2009 as on 25th May he became All India Topper in IITJEE also. He is a resident of Faridabad and a student of Modern Vidya Niketan. |
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| Cool day for Delhi’ites |
| The weather in the Capital on Saturday remained pleasant as temperature came down by three notches to settle at 35.2 degrees Celsius. |
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| Trio stab, rob contractor |
| A 30-year-old man was stabbed and robbed of Rs 1.12 lakhs in south Delhi in broad daylight on Saturday by three men, police said. |
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| MCD puffs up its coffers |
| The cash-starved Municipal Corporation of Delhi has found some consolation from its employees in the anti-smoking drive that began recently. By challaning its own people among 608 other citizens, who were caught smoking in different offices of the civic body, including the Town Hall, the MCD has accumulated an amount of Rs 20,000. |
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| Speeding car kills 3 in auto-rickshaw |
| A speeding Hyundai Verna car bearing a VIP number plate became the death instrument for three persons who were travelling in an auto-rickshaw. The speeding car first rammed into a tree and than hit an auto from behind and dragged it for a distance in Hauz Khas area of south district in the wee hours on Saturday. |
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| 2 firemen killed in IGI drill |
| In a serious mishap at the Indira Gandhi International airport, two firemen were killed and three others injured when a fire tender they were using for a drill veered off the path at the new runway and fell into a drain. |