Orkut traces missing teen

Scoring less than expected marks in CBSE Class XII examination made him run away from his house in Delhi but a scrap he sent to his friend on Orkut helped police to track him.

The police had last week tracked Siddhant Singh, the 18-year-old son of a Special Cell sub-inspector, who went missing on May 22, the day when the result for Class XII was announced.

The teenager, who ran away from his house in Geeta Colony here, was tracked to Ambala with the help of a friend on a social networking site who got in touch with his family, who then informed the police.

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Students throng Urdu, Punjabi language counselling session

To guide students planning to study Punjabi and Urdu languages, Delhi Minorities Commission, in association with Punjabi Helpline, an NGO, and the Urdu and Punjabi departments of the Delhi University organised a counselling session-cum-workshop at the conference centre in North Campus.

A platform for interaction between students and members of the Commission, heads of concerned departments and principals of various colleges, the session was attended by more than 200 aspirants and parents.

Talking about the origin of the idea, Pushpinder Singh, member of Delhi Minorities Commission, said: “The issue was raised in the Sikh advisory committee meeting of the Minorities Commission on the grounds that languages are not being promoted and encouraged.”

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8-year-old stabs friend during a game of catch

Haseena Bano could have never imagined she would lose her six-year-old son in an argument over a game of catch, right outside her home.

An eight-year-old boy allegedly stabbed Miraj, a student of Ganga Memorial Public School, after quarrelling over who would fetch the ball. The incident took place on Sunday night in southeast Delhi’s Tuglakabad Extension colony .

According to the police, the accused slit Miraj’s throat in a fit of rage. “Miraj threw the ball down the stairs and this made the accused angry said ,” a police officer.

The quarrel took an ugly turn when the accused took Miraj inside his parents’ single-room flat and began brandishing a kitchen knife at him.

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Dawood brother handles hawala network

Mafia don Dawood Ibrahim’s younger brother, Mustakeen, has taken over the entire hawala network of D-Company. The hawala route is used by D-Company to fund terror activities in India.

Though the hawala network has been handed over to Mustakeen, Dawood Ibrahim continues to control both the drug trafficking and fake currency networks of D-Company.

An official of the Intelligence Bureau revealed that “at present DCompany’s hawala operation is being controlled from three centres in India — Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh), Delhi and Mumbai”. The entire operation is monitored from Nepal. The organised crime kingpins have set up a so called “central monitoring system” in the Himalayan kingdom. Mustakeen, whose whereabouts continue to remain unknown to the security agencies, is in charge of this “monitoring system” in Nepal, IB sources said.

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Japan will loan $1billion for metro in Chennai

The first beneficiary of the coming together of the “samurai” and the “swami” will be the Chennai metro, for which Japan will give a $1 billion loan.

Japan will also extend a soft loan of $4.5 million over three years as part of the first tranche of funding for the 1,469-km Mumbai Delhi western freight corridor from Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Mumbai to Tughlaqabad near Delhi.

The move to invest in the southern city as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here Tuesday on a three-day visit to Japan is certain to give a fillip to bilateral relations. Indian officials openly acknowledge they owe the Taro Aso government in Japan a “debt of gratitude” for unreservedly backing the NSG waiver for India in Vienna.

Chennai’s connection to Japan stems not just from superstar Rajnikanth, whose films are dubbed in Japanese and hugely popular here. This country is also the major donor to war-torn Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, where New Delhi has huge stakes.

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And Quiet go the Festive Flames- Normal turnout for Dussehra

Dussehra celebrations on Thursday saw a maximum crowd come out to see the effigies of Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Meghnad being set ablaze. Firecrackers lit up the Delhi sky at sundown, as families watched under heavy police cover. The Ramlilas had seen a smaller turnout for the first nine days following the blasts last month.

Satish Verma, joint military secretary of the Indraprastha Volunteer Board, said more than 80,000 people had come to see the final day of the Ramlila. “Today we saw a normal turnout, a turnout that we have come to expect at the Shri Dharmik Lila grounds. The last few days had seen a sharp drop in footfall.” The grounds saw a high security cover as political figures such as Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna among others came to see the Dussehra celebrations.

Prabhat Dayal brought his three-year-old son especially to see the Ramlila procession that winds through the Chandni Chowk, Nai Sarak and Sitaram Bazar area before reaching the Ramlila grounds. “The savari is an integral part of the Ramlila experience in Old Delhi,” he said.

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