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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Engineer dies 'eating pastry'

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A pastry-eating competition in the canteen of a multinational IT company in Udyog Vihar cost a young engineer his life on Wednesday afternoon. Twenty-two-year-old Saurabh Sabharwal, who reportedly choked to death, was found unconscious in the washroom after having eaten many pastries. He was rushed to a private hospital where the doctors declared him dead.

R.K. Sabharwal, father of Saurabh who was a solution engineer with Nokia-Siemens Network, blamed the company for organising the competition. "Why did they have to organise such a competition?" he said. An official from Nokia-Siemens Network present at Max Hospital refused to speak to HT.

In his statement to the police, R.K. Sabharwal said he received a call at 2.35 p.m. that his son was not well and had been rushed to Max Hospital in Gurgaon. "When I reached the hospital, I was told he had died.

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Friday, September 26, 2008

More expensive than London, worse off than Patna

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The reason for Gurgaon’s power crisis is simple: it needs 1700 MW of electricity but gets a little less than 1200.

The effects of this three-digit shortfall – altogether 525 MW – are more complicated. It means that the 16 lakh residents of Millennium City have to go without electricity for 6-8 hours everyday .

Most residents are helpless, but those who can afford it, opt for captive power plants. And pay through their noses: “We cough up Rs 11.40 per unit for uninterrupted power. As honest taxpayers, we feel short-changed by the government,” says Rajender Sharma, a businessman living in DLF Phase IV .

The more than 250 national and international Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms in the city, as also the 2200 industrial units, also have to depend on diesel gensets.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Now in Gurgaon, call cops by SMS, complain online

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Gurgaon Police on Tuesday launched a "citizen-centric automated online policing system" that they claimed is superior to the Delhi Police's. You can now register your complaints online without visiting a police station, expect to get a printed copy of your FIR instead of a handwritten one, and call the police by simply sending them a text message from your mobile phone.

Gurgaon top cop Mohindar Lal announced the tech upgrades in his force on the first anniversary of the commissionerate policing system in the township.

Complaints can be registered - and the status of old complaints checked - on the web site www.gurgaonpolice.net. Apart from calling the conventional police emergency number 100, citizens can also send an SMS to 9717595423 to report a crime. The system is already functional, Lal said.

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Hired a Nepali servant? Do verification on your own

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The Delhi Police have never ever sent any request to their counterparts in Nepal to check the antecedents of people from that country working as servants in homes across the Capital.

This revelation, from a top officer in Nepal Police, to some extent dilutes the Delhi Police's servant verification drive, which they claim acts as an effective deterrent to crimes committed by domestic helps. According to estimates of various placement agencies, there are up to 10,000 Nepali citizens working as servants in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon and other NCR areas. And there is no way you can check if they are clean.

Devendra Subedi, SP (Crime Branch), Nepal Police, told Hindustan Times that the Delhi Police have never contacted them till date to verify the antecedents of Nepali citizens working as domestic helps in India. "In fact, no Indian police organisation has ever made such a request," he said.


India and Nepal allow each other's citizens to work in their countries without a work permit, an arrangement India does not have with any other country However, there is no arrangement to verify the antecedents of such citizens.

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Monday, December 10, 2007

Hospital shocker in Gurgaon

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AN ALLEGED goof up by the nursing staff of the state-run Civil Hospital in Gurgaon led a pregnant lady to deliver her baby in the lawns of the hospital on Sunday evening. The new born died in the absence of expert care, the woman's husband alleged.

The hospital authorities have instituted an in-house enquiry into the matter and have promised to take stern actions against the guilty .

"My wife went into labour at about 2.00 pm on Sunday and I rushed her to Civil Hospital at about 3.00pm. The nursing staff initially admitted her and started diagnosing. Immediately after examining my her, the staff told us to go to some other hospital, preferably to some private hospital in Gurgaon or Delhi," Sundri's husband, Mangla, said.

He claimed that the attending nursing staff gave conflicting versions on his wife's condition. "Someone said the baby was in a serious condition, while others said the baby was probably stillborn. I then brought my wife to the hospital lawns where I left her to look for some transport to take her to another hospital. In the meantime she delivered the baby, who died within a few minutes, added Mangla.
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Article taken from the issue: 10 Dec, 2007

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