2nd n-plant at Kudankulam to restart generation soon
Chennai, June 27 (IANS): The second 1,000 MW unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) will restart generation soon, said a senior official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). The unit was under outage since June 25 afternoon due to control circuit malfunction, said Power System Operation Corporation Ltd (Posco). India’s atomic power plant operator, NPCIL has two 1,000 MW nuclear power plants at the KNPP built with Russian equipment. Every year, one third of the reactor’s 163 fuel assemblies, or 54 assemblies, would be replaced. This was the second refuelling cycle for Unit 1.
5 dead in Delhi fire
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS): Five persons, including a six-year-old girl, have died and four others injured in a fire that broke out in a slum here, the city police said on Tuesday. The fire broke out in a slum cluster in the Okhla Industrial Area around 10 p.m. on Monday. Nine people were trapped in the blaze, of whom five are dead. When th victims were rushed to the Safdarjung and ESI hospitals, four of them were declared brought dead, and the fifth died during treatment. The others have been admitted to the Intensive Care Units (ICU) of the hospitals. The fire broke out when a gas cylinder leaked in the slum cluster.
Private sector can play role in education sector: President
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS): President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the private sector can play a major role in improvement of the education sector in the country. “Right now, we are having 757 universities, 38,600 courses. Only few of them, some IITS and Bangalore’s Indian Institute of Science find place in top 200 universities and institutions of the world… Private sector can play a major role (in improving the education sector) as they have done in the healthcare system of this country,” Mukherjee said while addressing an award ceremony here. He added that Indian industries could not invest in the education sector despite major economic development in the country. Mukherjee felicitated renowned scientist Jayant Narlikar, social reformer Prakash Amte and Uday Kotak of Kotak Mahindra Bank among others for exhibiting exceptional leadership through pursuit of excellence at the event organised by the Indian Institute of Management – Lucknow and JK Organisation.
Head constable rapes daughter
Mathura, June 27 (PTI): A police head constable allegedly raped his married daughter at Mant police outpost on Yamuna Expressway here, police said today. The woman complained that her father, Head Constable Bijendra Singh, raped her in the intervening night of June 26 -27, they said. On her father’s suggestion, she stayed back at the police outpost where she was later raped by her father, according to the FIR in the matter. Bijendra is father of four while the victim, her daughter, is mother of two children. According to the FIR, her husband, who rushed to the police outpost from Chandigarh, after receiving his wife’s call, was also allegedly beaten up by his father-in-law. The DySP said, the head constable was arrested and suspended after the victim’s husband complained to SSP Vinod Kumar Mishra.
Woman’s naked body found in UP
Muzaffarnagar, June 27 (PTI): The naked body of a 28-year- old woman with multiple stab wounds was found in sugarcane fields near Batla village here today. It is suspected that she was raped by unidentified persons and then stabbed to death, Chaparasi police said. She had gone to the fields but did not return and later her body was found, they said. The body has been sent for postmortem and further investigations are underway, they added.
Haryana: 2 killed in road accident
Chandigarh, June 27 (PTI): Two persons were killed and another injured today when their motorcycle was hit by a bus on the national highway near Panipat district’s Machhrauli village. Police said those killed in the accident were in their 20s. A case has been registered against the driver of the bus, they said.
Father-son duo killed over land dispute
Chandigarh, June 27 (PTI): A 52-year-old man and his son were today shot dead allegedly by six persons over a land related dispute at Sit Meh Chuhian village in Tarn Taran district of Punjab. Mokham Singh and his son Davinder Singh (26) were shot dead by six persons of their village, SHO of Sadar Patti police station, Rajesh Kakkar said. A dispute was going on between the two groups on four acres of land in the village, he said. A case has been registered against the accused — Anup, Amandeep, Paramjit, Suba, Salwinder and Gurdev — on the charges of murder, the officer said.
Nine land grabbers booked under Gangster Act
Ghaziabad, June 27 (IANS): Nine men who grabbed other people’s land were on Tuesday booked here under the Gangster Act. On the strength of a police report, Ghaziabad District Magistrate Ministhy S. Nair ordered the application of the Gangster Act against the land grabbers. Eight of them were identified as Mohit Yadav, Sandeep Jaiswal, Prathvi Singh, Jitendra, Gopal, Vikas, Vicky and Gajendra. They were earlier arrested when the Samajwadi Party ruled Uttar Pradesh. In March 2016, these men, equipped with two bulldozers, attempted to grab some land situated in Budh Vihar in Ghaziabad. “This is the effective preventive measure to lock up the land grabbers in jail so that law and order is maintained in the state,” Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar.
39 IAS officers under scanner for alleged corruption
New Delhi, Jun 27 (PTI): As many as 39 IAS officers are under investigation for their alleged involvement in corruption and other irregularities. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), which acts as a nodal authority for Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, is conducting the proceedings, official sources said today. Besides the 39 IAS officers, 29 from the Central Secretariat Service are also facing disciplinary proceedings. Enquiries have started against the 68 officers, some of them working at a senior level, on the basis of complaints against them and also after reviewing their service records, the sources claimed. The central government is conducting a review of its staff as part of the governments efforts to further improve the service delivery and governance system. According to norms, a government employees performance is reviewed twice during service — 15 years after qualifying for the service and then after 25 years — to remove deadwood from the system. There are about 48.85 lakh central government employees, according to latest data.
