Новости за 17.11.2016

It is a proud moment for Noida as an employee of Noida Authority, a former Mr Uttar Pradesh 2012 and runners-up Mr India the same year, Chanderpal Sharma, has earned an invitation to travel to Germany to represent India in the upcoming championship of International Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation (IBFF)’s Mr Universe 2016 to be held between November 25 to 27th at Hamburg.

There was no let-up in the rush in front of the banks and ATMs even a week after the demonetisation process. Local residents thronged banks right from the morning, only to wither away in the afternoon as most banks did not get cash till 12.30pm.

A 55-year old woman who fell from a bike succumbed to her injuries while being shifted from a hospital in Ghaziabad to Delhi. Her son alleged the private hospital in Ghaziabad had referred her to Delhi because he had run out of cash. The hospital denied the charge and said it had done so because the patient’s injuries were critical.

Employees of Noida Toll Bridge Company Ltd (NTBCL), the operator of DND flyway, protested outside the company’s office on Thursday against the termination letters issued to them in the wake of the Allahabad high court scrapping the toll.

On a day the government increased the cash withdrawal limit for farmers to Rs 25,000 per week, crop growers in Gautam Budh Nagar warned the measure might not be adequate because the sowing season is already under way and farmers have not been able to procure enough seeds because of the cash crunch.

Residents of Gautam Budh Nagar may soon be allowed to pay their arrears for essential municipal services with the demonetized currency. The three authorities of the district forwarded a proposal to the state government for the same on Thursday, seeking permission to collect arrears and advance payments of water charges, transfer charges, compounding fees, advertising and hoarding fees and rent for properties in the old tenders of Rs 500 and Rs 1000.

Breaking the myth that policing in highly urbanised cities is better, the Gautam Budh Nagar district has topped the list of places that witnessed the highest number of loot cases this year.

In a bid to keep construction work flowing and not be affected by the cash crunch, few builders have started distributing free meals to labourers to keep them engaged on site. Most builders have not been able to pay their workers over last one week due to the currency crisis. Usually, contract labourers on daily wages are usually paid in cash on a daily basis.

A 52-year-old businessman died when an SUV hit his scooterette at the DPS crossing in Ghaziabad on Wednesday night. The victim, Anil Kumar Tyagi, was one of the owners of a farm house - Cloud Nine - on Meerut Road.

As many as four earthquakes, including the one witnessed in the wee hours of Thursday, have rocked Gurgaon in the past two months, but the government authorities continue to be lax when it comes to implementing the much-needed disaster management plan.

While demonetisation has helped the MCG and power discom DHBVN fill their coffers as defaulters are settling dues with old currency notes, the move has hit hard one of the state government’s main sources of revenue — property registrations. Despite the government accepting old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes for property registrations till November 23, officials said the number of registries has reduced by more than 80% since the cash ban.

Demonetisation has sprung up a new syndicate of touts, who hire labourers to stand in queue and exchange currency for the rich on commission. Many people — salaried and self-employed — are getting their money exchanged every day for costs ranging between Rs 400-1,000.

It began with factory owners in the city, who were sending their workers to stand in serpentine queues at banks to exchange demonetised notes with new ones on their behalf. Now, landlords are banking on their tenants for the job. Several home-owners in the city, who rent out their property to tenants but accept rent in cash so that they do not have to show the rent as taxable income, were rattled by the Prime Minister’s sudden announcement that old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes will no longer be valid. Читать дальше...

Soon, you may have to shell out a lot more for violations like drunk driving, for which the fine could be increased five times from Rs 2,000 now to Rs 10,000 if amendments proposed to the Motor Vehicles Act go through in the assembly.

Little did Nirmala Devi (35) know what fate had in store for her, as she reached the Punjab National Bank branch near Fountain Chowk in Civil Lines in the afternoon on Thursday. Carrying Rs 1.87 lakh in cash packed in a polythene bag, she planned to deposit Rs 1.83 lakh in her account and exchange notes worth Rs 4,000.

Two Toda tribes threatened to immolate themselves on Wednesday when the forest officials attempted to evict the tribes from the reserve forest land near Ooty.

A 50-year-old man who suffered a major tear on his major blood vessel that supplies blood to the rest of the body, had his aorta replaced and aortic valve repaired at Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital (KMCH).

Rabi crops which are usually planted post Gurupurab may be affected because of the ongoing currency crunch.

In a bid to keep construction work flowing and not be affected by the cash crunch, a handful of builders have started distributing free meals to labourers to keep them engaged on site.

Arunvir Singh, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) on Thursday took stock of the 165-km Yamuna expressway, which continues to witness scores of accidents. Singh convened a meeting with officials of the Jaypee group, the concessionaire of the high-speed stretch and adopted a tough stance against incomplete infrastructure requirements along the e-way. He further warned of strict action if corrective methods to reduce accidents are not implemented by the operator within the next fortnight. Читать дальше...