Wife of Kingfisher employee commits suicide over salary woes

Wife of KFA employee commits suicide

New Delhi: The wife of an employee of crisis-ridden Kingfisher airlines on Thursday allegedly committed suicide, apparently depressed over financial stress due to non-payment of salary to her husband.

Susmita Chakarvarti (45), the wife of Manas Chakarvarti who is a ground staff in Kingfisher Airlines, was found hanging from the ceiling in her DDA flat in south-west Delhi's Manglapuri at around 1:30 PM.
  
She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead.
  
A suicide note purportedly written by her was recovered from the spot in which she spoke of being under financial stress due to non-payment of salary to her husband.
  
"In the note, she said that her husband has not got salary for the past four-five months and that she was unable to cope up with the situation," A K Ojha, Additional Commissioner of Police (South-West), told.

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No toll tax during peak hours on Gurgaon-Delhi Expressway till October 8

No toll on Gurgaon e-way till Oct 8

Chandigarh: Private vehicles plying on Delhi-Gurgaon expressway would continue to enjoy free ride during the peak hours as the Punjab and Haryana high court on on Wednesday ordered to maintain the status quo.

The Delhi-Gurgaon expressway concessionaire will collect toll tax from the motorists, except during the peak traffic hours of the day.

On the previous hearing on September 28, relaxing its earlier order dated September 4, when the concessionaire had been barred from collecting the toll tax, a Division Bench of Justices Satish Kumar Mittal and Inderjit Singh had ordered that no toll would be charged from 8.30am to 10am and from 5. 30pm to 7pm every day.

The orders had come into force from 7pm onwards from Friday last and after the Court's Wednesday's direction they will remain in force till October 8, when the court will again take up the case.

Taking U-turn near the Ambience Mall along the Expressway has been barred till the next hearing, the time till which the court will see what more steps are taken to decongest the vehicular traffic by the concessionaire.

On the previous hearing, the court pulled up Delhi Gurgaon Super Connectivity Limited (DGSCL), the concessionaire, for failing to find a solution to traffic chaos on the expressway.

The Delhi Municipal Corporation had earlier moved the court requesting permission for collection of toll tax from the commercial vehicles.

It had insisted that these vehicles were entering Delhi from Gurgaon side to avoid toll tax, resulting in more rush on the expressway and thus affecting the traffic even inside Delhi.

On September 4, the court had restrained the concessionaire from collecting toll tax after it found that the company had failed to find a solution to the traffic chaos during collection of the same.

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Sheila Dikshit to be inducted in Union Cabinet in next reshuffle?

Sheila to be inducted in Union Cabinet?

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has been given feelers by the party about a possible induction into the Union Cabinet.

Sources said Dikshit was given feelers a few months ago that she may be given a "new assignment" in the Centre.

Dikshit herself parried questions about feelers given to her maintaining she cannot say anything "till something happens".

The three-time Chief Minister said a final decision on the issue will be taken by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and that she will be happy to follow party's instructions.

"It is up to the high command to decide. I have no choice if such a decision is taken. There is a buzz that I will be moved to the Centre... I will follow what I am asked to do," Dikshit said.

The Chief Minister was invited to the Congress Working Committee meeting last month where she was given the responsibility of educating people in the city about benefits of FDI in retail.

Asked about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's comment on Sonia Gandhi's medical bills, Dikshit criticized him for making "distasteful" remarks.

"It was very distasteful. In politics one should not make personal attacks. I really found it distasteful," she said.

Addressing a rally at Jesar on Monday, Modi had targeted the Congress President by claiming that Rs 1880 crore has been spent from the public exchequer for her foreign trips. But later he offered to apologise if what he said was wrong.

Asked whether Arvind Kejriwal party will affect Congress in Delhi, she said it was too early to predict.

"It is very difficult to comment on it. It is difficult to prejudge anything. Let his party take shape," she said.

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