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Will look at Greater Noida airport project: Minister

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New Delhi: The government will look at building the Greater Noida airport to ease the infrastructure pressure on the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here, the newly appointed minister of state for civil aviation said Wednesday.

“We will look at the technical aspects of the Greater Noida airport, as it will ease the over-stretched infrastructure pressure on the IGI Airport here. A big metropolitan area like Delhi should have two airports to ease the pressure on the existing infrastructure,” Mahesh Sharma, minister of state for civil aviation and tourism, said here.

Sharma, who is the member of parliament from Gautam Budh Nagar for BJP, took charge here at the ministry of civil aviation at its headquarters at the Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan here.

The 55-year-old is a trained doctor and national convener of the medical cell of the BJP. He is also the chairman of Kailash Group of Hospitals.

In 2001, the then UP chief minister Rajnath Singh proposed the idea of an airport located in Greater Noida. Later, governments including those of Mayawati, proposed the project be set up in Jewar, near Greater Noida.

However, the incumbent UP government scrapped the project, citing a clause that bars development of a second airport within a 150-km radius of an existing one.

According to Sharma, the ministries of civil aviation and tourism should work together and their policies should be supplementary to each other to bring in more in-bound visitors.

“Civil aviation and tourism should work together and their policies need to enhance each other so that more visitors can be brought in India. Air India’s role in bringing in foreign visitors is also of utmost importance,” Sharma said.

 

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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