Delhi Police to verify ownership of motorcycles

October 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With an aim to make Delhi Traffic Police motorcycles more visible on the city roads, the department has decided to fit them with flashers and blinkers, a police official said Wednesday. "We have 410 Bajaj-Pulsar motorbikes which chase and prosecute for violations of traffic rules and regulations.

September 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Four motorcyclists have been arrested here for their alleged involvement in a series of robberies across the national capital, police said Monday. Sleuths of the crime branch's anti-robbery cell arrested Chandrabhan, Amit, Santosh Kumar and Chandra Mohan from Sadar Bazar area in north Delhi Sunday and seized two country-made firearms, four live cartridges and two motorcycles from their possession.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An auto lifters' gang operating in the south Delhi area was busted here Sunday with the arrest of six people, police said. The leader of the gang, Manoj Kumar alias Thakur, 22, and his accomplices Manoj alias Jagga, 22, Shashank, 19, Dipanker, 24 - all residents of south Delhi - as well as Ajeet Kumar, 21, and Sanjay Kumar, 22, residents of Ghaziabad and Baraut in Uttar Pradesh were arrested Sunday.

May 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two-wheeler manufacturer Yamaha Motors, which last year expanded its portfolio to include premium bikes, has recorded a 48 percent surge in sales last month. The company sold 15,120 motorcycles in April 2009 as compared to 10,199 sold in the corresponding month last year, it said in a statement Friday.

April 8th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Seven teenagers, four of whom are students of Delhi schools, have been caught by the police here for stealing vehicles and six motorcycles were recovered from them, an official said Wednesday. Circle Officer Rahul Srivastava said the gang was busted when police officials signalled a two-wheeler to stop at Dabur crossing in Ghaziabad's Indirapuram locality Tuesday night, but the rider tried to flee instead.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hero Honda, India's largest two-wheeler manufacturer, Thursday said the launch of the Rs.100,000 Nano will not eat into the two-wheeler market. 'There will be no impact of Nano on the two-wheeler market,' Hero Honda managing director and chief executive Pawan Munjal told reporters on the sidelines of the annual conference of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - For any traffic related problem in the capital call 1095. 'A four digit number has been allotted to Delhi traffic police and commuters can easily get in touch with the traffic police,' Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S Dadwal told reporters.

March 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two young men who worked part-time for foreign banks as loan facilitators have been arrested here for stealing four motorcycles on a single day to finance their lavish lifestyle, the police said Monday. Delhi Police's Crime Branch arrested Sumit, 23, and Puneet Verma, 22, Sunday evening while they were moving on a stolen motorbike in the city's Rohini Sector 3 area.

February 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The finance ministry Tuesday tabled a bill in parliament that seeks to empower the government to fix the authorised and paid-up capital of the subsidiaries of the State Bank of India (SBI) and to appoint its top management. The bill was necessitated after the ownership of these subsidiaries of India's largest commercial bank was transferred to the government from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which is also the regulator for the banking industry in the country.

February 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Bihar cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Friday moved the Delhi High Court seeking custody of Lotika Sarkar, former Delhi University Law Faculty head, who he alleged has been taken by some people to Mumbai. Nirmal Dhondial, IPS officer, in his petition alleged that the octogenarian Sarkar has been taken by Mathew Allure and his wife and daughter to Mumbai.

February 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Monday doubled its existing fleet of 200 traffic police motorcycles and 50 multi-tasking Police Control Room (PCR) vehicles presently deployed to chase and prosecute traffic offenders in the capital. Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S.

February 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi Traffic Police has issued 114,365 tickets for various violations on the roads of the capital during a special drive Feb 1-13, officials said Saturday. 'We have ticketed 20,855 people for improper parking and 19,443 for red light jumping.

January 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi Police has been advised to take immediate steps to ensure the safety of senior citizens in the national capital, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Saturday.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal Friday said the capital's police is going to launch an intensive traffic drive Feb 1 and intensify penalizing people for traffic violations.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The standing committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi Wednesday passed the resolution that 15,000 properties owned by its slum department would be transferred on an ownership basis to the occupants - the 1947 partition refugees. The matter was pending in the committee since November last year and the approval of ownership transfer is a blessing in disguise for many of these refugees who struggle to make ends meet.