Old Parl renamed Samvidhan Sadan
New Delhi, Sep 19: The old Parliament building will now be known as ‘Samvidhan Sadan’, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Tuesday as the functioning of Parliament shifted to its new building here. Earlier, at a function held in the Central Hall of the old Parliament building, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested that the iconic building should be renamed “Samvidhan Sadan”. “The Speaker, Lok Sabha is pleased to notify the building previously known as Parliament House and situated on Plot Number 116, New Delhi with Lok Sabha Marg to the north-west and Rajya Sabha Marg to the south-west, to be, hereon, designated as the Samvidhan Sadan”, said a notification issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Modi noted that the shift to the new Parliament building was happening on the auspicious day of Ganesh Chaturthi. “My suggestion is that as we are going to the new building, the glory of this building should never decline. It should not be called just the old Parliament… It can be named Samvidhan Sadan,” Modi said. (PTI)
Cops booked
for shooting criminal dead
Faridabad, Sep 19: A sub-inspector and his team were booked on Tuesday after the family of a man, killed in a police encounter, accused them of murder, officials said. This comes three days after the encounter and a day after a panchayat was held at Pakhal village demanding the registration of a murder case against the cops, and met a Union minister and a senior Congress leader in the matter. An FIR has been registered against Sub-Inspector Rakesh Kumar, head of Sector 48 crime unit, and his team under sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC at Dhauj police station, said Sube Singh, spokesperson of Faridabad Police. According to police, the deceased, Balraj alias Balwinder alias Ballu of Pavata Mahabatabad village is a criminal wanted by police in multiple cases of robbery. He was shot dead in a brief police encounter on Saturday while two of his associates were arrested after the incident. (PTI)