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Dharna against Cong leader's
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of blind Divya, Deepak win rangoli
competition Polio awareness rally
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Farmers suffer in
miller-FCI feud Fatehabad, November 7 The dispute, which is now more than a week old, could not be resolved even after a meeting of the millers with senior officials of the FCI at Chandigarh on Wednesday. While the millers at Rattia have decided to close their mills till the resolution of their problems, those at Fatehabad and other mandis of the district have been refusing paddy for custom milling. The stand-off has hit farmers the most. Neither the government agencies nor private millers are purchasing as required. The condition of “muchhal” basmati is the worse. This variety, sold for Rs 900-950 per quintal a week ago, is not selling for even as low as Rs 750 a quintal. The FCI has been rejecting the custom-milled rice of the millers for the past few days. While the millers allege highhandedness on the part of FCI authorities, sources in the FCI say millers have been trying to push in rice below the specifications. The millers are obliged to supply 67 kg of custom-milled rice against one quintal of paddy sent to them. Rice with damage above 2 per cent or that with damaged “pinpoint” is not accepted by the FCI. The paddy coming to the markets, the millers allege, is of inferior quality. That is the reason why they are not able to comply with the specifications. Millers have gone on strike at Rattia and have threatened they would not accept paddy for milling till the FCI changes its “autocratic” attitude. Under the circumstances, farmers are the worst sufferers. Many have been waiting in different mandis for the past ten days. However, a local trader says farmers are equally to blame. They bring in paddy with moisture content higher than specified. Even if government agencies are willing to purchase a particular lot that does not meet the specifications, millers accompanying the officials refuse to oblige because at the end of the day it is they who have to suffer. |
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Need to promote Sanskrit
stressed Fatehabad, November 7 Mr Vishnu Bhagwan, a former Chief Secretary, Haryana, and Vice-Chancellor of Guru Jambeshwar University, Hisar, was the chief guest. Dr Chander Trikha, Director of the Haryana Sahitya Akademi, Dr R.B. Langyan, Deputy Commissioner, a known scholar of Sanskrit, and a number of scholars of the language from Haryana and Himachal Pradesh were present on the occasion. The speakers emphasised the need for reviving Sanskrit. They said it was the language of the ‘devas’. They suggested that at least one member of each family should learn Sanskrit as it made a man susanskrit (cultured). The speakers said Sanskrit was linked with our identity as all our ‘karamkands’ at the time of birth, marriage or death were performed in this language. Later, a kavi sammelan was organised. Poets like Dr Saraswat Mohan Manishi and Mohinder Varma from Delhi, Madhav Kaushik from Chandigarh, Archana Thakur and Manjit Singh from Faridabad, Madan Lal Varma from Kurukshetra, and Satyendra Sharma, Anil Rakeshi, Gautam Vyathit, Avtar N Gill, O. P. Saraswat and Chatur Singh from Himachal Kala, Sanskrit and Bhasha Akademi, Shimla, recited poems. Pustak puruskaars of the Haryana Sahitya Akademi for 2002-03 were conferred on Dr Saraswat Mohan Manishi for poetry, Sweety for story writing, K.P. Singh for article writing, Rajinder Nishesh for satire and Ghamandi Lal Aggarwal for children’s literature. Dr Rohini was given the first prize for Hindi story competition 2002-03. Kumar Sharma ‘Anil’ got the second prize while Praduman Bhalla won the third prize in the competition. Later, talking to mediapersons, Dr Chander Trikha said Haryana had five academies for languages and culture, namely the Haryana Sahitya Akademi, Haryana Punjabi Akademi, Haryana Urdu Akademi, Haryana Sanskrit Akademi and Haryana Sanskritik Akademi. He said the state government planned to set up a Sanskrit Kala Bhavan at Kurukshetra. The construction of a Sanskrit bhavan at the Mansa Devi is also under way. The Bhavan will be constructed at a cost of Rs.4.5 crore and house offices of all five academies. Dr Trikha said the Haryana Sahitya Akademi had started giving cash prize of Rs 1 lakh to those writers who manages to publish 10 editions of their books. He said the akademi had been giving grant-in-aid in publications. |
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Bapu travelled on Kalka-Shimla
rail section Ambala, November 7 The rail motor cars on the Kalka-Shimla rail section have the unique distinction of bringing Mahatma Gandhi in 1945 to Shimla. “Mahatma Gandhi was going to hold talks with Lord Wavel, the, then, Viceroy, about the British plans for leaving India. He travelled in the rail motor cars of 1927 vintage,” a railway official said. The official said while one rail motor car was given a facelift in May, 1997, the second rail motor car was given a makeover in May, 1999. Both these now ran as delux rail motor cars, with special features like wall to wall carpet, well-designed cushions, transparent roof to offer overhead view of mountains and route indication board, besides VCR and television facility. The 96.5-km-long Kalka-Shimla narrow gauge railway line was built in 1903 during the reign of Lord Curzon by the erstwhile Delhi-Ambala-Kalka railway company and commissioned for service by the former North-Western Railway at an initial cost of Rs 1.75 crore. The railway line was primarily built to connect Shimla, the then summer capital of India with Kalka, the last broad gauge station and figures in the Limca Book of Records for its steep rise. “When Mahatma Gandhi travelled on the Kalka-Shimla rail section, the special features were not available,” the official said. “Since those days, a considerable improvement has been made in the system,” he added. For enhanced safety, all turnouts on running lines on the entire section have been provided with the William stretcher bar. Nearly 6,000 wooden sleepers have been replaced with ST sleepers and to avoid accidents with road vehicles, flasher lights have been provided at level crossing 4 A and 5 A. “Speed has been raised from 10 to 15 kmph for running through via main line side of turnouts at 10 stations, including Taksal, Gumman, Koti, Dharampur, Kumarhatti, Solan, Kandaghat, Kanoh, Kathleeghat and Shoghi,” the official said. The Guinness Book of Rail Facts and Feats has described the Kalka-Shimla section as the greatest narrow gauge engineering in India. The track was commissioned on November 9, 1903. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, November 7 Saran, earlier posted as the Managing Director of Haryana Financial Corporation, was initially booked in alleged loan scam registered under Section 406, 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code, besides under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Another case was registered on July 19 last year. Claiming to have been implicated, the petitioner had asserted that there was no evidence against him. He was not even named in the first information report (FIR) registered in the matter. MDU admission Accepting the prayer of candidates seeking admission to medical courses, a Division Bench directed Maharshi Dayanand University at Rohtak to provisionally admit them to first year of MBBS or BDS course strictly in accordance with merit vis-a-vis other candidates who may not have approached the court. Pronouncing the orders, Mr Justice G.S. Singhvi and Mr Justice Nirmal Singh observed: “Keeping in view the assertion made by the petitioners that a number of candidates with lower merit have been admitted in MBBS and BDS course, we deem it proper to accept the prayer of the applicants in the petition and similar prayer in other petitions and direct the respondent to provisionally admit them to first year.” |
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UHBVN told to probe impugned
bill Panchkula, November 7 Naresh Kumar, a resident of
Barwala, had approached the consumer forum alleging that he was sent a power bill of Rs 37,203 for five months in 2001 when his average bi-monthly bill was between Rs 150 to Rs 1,000. He said he was sanctioned a domestic load of 0.5 KW and the excess bill was delivered to him after he had got his single phase meter replaced. He alleged that he had approached the SDO,
UHBVN, Barwala, several times with a request to check the record and accounts, so that the disputed bill could be rectified, but to no avail. The UHBVN authorities, however, contended before the forum that the bills of the complainant were prepared on the basis of average of bills prepared by him between November 1998 to September 2001. They also contended that they had already refunded him Rs 12,318. However, the UHBVN was unable to prove that they had refunded the money to the complainant and thus they had been held guilty of deficiency in services and thus the complainant was allowed compensation. |
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Dharna against Cong leader's
arrest Kaithal, November 7 A large number of people from different parts of the district turned out to participate in the dharna. The DCC passed a resolution demanding the withdrawal of the false cases registered against Mr Jai Parkash and other Congress workers. |
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Hooda urges CM to concede demands
of blind Chandigarh, November 7 Mr Hooda said the agitators had educated themselves and got graduate and post graduate degrees despite their blindness. Now the state government must not turn them down when they were asking for their rightful share, the Congress leader said. |
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Divya, Deepak win rangoli
competition Ambala, November 7 There were two categories in the competition. In the middle school category, Divya of SD Public School stood first, Ravneet Kaur of Angel Public School came second while Mukul of PKR Jain Senior Secondary School came third. Shivani of PKR Jain School won the consolation prize. In the senior school category, Deepak of Asa Ram Public School stood first while Upasna Batra of the same school stood second. Saloni Gupta of SD Public School came third. The consolation prize went to Avneet Kaur of Ambala Public School. |
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Polio awareness rally Ambala, November 7 Dr P.C. Ahuja said no case of polio was detected in Ambala. He said polio drops must be given to all children in the age group of 0-5 years. Sewa Samiti School bagged the running trophy. Prizes were won by Rotary School for Deaf and Dumb, Jain Senior Secondary School, Darshan Academy and Sewa Samiti School.
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