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Chautala raises minimum limit of coop loans
Panipat, November 17
The Haryana Government has decided to raise the minimum limit of cooperative loans from Rs 60,000 to Rs 85,000 of such loanees who are paying their loan on time. Besides, one per cent rebate would be given to them in the interest.
Power theft not only an offence, but a social evil: Chautala
Sonepat, November 17
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, has said power theft is not only an offence under the law but a social evil also as it hits hard honest electricity consumers in the state.
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break: Wholesale traders close down their shops against the TIN order of Delhi Sales Tax Department in the Capital on Monday.
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Election paraphernalia of various political parties is in great demand at Sadar Bazar in
the Capital on Monday. — Photo by Kamal Singh |
JD(U) criticises mid-term transfers of govt staff
Sonepat, November 17
The Haryana Pradesh Janata Dal (U) president, Mr Ved Prakash Vidrohi, has criticised the mid-term transfers of the government employees, particularly schoolteachers, and said it would adversely affect the working of the government offices as well as the teaching work in the schools and the students would suffer a lot.
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Privatisation fails to end excess billing menace
Faridabad, November 17
The ordeal of the consumer has not ended despite the privatisation of meter reading and electricity bill distribution work. Complaints keep surfacing about faulty meter reading and excess billing. In fact, the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam
(UHBVN) has refunded or adjusted inflated bills worth several lakhs in the past one month.
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Trade springboard
Senior Indian Administrative Service Officer (IAS) Mr Ashok Jha has only recently taken over as Chairman and Managing Director of India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO). Mr Jha succeeded Mr J. Vasudevan, who has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
No service big or small, says Nirankari Baba
New Delhi, November 17
On the second day of Nirankari Samagam here today, the head of the mission, Baba Hardev Singh, said no service was big or small. What mattered was the spirit and faith.
Rich tributes paid to freedom hero Rao Gopal Dev
Rewari, November 17
Glowing tributes were paid to Rao Gopal Dev, a hero of
the First War of Independence of 1857, at a Martyrs’ Memorial Conference
organised under the auspices of “Ahirwal Shauriya Samiti” at Gopal Dev Chowk
here yesterday. Simultaneously homage was paid to all other martyrs who
sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the country.
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In-laws in the dock
Faridabad, November 17
A resident of Sector-3 here has got a case booked under
the Dowry Act against the in-laws of his daughter at Raj Nagar in Delhi. The
complainant has alleged that his daughter, married to Arun on February 22 last
year, was being harassed for dowry and she was forced to leave the in-laws’
house.
- Cash, valuables stolen
from house
- BPL families to
receive aid
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- ‘Village Transition in North-west
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