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Fatehabad
PANEL MEETING: The Deputy
Commissioner, Mr Mahtab Singh Sehrawat, convened a meeting of the
district-level Review Committee, set up for the purpose of monitoring
the implementation of finance schemes under various welfare measures. Mr
M.L. Arora, Chief Manager, Punjab National Bank, Hisar, Mr P.S. Arya,
Assistant General Manager, Reserve Bank of India, Mr G. C. Chandra, AGM,
NABARD, and Mr V.K. Bhardwaj, District Lead Bank Manager of Punjab
National Bank, attended the meeting.YATRA: The Rashtriya Janam
Panjikaran Chetna Yatra, held by the Census Operations Department,
Haryana, entered the district on Friday. The yatra is being held to
spread awareness among the people regarding the importance of
registration of births and deaths. Mr Nirmal Singh, Deputy Director of
the Census Operations Department, among others, accompanied the yatra.
The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Mahtab Singh Sehrawat, flagged off the yatra
from here. Hisar
ARRESTED: The district police had arrested a youth
and seized a country made pistol and four cartridges from him. A police
spokesman said here on Friday that a police team, on a tip-off, had
arrested Hanuman Singh of a nearby Hindwan village from near Balsmand
village on Thursday night and seized the pistol and cartridges from him.
A case had been registered against him under the Arms Act in this
connection. LOOTING INCIDENT: The local police on Friday arrested two
youths on the charge of looting a person. According to the police, Anil
Kumar of the local Railway Colony and his accomplice Amarjeet Singh, of
the local Rajeev Nagar had looted a gold chain, a ring and Rs 1,000 from
Basant Kumar of the Mori Gate area on the night of March 13 near Shanti
Nagar here when the latter was returning from a marriage party. A case
of dacoity has been registered against the deo. THEFT: Mobile sets
worth Rs 3.5 lakh were stolen from two shops in Ganesh Market here on
Thursday night. According to the police, thieves entered a shop, Mobile
Gallery, by breaking open the grill of a window after midnight and took
away several mobile sets worth Rs 2 lakh and Rs 11,000. Later, they also
entered a nearby shop, Navdeep Communications, and stole many Reliance
mobile sets worth Rs 1.5 lakh from the shop. The shop owners came to
know about the theft on Thursday morning. A case has been
registered. Kaithal
COLLEGE FUNCTION: The seventh Founder’s Day
function of the Haryana College of Technology and Management (HCTM),
Kaithal, was held on the college premises on Thursday. Dr A. K. Chawla,
Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, was the chief guest and Mr
Anurag Agarwal, Deputy Commissioner, Kaithal, was the guest of honour on
the occasion. While addressing students, Dr Chawla said technical
education played an important role in the economic prosperity and
development of a state. The Vice-Chancellor appreciated the college
management for providing quality education to students. He gave away
prizes to the outstanding students. Karnal
HANDICRAFTS MELA: The 165th
National Gram Shree Mela displaying handicrafts of rural artisans was
organised here jointly by the Indian Development Foundation (IDF), an
NGO, and the Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural
Technology (CAPART). Twenty-five artisans from different parts of the
country are participating. The mela was inaugurated on Wednesday. It
will conclude on March 23, 2004. Rohtak
NABBED: Shopkeepers of the
Railway road caught hold of two youths who were allegedly trying to
escape on a motor cycle after snatching a gold chain of a woman on
Tuesday night. The victim Kamla and her sister had gone to the market
for shopping. As they were walking home, the two youths, who were on a
motor cycle came there and snatched the chain.
Kurukshetra
SYMPOSIUM: Inaugurating a
two-day national-level symposium on electronics technology, NASET-2004,
the Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, Dr A. K. Chawla, observed
that over the past three decades, India had recorded tremendous growth
in the field of electronic science. India today boasted of a high level
indigenous technology in electronics due to the ceaseless efforts made
in research and development.Yamunanagar
ONE HELD: The police has
arrested one more member of a gang of robbers, which was involved in
looting bus passengers and other vehicles in the lower Shivalik area of
Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Mr Rajinder Singh, SP, said on Friday that
the accused, Sushil Kumar, was arrested from Saharanpur. Earlier, the
police had arrested five persons.
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