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Haryana BJP leaders to
meet EC team Chautala govt flouting code, says Cong leader Woman loses baby due to docs’ ‘negligence’
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Varsity to set up centres of excellence
Hisar, April 6 Haryana Agricultural University here has decided to establish centres of excellence in the fields of seed technology, biotechnology and national resource conservation.
B.Com. III paper to be held again on April 18
Seminar on embryo technology for animals
High Court
Students asked to eradicate social evils
Four dacoits arrested
Tributes paid to Devi Lal
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Haryana BJP leaders to
meet EC team Ambala, April 6 A delegation of BJP leaders will meet a team of Election Commission officials at Chandigarh tomorrow to apprise them of their apprehensions. The three-member delegation will be led by Mr Vir Kumar Yadav. Mr Gyan Chand Gupta and Mr Surendar Kaushik will be other members of the delegation. BJP leaders have identified three Lok Sabha seats where they claim that the government machinery is being misused. The seats include Sonepat from where Haryana Director-General Police Malik’s wife is contesting, Bhiwani from where Chief Minister O.P. Chautala’s son Ajay Singh is contesting and Rohtak. Mr Vir Kumar Yadav, BJP state election committee convener, said the seats had been identified on the basis of certain incidents which have taken place. “We are going to apprise the officials of the misuse of government machinery,” he said. He demanded that paramilitary forces should be deployed in the three constituencies of Rohtak, Bhiwani and Sonepat. “We also demand that external observers should closely monitor the scenario,” he said. Mr Yadav said, “We do not want that a situation like Meham should emerge. We want that Mr Malik should be given some other charge till the Lok Sabha elections are complete.” He alleged that the police is not playing a fair role in Sonepat. “ Mr Malik’s wife is an INLD nominee there. We have observed that policemen in civil clothes are helping her in campaigning. Vehicles without number plates are being used,” he claimed. “Mr Malik is an office-bearer of the wrestling federation and he has written letters to different akharas seeking help of wrestlers during the poll," he alleged. Mr Yadav said on April 1, Mr Abhay Chautala had called the Deputy Commissioner and SP of Rohtak to a tourism complex. “Mr Abhay Chautala had arranged for a meeting of the district officials with INLD leaders. This is a clear violation,” he stated. Regarding campaigning, Mr Yadav said they were reaching out to the electorate. “We have asked our activists to knock on each door and talk to each voter,” he said. “We have worked out a twin strategy of organisation and mobilisation. Our cadres are working hard to ensure victory in all the 10 Lok Sabha seats,” he added. He said that they were going to hold public rallies in various Assembly segments till April 14. “The decision regarding the announcement of candidates for the remaining five Lok Sabha seats will be taken by the Central Parliamentary Board by April 9,” he said. |
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Bansi Lal rules out poll alliance
Matloda (Panipat), April 6 Criticising Ms Sonia Gandhi, Mr Bansi Lal said she could not even speak Hindi properly and was unable to understand the problems of the people. Mr Bansi Lal said the HVP was hopeful of winning all 10 seats in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. He said the HVP would provide equal rights to the Dalits and backward classes if voted to power in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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BSP nominee withdraws
Rohtak, April 6 In a press release issued here today he said because of his gunshot wounds he would not be able to campaign properly and had, therefore, decided not to contest. He said he would support any candidate put up by his party wholeheartedly. He hoped that the police would soon apprehend those who fired at him outside his shop here. |
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HPSC chief accused of misusing powers
Sonepat, April 6 Talking to mediapersons here today, he alleged that Mr Bangar has been promising jobs to the educated jobless youths of the constituency after the Lok Sabha elections if they vote in favour of Mrs Malik. He said the BJP would send a complaint to the Election Commission if Mr Bangar failed to stop his campaign in favour of Ms Malik. He urged the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to order a high-level probe into the party’s complaint about the misuse of official machinery by the state government for making Ms Malik successful from Sonepat. Mr Sangwan added that a delegation of party leaders led by state unit chief Ganeshi Lal would call on the CEC soon to lodge their complaint.
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5,682 defence voters for Ambala LS seat Ambala, April 6 Mr Malik said that there were 12,00061 voters in the constituency, including the defence forces voters. “Only 25 defence voters have filled up the form number 13 for proxy voting. While 15 forms have been found to be in order, the rest have been sent back for attestation of signature,” he said. Mr Malik said that the notification for election would be issued on April 16. The nominations could be filed from April 16 to April 23. The nomination papers would be assessed on April 24. The last date for withdrawal of nomination was April 26. Voting would take place on May 10 and the votes would be counted on May 13. He said that 1293 polling booths had been set up in the constituency which included 325 urban booths and 968 rural booths. He said that 91.24 percent voters had been issued voter identity cards. Mr Malik said that the candidates would have to file an affidavit which would be put up for display on the notice board. If a counter-affidavit was filed, it would also be put up on display. A copy of the affidavit could be procured by making a payment of Rs 10. A helpline had been set up at Ambala. The phone number of the helpline is 0171-2532801. |
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Chautala govt flouting code, says Cong leader Sirsa, April 6 In a press note issued today the Congress
leader alleged that Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala was misusing
government money to influence voters. Despite the imposition of the code
of conduct banners and hoardings displaying the claims of the government
for development still hung on roads. Mr Nehra has appealed to the
Election Commission to get all these hoardings. |
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Woman loses baby due to docs’ ‘negligence’
Fatehabad, April 6 Mr Rajinder Thakur, a resident of Gillankhera village in the district, has said in his complaint to the Civil Surgeon that his daughter-in-law Rina was in labour pains on March 28 and he brought her to the local General Hospital for delivery. Earlier, he had got his daughter-in-law examined by a private gynaecologist, who had opined that she would have to undergo a Caesarian operation for delivery. When he brought his
daughter-in-law to the hospital at about 11 pm, a surgeon was on casualty duty. A lady medical officer was also present at that time. Mr Thakur has alleged that the doctors did not attend to her daughter-in-law properly and while Ms Rina had been crying in labour pains in the operation theatre of the hospital, the lady medical officer went back to her residence while the surgeon went to sleep. He said at about 3.45am, a Class IV employee of the hospital came running from the operation theatre and told him that the condition of his daughter-in-law was serious. He said he went running to the rest room of the doctor and requested him to attend to his daughter-in-law. He alleged that the doctor refused to accompany him to the operation theatre and demanded ‘kharcha’ (money) for the job. The doctor also told Mr Thakur not to trouble him, time and again. Mr Thakur said he again rushed back the operation theatre where a nurse and a Class IV employee had been waiting for the doctors. He rushed back to the rest room of the doctors and somehow convinced the doctor to accompany him to the operation theatre by assuring him that he would pay the money desired by him. He alleged that it was with a great difficulty that he could convince the doctor to go to the operation theatre. The lady medical officer was still nowhere to be seen. He alleged that after a while, the hospital staff came with a dead baby and told him that it was a case of stillbirth. Mr Thakur has alleged in his complaint that had the doctors performed an operation on his daughter-in-law, she did not have to undergo the pain and miseries she was subjected to during the whole night and she would not have lost her son. He has demanded stern action against the doctors. The Civil Surgeon, Dr R.C. Aggarwal, when contacted, confirmed that the department had received a complaint in this regard and added that he had directed the District Health Officer, Dr N.K. Goyal, to conduct an inquiry and submit a report within seven days. He assured that stern action would be taken in case the doctors were found negligent in the performance of their duties. |
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DA merger
on hold Chandigarh, April 6 According to information received here, the Election Commission has shot down the proposal of the state government in this regard and has asked it to implement the decision after the elections only. Haryana had proposed in its Budget that DA of the state employees would be merged with the basic pay on the pattern of the Central Government. After the election was announced, the government sought the permission of Election Commission to issue a notification in this regard. The DA was to be merged with the basic pay with effect from April 1. |
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Excess wheat a problem, says Dahiya
Hisar, April 6 Inaugurating a weeklong industrial training course on “Quality testing of wheat and wheat products” at Guru Jambheshwar University here yesterday, he said Indian wheat was being sold at a discount in the international market. This was because the quality of wheat had deteriorated substantially during storage and it was not classified according to end-use quality. The wheat in the USA, Australia and Canada was classified based on quality required for specific products and fetched more price as compared to the Indian wheat. He said the quality of grains was influenced largely by environment, agronomic practices and variety. He said there would be bumper wheat production this year and it was expected to touch a record production of 75 million tonnes. However, the country had already surplus wheat of nearly 20 million tonnes. He said until recently the emphasis was on to increase wheat production and no efforts were made on assessing its industrial quality. As a result, though the country had succeeded in meeting the quantitative demands of the growing population, it had failed to manage huge stock of grains. Dr Bhupender Singh Khatkar, Chairman, Department Food and Technology, GJU, said the Government of India and several state governments had liberalised the procurement of grains by multinational firms such as Cargil Foods and Agro Tech Foods from grain markets and also allowed them to enter into contractual farming. These firms did not have much information on industrial quality of wheat varieties. Keeping this in view, training course were being organised to acquaint the participants from the industry with various aspects of wheat quality for specific end product. He said more than 24 industry personnel and entrepreneurs from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Chandigarh were participating in the course. He informed that a wheat quality testing laboratory had been established at the university with an assistance of Rs 1 crore from the Ministry of Food and Processing. The laboratory was fully equipped with modern equipment to conduct comprehensive testing of industrial quality of wheat. Detailed information on classification of Indian wheat varieties based on end-use quality would be made available for wheat processers and traders on the university website. Prof C.P. Kaushik, Dean, Academic Affairs of the university and Dr Narsi Ram Bishnoi, president of the GJUTA, also addressed the participants.
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Varsity to set up centres of excellence
Hisar, April 6 The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Mr M.K.Miglani said here today that this decision was taken at a meeting held here yesterday. These centres were required to address complex problems arising due to the changing scenario. He said the university had the basic infrastructure to carry out advanced research in these areas. The proposal for opening the centres would be submitted to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) soon. He said it was also decided at the meeting that the lease period of the land of Krishi Vigyan Kendras of the university should be got extended to 99 years. At present the lease period was up to 20 years. He said that to get financial support from the ICAR it was a statutory requirement that the period should be 99 years. |
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B.Com. III paper to be held again on April 18
Kurukshetra, April 6 The paper was held on April 4, but the students had complained to the Examinations Controller, KU, Dr S.N. Chaturvedi, pointing out that many questions in the paper were from outside the topic. The paper will be held at all examination centres on April 18 at 2 pm. |
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LEAF FROM HISTORY
Ambala, April 6 The clocks were useful for residents and they used to keep time on the basis of the clock towers. The hands of the imported clocks could be seen from a distance but these clocks were no longer in use today. Ambala Sadar had the distinction of having not one but two huge clocks. While one clock was placed on top of Hargolal building, the other was put up on Banarsi Dass Women’s Hospital. Mr Neeraj Prakash, who is the fifth generation of Lala Hargolal, said the clock on top of Hargolal building was mounted in the mid of 1910s. “The huge clock manufactured by Anglo-Swiss Watch Company had four faces,” he said. The clock face was about 2½ feet in diameter and it used to keep exact time, he added. Mr Neeraj Prakash said beautiful coloured glass used to cover the clock face. “The glass was multi-coloured and it served decorative purpose too. The glass used to offer protection to the machinery from the inclement weather,” he said. “A man was specially employed for maintaining the clocks and he used to regularly key it up,” he added. Interestingly, during night time, a bulb used to be lit up within the clock so that people could spot the movement of the clock hands. “The clock at Banarsi Dass Women’s Hospital was also established during the same period when the clock on Hargolal building was set up,” he said. “The clock stopped functioning during the Indo-Pak war of 1965. During war time, Ambala was attacked by Pakistani bombers. A complete black-out was declared. However, for some inexplicable reason, the glass cover of the clocks used to shine in the darkness,” he said. Mr Parkash said Air Force officials came to their residence and demanded that the glass cover must be removed. “They were apprehensive that the Pakistani bombers may spot the shine on the glass and throw bomb over the residential area. After the glass cover was removed, the clock fell into disuse,” he said. Incidentally, Dr Nem Chand Jain, a former student of BD school who passed out in 1940s, recalled that besides the clock towers, a sun dial had also been set up in their school. “The school bell used to be rung on the basis of the time shown by the sun dial. In those days, watches were a rarity and clocks in public places were useful,” he recalled. |
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Seminar on embryo technology for animals
Karnal, April 6 Dr Nagendra Sharma, Director, NDRI, in his inaugural address, said that the institute was engaged in research work on the production of superior bulls through the ETT under the National Agricultural Technology Project. “With overall goal of faster multiplication of superior germplasm of Zebu (Sahiwal and Ongole breeds), crossbred cattle and sheep (Malpura breed), we have been successfully running the project in the NDRI as lead centre and six other cooperating centres across the country”, he said. The Director said that under this project, 350 embryos had been harvested from Karan Fries (Holstein Friesian crossbred) and Sahiwal cattle. He said the conception rate of around 45 per cent could be achieved with the ETT. Major emphasis should be to increase the rate of conception by developing cold chains and employing trained staff for the ETT, he added. Dr M.L. Madan, Chairman of the National Task Force in Animal Biotech, gave a detailed lecture on the status of research in the ETT at the national and international level and stressed on the need for faster multiplication of superior germplasm. Mr Yann Morel, executive director of the IMV Technologies, France, gave an overview of research activities in the ETT carried out by the organization while Dr G. Hansen, an expert from France, highlighted the ETT research work carried out in France and other European countries. |
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High Court
Chandigarh, April 6 Treating a letter written by some students to the Chief Justice of the High Court in this regard as a public interest petition, the Bench comprising Mr Chief Justice B.K. Roy and Mr Justice Surya Kant directed the Haryana Government to file an affidavit, stating the circumstances that necessitated the state government to issue the notification of August 11, 2003. In their letter of March 29, 2004, the students have claimed while Hindi is the first language of the state, the HPSC is preparing to hold the HCS (Executive) exam in English. On an earlier direction of the Bench, the notification was produced in the court. The case will now come up for hearing on April 16. |
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Students asked to eradicate social evils
Yamunanagar, April 6 He asked the students to prepare themselves to face the challenge of the new era and advised them to be ready to eradicate social evils. Students from 52 colleges and universities from all over India sent 300 papers for presentation. Dr B.S. Gill, Director, Haryana Engineering College, read the achievements of the college. Dr Shakti Kumar, Additional Director, stated that in the next few decades various issues such as energy development, fight against terrorism, waste disposal, environment protection, technology literacy and intellectual property protection would call for more technical resources. He also warned that if corrective measures in educational system were not taken soon then it would be impossible to contain discontentment in society.
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Four dacoits arrested Sirsa, April 6 The four were presented in
court, which sent them in police remand till April 7. The persons
arrested admitted their involvement in the murder of Kartar Singh of
Desu Jodhan. They were identified as Joginder Singh of Bahuakbarpur
village in Rohtak, Harjinder Singh of Shadewal village, Vinod Kumar of
Bakrianwali village in Sirsa and Sukha Singh of Akilan village. They
were planning to rob a bus to Dabwali. The accomplice who escaped was
identified as Jagseer Singh of Kharekhan village. |
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Yamunanagar, April 6 Mr Raj Kumar Saini, national secretary, INLD, Mr Dalmira Ram, Chairman, Jagadhri Improvement Trust, Mr Mahipal Singh, former District president of the INLD, Mr Chander Pal, Chairman, Market Committee Chhachhruli, and Mr Mahipal Singh Sandhay, district Yoth INLD chief, paid tributes.
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