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Savitri Jindal’s top priorities: water, power, jobs
SGPC not bothered about Haryana gurdwaras, says Nalvi
Pataudi booked for poaching
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Haryana to have AIDS education in schools
Minor girl’s rape case still a puzzle
5 depot holders booked
Irrigation facility for 21 villages
VHP: Advani has betrayed Hindus
World Environment Day observed
Pundri violence: remand for 25
Kharkhauda SHO suspended
Undertrial prisoner dies in jail
Woman found dead
Police remand for assailants
Life term for three
Couple booked for duping youth
BSF official robbed, one held
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Savitri Jindal’s top priorities: water, power, jobs
Hisar, June 5 Ms Jindal, who was today elected the Congress MLA from the Hisar, defeated her nearest rival, Dr Rajender Malik (Independent), by a margin of 1,02,231 votes. Returning Officer Dharampal Yadav said security deposits of all 11 rivals of Ms Jindal were forfeited. Talking to TNS after her victory in the Assembly byelection, Ms Jindal, widow of the late Haryana Power Minister and eminent industrialist, Om Prakash Jindal, said she never wanted to join politics but was compelled by the circumstances to do so. “I was happy looking after the household affairs and had never imagined that I would have to enter politics,” said Ms Jindal, who agreed to contest the election on the insistence of her son and Congress MP Naveen Jindal, Chief Minster Bhupinder Singh Hooda and other senior party leaders. A voracious reader, Ms Jindal, 55, is a big admirer of Premchand, Sharat Chandra and Shivani. She used to play badminton, but has lately confined herself to going for a walk in the evening. She is the youngest among five siblings and her parents, basically from Rashiwas village in Charkhi Dadri subdivision of Bhiwani district, settled in Assam. Apart from Ms Jindal, her two sisters were also married into the Jindal family. She often watches television serials on various channels, but finds most of these lacking in various aspects. “Television programmes should aim at inculcating moral values,” she observes. Ms Jindal admitted that residents of various localities in the city faced acute shortage of potable water. She also expressed concern over the rising cases of female foeticide and felt that this social menace needed to be tackled at the earliest. She said she had joined politics to fulfill her late husband’s dreams and ensuring regular power and potable water supply, apart from maintenance of cleanliness, would be her top priorities. Her son and Congress MP from Kurukshetra, Mr Naveen Jindal, said the practice of organising medical camps started by his late father would continue. Besides, a novel “Hospital on Wheels” would also be set up for the benefit of the residents of Hisar. |
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SGPC not bothered about Haryana gurdwaras, says Nalvi
Chandigarh, June 5 While alleging discrimination against Haryana Sikhs by the SGPC, Mr Nalvi said the HSGPC, which was set up to press the demand for a separate body for Haryana gurdwaras, won seven out of the 11 SGPC seats of Haryana in the last SGPC elections. He said the reorganisation of Punjab into three different states in 1966 should have been followed by having established a separate SGPC for Haryana. He said geo-political changes should be ideally followed by such steps. He pointed out that the Pakistan Government had constituted an SGPC for looking after the gurdwaras in Pakistan. The SGPC, having its headquarters at Amritsar, was not bothered even about the upkeep of historical gurdwaras of Haryana having
association with Guru Tegh Bahadur and Mata Gujri Devi, Mr Nalvi alleged. Replying to a question, he said creating a separate SGPC for Haryana would in no way undermine the place of the Darbar Sahib and Akal Takht in the minds of the Sikhs living in Haryana. He said the Darbar Sahib and Akal Takht were for the Sikhs what Kaba is for the Muslims and the Vatican for the Roman Catholics. He criticised Shiromani Akali Dal leader Parkash Singh Badal and SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur for opposing the demand of the
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Pataudi booked for poaching
Panchkula, June 5 The former cricket captain, who is the husband of Censor Board chief and actress Sharmila Tagore, was caught by the Jhajjar police at a naka near the Jhajjar-Gurgaon border on the night of June 3. Mr Pataudi, along with seven persons was speeding in a Honda car and a gypsy, when they were stopped by the police. Upon checking the vehicles, the police found a dead black buck, two rabbits, two guns, 50 cartridges and searchlights. The police say that the animals had been de-skinned. All occupants in the car — Mr Shashi Singh, Mr Dayal Singh, Balwinder Singh, Shahid, Mohammad Ayub, Gyasuddin and Madan, besides Mr Pataudi — were taken to a police station and a DDR was registered. The dead animals were taken into possession by the police and kept at a hospital in Jhajjar. Police and Wildlife officials suspect that the animals were hunted from the Bhindawas sanctuary area. The Forest Department was informed of the incident last morning. Wildlife Inspector Atar Singh and Forest Guard Kuldeep Kumar were rushed to the spot. After taking the carcasses into their possession, they got a post-mortem examination conducted today. After the post mortem examination report came, a case under Sections 9, 39, 51 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 was registered. The Chief Wildlife Warden, Mr K.L. Manhas, when contacted, said he had directed the staff to initiate action against those found guilty. “No one will be spared. We will proceed as per law after our staff send us a detailed report, and the guilty will be arrested,” he added. |
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Create atmosphere for investors
Chandigarh, June 5 The public debt of the state was budgeted to Rs 5,020 crore in 2004-05 against Rs 4,342 crore in its previous year, Mr Kapoor added. The quantum of government debt should also be brought down to reduce interest payment, he suggested. With the increasing competitiveness among the neighbouring states to attract new investments, the state should create an investor-friendly atmosphere providing world-class infrastructure and enhance responsiveness of the state government towards the industry. The chamber also suggested that the budget must provide special allocations for providing incentives to new units and investments in the underdeveloped areas. This would not only eliminate the regional imbalance in the state but also create employment opportunities to the local skilled manpower, Mr Kapoor maintained. These units could be benefited by giving capital investment subsidy, interest subsidy, waiver of electricity duty, waiver on stamp duty. To increase the non-tax revenue, the government could consider raising user charges on municipal services, social services, irrigation. The state could approach to international financial institutions for loans on soft items and assistance for priority sectors such as rural water supply, sanitation, urban infrastructure, irrigation, healthcare and agri infrastructure. The government should abolish LADT in the coming budget. The chamber urged the state government to introduce Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act to identify the gaps in achieving the target spelt out in the budget. Better beneficiary oriented programmes and an effective mobilising mechanism is needed to improve the efficiency of public expenditure in Haryana. |
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Haryana to have AIDS education in schools
Panchkula, June 5 The programme aims at educating students from Classes IX to XII in all private and government schools in the state. A 16- hour capsule for students on topics dealing with HIV-AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, adolescence, sex, diet and nutrition and personality development is being prepared by the Health Department in collaboration with the State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT), Gurgaon. Officials in the Health Department say that a state level training programme followed by a district-level training programme for teachers will be started shortly. Nodal teachers will be appointed to educate the school students in various schools. “Though the course being developed now is designed as a 16-hour capsule, AIDS Education Programme will be inducted in the regular course curriculum,” informed a senior Health Department official. It may be noted that there are almost 430 cases of AIDS and an estimated 40,000 HIV positive cases in Haryana. Recently, Haryana AIDS Control Society had conducted a mapping of site and size of high risk behaviour population with regards to HIV/ AIDS. They found that over 1. 92 lakh migrant labourers and 16, 269 street children staying in various parts of Haryana form the high risk behaviour population with regards to HIV/ AIDS. The survey also identified 74,884 truck drivers, 9206 commercial sex workers, 3593 intravenous drug users (IDUs), besides 1268 eunuchs and 770 homosexuals in the state, facing risk from HIV. This is for the first time that a detailed survey of each high risk group and its concentration in different parts of all districts in the state has been carried out. The Health Department has now formally accepted the report commissioned by the Haryana AIDS Control Society, and the findings reveal that districts in the National Capital Region are the breeding grounds for core group (commercial sex workers, homosexuals and intravenous drug users) of HIV cases and their bridge population (migrant labourers, truckers and street children- who are likely to contact the deadly disease from the core population). The report reveals that highest concentration of these high risk behaviour groups are in the districts of Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar (mainly Bahadurgarh), Panchkula and Yamunanagar. The Red Cross Societies at Panipat, Sonepat, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Jind, Kaithal and Faridabad, and NGOs at Panchkula, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Gurgaon, Rewari, Narnaul and part of Faridabad have now been commissioned to do a base line survey of these high risk groups. Other than Karnal and Kurukshetra, the base line surveys at all other places is over, corroborating the findings of the mapping report prepared by a private consultant. “The nodal agencies appointed by the AIDS Control Society- be it district Red Cross Societies or NGOs - will now adopt a four-pronged approach. They will come up with programmes for AIDS awareness ; establish inter-linkage with public services like Sexually Transmitted Clinics and Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centres (VCTC), besides creating an enabling environment (sensitising community leaders) and condom promotion (by distributing free condoms),” informs Dr Aditya Chaudhori, Additional Project Director, Haryana AIDS Control Society. |
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Minor girl’s rape case still a puzzle
Panipat, June 5 While she had started speaking after her successful tracheotomy operation at a private hospital here, the police was not putting any pressure on her to know her identity, said the (SP) to The Tribune. The SP said that she had still feeling uneasy while speaking. Further, the doctors also advised the police not to pressurise her to know anything about the incident, he added. Mr Anil Kumar said that the police had made other possible efforts to know her identity. Her information had been sent to all the nearby police stations of Panipat and other districts but no such girl was found missing under the areas falling under these police stations. An SC ruling regarding rape cases is also inadvertently hindering to take some of the concrete steps in identifying her at the earliest as her photographs could not be published in any print media according to the directions of apex court. The SP said as and when the girl was identified and subsequently the police got information about the accused, it would nab the culprit. The child had been found abandoned in seriously injured condition near Vikas Nagar here on May 19. The rapist had cut her throat after sexually assaulting her. It seemed that the accused had left her for dead. Role of the doctors at Bhim Sen Sachar Civil Hospital
(BSSCH) came under a cloud for their alleged negligent attitude in handling the case of the rape victim. The BSSCH doctors referred her to PGI, Rohtak allegedly without providing any proper first aid to here but her condition was too serious to take her there. The police got her admitted to a private hospital. A four-member panel of the BSCCH doctors had confirmed at Prem Hospital on Thursday night that she had been raped. |
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5 depot holders booked
Karora (Kaithal), June 5 During a checking last week, irregularities were detected in five depots of the Food and Civil Supplies Department following which a case under Sections 7, 10, 55 and 420 of the IPC was registered against the depot holders yesterday. The police raided houses of the depot holders last night and early this morning but no arrests could be made as they had fled from the village, said police sources. As per details available, an official of the Food and Supplies Department reacting to a complaint of villagers raided these depots and found that instead of distributing wheat among the beneficiaries, the foodgrains were sold somewhere in the market at much higher rates. During verification of Subash Chand’s depot, 30.35 quintals of wheat was found short in the stock. The records also did not match the arrival vouchers and the distribution register. Similarly, in Roshan Lal’s depot 86.10 quintals, in Roshan Lal Prajapati’s depot 30.60 quintals and in Gurdev Singh’s depot 93.70 quintals of wheat was found short in the stock. Irregularities were also found in another depot run by Suresh Kumar. According to sources, such frauds were continuing for the past many years. The involvement of senior officials of the Food and Civil Supplies Department was also not ruled out, said a senior police official. Meanwhile, ration depot owners and the owners of flour mills who purchased wheat from them and were allegedly involved in the scam had started roping in politicians and senior bureaucrats to hush up the scam. However, the SP Kaithal, Mr Mahinder Singh, said a thorough inquiry would be conducted and nobody would be spared. During preliminary investigations conducted by the police, it was established that only a small quantity of wheat reached the beneficiaries while the rest was sold on the black market. The police was also probing the role of some officials of the Food and Civil Supplies Department who were transferred recently as it had come to light that the officials also committed bungling in the transportation charges. A few weeks ago a similar case had come to light at Saplikheri village in the
district.Meanwhile, another complaint in the PDS in Karnal district also came to the notice of the district administration, said a senior civil official. The complaint was received by the District Magistrate’s office last week. It would come up for hearing at the monthly meeting of the grievances committee later this month. |
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Irrigation facility for 21 villages
Ambala, June 5 He directed the officers concerned to ensure that water of the minor should reach the tail point. He asked the Deputy Commissioner to constitute a committee to supervise the working of the minor. He said 34 cusec feet of water would be released in this minor. It may be mentioned that this minor was constructed in 1985 but since then water was not released in it. In April, Mr Sharma had conducted a meeting of officers of the Irrigation and Canal Department and directed them to start this canal within two
months. They said with the efforts of Mr Venod Sharma they were able to get water for their fields. |
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VHP: Advani has betrayed Hindus
Hisar, June 5 In a press statement issued here today, Mr Vijay Sharma, secretary of the state unit of the VHP, demanded that Mr Advani should apologise to the Hindus for having made such “shameful” remarks. Mr Sharma said by terming Jinnah as a historic personality and messenger of Hindu-Muslim unity and stating that the day of demolition of the Babri structure (December 6,1992) was the saddest day of his life, Mr Advani had betrayed the Hindus. |
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World Environment Day observed
Yamunanagar, June 5 Speaking on the occasion, Mr O.P Lohan, the acting Deputy Commissioner urged the students to make aware general public regarding the environment. The students were told about the various aspects of the environment pollution. Rewari: A function was held to observe the ‘ World Environment Day’ in the Somany Institute of Technology and Management( SITM), here today. Describing the indiscriminate felling of green trees as well as the fast declining level of the sub-soil water as something dangerous for a green and clean environment Mr. Vijay Somany, chairman of the SITM, emphasized the need of optimum plantation of trees in the region. Mr. I.D. Bansal, director of the SITM, informed that that as many as 1000 saplings of various species of trees would be planted in the SITM complex during the coming monsoon season to make it greener and cleaner. |
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DAV school celebrates Environment Day
Ambala, June 5 While addressing the students Mr
T.P. Singh highlighted the need to change our lifestyle and adopt green living. He asked the students to persuade people not to smoke cigarettes as it also cause air pollution. He suggested them to plant at least one sapling every year if they want clean environment. Dr Vikas Kohli, principal of the school, highlighted the significance of Environment Day. Dr Jatinder
Vashishtha, an environmentalist stressed on the need of simple living and high thinking . Later, a multi-colour folder on water resources management was released by Mr
T.P. Singh. An on-the-spot painting competition on environment was also organised . Ashu Barar ,
Viksit, Mandeep stood first, second and third, respectively while Akshit was given consolation prize. Poetry recitation of Kshitiz and Viksit was also appreciated. A senior office-bearer of the Rotary Club , Ms Kiran
Kharbanda, was also present on the occasion.
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Pundri violence: remand for 25
Kaithal, June 5 They were produced before a local court here today. All of them were sent to judicial remand for 14 days. Meanwhile, the situation at Pundri was peaceful on Sunday. No untoward incident was reported till the news report was filed. However, the arhtiyas and other businessmen of Pundri had called a meeting on Monday morning to chalk out further action plan if the owners of a rice mill of Taraori were not arrested by the Karnal police. Ashish, a 35-year old arhtiya of Pundri, was allegedly poisoned to death by the owners of a rice mill of Taraori on Friday. The incident evoked violence at Karnal also. A local medical practitioner’s hospital was ransacked by the agitated mob from Pundri followed by an alleged attack on the doctor at his residence. |
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Kharkhauda SHO suspended
Sonepat, June 5 The police has arrested all the six persons. This action followed a complaint made to the Inspector-General of Police, Rohtak Range, and the SP by Mr Tara Chand, a social activist of Kharkhauda. The complainant alleged that the accused entered his house on May 25 and assaulted his family members. When he made a complaint to SHO he declined to take any action against the alleged assailants, Thereupon, he sent complaints to the IGP, and the SP demanding action against the accused. Both the IGP and the SP ordered the suspension of the SHO and the arrest of the alleged assailants. |
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Undertrial prisoner dies in jail
Karnal, June 5 District Magistrate Shyamal Mishra ordered inquest proceedings under Section 176 of the CrPC and asked Sub-Divisional Magistrate Girish Arora an inquiry into the incident. When the SDM reached the jail premises it came to light that the information given by the jail authorities was wrong. Realising their mistake, the jail authorities then sent amended information to all above-mentioned authorities and parents of the real deceased. The jail authorities also apologised from family members of Banta Singh information of where death was flashed wrongly. Mr Arora told The Tribune that Harjinder Singh (50) of Mehmal village Nissing block had died in judicial custody. He was brought to the jail yesterday itself by the CIA staff under a court order.He complained of pain in abdomen last night. The doctor on duty in the jail attended on him, but the condition of the undertrial prisoner worsened following which he was referred to the Civil Hospital at Karnal. He died on the way to hospital. Examination of the body did not show marks of external injury, said an official of the jail. A post-mortem examination of the body was done on Sunday, a report of which would be sent to the SDM on Monday. Later, the body was handed over to the family of the deceased for cremation. Family members of deceased Harjinder Singh alleged that the jail authorities did not take care of their kin in time, which possibly led to his death. |
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Woman found dead
Panipat, June 5 The police said, Murti Devi’s family members informed the Chandni Bagh police station yesterday around midnight that she had gone missing. Murti Devi reportedly went to the house of one of her acquaintances yesterday evening to invite them for a function organised at her home in connection with the recent birth of her grand-daughter but she did not return .
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Police remand for assailants
Hisar, June 5 Mr Arshinder Singh Chawla, SSP, said here today that a stolen motorcycle, a mobile phone handset, two countrymade pistols, cartridges and a knife were seized from their possession. The arrested persons had been remanded in police custody till June 10, he added. Mr Chawla said the police had also arrested Bhundia, alias Ishwar, on charge of sheltering Manoj and seized a knife from his possession.
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Life term for three
Bhiwani, June 5 Kaushalya, wife of Om Pal, was preparing tea on December 24, 1996, when her mother-in-law Asharfi Devi,father-in-law Jagan Singh and husband Om Pal sprinkled kerosene oil on her and set her on fire. Kaushalya died at the hospital.
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Couple booked for duping youth
Sirsa, June 5 Sarvjit, son of Mahenderpal, a resident of Dhani Panjuana village, in his complaint alleged that Khazan Chand, his wife Geeta Bai and his son Man Singh, residents of Nezadalla Kalan village, demanded Rs 8 lakh but finally the deal was clinched for Rs 7 lakh for sending him abroad. But even after having been paid all money they did not send him abroad till date, he alleged. The victim said in January this year they informed him that his passport and other travel documents were ready and took a sum of Rs 1.80 lakh more and since then neither have been sent abroad nor the money returned despite making repeated demands.
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BSF official robbed, one held
Ambala, June 5 When the train stopped at Ambala Cantt railway station, one of the passengers travelling in the same compartment asked him to take tea. According to Gopi after taking the tea he became unconscious and robber took away the cash of Rs 10,000 from his pocket. When the train reached Karnal, some other passenger noticed that one of the passengers was lying unconscious. The matter was reported to GRP.
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16 hurt in road mishap
Ambala, June 5 |
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Railway technician injured
Sonepat, June 5 |
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