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Backlog in reserved jobs to be cleared soon: Hooda
AITUC, CITU support Hero Honda workers
Surjewala seeks package for farmers
Employee held for parole conspiracy
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Woman arrested for abetting suicide
Water supply to Delhi increased by 57 cusecs
Bride dies at in-laws
Cleft-lip children operated upon
More buses on UT-Delhi route
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Backlog in reserved jobs to be cleared soon: Hooda
Hisar, April 14 He was addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone of Ambedkar auditorium and a girls' hostel on the premises of Shri Ravidass Mahasabha at a function organised to mark the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar here today. Mr Hooda announced a grant of Rs 10 lakh for the construction of the hostel building. Besides, he asked local MP Jai Prakash to give Rs 5 lakh and ministers Savitri Jindal and Kartar Devi to contribute Rs 2.5 lakh each for the hostel. The Union Minister of State for Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Ms Selja, also addressed the gathering on this occasion. Earlier, addressing students, teachers and officials of Guru Jambheshwar University (GJU), the Chief Minister affirmed that the Haryana Government would focus on providing quality science and technical education in the state to check the exodus of students to other states and metropolitan cities like Delhi. Appreciating the introduction of five highly specialised technical courses by the university authorities, Mr Hooda assured them of government's help and support. The Chief Minister inaugurated two hostels built at a cost of Rs 4.25 crore on the university premises. He also laid the foundation stone of an auditorium to be constructed in 12 months at a cost of Rs 11 crore. Mr Hooda also inaugurated a hall constructed by the local Improvement Trust and laid the foundation stone of Jat temple and "satsang bhavan" at Sector 13.
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AITUC, CITU support Hero Honda workers
Gurgaon, April 14 Rather, with the all concerned finding it difficult to break the logjam, the two Left trade unions, AITUC and CITU, are alleged to be making efforts to capitalise and involve themselves in the developments. They are allegedly trying to expand the scope of the agitation by involving themselves and roping in workers of the Dharuhera plant of Hero Honda Motors as well as workers of Honda Motorcycle and Scooters Ltd. In a new turn, AITUC and CITU, for the first time, organised protests and demonstrations outside the factory gate of Hero Honda Motors today in support of the demands of the casual workers who remained on the plant’s premises for the fifth consecutive day. While workers of the firm were conspicuously missing from the demonstrations, local leaders of the two trade unions led the agitation. The national Secretary of the AITUC, Mr D.L. Sachdeva, camped with the local leaders at the HUDA Gymkhana Club, the venue of the talks between the workers and the Hero Honda Motors management. The talks between the management and the workers came to an abrupt end when a leader of the Haryana unit of AITUC interfered and asked them (workers) to come out of the talk proceedings. The ire of AITUC and CITU leaders was on account of the Labour Department officials rejecting their demand to include them in the talks. Also the trade union leaders wanted that leaders of worker unions of the Dharuhera plant of Hero Honda Motors and Honda Motorcycles and Scooter be included in the talk process. The department turned them away on ground that they had no locus standi. The Additional Commissioner, Labour, Mr M.S. Yadav, is also camping here to lead the government’s efforts to effect a breakthrough.
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Surjewala seeks package for farmers
Chandigarh, April 14 While addressing the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka on April 10, Mr Pawar had announced that a financial package would be announced within two months to mitigate the sufferings of the farmers, many of whom were being forced to commit suicide. Since the statement was made at a platform at which no Chief Minister of a northern state was present, it has led to apprehension in the minds of farmer leaders in this part of the country that the proposed package may be area-specific only. The chairman of the Kisan-Khet Mazdoor Congress, a front organisation of the Congress, Mr Shamsher Singh Surjewala, has written to the AICC President, Mrs Sonia Gandhi; the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh; and Mr Pawar that the proposed package should cover the farmers of northern India also because the farming community in Punjab and Haryana was faced with similar problems as its counterpart in southern India. Mr Surjewala said Mr Pawar should urgently convene a meeting of the Chief Ministers of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and other northern states to discuss the proposed package. |
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Employee held for parole conspiracy
Kaithal, April 14 Giving details, the SP, Mr Navdeep Singh Virk, said the accused, Chanderbhan, a resident of Dharnia under the Fatehabad police station and posted as a storekeeper at a Sirsa hospital, had been arrested as he, and Dr Jagdeep Agarwal and Harmel, alias Nikka, had allegedly played a role in getting Mehema Devi, mother of a convict, Satvir Jhabbal, admitted to the Sirsa hospital. Satvir is lodged at a Sirsa jail and the police, while verifying the documents for the release of this convict on parole, found that the documents showed to have been issued by the village panchayat were allegedly forged. Investigation revealed that Satvir, his brother, mother and friends forged a village panchayat report to get him released on parole. Following this, the police had lodged a complaint under Sections 420, 465, 468 and 120-B of the IPC. After investigation, Sub-Inspector Dayal Singh, in charge of the Rajound police station, had arrested Krishan, Naresh, Sanjeev, Kaptan Singh, Rajeev and Mehema Devi, all residents of Kithana. Mehema Devi had been admitted to the Sirsa hospital under a conspiracy on the pretext of being ill to ensure the release of Satvir. However, her medical examination revealed that she had no serious ailment. |
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Woman arrested for abetting suicide
Rewari, April 14 The charges relate to the suicide committed by Ravinder Kumar, a flour mill-owner of Karoli village near Kosli in June, 2002. Kanta is the wife of Kashmir Singh, an official of the Delhi Police. After her arrest she was yesterday produced in the court of Mr Bashruddin, Judicial Magistrate (First Class) here who remanded her in judicial custody for 14 days. Consequently she has been lodged in the Bhondsi Jail near Gurgaon. The story started in June, 2002, when, on Kanta's complaint, the Nahar Police registered a case of mischief by fire under Section 436 of the IPC against Ravinder following a fire which broke out in Kanta's rented residence at Karoli village. Such predicament, caused by his implication in a 'false' case led him to commit suicide by consuming some poisonous substance following which his decomposed body was recovered by the police in July, 2002, from a field at Lukhi village near Kosli Subsequently, on a complaint lodged by Kamlesh Devi, wife of the deceased Ravinder Kumar, the Kosli police registered a case of murder under Sections 302, 201 of the IPC against the accused Kanta. However, when police investigations failed to find any clinching evidence in the matter, the case against Kanta was dropped. At this Ravinder's father as well as his wife Kamlesh Devi filed a petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which ordered the re-opening of the case as well as a fresh probe into the circumstances leading to Ravinder's unnatural death. Consequently the CIA Police , which had started fresh and intensive investigations, recently came to acquire Ravinder's suicidal note which reportedly revealed that he committed suicide owing to frustration caused by his 'false' implication in the case registered on Kanta's complaint against him. |
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Water supply to Delhi increased by 57 cusecs
Yamunanagar, April 14 Power production from the four hydel power generation units located on a link channel of the Western Yamuna Canal has also been increased. The increase in water in the river comes as a relief for the Irrigation Department as farmers from the Chhachhrouli block had recently opposed the rotational scheme for supply of irrigation water and forced open water supply from the Tajewala Head Water Works. The rotational scheme automatically stands cancelled when the discharge is more than 5,000 cusecs. Sources said the water discharge in the river was likely to improve with each passing day as glaciers and snow in higher regions had started melting. Yesterday, Haryana was supplied 3,275 cusecs and Uttar Pardesh 1,127 cusecs of water. |
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Bride dies at in-laws
Karnal, April 14 Smelling foul flay behind her death, her father Fakir Chand of Manjura village lodged a complaint with the Butana police that his daughter was hanged to death by her in-laws as they had been demanding a refrigerator and a motor cycle in dowry since her marriage with Balwan of Seikri village on April 1, last year but he was unable to fulfil their demand. On his complaint, the Butana police registered an FIR against Balwan, his mother Vidya and his sister Reena under sections 304 B and 34, IPC, and sent the body to the Karnal Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination. According to a police spokesman, Fakir Chand told the police that he had got a call from Bala Devi’s in-laws yesterday evening that she had suffered a heart attack. When he along with other members of his family reached Seikri village, they found Bala Devi dead and noticed injury marks on her neck that clearly indicated foul play. |
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Cleft-lip children operated upon
Ambala, April
14 The children were operated
free of cost under the Smile Train Project, which was initiated by
Ambala SP Rajbir Deswal a few months back. The children as well as
their family members are happy after the cleft lip of the children was
corrected through operation. The surgery was carried out at CMC,
Ludhiana. A function was held at the Sadar police station in Ambala
City today where the 13 children were present along with their family
members. As part of social policing, Mr Deswal said any child who was
suffering from cleft lip could approach him and the operation would be
carried out. |
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More buses on UT-Delhi route
Chandigarh, April 14 While stating this here today, a spokesman of the department said three of the four new services would go up to Gurgaon. At present, six air-conditioned Volvo buses were plying on the Chandigarh-Delhi route and only one of these went to Indira Gandhi airport.
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