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UGC Affiliation
Right time to seek Sarabjit’s release, says sister
Vikram is BSP nominee for Bhiwani-Mahendragarh
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Checklist to make probe process transparent
Narveer Singh to be DG (health)
Pay Proposals
Land grab case comes to light
Farmers to move court against land acquisition
Villagers decry move to shift sports centre
Death came as relief to her
‘Mortality rate of HIV patients declining’
288 cases settled at lok adalat
Six get life term
One booked on rape charge
Elderly man gunned down
HJC gears up for ‘vishvas rally’
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UGC Affiliation
Sirsa, November 30 It is with this fact in mind that the university authorities have exhibited almost a panic reaction and started the process of completing the minimum formalities required for the affiliation. The university has been conducting interviews for the posts of professors for some of its departments for the purpose. The interviews will be held from December 3 to 7 and a meeting of the executive committee of the university will be held on December 7 itself to grant its approval to the appointments. The university will be issuing appointment letters on December 8 and will be asking the selected dons to join within 10 days so that the university authorities are ready for inspection by the UGC teams in December and get the affiliation before the start of the next calendar year. The university has an establishment expenditure of approximately Rs 6 crore per annum on the salaries of its teachers and other staff and these expenses would be almost doubled once the new pay scales are implemented. Sources said the UGC paid for the increased salaries of the teachers for a period of five years to the universities, which were affiliated to it under Section 12-B of the UGC Act. Chaudhary Devi Lal University, which like two other universities of the state - Deenbandhu Chhoturam University of Science and Technology, Murthal, and Medical University in Rohtak - is not yet affiliated under the UGC Act, would be deprived of such benefits, sources added. “A university needs to have at least 5 postgraduate degree courses in functioning with at least one professor, two readers and four lecturers in each of these five courses to become eligible to apply for the affiliation,” sources said. The CDLU that has 16 postgraduate courses has only two professors on its roll. Confirming this, registrar R.K. Sehgal said the university had PG courses in English, law, energy and environment sciences, mathematics, physics, computer sciences and engineering, public administration, economics and business economics, education, commerce, food technology, bio technology, business administration, chemistry, journalism and mass communication and physical education, but the university had the services of only two professors in the English and the business administration department. “We are in the process of appointing professors to meet the minimum requirement of the UGC and once sufficient numbers of teachers were appointed we will hasten with the inspection by the UGC authorities,” said K.C. Bhardwaj, vice-chancellor of the university. In the absence of affiliation, the university has been loosing several other benefits, which are provided by the UGC. “We cannot apply for any project of the UGC, grants, chance of post doctoral research overseas and grants for career advancement unless the university gets affiliation from the University Grants Commission,” rued a senior teacher of the university. |
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Right time to seek Sarabjit’s release, says sister
Karnal, November 30 Dalbir Kaur, who has been persistently pressing the UPA government for getting her brother, languishing in a Pakistani jail for more than 18 years, released from the jail and alleged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were not serious about the release of Sarabjit Singh otherwise he would have been released by now. Talking to mediapersons here, she also accused the UPA government of playing politics of votes in this matter and asked why the two governments could not hammer out a peaceful solution to the problems and save innocent people from becoming victims of
terrorist attacks. The people of both countries want peace, but the governments of the two countries have to take the initiative to root out terrorism and ensure development of people by saving billions of rupees spent on protecting the borders and acquiring arms and ammunition, she asserted. “I want my brother back home at the earliest and certainly before the Lok Sabha polls,” she said. She rued the lukewarm response of the UPA government to her repeated requests and said there had been enough talks and it was time to act and produce results by bringing Sarabjit back to his country. Meanwhile, representatives of various social, cultural, literary and academic organisations today severely condemned the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and urged the Pakistan government to start joint action with India to dismantle terrorist training camps operating from its territory. Supporting the demand for the release of Sarabjit Singh, these organisations urged the Pakistan government to release all prisoners of war of the 1971 Indo-Pak war. The organisations also urged Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to sign an extradition treaty with India and hand over all wanted terrorists and other criminals being given shelter in Pakistan. |
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Vikram is BSP nominee for Bhiwani-Mahendragarh
Chandigarh, November 30 The party has nominated Vikram Tanwar, son of former Haryana minister Bir Singh for the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh seat. Bir Singh was a respected leader of the Rajput community. He had a long-standing feud with former Chief Minister and strongman of Bhiwani Bansi Lal. According to sources in the party, the decision to nominate Tanwar was taken by party chief Mayawati after consultation with BSP general secretary in charge of the party affairs in Haryana Mann Singh Manhera. Tanwar had formally joined the BSP on November 25 at a rally held in Karnal. The BSP has already declared its eight candidates from the state. Only the Sirsa (reserved) constituency remains for which the BSP is yet to nominate its candidate. But it has already declared that a member of the Balmiki community will be its candidate from Sirsa, the native district of the Chautalas. The BSP has so far given representation to eight different communities in its list of Lok Sabha candidates. It has nominated Dev Raj Diwan (a Punjabi) from Sonepat; former cricketer Chetan Sharma (a Brahmin) from Faridabad; Zakir Hussein (a Muslim) from Gurgaon; Gurdial Singh (a Saini) from Kurukshetra; Virender Verma (a Ror) from Karnal; Raj Sharma (again a Brahmin) from Rohtak; Chander Pal (a Chamar) from Ambala; R.D. Goel (an Aggarwal) from Hisar; and Tanwar (a Rajput) from Bhiwani. Manhera, who has emerged as the chief architect of Mayawati’s social engineering experiment in Haryana, told The Tribune on the phone that his party could not nominate a Jat for any Lok Sabha constituency because no member of this community applied for the party ticket. He said now the party had decided to promote its own Jat leadership for the Vidhan Sabha elections due in 2010. When it was pointed out to him that many felt that the doors of the BSP were closed for the Jats, particularly after Mayawati declared at Karnal in March last that her party would make a non-Jat the Chief Minister of the state, Manhera said she never said that Jats would not be made members of the BSP or they would not be given the party ticket. Of course, the chief ministerial candidate for the party would be a non-Jat, he added. He said the BSP had fielded several Jat candidates in Uttar Pradesh, some of whom were now ministers in that state. A senior politician of the state, who did not want to be identified, said it was creditable that within a short span of three years, Manhera, a Dalit Sikh of Punjab, had made a place for himself and his party in Haryana. This was evident from the way he was mobbed by political leaders and workers of all hues at a marriage attended by Manhera recently. He said like the modern-day Chanakya, Manhera had announced a shift in his party’s policy to admit the Jats only after the BSP had nominated its candidates for all general seats of the Lok Sabha in the state. Now, only a reserved seat remained for which the party had to nominate its candidate. It was obvious that the BSP now wanted to woo the dominant community also. The senior politician was also appreciative of the fact that unlike national general secretaries of other parties, who look after the affairs of their parties in Haryana, Manhera established contacts with the grassroots workers of his party in the state. His policy of going alone in the state, he said, would bring dividends for Mayawati in the long run. Meanwhile, Haryana BSP general secretary Krishna Dhami has thanked Mayawati for giving a “platform” to all communities in the state. |
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Checklist to make probe process transparent
Jhajjar, November 30 They will have to fill a pro forma according to the findings of the investigation and other vital information regarding the complainants and the accused. Implementing a formula, the Rohtak range police has prepared a 54-point checklist in order to make the crime investigation process transparent. Sources said a communication in this regard had been sent to the SPs of five districts, namely Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonepat, Karnal and Panipat, from the office of inspector general of police (IGP). The SPs have been directed to implement the checklist formula within a week in all police stations of their respective areas. IGP V. Kamaraja said the main aim of the formula was to improve the system and monitor the functioning of the police, besides making the investigation process transparent. “Surprise raids will be carried out in all districts after one week of the implementation of the formula in order to check the working of policemen,” Kamaraja said, adding that official action would be initiated against erring policemen. Besides, the range police would also impart scientific investigation training to the policemen from the rank of constable to inspector with an intention to inculcate a scientific approach among policemen in crime investigation and to make the investigation process more result-oriented. A special training programme, which has already started , will continue for around a month. The training is mandatory for all policemen of the range. A display board has been prepared for the training programme on which instructions comprising 15 points of scientific techniques of investigation have been mentioned to discuss during the training. The points will help investigation officers during the crime investigation. “At least 30 police officials will attend the day-long training programme every day, where they will learn various techniques of scientific crime investigation,” Kamaraja said. The IGP said the aim of the special training was to improve the functioning of the police and to get speedy and accurate results of investigation. |
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Vintage car rally organised
Gurgaon, November 30 The rally was organised by Standard Chartered Bank in association with the Heritage Motoring Club of India (HMCI). It was organised to present the Heritage Drive to Neemrana Fort Palace. Cars and motorcycles which took part in the rally were either vintage or classic vehicles, including classic icons such as 1947 Buick, 1947 Studebaker Commander Convertible, 1964 Mustang, 1947 Pontiac Silver Streak, 1962 Chrysler, 170S Mercedes, 1947 Chrysler, 1969 Beetle and 1931 Ford Model. The rally was flagged off by Sufi and pop singer Rabbi Shergill. The drive traversed a 100 km distance and culminated at the heritage resort, Neemrana Fort Palace. The competitive drive ran on the time-speed-distance format where each vintage and classic automobile were given a specific time to cover the 100 km distance at a specified average speed depending on the cubic capacity and age of the vehicle. To the uninitiated, vintage cars are really old cars. More specifically defined, a vintage car is any car built up to 1939 while a classic car can be defined as one made after that period and up to 1970 when many new features were introduced, including heating systems, radio, power steering and four wheel braking. “Joining a car club gives you the chance to mingle with other car enthusiasts as well as check out cars. It also allows you to participate in car shows and competitions,” said Diljeet Titus, general secretary of the Heritage Motoring Club of India. |
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Narveer Singh to be DG (health)
Chandigarh, November 30 Known for his integrity, he is credited with turning around the functioning of a government hospital by making it patient-friendly as the civil surgeon, Jind. Chosen through a promotion-cum-selection exercise, he succeeds Dr Sharma as the new DGHS, Haryana, who retired today. Sources said while Dr Singh would be the new DGHS, an additional post of the rank of the DGHS had been created for Dr Veena Chugh, who was at present posted as the additional director-general (health) and senior to the former. In fact, her present post was being upgraded to the DGHS and she would be allocated work shortly. Meanwhile, the chargesheet was served on Dr Avinash Sharma for irregularities pertaining to the no-objection certificate to some nursing institutes in the state. Also, the health department will begin inspection of the nursing institutes awaiting approval afresh. Following a review petition filed by the department stating the “erroneous position” presented earlier, the court has given time till December 15 to carry out inspection of nursing institutes for granting approval. The health department will inspect the institutes for faculty and facilities, infrastructure and equipment before finalising the list of institutes which can be granted approval for functioning under its policy guidelines so that quality in imparting training to students is not compromised upon. |
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‘Need for POTA-like law’
Hisar, November 30 They also burnt an effigy of terrorism and raised slogans against growing terrorism in the world. Haryana VHP general secretary Vijay Sharma said as long as governments continued to appease communities and practise vote bank politics, the country would continue to face terror attacks. He alleged that while the Maharashtra government’s security apparatus kept itself busy with attempts to pin down “innocent sadhus” in connection with the Malegaon blasts, the terrorists had a free hand in planning and executing the Mumbai blasts. Pyare Lal Lahoria said unless the Centre enacted an anti-terror law like POTA, the country could not be terror-free. |
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Pay Proposals
Rohtak, November 30 The employees’ unions declared that their agitation would continue till the payment was released and the state government accepted all their demands. The other demands of the employees included curb on the practice of outsourcing, regularisation of services of all ad hoc, part-time, daily wagers and contractual employees, regular recruitment to fill up 1.5 lakh vacant posts in various departments and settlement of all other pending issues through dialogue with the leaders of the state government employees’ organisations. Announcing the future plan of the agitation at the rally, SKS state president Azad Singh Malik and HKM state president Om Prakash Pehalwan said the Haryana Karamchari Taalmel Committee would submit a memorandum to all MLAs and MPs of the state from December 4 to 14 and thousands of employees of various departments of the state government would hold a massive demonstration in Chandigarh on the second day of the next session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha. The leaders asserted that strong resentment prevailed among the employees against the state government over delay in the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations. The employee leaders threatened that the Haryana Karamchari Taalmel Committee would intensify the agitation by giving a call for direct action if the state government resorted to reduction in the pay scales and allowances. |
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Land grab case comes to light
Rewari, November 30 When Manohar Lal, who had been tilling the land for the past over four decades and who was now the actual owner of the land, measuring 29 kanals and 19 marlas, in Dawana village near Shahbazpur, recently came to know of the specious deal, he filed a complaint following which the Model Town police has registered a case of impersonation, cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy against Jagmal Singh of Bhangrola village of Gurgaon district, Rita Devi, wife of Pritam Singh Chauhan of Gurgaon district, Kesanta Devi, wife of Man Singh of Mohalla Gujjarwara here, Raj Kumar, nambardar of Nangalia Ranmokh village, sub-registrar of the Rewari tehsil office and five others. Sources said after partition when Atma Ram, son of Dharam Pal, migrated from Pakistan to Rewari, the above land in Dawana village here was allotted to him by the authorities concerned in 1958. Subsequently the land was leased on tenancy by Atma Ram to Manohar Lal’s family. Such tenancy continued till 1977 after which Atma Ram reportedly shifted to a remote place and then the land went into the hands of Manohar Lal. However, on September 29, Jagmal Singh of Bhangrola village allegedly presented himself as Atma Ram, the actual owner of the land, before the sub-registrar of the tehsil office here and thus managed to get its registry executed in favour of Rita Devi and Kesanta Devi for Rs 54.29 lakh. Subsequently when Manohar Lal came to know of the “fraudulent deal”, he filed a complaint after which the police has now booked the
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Farmers to move court against land acquisition
Sonepat, November 30 The decision was taken by the farmers after district revenue officer J.K. Ahuja announced awards of the land acquired at Rai rest house on Friday. The government had acquired 333 acres of these villages for developing an industrial sector by the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation. Farmers of Jatheri, Badkhalsa and Badmalik were to get Rs 55.72 lakh per acre whereas a compensation of Rs 49.76 lakh per acre was to be given to the farmers of Liwan and Rai and Rs 39.80 lakh per acre to the farmers of Peetampura village. Farmers of Jatheri village said they would go to the court for justice as the market rate of their land was around Rs 1 crore per acre. A panchayat was held in Badmalik village, in which the villagers decided to launch an agitation against the acquisition. They pointed out that due to acquisition of land, they would not be able to sustain their living. Moreover, they alleged that the government had not extended the “Lal Dora” boundary of the village despite the fact that the villagers would not even have a piece of land to construct a house. |
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Villagers decry move to shift sports centre
Sonepat, November 30 A meeting of villagers was held here on November 27 in the presence of state media in charge of the BJP Rajiv Jain in this regard. At the meeting, the villagers resolved to oppose the move and announced to stage a dharna in protest against the move in front of the deputy commissioner’s office on January 1. Addressing the villagers, Jain alleged that union sports minister M.S. Gill was keen on shifting the centre from the village despite the fact that crores of rupees had already been spent on the development of the centre and hundreds of athletes and sportspersons received training in the centre. At least 300 athletes and players also received training in various games, including hockey, kabaddi, judo, under day boarding. He further said most of the coaches in the regional centre were opposed to the move and the contribution of the land by the villagers was made with the objective to help the youth of the area to shape up their career in sports. “A techno-gym with state-of-the-art facilities is nearing completion and Rs 8 crore has been reportedly sanctioned to construct a 200-bedded hostel for sportspersons in the centre,” he added. He said the village panchayat had given 83 acres at a token money rate of Rs 1 per acre on a 99-year lease at monthly lease money of Rs 100 only. |
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Death came as relief to her
Sirsa, November 30 Alpana (20) was a brilliant student of the local DMA College of Education and was pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in education, when suddenly life took a turn for the worse for her. She was coming home after purchasing some household items from a nearby shop, when Sonu, a cottage floor mill owner in the vicinity of her residence, allegedly made some unsavoury remarks at her on the evening of May 22. The boy had already been following Alpana and was in one-sided love with her. Alpana had spurned his proposal earlier too. When Sonu made some remarks on the fateful evening, Alpana reacted and asked him to desist from such behaviour. Infuriated at her refusal, Sonu lifted a cold drink bottle and hit it on Alpana’s head. The police had booked Sonu under sections 323, 324 and 307 of the IPC. She was rushed to a local hospital in an unconscious condition, from where she was referred to a neurosurgeon in Hisar. Alpana remained in a state of coma in the Hisar hospital for several days and had lost her senses after she was brought home. She often cried uncontrollably and had little sense of her surroundings. Neighbours, who had watched the vivacious Alpana growing, shuddered at her shrieks. Life had become hell for the girl, who was once a lively pal for her fellow students. On medications for the past six months, Alpana’s condition deteriorated on Friday and she breathed her last yesterday. |
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‘Mortality rate of HIV patients declining’
Karnal, November 30 Disclosing this here on the eve of World AIDS Day, president of HIV/AIDS Education and Research Organisation (HAERO) A.K. Kohli said the mortality rate of AIDS patients was 25 per cent in 1995, which came down to 10 per cent in 2003 and the declining trend was continuing. Precaution, prevention, awareness and medication were the four keys that could prevent AIDS and help patients infected by AIDS live longer, he added. He said the chances of AIDS among men were 0.2 per cent less than women and HAERO had launched a helpline to assist AIDS patients and give them necessary consultation. AIDS was not as dreaded a disease today as it used to be a few years ago and effective medicines to control AIDS were easily available in the market, he said, adding that there were a large number of AIDS patients leading normal life by taking medicines and other preventive measures. |
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288 cases settled at lok adalat
Kurukshetra, November 30 Secretary of the authority-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate N.K. Singhal said it was decided in the lok adalat that a compensation amount of Rs 22.69 lakh would be given away to the victims of the 18 motor vehicle accidents cases. All cases were settled with mutual constant in this lok adalat, Singhal added. In this lok adalat, Additional District and Sessions Judges Shekher Dhawan and Dr Nilima Shangla, fast track court’s S.S. Singh Dahiya, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Pradeep Kumar, Judicial Magistrates (first class) Ravneet and Renu Rana, as well as Subdivisional Judicial Magistrate, Pehowa, Gurvinder Kaur, also settled the cases. |
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Six get life term
Sonepat, November 30 Dharam Singh, Jai Bhagwan, Raj Kumar, Vijay and Raj Pal of Umedgarh village have been sentenced to life imprisonment by Additional and District Sessions Judge Lalit Batra for allegedly murdering Fakruddin, a resident of the same village, on May 4, 2005. A complaint was lodged against the accused by Fakruddin’s brother and former sarpanch of the village Ayub Khan. In another case, Additional District and Sessions Judge P. Nijjar sentenced Neeraj Dhawan of local Kalyan Nagar to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 for allegedly murdering his wife Seema on October 3, 2006. He was arrested by the police after Seema’s father Om Prakash lodged a complaint that Dhawan had started torturing Seema for dowry soon after her marriage and finally she was murdered. |
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2 held for looting bank
Karnal, November 30 The CIA branch of the police investigating the case gathered some vital clues and showed the photographs of criminals to the manager of the bank, who spotted two photographs, which resembled the faces of the robbers, who had looted Rs 5.81 lakh from the bank on November 21 at gunpoint. Special teams were rushed to nab the accused - Palvinder Singh from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh and Major Singh, a resident of Kaithal. The police arrested Palvinder Singh and another person Ajmer Singh from Ahmedgarh in Muzaffarnagar district. On interrogation, it was found that Ajmer Singh was another accused,
who was also involved in the robbery. The police recovered four live cartridges, a country-made pistol and Rs 50,000 each from the arrested persons. Karnal SSP A.S. Chawala said the accused, Major Singh, had also been identified. He said Palvinder Singh and Ajmer Singh would be produced before the court to seek their remand for further investigations to ascertain their involvement in other cases of crime also. Three armed persons had looted Rs 5.81 lakh from the bank by taking three employees and two customers present in the bank as hostage. |
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One booked on rape charge
Sonepat, November 30 The rape victim lodged a complaint with the police on Friday that her husband works in a call centre in Gurgaon and she, along with her three children, resides in Sector 12. Yash Pal, a resident of Fazilpur village and friend of her husband, came to her house when her children had gone to school and allegedly raped her. The police got her medically examined at the local Civil Hospital and doctors confirmed that the woman had been raped. After receiving a medical report, the police registered a case against the accused. |
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Elderly man gunned down
Jhajjar, November 30 Ramphal was rushed to the PGIMS, Rohtak, in a critical condition where he succumbed to his injuries. The police has registered a case against Kuldeep Singh of Kharawar village in Rohtak district, and three other persons under sections 302, 114, 25, 54 and 59 of the IPC on a complaint of the deceased’s son. In another incident, five persons, including a woman, were injured in a clash between two groups in Patuda village here this morning. The police, on getting information, rushed to the spot and took the injured - Kashmiri, Rajender, Vinod, Sunil and Ramesh - to the civil hospital. The condition of the injured is said to be out of danger. |
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HJC gears up for ‘vishvas rally’
Bhiwani, November 30 Founder of the party Bhajan Lal, HJC supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi and several other leaders of the party will address the rally. To make it a success, local leaders are holding meetings in rural as well as urban areas. Media in charge of the party Sanjay Gautam said the rally would be a high-tech event and a separate stage would be made for mediapersons. He said volunteers would be deployed at sensitive places to prevent untoward incidents. Arrangements had been made for the videography of vehicles and party workers would make efforts to avoid traffic jams, he added. He said Beijing Olympians would also be honoured at the rally. |
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