With no regular supply, women of Rajpura village in Hisar district have to travel long distance to get water. Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar |
Bishnoi keeps options open for future alliances
Hisar, December 4
By withholding the announcement of the names of the Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) nominees for eight of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state at the recent Bhiwani rally, Kuldeep Bishnoi has kept his options for an alliance with the BSP or any other party open for the time being.
Terror in Mumbai
‘Politicians need to rise above vote-bank politics’
Karnal, December 4
Will political bigwigs ever learn a lesson from national tragedies like the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai and rise above vote-bank politics?
Inside Babudom
Senior-junior ‘war’ hampers work
Chandigarh, December 4
If coordinated working in districts is Haryana government’s agenda, it is far away from success with the senior-junior tug-of-war eclipsing the administration’s working with personality clashes at meetings.
Lakshmi crowned Mrs Millennium City
Gurgaon, December 4
Lakshmi Iyer has been crowned Mrs Millennium City 2008 in an event organised by
LeagueOne, a retail marketing company. Shruti Bansal has been declared the first runner up while Vandana Mathur grabbed the second runner up title.
The company organised the event for the first time exclusively for married women of the city at DLF City Club here recently.
Ten selected contestants celebrated their womanhood in style by actively participating in the contest with four rounds of ramp walks followed by a questions and answers session to judge the perfect combination of beauty and brain.
The winners of the Mrs Millennium City 2008 contest in
Gurgaon. Photo: Rajesh Kumar Yadav |
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Post-facelift, Ferozshah Mahal
gets more visitors
Hisar, December 4
The archives department has recently renovated Ferozshah Mahal here at a cost of Rs 10
lakh. The restoration exercise has led to an increase in the number of visitors to the palace. These also include groups of students from local colleges and universities.
Assistant conservator B.B. Kaul said his department was concerned over increasing encroachments around important historical sites in the district and despite repeated notices to shopkeepers to remove encroachments, none of them heeded to the pleas.
The renovated corridor of Ferozshah Mahal in
Hisar. Tribune photo: Subhash Kumar |
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Job scheme benefits 1700 households
Jhajjar, December 4
The ambitious central government-funded National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is proving a boon for poor farmers, unemployed youths and women of the rural areas in the district. This scheme is ensuring an income of Rs 6,000 per annum to the poor. Employment of 52,832 man-days has so far been generated and nearly 1700 households have been benefited under this ambitious scheme.
Govt campaign to publicise achievements
Fatehabad, December 4
With the Lok Sabha elections drawing near, the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government has launched a vigorous campaign to publicise its achievements during the past three- and- a
half- year. In the month- long campaign that began on December 1, the publicity wing of the information and public relations department has been asked to reach out to each and every village of the state.
A folk media unit of the information and public relations department performs
in a village in Fatehabad. A Tribune photograph |
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Murrah buffaloes face extinction: Experts
Rohtak, December 4
Among other things, the district is famous for its murrah breed of buffaloes. However, experts have cautioned that murrah may be a thing of the past if attention is not paid towards its upkeep and trading practices, besides scientific methods of cattle and dairy farming. There are about 3.40 lakh murrah buffaloes in the district out of a total of about 60 lakh in the state.
Norms relaxed for posts of Hindi teacher
Chandigarh, December 4
The Haryana Staff Selection Commission has decided to consider the candidates who have passed BA with Hindi as one of the elective subject, BEd with Hindi as a teaching subject and MA in Hindi, eligible for the posts of Hindi teacher.
Gita Jayanti Samaroh from Dec 6
Chandigarh, December 4
The Kurukshetra Utsav-Gita Jayanti Samaroh will be organized jointly by the Kurukshetra Development Board (KDB), Kurukshetra; the North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala; and the information and public relations and tourism departments of Haryana at Kurukshetra from December 6 to December 9.
Hospital on construction spree without approval
Karnal, December 4
Flouting building laws with impunity seems to have become an article of faith with local Mahabir Dal Hospital, run by a charitable trust. Even as building plans in respect of some structures already raised had not been approved by the municipal council, it went ahead with more such constructions in the name
of charity.
400 take part in children’s science congress
Rewari, December 4
The 16th state-level National Children’s Science Congress (NCSC) that concluded here recently. It was held under the auspices of Haryana Vigyan Manch
(Rohtak), in R.B.S. Model Public School. 400 students from over 100 senior secondary as well as high schools of the 18 districts of the state participated in this two-day science congress.
Winners of the Children’s Science Congress receive prizes from
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Awareness drives mark NCC Day
Ambala, December 4
To commemorate NCC Day, weeklong celebrations were held in Ambala, Karnal, Yammunanagar, Kurukshetra, Jind and Sonipat districts.
Conference of French tutors in India concludes
Kurukshetra, December 4
A two-day national conference of French tutors in India on "the challenges of foreign language teaching in India, with special reference to French" organised by the department of foreign languages, Kurukshetra University, in collaboration with the embassy of France in India, concluded at the senate hall of the university here recently.
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