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Gurgaon Rally INLD secretary-general Ajay Singh Chautala addresses a press conference in Chandigarh on Saturday. Also seen in the picture is Kalka MLA Pradeep Chaudhary. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan Chak De Haryana: No invite for Selja
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Harness
nanotechnology: Experts
4 get life term
Students of MLN College, Yamunanagar, present an item on the concluding day of Ratnawali Festival in Kurukshetra on Saturday. Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar
Check on Spurious Sweets
Report child abuse or face action, police tells schools
Travel agent shot dead
Hooda Jr to approach PM on job avenues
Dera chief’s case adjourned
80-yr-old raped
Students say no to crackers
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Congress trying to play spoilsport: INLD
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 30 Addressing a press conference here today, the secretary-general of the INLD and Dabwali MLA, Ajay Singh Chautala, said the administration in various districts had been asked to divert vehicles, booked by their party, to the Congress rally in Sonepat on the same day. “Vehicles booked by us for our Gurgaon rally are being denied to us on flimsy grounds. Also, all these years and the entire monsoon season the government didn’t think that Gurgaon needed sewers. It is only over the past three days that they decided to get down to digging berms along roads leading to Gurgaon. Their intention is to play spoilsport but they hardly realise that our supporters will battle all odds to reach the venue,” he stated. Accompanied by Kalka MLA Pradeep Chaudhary and other leaders, he accused the government of mixing politics and sports. Claiming that the INLD was the first to announce its decision to honour the mediallists at its rally, Chautala said the Congress, in a hurry, announced a function to honour the players on the same day. “That function has now been converted into a rally. If Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda really wanted to honour only the players, he could have organised a function at his residence like the President and the Prime Minister, but he didn’t do so. That is enough to expose the government’s plan,” Chautala added. Stating that the Congress should have given a bigger amount as prize money, Chautala said the government hardly knew anything about sports or its sportspersons. “A full page advertisement in most newspapers got the players and their sport all wrong. What more can you expect from this government,” he said. He siad as many as 1,500 volunteers of the INLD would be present in a 40-km radius around the rally venue. On the high court order quashing the notification of upgrading the Panchkula Municipal Council to a municipal corporation, Chautala alleged that the government had tried to benefit the land mafia.
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Chak De Haryana: No invite for Selja
Hisar, October 30 Talking to mediapersons here today, Selja revealed that so far she had not received any invitation from the state government to attend the Rai rally. Asked if she would attend it if invited, Selja said she would decide only after she was invited formally. Selja is Haryana’s lone Cabinet minister in the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government. There have been reports of some serious political differences between her and Hooda. These issues had come to light in the wake of the violence against Dalits in Mirchpur village of the district in April. The Jat lobby in the Haryana Congress had tried to blame the inflexible attitude of the Dalit victims of the violence after the incident on Selja. She was also accused of financing the Dalits who had started a sit-in in New Delhi after the violence. The Union Minister said her presence or absence at the rally was immaterial, but sportspersons from the state should be encouraged in every way. She said the state’s sportspersons would perform even better at the Beijing Asiad next month. Asked whether she too felt that Rohtak and Jhajjar districts were cornering most of the development projects under the Hooda government, Selja said she believed that the entire state should get equitable share of development funds. She said she favoured reservation for Jats in government jobs on “economic basis”. She had been asked to comment on the issue by a mediaperson. She said she wanted the Hisar Gujari Utsav to be revived. In case any organisation came forward to organise it, there would be no dearth of funds for the purpose. Later, addressing members of the District Bar Association, she said lawyers from Hisar had played a big role in the struggle for independence. She paid tributes to Lala Lajpat Rai, who had started his legal career from Hisar. She announced a grant of Rs 11 lakh to the association out of Rajya Sabha MP Ishwar Singh’s MPLAD funds. Earlier, she was felicitated by association chief Kalam Singh.
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Harness
nanotechnology: Experts
Rohtak, October 30 This was the common refrain of scientists in the Indo-Japan seminar on “Nano materials for diagnostics and therapeutics” organised by the department of biochemistry of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) here today. Eminent scientist from Japan Professor Histoshi Kobayashi, who was the chief guest, said collaborative research would further the cause of higher studies and research in the sector. The scientists should cooperate to develop such technologies in order to deal with issues that had been a cause of concern for the mankind. Terming the exchange of ideas between scientists of different countries as important, Prof Kobayashi lauded the idea of a joint seminar. He said nanotechnology could be utilised effectively in tissue engineering. Professor Ashutosh Tiwari, Editor of International Journals of Material Sciences and Engineering and expert based in Japan, claimed that nano-biomaterials were emerging due to integration of nanotechnology and biomaterials. He said development of nano-biomaterials had been necessary to cater to the technological advances of contemporary times. According to Dr Avinash C Pandey of the university of Allahabad, the technology provided an opportunity for development of the new generation imaging tools to probe living processes at the molecular and cellular level. He said nanotechnology had the capability to realise the vision of wireless hospital in combination with information and communication technology. Professor and head of the department of biochemistry CS Pundir of the MDU said use of nano-particles had revolutionised the development of bio-sensors. Director (research), Professor Ishwar Singh, said scientists from different disciplines needed to join hands to further research in nanotechnology, which had multifold benefits in different spheres of life.
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4 get life term
Karnal, October 30 A case under Sections 302 and 34 of the IPC and Section 25 of the Arms Act was registered on the complaint of Arjun, son of the deceased. The Judge sentenced both the accused to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000. Chander Sen was also sentenced to three years of imprisonment and fined Rs 10,000 under the Arms Act for possessing an illegal weapon. The advocate of the complainant, Harish Arya, said during investigations Chander Sen confessed to have killed Satish as the latter doubted that he was having an affair with his wife. After preliminary inquiries, the police came to know that Satish Kumar had an old enmity with Chander Sen and suspected his hand in the crime. Chander Sen also had a quarrel with Satish Kumar over a wall last year, but they reached a compromise. However, Chander Sen had a grudge against Satish. JHAJJAR: The court of Additional Sessions Judge on Saturday sentenced two persons - Shiv Kumar of Sasroli village and Deepak of Charkhi Dadri in Bhiwani district - to life imprisonment for killing a couple at Saasroli village here five years ago. The court also slapped a penalty of Rs 50,000 each on them. The accused had murdered Ved Prakash and his wife Savita over some property dispute when they were asleep in their farms in 2005. The police had registered a case of murder against the duo and later arrested them.
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Ratnawali Festival concludes
Kurukshetra, October 30 The festival marked the silver jubilee of Ratnawali this year and over 3,000 artistes participated in the annual cultural extravaganza. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was the chief guest at the closing function, exhorted students to actively participate in extra-curricular activities as these were the “most powerful mode of self-expression”. “Haryana had a rich folk culture since the vedic era but it was systematically promoted and given a unique identity after Haryana became a full-fledged state in 1966 and Ratnawali, an exclusive cultural festival based on local folk music and dances, was started 25 years ago in 1985 to popularise and preserve the folk art and culture,” he said. Comparing Pt Lakhmi Chand, the famous Saang artiste, with Shakespeare, Hooda said Kurukshetra University was playing an exemplary role in preserving the art of Saang. He said through Saang, Haryanvi artistes communicated the philosophy of life to the common masses in a lucid and anecdotal manner. Hooda said Haryana had become the leading state of the country in the fields of industry, education, sports, infrastructure development and social security, and sportspersons from the state had shown their talent in the Commonwealth Games by winning 15 gold medals.
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Branded milk in demand
Bhanu P Lohumi Tribune News Service
Karnal, October 30 Most of the reputed sweetmeat shops have started preferring packed milk to loose milk, even though it costs more as reports about spurious milk and khoya have made people apprehensive about the quality of milk products. To instill confidence among customers, the sweetmeat shop owners are using double toned and full cream milk to prepare sweets. The price of a packed double toned and full cream milk was Rs 23 per kg and Rs 31 per kg, respectively, while the cost of loose milk was Rs 26 per kg. 10 kg of packed milk yielded 2.5 kg of mawa, while the same volume of loose milk produced 2 kg of mawa, said Vicky, a sweetmeat shop owner on the Minar road. Similarly, 40 kg of packed milk produced 8 kg of cheese while the same quantity of unpacked milk produced 6 kg of cheese. The lurking suspicion in the minds of customers about the quality of milk and milk products is also prompting them to go in for non-milk sweets like “besan ke laddo”, “sohan papri”, “petha” and “kaju barfi”. The prices of most of the non-milk sweets ranged between Rs 60 and Rs 100 per kg while the mawa sweets cost over Rs 180 per kg. The consumption of packed milk has shot up from 1.5 lakh kg to Rs 2 lakh kg per day and Mother Dairy and Lakshya Dairy have been supplying about 60,000 kg and 20,000 kg of milk every day. “It is an irony that pure milk is not available even in the dairy town of Karnal, what to talk of other places,” said an old farmer, who once had a herd of cows and buffaloes.
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Report child abuse or face action, police tells schools
Gurgaon, October 30 Referring to a recent report of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), he pointed out that the number of complaints about child abuse had nearly tripled in the past three years. The Police Commissioner pointed out that a number of cases of child abuse take place on school premises, adding that every such incident needed to be taken seriously and reported to the police. “Many a time, the school authorities tend to suppress or hide such incidents to protect the reputation of their institute,” he observed, adding that if it was found that the school authorities had tried to conceal an incident of child abuse, strict legal action would be taken against them. Deswal asserted that the school staff and children needed to be sensitised about the issue of child abuse and the children should be encouraged to report any such incident to their parents, school counsellor or senior police officers. He asked the schools authorities to display the contact numbers of the police control room (100; 0124-2316100) and child and women helpline (0124-2335100) on the school notice board, buses and other prominent places on the school premises. Defining child abuse, Deswal said as per the law, it included causing or permitting any harmful or offensive contact on a child’s body and any communication or transaction, which humiliates, shames or frightens the child.
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Travel agent shot dead
Panipat, October 30 According to eyewitnesses, four persons walked into the travel agency owned by the 55-year-old and fired at him. The employees of the travel agency, who were present on the spot, stated that the four assassins showed no haste in leaving the place. However, the employees said they started to attend to Rakesh and in the meantime, the assassins disappeared. Some of them even tried to chase the culprits, but to no avail. The employees immediately rushed the victim to a nearby hospital, where he was declared brought dead. Meanwhile, family members of the deceased told the police that Rakesh did not had any animosity with anybody. The police has registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC and various other Sections of the Arms Act against the four unidentified persons. It added that the motive behind the crime was yet to be ascertained. |
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Hooda Jr to approach PM on job avenues
Rewari, October 30 Addressing a workers’ meeting at Kosli here today, Hooda said while every 10th jawan in the Army belonged to Haryana, the representation of jawans of south Haryana in the Army was conspicuously larger. He said the triumphant spree of Haryanvi athletes in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games had displayed their excellence in the domain of sports as well.
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Dera chief’s case adjourned
Sirsa, October 30 The dera chief entered the court complex amidst tight police security at 10 in the morning and remained there till 3 pm. According to court sources, Dr Sushil Kumar Jain, a doctor from Apollo Hospital, Delhi, deposed before the court today. Chhatarpati was treated in the hospital from November 8, 2002, to November 21, 2002, under the supervision of Dr Jain before he succumbed to bullet injuries. The case was later adjourned for November 12, when hearing in the Ranjit murder case has also been listed. The dera chief will also have to appear before the court on November 9 in the case of alleged exploitation of a former sadhvi of the dera.
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80-yr-old raped
Panipat, October 30 Despite the fact that both victims had identified the accused and even had given all details to the police, including the addresses of the duo, the police so far had failed to nab the accused. According to sources, Mahabir Singh, a resident of Adhiyana village and his accomplice Roshan, a resident of Ahar village in the district, forcibly entered into the house of Inder Singh of Kurana village and raped his 36-year-old widow. Even before the victim, who was reportedly gagged by the accused, could raise the alarm, the duo slipped into Brahmanand Ashram, located in the same village, and sexually assaulted an 80-year-old woman. However, after knowing about the incident, the villagers started looking for the accused, but the duo managed to flee. On the complaint of the women, a case under Sections 376, 452 and 506 of the India Penal Code was registered against the two persons and further investigations are on. |
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Students say no to crackers
Sirsa, October 30 Dr KC Bhardwaj, Vice-Chancellor of the university, flagged off the rally. He said crackers caused a lot of pollution and not only human beings, but also animals were affected by it. Students carrying placards urged people to celebrate cracker-free Divali. Dr Manoj Siwach, registrar of the university, was also present.
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November 1 Gurgaon rally, being organised on Haryana Day to mark the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Devi Lal, alleging that the government was playing politics in the name of honouring sportspersons.
