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Initiative to harness micro watershed system launched
Thick fog engulfs Kumbh city, lesser turnout of pilgrim tourists
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Software engineer batters wife to death
Sushila Tewari Hospital store raided
Body of man found from roadside
Kumaon dead forced to wait for wood
Street vendors to launch nationwide stir
Landless people’s stir continues
Sharad Pawar’s 71st birthday celebrated
Avalon employees resent admn’s inaction
Book on poems released by Assembly Speaker
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Initiative to harness micro watershed system launched
Shuklapur (Dehradun), December 12 The 5-hectare forest has been feeding the nearby Asan river and villagers were also dependent on it for their fuel and fodder needs. Over the years, it was found that the water discharge from the watershed to the river had decreased. There was growth of Lanata weeds and the entire hillock
was also facing problem of landslides. At the initiative of Dr Anil Joshi of HESCO, a joint strategy was formed to involve all villagers in nurturing the forest and keep the local flora and fauna intact. Besides intense plantation and removal of weeds, it was also decided by the Forest Department to construct check dams, percolation pits and ponds to check soil erosion and develop water-retaining capacity of the forest. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests of Uttarakhand Dr RBS Rawat emphasised the need for an integrated and sustainable development of the villages. Eminent environmentalist Sunder Lal Bahuguna said there was a need to start cultivation of forests to save human beings. He advocated planting of various fruit trees in the forests and on the hills. Students of Doon School, Vivek High School from Chandigarh and Maharani Gayatri Devi School from Jaipur also participated in the
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Thick fog engulfs Kumbh city, lesser turnout of pilgrim tourists
Hardiwar, December 12 Visibility was quite poor till noon, making movement of traffic on national highways and inner city roads quite tough. Though no major accident due to the thick fog was reported, yet many incidents came to notice wherein major accidents could have happened due to poor visibility on National Highway No. 58 and on major intersections like Ranipur Mod, Bhagat Singh Chowk, Rishikul tri intersection and SIDCUL industrial area. The impact of the change in the weather was also felt as fewer tourist pilgrims came despite it being a Sunday. The ghats were also not so abuzz, particularly in the morning, and it was only late in the noon when the fog faded and movement of people increased in the city. Highway traffic too gained momentum by afternoon, but the chilling water made many people refrain from a full-bath dip and instead they were seen sprinkling themselves with water only. People were seen lighting roadside fire to keep themselves warm. Villagers and slum dwellers on bordering areas of the Raja Ji National Park and outskirts of Shivalik Forest terrains were busy collecting wood sticks for fire purposes. It was a busy day for tea and coffee vendors as people opted for these brewages in order to keep themselves warm on this chilling Sunday. Traffic police personnel too found themselves on the harsh side as they had to manage traffic in foggy conditions with poor visibility making them too vulnerable to accidental clash. A woman police constable at the Bhagat Singh Chowk on the busy BHEL road said due to sudden foggy condition it was quite difficult to manage traffic with many vehicles escaping near collision. “It was quite chilly early in the morning, so I packed myself with woollen clothes, cap and pullovers while going to office as it’s colder while riding a two-wheeler. My face was red, hands cold and I was almost shivering with cold when I reached the office. If this is the weather on the first foggy day of the winter season, the coming days are bound to be more cold,” said Arti Sharma, an employee at Gurukul Pharmacy. |
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Software engineer batters wife to death
Dehradun, December 12 As per the police, the engineer murdered his wife Anupama on October 17 after stuffing cloth in her mouth and smashing her head with a heavy iron object. He then cut her body into eight to
10 pieces. Accused Delhi native Rajesh Gulati was living in a rented house here along with his two small
children. SP (City) Jagatram Joshi said the couple had a long-standing personal dispute due to which the husband killed the wife. The accused had told his two small children that their mother had gone
to New Delhi. The engineer kept updating his wife’s email address and other social network sites in order to misguide her Delhi-based family and friends. Of late, he told family members and neighbours that she had gone missing and informed the police about it. The policemen initially believed what he said, but after her disappearance the police got suspicious and found out the truth. The policemen started searching for the woman and first launched a search in the house. And to their utter shock, they found her body stuffed in a polythene bag and stored in the freezer of a refrigerator. |
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Sushila Tewari Hospital store raided
Nainital, December 12 He carried out the raid and found that irregularities were being carried out with impunity. Professor Jayala is learnt to have removed the entire staff posted in the store and is now mulling
a detailed probe into the operations of the store by an external agency. He found that the registers were not being maintained properly and entries had not been made since last month. Similarly, there were a large number of bills that had been left pending by the store staff. Even the bills carried several errors. Professor Jayala came face to face with the reality of mismanagement, as there was no record of arrival and distribution of stocks. Even the stocks that were available in the store were not accounted for and had been kept in a disorganised manner. Professor Juyala ordered sealing and seizures of all registers. He also ordered instant attachment of the entire store staff to the office of the Principal. He is learnt to have conveyed that mismanagement would not be tolerated and those guilty would face departmental action warranted by
their misdeeds. Sources disclosed that there had been complaints of mismanagement coming right from the time when the Sushila Tewari Memorial Trust was running the hospital. There is also a point of view that proper investigations in the matter by an external agency could lead to uncovering of a major scam. The hospital is the biggest medical institution in the entire Kumaon region and caters to hundreds of patients on a daily basis. |
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Body of man found from roadside
Baby girl found
abandoned An unidentified woman abandoned a newborn baby girl child at the Doon Women Hospital here last evening. As per nurses, the baby is estimated to be born about 10 days ago. The staff of the hospital had spotted a new-born baby abandoned in an open place on the hospital premises. They tried to search for its mother, but no one was found. They informed the matter to the police and took the child in their own care. The condition of the girl is said to be stable. The cops are looking for her parents.
Dehradun, December 12 According to information, residents of Tuntowala village in Patelnagar spotted the body of a man lying in a pool of blood in the fields near the link road to Mehuwala
with a motorcycle with bloodstains near it. Consequently they informed the cops. A police team that rushed to the spot identified the body as that of Madan Singh Negi, resident of Kailashpur village. The cops said the deceased might have been hit by an unidentified vehicle and his head appeared to have struck a stone with an impact, which resulted in his death. Meanwhile, the deceased person’s family members told mediapersons that Madan was employed in a beer manufacturing unit. Due some undisclosed reasons, he had recently resigned from his service. Other than this, the more than one deep injury mark on deceased person’s head and bloodstains on the motorcycle also made them suspect that he was murdered. The police has promised the family that a thorough investigation will be conducted to ascertain the matter which led to his death. |
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Kumaon dead forced to wait for wood
Nainital, December 12 The issue first came to light on Thursday when relatives of four deceased persons had to wait for hours at the Chitrashila Ghat in Haldwani before they could cremate their dead. The reason for their long wait was that there was no wood available for the cremation. The cremation ground at Haldwani is the most prominent one as people from the entire surrounding areas prefer to cremate their dead there. On an average 10 and 15 bodies are consigned to the flames there daily. A truck full of wood barely lasts a day and a half here. On Thursday, there was no wood available at the depot and initially people used whatever small twigs were available and went around collecting small pieces, but the bodies brought later in the day from areas as far as Okhalkanda block and Kusumkheda could not be cremated as there was nothing left in the name of wood. The relatives of the deceased created a scene and called up senior officials of the Forest Corporation. It was only when the wood was made available later in the day that they could cremate their dead. The officials say that the consumption of the wood at the cremation grounds in Haldwani has increased and this has been coupled with the decline in cutting of trees in the region. With appropriate wood not readily available in the area, the wood for cremation is at present being brought from
Roorkee. The officials say additional trucks have been pressed into service for the purpose. They hope that with the fresh cutting of wood scheduled to begin in January, things will be sorted out. Reports of shortage of wood for cremation have also been coming from Vishwanath Ghats in
Almora. A large number of people led by Congress leaders have approached the local administration with a memorandum on the issue. They have alleged that the problem has persisted for more than a month and despite regular reminders to the officials concerned on the issue, nothing has been done to address the issue. A forum of Uttarakhand statehood activists has also criticised the government for failing to address this issue. |
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Street vendors to launch nationwide stir
Dehradun, December 12 Chopra was arrested while he was leading a protest against scam in the allocation for lottery spaces at the Haridwar Municipality Committee office on November 30. He was sent to jail later. A demonstration was held in Delhi on December 10 on International Human Rights Day. The association has called upon its member organisations across the country to organise protests against this police action. Representative of NASVI from Delhi Ranjit Abhigyan, who reached here yesterday, said the the organisation would also handover memorandums to the Union Home Minister and Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in Delhi and would fax it to the Uttarakhand Governor and the Chief Minister to intervene into the matter and ensure release of the jailed leader. Abhigyan also called on the Haridwar District Magistrate, Senior Superintendent of Police and Chairperson of Municipal Corporation and submitted letters of protest
and demands. Before leaving for Delhi, Abhigyan said: “Instead of implementing a national policy for street vendors and showing commitments to honour the recent Supreme Court verdict upholding the fundamental rights of the vendors, the Uttarakhand Government and its municipal bodies are engaged in evicting vendors and arresting their leaders”. Terming the charges levelled against Chopra as frivolous and concocted, Abhigyan said the Haridwar Municipal authorities, particularly its Executive Officer BL Arya, are giving the whole episode
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Hith Sangathan to teach a lesson to corrupt ministers, officers
Dehradun, December 12 Vir Singh Rawat, president of the association, in a press conference said, “I congratulate all PRD jawans on the completion of the 63rd year of the
PRD and we determine to eradicate corruption”. “From now on we will not hold any protests or dharnas, but will teach a lesson to corrupt officers in our own way like beating them up in their offices,” he added. Rawat alleged the trained PRD jawans were sitting idle, while untrained jawans had been given jobs in government departments and were enjoying all perks due to recommendations
of ministers and other influential people. Rawat demanded CD, CID and CBI inquiries into the recruitment of untrained jawans. He said due to the corrupt attitude of the ministers, he had decided to contest elections from the Doiwala constituency. He said 6,431 unemployed PRD jawans who were given 22-day training by the government had not been given jobs and were forced to work as daily wagers. The association has also demanded to increase the number of days of training. As per Rawat, in Dehradun only 80 per cent untrained jawans were employed. He stated the government itself had found 300 fake untrained jawans in Doon and the number was even more. |
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Landless people’s stir continues
Nainital, December 12 After going around the town they once again handed over a memorandum to the local administration. The agitators have started a dharna at the premises of the SDM’s office. “Despite the high court’s order for the allocation of 1,193 acres for distribution after the ceilings, the government has done nothing in this regard,” they alleged. The agitators have threatened to intensify the stir in the coming days if their demands were not met. The agitation is also having support of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and various other public forums. |
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Sharad Pawar’s 71st birthday celebrated
Dehradun, December 12 Members of the Nationalist Women Congress and the Nationalist Farmers Congress also held a discussion on the subject of progress of Uttarakhand. Speaking on the occasion about Sharad Pawar, state president Divya Nautiyal said the party workers should learn from Pawar who always lived a simple and upheld high moral values. State general secretary Manoj Dhayani said the state unit of the party was determined to take the organisation to further heights. He also praised Pawar saying that he exemplified the meteoric rise in political life by holding important positions in politics and cricket at the national level. State women president Savitri Uniyal said she would urge Pawar to give more space to women in the state by making them members of the party. She also added that women in Uttarakhand had been contributing largely to the progress of the state from the days of statehood struggle. On this occasion, president of Youth Affairs Shailash Verma, treasurer Harish Satti and other senior party members such as Sachin, Kapil Batra and Roopchandra were also present. |
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Avalon employees resent admn’s inaction
Mussoorie, December 12
The employees have been protesting against the dismissal of some workers at the resort by the management. President of the Hotel Karamchari Mahasangh Sobhan Singh Panwar also said they would keep on protesting till their demands were met. He also said the trade unions supporting the resort workers had also decided that a massive strike would be organised on December 31 in Mussoorie. |
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60 units of blood collected
Dehradun, December 12 The camp aimed at spreading awareness amongst the community on the importance of blood donation and how a drop of blood donated can be instrumental in saving someones life. On the occasion, Rajiv
Kapoor, commodity head, said, "We feel more connected through such activities. By donating blood
we are indirectly saving many lives". |
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Book on poems released by Assembly Speaker
Dehradun, December 12 Sharma said the book related to the issues on the holy Ganga, nature, environment, peace, humanity, importance of every drop of water, fading human relations, underprivileged children, hard realities and hopes. The book is forwarded by Swami Avdheshanand Giri.
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