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No place for the dead to rest in peace
Portion of the Tehri Lake under which most of the
cremation grounds of the villagers lie buried.
Shahzadi Bano wins mehndi competition at college fest
Participants of the mehndi competition at Shravan Nath Math Jawaharlal Nehru College in Haridwar
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2 held for theft in Doon, goods recovered
Anuj steers Chandragupta to victory in cricket tourney
Thousands of Kanwariyas throng Haridwar
Foreign tourists at Malviya Ghat in Haridwar on Friday. Tribune photograph: Rameshwar Gaur
Players in action in a match in the Narayan Gurung Memorial Football Tournament in Dehradun on
Friday. A Tribune photograph
Proposals on nursing schools rejected
Members of the People’s Forum of Uttarakhand stage a protest in Dehradun on Friday. A Tribune photograph
Victory for Five Star Club
A batsman plays a defensive shot in a match in the 60th Dehradun District Cricket League in Dehradun on Friday. A Tribune photograph
Volleyball c’ship from today
IT raids on Doon builders
DMC drive against encroachment
BRO workers buried in landslide saved
2 held for poaching
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No place for the dead to rest in peace
Mussoorie, February 17 The Tehri hydropower project that promised to change the face of the region and usher in development and employment opportunities has failed even to provide proper cremation grounds, thus having an adverse affect on the psyche of the local villagers, who face immense difficulty in performing the last rites for their loved ones as most of the traditional grounds have been submerged under the Tehri lake. The indifferent attitude of the district administration and Tehri Hydro Development Authority can be gauged from the fact that after agreeing in the meeting of July 13, 2011, on constructing the ghats or cremation grounds at 23 places around the lake, no action has been initiated so far. Added to that, the electrically-run cremation centres established at New Tehri have also been ruined due to lack of maintenance, forcing the residents to look for alternative arrangements. With the submergence of several villages under the Tehri lake, the traditional cremation grounds on the banks of the river Baghirati (Ganga) on one side and Bhilangana on the other were buried forever under the 42 sq.km lake. The Tehri Hydro Development Authority under the master plan for rehabilitating the affected villagers had constructed two electrically-run cremation centres at H block in 2000 as an alternative arrangement but both the centres have been reduced to shambles and are out of use. For the residents of Dharwal, Sunargaon, Maindkhal and Dhamari villages in Thauldhar block, the ordeal is more painful. Sant Singh from Dhanari village, explaining the ordeal in detail, says: “Tehri Dam has come as a bane for them as they have lost their basic traditional right to perform the last rituals for their near and dear ones on the banks of the same river (which has now been converted into the lake) on which the Hindu mythological King Baghirath had once forced Ganga’s descent to earth for purification of the souls of the 60,000 sons of an ancient ruler, who had been burnt to ashes by an enraged ascetic.” “The villagers now are forced to perform the last rites of their near ones either at Dharasu in Uttarakashi district or at Haridwar, that is not only expensive but also painstakingly cumbersome,” added Sant Singh. The villagers around the lake from Thauldhar block in Ganga river to Jakhnidhar block in Bhilangana river are demanding from the administration to adhere to its commitment of 2009 where it had directed the authorities to construct around 23 ghats. The district administers also consented that cremation grounds were proposed at places such as Chinyali Saur, Tuliyana, Pitara, Jalku, Kadan, Syalgi, Jakhni Dhar, Bhanso, Dharm Ghat, Zero Bridge,Khandu, Kunjeshwar Mahadev, Tiwad Gaon, Pilkhi and Deval Mulani. The concerned authorities have once again been directed to complete the work this year. The villagers are, however, skeptic in this regard and are of the view that due to the dam they have not only lost their right to live but also to die peacefully.
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Shahzadi Bano wins mehndi competition at college fest
Haridwar, February 17 While Shahzadi Bano was adjudged the winner of the contest and Neha Aggarwal and Pinki Kumari secured the second position, Megha Mishra stood third. Participants showed their talent by making beautiful mehndi designs. Dr Gita Joshi, principal of Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Sati Kund, Kankhal, who was the chief judge for the event, lauded the efforts of the girl students. He asked the students to help in ensuring a clean environment on the college campus like their beautiful mehndi designs. Joshi added that competition was imperative in life as it propelled one to higher pedestals and made him or her excel in sports, studies and other co-curricular activities. College union president Prerna Kainthola, who coordinated the event, said more such events would be held during the annual festival week. He told the students to enrol themselves for the events. Dr Avneet Kumar Ghilidyal, Dr SK
Batra, Dr Sanjay Maheswari, Dr Saraswati Pathak,NN Bhardwaj, Dr Manmohan Gupta, Dr Nalini
Jain, Dr JC Arya, Shalini Sharma, Vinay Thapliyal, Dr Bharti Sharma, Shruti, Aditi, Babli Sharma, among others, also assisted the chief judge in adjudging the winners.
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2 held for theft in Doon, goods recovered
Dehradun February 17 The accused committed burglary in the house which remained locked for many days. The laptop and mobile set, which was stolen from the house of Dr Suchit Kumar, resident of Saket Colony, here, have been recovered. The camera and other items stolen from the house of Amrender Tripathi, professor in DIT institute, have also been recovered from him. The accused worked as plumber and stole taps from the houses as well. After his interrogation, the police has also recovered two DVD sets, a fridge, an LCD, a cylinder, a fan, a CPU, a monitor and a tape-recorder from him. Meanwhile, Mala, who earlier worked at the house of Dinesh Kumar, a Doordarshan employee and resident of East Patel Nagar in the city, was caught for stealing 8 tola of gold, 5 tola silver and Rs 30,000, when the owner of the house left with his wife, who ran a parlour at Patel Nagar, for a wedding on February 11 and returned yesterday to see the jewellery and cash missing from home. The police recovered the jewellery and cash from Mala at Shimla bypass when she was leaving for Saharanpur to sell the items with her mother. Her brother, who has been accomplice, is still at large.
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Anuj steers Chandragupta to victory in cricket tourney
Dehradun, February 17 The first match was played between Chandragupta and Ranjit Juniors in which Chandragupta scored 81 runs. Cadet Anuj scored 20 runs and was the highest scorer from the Chandragupta section. Meanwhile, Cadet Dhruv, Cadet BN Gogoi and Cadet Anshul took one wicket each from Ranjit’s side. In reply, Ranjit Juniors toiled hard to score 82 runs and were finally able to score the given target in 11.4 overs with the help of Cadet Abhay Singh, who scored 15 runs. Cadet Shivakant took two wickets on the behalf of the Chandragupta section. The umpires for the match were PK Sharma and UP Dalvi. The second match was played between Ranjit and Chandragupta seniors in which Chandragupta scored 121 runs at the loss of two wickets in 15 overs. Captain Harsh Arora was the top scorer with 51 runs, not out. From Ranjit seniors’ side, Cadet Divyaraj took the only wicket. In reply, Ranjit started on a very promising note but the downfall of the middle-order batsmen lead to their loss with 35 runs. The highest scorer from Ranjit was Cadet Shiv Shakti Sharma with 20 runs. The umpires for the match were T Selven and Birjesh Chauhan. Meanwhile, on the third day of the tournament yesterday, two matches were played. In the first match, Chandragupta Juniors beat Shivaji Juniors by nine runs. The Chandragupta section scored 53 runs all out. Cadet Shailesh scored 12 runs and was the highest scorer from Chandragupta section. Meanwhile, Cadet Devesh, Cadet Vikash and Cadet Ujjawal took 2 wickets each from
Shivaji side. In the second innings Shivaji Juniors toiled hard to score 54 runs and were finally all out for 45 runs in 9.5 overs, losing the match by nine runs. Cadet Devesh scored the highest 15 runs, whereas Cadet Shiva Kant took 5 wickets with a hat-trick on behalf of Chandragupta section, and was adjudged the man of the match. The umpires for this match were P.K.Sharma and U Dalvi. In the second match, Pratap Seniors defeated Ranjit section by 43 runs. Batting first, Pratap scored 120 runs all out in 15 overs. Cadet. Mayank Dhama was the top scorer with 40 runs. From Ranjit seniors’ side Cadet Ankit Singh showed the magic of his bowling and took 3 wickets. In reply, Ranjit started on a very promising note but following the downfall of the middle-order batsmen, the team was all out for 77 runs, losing the match by 43 runs. Highest scorer from Ranjit section was Cadet Divya Raj with 41 runs. Umpires for this match were T Selven and Birjesh Chauhan.
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Thousands of Kanwariyas throng Haridwar
Haridwar, February 17 Quite enchanted by the devotion of these Kanwariyas, traditionally attired in saffron clothes, with bamboo kanwars on their shoulders, which they bring to fetch the holy Ganga jal from Brahamkund, Har-Ki-Pauri sanctum sanctorum, foreign citizens seem to be admiring the religious-spiritual diversity of India. As Kanwariyas make their kanwars at Pantdeep and Laljiwala areas near Har-Ki-Pauri, foreigners keenly watch the kaleidoscopic kanwars, rituals associated with the holy Ganga jal fetching and also enquire about the religious-mythological aspect related with the kanwar pilgrimage. Be it from United States of America, Brazil, European nations such as Spain, Austria, Italy, Germany or Finland, a number of foreign tourists can be seen amidst the Kanwariyas. Eleina, a Russian, termed this ongoing festival as a colourful event and pointed out that such a large number people coming from across the region was quite amazing. Many of these foreign visitors also clicked photographs of various moods of Kanwariyas so that they could show the snaps of the fair to their family members and friends back home. With this festival being quite peaceful as compared to the monsoonal event when last year a whopping record 1 crore Kanwariyas had visited Uttarakhand, foreigners, too, feel safe. Otherwise, during monsoons the foreigners avoid coming here, considering the sheer volume of Kanwariyas that come from states such as Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Some of them also remarked that be it Mahakumbh or the festival of Kanwariyas, the city of Haridwar is widely known around the world, and with Rishikesh being in close proximity, this city is the first stoppage for majority of the tourists, who then move to Rishikesh for yoga learning.
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Shivalik Club to take on Vijay Cantt in semis
Dehradun, February 17 In the first quarterfinal match, Shivalik Club defeated Gorkha Boys 2-1. It was Parveen of Gorkha Boys who scored the first goal for his team in the 35th minute. In the next minute, Manish scored the equaliser for Shivalik Club. Later, Ayush scored the second goal for his team in the 40th minute to make it 2-1. In the second match, the Five Vikas team, comprising Tibetan players, trounced Wills Youth 5-4 in an exciting match via a tiebreaker. In the stipulated time, both the teams were tied at 1-1. It was Tsering of Five Vikas who scored a self-goal in the 25th minute but later Tashi scored another brilliant field goal to equalise in the 50th minute. In the tiebreaker, Tashi, Tsering, Nawang and Tashi Dorjee scored their penalties. Finally, Five Vikas won the match 5-4. Garhwal Sporting will take on Five Vikas while Vijay Cantt will fight Shivalik Club in the semi-finals of the tournament to be played today.
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Proposals on nursing schools rejected
Dehradun, February 17 At a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Subash Kumar, six proposals regarding setting up of private nursing schools in the state were rejected. Instead, the Chief Secretary said a subcommittee would be constituted with members comprising Additional Secretary (Finance), Additional Secretary (Medical Education) and Director General (DG), Health. They would be entrusted with the task of examining the proposals. “Only those proposals that are according to the norms of Indian Council of Nursing would be brought before the committee and entertained,” he said. He also asked the Principal Secretary, Medical Education, to issue a government order regarding norms of the Indian Nursing Council. The Chief Secretary also stressed on the need to activate the Para Medical Council that should now take decisions regarding para-medical institutions. The empowered committee was constituted in the absence of Para-Medical Council.
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PFU protests against RTI activist’s murder
Dehradun, February 17 Jagmohan Mehndiratta, a patron, said Chauhan was fighting against corruption in Haridwar district and used the RTI Act often to expose corrupt people. It was unfortunate that the government, which talked of giving protection to the RTI activists, failed to protect Chauhan, he added. Rajiv Kothari, spokesman of the Uttarakhand Parivartan Party, said the members of the PFU denounced the act and demanded security for the RTI activists. He said it was first of its kind in the city and needed to be probed by the CBI. The corrupt people should not be allowed to dampen the morale of RTI activists, he averred. Rakesh Pant, a member, said the murderers of Chauhan must be punished.
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Victory for Five Star Club
Dehradun, February 17 Batting first the Khalsa team was all out at a score of 131 runs. Honey scored highest 61 runs. Chasing the target, Five Star easily got to the target score, thereby ensuring 4-wicket win for itself. Parnay contributed 42 runs to the Five Star’s score. Tomorrow Doon Combined will take on New Indian Star, whereas Five Star Club will clash with Vikasnagar team.
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Volleyball c’ship from today
Dehradun , February 17 The teams participating in the boys’ category are as under:- Dolphin A, Dolphin B, DBIT, Beehive, Doon Business School, ICFAI, ITM, Tulas Institute, SBS Institute, Nalanda B.Ed. College, Uttaranchal Ayurvedic College, Peestlebeed College, Uttaranchal Institute, Graphic Era University, Gyani Inder Singh Institute, Uttaranchal Institute of Management and Uttaranchal Institute of Technology.
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IT raids on Doon builders
Dehradun, February 17 Sahani builders and Kochar builders owned by Narender Singh Sahni and Parvinder Singh Kochar, respectively, in the day and sealed their six lockers and seized documents which indicated embezzlement and tax evasion of a high level running into several crores. The team is yet to open the lockers. The team equipped with 40 IT officers and 20 police personnel began raids at 8 in the morning, which continued throughout the day. The house-cum-office of Narender Singh Sahni at Race Course and residence of Parvinder Singh Kochar at Chander Road and Luxmi Road and office at Rajpur were raided during the day. The raids at their various places will continue throughout night.
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DMC drive against encroachment
Dehradun, February 17 Besides this they also removed encroachment inside the Uttaranchal Ayurvedic College on Canal Road measuring more than half a bigha. It also retrieved control over more than three bigha land on Canal Road where walls were erected at many places to encroach upon the land under DMC control. The team equipped with sufficient police force.
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BRO workers buried in landslide saved
Pithoragarh, February 17 The incident occurred when a bulldozer was being operated for widening the highway to Dharchula. The road, being widened by Border Roads Organisation, suddenly gave way, burying 7 labourers under it. The police, SSB and disaster mitigation teams rushed to the spot and with their help, seven labourers were pulled out of the debris.
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2 held for poaching
Dehradun, February 17 One among the arrested has even confessed poaching the tiger, whose pelt was seized recently in Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh. According to the park sources, the two were nabbed from the Van Gujjar settlement in the Shyampur range in a joint operation undertaken by the state police, Haridwar forest division and the park authorities. The two have been identified as Alijan and Biku.
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Mussoorie, February 17
Shravan Nath Math Jawaharlal Nehru College organised a ‘mehndi’ competition as part of its annual festival here today.
Foreigners savour blend of faith and devotion
Dehradun, February 17
