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Violation of environment
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Devotees at Dholera, Markandeya temples to get more facilities
Educational Institutions Regulatory panel
Tibetans hold protest demanding release of Panchen Lama
Buddhist monks carry flags and wear masks of their leader Panchen Lama at a rally demanding his release a day before his birthday in Dharamsala on Wednesday. Photo: Kamaljeet
Vigilance busts drug racket
Accused Sunil Kumar and Surinder Pal in Vigilance custody in Dharamsala on Wednesday.
Photo: Kamaljeet
BJP upset at misdeeds being exposed, says Chauhan
Four-day Samuel Slater inter-school English debate begins
Parmar university staff organise gate rally
Theatre workshop at IIAS from today
‘Delay’ in 108 ambulance arrival costs woman her life
Kullu Zila Parishad bags award
People fed up with UPA govt: Dhumal
Palampur Civil Hospital gets new Senior Medical Officer
Rs 4.33 crore granted for repair of NH-1 stretch
Forest guard suspended for illicit felling of trees
Leopard attacks auto driver
251 donate blood on World Donation Day
Excise and Taxation Minister Parkash Chaudhary inaugurates a blood donation camp at Dadour
on Wednesday.
Reduce cement bag price, firms urged
Woman hit by car, dies
Case registered against BJP vice-president
Stray bull attacks villager
750 gm charas seized, 1 held
Private, HRTC bus crew clash, 1 hurt
4 injured as bus hits hillock 66 donate blood at Lunj village Dinesh is Director of Co-op Bank
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Allotment of 29 hydro power projects to pvt sector Rakesh Lohumi Tribune News Service
Shimla, April 24 The Congress has been all through maintaining that the previous BJP regime had caused a huge loss to the state exchequer by switching over to free power-based bidding as only a fixed upfront premium of Rs 20 lakh per MW was charged. The additional free power quoted by independent power producers (IPPs) to secure projects was meaningless as most of the projects have not even taken off and it may take another decade for commissioning. The Congress government had introduced upfront money-based competitive bidding for projects of more than 100 MW in 2006 and the first lot of three projects with combined capacity of 1,125 MW fetched Rs 485 crore. The second lot of seven projects with aggregate generation capacity of 1,848 MW was even better and awarded through global bidding route fetched a one-time upfront premium of Rs 862 crore. Transport Minister GS Bali, who has been raising the issue while in opposition, maintains that the change in bidding system is a big scam. The upfront premium-based bidding fetched an average of Rs 75 per MW whereas the BJP regime fixed it at Rs 20 lakh per MW. It allotted projects with aggregate capacity of over 1,300 MW and the state lost Rs 750 crore as a result. If one takes interest on it into account the total loss will run into several thousand crores of rupees as the amount doubles every five years. The companies are sitting over projects as there is no penalty for delay in execution. Principal Secretary SKBS Negi said the matter was under consideration and a decision would be taken before inviting bids for the allotment of projects. The 29 projects proposed to be allotted include 960-MW Jhangi-Thopan-Powari, 98-MW Sitingari, 76-MW Mane Nandang, 65-MW Pattam, 60-MW Lara, 60-MW Ropa, 49-MW Siul Surgani, 37-MW Balsoti, 18-MW Janglik and 16.5-MW Duneli-Darkund. While reviewing the matter the government should also try to synchronise its policy with the national hydro policy in which reward for speedy execution and penalty for delay in completing the project are inbuilt. The total time allowed for the execution is four years after obtaining clearances and if an IPP completes the project within the stipulated period it will be entitled to 40 per cent merchant power, which could be disposed of in any manner, and the rest 60 per cent will fall under the regulatory mechanism. For every six months’ delay in completion of project the quantum of merchant power will be reduced by 5 per cent and as such a delay of 4 years will mean zero merchant power. Bidding for more profit
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Suspension of employees’
leaders Our Correspondent
Palampur, April 24 According to reports, the trouble began due to the suspension of employees’ leaders by the management of the projects. As soon as the matter came into the notice of other employees they resorted to indefinite strike for lodging their protest. Employees’ leaders alleged that the project management had violated the agreement reached between the power companies and union leaders in the office of the local labour authorities. Despite peaceful settlement of all issues, the management suspended the union leaders and directed them to participate in an inquiry at the head office of the company in Kolkata.Hundreds of employees, under the banner of the CITU, today came out on the streets of Palampur, held a demonstration, raised slogans against the project management and demanded immediate reinstatement of all union leaders. Later, a rally was also held where various union leaders criticised the project management for the violation of labour laws and exploitation of poor workers. They alleged that their wages were not released in time causing harassment to the them. Talking to mediapersons, Ravinder Kumar and Ashok Katoch, district president and secretary, respectively, of the CITU, said the strike would continue till their demands were met and all suspended employees reinstated. Both leaders cautioned the companies that the exploitation of employees would not be tolerated at any cost. The worst affected power projects are Neugal, Aawa, Luni and Ekku, where all activities remained suspended. However, Vaneet Jain, project head, SPML, when contacted, refused to comment on the unrest going on among the employees in the power projects.
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Tourism trade-related training to be imparted to youth
Kangra, April 24 This was stated by Kewal Singh Pathania, HRTC Vice-Chairman, at Groah village where he was addressing a public meeting after hearing people’s grievances today. He said 1,000 youth would be trained as tourist guides in the state and 3,900 youth imparted driving training. He said in rural areas, people interested in opening hotels would get entertainment tax relaxation for 10 years. He said house owners connected with the Home Stay scheme of tourism would be imparted training in hospitality and protocol. He said three hand pumps for the Graoh panchayat would be installed before the onset of summer and necessary orders had been issued to the IPH authorities. He later addressed a public meeting at Satwari and said the state government had fixed its priority to have an over-all development of rural Himachal. He said steps were being taken to provide basic amenities to people living even in the remotest village of the state. He said social security pension had been increased from Rs 450 per month to Rs 500. He said the Indian cultural heritage needed to be protected, and festivals and fairs were helping in the preservation of the cultural heritage of this hill state. On this occasion, BCC president Susheel Sharma, DCC member Dev Dut Sharma, BDC member Randeep Singh Rana and officers of different departments were present. |
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HC asks pollution board to take action against Fozal project
Vijay Arora
Shimla, April 24 The order was passed by a Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice RB Misra, on a petition filed by the Moorang Agro Khadi Samiti alleging that the company was illegally dumping muck/debris and not maintaining the ecological balance of natural landscape. While passing the order the Bench observed that “we are prima facie satisfied with the grievance of the petitioner about the continuous illegal activity of dumping at unauthorised places by the contractor in connivance with the authorities.” It was further observed by the Bench that “the board admits the fact that no permission has been obtained after 2011.” The Bench clarified that the directions also applied to the Collector of the area concerned and also the Superintendent of Police, Kullu, who would be primarily responsible for ensuring compliance of the order issued by the board. The petitioner had alleged that the project authorities had not deposited the Local Area Development Fund (LADA). They had only deposited Rs 10 lakh out of Rs 93 lakh towards LADA. The total cost of the project was Rs 63 crore and as per the rules they had to deposit 1.5 per cent of the total cost of the project. The construction of the project was started by the company in October, 2009, without leasing of forest land in favour of the company. The petitioner had urged the court that the construction work of the hydro project be stayed.
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Devotees at Dholera, Markandeya temples to get more facilities
Bilaspur, April 23 This was stated by Ram Lal Thakur, Chairman, State Planning Development and 20-Point Implementation Committee, while addressing as chief guest the annual prize distribution function of the District Institute for Education and Training (DIET) at Jukhala, 30 km from here, on Tuesday. Ram Lal said the Congress government always gave top priority to quality education and 18 per cent of the annual budget had been allocated for it. It was the Congress government which had started the DIET centre and provided hotels and playground etc and sanctioned Rs 5 crore each for government colleges at Jukhala and Jhandutta, while Rs 7.50 crore had been spent on the completion of Jukhala college. He said the BJP government had only commercialised education and opened “trading shops” in the name of universities and minted money in this process. Now the government was taking suitable remedial steps to ensure that these institutions did serve the purpose for which these were set up. Giving an example, he said the BJP government had made a bulk purchase of black boards at Rs 8,000 each when these were available in plenty in the open market at Rs 2,200 only. Moreover, no school required black boards as these were already constructed in each classroom in every school. Ram Lal said water would be supplied soon to 10 villages of this area after lifting it from under the Neri bridge, while 68 panchayats would get Rs 10 lakhs each under the Adarsha Krishi Yojna. He distributed prizes among students who excelled in various activities of the institute. Earlier, Principal Jogender Rao read the institute progress report. MLA Bambar Thakur presided over the function. Present on the occasion were Education Deputy Directors Bir Singh and Pritam Singh Dhatwalia, Zila Parishad member Babu Ram Thakur and Government College Principal Dharam Singh Thakur among others. |
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Educational Institutions Regulatory panel Pratibha Chauahn/TNS
Shimla, April 24 Hectic lobbying is on as seven persons have already applied with the last date for applying being April 30. The commission, which was constituted by the previous BJP regime in 2010, has Sarojini Ganju, a retired IAS, as its Chairperson, and Jagat Bhushan Nadda as its member. Nadda, besides being an educationist, is the brother of BJP national general secretary and former minister Jagat Prakash Nadda. Hectic lobbying is on among aspirants for the second post of member to be filled up shortly. The prominent aspirants is a retired District and Sessions Judge, BL Soni. The other six applicants, whose bio-data has reached the office of Secretary, Higher Education, are Kulbhushan Verma (Hamirpur), Jitender Kumar (Sarkaghat), Satyavrat Bhardwaj, Head of the Bio-Technology Department at the Horticulture and Forestry University, Nauni, in Solan, Capt Bidhi Chand (retd), Manish Verma (Noida) and Santosh Kumar (Chopal). Interestingly, two other names of Anita Rao and a Congress leader from Hamirpur, Sunil Sharma, are being considered as front runners for the post. Rao is a retired Director and Adviser, Education, to the state government, and is a close relative of former Congress minister Rangila Ram Rao. Sunil Sharma, a close aide of Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee chief Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu and District Congress Committee chief of Hamirpur, is also being considered a hot favourite for the post. Even though he is yet to send his bio-data, but his name is doing the rounds for the post. It is being expected that some more prominent names might be added to the list of contenders before the three-week deadline for applying expires. Sources said in case the government chose to go by merit, none of these names seemed to be of that stature and great eminence either in public life or in the field of education. The advertisement had clearly stated that person with eminence in public life or in the field of higher education would be considered. The member would enjoy allowances and other perks at par with the Secretary-level officer in the state government. The fact that the commission is still trying to find its feet, it would be beneficial if a person with considerable experience in the field of education as well as administrative experience is made a member. With over a dozen private universities and several educational institutions coming up in the state, the commission has a major responsibility. The commission is entrusted with the task of providing a regulatory mechanism in the state and for working as an interface between the state government and Central regulatory bodies. Its primary job is to ensure appropriate standards of admission, teaching examination, research and protection of interest of students in the private educational institutions.
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Tibetans hold protest demanding release of Panchen Lama
Dharamsala, April 24 Hundreds of Tibetans gathered at McLeodganj square wearing Panchen Lama’s face masks demanding to know his whereabouts and his eventual release. A spokesperson for the Tibetan NGO’s said a simultaneous campaign also took place in New Delhi where people were asked to call the Chinese Embassy. A signed petition, including the ongoing online petition, would be delivered to Zhu Weiqun, Vice-Minister of the United Front Work Department and a copy would be sent to the Chinese Embassy in Delhi, he said. “We urge the Chinese Government to release the Panchen Lama so that he gets reunited with his family and thousands of followers, who have been waiting for his release for the last 18 years. We also urge the Chinese Government to release all the prisoners of conscience," said Tashi Dolma, president, Tibetan Women’s Association. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, and his family have been missing for 18 years. This year the Panchen Lama will turn 24, and Tibetans, Tibet supporters, and Buddhists all over the world are deeply concerned about his well-being. “The last time we heard anything about the Panchen Lama from the Chinese Government side was in 2010. In March, 2010, the then Chinese-appointed Governor of Tibet, Padma Choling (Padma Tinley), told mediapersons that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his family are now living a good life as ordinary citizens in Tibet,” said Tashi Lamsang, general secretary, Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Dharamsala. "The Chinese government’s intention behind appointing their own 11th Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, is to take over the political, financial and cultural powers that come with being the head of the Tashi Lhunpo monastery," said Gang Lhamo, general secretary of the Gu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet. "Forced to become the 11th Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu has to act and live a life not chosen for by himself. Tibetans in Tibet have to recognise and worship him under duress. These actions not only highlight the lack of freedom and human rights, but also how the Chinese Government undermines and insults Tibetan people’s tradition, culture and religion," he said. |
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Vigilance busts drug racket
Dharamsala, April 24 The drug was in the form of beads and pellets. It was in the ready-to-use format as beads and pellets of charas are smoked by drug addicts in cigarettes forms in tourist places like McLeodganj or its surrounding areas. SP, Vigilance, Vimal Gupta, when contacted on phone, said they had information that some drugs were being brought from the Mandi area to Dharamsala. “We had raised a naka on various roads leading to Dharamsala and McLeodganj. Last night a Santro car was spotted on the Dari-International cricket stadium road. The vehicle was stopped and on search 1.5 kg charas was recovered. The drugs concealed in plastic bags were hidden near the gear box of the vehicle,” he said. The two youths travelling in the car, Sunil Kumar of Jogindernagar and Surinder Pal of Arthi village near Jogindernangar, were arrested. A case under Section 20, NDPS Act, has been registered against them, the SP said. The Vigilance was granted three-day police custody of both the accused by the local court. Drugs come in mostly from the Mandi area that is known for its charas production. The cream of Malana, a charas drug produced in the Malana area of Mandi district is world famous and sold as a brand even in foreign countries, the sources said. Every year the Narcotics Control Bureau of the Government of India carries out the mass destruction of the cannabis plant that is used for producing charas in Mandi district. However, the present catch has illustrated that drug trade of charas is still flourishing in the area.
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BJP upset at misdeeds being exposed, says Chauhan
Shimla, April 24 In a statement here today, he said while in power the BJP patronised corruption and as a result the hill state earned notoriety for promoting education mafia, cricket mafia and land mafia. Not only that it resorted to mass tapping of phones, intruding into the privacy of people. The Congress government had already started investigating these issues and that was the reason that the BJP leadership was in panic and indulging in false charges the government. He asserted that the Congress government was stable and strong like a rock and said the BJP leaders who were questioning its popularity and stability were living in a fool’s paradise. He advised these leaders to see the ground reality and refrain from making false charges as the people who had voted the party out of the power would not be misled by such tactics. The Congress government enjoyed clear majority in the Vidhan Sabha and did not require a validation certificate from BJP leaders for completing its full five-year term. Chauhan lauded the performance of the Congress government, led by Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, and said it had already taken a number of decisions for the benefit of various sections of the society. The government was also undoing the anti-people decision of the BJP regime and it was in the process of making a policy to regularise the PTA and the para-teachers. It already provided free travel facility to students in HRTC buses. The primary schools, which the BJP had closed down, had also been reopened by the Congress government. The government had also started giving skill development allowance to the unemployed youth of the state.
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Four-day Samuel Slater inter-school English debate begins
Shimla, April 24 The curriculum was not merely confined to academics or sports, but promoted the all-around development with focus on character building. He credited his old school for whatever achievements he had made in the field of politics. He said BCS had inculcated in him a strong belief in principles, fight against injustice and secularism. It was a walk down the memory lane for Khaira who visited the school after 34 years. He nostalgically recounted the glorious old days he spent at the school as a child. His son Mehtab Singh Khaira also studied at the school and passed out in 2007. He announced a contribution of Rs 51,000 to his school, and having a dig at Sukhbir Badal, Deputy Chief Minister, Punjab, who had sparked off a controversy by donating Rs 1 crore from government funds to Sanawar School, said, “This is all I can manage, being a humble agriculturist.” Headmaster Roy Christopher Robinson said as many as 16 top schools from across the country were participating in the debate. They included Dubai Modern High School, Lawrence School, Sanawar, Vasant Valley School, Delhi, Mayo College for Girls, Ajmer, La Martiniere (Girls), Kolkata, La Martiniere (Boys), Kolkata, La Martiniere (Girls), Lucknow, La Martiniere College (Boys), Lucknow, Modern High School, Kolkata, St James School, Kolkata, Assam Valley School, Assam, Doon School, Dehradun, and Sri Ram School, Gurgaon.
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Parmar university staff organise gate rally
Solan, April 24 Various employees’ leaders, including OP Thakur, president of the Non-Teaching Employees Association, Naresh Bhatia, vice-president of the Farm Technocrat Association, Ravi Dutt Sharma, senior leader of the Technical and Class Four Employees Association, addressed the rally. These leaders, while resenting the inordinate delay in granting them various pending dues, said it was unfortunate that the university authorities had adopted an indifferent attitude towards their genuine demands, including release of various arrears, and none of them figured in tomorrow’s BoM meeting. The employees said they would not allow the meeting to take place tomorrow as their just demands had been ignored and they would sit on a dharna from 10 am tomorrow morning. The employees also resented the grant of extension to the Student Welfare Officer and said the lower rung employees should be granted extension rather than the administrative officials.
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Theatre workshop at IIAS from today
Shimla, April 24 The workshop is aimed at taking stock of the training scenario in the country in theatre in general and actor-training practices in particular. India is the first country in South Asia to set up theatre schools for training people in contemporary theatre practices. As a part of the workshop, the institute is also organising a festival on Indian theatre to showcase some of the best theatre practices from all over the country. Margi Madhu Koodiyattam, a performer from Kerala, will present Poorvaranga; Shail Nat, Dehradun, Rabindranath Tagore’s Chitrangdha; Community Library, Shimla, Poojar Saa; Trikha from Bangalore excerpts from the Ramayana; Arghya, Kolkata, excerpts from the Mahabharata; and Seagull, Guwahati, excerpts from Kalidasa’s Shakuntlam. More than 40 eminent theatre directors, actors and theatre trainers from all over the country will participate in the workshop which is the first ever of its kind. They include prominent personalities like Kirti Jain, Rajendran Srinivasan, Prasanna, Manish Mitra, Bansi Kaul, Kedar Thakur, Asif Khan, MK Raina and Margi Madhu. |
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‘Delay’ in 108 ambulance arrival costs woman her life
Solan, April 24 Pushpa Devi (65) had sustained serious injuries after a fall from a height when she was collecting fodder. Her relatives had called 108 Emergency services at 2:41 pm, but it took an long time to come. The 108 staff, however, blamed it on the police that had closed the Mall Road following some repair work. District in charge Mushtaq said they had immediately sent an ambulance from the Regional Hospital after receiving a call at 2:41 pm, but they had to take an alternate route through Chambaghat, which took 41 minutes as the ambulance had to go through a traffic jam near St Luke’s School following its dispersal. SP Ramesh Chajjta said they would enquire into this lapse, and added that
they had especially directed policemen to ensure that ambulances were not stopped.
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Kullu Zila Parishad bags award
Shimla, April 24 V Kishore Chander Dev, Union Panchayati Raj Minister, presented the award to Hari Chand Sharma, Chairman of the parishad, in New Delhi today. The award carries a cash reward of Rs 40 lakh. The Zila Parishad has spent 25 per cent of its total budget for constructing public toilets to make the district open-defecation free. Hari Chand said all the members of the parishad had been involved in the awareness programme on sanitation and the plantation drive. An annual plan was being formulated every year to carry out various development activities. Giving top priority to the drinking water facility, the Zila Parishad had approved 117 schemes for the purpose during 2011-12. It had been organising various activities with the cooperation of Yuvak and Mahila Mandals and special focus was being laid on issues relating to child education, women and Scheduled Castes.
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People fed up with UPA govt: Dhumal
Hamirpur, April 24 Addressing BJP workers during his tour of polling booths at Baroa, Bohni, Dugha, etc, to thank the voters today, Dhumal said, “The people are fed up with the UPA government as it has failed to control price rise and provide them basic amenities, while unearthing of various scams have proved the involvement of Congress leaders in a large-scale corruption during the
present regime.” He said, “The present tenure of the state government had been dismal as the Congress government has failed to fulfil the promises made during the Assembly elections.” Dhumal said, “The party activists should work with a new vigour for the next election to elect the NDA-led BJP government at the Centre as the people can’t be misled again this time through hollow propaganda of the UPA government.”
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Palampur Civil Hospital gets new Senior Medical Officer
Palampur, April 24 Dr Mahajan has worked in different capacities in state hospitals and is known as a good administrator. He is the first pathologist who started a blood bank in the local Civil Hospital 15 years ago when there was no blood transfusion facility in any hospital of Kangra. Dr Mahajan said his first priority would be to provide the best medical care to indoor and outdoor patients visiting the hospitals. Besides, his stress would be to provide maximum medicines to patients from the hospital store. Special attention would be paid to keep the hospital neat and clean, he added. He categorically said all serious cases would be attended in the hospital and patients would be referred to other hospitals only in emergency. He would try to start eco test in the hospital as a machine was already available.
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Rs 4.33 crore granted for repair of NH-1 stretch
Bilaspur, April 24 The decision was taken at a high-level meeting, chaired by Chief Secretary Sudripto Roy, yesterday. The meeting was held because of the highly deplorable condition of this road stretch and resentment of general public against unprecedented bad condition of the road resulting in accidents everyday. The meeting was attended by officials of the HP PWD, Central PWD and Highway Authority of India among others. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr Ajay Sharma said here today that the government had already sent an estimate of Rs 16 crore for regular repair of this road and given its consent for the work “in principle”. The DC said the repair work would start from May 4 as tenders had already been invited and officials had been asked to do the work on top priority. |
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Forest guard suspended for illicit felling of trees
Nurpur, April 24 The DFO said the offender had felled four khair wood trees on local government land and 19 on private-owned land. “After completing the inquiry, a compensation of Rs 24,000 has been recovered from the offender, and the forest guard of the local beat suspended and block officer issued a show-cause notice for laxity in their duties,” he said.
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Leopard attacks auto driver
Bilaspur, April 24 Rajesh said when he reached near the jungle, he saw a leopard pounce upon a stag right on the road. But, probably the sudden flash of lights of his three-wheeler distracted its attention and the leopard lost its grip on the stag, which escaped into the jungle. The leopard then attacked his vehicle. Rajesh veered it off the road, but got trapped under it and was seriously injured. Meanwhile, the leopard ran away from there. Later, a passerby rushed him to the nearby
PHC, from where he was shifted to the Regional Hospital here. He had fractured his leg and sustained other injuries in the incident. |
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251 donate blood on World Donation Day
Mandi, April 24 Blood donation is the best “daan” to needy patients seeking treatment at different hospitals in the state, said Shiv Lal, a voluntary donor of the mission, who was donating blood for the 31st time. Inaugurating the camp, Excise and Taxation Minister Parkash Chaudhary lauded the efforts put in by the mission in promoting voluntary blood donation in the state and outside. The mission organises blood donation camps all over the world on April 24, he added. Mission members Prem Das and Hari Das Chaudhary and pradhan of Dadour panchayat Suman Chaudhary thanked the minister for his cooperation. |
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Reduce cement bag price, firms urged
Bilaspur, April
24 Addressing a gathering at a function organised by six panchayats at Dhar village under the Kandraur
panchayat, 20 km from here, he said cement companies had been taking advantage of concessions worth crores every year. He said people were concerned not without reason and hundreds in the Barmana area had taken to the streets. He said the ACC should solve their problems. He said they should be provided cement bags at the government rate of Rs 155 per bag. He announced a grant of Rs 2 lakh for a mahila mandal
bhavan. Urmila Sharma, Surender Pal Thakur, Ram Lal, Rattan Lal, Suman,
Pankaj, Mast Ram, Chotta Ram, Salig Ram, Daulat Ram, Sada Ram and Dila Ram were present. |
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Woman hit by car, dies
Mandi, April 24 The woman Shakuntla
Devi, was admitted to the Civil Hospital in Jogindernagar, but she succumbed to her injuries. The injured have been identified as Bandana and Ram Singh. The car was driven by Piyar
Chand, which hit them from behind. According to Ram, a resident of
Barot, they were standing near Bhatta when the car (HP33T-9543), driven by Pyar
Chand, a resident of Bhadiyda, hit them from behind. The police said the injured were taken to the Civil Hospital,
Jogindernagar, where Shakuntla succumbed to her injuries. The police had registered a case against Payar Chand under Sections 279, 337 and 304(A) of the Indian Penal Code
(IPC) and Section 187 of the Motor Vehicle Act. |
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Case registered against BJP vice-president
Solan, April 24 DSP Vinod Dhiman, confirming the news, said Sharma allegedly got furious when he was asked by the accountant to submit bills of the cement supplied by him with due formalities. In a fit of rage he slapped the accountant. Dixit lodged a complaint with the police and though Sharma had applied for an anticipatory bail, it was rejected following which he was arrested today. Sharma is also a leader of the Ambuja Darlaghat Mangoo Kasglog Truck Union and the BJP of the area.
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Stray bull attacks villager
Bilaspur, April 24 Reports said some passersby saved him from the repeated attacks of the bull and then rushed him to the nearby Kandraur dispensary and then to the Regional Hospital here. Lachhman received serious injuries in his mouth and is said to have lost his jaw as a result of this attack. Villagers Amar Nath, Ram Singh, Madan Lal, Chaman Lal, Manorama, Roshan Lal, Indira, Pawan, Daulat Ram, Surender and others complained that the bull had become a nuisance for all, including children, women and elderly persons.
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750 gm charas seized, 1 held
Chamba, April 24 The report said a police party, which was on patrol near Hutta village, intercepted a pedestrian and on checking him found 750 gm charas in his baggage. The police arrested the accused, identified as
Nand Lal, a resident of Salwan of Salooni tehsil, and registered a case against him at the Kihar police
station under Section 20 of the NDPS Act, the report said. Further investigation in the case was underway, the report added. |
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Dharamsala, April 24
The District Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has busted a drug trade racket being operated in the Dharamsala area. The Vigilance team has arrested two youths, both residents of Jogindernagar area of
Mandi, and recovered 1.5 kg charas from them. Sources here said the drug was meant for the McLeodganj area where tourists are going to arrive in summer months and the demand for charas is going
to increase.
Mandi, April 24
