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4 varsities under lens over fake PhD degrees
CM offers help for Chandigarh projects
Paddy uprooted on 10 acres in Fatehabad village
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South Haryana being ignored by Hooda govt: HJC
Polluting units to face action
Man dies of poisoning, in-laws booked
Gang rape victim retracts statement
Rapist gets 14-day judicial custody
One killed, 5 hurt as car falls from bridge
11 firearms seized, 12 arrested
English re-exam on June 21
11,000 appear in varsity entrance exam
HC interim orders bring relief for discoms
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4 varsities under lens over fake PhD degrees
Sirsa, June 9 Following complaints and media reports that some teachers have obtained jobs or managed promotions on the basis of “fake” PhD degrees issued by Chandra Mohan Jha (CMJ) University, Shillong, and some other private universities of the country, the CDLU has sought a report from the principals of its affiliated colleges. In a communication to the principals of colleges affiliated to the CDLU, Dr SK Gahlawat, Dean of Colleges, has named three other universities, Vinayaka Mission University, Salem (Tamil Nadu), Global Open University, Nagaland, and EIILM University, Sikkim, besides CMJ University whose degrees are under a scanner. “We have told the principals to look into the authenticity of the PhD degrees issued by these universities and the university has also asked a person, who lodged a complaint regarding appointment of some teachers against fake degrees in Tohana to file an affidavit in support of his complaint,” said Gahlawat. Meanwhile, the media reports suggest that the Maharashtra Government has issued a circular on Friday directing all non-agriculture universities to immediately cancel all appointments, promotions and increments made on the basis of degrees obtained from the CMJ University. The move comes after reports that the CJM University “sold” hundreds of fake degrees to students across the country for a premium of Rs 2 to Rs 5 lakh. The police had sealed the CMJ University campus after Governor RS Mooshahary lodged a complaint against the university alleging fraudulent activities. |
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CM offers help for Chandigarh projects
Chandigarh, June 9 Hooda while sharing his views in the first-ever panel discussion said the government had already prepared several development plans, including the development of Panchkula township, Panchkula extension and the Mansa Devi and Kot-Behla complexes. A large township had also been planned at the Pinjore-Kalka urban complex. Hooda said negotiations were held with PGI authorities to set up its extension in Panchkula on the pattern of extension of AIIMS, New Delhi, at Badhsa (Jhajjar). He said there was no institutional arrangement to involve Punjab and Haryana in the development of Chandigarh. He said neither he nor Badal had any say in the development of Chandigarh. On the issue of Metro Rail project for the tricity, Hooda offered all help for the project. He said Chandigarh and Panchkula lacked adequate connectivity. Mohali had eight links to Chandigarh whereas Panchkula had only one, he added. |
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Paddy uprooted on 10 acres in Fatehabad village
Fatehabad, June 9 Baljit Singh, subdivisional officer of the department, said farmers Lachhu Singh, Ram Phal and Billu Singh had sown paddy on four, two and four acres of their land, respectively. Earlier, these farmers were served notices to uproot their crops as these were sown earlier than the announced date. “As per the Haryana Preservation of Subsoil Water Act, 2009, farmers are barred from planting paddy before June 15 every year,” said Baljit Singh. The provision is aimed at conservation of water as paddy sown prior to June 15 consumes excessive water. The Act authorises farm officials to destroy at the cost of farmers or ask the farmers to destroy paddy sown prior to June 15. The Act also provides for a fine of Rs 10,000 per hectare
per month. Baljit Singh said an awareness drive had been launched in Tohana subdivision of Fatehabad, where farmers were given to sow paddy in advance. |
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South Haryana being ignored by Hooda govt: HJC
Rewari, June 9 Addressing a district-level conference of HJC women activists at Kund, she said the unfinished task of late Ch. Bhajan Lal of ensuring the supply of canal water to the tail enders in south Haryana would surely be accomplished by HJC supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi when the HJC-BJP combine was enthroned by the electorate at the hustings. Similarly, senior HJC leader and in charge of the party affairs in south Haryana charged the Hooda regime for forcefully acquiring Ahirwal farmers’ precious land at
throwaway prices and then selling it at hefty prices to builders and industrialists. The conference was also addressed by district HJC chief Rajender Singh Thekedar and district Mahila HJC president Jaimala
Kaushik. |
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Polluting units to face action
Sirsa, June 9 The red category has 86 types of industries while the orange one has 18.
Uma Shankar Sharma, regional officer of the HSPCB, who attended this meeting, said industry owners could face sentence from one-and-a-half to six years if their ETPs were found non-functional.
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Man dies of poisoning, in-laws booked
Hisar, June 9 Kuldeep’s father, Ram Swaroop, alleged in his complaint to the police that his son was married to Lakhpati six months ago. She went to Kalwas to live with her parents 10 days ago. Kuldeep went to to bring his wife yesterday but his in-laws told him that Lakhpati would live there for a few days more . Upon this, an altercation ensued resulting in Kuldeep’s death under mysterious circumstances. While Kuldeep’s in-laws have maintained that he consumed poison, his father alleged that his son had been murdered. The police has registered a case of murder against Kuldeep’s wife, Lakhpati, mother-in-law Darshna Devi, father-in-law Hanuman Prashad and two brothers-in-law Radhey Sham and Dharamvir. No arrest had been made
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Gang rape victim retracts statement
Gurgaon, June 9 The officials said there were some inconsistencies in the statement made by the victim and what the police were told by complainant- her friend. When confronted she confessed that she had registered a false complaint with the police as she was under pressure to do so. According to police complaint, the victim who worked as a domestic help in a flat in Sector 28 here had alleged that she was drugged and gang-raped by three persons. The report said the accused were guests of the owner of the flat and committed the crime when she was away. Following complaint, the police had lodged a case against the woman and three accused. The police had rounded up the woman and her friend in the case, but they were allowed to go after the victim changed her statement. The police said the matter was under investigation. |
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Rapist gets 14-day judicial custody
Faridabad, June 9 However, the victim narrated the incident to her parents who reported the matter to the police, which led to the arrest of the accused. The incident occurred at Ramnagar where the victim stay in a jhuggi. The accused, who was her neighbour, had lured the girl to his house when her parents were away and raped her. The police said the accused had confessed his crime.
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One killed, 5 hurt as car falls from bridge
Ambala, June 9 The deceased has been identified as Suraj Nain while those injured were Abhinav from
Amritsar, Tushar from Yamunanagar, Rohit Aggarwal and Raghav Verma, both from Delhi, and Pankaj from
Panipat. The injured were rushed to the Civil Hospital at Ambala Cantonment which referred them to the
PGI, Chandigarh. All were students of a private college in Yamunanagar. |
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11 firearms seized, 12 arrested
Rohtak, June 9 The police said the gangsters were wanted in heinous cases of crime in the district and the region. While four firearms were seized from the first gang, seven were seized from the second gang. Those arrested were identified as
Dinesh, Rajender, Virender, Kaptaan, Rakesh and Pradeep. The gangsters revealed their plan to eliminate two persons as part of contract killing. One of the targeted person was a law student against a payment of Rs 30
lakh. Six members of the second gang nabbed near Bhagwatipur village on Jind road include Vijay,
Mahipal, Ram Kumar,Rajesh ,Ravinder and Sunil, all residents Jagsi village of Sonepat district. The gang is led by Krishan
Gatha, a dreaded criminal currently lodged in Hisar jail. “The gang was planning four murders to settle old enmity and this could have escalated gang war in Sonepat district,’’ said Anil
Rao, IG, Rohtak Range. Vijay, a key member of the gang, confessed his involvement in the blind murder of Vikrant (who was shot thrice) in
Atayal, Sampla, on May 16. |
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English re-exam on June 21
Hisar, June 9 Some board officials visited Muklan, Bandaheri and some other neighbouring villages of Hisar yesterday and announced that the students whose result had been delayed due to the misplacement of some answersheets would have to appear in their English exam again on June 21. “What is our fault?” asked a girl student from Muklan, whose result had been withheld along with others. “Our careers have been put at risk due to no fault of ours. We are not sure whether we will be able to get admission in the next class ,” she feared. The affected students’ parents have also castigated the board for putting their wards’ future at stake due to its negligence. Some of them are planning to move the court. HBSE chairman KC Bhardwaj maintained that a bundle of answersheets had been lost in the evaluation process. Hence, the board was left with no other option but to ask the affected students to take the paper again. “The exam will be held on June 21 and the result will be declared in the first week of July,” Bhardwaj said. |
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11,000 appear in varsity entrance exam
Hisar, June 9 The university conducted the test for admission to 100 seats of BSc (honours) in agriculture and 14 seats of MSc in food sciences and technology, biotechnology and molecular biology and bioinformatics. A spokesperson said the examination was conducted smoothly at all 32 centres. A total of 11,051 candidates appeared in the examination for undergraduate courses and 113 for postgraduate courses. |
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HC interim orders bring relief for discoms
Yamunanagar/Ambala, June 9 The interim orders passed by the court are likely to give a major relief to the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) as a large number of cases are pending in various district courts and the DCDRF across the state. Sources said the UHBVN had filed writ petitions in the high court that the DCDRF and the civil courts had no jurisdiction to entertain disputes pertaining to the unauthorised use of electricity and theft of electricity as defined under Section 126 and Section 135 of the Electricity Act, 2003. However, the DCDRF had given relief to a complainant of Yamunanagar and had directed the nigam to restore the power supply on deposit of 40 per cent of the disputed amount. Similarly, the civil court had also directed the nigam not to disconnect the supply of a plaintiff on deposit of 50 per cent of the disputed amount. Both of the cases were of electricity theft. The Punjab and Haryana High Court, however, stayed the order passed by the DCDRF, Yamunanagar, on the ground that the consumer forum had no jurisdiction to enter upon the matter, which was under the provisions of the Indian Electricity Act, 2003, in the cases of electricity theft. In this case, the court also relied on the judgment of the Gujarat High Court. While staying the order of the civil court, Ambala, the HC ordered that the civil courts were indiscriminately entertaining suits and passing orders of injunction against demand notices, which were patently without jurisdiction as per Section 145 of the Electricity Act, 2003. The civil courts had no jurisdiction to entertain the suits under Section 126 of the Act and in case of Section 135 of the Act, which deals with the electricity theft. The consequences would lead to a criminal trial and discoms could not be compelled to face these proceedings in different territorial jurisdictions against orders passed by it and the remedies were available only under the Act. It was also learnt that the HC had also ordered to club these cases as these were of similar nature. The sources said there were around 8,000 cases, which were pending in various DCDRF and civil courts across the state and the interim orders issued by the HC were likely to affect all these cases bringing relief to
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Haryana Kisan Sabha to oppose land acquisition policy
Hisar, June 9 The delegates attending the conference gave a call for sustained agitation over issues like irrigation water at the tail’s ends of canals, fraudulent crop insurance schemes, permanent leasing rights to settlers, compensation for setting up high-tension electricity towers in farmers’ fields, bonus on wheat and other local issues. “Protest demonstrations and dharnas will be organised at all district levels in the state during first fortnight of July,” said a spokesperson of the Haryana Kisan Sabha. Resolutions were passed demanding adequate compensation for damage due to natural calamities, against “dubious” land acquisition policy for ending colonial practice of auctioning of lands of loan defaulting farmers, acceptance of recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission against privatisation of education and health services, corruption and condemning sexual assault on women. During the conference, a special session on social issues was held adopting a resolution to launch social and cultural campaigns against decadent values of patriarchy and blind consumerism and social evils like casteism, female foeticide, dowry, alcoholism and crime against women. As many as 220 delegates from 18 districts elected a 43-member state committee and delegates for the All-India Conference to be held in Tamil Nadu from July 24 to July 27. Master Sher Singh was elected new president of the HKS. Harpal Singh was elected general secretary, Phool Singh Sheokand, SN Solanki, Inderjit Singh and Ram Swarup vice-presidents, Daya Nand,
Kartar Singh, Preet Singh and Sunita Kungar, joint secretaries and Pradeep Singh was elected
as treasurer. |
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