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Four-laning of Rohtak-Hisar highway
Rates for institutional plots revised
15 kids fall ill after consuming iron tablets
Postmortem report comes under the scanner
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Drug licences of 22 chemists suspended
Publisher told to provide books in a week or face action
Kunjpura villagers lock govt school
Woman, minor son commit suicide
Commissioners of Ambala, Hisar Divisions shifted
532 constables join Haryana Police
Cong leaders targeting top brass to face action
Scientific irrigation must to conserve water: Hooda
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Four-laning of Rohtak-Hisar highway
Hisar, July 26 The widening of this stretch has been a long-pending demand of the people of the region as increasing vehicular traffic has resulted in frequent accidents on the highway. The project would take nearly 30 months to complete at a cost of Rs 960 crore. It would be constructed on the Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Transfer (DBFOT) mode under the phase-III of the highway development project. Two toll plazas would be set up between Rohtak and Hisar to charge tax from vehicles for 22 years. Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Oscar Fernandes along with Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would lay the foundation stone of the project at Hansi on July 28. However, certain bottlenecks could delay the start of the project. The widening of the road needs 591.84 hectares of land which includes existing 280 hectares of road area. The NHAI is in possession of about 524 hectares of land and the process to acquire the remaining 67 hectares is underway. Besides, the project is also awaiting clearance from the Union Forest Ministry as the proposal for diversion of 128.0925 hectares of forest land in Bhiwani (16.4760 hectares), Rohtak (17.0535 hectares) and Hisar (94.563 hectares) districts is still pending with the Union Environment and Forest Ministry. The state government had sent the proposal on June 17. The NHAI project director, Rajiv Yadav, said the work on the project was likely to start in October or November after getting the clearance for cutting trees along both sides of the road.
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Rates for institutional plots revised
Chandigarh,July 26 Sectors 32 and 44 of Gurgaon would be the costliest at Rs 44,300 per square metre. However, the rate of Rs 31,000 has been fixed for government departments, boards and corporations other than Haryana. However, for Haryana government department, boards and corporations, the rate has been fixed at Rs 29,600 per square metres, sources said. The prices in Sector 18, however, would be slightly lower with private organisations shelling out Rs 35,400, followed by government departments which would pay Rs 24,600. However, Haryana Government departments will pay Rs 23,500. For the rest of the areas in Gurgaon, the rate would Rs 13,000. In Faridabad, the rate would be Rs 19,400 for private institutions, Rs 13,500 for government departments other than Haryana and Rs 13,100 for Haryana Government departments. The rate for the rest of the city would be Rs 11,000. Sources said the rate for the Sector 32 institutional area of Panchkula has been fixed at Rs 21,300. The rest of Panchkula would command a rate of Rs 10,200 . For Palwal, the allotment price has been fixed at Rs 10,100 while for Dharuhera, Rewari, Hisar, Ambala, Karnal, Bahadurgarh , Rewari it would be Rs 7,300. The rates for other urban estates such as Kurukshetra,Yamunanagar, Naraingarh,Rohtak, Gohana, Sonepat, Hansi, Sirsa, Bhiwani and Kaithal will be Rs 6,400. In the towns of Jind, Shahbad, Tohana, Fatehabad, Narwana, Jhajjar, Dabwali and Kalanwali, the rate would be Rs 6,200. In Narnaul, Amin, Ellenabad, Bhattu, Bawani Khera, Adampur, Tosham, Hathin, Ratia and Dharsul Kalan, the rate would be Rs 4,800. The reserve price of school sites sold through auction would at par with the institutional rates of the respective cities. Similarly, the reserve price of college sites would be 75% of the institutional rates. However, for hospitals sites, the reserve price would be double the institutional price. The plots to social and charitable organisations would be allotted at 50% of the rate for institutional plots.The rate for religious sites has been fixed at 15% of the rate for institutional sites.
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15 kids fall ill after consuming iron tablets
Fatehabad, July 26 Similarly, at Khai Shergarh village in Sirsa district, four schoolchildren were taken ill after consuming iron pills.
The phenomenon has triggered strong reactions from parents and at Narnaund in Hisar yesterday, agitated people had roughed up doctors and hospital staff and damaged vehicles. The second dose of the IFA pills under the re-launch of the WIFS in Haryana will be given on Monday. Dept to launch awareness drive Chandigarh: On the backfoot in the wake of a large number of schoolchildren falling ill due to consumption of weekly iron and folic acid supplementation (WIFS) tablets, the Haryana Education Department today announced the holding of information sessions in all government schools to create awareness amongst the parents regarding benefits of WIFS campaign to check anaemia. This was stated by Principal Secretary, School Education, Surina Rajan and Principal Secretary, Health, Navraj Sandhu while talking to mediapersons here today. Sandhu said a helpline number 8288014141 had been started for providing immediate assistance in case of any side effects following the consumption of IFA tablets. |
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Postmortem report comes under the scanner
Gurgaon, July 26 Sources said the postmortem report came under the scanner following interrogation of the accused CJM’s first cousin and his house staff. The cousin had in her statement to the SIT insisted that Geetanjali had food at 4 pm before she went out of the house. However, the post-mortem report stated that it was just some fluid and no solid food was found in her digestive tract. The contradiction raised suspicion over the CJM’s cousin, who was questioned again. However, the authorities thought of reviewing the report only after the house staff endorsed her statement. “All those questioned have confirmed Geetanjali having food but the post-mortem report doesn’t. We think there has been a lapse on the part of the post-mortem team,” said an investigating official. However, the family has dubbed it as a move to help the CJM’s cousin wriggle out, who according to them is the key suspect now. “In how many cases do they review post-mortem reports? It’s only to endorse the cousin’s lie,” said Geetanjali’s father, OP Aggarwal. Sanjay Narula, who headed the postmortem team, said as the case had now been shifted to the CBI, they might not have much to do. Meanwhile, Delhi CBI officials visited Gurgaon and had a meeting with SIT members. The family had sought transfer of the case to the Delhi bureau for impartial investigation. Meanwhile, DSP Anil Yadav from Delhi visited Gurgaon, and collected investigation documents, including the FIR, in the case. CBI likely to register case soon
New Delhi: The CBI is all set to register a case in connection with the murder of Geetanjali Garg, the wife of Gurgaon Chief Judicial Magistrate Ravneet Garg, who was found dead on July 17 in high-security Police Lines area. CBI sources said a notification was expected soon in this regard. —
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Drug licences of 22 chemists suspended
Bhiwani, July 26 Besides, the FDA had suspended the drug licences of 18 other chemists for periods ranging from five days to an indefinite period, he said. |
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Publisher told to provide books in a week or face action
Hisar, July 26 The publisher had failed to provide the books to the students especially from Class III to VIII even as the first semester examinations are just a month away. Sources said the publisher had asked the authorities to pay a part of the contract money as he was short of staff and printing material. Education Board Secretary Anshaj Singh said they would not pay a single rupee until the firm provides the textbooks as per the agreement. After a meeting with Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal in Chandigarh today, the Secretary said they had decided to wait for one more week and after that the process to blacklist the firm could start. “The board could forfeit the firm’s guarantee money and blacklist it after the end of the warning period,” he said. Meanwhile, a visit to various schools revealed that students were either sitting idle or busy in extra curricular activities. “We are solving mathematics sums or doing dictation given by teachers as we do not know our syllabus,” said a Class VIII student of the Government Girls Senior Secondary School at Bawani Khera in Bhiwani district. Teachers also expressed their helplessness. “What can we do when there are no textbooks with us? We are extremely concerned about it but we are helpless,” said a teacher.
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Kunjpura villagers lock govt school
Karnal, July 26 Sources said the school authorities had been staking claim on the ground for quite some time, but the villagers maintained that they had developed the ground into a stadium for the students. The dispute reached a point when the school authorities put a board on the ground, implying that it was the school property. The villagers converged on the school and blocked traffic to protest against the move of the school authorities District education officer Asha Munjal and tehsildar Hari Om Atri reached the spot and pacified the villagers. A compromise was reached after the ground was given to the gram panchayat on condition that the students would not be barred from playing there.
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Woman, minor son commit suicide
Hisar, July 26 The police said the victim got married to Sonu, who works at a shop in the town, two years ago. Investigation officer Sadhu Ram said Sonu went to sleep on the terrace of the house while his wife went to sleep in a room. Sonu had denied any serious dispute with his wife which could have forced her to take the extreme step. Ram said they were investigating the matter.
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Commissioners of Ambala, Hisar Divisions shifted
Chandigarh July 26 Neelam Pradeep Kasni, Commissioner, Hisar Division, and Administrator, HUDA, Hisar, becomes Commissioner, Ambala Division, Ambala, and Project Director, Haryana State AIDS Control Society. |
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532 constables join Haryana Police
Madhuban (Karnal), July 26 Stressing the need for making the police people-friendly, Srinivas Vashisth, DGP, said the police must be sensitive in ensuring women’s security and honour. Constable Manish Kumar (Rohtak), Ajay Singh (Bhiwani) and Ravindra Kumar (Gurgaon) who secured the first, second and third positions, were awarded a laptop, a computer and a digital camera, respectively, with citation. |
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Cong leaders targeting top brass to face action
Chandigarh July 26 He said the leaders should introspect before issuing any anti-party statements as they should always remain indebted to the Congress for their current status He said a few leaders had taken up an agenda to defame the party leadership on the issue of discrimination in development works in the state which was absolutely incorrect.
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Scientific irrigation must to conserve water: Hooda
Gurgaon, July 26 Hooda pointed out that there was need for 36 million acre feet of water in Haryana whereas only 14 million acre feet water was available. In addition, 40 per cent of the groundwater in the state was brackish. — TNS |
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Much to the disappointment of lakhs of students, stalemate continued between the Haryana Education Department and a book publisher that was awarded a contract to provide textbooks to the government school students from Class I to VIII.
As many as 532 constables were inducted into the Haryana Police today after passing out from the Haryana Police Academy,
Madhuban.
Samir Mathur, Additional Chief Secretary (Home), who was the chief guest, inspected the impressive passing-out parade and exhorted the new recruits to continuously improvingtheir professional skills.
