Dehradun, November 6
Dehradun has turned into a fortress with more than 1,000 policemen of different ranks are part of the elaborate security arrangements put in place ahead of Prince Charles and his wife, the Dutchess of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowels, visit to Dehradun on Thursday.

Nearly, 700 constables, 90 head constables, 178 sub-inspectors and 24 inspectors have been deployed around the venues, which are part of his November 7 itinerary. Almost five companies of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) are also part of the overall security arrangements.

“Tight security arrangements have been put in place for Prince Charles visit and necessary directions have also been given to the police personnel deployed in the security,” said SP City Jagdish Chandra. Even the senior police officials and government officials held number of meetings, to discuss the last minute preparations and security arrangements ahead of the royal couple’s visit.

Number of route diversions will be done on Thursday. The traffic coming from Rishikesh towards Dehradun will be diverted to Nepali Farm via Natraj chowk, before the royal couple leaves for Dehradun in a convoy from Narendra Nagar in Tehri on Thursday morning.

The traffic moving from Dehradun ISBT towards Haridwar will be diverted to Dhudli road on Thursday morning and the movement of heavy vehicles from Chakrata road towards Dehradun, will be restricted and diverted via Harbatpur to Shimla bypass road. The traffic from all sides will be temporarily stopped during the passage of VVIP fleet in the route between Narendra Nagar and Dehradun. Prince Charles will visit the FRI, the IMA and Navdanya farm in Ramgarh on Thursday. His wife, Camilla Parker Bowles will separately visit Doon School and interact with the students there.

The royal couple reached Jolly Grant airport by a special flight at 4 pm today and drove to Paramarth Niketan to attend the evening puja amid tight security arrangements. 

* Nearly 700 constables, 90 head constables, 178 sub-inspectors and 24 inspectors deployed

* Traffic coming from Rishikesh towards Dehradun will be diverted to Nepali Farm via Natraj chowk

* Traffic moving from Dehradun ISBT towards Haridwar will be diverted to Dhudli road on Thursday morning and the movement of heavy vehicles from Chakrata road towards Dehradun, will be restricted and diverted via Harbatpur to Shimla bypass road.

Dehradun, November 6
As part of a crackdown on drug peddlers in the state capital, the police arrested six persons from different places in the past 24 hours and seized banned substances from their possession.

Acting on a tip-off, a Patel Nagar police team, led by inspector MP Saini, intercepted four persons at Kargi Chowk on Haridwar bypass road for checking this morning and recovered 250 g smack from their possession.

The arrested drug dealers have been identified as Dharam Singh, Aftab, Mahendra Pratap and Imran Ansari. They hailed from Faizabad, Kotdwar and Jawalapur.

The police said the accused used to sell drugs to students studying in private institutions.

In another incident, the Raipur police yesterday arrested one person on Raipur Road and recovered drug capsules and injections from his possession. During interrogation, the accused, Anil Kumar (26), a resident of Prem Nagar, disclosed that he would buy prohibited drugs from outside the state and sell them in Dehradun.

He has been booked under the NDPS Act.

In yet another incident, the Prem Nagar police yesterday arrested a drug peddler and recovered 150 g of charas from his possession. The arrested person, Ramesh Chandra Joshi, a resident of the Patel Nagar area, was waiting for his customer near Mohan Power House when he was caught red-handed with banned substances. DGP BS Sidhu has given strict instructions to the Dehradun police to curb rampant drug peddling in the city.

Yesterday, Rajpur Police station head Amarjeet Singh was suspended for his failure to check drug trafficking in his area. 

Dehradun, November 6
Members of the Dehradun Collectorate Employees' Association today launched a three-day strike in support of their demands, which included the promotion of employees to naib tehsildar and chief administrative officer and the restructuring of the administrative wing of the Collectorate.

Rajender Kumar, president of the association, said: “The organisation has been fighting on these issues for many years. A few years ago, the officials concerned had approved our demands, but no government order was issued. I am surprised that the state government, which does not hesitate in issuing government orders on petty issues, is not deciding anything on our demands”.

He said the appointment to the post of naib tehsildar should be made from the senior most and capable employees of the Collectorate.

He stressed the need to adopt a similar method for the selection of chief administrative officers.

“Against the 32 posts of chief administrative officers, there are only 13 officers in the state, The rest of the posts are lying vacant. If the state government gives promotion to senior employees, then the work will progress smoothly”.

“The structure of the Collectorate was shaped up decades ago. There is an urgent need to restructure it as per the requirements of the present times. Besides, the names of a few posts are required to be changed. The term typist is no longer used and has been replaced with data entry operator,” he added.

He said similarly, the term tele-printer had become outdated. But such terminologies with regard to positions were still in use in Collectorate offices and must be changed.

Dehradun, November 6
Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles, wife of Prince Charles, will visit The Doon School tomorrow. The enduring theme during her visit would be women empowerment and social service projects supported by the school through its numerous outreach programmes.

Dr Peter McLaughlin, Headmaster of the school, said, “We have been told that The Duchess of Cornwall is interested in girls’ education and women empowerment across the globe. During her visit, she will have an opportunity to see our work in this domain. We think that it is vital for our boys, many of whom go on to leadership roles in India and across the world, to take responsibility for the plight of country's women through these service programmes and our collaboration with NGOs.”

Boys of The Doon School are engaged in supporting women through micro-finance projects and providing vocational training to girls residing in village slums around the city.

McLaughlin said, “These slums and village schools directly supported by The Doon School, are a part of her visit. The Duchess of Cornwall will also see underprivileged children, who regularly work with boys in the school’s art studios.”

He said the Duchess of Cornwall would also interact with children and staff of ‘Waste Warriors’, an NGO committed to ending waste and visual pollution in the city and other districts. She would also see a photographic record of the relief and community work recently begun by around 100 boys from The Doon School in villages of the state, which were devastated by floods in June this year, he added.

The school has committed itself to a long-term relief and reconstruction efforts to rebuild villages, schools and livelihoods in the region. 

Dehradun, November 6
Doctors at Sri Guru Ram Rai Hospital have conducted a rare surgery on a young female patient who was suffering from a rare neck tumour (carotid body tumour) for the last  few years.

According to the hospital sources, the neck of the patient was swelling progressively and was increasing in size due to which the patient had been experiencing pain and recurrent attacks of dizziness.

The patient was completely cured her problems after being operated upon.

Dr Tripti Mamgain, senior ENT surgeon, said Sabiya (22), a resident of Selaqui, came to the ENT OPD with a complaint of progressive increase in neck swelling for the last 5 years and after examining, a vascular neck tumour was diagnosed.

“These tumors are termed as Paragangliomas. These can arise from an internal carotid artery (which carries blood to the brain), internal jugular vein or vagus nerve. These tumours tend to grow slowly and can compromise blood supply to the brain eventually leading to paralysis of cranial nerves, brain or hemiparesis. A torrential haemorrhage can also occur and may prove fatal to the life of the patient,”  she added.

Dr Mamgain said the size of the tumour removed was 5 cm and it was one of the rare tumours of the neck.

She said such tumors, when diagnosed, should be timely operated upon, thus, avoiding complications.

Dr Tripti Mamgain, Dr Apporva Pandey, under the guidance of Dr (Col) VP Singh, head of the ENT Department and anesthetist Dr Shalini played a significant role in the  successful surgery.

Dehradun, November 6
The police has failed to solve any of the burglary incidents reported from three different places in the past four days.

The police is still not anywhere close to identify or nab the culprits.

Recently, burglars struck at Doiwala, Vikasnagar and Patelnagar and took away cash and valuables worth lakh of rupees.

The police claimed that they had found a similarity between the three burglaries and got some important leads in the incident.

Dehradun SP City, Jagdish Chandra, told The Tribune, “Four teams have been deployed, including one team of the special operation group (SOG), which are working in tandem to solve the cases and it seems that some group was involved in all the burglaries.” Notably, after linking the information about their language, modus operandi, and their looks, the police has come to a conclusion that members of the same group were committing the burglaries. According to police sources, persons involved in all three burglaries were using tribal language.

On the other hand, a similar incident was reported in Gangnahar area of Roorkee yesterday. The police is suspecting the same gang behind the incident which committed burglaries in Doiwala, Patelnagar and Vikasnagar.

During investigation, the Dehradun police has found that three similar burglaries have been reported in Saharanpur district.

The investigating teams have approached the Saharanpur police for further information.

Recently, burglars broke into the house of ex-navy officer Virendra Singh Gusain in Badowala. They assaulted the family members and took away cash and valuables. A similar incident was reported on last Saturday amid Diwali celebrations where four burglars broke in to the house of Puneet Kumar in Vikasnagar and looted cash and valuables. 

Dehradun, November 6
Dr Harleen Kaur from Dehradun will be sharing the stage with famous chef Harpal Singh Sokhi in a food show programme, “Chef Sanjeev Kapoor’s Office”.

The programme will be telecast on "Food Food channel" at 4.30 pm tomorrow.

A PhD scholar, Dr Harleen Kaur did her schooling from Cambrian Hall. She has done her MBA in banking and has been taking cookery classes from the past eight years.

She runs a training centre for food and bakery and is expert in making professional cakes with icings, pastries, puddings, breads, pizzas and pastas. As of other extra-curricular activities, Dr Harleen Kaur is also a tarot reader and reiki grandmaster. She also works on numerology, palmistry, signature reading, tarot cards and various therapies. 

Dehradun November 6
Wills Youth won the 3rd Jaideep Bhandari Memorial Football Tournament after defeating Nehrugram in the finals played here today.

The match started on equal footing with both teams playing well. No goal was scored by either team in the normal allotted time slot of 90 minutes. The match went to the tiebreaker in which Wills Youth outperformed Nehrugram and won the match by 5-3.

Vishal Thapa of Nehrugram was adjudged best player of the match.

Mussoorie, November 6
Help Junior School Senji team won the kabaddi title in a three-day rural sports and cultural festival at Kempty village being organised under the aegis of Krida Evam Sanskritik Samiti , Kempty, near here today.

The help school defeated Saraswati Vidya Mandir School Kempty 16-8 to lift the opening fixture.

In the second match Aryan Vikas Sanstha defeated Saraswati Sishu Mandir Kempty by a margin of 18-0.

In the third match the Aglar Ghati team from Kempty defeated Himalayan International School Kempty 27-2, while Garhwal English Medium School sports team defeated Bhadraj Ghati team from Sartali village by a margin of 22-3. In the last fixture Bhadraj Ghati team from Sartali defeated Paryatan Ghati team, Kalidhar 12-8.

The festival was inaugurated by Raman Sehgal, director, Automobile Construction, Delhi.

Organising president Rajendar Panwar along with members of the samiti Bharat Panwar, Kamal Rawat, Jaipal Rana,Virendar Thapli,Sandeep Panwar and others were presnt on the occasion.

Dehradun, November 6
Two matches were played during the Patidas Singh Memorial 20-20 Cricket Challenger Trophy that began at Doon Global School here today.

In the first match, Himalayan Cricket Academy defeated SD Bhatt Cricket Academy by 51 runs. Batting first, the Himalayan team made 160 runs with Vijay Singh (not out) scoring 72 runs at 33 balls.

SD Bhatt Cricket Academy had a bad start with both openers getting out without scoring much runs. Only Amit could reach double-digit mark and the entire team was bowled out at 109 runs at 14 overs.

In another match, Asian School defeated the host Doon Global School by 3 runs. After loosing the toss and being put into batting first, Asian School scored 129 runs in their innings with the help of Shiyam’s half century.

Doon Global was bowled out at 126 runs with Saurabh remaining not out at 55 runs.