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INLD, BJP creating
uncertainty: Vidrohi Girl revolts against parents over
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Hungarian
envoy meets Speakers Housewife raped, killed 4 smuggling ganja held Bank manager held for taking bribe VC laments illiteracy among women Youth fest at Karnal from today Fields submerged by canal breach Rural sanitation drive in Dec 15 relief trucks leave for Orissa Carpenter booked for rape bid |
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INLD, BJP creating
uncertainty: Vidrohi SONEPAT, Nov 25 — The President of the Haryana Pradesh Janata Dal Mr Ved Parkash Vidrohi, today charged the Indian National Lok Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party with creating an atmosphere of uncertainty and leading the state towards the mid-term Assembly elections. In a signed press note issued here, he said that the reported differences between the INLD and the BJP were bound to destablise the present government led by Mr Om Parkash Chautala in the state. The contradictory views expressed by the leaders of both the parties have already adversely affected the working of the administration as well as the speed of the development works in the state. He demanded immediate halt on this battle. Mr Vidrohi also lashed out at the BJP and said on the one hand the BJP leaders claimed cordial relations with the INLD, but on the other they had criticised the induction of four HVP legislators into the Cabinet by Mr Chautala. He wondered what the Chief Minister legislators into the Cabinet. The Janata Dal leader stated that in 1996, the HVP leader, Mr Bansi Lal, had also adopted the same course by inducting Mr Charan Dass Shorewala and Mr Vinod Madhia, erstwhile Lok Dal MLAs into his Cabinet and at that time Mr Chautala had raised hue and cry against it and even taken the matter to the court. Expressing his concern over the fate of several thousand ad hoc teachers after the decision of the state government to recruit 10,000 more teachers, Mr Vidrohi said these teachers had been working for the past many years and if their services are terminated it would be a great injustice not only to them but to all their families also. He urged Mr Chautala to
immediately intervene and give preference to ad hoc
teachers. He also asked Mr Chautala not to keep his
political interest in mind while deciding the recruitment
of new teachers. |
Girl revolts against parents HANSI, Nov 25 — In an unusual incident here, while one sister revolted against her parents, the other stepped in to "save their honour". Rosy (not her real name), the eldest daughter of an employee of the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam, was scheduled to be married on November 28 to a boy of her parent's choice. However, she got a stay on the marriage on November 20 from a local court. She also submitted before the court that she was "facing danger to her life." The court, while issuing stay orders on her marriage, asked the Subdivisional Magistrate, Hansi, to provide security to the girl. She was taken to the Nari Niketan at Karnal. Since then, she has been staying there. Meanwhile, all preparations for the marriage had been made. Invitation cards had been distributed. The girl's parents were shocked and embarrassed over this unexpected development as it all happened without their knowledge. "We never expected such thing to happen", one of the close relatives of the family told TNS here today. The entire family and the relatives were yet to come to terms with this development. They denied that the girl had at any stage disapproved of the marriage. They did not know whether she wanted to marry anyone of her choice. However, the younger daughter stepped in to "save her parents from the social disgrace". She decided to marry the boy, who otherwise was going to be her brother-in-law. The marriage was held yesterday. The Civil Judge, Mr P.K. Sharma, had November 24 for the next hearing. However, Rosy did not turn up so the next hearing now has been fixed for November 27. The SDM said the police had been asked to escort the girl to the court on November 27. She has to be brought here from Karnal. The parents and
relatives of the girl were not prepared to talk to
anyone. An atmosphere of gloom prevailed at the
residence. |
Power staff stage dharna ROHTAK, Nov 25 — Members of the local unit of the Haryana State Electricity Board Workers' Union today staged a dharna in protest against the alleged manhandling of an employee by an assistant line man, employed at Kundli village. According to information received here certain board employees went to the house of Jagbir, assistant lineman, at Model Town here to cut his power connection as he had failed to pay the electricity bill. They had heated arguments with Jagbir who reportedly assured them that he would pay the bill within a few days. Later, Jagbir and his wife reached the electricity office and allegedly beat up assistant lineman Yagya Prasad. Later a complaint was lodged with the police. Meanwhile, Mr Narender
Malik and Mr Bharat Bhushan, president and secretary of
the district unit of the union, have condemned the
incident. In a joint statement here today the two leaders
warned that they would launch an agitation from November
29, if action was not taken against the offenders. |
Hungarian envoy meets Speakers CHANDIGARH, Nov 25 — The Hungarian Ambassador in India, Mr Andros Dallas, along with a delegation called on the Haryana Speaker, Mr Ashok Kumar Arora, here today. Mr Dallas was much impressed by the progress made by the state with in a short span of time. He said Haryana had great potential for industrial development. Welcoming the Ambassador, Mr Arora said Haryana had made tremendous progress in the field of agriculture and industry. The state had a conducive atmopsphere for the smooth growth of industries because of its close proximity to the national capital. He said the state was producing the best quality of rice in the country and was a major contributor of foodgrains to the Central pool. The Speaker apprised the Ambassador of the democratic set-up of India and said there were harmonious relations between the states and the Centre. The Ambassador went
round the Vidhan Sabha and was shown the sitting
arrangements of the Treasury and the Opposition benches
in the House. |
Housewife raped, killed SONEPAT, Nov 25 — A young housewife, was reported to have been strangulated to death by a person in the fields of Mr Raghbir Singh at Gangana village, about 40 km from here, yesterday. According to preliminary reports reaching here, the victim had gone to the fields for bringing fodder where she was reportedly raped and strangulated to death. The police has registered a case of murder and sent the body for a post-mortem examination. The alleged culprit, whose name has been mentioned in the FIR, is still at large and a hunt is on to apprehend him. According to another report, the Gohana police has recovered the body of Suresh Kumar (32) from a field at Butana village in the district. The police believe it to be a case of murder and a case has been registered against two persons who are suspected to be involved in this case. Old enmity is stated to
be the cause of the murder. |
4 smuggling ganja held FARIDABAD, Nov 25 — The police has arrested four persons, including a couple on the charge of possessing 100 kg of ganja. The arrested persons have been identified as Prashant Mandal and his wife Shobha (both of 24 Parganas district in West Bengal) and Krishna Kant Ballabh and Nimai Mandal of Orissa. The contraband was brought by train from Orissa to Faridabad and was being smuggled via the Delhi-Faridabad border at Badarpur. The ganja weighing 45 kg, was being taken in bags. A few metres away, another person was noticed carrying a bag containing 30 kg of ganja. He gave his name as Krishna Kant Ballabh. The same night Nimai Mandal was arrested near the Palla bridge in Sector 37 for carrying 25 kg of ganja. A case under Sections 385, 386, 387 of the Narcotics Act has been registered against the smugglers at Sarai Khwaja police station. A few days back, the
police had also seized 900 gm brown sugar worth Rs 1
crore from three drug peddlers. |
Bank manager held for taking
bribe KAITHAL, Nov 25 — The Manager of the Jakhli village branch of Punjab National Bank, was arrested by the police yesterday while accepting a bribe of Rs 4000 from a farmer here. Giving this information here today the District police chief, Mr K.K Sharma, said a farmer, Ishwar Singh, of Taragarh village complained to him that the bank Manager, Jagdish Rai Garg, was demanding Rs 4,000 from him for issuing a Kisan Credit Card. Following the complaint, a team headed by the SDM, Mr Narender Singh, the DSP and Mr Amir Singh reached the Kurukshetra road residence of the Manager here and caught him red-handed while accepting the bribe. The Manager was arrested
and booked under Section 7/49 of the Prevention of
Corruption Act. Later, he was produced before a court and
remanded to judicial custody. |
VC laments illiteracy among
women KAITHAL, Nov 25 — Dr M.L. Ranga, Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, expressed concern over illiteracy among women and said this was the root cause of many evils prevailing in society. He stressed upon the need to educate women to bring about changes in the present social set up. Dr Ranga was delivering the convocation address at Indira Gandhi Mahila Mahavidyalaya here yesterday. He regretted that even after 52 years of Independence only 8 per cent women in rural areas and 18 per cent in urban areas were literate. He said only nine out of 240 universities and 1,000 out of 8,000 colleges in the country imparted education to girls. Illiteracy among women, was responsible for the evils like sati and dowry in society. He dwelled on the need to open more universities and colleges for girls and make moral education and imparting of human values a part of the syllabus. Dr Ranga, stressed upon
the need to introduce more job-oriented courses in
educational institutions to make education more
meaningful. He lamented the extremely high dropout rate
among the girls and added that there was an urgent need
to check this tendency. Later, the Vice-Chancellor
conferred degrees on 310 graduates. |
Youth fest at Karnal from
today CHANDIGARH, Nov 25 — The sixth Haryana State Youth Festival will be organised by the Department of Sports and Youth Welfare, from November 26 to 28 at Kalidas Rangshala in Karnal. The festival will be inaugurated by the President of the Haryana Olympic Association, Mr Abhey Chautala. The Union Minister of State for Home, Mr I.D. Swami, will preside over the closing ceremony of the festival. Nearly 1000 artistes, both boys and girls, from all over the state are expected to take part in the festival. Competitions will be held in 18 events, including folk dance, folk song, one-act play, elocution (extempore), classical vocal Hindustani, classical vocal carnation, sitar, guitar, mridangam, harmonium, veena, tabla, flute Manipuri dance, Orrissi dance, Bharatanatyam and Kathak and Kuchipuddi. The winner team will
represent the state at the sixth National Youth Festival
to be held at Thrissur in Kerala from January 12 to 16. |
Fields submerged by canal
breach JIND, Nov 25 — Due to a breach in the Hansi branch of the Western Yamuna Canal, more than one thousand acres of agriculture land of Tog, Bahadurpur, Kandla and Khokhri villages in this district has submerged. According to a report received here today, two to four feet of water is standing in the fields causing extensive damage to the standing rabi and vegetable crops. According to the farmers affected by the canal breach, recently sown crops of wheat, mustard and vegetables have perished. They said that due to winter the water was likely to take a long time to dry with the result that they would not be able to sow rabi crops again. They alleged that as the canal breached due to the negligence of the Irrigation Department, government should compensate to the farmers. The affected farmers met the Deputy Commissioner and demanded compensation of Rs 10,000 per acre. Mr Satya Pal Goel, Executive Engineer of the water services division, Jind, alleged that some anti-social elements had made a cut in the canal. He said, an inquiry had been ordered to know the cause of the breach. Mr Goel said the work of
plugging 120-foot wide breach was going on a war footing.
He claimed that only 250 acres of land has been submerged
under water due to the breach. |
Rural sanitation drive in Dec CHANDIGARH, Nov 25 — A fortnight-long rural sanitation drive will be launched from December 18 in Haryana to make villages clean by educating the people about the significance of cleanliness and taking steps for management of garbage and cowdung. This was stated by the Chief Secretary, Mr Ram S. Varma, while presiding over a meeting of the Additional Deputy Commissioners here today. He directed them to give an impetus to the rural sanitation scheme. He said pits should be dug up on the outskirts of the villages to dump garbage and cowdung to convert these into manure. He also stressed the need for keeping the village streets clean, saying that small drains should be provided on both sides of the streets and these should be kept clean for smooth flow of sewage. The funds allotted to
the district administration for various public welfare
schemes, especially those sponsored by the Central
Government, should be utilised judiciously. He asked them
to ensure that the benefits of the scheme percolated to
the grassroots level. |
15 relief trucks leave for
Orissa CHANDIGARH, Nov 25 — A fleet of 15 trucks carrying essential items collected by CPI volunteers from different Punjab districts for the Orissa cyclone victims was flagged off by the CPI's National Council general secretary, Mr A.B. Bardhan, and state secretary, Dr Joginder Dayal. The value of items, ranging from clothes to foodgrains, footwear and utensils is estimated at Rs 1 crore, says a party press note. This is the first consignment. Besides the material support, Dr Dayal also handed over a Rs 1 lakh cheque to Mr Bardhan. The general secretary
said it was regrettable that the Centre had failed to
declare Orissa cyclone a national calamity. He appealed
to the people all over the country to rise as one man to
help fellow human beings in Orissa and help the state to
rebuild itself. |
Carpenter booked for rape bid AMBALA, Nov 25 — The Ambala Cantonment police has registerd a case against Gulab Singh, a resident of Mahesh Nagar, for attempting to rape a married woman here today. According to the police, the suspect is a carpenter and he was engaged by a house owner for some repair work at Pooja Vihar where the victim lives as a tenant. The victim was washing her clothes in the bath room when the suspect entered it forcibly. A case under sections
376 and 342 has been registered. The accused is
absconding. |
2 held in Mukesh murder
case AMBALA, Nov 25 — Two more suspects in the Mukesh murder case have been arrested. Two supects, Gurpreet Singh and Rajinder Singh were arrested yesterday. According to Additional
Suprintendent of Police, Mr Sandip Khirwar, Bichitar
Singh, who was absconding and his servant Anant Ram have
been arrested. He said that more arrests are possible. |
Man killed over Rs 200 loan AMBALA, Nov 25 — A scuffle between two shopkeepers over Rs 200 led to the death of one of them after he was hit on the head by a weight measure. Police officials said that 40-year-old Mulk Raj was hit on the head by a 'tagdi' by another shopkeeper, Raj Kumar late last night. Mulk Raj was rushed to PGI, Chandigarh where he died today morning. The incident took place when Raj Kumar went to collect Rs 200 owed him by Mulk Raj. But Mulk Raj was unwilling to pay the money, an argument ensued and they soon came to blows. During the scuffle Mulk
Raj, a resident of Housing Board Colony, was hit on the
head. |
Boy run over by truck ROHTAK, Nov 25 — A boy was crushed to death by a speeding vehicle at a nearby village last evening. According to police sources, the victim, Sonu, was walking down a road near Bhagwatipur village when a Tata-407 truck hit him from behind. The boy, who received serious injuries, succumbed to them later. The police has booked a
case, but no arrest has been made. |
Two of family die in mishap SONEPAT, Nov 25 — Two members of a family were killed and four, including three women, were injured when a Maruti van in which they were travelling hit by a truck on the G T Road near Murthal village, 8 km from here, yesterday. According to the police, the victims have been identified as Mrs Kanta Sehgal and an eight-year-old girl Sharda Sehgal. The family belonged to Delhi. The injured have been admitted to a hospital in Delhi. The police has
registered a case. |
1 killed, 12 hurt in road
mishap AMBALA, Nov 25 — One person was killed and 12 others injured when a Matador carrying a marriage party collided with a tanker on the GT road near Kuldip Nagar, 5 km from here, today. The deceased was identified as Navneet Pareecha (33) of Panipat. Three seriously injured — Ram Lal, Anil Juneja and Rajnish — have been shifted to the PGI, Chandigarh. Nine others with injuries have been admitted to the local Civil Hospital. According to a police
report, the Matador was on its way to Panipat and the
occupants had come to Naggal village, 10 km from here, to
attend a marriage. |
Registered letter sent by ordinary
post SONEPAT, Nov 25 — A case of inefficiency of the Department of Posts came to light when a registered letter was received through ordinary post by a correspondent of a national daily here yesterday. The letter sent by
registered post by a Jalandhar-based newspaper on
November 22 after paying Rs 19 and it reached the
addressee by ordinary post on November 24. |
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