AMBALA
Workshop: The NSS unit of the local S.D.
College organised a 10-day workshop on "Role
of the Youth for a Healthy Society". Mr A.D.
Gandhi, General Secretary of the Haryana Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, inaugurated the
workshop and urged the students to follow the
teachings of the great reformers. The Principal
of the college, Dr Desh Bandhu, also addressed
the students. Killed: One person was
killed in a road accident on Sunday near
Naraingarh, 30 km from here. According to police
sources, he was hit by an unknown vehicle. The
police has registered a case.
KAITHAL
Quiz contest: The Dr Raj Kumar Verma memorial
third annual inter-school quiz contest was
organised at Sen Vidya Mandir here on Monday.
Teams from several schools in the town
participated in the contest. Mr Vijender Kumar,
Additional Deputy Commissioner, presided over the
function. Sant Baba Maan Singh of Pehowa was the
chief guest.
Maharaja
Aggarsain Jayanti: A 'shobha yatra' was
organised here on Monday on the occasion of the
Maharaja Aggarsain Jayanti. A large number of
members of the Aggarwal community and others
participated in the procession. Mr N. Lal Bansal,
President of the Beopar Cell, inaugurated a
charitable homoeopathic dispensary at Aggarsain
Chowk.
Murdered:
Karam Veer and Chander of Taloda Kheri village of
Jind district were allegedly murdered at Bhan
Pura village, near here, on Saturday by Ram Mehar
and Kashmir, both residents of Bhan Pura.
According to a delayed report, the victims had
come to Bhan Pura to meet the sister of one of
the victims. The police has registered a case.
Appointed:
The President of the district unit of the Bajrang
Dal, Mr S.C. Singhal, has appointed Mr Suresh
Sharma (Deora) as convener and Mr Ashok Goel as
joint convener of the unit.
NARNAUL
Condemned: Rao Narender Singh, MLA from the
Ateli constituency, has condemned the decision of
the government to shift the Co-operative Bank
branch from Rata Kalan to Dongra village. He has
urged the Chief Minister to intervene in the
matter and get the branch transferred back to
Rata Kalan.
ROHTAK
Robbery: A gang of robbers broke into a house
at Sampla town, about 25 km from here, on Sunday
and decamped with valuables worth about Rs 7,000.
According to police sources, the robbers struck
at night when the inmates of the house were
asleep. Meanwhile, in another incident, a Maruti
car was stolen from Bahadurgarh town on Monday
night while it was parked outside a house. The
police has registered cases in both incidents.
Traffic
blocked: Residents of Dulhera village of
Jhajjar district blocked the traffic on the
Jhajjar-Bahadurgarh road for several hours on
Tuesday in protest against the short supply of
drinking water and power. According to reports, a
few hundred residents blocked the road from 7
a.m. by parking their vehicles and squatting on
the road to lodge their protest and to demand
regular supply of power and water.
SONEPAT
New Deputy Commissioner: Mr Sudhir Rajpal
took over as the Deputy Commissioner here on
Monday in place of Mr Anil Kumar. According to
official sources, Mr K.P. Singh took charge as
the Superintendent of Police here on Monday.
Meanwhile, Mr K. Selvraj, Senior Superintendent
of Police here, has been transferred to
Chandigarh as the SSP (Crime). Mr Ashok Saini,
DSP, Gohana, has been transferred and Mr Anil
Dhawan has taken over as the new DSP in his
place. Mr Rajpal Singh has taken over as the DSP,
Ganaur, in place of Mr Abhey Singh Rao.
Injured:
Sukhbir Singh, an employee of the Haryana Vidyut
Prasaran Nigam, sustained burn injuries while he
was working on a transmission line at Rattan Garh
village, about 10 km from here, on Monday. He was
rushed to the local Civil Hospital where he was
stated to be out of danger.
Eye camp:
As many as 75 cataract operations were performed
and 300 other patients suffering from various eye
diseases treated and given free medicines by Dr
B.N. Khanna, a Delhi eye surgeon, at a five-day
eye operation camp organised here by a local
cycle manufacturing unit. The camp concluded on
Monday. According to Mr I.D. Chugh, factory
manager at the unit, this was the 32nd free eye
operation camp organised by the company.
Injured:
A scooterist was seriously injured when he rammed
into a bicycle on the Sonepat-Murthal road, near
here, on Monday. He was immediately hospitalised
and was identified as Mehar Singh.
Procession:
Members of the Republican Party of India took out
a procession here on Monday in protest against
the abolition of reservation in higher education
for students belonging to the Scheduled Castes
and Scheduled Tribes in Haryana. Carrying
placards and raising anti-government slogans,
they marched through the main bazars and
submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner
for forwarding to the President of India.
Phones
services paralysed: Telephone services in the
villages of Bahalgarh, Deepalpur and Muqimpur
have been paralysed for the past week on account
of a technical fault in the Khewra telephone
exchange in the district.
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