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October 3, 2000, Chandigarh, India   
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Governor,
Chautala sign UN manifesto Husband arrested for demanding
dowry Rural phone service
poor Beau gets beloved’s
husband kidnapped Water scheme for villages launched ‘Rename GT Road as
Mahatma Gandhi Marg’ |
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2 children die of encephalitis Convict escapes from custody
Admn’s order on Air Force mela
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Governor,
Chautala sign UN manifesto CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — The Haryana Governor, Babu Parmanand, the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Mr A.B. Saharya, the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala and the Deputy Speaker of Haryana Vidhan Sabha, Mr Gopi Chand Gahlot, today signed a Culture and Peace manifesto proclaimed by the UN General Assembly. The General Assembly had proclaimed 2000 as International Year of Culture of Peace and the period 2000-2010 as the international decade for the promotion of culture of peace and non-violence for the children in the world. As the focal point for the international year, UNESCO has been entrusted with the task of mobilising member states in coordinating activities reflecting people’s commitment to a culture of peace. “Manifesto 2000 for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence” has been produced by a group of Nobel Peace Prize winners with the help of UNESCO, within the framework of preparations for the International Year for the Culture of Peace in 2000. It was launched publicly in Paris by Nobel Peace Prize winners Mairead Corrigan Maguire (Northern Ireland), Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Guatemala) and Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Argentina) in the presence of UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor and numerous personalities. The manifesto is addressed to individuals and society. It is to raise awareness among people around the world, who by signing the manifesto, will commit themselves to adhere to the values of peace, tolerance and solidarity and undertake to translate the values, attitudes and modes of behaviour which underpin the culture of peace into daily action. |
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Husband arrested for demanding
dowry FATEHABAD, Oct 2 — The police arrested Sirsa-based advocate Ranbir Singh, his father Jagir Singh, his mother Jagir Kaur, and his sister Amanjeet Kaur, at Rattia in the district under Sections 498-A and 406 of the IPC. They were produced before the Judicial Magistrate, Ms Alka Malik, today. Ranbir Singh was remanded to the judicial custody till October 16 while the other three were released on bail. They were arrested on the complaint of Ms Jaswinder Kaur, wife of Ranbir Singh. They got married on December 3, 1995. She stated in her complaint on September 29 that she was being harassed by her husband and in-laws for bringing insufficient dowry.She said in 1996, she brought Rs 20,000 from her father and gave the amount to her father-in-law. But they were not satisfied and kept on harassing and beating her.In October, 1996, she was beaten and thrown out of the house with the warning that she would be allowed to come back only if she brought Rs 50,000 more from her father. When her parents persuaded her in-laws to keep her, her agreed. She added that in September, 1999, her parents gave Rs 30,000 to her in-laws on their demand and in their effort to see her happy at her in-laws house. But on September 3, 2000, her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law asked her to bring Rs 50,000 from her parents. When she pleaded that her father could not afford to meet their demands time and again, her father-in-law allegedly abused her, her sister-in-law caught her by her hair, her husband beat her up and her mother-in-law dragged her out of their house and said she would not be allowed to come back unless she brought the amoung from her father.Upon this, she came to her parents at Chando Kalan village. On September 18, her father, Ajit Singh, with Mr Balwinder Singh, sarpanch of Shekhupur Sottar village went to Sirsa and tried to persuade her in-laws but they remained adamant on their demand. Her father told them to return the dowry along with Rs 50,000 he had already given, in case they were unwilling to allow his daughter to stay in their house. But her in-laws allegedly refused to do so. |
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Rural phone service
poor HISAR: Despite the installation of modern exchanges, rural areas continue to have a poor telephone service.There are about 150 electronic telephone exchanges in villages in Hisar Telecom District, which comprises Hisar, Sirsa and Fatehabad districts. The department has failed to maintain these exchanges properly due to various reasons, including the overloading of lines. Besides, rural exchanges are often installed at the behest politicians without ensuring that there is adequate infrastructure.The Centre had imposed a ban on the recruitment of technical staff in the Telecommunication Department in 1984. After the retirement of employees over the years, this telecom district now has just 25 per cent of the required technical staff.According to sources, 35 exchanges have no technicians to run them. Many of the exchanges have been out of order for months.The sources say that low voltage in villages is another reason why exchanges do not function at the optimum level. The exchanges require 170 volts to 280 volts for proper operation. But the supply usually remains below 110 volts. The department has no funds to instal generators.The General Manager, Telecom, Mr D.K. Verma, said that about 70 exchanges had been brought under a highly reliable system. Thirtyfive more centres would be included in the OFC (optical fibre cable) network by the end of this year, which would considerably improve the telephone service in the
area. The rally, which was led by Col Rakesh Mehta, covered 3,500 km in 12 days. Twentyone Army men and civilians took part in it. There were also three women and a child in the rally.General Satur said the rally would boost the morale of Army men posted in the border areas in Jammu and Kashmir. |
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Beau gets beloved’s
husband kidnapped YAMUNANAGAR, Oct 2 — A lover allegedly got kidnapped the husband of his beloved.Mr K.K. Sindhu, Senior Superintendent of Police, Yamunanagar, informed here today in a press note that the police had arrested five kidnappers yesterday.A few persons approached taxi driver Surinder Singh of Sawanpuri Jagadhri on September 17 to hire his taxi to go to Saharanpur. He took all of them in his car. But when they reached Sarsawa, the driver was allegedly thrashed by the persons and locked in a deserted place. The same accused allegedly demanded Rs 5 lakh as ransom from members of Surinder Singh’s family on telephone. His wife Gurdeep Kaur negotiated for Rs 1 lakh to release her husband.It is said that a special police team was constituted under the supervision of the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Jagadhri, Mr Rajinder Singh, who went to the site to nab the
culprits. Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh police was on the lookout for a doctor who was kidnapped. When the UP police reached that area, the kidnappers fled from the site, leaving Surinder Singh crying for help. The UP cops handed him over to Yamunanagar police.The accused admitted that they had kidnapped Surinder Singh according to Mr Sindhu.On interrogation, it was revealed that Surinder Singh’s wife had illicit relations with Jujhar Singh of Ismailpur village of Yamunanagar. It is alleged that the lover Jujhar Singh arranged the kidnapping with the help of his friends to spend time with his beloved.The accused who were arrested are Sanjay, Raju, Ghanshyam, Sushil and Jujhar (beloved) under Section 399, 402 IPC. |
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Water scheme for villages launched KARNAL, Oct 2 — Mr Vishnu Bhagwan, Chief Secretary, Haryana, today laid the foundation stone of a drinking water supply augmentation scheme for Bazida Jattan and Bhusli villages in Karnal district to mark the Gandhi Jayanti. Both Bazida Jattan and Bhusli villages will have independent tubewell water supply costing Rs 18.65 lakh each. It would benefit population of 10769 persons of villages Bazida Jattan and Dhaha Jagir and 13996 persons of villages Bhusli, Samalkha, Brichpur, Barota and Beejna respectivly. The cluster of these villages will enjoy augmented water supply scheme between 45 litre per head per day to 55 litre per head per day. All these villages shall be provided an internal distribution system in all streets costing Rs.12.37 lakhs. Water connections would also be given to the consumers in above villages. Paying floral tributes to the Father of the Nation Mr Vishnu Bhagwan said, launching of the scheme was realisation of the Mahatma dream. Mr K.C. Sharma, Financial Commissioner and Secretary to the Public Health Department, Mr Jai Parkash Gupta, MLA, Karnal, Mr J.C. Yadav Engineer-In-Chief, Public Health Department and Mr Devender Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Karnal, also spoke. |
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‘Rename GT Road as
Mahatma Gandhi Marg’ AMBALA,
Oct 2 — Citizens Council, Ambala Cantonment, has demanded that the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, should rename the Grand Trunk Road (GT Road) as Mahatma Gandhi Marg. Rich tributes were paid to the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, here today. A meeting of the Citizens Council was held to celebrate the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Citizens Council president N.C. Jain has asked the people to adopt Mahatma Gandhi’s three slogans — Bura mat dekho, bura mat kaho, bura mat suno. Meanwhile, the district unit of the Congress, this morning, took out a prabhat pheri in Ambala City to mark Gandhiji’s birth anniversary. The prabhat pheri was taken out through the main markets. Tributes were paid to Ghandiji by local Congress leaders at Congress Bhavan.
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2 children die of encephalitis KURUKSHETRA, Oct 2 (UNI) — Two children have died of encephalitis in the district. According to reports here, Rahul of Garhi Rodan village died in a private nursing home. Dr Deepak Kumar who was attending to Rahul said the boy had many symptoms of encephalitis. His blood sample has been sent to the PGI, Chandigarh, for laboratory tests. A 5-year-old girl, Karamjit, of Dhanora village near Ladwa town, also died of the disease in Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Civil Hospital. The doctors refused to divulge any detail in the case but they confirmed that two other children — Reena (3) of Salpani village and Asha (7) of Kalyan Nagar — were undergoing treatment for the Japanese fever. The Civil Surgeon, Dr R.K. Bhutani, was not available to confirm the report. It may be recalled that four children died of this malignant fever about a month ago, of which two were from Khanpur Kolian village, near here. |
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Convict escapes from custody KURUKSHETRA, Oct 2 — Another prisoner escaped from police custody here yesterday after jumping from the first floor of the local hospital. According to police sources, Saleem of Muzaffarnagar in UP, was admitted to the LNJP Hospital for the treatment of asthma. He reportedly went to toilet and make good his escape by jumping from the toilet window. Mr Desraj Singh, the district police chief, said three police personnel, including a head constable, had been suspended in this connection. This was the third incident in the past one month in which a prisoner escaped from police custody.
Admn’s order on Air Force mela AMBALA, Oct 2 — The district administration has ordered the Air Force authorities to close the Air Force mela being organised at Air Force ground, Ambala Cantonment by 5 pm today. The SP, Mr Navdeep Singh Virk, said the police had been getting complaints that certain stalls at the mela were indulging in gambling in the name of skill game. He said he had sent a report to the District Magistrate in this regard who had ordered the closure of the mela with immediate effect. Mr Virk said the Air Force officers concerned were informed about this. He said he had directed SHO, Ambala Cantonment to close the mela by evening today. He said SDM, Ambala and SHO, Ambala Cantonment had gone to raid the gambling stalls on Sunday but the Air Force officials standing on the main gate alerted the gambling stalls owner before they could conduct the raid. Meanwhile the SP, Ambala, confirmed that the Air Force authorities had agreed to close the mela by the evening.
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BSP leader roughed
up FARIDABAD, Oct 2 — Mr Aman Kumar Nagra, former state president, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), was abused and roughed up by party workers at a workers’ meeting at Palwal Rest House
today. The workers levelled serious charges against Mr Nagra. Senior party leaders tried to pacify the agitated workers but in
vain. Mr Nagra was on a tour of the state to canvass for the party. |
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Sale of adulterated
flour being checked SONEPAT, Oct 2 — The district administration has taken measures to check the sale of adulterated flour in the city and other parts of the district.The Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mr Ashok Yadav, told mediapersons here today that officials of the Health Department had checked 30 shops in the Gita Bhavan Chowk, Murthal bus stand, Sector 14 and Sarang Road areas but no adulterated flour was found in them. However, the officials took a sample of flour being sold at a shop in the Ganj Bazar area of the city which had been sent for examination.Nearly 100 persons were taken ill following the consumption of adulterated flour in Gohana town in the district. The administration had booked three shopkeepers in this connection. |
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320 kg of poppyhusk
seized FATEHABAD, Oct 2 — The district police today seized 320 kg of poppy husk being brought from Rajasthan in a jeep. One person was arrested in this connection while two others manged to escape.The district police chief, Mr Shrikant Jadhav, told mediapersons here today that following a tip-off, the police stopped a jeep near Rattia and seized the poppy husk. Balwinder of Riond Khurd village, has been arrested. A case has been registered.In two others cases, 10.5 kg of poppy husk was seized from a scooter and Balbir of Kalchhian village, was arrested while Binder Singh of Nagal village was arrested for possessing 5 kg of poppy husk. |
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Over 1 m getting old-age pension YAMUNANAGAR, Oct 2 — More than 1 million persons are being given old age pension in Haryana. Mr Rasal Singh, Social Welfare Minister, addressing a function organised here yesterday by ‘Utthan’ , a social organisation, on the eve of International Old Age Day, said at present over 10.6 lakh persons had been granted pension at a rate of Rs 200 per month.He said the government had also decided to have old age homes in every village in the state, adding that, assistance would be provided to social organisations working for the cause.On the occasion, a medical check-up camp was organised and medicines given free of cost. |
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'Rama' weds
'Sita' ROHTAK, Oct 2 — Viewers of a ‘Ramlila’ were astonished when the actor playing the role of Rama and the actress playing Sita got married on the stage during a scene of ‘Sita
swayamvar,’ shown on Saturday evening at Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district.
It is learnt that Raj Kumar of Delhi (acting as Rama) and Neelam of Bahadurgarh (acting as
Sita) fell in love during the rehearsals of ‘Ramlila’ and decided to get married.
Ashok Dua, acting as Maharaja Janak’, performed the ‘kanyadaan’. Two die in mishap AMBALA,
Oct 2 — Two persons were killed in a road accident near Mulana last evening. The deceased have been identified as Raghubir and Satish.
According to the police, the accident occurred when the car in which they were travelling collided with a truck. The police has registered a case.
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