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Thursday,
September 27, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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Rape case: Colonel held,
remanded Queen of full-length
operas HP Land Revenue Act
to be made
simpler HPSEB responsible for losses:
consumers Purchase scam: firm
owner quizzed |
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2 die, 35 hurt as bus falls into khud 3 houses
gutted in Chamba Woman’s
death: HC notice to DHS Tibetan PM honoured Martyr
cremated
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Rape case: Colonel held,
remanded Shimla, September 26 He was arrested and produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate J.S. Jaswal, who remanded him in police custody upto September 29. The accused surrendered after the police took up the matter with the Station Commander and urged him to produce the officer concerned for interrogation. The police confronted him with evidence and also get him medically examined. The accused is learnt to have admitted that the girl came to her house but denied having raped her. The police was highly appreciative of the cooperation given by the local Station Commander who ensured that the accused officer surrendered to the police. Lance Naik Mohinder Singh, who met the girl at the movement control office
(MCO) at the railway station and took her to the residence of the accused also acquitted himself well. He immediately reported the incident to his Commander and also gave full cooperation to the police in identifying the accused. |
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Queen of full-length
operas Banikhet (Dalhousie),September 26 In her role as the representative of the Rampur Sehaswan gharana, Padma Shri Shanno Khurana has long been involved in making popularising classical traditions. Acclaimed highly as the composer-director-singer of five full-length operas, Shanno made a lot of sense at Banikhet where the Asia-Pacific Performing Art Network’s (APPAN) conference is in progress. The most impressive of her talks was the one she delivered as chairperson of the session titled, “Tasting the teertham”. As custodian of the entire gamut of Hindustani vocal music (khayal, tarana, thumri, dadra, tappa, chaiti and bhajan), she could not have introduced the subject better. “Music offers pleasure equivalent to the one experienced on visiting a teerath. It’s amazing to recall how certain musical syllables overwhelm us in fleeting moments. We can never recapture the joy of bygone moments. For me, visiting the teertham is like striking the right note,” she said. Coming from the disciple of gurus like Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan and Ustad Ishtiaq Hussian Khan, the words sounded contextual. Her talk during another session titled “Antarnaad” (sacred sounds in the realm of raga), was also very inspiring. As a musician, Shanno has been attempting to link music with life. She brought classical traditions to a wider audience, with successful presentation of four operas, involving 60 to 80 ragas and folk tunes. These operas included Sohni Mahiwal in Punjabi (1963), Jahanaraa in Urdu (1970), Chitralekha in Hindi (1973) and Sundari, adapted from the famous Bhai Vir Singh’s novel (1980). Interestingly, despite her Rajasthani lineage (she was born at Jodhpur), she has sung in Punjabi. She directed and sung Heer Ranjha in 1957. She is Arts Adviser to Punjabi University, Patiala, and also member of the Punjab Sangeet Natak Akademi. Shanno is also trained in “poorab-ang” thumri by Padma Bhushan Thakur Jaideva Singh. Today her organisation, Geetika, is working to promote classical traditions. A unique project by Geetika is Bhairav-se-Sohni (an all-women musical concert), first held in 1982. Eight such festivals of thumri, tappa and dadra have been organised till 1995. In 1995, Geetika added another chapter called Aprachilit ragas by arranging a three-day festival which had maestros rendering rare ragas. A greatly-rewarded musician (recipient of Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award and the Bharatiya Natyasangh Awards), Shanno’s group bagged the first prize at the International Musical Festival held in Samarkand in 1997.  |
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HP Land Revenue Act
to be made
simpler Nurpur, September 26, Presiding over a two-day state-level “revenue training workshop” at Fatehpur, which concluded on Tuesday, Mr Sushant said the state government had brought radical changes and amendments to the Act with an objective to expedite disposal of land related disputes. He claimed that under the amended Act, land disputes settled by revenue courts within the stipulated period. Field staff of the Revenue Department, members of the Panchayati Raj institutions and mahila mandals from Nurpur and Jawali subdivision took part in the revenue workshop. Revenue officials educated them about the amended Act. They also heard the problems of the field staff. The Minister said the Department of Biotechnology had envisaged a new policy for the preservation, propagation and marketing of medicinal herbs in the state which would generate employment opportunities. |
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HPSEB responsible for losses:
consumers Dharamsala, September 26 The consumers, both domestic and industrialists, aired their views at a hearing conducted by the commission today and presided over by the chairman of the panel, Mr S.S. Gupta. A majority of those present were of the opinion that the board should set its own house in order and cut down losses rather than putting the burden on the consumers by hiking power tarrif. Kanwar M.P. Singh, who has been appointed member to represent the case of the consumers, said the board had been penalising the consumers for its own mistakes. Figures revealed that it was mostly government departments and agencies which were the defaulters. The Irrigation and Public Health Department owed Rs 77 crore to the board while Rs 7.5 crore were due from various municipal corporations, he said. There was mention of the high generation cost at Killar, Thirot, Baner, Gaj, Rongtong and Sal-II projects which were not viable. “It is a well-known fact that the private sector plant at Malana in Kullu was generating power at the rate of Rs 4 crore per MW while it works out to be about Rs 7 crore in the HPSEB projects,” Mr M.P. Singh said. It was pointed out that the transmission and distribution losses of the HPSEB were almost 32 per cent. Suggestions were given that electricity bills should be given on a monthly basis. Some pointed out that there was no regular meter checking despite the fact that about 15 per cent meters were defective. |
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Purchase scam: firm
owner quizzed
Shimla, September 26 It is learnt that the owner of the Delhi-based firm has been brought here and was being questioned. The firm had claimed to have been recognised by Delhi Super Bazar and had allegedly produced a “forged” letter to secure the supply orders from the Himachal Government. Chief Minister P.K. Dhumal had recently ordered the Vigilance Department to probe the entire transactions relating to these purchases. The issue was earlier raised by the Congress in the Assembly and outside.
The Director of Health Services, Dr Sukh Ram Chauhan, has already been arrested while the session court will consider the anticipatory bail application of former director K.S. Sohal tomorrow. Two clerks of the Health Department have also been arrested in this connection. |
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2 die, 35 hurt as bus falls into khud
Solan, September 26 One of the deceased has been identified as Tulsi Ram of Ganagu Ghat in Arki subdivision of this district.
Mr S.Z.H. Zaidi, SP, said the injured were rushed to the community health centre,
Arki, from where 13 were referred to the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Shimla.
The Additional District Magistrate, Mr S.C. Kalsotra announced an ex gratia of Rs 10,000 to the next of the kin of the deceased, Rs 5,000 to each of the seriously injured and Rs 1,000 each to those with minor injuries. |
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3 houses
gutted in Chamba Chamba, September 26 An official spokesman said here today that the fire broke out during midnight and the fire brigade and Home Guards personnel with the cooperation of residents extinguished the fire. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained. The official spokesman said that three persons named Amar Singh, Mangat Ram and Jallo had been affected. But, no relief could be given to the affected families because the houses were constructed illegally on government land. Cases
have been registered in this connection, he added. |
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Woman’s
death: HC notice to DHS Shimla, September 26 According to news report, Shakuntala was admitted to the hospital on September 15 due to same illness and next day she started crying with the chest pain. Her relatives accompanying requested the staff nurse on duty to attend the patient, but she ignored their requests time and again.
After a few hours she died. On this news report the court had issued
notices to the state government and further directed the government to
file its reply within two weeks and also submit the inquiry report
regarding the death. |
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Tibetan
PM honoured Dharamsala, September 26 Speaking on the occasion, RSS leader Indresh Kumar said in the present scenario a world war seemed inevitable. He said we were faced with the problems of terrorism, injustice and corruption. |
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Martyr
cremated
Bilaspur, September 26
Son of a retired Army Subedar Roshan Lal, Asha Kumar is survived by his wife and an 11-month-old male child. He died along with a number of CRPF personnel in a land-mine explosion that took place at Hajaribag in Jharkhand a few day ago. The State Information and Cooperative Minister, Mr Rikhiram
Kondal, laid wreath on the body of Asha Kumar on behalf of the Chief Minister, Prof Prem Kumar Dhumal, while Mr
Jhandutta, tehsildar, paid floral tribute on behalf of Mr Suraj Bhan and the DSP of Ghumarwin on behalf of the district administration. |
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