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Haryana BJP meets PM on Loharu riots
New Delhi, March 21
The Haryana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded from Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Home Minister L.K. Advani that a CBI probe be carried out into the incidents in Loharu.

40 piglets killed by FMD
Hisar, March 21
About 40 piglets have died of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in the local Government Pig Farm during the past few days. According to farm sources, all piglets were less than eight weeks old. The disease was first noticed about 10 days ago. After that, on an average four to six piglets have been dying every day.

All police stations to be computerised
Chandigarh, March 21
The Haryana Police Department has decided to computerise all its police stations and connect these through a network to all offices of the Superintendents of Police and through these offices to the police headquarters at Panchkula.

SD College (Lahore) Ambala Cantt students queue up to receive their degrees at the annual convocation ceremony on Thursday. — Photo N. Chopra

Haryana BJP meets PM on Loharu riots
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 21
The Haryana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded from Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Home Minister L.K. Advani that a CBI probe be carried out into the incidents in Loharu.

Talking to TNS, former BJP Legislature Party leader Ramvilas Sharma said all party MPs and MLAs along with party office-bearers would draw the attention of the Prime Minister and the Home Minister to the treatment being meted out to BJP leaders by the Chautala government.

“Our leaders have been framed on wrong charges and are in police remand for their alleged role in communal violence in Loharu”, Mr Sharma said, adding that our state Secretary Vijay Singh Shekhawat, son of freedom fighter Bhagwant Singh Shekhawat, was being maltreated.

“The communal incidents in Loharu are the handiwork of Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala who is trying to communalise the situation for his own advantage,” Mr Sharma said.

Mr Chautala along with his Education Minister Bahadur Singh were interested in grabbing land of the minority community. That was why they had engineered riots, he alleged.

40 piglets killed by FMD
Our Correspondent

Hisar, March 21
About 40 piglets have died of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in the local Government Pig Farm during the past few days.

According to farm sources, all piglets were less than eight weeks old. The disease was first noticed about 10 days ago. After that, on an average four to six piglets have been dying every day.

The bodies of 15 of them have been sent to the Haryana Agricultural University’s College of Veterinary Sciences for a post-mortem examination. Though the farm scientists did not reveal the findings of the report, it is learnt that the piglets had died of this dreaded disease.

The outbreak of the disease has sent alarm bells ringing throughout the state. Already there are reports that several animals in nearby villages are showing symptoms of the disease. However, no official confirmation was forthcoming as yet. The farm scientists, however, said the disease had been controlled.

This farm was set up in 1957 to help farmers supplement their income. The farm provides them piglets at subsidised rates and also offers short duration courses in pig farming. 

All police stations to be computerised
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 21
The Haryana Police Department has decided to computerise all its police stations and connect these through a network to all offices of the Superintendents of Police and through these offices to the police headquarters at Panchkula.

This decision was taken here today at the seventh meeting of IT PRISM held under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, Mr L.M. Goyal. Besides all 206 police stations and the headquarters at Panchkula, the police complex at Madhuban, offices of the four ranges, 19 district police headquarters, offices of 33 DSP sub-divisional offices, Haryana Bhavan in Delhi and the civil Secretariat in Chandigarh will also be connected under this ambitious project.

The other decisions taken at the meeting included providing public interface by Web-enabled software so that people can register their grievances online and also access the status of their grievances. Another decision related to the computerisation of offices of the Directorate of Employment in the four districts of Panchkula, Gurgaon, Rohtak and Hisar.