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Thursday,
October 24, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Dalits’ killing: 5-day
ultimatum to govt Cong leaders visit lynching victim’s
family KU youth fest trophy for RKSD college Visually challenged
students block traffic |
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Three teachers
suspended HIGH COURT Mystery shrouds death of kids Two more die of
fever Postal employees hold dharna Committee of telecom executives formed
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Dalits’ killing: 5-day
ultimatum to govt Karnal, October 23 Named as “Dalit Action Committee”, it has given five-day ultimatum to the Haryana government, while a similar panchayat in Jhajjar has given 15-day time to the government to book and punish the culprits. The president of the “maha panchayat”, Numberdar
Kaliram, said the decision of the panchayat had been conveyed to the government through a letter submitted to the SDO (Civil), Karnal. Mr Kaliram demanded Rs 10 lakh compensation each to the kith and kin of those killed in Dunila incident and threatened that if the demands were not met within the given time, the Dalits would launch a statewide agitation against the government. Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition in Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda and state Congress chief Bhajan Lal separately visited the family of victim Kailash here today. Five Dalits had been lynched, allegedly in the presence of cops, at Dunila village in Jhajjar district on Dusehra.UNI |
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Cong leaders visit lynching victim’s
family Karnal, October 23 They expressed their sympathy and demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident. The leaders said the inquiry by the state government was eyewash. A delegation of the CPM led by Mr Jaiparkash and Mr Harish Baghi, district secretary of the party, also visited the family of Kailash Chand to offer their condolences. They blamed the police for the Dulina incident. Officers from Jhajjar district had on Monday offered a cheque of Rs 1 lakh on behalf of the Haryana Government to the victim’s family but it refused to accept the cheque. |
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KU youth fest trophy for RKSD college Kaithal, October 23 The Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, who was chief guest on the occasion gave away the prizes to the winners. Addressing the gathering, the Chief Minister said the state government was committed to the welfare of the youth and the students and was trying to make the education employment-oriented. Mr Chautala said regretted that in spite of their talent, hard work and dedication, many students could not achieve much due to the lack of educational infrastructure and other facilities. He said the government had made the teaching of the English language mandatory from Class I and decided to introduce computer education from Class VI in all schools run by the government. He said these steps had been taken to prepare the students for competitive and other examinations. The Chief Minister claimed that the government was making efforts to promote cultural and sports activities in all educational institutions and had announced a number of incentives for the outstanding sportspersons. He expressed happiness over the performance of sportspersons from Haryana at the Commonwealth and Asian games. He congratulated the winners at the youth festival and advised the losers not to get disappointed and put in more efforts to achieve success. Earlier, he laid the foundation stone of a girl’s hostel on the college premises. Mr Y.K. Mangal, president of the RKSD college governing body, thanked the Chief Minister and the Principal, Mr K.K. Sirohi, highlighted various achievements of college students. Mr Anoop Lather, Director, Cultural Affairs and Sports, Kurukshetra University, and Mr Rajbir Rathi, Director, Cultural Academy, Haryana, thanked the Chief Minister for giving a boost to the cultural and sports activities in the state. Mr Ram Pal Majra, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Haryana, Mr R.S. Choudhary, Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, Mr Anurag Agarwal, Deputy Commissioner, and Mr A.S. Chawla, Superintendent of Police, were also present on the occasion. |
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Visually challenged
students block traffic Ambala, October 23 The blockade led to a traffic jam, which lasted about 30 minutes. The jam was cleared following the intervention of the SHO of the Ambala Sadar police station, Inspector Om Prakash. At about 11.45 a.m. the students came on the Jagadhri road. Their institute is also located on this road. The students then sat down on the road and did not allow vehicular movement on both sides of the road. A visually challenged student said they were blocking the road to press for their demands, which, he claimed, had not been met by the management despite repeated requests. He said they had met the honorary manager of the institute on August 15 and he had asked them to submit their demands in writing. The student said there was need for a watchman since at least two visually challenged students had gone missing under mysterious circumstances. “We are being served ‘bad’ food since the past four days and there is no improvement in the quality of food despite our pleas.” he said. He demanded that two cooks and two clerks should be removed from the institute. He alleged that the timings of the library were not being observed by the two clerks. However, the honorary manager, Mr Ved Prakash Aggarwal, said the students were being taken care of by the
institute. He said sensing a law and order problem, they had informed the Sadar police station.
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Three teachers
suspended Narnaul, October 23 The Minister made a surprise visit to the school and found Niwas, Mathematics teacher, Dhanpat Singh, Sanskrit teacher and Krishan Kumar, Science teacher absent from duty. He issued a
warning to four other teachers. They included the head master of the school and three other teachers Abhay Singh, Rajender Parshad, both Social Studies teachers and
Jaivir, art teacher. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, October 23 Delivering the verdict, the Judge also set aside the orders passed by the Higher Level Screening Committee in 1996 rejecting their applications for grant of eligibility certificate for sales tax exemption. |
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Mystery shrouds death of kids Ambala, October 23 The hospital authorities are not disclosing the post-mortem examination report of the deceased as per a rule of the hospital, however hospital sources confirmed that the report had maintained that the cause of the death was not drowning . It indicates that they might have been killed and later thrown in the pond. Moreover, their slippers and a rehri from their shop were also found nearby. The police has not yet figured out how the rehri could have reached there. The police had been suspecting that it could either be a suicide case or the two children could have accidentally slipped in the pond. But after the report, it has reviewed, the theory. The police said that only the viscera report was received, a conclusion could be established. The father of the children. Mr Manohar Lal, who runs a small vegetable shop in the Nahan area is still in a state of shock.
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Two more die of
fever Yamunanagar, October 23 The Civil Surgeon, Dr R.K. Jain, has claimed that there is no need to panic as the symptoms don’t match “Japani fever” or dengue. He said today that two children had died due to “improper treatment” at the hands of private practitioners. It is reported that Kajal (5) was running temperature on October 17. She was taken to a private practitioner who treated her. When she was better she was brought back. However, on October 18 she began to vomit and lost consciousness. She was taken to hospital where she was declared dead. Rinku (8) died in a similar manner on October 19. Five other persons, including children, are suffering from fever.
Ambala, October 23 A gate meeting during the dharna was presided over by Mr Kulwant Singh. Among others, Mr Manjit Singh, Mr H.L. Sidhu, Mr R.N. Yadav and Mr Des Raj addressed the dharna. The demands of the postal employees include opposition to privatisation of postal department. They said that the privatisation of postal department would lead to benefits to private companies and people would no longer get cheap as well as reliable postal service.
Ambala, October 23 Chairman Rajeshwar Chamola and convener Prahlad Singh Deswal decided to launch a three-day relay fast to highlight their various demands. The relay fast began today. The association has demanded that pay scales for executives in MTNL and BSNL should be as per the Mohan Committee recommendation, payment of pension for MTNL optees, benefit of IDA pay scales for officers retired in the intervening period, pay scale and pay fixation for DEs (adhoc) in group ‘A’, no lateral entry at the level of JTO and above.
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