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January 18, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Chautala ‘refused’ to give
funds to ex-Fiji PM IBC seminar opens Forum orders Postal Dept to pay Rs 1,000 School basks in Kalpana’s glory Bhaniarawale appears in court |
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Parishad seeks MC
chief’s resignation 3 get life term for murder Healthcare for Haryana staff in Delhi Judicial remand extended Docs’ arrest stayed
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Chautala ‘refused’ to give
funds to ex-Fiji PM Chandigarh, January 17 In a statement issued here today the Leader of Opposition, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, accused the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, of having committed “an act unworthy of a Chief Minister” by refusing to give crores of rupees collected from the people of Haryana to Mr Chaudhary. However, the President of the Haryana INLD, Mr Sher Singh Badshami, denied the allegations levelled by Mr Hooda and said the money could not be given to Mr Chaudhary because of certain legal constraints. Accusing Mr Chautala of running the state government like a tyrant and reducing the ministers and his party MLAs to “the status of bonded labourers”, Mr Hooda said they did not have the guts to ask the Chief Minister to give account of the money he had collected on behalf of Mr Chaudhary. Mr Hooda also accused the BJP of keeping silence. Mr Badshami said there was a legal hitch over transferring money to a foreign country. The entire money, he said, had been deposited in a nationalised bank. It could be withdrawn by him (Mr Badshami) and one more person. Till date, he said, no money had been withdrawn from the account. Asserting that Mr Chautala held Mr Chaudhary in the high esteem, Mr Badshami said the day the INLD supremo wanted to meet Mr Chaudhary in Delhi, the latter was busy with a number of public functions. Later, Mr Chautala was pre-occupied. He said the money would now be used to promote the cause of all those people of Indian Origin who were in public life in the countries of their settlement. |
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IBC seminar opens Chandigarh, January 17 Prof Sampat singh was inaugurating the two-day mid-term session and seminar on “Management and Maintenance of Built Environment” organised jointly by the Indian Buildings Congress (IBC) and the Haryana Public Works Department here today. He urged the delegates from all over the country that the professionals should not forget the project after its completion. Rather, it should be made mandatory for them to remain attached with the project to get feedback from the users for a number of years so that improvements could be made in future projects. Prof Sampat Singh advised the professionals to disseminate their knowledge to the lowest level. The Commissioner and Secretary, PWD (B&R), Haryana, Mr Naresh Gulati, said the seminar was a timely step in order to save the massive national built-up wealth which required utmost attention. The recommendations of the seminar would definitely influence and find a place in the infrastructure policy of the state government. In his presidential address, the President of the IBC and Engineer-in-Chief, Delhi PWD, Mr Deepak Narayan, said the congress had a vision of having built environment which was conducive to good living, affordable aesthetics, cost competitive, technology driven and capable of meeting the needs of Indian population. Mr P. Krishnan, a former Chief Engineer Works, said the poor quality of construction was one of the main sources of problems encountered by maintenance engineers. Among the other sources he listed inadequate funds and lack of proper documentation about the building plans. Among those who were present on the occasion were Mr R.R. Sheoran, Engineer-in-Chief, Haryana PWD; Mr M.K. Aggarwal, Chief Engineer, Haryana PWD; Mr O.P. Goel, Founder President of the IBC; and Mr H.S. Dogra, Secretary of the congress. As many as 28 papers will be presented in two technical sessions to be held tomorrow. |
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Forum orders Postal Dept to pay Rs 1,000 Fatehabad, January 17 He finally served the Postal Department with a legal notice on October 18. When the department failed reply, he complained to the District Consumer Forum on November 11. In the meantime, the money orders reached the destination. The forum held the postal authorities guilty of lapses in providing services to the consumer and imposed a fine and costs of Rs 1000 on the authorities. The forum has also asked the postal authorities to pay interest on the money orders’ amount for three months at the rate of 12 per cent. |
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School basks in Kalpana’s glory Karnal, January 17 It has been a proud moment once again for the teachers and students of Tagore Baal Niketan Senior Secondary School after hearing news of Kalpana Chawla making her space odyssey for the second time in six years. Kalpana is part of the seven-member mission on board the space shuttle Columbia which was blasted from the Cape Canaveral Centre in Florida yesterday and will be in space for 16 days conducting a range of scientific experiments. The school authorities are thankful for the help extended by Kalpana in arranging the visit of two students from her old school each year to visit the NASA headquarters in Houston. “But for Kalpana Didi, I could never dream of visiting the prestigious NASA headquarters in Houston in the USA,” said Sarprit. She said it had been a wonderful experience and it was unbelievable to see the giant space establishment. Sarprit and Namita Olang said Kalpana’s achievements had been an inspiration for the school students. Namita said Kalpana was so simple and that she would be her guiding light. The school Principal, Ms Vimla Raheja, said Kalpana’s gesture of ensuring two students going to Houston was a wonderful annual “gift” from her. Kalpana did her college education in Punjab before going to Texas to do her masters in aerospace engineering. Kalpana, who joined NASA in 1994, is an avid flier and holds certified flight instructor’s licence with airplane and glider ratings, commercial pilot’s licences for single and multi-engine land and sea planes.
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Bhaniarawale appears in court Ambala, January 17 Around three months back, six cases registered against Baba and his followers in various parts of Punjab were transferred to different courts of Ambala on the direction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. One more case of Baba, FIR No. 161, is pending in this court. Another case of Baba registered against him at Fatehgarh Sahib is also pending in the court of the Additional Sessions Judge, Ambala. Today he was brought in a tight security in the court of the
CJM. After the incident of a scuffle between the Baba and Akali Dal supporters a month back, the police has been taking special care of Baba. The Ambala police was also deployed on the court premises to deal with any situation. |
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Parishad seeks MC
chief’s resignation Ambala, January 17 A meeting of the central committee of the Vikas Parishad was held here today in which the resignation of the MC president, Pandit Shankar Dass, was sought. Ambala Cantonment MLA and Vikas Parishad chief Anil Vij said that the seven-member committee set up to look into the MC president’s post issue informed the central committee of the developments during the past fortnight. “On the basis of BJP office-bearers statement that they are busy till January 19, we have decided to extend the deadline till then. However, Pandit Shankar Dass must immediately resign.” he said. Mr Vij said that they were already in possession of a resignation letter duly signed by Pandit Shankar Dass “The resignation letter was prepared when we had entered into an agreement with the BJP more than two years back,” he said. |
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3 get life term for murder Hisar, January 17 According to the prosecution, Shanti Devi, her son Rajbir of Dhani Barwali Hisar and Beena of Bhattu Kalan murdered Balwant with a sharp-edgedweapon and threw his body in main water works in Mahavir Colony here. Balwant, resident of Gagandeep Colony was missing since December 20,1997 and his body was found later from the water works tank. The police had arrested Shanti Devi, her son Rajbir and Beena Devi, after the registration of a case on a complaint of Harnath, father of the deceased.
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Healthcare for Haryana staff in Delhi Chandigarh, January 17 An official press note said these hospitals were Irvin Hospital, Lady Hardinge Hospital, Victoria Ladies Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, Mrs
G.L. Maternity Hospital, Safdarjung Willingdon Hospital and G B Pant Hospital. |
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Judicial remand extended Ambala, January 17 Seventeen other activists, who were granted bail by the Additional Sessions Judge two weeks ago, also appeared in the court for the regular hearing of the case. The magistrate adjourned the hearing for March 10. The Ambala police had registered a case against Ghasi Ram and 21 activists of the BKU for blockading national highway and attacking the police personnel on November 25 when they staged dharna at Shahjadpur to protest against the non-payment of arrears of sugarcane producers of Naraingarh area by the sugar mill management. |
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Docs’ arrest stayed Ambala, January 17 The judge in his order directed the doctors to cooperate with the police during investigation. He also directed the hospital administration to produce the records of the prescribed medicine and diagnostic results of the deceased in the court. |
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