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April 10, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Pak spy remanded in custody
Move on lower house tax in Faridabad War
affects scientific instruments industry Two get life term for murder Schools to
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BSNL promises connections on demand Taking lift costs
trader dear Rooftop journey leads to death
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Pak spy remanded in custody Ambala, April 9 Addressing mediapersons at the end of the Pakistani spy’s 14- day police remand today, the Superintendent of Police, Mr Hardeep Singh
Doon, said on the basis of a tip-off and information given by Masood during investigations, the police teams had raided some places in Hisar, including his residence. Vital military records, training records showing how the Army was trained, a camera and 60 negatives were seized from there. Some maps of cantonments in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan were also been recovered. The negatives mainly contained photographs of Ambala Cantonment,
Chandimandir, Hanumangarh and Hisar cantonments, besides barracks and loading of Army vehicles. The SP refused to divulge much details about a floppy, which had also been seized from him but said it contained vital information about some sensitive Army areas and bridges in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. He said making it public would not be in national interest. The SP said he would send his report to the DIG, CID, and the challan would be filed only after the necessary clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. The spy was arrested on March 26 while he was sending an e-mail to Pakistan from a cyber cafe on the Nicholson Road in Ambala Cantonment. A resident of Bhutto Nagar in
Sahiwal, Punjab, in Pakistan, he had come to India on July 7, 2002. Masood had set up his base in Hisar due to the cantonment there and from there he had come to Ambala. This is the second time that a Pakistani spy has been arrested while indulging in espionage activity. |
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Move on lower house tax in Faridabad Chandigarh, April 9 Official sources said the rules would focus primarily on infrastructure of schools, facilities available to the students and the qualifications of teachers. The rules would be applicable to all private schools. It would be mandatory for any new school to conform to these rules. The existing schools already recognised by the government will also have to fill in a fresh form regarding their compliance with the rules. If an existing school is found wanting in any area, it will be given one year to fulfil the necessary criteria. However, there were a large number of unrecognised privately managed primary schools which might face the music now. “Whether such schools are also to be given time to conform to the guidelines will be decided at the Cabinet meeting tomorrow”, the sources said. It was learnt that the rules were framed in consultation with a committee of ministers headed by Finance Minister Sampat Singh. The meeting is also expected to take up a proposal by the Urban Development Department for modification of the existing house tax structure of the Faridabad Municipal Corporation. If the proposal is approved, the rate of house tax in Faridabad would go down and come at par with the tax rates in other Haryana towns. |
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War affects
scientific instruments industry Ambala, April 9 The entrepreneurs of Ambala have not received fresh supply orders for the last two months. The ready goods of the earlier orders for sending to those countries have not been delivered, so far, following the uncertainty in recovering the payments. Moreover, the payments of some of the manufacturers have been impended in Iraq, Kuwait and several other countries. It is estimated that scientific instruments worth Rs 40 crore were exported to the Gulf countries, including. Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, and Jordan. The manufacturer of scientific instruments of Ambala are already going through recession with the flooding of cheaper scientific instruments manufactured by Korea and China in the world market. Now the Gull war has added to their problems. According to information, there are around 500 small-scale industries at Ambala Cantt manufacturing scientific instruments. A large number of workers earn their livelihood through these industries. Since the industries have not been getting new orders so the units have started retrenching workers. Dr Anil Jain, president of the Scientific Instruments Manufactures Association, Ambala said the Gulf war was affecting the science industry here. He said if the war lasted long, the graph of the science instruments business would decline. Mr Jain said with the restructuring of Iraq after the war, the scientific industry of Ambala would get good business. He assessed that the scientific industry here might get the huge order of Rs 150 crore taking in view the export of scientific instruments to educational institutions over the past five years to Iraq. |
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Two get life term for murder Ambala, April 9 This judge observed in his order that the accused Jagmal and Parmal were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life with a sum of Rs. 1000 each as fine for the offence punishable under Section 302 IPC. In default of the payment the convicts should have to further undergo a simple imprisonment of one month. The accused were also convicted for a period of six month and a fine of Rs 500 punishable under Section 323 IPC. The sentences awarded above to each accused should run concurrently, the Judge said in his order. According to prosecution on April 18, 1989, Om Parkash, Jagmal Singh and Parmal Singh went to the field of Jasbir to get the possession of a piece of land. Om Prakash, had a double-barrel gun while Jagmal had one 12 bore country-made pistol. Parmal Singh had a lathi in his possession. Om Prakash opened fire at Sukhbir Singh, the complainant in the case who managed to escape. Meanwhile, the deceased Jasbir Singh appeared there. Jagmal fired a shot from country-made pistol, which hit on the stomach of Jasbir and he fell down. |
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Schools
to be upgraded Fatehabad, April 9 The Chief Minister said the government had decided to undertake work of cleaning all canals and distributaries of silt from April 13 so that irrigation water could reach the tail end during the next sowing season. He told farmers that the government had completed all arrangements for the procurement of wheat crop and he would personally supervise procurement operations. Mr Chautala announced that the government would upgrade
primary, middle and high schools for which the respective panchayats would complete the required norms regarding building and other infrastructure. He said villagers had been assigned the work of spending money for development activities in their respective villages. He said his government had set up village development committees (VDCs) for this purpose and money was sent directly to these committees. The Chief Minister listened to the grievances of panchayats under the Rattia Assembly constituency. The Chief Minister directed an Executive Engineer of the HVPN to replace all electricity iron poles in this constituency with those made of concrete. The Deputy Commissioner, Dr R.B. Langyaan, the SP, Mr K.K. Rao, the ADC, Mr C.R. Rana, the Haryana Rural Development Federation administrator, Mr Randhir Singh, the local MLA, Mr Jarnail Singh, an MLA, Mr Nishan Singh, a Haryana Finance Commission member, Mr Ram Kumar, a Haryana Planning Board member, Mr Mohan Lal Juneja, the INLD women wing president, Ms Krishana Poonia, the Zila Parishad chairperson, Ms Kailo Devi, and the SDM, Mr S.B. Lohia, were present on the occasion. |
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BSNL promises connections on demand Ambala, April 9 As many as 54 tehsils in Haryana would be provided with WLL ( wireless in local loop) facility shortly and the process would be completed by the end of this financial year, he added. With a view to reduce the rate of faults in telephones, a policy has been formulated to make Haryana telecom circle poleless. As many as 23 cities in the state have been identified for the purpose and four cities, Jind, Narwana, Jullana and Safidon, have already been made poleless. Announcing the new tariff for prepaid mobile service ie Excel, he said it would be effective from April 16. For instance the cost of SMS messaging would be Re 1 per message. . Later, the General Manager (Telecom), Mr
V.K. Kakkar, said they were strengthening the customer care centres to give the BSNL consumers the best of services. |
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Taking lift costs
trader dear Karnal, April 9 While waiting for a bus at Ambala, Mr Tejinder Pal Singh was offered a lift by the occupants of a Delhi-bound car, which he readily accepted. On reaching Shahbad (Markanda), he was offered tea by his benefactors at a hotel, possibly laced with some intoxicant and he became unconscious. Before being dumped in Jhanjhari village in this district, he was allegedly robbed of his gold ring, watch, suitcase and Rs 20,400 in cash. Talking to UNI from the Civil Hospital here, Mr Tejinder Pal Singh said some residents of the village got him admitted to the hospital. The police has registered a case.
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Rooftop
journey leads to death Fatehabad, April 9 After the examination both its boarded a private bus and sat on its rooftop as there was no space inside. As the bus did not stop at their village, they stood up and started making noise to seek the attention of the driver. Suddenly they hit against a tree. Pawan died on the spot while Ramesh was seriously injured. The bus driver and passengers came to know of the incident when they noticed blood dripping from the roof of the bus. Ramesh has been admitted to a local hospital with serious injuries. |
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LPG, diesel tankers collide
Karnal, April 9 The driver of the diesel tanker Manjit Singh, has been admitted to the local Civil Hospital. According to the police the LPG tanker bound for Jammu stopped at the Namastey Chowk. The diesel tanker which was coming at a high speed, rammed into it from the rear and got damaged.
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Shift courts back to city: lawyers Ambala, April 9
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