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Notice of privilege motion to LS Speaker
Chandigarh, April 25
The lathicharge on MPs and MLAs of the Haryana BJP at Faridabad on March 15 will now echo in the Lok Sabha. According to information received here, four Haryana BJP MLAs today submitted a notice of the breach of privilege motion to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha in his chamber.

Wakf Board for Haryana soon: CM
Chandigarh, April 25
Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala today said that if necessary a law would be enacted to curb the menace of copying in examinations. The Chief Minister, who was presiding over a meeting of DCs and SPs here this evening, said examination centres would be re-designated during the next session to check copying.

Cut production cost, CM tells accountants
Chandigarh, April 25
The cost and works accountants need to ponder over the increasing cost of production in view of the comparatively cheaper products being offered by foreign companies. If the Indian companies fail to check the increasing cost of production, they will not be able to compete with multi-national companies.

Kushal murder case: accused arrested
Ambala, April 25
The local police today arrested a person suspected of murdering 70-year-old Kushal Rani Sharma in her house situated in the Sharda Nagar locality on the Jalbhera road on Monday, when she was alone at home.

Delay in distribution of maths paper
Ambala, April 25
As many as 40 students of Class X, who appeared for their mathematics paper of the ongoing Board of School Education examination, Haryana, at A.S Senior Secondary School in Ambala City today, alleged that they were not given any extra time to finish the paper even as the paper was distributed to them half-an-hour late.


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Notice of privilege motion to LS Speaker
Yoginder Gupta
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 25
The lathicharge on MPs and MLAs of the Haryana BJP at Faridabad on March 15 will now echo in the Lok Sabha.

According to information received here, four Haryana BJP MLAs today submitted a notice of the breach of privilege motion to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha in his chamber.

The motion, informed sources say, has been filed against Mr Kaviraj, Additional S.P. Faridabad, Mr Jatinder Dahiya the SDM, Faridabad; and Ms Anita Yadav, Joint Commissioner, Faridabad Municipal Corporation.

The BJP MPs, Mr Rattan Lal Kataria, Mr Krishan Singh Sangwan, Mrs Sudha Yadav and Mr Ram Chander Bainda, have written in the notice that a meeting of the party legislators and office-bearers was convened at Faridabad for March 15. Certain citizens of the town informed the BJP leaders the district authorities were demolishing several houses.

The notice says when the BJP leaders went to the venue where buildings were being demolished, they stopped at a distance. However, after some time a large police force led by the Additional S.P. swooped on the BJP leaders and mercilessly beat them up.

During the lathicharge, Mr Kataria, President of the Haryana BJP, sustained serious injuries and had to be admitted to the emergency ward of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi.

The Speaker is likely to allow the BJP MPs to speak in the House on April 28, when the Lok Sabha will meet again.
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Wakf Board for Haryana soon: CM
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 25
Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala today said that if necessary a law would be enacted to curb the menace of copying in examinations.

The Chief Minister, who was presiding over a meeting of DCs and SPs here this evening, said examination centres would be re-designated during the next session to check copying.

He said Haryana would soon have its own Wakf Board. He directed the DCs to hold monthly meetings with mediapersons to highlight the achievements of the government.

The government had decided to develop residential sectors on the pattern of urban areas in one village in each block.

He also asked the DCs to identify villages in every block to construct a sports stadium for providing basic sports facilities in the rural areas.

He also directed them to ensure the availability of drinking water and toilet facility in schools.

He directed the DCs to ensure the recovery of arrears of all departments, boards and corporations by July-end.
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Cut production cost, CM tells accountants
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 25
The cost and works accountants need to ponder over the increasing cost of production in view of the comparatively cheaper products being offered by foreign companies. If the Indian companies fail to check the increasing cost of production, they will not be able to compete with multi-national companies. This was stated by Om Prakash Chautala, Chief Minister, here today after inaugurating a two-day regional cost conference on “Total Cost Management for Competitive Advantage” organised by the Chandigarh-Panchkula chapter of the North India Regional Council of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

Among others who spoke included Mr Ashok Goyal, Executive Director, Spice Telecom, Mr B.V. Ramanamurthy, President of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, and Mr Subhash Aggarwal, Chairman of the North India Regional Council.

Meanwhile, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, today said various aspects of the Value-Added Tax (VAT) had not been published in a befitting manner. According to a Haryana Government statement, Mr Chautala, while inaugurating a two-day conference on “total cost management for competitive advantage”, organised by the Chandigarh-Panchkula chapter of North-India Regional Council of the Institute of Cost and Work Accountants of India, added that VAT would neither cause any loss to the producer nor the consumer. He said that VAT was aimed at checking leakage in revenue.
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Kushal murder case: accused arrested
Tribune News Service

The accused Jaswinder Singh with police officials
The accused Jaswinder Singh with police officials in Ambala on Friday. (Inset) Kushal Rani Sharma. — Photo Neeraj Chopra

Ambala, April 25
The local police today arrested a person suspected of murdering 70-year-old Kushal Rani Sharma in her house situated in the Sharda Nagar locality on the Jalbhera road on Monday, when she was alone at home. The police also recovered from him an iron road used by the accused to kill her, his clothes with blood stains and the gold earings removed by him from the deceased’s body.

The accused would be produced in the court. Giving details the SP, Mr H.S. Doon, said the accused, Jaswinder Singh (28) was staying in their neighbourhood (H No 802, Sharada Nagar). Attributing failure in love to be a motive behind the murder, the SP said that unable to cope up with the separation from his beloved, Aneesha, the eldest grand-daughter of the deceased, and due to the hindrance posed by the grandmother, he reportedly committed this crime.

Jaswinder, who had discontinued studies after class XI, was married to a woman, who was already married and had two children. He had been married for over a year and it was only a month and a half back that the woman left for her parents’ place. He was a truck driver and was in the habit of taking drugs.

Jaswinder, who was not happy with his marriage, was in love with Aneesha for the past two years. Aneesha was 19-year-old eldest child of Rakesh and Praveen, both teachers in a government school in Punjab. The deceased, Kushal Sharma, who was not happy with the affair of her granddaughter with a married man would time and again oppose to their meetings and was also rude to the boy. The family, which was also not happy over their affair, had recently sent her to Chandigarh for studies.

This was not acceptable to the accused, who admitted to the police that on the day of the crime, he had first gone to their house at about 10.30 am and had a glass of water and tea with the old woman. However, finding her alone, he came back a little later with the iron rod and hit her hard on the head, following which she collapsed and died.

The SP said while there were no outer injuries on her head, the post-mortem report of the deceased brought out that she had sustained as many as 11 head injuries.

The accused is a son of Head Constable, Balbir Singh, presently posted as a guard in the Vigilance Office here.
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Delay in distribution of maths paper
Tribune News Service

Ambala, April 25
As many as 40 students of Class X, who appeared for their mathematics paper of the ongoing Board of School Education examination, Haryana, at A.S Senior Secondary School in Ambala City today, alleged that they were not given any extra time to finish the paper even as the paper was distributed to them half-an-hour late. As a result, most of them were not able to attempt questions worth about 40 marks even as they knew the answers.

A group of students belonging to Dua National Model School, Ambala City, pointed out that while the paper was scheduled to commence at 1.30 pm, students in Block B-2 who were to appear for the paper having English as their medium, were given the question paper at least half-an-hour late and were not given any extra time at the end of the paper.

Kirti Walia and Brahmjot alleged that the centre superintendent snatched their answer sheets at 4.30 pm and despite repeated requests he did not give them any extra time. Shikha and Shilpa were upset because as a result of this, their score was going to be low.

The Principal of Dua National Model School, Ms Manisha Minocha, demanded that either the affected students be given grace marks in this paper or the examination cancelled so that they could sit for the same paper again.
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S.N. Roy gets additional charge
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 25
The Haryana Government has given Mr S.N. Roy, Managing Director, Haryana Financial Corporation, Excise and Taxation Commissioner and Special Secretary, Rehabilitation-cum-Chief Settlement Commissioner, Haryana, additional charge as Special Secretary, Excise and Taxation. Mr Satpal Sharma, Joint Director, Hospitality, has been given additional charge as Administrative Officer, Tourism Department, relieving Mr Surjeet Singh of the said charge.

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Security deposits confiscated

Ambala, April 25
The security deposits of five ration depots in the district have been confiscated following detection of irregularities in the public distribution system. Giving this information, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr D.D. Gautam, said the working of six ration depots in the district was found to be unsatisfactory during an inspection in March. While the security deposits of five of these had been seized, supplies to the sixth had been suspended.

With a view to providing items of daily use to the public at subsidised rates, there are 339 approved ration depots in the district. While 130 depots are in the urban areas, there are 209 in the rural areas. TNSTop

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