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Friday,
May 16, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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FATEHABAD BY POLL Control room at railway station
Ambala cantonment ‘escapes’ epidemic
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Nain produced in court Chemist shops, nursing homes raided ‘Spiritual bankruptcy mars education’
Sudhir Chowdhary Lecturer debarred from checking answersheets HIGH COURT Undertrial dies in jail Former minister fears arrest
Three Haryana IAS officers posted Bomb explodes,
2 hurt 2 more held in kidnapping case Student killed
in mishap Pulse polio programme from May 18
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FATEHABAD BY POLL Fatehabad, May 15 Ms Meira Kumar, Congress Working Committee member; Mr Buta Singh, former Union Minister; Mr Bhajan Lal, President of the state Congress; Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, leader of the Congress Legislative Party; Ms Selja, AICC secretary; Mr Randip Singh Surjewala, Indian Youth Congress President; Mr H.S. Hanspal, president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee; Mr Shamsher Singh Surjewala, Mr Birender Singh and Mr Dharam Paul Malik, former HPCC presidents; Mr O.P. Jindal, Mr Jai Parkash and Mr Mange Ram Gupta, MLAs; Ms Anita Yadav, president of the state women’s wing of the party; Mr Hukam Singh, a former Haryana Chief Minister; Mr Chhatrapaul Singh, former minister and a number of former ministers; and MLAs addressed the rally. Mr Bhajan Lal and Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda tried to deny reports regarding factionalism in the state Congress. They said there were no differences between the two and added that the Congress had a well-established tradition that the high command decided the Chief Minister once the party got the majority in a state. The two leaders said the major issue was to end the ‘autocratic rule’ of the Chautala family in Haryana. Mr Naval Kishore Sharma issued a stern warning to various factions of the party. He said he had been in charge of Haryana affairs earlier and he knew every leader well. He said he would not tolerate any kind of indiscipline in the party. Mr Karan Singh Dalal, Republican Party MLA from Palwal, and Mr Jagjit Singh Sangwan, Nationalist Congress Party MLA from Charkhi Dadri, announced their support for the Congress nominee Mr Dura Ram. Mr Dalal said immediately after the byelection was announced, he tried to evolve a consensus among opposition parties to field a joint candidate against the INLD. He said defeating the ‘autocratic rule’ of Mr Chautala should be the top priority of every opposition leader. Ms Selja left the dais before the speech of Mr Bhajan Lal. Mr Buta Singh alleged that the INLD government was anti-dalit. He cited the examples of the Dulina and Harsola incidents and said both incidents had exposed the anti-Dalit face of the government. The Congress leaders said whenever non-Congress parties came to power in the Centre or in any state, they ruined the country. They said the INLD government in Haryana had failed to keep its promises to the people. They alleged that the Chautala-led government was anti-trader, anti-employee and anti-people and said it was important to uproot this government. They said the byelection was the best opportunity to give a warning to the government that the people no longer tolerated their ‘misdeeds’. They appealed for votes for the Congress candidate. |
Control
room at railway station Ambala, May 15 A caller from Baroda was enquiring about a passenger and railway officials immediately scanned through the list of passengers to give him information. This exercise was repeated all through the morning. Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Aneet Dulat said control rooms had been set up at
Saharanpur, the Ambala cantonment railway station and the main control room. He said there was no booking of passengers from Ambala. A team of doctors and paramedical staff from Ambala was rushed to Laddowal as soon as the news about the incident reached here. The Divisional Railway Manager, Ambala, Mr Keshav Chandra, left for the accident site on the train in which the General Manager, Mr RK Singh, was travelling. The Frontier Mail incident led to trains getting delayed. Many trains were held up and the passengers had to wait at the Ambala railway station. Incidentally, Frontier Mail, which passes through Ambala at 1.25 am was running late by 15 minutes and today it passed through at 1.40 am. Mr Gopi Chand, who wanted to travel to Ludhiana, was worried as he had to reach there in time. “I think I will have to travel by bus to Ludhiana. I have learnt about the incident and trains have been delayed,” he said. A large number of passengers could be seen waiting on the platform to catch a train for Ludhiana and Amritsar. The passenger rush at the railway station had begun to clear up by afternoon.
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Ambala
cantonment ‘escapes’ epidemic Ambala, May 15 He said due to slush in drains, there was danger to the health of people and they must cooperate in the sanitation drive. “Dirty water has seeped into the soil and even a shallow 3-feet hole will yield water in the area. There is a risk of water-borne diseases. The drains had not been cleaned ever since the municipal council came into being,” he stated. Mr Vij said the cleaning of the drains in Ambala Sadar was on and it would continue till the drains had not been cleared of garbage. “The drainage system has collapsed and up to 5 feet of garbage is lying in the drains,” he said. He stated that the sanitation drive had been going on for a fortnight. “Extra effort has to be put in to ensure that the drainage system is cleaned. People have dumped garbage into the drains,” he observed. Mr Vij said 80 temporary workers were cleaning the drains. JCB machine, suction machine and four trolleys had been pressed into service. The work was being supervised by municipal council officials, including the Executive Officer, Mr K.K. Jain, and Secretary, Mr Sharma. “It has been possible to undertake this major exercise as we have Mr Suresh Garg as the officiating president of the municipal council,” he said. He said they had requested the traders for three things. “First, the slabs on the drains should not be fixed
permanently so that cleaning is possible in future. Second, there should be a dustbin outside every shop so that the garbage is thrown into. Third, space should be provided wherever the drain is passing through so that cleaning is expedited,” he said. Mr Vij said there were seven main drains which fell into the Gurguria nullah. “In the first phase, the main drains are being cleaned. The subsidiary drains will be cleaned in the second phase. We will also undertake sanitation drive in the outer areas in a phased manner,” he said.
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Nain produced in court Ambala, May 15 The Judge adjourned the case for consideration of charges for May 27. The Ambala police had registered a case against Mr Nain and other 18 BKU activists on November 25 last year when they blocked the national highway near Shahjadpur and made an attack on police personnel. Except Mr
Nain, all BKU activists were released on bail by a district court. Two months ago Mr Fateh Singh Fatua and Gun Prakash were arrested again while they were raising slogans near the court premises when Mr Nain was produced in the court.
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Chemist
shops, nursing homes raided Kurukshetra, May 15 According to the Kurukshetra Civil Surgeon, Dr S.S. Saini, although these raids were conducted to take action against those engaged in foeticide, various irregularities were detected. Dr Saini said at one chemist shop, a large quantity of intoxicating drugs, expired medicines and CPD bags were seized, after which the chemist shop was sealed. Dr Saini said two chemist shops, being run without licences on the premises of private nursing homes here, were also sealed. During another raid, a used CPD bag and a syringe were found from a refrigerator at a private nursing home. Action was initiated against a blood bank owner for organising a blood camp illegally on the blood bank premises recently. The raiding parties included Haryana Health Department Deputy Director Dr G.P. Saluja, Assistant Durg Controller Girdhari Lal Singla, Kurukshetra Civil Surgeon Dr S.S. Saini, Drug Inspectors Lalit Goyal, Parminder Malik and Sunil Dahiya and Senior Durg Inspector C.P. Aggarwal. |
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‘Spiritual
bankruptcy mars education’ Kurukshetra, may 15 He was addressing the participants of 39th orientation course organised by UGC Academic Staff College here yesterday. Dr Goel believes: “Spiritual bankruptcy and the commercialisation of education are the two root causes of falling standards of education in India. This is the main reason of breakdown of relationship between the student and the teacher in present times.” Dr Goel was speaking on “Excellence Models for Teachers in Changing Socio-Economic Scenario”. Being a teacher of economics Dr Goel felt that economics of education had devalued the real worth of education. We should think whether the teachers are honest, humane, hardworking in providing real education (proper, productive and practical use of hands, head and heart (3P and 3H programme) to our students, observed Dr Goel. Dr Goel emphasised human development activities such as Spiritual Quotient (SQ) development, intuition development, mental-level development, physical development, love yourself attitude development and emotional quotient (EQ) development. He believed that synergy of these six aspects of human development formed the objective of sustainable human development. He stressed that for every ill of the Indian education system there were Vedic pills and the Bhagwad Gita was panacea for lack of ethics in education. The Bhagwad Gita was not only a great religious epic but a guide to relationship management and a treatise on welfare economics. For work culture in educational institutions in India, he favoured holyday culture in place of holi-day culture. He pleaded for
spiritually-guided materialism as solution for country’s problems. This concept justifies needonomics and not greedonomics and is authenticated in Bhagwad Gita in Sloka 22 of Chapter number 9.
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Setting
an example in honesty Yamunanagar, May 15 Showing uprightness they deposited the briefcase with the local bus stand authorities. Mr Narender Singh, General Manager, Yamunanagar depot, said after reading a report in a newspaper regarding the incident the owner of the briefcase, Mr Parmod Kumar Talwar, a resident of Karnal reached Yamunanagar and contacted them today. He was handed over the briefcase by the authorities. Mr Narender Singh said this was the third such incident that a briefcase containing cash was deposited by employees of the depot with the depot authorities. He applauded and congratulated the employees for showing honesty and integrity. |
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Sudhir Chowdhary Chandigarh, May 15 Mr Anil Kumar, SP, Crime Against Women Cell, Police Headquarters, has been given additional charge as Assistant Inspector General, T&T. Mr Balbir Singh, SP, Telecom, has been given additional charge as SP Crime. Mr Vinod Kumar, DSP, PTC, Madhuban, Karnal, has been posted as DSP, HHP&RS Karnal. The government has also cancelled the transfer orders of Mr Raj Kumar, DSP from First Battalion, Haryana Armed Police, to CID, Mr Raj Kumar will continue in First Battalion, Haryana Armed Police, Ambala.
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Lecturer
debarred from checking answersheets Kurukshetra, May 15 This was decided by the Kurukshetra University Academic Council at its meeting held here yesterday. According to official sources, the said Lecturer had awarded zero to a final year engineering student and due to this the latter had to suffer mental tension. But, when the boy got his answersheet re-evaluated, he secured 49 marks. Similarly, when the university got his answersheet re-evaluated from another examiner, the student was awarded 35 marks. Later, when the answersheet was again got re-evaluated from the said Lecturer, he gave the student 45 marks this time. Finding the Lecturer at fault, the council debarred him from checking answersheets and supervising the conduct of annual examinations for next five years, the sources added.
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HIGH COURT CHANDIGARH: The high court stayed the arrest of two advocates in a benami transaction case registered by the Punjab state to “embarrass the Haryana Chief Minister”. The court has already stayed the arrest of an Indian National Lok Dal member, along with six others, in the case. Pronouncing the orders, the high court directed the two to join the investigation as and when called to through written notices. Seeking the grant of bail in case, the petitioners had contended that the offence of cheating was not made out. The petitioners in an other case, it may be recalled, had submitted that they were known to be close to the Haryana Chief Minister. Thus a false case was fabricated to embarrass the CM.
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Undertrial
dies in jail Ambala, May 15 According to the Superintendent of Jail, Mr Amar Singh the deceased, Binder, was well till last evening, but he seemed under tension. Today when the counting of the prisoners in the barracks started, one of the prisoners informed the jail authorities that one of the prisoner had fallen seriously ill. The doctors and pharmacist of the jail were informed and after giving him first aid, he was taken to local civil hospital where he died around 6.30 am. Mr Singh said the relatives of the deceased were informed. Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner has directed the Tehsildar, Ambala to inquire into the death of Binder. The Tehsildar visited the jail and recorded the statements of a few prisoners lodged in the barrack where Binder was lodged.
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Former minister fears arrest Kaithal, May 15 Mr Madan expressed this apprehension to mediapersons at a press conference called DCC president Ishwar Singh Ex MLA to give information of the State-level Congress rally to be held here. He added important issues like the construction of SYL Canal, unemployment, atrocities against Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes and lawlessness in the state would be high lighted.
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Three Haryana IAS officers posted Chandigarh, May 15 Mr Yudhvir Singh, who got elevated to the IAS recently, has been posted as Additional Excise and Taxation Commissioner against a vacant post. Mr Vidya
Dhar, also a recent promote to the IAS, has been retained as OSD to the Chief Minister. |
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Bomb explodes,
2 hurt Pinjore, May 15 The incident occurred when SI Chunni Ram, acting on a specific information, raided the house of the farmer, Gurbir Singh. The farmer said he had kept the bombs to scare away wild animals from his fields. While the SI was inspecting the bombs, one of bombs went off causing serious burn injuries to both. They have been admitted to a hospital and their condition is said to be stable.
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2 more held in kidnapping case
Kurukshetra, May 15 Stating this here today, the district police chief, Mr Desraj Singh, said the accused along with their accomplices, Raj Kumar, alias Raju, and Anil Kumar, both of Ajrani village, who were arrested for allegedly kidnapping and murdering Abhishek of the same village on May 10, were produced in the court here today. The court remanded them in police custody for two days.
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Student
killed
in mishap Ambala, May 15 Abhishek was taken to civil hospital at Ambala City. According to hospital sources Abhished was declared brought dead. It could not be ascertained which of the vehicle was on fault. The police is investigating the matter.
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Pulse polio programme from May 18 Karnal, May 15 Mr R.S. Doon, Deputy Commissioner at a meeting here yesterday, said that 2 lakh infants would be given polio drops, May 18 in Karnal district. Dr H.B. Arora, Civil Surgeon, said that 695 teams had been formed and of which 595 teams would serve the rural area and 100 teams in urban area. |
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