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September 14, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Pak has no respect for human rights: Virbhadra Cong flays Dhumal for defending VC Kala Amb engg college students threaten stir Student hurt in clash dead Benami property buyers on the rise |
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Forest Dept plan to check monkey menace Doctor claims to have cure for mysterious disease Himachal to spend Rs 313 cr
on health Cage set
up to catch leopard
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Pak has
no respect for human rights: Virbhadra Kangra, September 13 Mr Virbhadra Singh said Pakistan did not have any respect for human rights. Ms Vijay Kalia, mother of the martyr when contacted told this correspondent today that she had been pleading with the Centre the past more than four years to expose Pakistan for violating the Genava Convention. She said she along with her husband Dr N.K. Kalia had approached the Defence Minister, the Foreign Minister and even the Prime Minister to take up the issue with the international community regarding the violation of Geneva Convention and human rights by the Pakistan army and the culprits should be brought to the book. She said that they have received a few letters from the Defence Minister and the Foreign Minister with a couple of assurances but practically nothing had been done. |
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Cong flays Dhumal for defending VC Shimla, September 13 Addressing a joint press conference here, they said the manner in which Mr Dhumal had come out in the defence of Dr S.D. Sharma, Vice-Chancellor of the Himachal Pradesh University, who was facing grave charges of corruption, clearly indicated he could foresee that if the probe into the affairs of the university was taken to the logical conclusion then the heat would also be felt by many BJP leaders, they added. The two Congress leaders said not only that the BJP leaders did not even invite Mr Dhumal to the “gaddi sammelan” organised by them to thank the NDA government for granting the community the status of Scheduled Tribe. He was seen as anti-Backward Classes by his own partymen. Mr Dhumal, they observed, was fighting a battle for survival in his own party. This was evident from the fact that he was not called for the party meeting held in Chandigarh recently in which central leaders, deputed by the high command, interacted with the second rung of leadership. The only achievement of the former Chief Minister was that he had managed to get Mr Shanta Kumar sacked from the Union Ministry, to settle his personal scores. |
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Kala Amb engg college students threaten stir Nahan, September 13 In a letter to Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, students said that the college management had been violating Supreme Court orders. They alleged ‘maladministration’ in management of the institute. They were also worried because the AICTE and the HPU had not granted affiliation to the college. After meeting the CM, a
delegation of students met Deputy Commissioner Sirmaur M.L. Sharma also and apprised him of the situation in the college. Director Technical Education, Hamirpur, visited the institute this week and took the stock of situation. It is learnt that a report to take action in this matter was submitted to the Government by the Director, Technical Education Hamirpur about two months back, but till date the government has not taken any action in the light of Supreme Court orders. |
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Student hurt in clash dead Palampur, September 13 As soon as report of his death reached here college students immediately went on strike and observed a condolence meeting on the college campus. Teachers of the college also held a condolence meeting. Meanwhile, the police has registered a case of murder under Section 302 of the IPC against Sorabh, Gaurav, Sanviv, Sachin Pal and Vikash Chauhan, all five accused arrested in this case. |
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Benami property buyers on the rise
Solan, September 13 Figures revealed that 18 cases of benami transactions were detected by the administration in 1998. This figure rose to 40 in 1999 and further to 62 in 2000. About 70 to 75 cases were pending with the administration past year and the number now stands to around 60. With the enforcement of the HP Tenancy Land Reforms Act, 1972, the non-Himachalis were barred from buying land in the state. They could, however, buy limited land after procuring due permission from the government. The officials in the administration while blaming the lengthy procedure involved in purchasing land by non-Himachalis said that the inordinate delay in getting government clearance led the non-Himachalis to adopt illegal tactics. They also blamed the property dealers for misleading the buyers from the plains. The most prevalent practice to grab land was the collusive decree where land was first sold to the non-agriculturist and then a case presented in the court. In the absence of any owner or defendant of the land, ex-parte suit was then accepted and land was consequently transferred in the plaintiff’s name. Acquiring land through gift deeds and by way of will are the other common methods put to use by the illegal property buyers. Officials say that 30 to 40 per cent of such cases fail to yield any result in the absence of concrete evidence. It has become a common practice with the illegal property buyers to first enter into an agreement with the bona fide Himachalis and then purchase land from them in their names. The lure of making a handsome profit lures them to enter into such deals. The field staff of the Revenue Department often connives with the buyers. Revenue officials while asserting that the law was equipped to deal with such deals said that the transfer of land through collusive decree was banned in 1995 after an amendment in sub-section (1) and (2) of the HP Tenancy Land Reforms Act, 1972. With such transactions being barred to legal proceedings it was not only risky but the buyer could also get no respite for such illegal deals. The lawyers, however, exploited the use of Specific Relief Act to bring such cases under the purview of a civil suit. Most of the benami buyers hail from Delhi, Punjab and the surroundings and comprised big businessmen, politicians and bureaucrats. Major problem confronting the judiciary in establishing such cases was the fact that majority of them posed to be tenants of the residents in whose names they got the land deals registered, revealed the officials.  |
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Forest Dept plan to check monkey menace Shimla, September 13 The wildlife wing of the department has prepared an action plan after conducting the actual headcount of the simian population in the three highly-infested areas of Shimla, Rampur and the 300 metre belt on both sides of the Shimla-Kalka national highway. Contrary of the general impression among the harassed residents that they were several thousands, the headcount revealed that there were only 61 troops of monkeys with a total strength of 720, concentrated in 16 locations in the state capital. Besides sterilisation of the males to contain the existing simian population, this five-year action plan spells out strategies to convert the commensal and the non-commensal monkeys back to non-commensals. It involves planting of more than 80,000 wild fruit plants, berries and shrubs, establishment of water holes and provision of salt licks at identified sites so that the monkeys do not have to venture out in the urban settlements in search of food and water. The general public will be educated about the man-monkey conflict to drive home the point that feeding the simians with junk food is neither in their interest nor the “ecological dislocates” which have been forced out of their natural habitats due to increasing human activity. In fact, the plan suggests enactment of a legislation to ban feeding of monkeys and animals along roads, highways and other specified areas in the state. All 305 male monkeys in the state capital will be sterilised in the first two years of this Rs 157-lakh project. In all 637 males, out of the total, 1980 monkeys present in the three areas where headcount was conducted, are to be sterilised. As the monkeys and langurs do not share territories, one of the strategy will be to release langurs to ward off the monkey troops from public places and other locations. |
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Doctor claims to have cure for mysterious disease Solan, September 13 Dr Singhal claimed that the disease was well-documented in medical literature, wherein it had been described as a communicable one which spread through the medium of a vector. This meant that it did not spread through air or body contact, he explained, adding that it was confined to the mid-hills. He claimed that he had diagnosed the disease in 1974, when he was working at Kotli in Mandi district. As the patient was the first-ever reported case of the disease, he had great difficulty in diagnosing it, especially as the then Chief Medical Officer had refused to grant him permission to get the requisite microbiological tests conducted at the Central Research Institute at Kasauli, he elaborated. Results of the tests conducted at Kasauli, for which he had to take leave, had confirmed Dr Singhal’s diagnosis and the patient had been discharged a few days later, after being cured, he claimed. Since then I have been curing hundreds of cases every year at my clinic here,” he further claimed. The doctor refused to divulge the name of the disease, but said he would share his knowledge with the medical fraternity at Shimla, provided he was properly approached. |
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Himachal to spend Rs 313 cr
on health Shimla, September 13 Inaugurating the two-day conference on continuous Medical Education Programme on Anaesthesia and Critical care at the Indira Gandhi Medical College in collaboration with the Indian Society of Anaesthesia, here today. He said that the budget outlay for health services in the state had been enhanced to Rs 313 crore from Rs 197 crore, an increase of Rs 59 percent. He said 100 more doctors and 181 staff nurses would be recruited soon. |
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Cage
set up to catch leopard Mandi, September 13 Mr G.R. Sahibi, DFO, said efforts were being made to catch the leopard for which a cage had been set up in the village. He believed that it was a female leopard with her cubs for whom she had killed Neha. Parents of the girl will be given Rs 1 lakh as compensation of which Rs 10,000 has already been given said DFO. |
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