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Oust-Chautala
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Lal state BJP chief Registration of
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Two
prisoners jump parole MDU
teachers submit memo to Parmanand Courts to be shifted
to new complex Creating awareness about
female foeticide Pak flag burnt Angra is Chairman,
Institution of Engineers GRP Head
Constable commits suicide Reorganistaion
of wards soon
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Oust-Chautala call by Cong Sirsa, October 30 Ostensibly, the Congress leaders belonging to the anti-Bhajan Lal faction of the party were to assemble at Sirsa today to observe the 16th death anniversary of Mr Dalbir Singh, father of former Union Minister, Ms
Selja. However, a full-fledged rally was organised at a ground at Nathaushree Chopta near here on the occasion where Congress leaders praised Ms
Selja, who also hails from Sirsa, and asked the locals to reject Mr Chautala in the next elections. Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Leader of the Opposition, said Mr Chautala was implicating his political rivals in false cases. Sirsa district topped in terms of the number of false cases filed under the Chautala-led government, he said. He asked the people of Sirsa to “wake up” and abandon the Chautala family. Captain Ajay Singh Yadav, Congress party’s Deputy Leader in the state Assembly, also made a scathing attack on the Chautala family and said a probe by the CBI should be ordered into the wealth acquired by the trust named after Mr Chautala’s father, Devi Lal. Mr
O.P. Jindal, also a Congress MLA, said that with Mr Chautala being the national president of the INLD, even the MPs of the INLD from the state were not free to spend the money received by them under the MP’s Area Development Fund. However, the rally was not all about attacking Mr Chautala alone. Mr Bhajan Lal, the HPCC chief, was also targeted by some of the speakers. These speakers, however, refrained from taking Mr Bhajan Lal’s name and couched their diatribe as an attack against the “practice of corruption”. Ms Selja, who was highly praised by all speakers, said she had been brought up in an environment where corruption was always decried. |
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Ganeshi Lal state BJP chief Rohtak, October 30 Prof Ganeshi Lal, a senior RSS activist, formally took over the reins of the party at the Haryana BJP headquarters here. Prof Ram Bilas Sharma, a former state unit President and former Education Minister, was made to withdraw from the contest by the party’s central leadership yesterday. The formal announcement of Prof Ganeshi Lal’s election was made by the BJP’s central observer and former Punjab BJP President Brij Lal Rinwa at the state council meeting of the party. The meeting was attended, among others, by BJP national
Vice-President Dr Harsh Vardhan, General Secretary Ram Pyare Pandey, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs I D Swami, Mr Kataria among five MPs, six BJP MLAs and senior party leaders. Election of 10 member of the National BJP Council from Haryana was also unanimous. They were Mr Mange Ram Panjail (Ambala), Mr Bharat Bhushan Bharti (Kurukshetra), Mr Jag Bahadur Chaudhan (Karnal), Mr Devi Dass
(Sonepat), BJP Secretary Om Prakash Dhankdar (Rohtak), Mr Ram Bilas Sharma (Bhiwani), Mr Ram Kumar Gautam (Hisar), Mr Mahavir Prasad (Sirsa-reserve), Mr Leela Dhar Verma (Faridabad) and Mr Om Prakash Grover
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Registration of
ultrasound centre cancelled Ambala,
October 30 A meeting of the district-level consultative committee was
held today at the office of the Civil Surgeon. The committee was
formed to ensure the implementation of the PNDT Act to check the
menace of female foeticide. Besides deciding to cancel the
registration of the Madan Ultrasound Centre, members also decided to
seek the permission of the court to seal different machines at the
centre. The committee members said surprise visits would be carried
out at different ultrasound centres and strict action taken against
those found guilty. The Civil Surgeon, Dr Avinash Sharma, informed
the members that the registered ultrasound centres had been directed
not to misuse the equipment for telling the sex of an unborn child.
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Charles visits Karnal today Gamri (Karnal), October 30 Prince Charles will arrive at the state Police Training Institute in Madhuban tomorrow afternoon in special helicopter. From there, he will be taken to the Gamri village by road. He will remain in the village for about 75 minutes. |
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More land brought under fruit Chandigarh, October 30 Though the countryside of Haryana does not exactly resemble this scenario, Dr V.P. Ahlawat, Director, Horticulture, does claim that the crop in the
horticultural sector has been exceptionally good in the current year. The area under fruits, vegetables and flowers in the state are all in excess of their respective targets fixed by the government, Dr Ahlawat says. He attributes this phenomenon to the good rainfall this year. Talking to TNS yesterday, Dr Ahlawat said that the area under various fruits in the state was 31,856 hectares last year and it was proposed to be increased by 2,000 hectares more in the current year. However, by September an additional 2,425 hectares could be brought under fruit cultivation in the state, Dr Ahlawat claimed. “The state is divided into two zones in terms of agricultural climate. While mango, plum,
litchi etc are the main crops of the eastern zone, guava and ber are the important crops of districts such as Hisar, Rohtak, etc, falling in the western zone”, Dr Ahlawat said. According to him, fruit production in the state was over 1.19 lakh tonnes till September this year. The corresponding figures last year was around 90,000 tonnes, he said. In fact last year also the target for expansion of area under fruit was kept at a modest 2,000 hectares but apparently the target could not achieved at all due to lack of rainfall. For vegetable cultivation, the projected expansion was fixed at over one lakh hectares and by September, an additional area of over 79,000 hectares had been already brought under vegetable, the Horticulture Director said. He added that last year only 54,760 hectares of additional area could be brought under vegetable cultivation. Similarly, in flower cultivation also, an addition of 2490 hectares had been made to the existing area. The corresponding figure was 2052 hectares last year, Dr Ahlawat said. As Haryana’s plan for diversification from the traditional paddy-wheat rotation is yet to pick up momentum, the expansion stated to have taken place in the horticulture sector will give the state government some consolation, it is believed. |
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Two prisoners jump parole Hisar, October 30 Superintendent of Police, Attar Singh Ahlawat said here today, that Lal Chand a resident of Khoh village, under Udaipur Well police station, in Jhunjhanu district (Rajasthan) was serving 10 years’ jail term under Narcotics Act. He went on parole for a month on April 10 to May 8, 2003. However, he did not turn up after the expiry of the parole term. In another case, Jagdish, a resident of Nadhori village, under Bhuns police station in Fatehabad district also failed to turn up after the expiry of parole term. He went on parole on September 17, 2003 for a month. He was serving 5 years jail under NDPS Act. The police has registered the cases against the parole-jumpers under the Parole Act, he said.
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MDU teachers submit memo to Parmanand Chandigarh, October 30 The allegation was levelled in a memorandum submitted to the Governor and Chancellor of the university, Babu Parmanand, by a delegation of the association here yesterday. The delegation, which was led by the association President, Dr Sudha Jain, comprised Dr Himmat Singh Ratnoo, Secretary of the association; Dr Ajmer Singh Kajal, Joint Secretary; and Mr Vazir Nehra, Vice-President of the AIFUCTO. Demanding immediate reinstatement of Dr
Ratnoo, the memorandum alleged that he was suspended by the Vice-Chancellor for opposing “hijacking of democracy” at a meeting of the Academic Council held on October 17. Earlier, Dr Ratnoo was elected to the Executive Council as teachers’ representative by an overwhelming majority in July last. However, two days before the election, the university authorities held a meeting of the council. After that no meeting of the council had been held though it was mandatory to hold the meeting every three months. The memorandum alleged that Dr Ratnoo had been suspended so that he could not participate in the Executive Council meeting. The delegation pointed out to the Chancellor that this had become a practice with the Vice-Chancellor to suspend vocal representatives of the teachers. Earlier, he had placed Dr Yujanvir Dahiya under suspension as the latter had incurred the wrath of the Vice-Chancellor because of his role in the Executive Council. A court of law which decided the issue in favour of Dr Dahiya had held that no disciplinary action could be taken against a member of the Executive Council for his activities as a council member. The court also held that at the meetings of the council, there was no master-subordinate relationship between the Vice-Chancellor and the members. The delegation urged the Chancellor to exercise his powers under Section 9(12) and Section 9(13) of the University Act to order immediate reinstatement of Dr
Ratnoo. |
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Courts to be shifted
to new complex Ambala, October 30 According to information the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Mr
B.K. Roy will inaugurate the complex. The inspection judge of Ambala, Justice
B.K. Bali will also be present on this occasion as he would be coming to preside over the Lok Adalat that day. It would be for the first time during the past one decade when a Chief Justice would visit the Ambala courts. At present there are five ADJ courts, six subjudge courts, two local courts of Ambala cantonment. One fast track court. Some of the lawyers of the cantonment are opposing the shifting of the cantonment court to the new complex as residents of the cantonment have to walk three to four kilometre more to approach the courts. Meanwhile, the president of the Ambala District Bar Association, Mr
J.S. Kohli said, It would be better if the courts were shifted to the new complex after the construction of lawyers chambers. He said the Deputy Commissioner had assured the Bar that as soon as the court would be shifted to the new complex, the present CJM court would be demolished and chambers for the lawyers would be constructed there.
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Creating awareness about
female foeticide Kalka, October 30 In his address, Mr Kaushik expressed concern over the large-scale killing of female foetus due to which the population of women was declining day by day. He said about two decades back, ultrasound technique was introduced, the main purpose of which was to diagnose internal diseases. But gradually the technique started getting misused for determination of sex of foetus. As a result, in Haryana there were only 861 women against 1,000 men, a ratio which was reported to be the lowest in the country, he said. He urged panches, sarpanches of panchayats, aganwari workers, health centre staff present on the occasion to spread awareness among the public against the declining population of women. Ms Khanna, the project officer of the seminar, Ms Monika, and Dr Rajiv Dewan of the Civil Hospital also highlighted the consequences of the declining male: female ratio and the importance of the female child in society. A short drama on the subject was also presented during the seminar and workshop. |
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Pak flag burnt Ambala, October 30 Later
talking to media persons, the Chairman of the front, Mr Viresh
Shandilay, said the front would challenge the acquittal of S.A.R.
Geelani and Afsan Guru by the Supreme Court who were allegedly
involved in Parliament House attack. The front would organise a
protest march before Parliament next month to protest against the
liberal attitude of the Union Government against the Pakistan which
had been encouraging the cross-border terrorism in Jammu and
Kashmir. Mr Shandilay said the Prime Minister should deal with the
terrorists with iron hands otherwise in minorities in the valley would
feel quite unsafe. He demanded that the Union Government should impose
President’s-rule in the state and hand over the state to the Army. |
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Angra is Chairman,
Institution of Engineers Ambala, October 30 The annual general body meeting of the institution was held at Ambala City. Mr
H.C. Bhatia took over as the honorary secretary of the Haryana unit. Elected members in the new executive committee include Mr P.K. Soni, Mr
H.C. Bhatia, Mr Asheet Bajaj, Mr K.C. Sethi, Dr B.L. Sethi, Mr Sanjeev Walia, Mr Ashwani K Sharma, Mr
C.M. Sharma, Mr Vipin Kumar, Mr Jitendra Kesri, Mr Sunil Gupta, Mr Ajay Mahajan and Mr Diwan Singh. “In addition to inculcating and promoting a growing commitment of the social objective of the profession amongst engineers and technologists, the institution acts as a qualifying body for conducting examination under non-formal programme. It is an accreditating body for courses in engineering,,” he said.
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GRP Head Constable commits suicide Yamunanagar, October 30 The complaint lodged by Ram Dayal stated that Ram Lal and his son had seriously injured him and his son Brijesh with sharp-edged weapons. The two families are neighbours and had a dispute for the past few months. Ram Lal was tense since the incident and ended his life by jumping in front of a train at
Jagadhri. |
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Reorganistaion of wards soon Fatehabad, October 30 The Deputy Commissioner, Dr
R.B. Langyan, told mediapersons here today that the reorganisation of wards of various municipalities in the district would be held under Haryana Municipal Wards Reorganisation Rules,
1977.
The Director, Urban Development, Haryana, would provide training to the officials concerned from November 11 to
13. |
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