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Cops booked for firing at rally Cassettes prove Katwal’s involvement, says Cong Anti-encroachment drive halted HP to have varsity of Buddhist studies |
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Changes in scholarship for Tibetan students Supplementary exam results declared VC fails to meet Governor The Deputy Commissioner, Devesh Kumar, who is also the Commissioner of the Baba Balak Nath Memorial Trust paid a surprise visit to the temple and the BBN College being run by the trust at Chakmoh on Tuesday and found that the entire teaching staff was missing from the college. Bankers protest
against privatisation Members of the Himachal Pradesh Bank Employees Federation staged a day-long dharna against decisions of the government affecting the banking industry.
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Cops booked for firing at rally Solan, November 27 The action has been taken following the submission of a fact-finding inquiry report by the Additional Superintendent of Police to the SP, Solan. The case pertains to the forcible arrest of INTUC chief of Himachal unit Amarjit Bawa by the Haryana Police party from Nalagarh where he was addressing a workers meeting. Bawa was let off later after protest from his supporters. The SP, Mr Abhishek Trivedi, said though the persons responsible for opening fire on the workers could not be identified, the report had established the fact that there was unprovoked firing by a youth in civil clothes. He was reported to be sitting on the left side of the front seat of a Haryana Police Gypsy and had accompanied the police personnel there. The report has further pointed out that the Haryana Police party which had come in five-six vehicles had neither informed the local police about this arrest nor had produced any copy of the warrant as claimed by them prior to the arrest. Even information regarding firing in an area not falling within their jurisdiction had not been furnished by them to the local police. The SP said the DSP, Nalagarh had been further instructed to inquire into the matter and identify the persons responsible for firing shots in the air. No bullets were recovered from the spot. The two HP police constables posted at the spot had also failed to identify the culprit, the report pointed out. It was after intervention by the Baddi police that the Haryana Police party that had forcibly arrested Bawa was intercepted and a large group of sloganeering Bawa supporters pacified to control the situation. |
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Cassettes prove Katwal’s involvement, says Cong Shimla, November 27 Mr Naresh Chauhan, spokesman of the party, said that destroying records of recruitment after three months and recording telephonic conversation of Opposition leaders were part of a criminal conspiracy hatched by those who sold jobs for cash. He said it was amusing that Mr Dhumal and other BJP leaders had been maintaining that the data retrieved from hard disks of computers of the former Chief Minister office by the Central Forensic Laboratory, Hyderabad, was not admissible as evidence but terming the audio cassettes as an incontrovertible evidence against the Congress leaders. He said the BJP leaders were raising much hue and cry over the ongoing vigilance inquiry only to create a impression among people that they were being implicated in false cases. The fact was that they were aware of their “misdeeds” and feared exposure as was evident from the data retrieved from the hard disk. |
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Dharamsala
rocked again Dharamsala, November 27 The tremors, which measured 3.5 on the Richter scale, lasted a few seconds, according to Dr R.S. Negi, in charge of Seismological Observatory at Naddi, near here. There was no report of any loss to life or property. Dr Negi said today’s quake was the second experienced locally within 52 hours, which was a matter of concern. He said the tremor on November 25 had a magnitude of 3. He said that the tremors indicated that a particular point was getting active and the intensity of the quake had increased. |
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Anti-encroachment drive halted Dharamsala, November 27 Talking to mediapersons here today. The issue of encroachments raised at a recent meeting of the district grievances committee and the administration was directed to act. Defending the razing of structures at Dadh, near the Chamunda temple, on Monday, the Deputy Commissioner said all those evicted had lost their appeals in courts and eviction orders had been issued against them. He also announced that soon a campaign would be started in the district to help tenants who still did not have ownership rights under the Himachal Pradesh Land Tenancy Act. The administration would verify the claims and in the genuine cases would ensure that ownership rights were granted, he added. |
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HP to have varsity of Buddhist studies
Dharamsala, November 27 In a statement here today, University’s founder Chancellor Prof Swami Buddhanand said the establishment of university was aimed at bridging the communication gap between the Mahayan Buddhist and Theravada Buddhist, Eastern and Western Buddhist, Hill and Plain Buddhist and between Buddhist and Non-Buddhist. He said it also aimed at contributing to the universal peace and harmony. He denied that it was a religious university but emphasised that the Buddhist studies on the specialised university and international level would be imparted here and will deal with Buddhism from the philosophical point of view. — UNI |
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Changes in scholarship for Tibetan students Dharamsala, November 27 As per the new decision, the students will not be allowed to choose subjects and courses but will have to select courses out of a list of 25 selected by the committee. According to sources, this has been necessitated as the Tibetan Government-in-exile was unable to absorb scholars returning after completing their studies under the scheme. However, the number of scholarships for degree and non-degree courses has not been reduced. |
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Supplementary exam results declared Kangra, November 27 Announcing this here today, Mr Chaman Singh, secretary of the board, said 25,758 candidates had appeared in the examination, of which 13,379 were successful and 1199 failed. As many as 11,091 candidates were placed under compartment. The result was also available on the boards’ website
www.hpeducationboard.nic. in, the secretary said. |
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VC fails to meet Governor Shimla, November 27 Sources in Raj Bhavan confirmed that a meeting was scheduled but Dr Sharma did not come. No one was aware of Dr Sharma’s whereabouts in the university and his office staff said he had extended his leave. |
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DC pays surprise visit Hamirpur, November 27 However, three of the four non-teaching staff members were present in the college. The College Principal was also not in the college. The raid was conducted around 3.30 P.M. |
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Bankers
protest against privatisation Shimla, November 27 Mr Suresh Sharma, president of the federation, said decisions like the reduction of government equity through return of capital, buy-back of high-yielding government securities at market rate, the utilisation of profits to write off non-performing assets and the decision to allow 74 per cent foreign direct investment in banks would spell doom for the indigenous banking
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Artiste Vimla Rana dead Dharamsala, November 27 She was suffering from cancer for the past 11 years. Vimla Rana was also an employee of the Song and Drama Unit of the state Information and Public Relations Department.
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