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Peenaz pays musical obeisance to Krishna
Don’t panic over tremors, says DC Plea for Barwala’s remand rejected Murder suspect arrested Board to hold essay contest
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Row ends with infant’s burial Proceedings against
suspended engineer ordered Spurious allopathic drugs seized 25,000 retrenched in 3 yrs, say
workers Doctor missing
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Peenaz pays musical obeisance to Krishna Kurukshetra, December 2 Today, however, the numinous melodies of sadhus merged with the devotional presentations of Peenaz Masani, creating a musical totality rich enough to pay a befitting tribute to the cradle of the Bhagwadgita. As Peenaz assumed position on the stage at Brahmasarovar, the gathering watched her with some apprehension that stemmed from her rather fashionable appearance. Gradually, however, the listeners were convinced of her hold over the devotional realm, considered the most difficult to handle and present. Earlier, while relaxing at the Haryana Tourism’s Yatri Nivas, located near Shri Krishna Museum, Peenaz talked about Kurukshetra, its rich historical legacy as also its growing popularity in the wake of national level celebrations. Even though the singer looked enraptured by the tales she had heard about Kurukshetra, its eternal link with Lord Krishna and Gita, she could not prevent herself from enquiring: “Was the Mahabharata really fought here? Where did Krishna sermonise Arjuna?” But lack of evidence does not bother Kurukshetra admirers, just as it does not bother Peenaz. Back from a tour of Africa, sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, the singer likes to believe what the legends say. “When I came to Kurukshetra eight years ago for a ghazal presentation, I was overwhelmed to set feet on the land where Lord Krishna once treaded. I am as overwhelmed on my return today. This place inspires me strangely.” Peenaz returned her inspiration when she presented Krishna bhajans this evening. Nazeer Akbarabadi’s devotional song reflecting the childhood charm of Krishna was particularly mesmerising. Among the other devotional presentations Peenaz made were — bhajans of Soordas and dohas of Kabir. “Tum taj aur kaun pe jaaon”, the Krishna bhajan by Soordas inspired the Gita Utsav with spiritual element. |
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Don’t panic over tremors, says DC Jind, December 2 He was speaking at a meeting of district officers and representatives of social organisations yesterday. Since Jind town has been experiencing tremors of low intensity for a couple of weeks, the Deputy Commissioner appealed to the people of the district not to panic and instead remain prepared to face any eventuality. He assured that the district administration was fully alert and was regularly in contact with the Geological Department office in at New Delhi regarding the issue. Meanwhile, it is still not confirmed whether the low intensity tremors in Jind could be treated as earthquake or not. According to Dr Abhey Kumar Srivastava, Professor of Disaster Management at the Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Gurgaon, though Haryana lies in the high-risk seismic zone, these tremors could be because of a void created in the strata by the evacuation of underground water in a large quantity from the earth. He directed the SDM of Jind and the Executive Officer of the local municipal council to identify safe places in the periphery of Jind city, where people could be evacuated in case of an earthquake.
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Plea for Barwala’s remand rejected Kaithal, December 2 The police had filed revision application before the ADJ on the ground that the Lower Court had wrongly rejected its application for seeking police remand of Jai Parkash who was already in judicial custody. However, the court did not agree with the arguments advanced by the prosecution in this regard. Barwala, who is lodged in Hisar jail, was brought here today and produced before Ms Shashi Bala Chauhan, Judicial Magistrate, who extended his judicial custody for another 14 days till December 16. On the other hand, Mr
J.R. Chauhan, Additional District and Sessions Judge, heard arguments and kept his judgement reserved till tomorrow on the
regular bail application filed on behalf of Barwala Meanwhile, a large number of Congress workers and supporters of Barwala from different parts of the state reached here and raised slogans against the state government and sought his immediate release. The protest dharna organised by the District Congress Committee continued in the mini secretariat here today said a state-level meeting of party leaders would be held at Congress Bhavan, Kaithal, on December 5 to chalk out the party’s
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Murder suspect arrested Fatehabad, December 2 Kiran, a resident of Rupana village in Rajasthan had got married to Pradeep of Hanumangarh on October 29 this year. Her paramour, Anup, is a resident of the nearby Chaharwala village. After the murder, Kiran had told the police that two armed men barged into their residence and murdered her husband. However, later she confessed to having killed her husband with the help of her paramour. |
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Board to hold essay contest
to curb copying Chandigarh, December 2 A spokesman of the board said the competition would be held for two categories in Hindi only. The first category of participants would include Headmasters, Principals, lecturers and teachers of primary to senior secondary government schools and other schools recognised by the board. The theme of the essay for this category will be “Shikshak ka Ellan, Nakal par puran viram”. The other category of participants would include the general public. The topic of the essay in this category would also contain a message against copying. The essay not exceeding 5,000 words, should reach the board office in Bhiwani by December 22. Three cash prizes — Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5000 — would be awarded in each category. There will also be two consolation prizes of Rs 1,000 each in both categories. |
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Row ends with infant’s burial Ambala, December 2 The parents of the infant had kept the body at their house for the past two days and were adamant to bury it in the disputed graveyard. Several members of the minority community, including Sabir Mohammad, the father of the deceased, went on a tractor trailer in the fields of Sagir Khan, president of the Ahle Islam Intjamia Committee, around 5 pm and buried the body there. Earlier, the administration had offered them an alternative site but they had not agreed. According to information, a leader of the minority community from Yamunanagar, Jahid Khan played an important role insettling the dispute. The SP said two of the leaders of the minority community had a telephonic talk with him in the evening and he persuaded them to settle down the matter as the administration could not go beyond legal bindings. He asked them to bury the body of the infant first. DSP, Raj Gopal and Tehsildar G.R. Rohila had meetings with the minority community to persuade them. Tension grew this morning when some sadhus who claimed that the disputed graveyard was their dera, started performing a puja at the site. A large number of police force was deployed in the village.
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Proceedings against
suspended engineer ordered Ambala, December 2 The Ambala Cantt police had registered cases against Zakir and others on a complaint lodged by the brother of Avedna Sharma on the charge of abducting her sister. The District Courts and the Punjab and Haryana High Court had dismissed the bail application of Zakir but he did not surrendered before the Ambala police. The police had moved an application in the court to initiate the proceedings of proclamation against Zakir and others. A newly married woman of Ambala Cantt had disappeared from Ludhiana railway station a few months ago while she was on way to Vaishno Devi, along with her husband.Avedna's father had alleged that Zakir had abducted his daughter. On the other hand, Avedna while appearing personally in high court had stated that she wanted to live with
Zakir. After the cancellation of bail of Zakir from high court, the police had raided at several places including Gurgaon, Delhi and Chandigarh in search of Zakir but it could not find out any clue in this regard.
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Spurious allopathic drugs seized Yamunanagar, December 2 Mr Singh said on a complaint by the District Drugs Inspector, an FIR had been registered against Brij Bhalla and Anita Bhalla, who had taken the present residence on rent about six months ago and originally belonged to Nakodar in Punjab. He said Brij Bhalla and his wife Anita possessed spurious medicines which had been prepared in the name of famous firms like Parke-Devis, Doffins, Sun-Pharma etc. The police has secured the police remand of the couple. |
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25,000 retrenched in 3 yrs, say
workers Sirsa, December 2 Union leaders alleged that the government was retrenching employees on the plea of downsizing departments. They said workload during the past 10 years had increased manifold and hundreds of employees had retired during this period, but the government was not filling these posts. District president of the union Ram Kumar Bharokhan and state joint secretary Bhal Chand Sharma, criticising the government policies, said the government was befooling the employees by promising permanent jobs at public functions as the policies was contrary to these promises. They warned if these policies were not reversed, they would be forced to launch a statewide agitation in February. Later, employees’ leaders submitted a seven-point charter of demands to the Deputy Commissioner. |
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Doctor missing Sirsa, December 2 Police sources said as per the complaint lodged by the family, Dr Sunil Sachdeva left Dabwali for Fazilka in his car along with his wife and children on Sunday evening. He asked his wife and children to disembark near Lambi village. Then he restarted his car and left for an undisclosed destination. His kin have filed a complaint with the Lambi police that he may have been drowned in the Rajasthan canal as the tracks of the tyres of his car have been found leading towards the canal. —
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Six held for
robbery Ambala, December 2 According to the police, the persons arrested include Mahender Pal, Naresh, Vijay, Deen Dyal, Madan and Veeru belong to Bawaria community. The police said those arrested had admitted their involvement in a number of theft cases in the district. |
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