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Ministry nod to rail line project?
Jhajjar, December 31
The Rail Lao Sangharsh Samiti, which called on Union Ministers and held a dharna at Jantar Mantar in the Capital yesterday, received positive response from them regarding their demands. The samiti said that the project for connecting Jhajjar with rail line has been okayed by the Railway Ministry, but is pending with the Planning Commission.
Erratic supply of canal water puts farmers in a fix
Sonepat, December 31
Farmers in the villages of Gohana sub-division have not been receiving their due share of irrigation water for the past one year or so due to erratic canal water supply and alleged theft of irrigation water as a result of which water does not reach the tail-end of the distribution system.
UHBVN: No hits, only misses in the year gone by
Panipat, December 31
The year 2003 proved to be a year of failure more or less for Uttariya Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) on many counts: faulty transformers, power theft, malfunctioning of privatised meter reading, bursting of transformers resulting in many causalities and failure to supply power to all residents
of Panipat district.
Special Focus on panipat
Karamchari Maha Sangh flays ‘anti-worker’ policies
Panipat, December 31
“In comparison to other states, the present Haryana Government of Om Prakash Chautala is leading in imposing the Value Added Tax (VAT) and retrenching the employees while trailing in implementing new pension and ex gratia policies.”
Cold wave turns life
topsy-turvy in Meerut belt
Meerut, December 31
As the year 2003 says goodbye, people especially the youths are preparing to celebrate the beginning of the New Year in in a different way. But the biting cold for over a fortnight in the region appears to dampen their plan to make merry. Thick layer of fog and intensive cold wave has already gripped the whole northern state, including the Meerut-Ghaziabad region of western UP.
| Newly elected Standing Committee MCD chairman Mukesh Singhal with the other senior leaders of Congress at Town Hall in the Capital on Wednesday.
— A Tribune Photograph |
A Special Kirtan Samagam was organised at Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Punjabi Bagh, in the Capital. Shields and Siropas were presented on the occasion. |
Dense fog
claims life of a cyclist
Sonepat, December 31
A cyclist was killed and five
others injured in three different accidents occurred on the National
Highway No 1 and other state highways near here last evening on
account of dense fog.
Rally against move to raze constructions
Sonepat, December 31
The residents of Chhatera, Badwasni and Khewra villages held demonstrations in front of the offices of the deputy commissioner and superintendent of police on Tuesday in support of their demands and handed over memorandums to the DC and SP.
Passenger train derails
New Delhi, December 31
Panic gripped the Delhi junction this morning when four coaches of a local Saharanpur-Shamli-Delhi passenger train derailed. However, there were no reports of any casualty or injury to anyone.
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