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Hooda, Arun Walia take charge
MLA offers to quit seat for Hooda
2 BSNL employees chargesheeted
Requisitions on filling of posts withdrawn
PNB employees observe one-day strike
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Special girdawri to assess crop damage
Two students killed in road mishap
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Hooda, Arun Walia take charge
Chandigarh, March 7 Mr Walia has earlier remained Senior Standing Counsel, Government of India, and standing counsel for a host of government departments and corporations. Meanwhile, AG Hawa Singh Hooda and Mr Walia took charge of their respective assignments today. Mr Hooda began practicing as advocate in 1968 and has remained Chairman of Bar Council of a Punjab and Haryana from 1988-90, a member of the Bar Council from 1975-96 and President of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association for three terms - 1993-94, 1994-95 and 2000-2001. Considered a top-notch civil and criminal lawyer, Mr Hooda has handled many high-profile cases, the most recent one being the petition filed by Congress candidate Kiran Choudhary, who was defeated in the Rajya Sabha elections sometime back. Talking to The Tribune after taking charge, Hooda said that he was aware of the responsibility bestowed on him by Chief Minister B.S. Hooda. Asked if the strength of law officers in Haryana would also go up substantially as happened when the Congress formed the government in Punjab, Mr Hooda’s reply was ‘wait and watch.’ To a question about the appointment of other law officers, Mr Hooda said it would still take some more time. |
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MLA offers to quit seat for Hooda
Sonepat, March 7 Talking to mediapersons here today, he said if Mr Hooda sought elections from the Rohat seat, he would win with a thumping majority. He also hoped that Mr Hooda would work for the welfare of the people of Rohtak, Sonepat and Jind districts who, he said, had always been discriminated by the successive governments. |
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2 BSNL employees chargesheeted
Sonepat, March 7 According to official sources, the racket was unearthed on December 17 last when record of telephones allotted to the ISI agents was examined by officials. It was revealed that the ISI agents had made telephone calls to the tune of Rs 7 lakh in about a month and all the calls were made to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Kuwait and other countries where the ISI agents of Pakistan were operating. It is stated that Ramesh Verma started living in October, 2004, as a tenant in the house of Ram Phal, near the Bajaj motorcycle showroom on the Sonepat-Bahalgarh road. Both Ram Phal and Ramesh submitted their applications for seeking telephone connections in the first week of November. Ram Phal was granted a telephone (No 2218616) on November 14 and Ramesh was allotted telephone (No 2218616) the same day. On November 24, the ISD facility was started on the telephone of Ramesh, whereas the STD facility was started in the telephone number of Ram Phal. Ramesh made telephone calls to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Kuwait, etc. According to an estimate, thousands of telephone calls were made to these countries every day and 90 per cent of them to Saudi Arabia. Both of them also held telephonic conferences with people from areas falling in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Chennai and southern parts of the country, and contacted the ISI agents working there. |
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Requisitions on filling of posts withdrawn
Chandigarh, March 7 While stating this here today, an official spokesman said the Chief Secretary had in a communication to all heads of departments, the Divisional and Deputy Commissioners, the Registrar of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Managing Directors of boards, corporations and public undertakings and the Registrars of all five universities in the state directed them to withdraw the requisitions sent by them to the two commissions. The compliance reports were to be sent to the government. |
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PNB employees observe one-day strike
Hisar, March 7 The financial transactions were affected and customers had to face inconvenience as they had no idea about the bank employees going on a strike. Mr Balbir Singh Sibia, vice-president of the Haryana chapter of the PNB Employees Union, said the nationwide strike had been called against the decision to reduce the government equity in the bank by offering 74 per cent share to the private sector. He said it was irony that on the one hand, the Union Government claimed that it was not encouraging disinvestment in the banking sector, while on the other hand, it was floating shares of the bank. Mr Sibia, who is also the chairman of the Haryana Bank Employees Federation, asserted that their union was opposed to the move of privatising the bank and today’s strike was a means to register their protest. However, another PNB employees’ body, the All-India Punjab National Bank Workers Federation, did not participate in the strike. In a statement issued here today, Mr J.K. Sawhney, general secretary of the federation, maintained that the strike was politically motivated. The federation asked its members to perform their duties as usual without any fear. |
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Ranga’s case
Chandigarh, March 7 This direction was given by Mr Justice Virender Singh while disposing of a petition filed by Mr Ranga, who is under suspension, seeking expeditious trial in the case against him. In his petition, Mr Ranga had prayed that the trial against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act, which is pending in the court of M.M. Sharma, Special CBI Judge, Ambala, had been proceeding at a slow speed. He also said though the charge-sheet against him was submitted in the CBI court in 2001, only 21 out of 200-odd witnesses had recorded their statement. He stated in the past two years, not a single witness had been examined. Saying that he was due to retire in July, 2008, the petitioner also stated that in view of the slow pace of trial, the case might take many more years to complete
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Special girdawri to assess crop damage
Chandigarh, March 7 He said the Deputy Commissioners concerned had been directed to get the special girdawri conducted and send the reports to the government at the earliest. Financial assistance would be given to the affected farmers on the receipt of the reports, he added. |
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Two students killed in road mishap
Sonepat, March 7 According to a report, all the injured children were hospitalised and were stated to be out of danger. One of the victims was identified as Mohit (11) of Purkhas village and the police has sent the body for a post-mortem examination. The body of the other victim was yet to arrive in the local Civil Hospital. The Ganaur police has registered a case in this connection and further investigations were in progress. All the schoolchildren were on their way to an examination centre for appearing in the Class V examination. |
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Resignation accepted
Chandigarh, March 7 |
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Fire in taxi, passengers escape
Panipat, March 7 According to information, all the six passengers boarded Dehra village-bound taxi at Samalkha. On their way, one of the passengers struck a match to light a cigarette. At this, the van suddenly caught fire. Probably the gas was leaking from the cylinder installed in the van. The driver of the taxi stopped it and opened all the doors to facilitate the passengers to
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Kids carnival at DPS
Panipat, March 7 The Principal of the school, Mrs Seema Bhatnagar, said the carnival was organised for the betterment of the children where the school and the parents collaborated with each other. Baby show for the children upto four years of age was also held among other events on the
occasion. TNS |
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