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Panchayat poll notification on March 17, says CM
Review cases against
BKU leaders, says Surjewala
Jindal assures liberal industrial policy
Rathee’s
resignation as Chairman rejected
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Race hots up for
PGIMS Director’s post
Cong ignored people’s
verdict, says BJP
Jaundice spreads tentacles as administration sleeps
15 deputationists to HUDA relieved
Board squads detect 225 cases of unfair means
DC denies Principal’s
charges
Residents vow to end dowry system
More liberal Indo-Pak visa soon
Experts discuss reform policies
HAU inks pact with Norwegian varsity
Teachers seek aid for GJU
Conference on communications
Gandhiji eulogised on Dandi anniversary
Youth festival concludes
Youth drugged, robbed
Man shot dead
3 open fire at grocery owner
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Panchayat poll notification on March 17, says CM
Ambala, March 12 Talking
to mediapersons on his maiden visit to Ambala after becoming the Chief
Minister, Mr Hooda said the elections would be held in a phased manner
in early April. “A two-day Assembly session has been called on March
21 and 22 so that new MLAs can take oath and the election of the Speaker
can take place,” he said. Mr Hooda said the Satluj-Yamuna Link canal
was not just a political issue, rather it is the lifeline for Haryana.
“I have full faith in the fact that the Supreme Court order will be in
favour of Haryana. There will be no delay in implementing the orders,”
he said. Mr Hooda said Ambala was the gateway of Haryana and industrial development in Ambala would be encouraged. Earlier, Mr Hooda went to the Congress Bhavan in Ambala City. Mr Hooda administered an oath to the Congress activists there on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Dandi march. Mr
Hooda said Haryana would be participating in the Dandi march. “We will
join the Dandi Yatra at Anand in Gujarat on March 18,” he said. |
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Review cases against
BKU leaders, says Surjewala
Kaithal, March 12 Mr Surjewala demanded that purchases for government departments, boards and corporations should be transparent an decentralised so that there was no scope for any corruption. He demanded review and withdraw of the criminal cases registered against BKU leader Ghasi Ram Nain and other farmer leaders, who were booked on the charge of treason and criminal activity. He demanded that the state government should take steps to ensure loans to farmers at reasonable rates of interests. Mr Surjewala reiterated his commitment to the voters of Kaithal Assembly constituency of providing good civic amenities. He said all damaged roads would be repaired, toilets for women in the villages will be constructed and adequate canal water and power supply would be ensured. He also assured of setting up of a hospital with ultra modern facilities at Kaithal and education centres in the area for providing quality education to the youth. Replying to a question about his support to one of the group in RKSD College governing body, the elections to which will take place tomorrow, Mr Surjewala clarified that he would remain neutral. |
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Jindal assures liberal industrial policy
Bhiwani, March 12 Without naming a senior party leader, he said he and his colleagues were grateful to the public for according support to them during elections due to which a fair person had been elected as the Chief Minister of the state. He said the INLD supremo had exploited every section of the society and the public had replied for his misdeeds by voting him out of power. The Congress government would not indulge into politics of vendatta but any person indulging in corrupt practices would not be spared, he said. Mr Jindal said taxes would be simplified and industrial policy be more liberalised so as more and more industries be set up and unemployed get jobs. He said return of industrial units, which had migrated, would be ensured. Mr Jindal also said that stress would be given on the setting up and expansion of modern industries instead of conventional ones. Earlier, the minister dedicated Jeewan Ram satsang bhavan to public. The newly constructed bhavan has been constructed on 3500 sq feet and has eleven rooms and a temple. Dr Shiv Shankar Bhardwaj, MLA, Bhiwani, welcomed the minister. He assured that all pending development works would be completed on a priority basis. MLA Badhra Dharmbir, MLA Mundhal Ranbir Mahendra, former minister Ram Bhajan Agarwal, former MLA Jagjit Sangwan, the Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police were among others present. |
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Jindal wants transparency in govt work
Hisar, March 12 The DC, Mr Arun Kumar Gupta, assured the minister that his team would work sincerely. |
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Rathee’s
resignation as Chairman rejected
Chandigarh, March 12 A
source said that after the Chautala-led government resigned and the
Congress formed the government in the state, General Rathee, who is
holding the post of Chairman of the three corporations — the Haryana
Vidyut Prasaran Nigam, the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and the
Dakhshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam — had submitted his resignation. Mr
Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister, however, asked General Rathee to
carry on with his duties. General Rathee is an electrical engineer by
training and had served in an engineering unit of the Indian Army from
where he retired. There is reportedly no definite time period for
General Rathee’s appointment and his removal by the Hooda-led
government in the future cannot be ruled out. However, the Chief
Minister apparently did not want to send the wrong message by
immediately sacking a professional man recruited by the previous regime
and fill the post with his own nominee. In another case, a senior police officer, who feared removal from the key post he was holding, also found to his relief that the Chief Minister had no such plan. Though
the police officer was not exactly a “favourite” of Mr Chautala, he
could have still made Mr Hooda upset for another reason. Like many
senior officers of Haryana, this police officer, too, could not imagine
that anyone but Mr Bhajan Lal could become the Chief Minister following
the Congress victory in the Assembly elections. So, when Mr Bhajan Lal
was coming to attend a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party in
Chandigarh on March 1, the police officer made security arrangements
throughout the route of Mr Bhajan Lal befitting a Chief Minister. All
this was done by him to please the would-be Chief Minister. But, sadly
for the police officer, Mr Bhajan Lal lost the race and it was Mr Hooda,
who became the Chief Minister. Mr Chautala had removed a number of
persons from various important positions after he became the Chief
Minister. Mr Chautala’s decision to instal a new secretary of the
Rajya Sainik Board saw the state government paying a huge compensation
to a retired Brigadier who was removed from the post. |
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Race hots up for
PGIMS Director’s post
Rohtak, March 12 The race for the post heated up after the new Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, assumed office. Since he belongs to this town, most of the senior PGIMS doctors are personally known to him. This has intensified the fight for the post. Interestingly,
the fight is being fought primarily to highlight the negative side of
the opponents. No wonder, anonymous complaints and memoranda addressed
to the government under fictitious names are doing the rounds of
newspaper and ruling party politicians’ offices in a bid to run down
each other. Among the front runners for the post are Dr S. B. Siwach of the Medicine Department and Dr K. S. Sangwan of the Orthopaedics Department. Both have had serious setbacks to their careers in recent past. The former was first removed from the post of Director and was then recently given notice of compulsory retirement which ends this month. The latter was removed from the post of Dean following a high court diktat a few weeks ago. Another common feature among them is that both were removed during the INLD regime. The dark horse is Dr M. S. Gupta, Professor of Medicine, who is a former Director of the Agroha Medical College. He is considered close to industrial- ist turned politician-turned- minister Om Parkash Jindal of Hisar. The name of Dr D. R. Yadav, a former acting director, is also making the rounds. |
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Cong ignored people’s
verdict, says BJP
Hisar, March 12 This was stated by
Mr Sujit Kumar, vice-president of the district unit of the BJP, at a
news conference here today. He maintained that the Congress got the
benefit of “negative voting” in the Assembly elections. “The
Congress leadership could not find even a single MLA suitable for the
post of Chief Minister,” he said, adding that the decision to make an
MP the Chief Minister was against the public sentiments. However, at
the same time, the BJP leader congratulated Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda on
being made the Chief Minister, stating that the BJP “hoped that he
would soon fulfill his promises made to the people.” |
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Jaundice spreads tentacles as administration sleeps
Fatehabad, March 12 Over 100 persons had fallen ill due to the outbreak of jaundice in Shiv Nagar and Nehar Colony areas of Fatehabad and over 24 cases of the disease had been reported in Azad Nagar and Krishana Colony at Tohana town in this district. The Health Department authorities, however, put the figures at 30-40 cases in Fatehabad and 7-8 cases at Tohana. This correspondent found that over 100 persons had been suffering from infective hepatitis in Shiv Nagar and Nehar Colony of Fatehabad. Those who were ill had been getting treatment in the local General Hospital as well in some private hospitals of the town. A private doctor revealed that the number of patients had been increasing with each passing day. Many more patients had been visiting quacks and those performing voodoo. People alleged that they had been getting contaminated water in their area for a long time and their protests against this had failed to move the authorities concerned. People feared that the situation could go out of hand in case the authorities failed to take appropriate action in time. The situation in Tohana was no better. This correspondent found over 24 persons suffering from infective hepatitis in Azad Nagar and Krishana Colony of the town. People had been taking treatment at various hospitals of the town. Some others had gone to Hisar for treatment. The residents of the affected areas also alleged that contaminated water had been supplied in their areas. They alleged that they had met the authorities several time in this regard but to no avail. The Civil Surgeon, Dr S. L. Mehra, when contacted, admitted that infective hepatitis had broken out at Fatehabad and Tohana but added that the situation was well within control. He said that the department had set up medical teams for this purpose and the teams had identified 30-40 cases of jaundice at Fatehabad and 7-8 cases at Tohana. Dr Mehra attributed the outbreak of infective hepatitis to the supply of contaminated water in both towns. He said the teams of Health Department led by the District Health Officer had found that the water pipes had been leaking at several places in these localities. He said the Public Health authorities had been intimated and though half-a-dozen of such leakages had been plugged, some more still remain to be plugged. Dr Mehra maintained that the situation was within the control of the authorities and there was no serious patient at the moment. He
said that halogen tablets were being distributed to be mixed in potable
water and people in affected areas were being apprised of do’s and don’ts
in such situations. He maintained that no fresh case of jaundice had been reported for the last one day and added that those who had been infected would take three to four weeks to recover. He appealed to people of the affected areas to consult qualified doctors only and not to fall prey to quacks. |
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15 deputationists to HUDA relieved
Panchkula, March 12 Official
sources in HUDA inform that the orders for repatriation of these law
officers — one Additional Director, one District Attorney, four Deputy
District Attorneys and nine Additional District Attorneys — have been
issued and delivered to these officers today. These officers were included in the first list of officers to be repatriated to their parent departments from
HUDA, on March 10. Following the directive issued by Chief Secretary, Haryana, the Chief Administrator,
HUDA, Mr Alok Nigam, had released a list of 93 officers on deputation to HUDA from Finance Department, Public Works Department, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam
(HVPN), Irrigation, Horticulture, Urban Estates, Town and Country Planning and Prosecution departments. The orders also asked that section officers on deputation from the Treasuries department be also relieved. However, fresh orders were issued by the HUDA authorities yesterday, wherein they excluded the names of the above mentioned 15 law officers and seven officers (five Senior Accounts officers and two Accounts Officers) from the Finance Department. The HUDA authorities claimed that repatriation of these 22 officials was stopped after HUDA sought clarification from the government, and were told that repatriation of the cadre posts in HUDA was the prerogative of their parent departments. Senior officials had yesterday maintained that the parent departments were to decide on their own, if they want to replace these officials or want to allow them to continue in
HUDA. Strangely, a third order on repatriation of the 15 law officers was issued today- in spite of it being a holiday. However, seven officials from the Finance Department on deputation to HUDA have been spared in these orders. Now, the HUDA Employees Union is crying foul and demanding that the seven deputationists from Finance Department be repatriated. |
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Board squads detect 225 cases of unfair means
Rewari, March 12 This information was given at a press conference here today by Mr Rakesh Gupta, Secretary of the HBSE. He claimed that the elimination of external interference had extensively wiped out the menace of copying throughout the state. He informed that private schools as well as govt schools showing meritorious performance would be awarded three trophies each for their distinction in the middle, matric and senior secondary examinations of the board this year. Lauding
the efforts put in by the Rewari district police administration to make
the examination completely free from outside interference, Mr. Gupta
announced that the station house officers — Inspector Sadhu Ram,
Inspector Tula Ram, Inspector Mir Singh, SI Om Prakash, SI Jamal
Mohammad, SI Mahabir Singh, SI Ram Avtar, SI Din Dayal, SI Sri Krishan,
SI Om Prakash (Jatusana) and SI Jitender Kumar — of all the eleven
police stations of the district would be given a cash prize of Rs 500
each as well as citations for their praiseworthy duty. |
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DC denies Principal’s
charges
Rohtak, March 12 Reacting to the charges levelled by Dr S. C. Singh at a press conference here on Friday, Mr Yadav said the Principal was on an extension and his term was due to expire on May 31. However, the school management unanimously decided to end his tenure on March 31 as changing the school head in the middle of session would have harmed the interests of the school and students. The Deputy Commissioner said 71 teachers of the school had submitted a memorandum to him against Dr Singh in which they had alleged that the latter had been misusing the official phone for personal purposes causing a loss of Rs 2 lakh to the school since his appointment. On going through the records of the school it was revealed that in November 2003 he had made 101 calls to Kolkata followed by another 56 calls in February 2004, Mr Yadav added. The memorandum also stated that he had arranged educational tours to Goa, Manali and Mount Abu without seeking the permission of the school management and that too through a travel agency which had charged exorbitant rates. |
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Residents vow to end dowry system
Hisar, March 12 Officials of the district administration, panchayat members and local residents from all walks of life, including a large number of women, attended the meeting. The participants also took an oath not to commit the sin of female foeticide. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Arun Kumar Gupta, who was the chief guest on the occasion, exhorted the gathering to eliminate the social evils like the dowry system and female foeticide from their lives. Mr Gupta observed that the deteriorating sex ratio was a matter of serious concern for all and warned the residents of the impending sex imbalance in the society. A cultural programme comprising Haryanavi ragnis, bhajans and other items was also organised on this occasion with an aim to create awareness among the masses. |
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More liberal Indo-Pak visa soon
Karnal, March 12 He was talking to mediapersons today at the residence of rebel Congress MLA, Mr Tejinder Pal Mann, here who had been elected as an Independent candidate from the Pai constituency. Local MLA Sumita Singh, a close confident of state Congress President, Mr Bhajan Lal, was also present. The minister rejected the demand from certain sections of the society to introduce permit system instead of visa for free passage of people on both the sides. Earlier in the day, he presided over the annual convocation of the local Dayal Singh College and gave away graduate and postgraduate degrees to 520 students, besides, honouring 41 students with prizes for their excellence in studies and extra-curricular activities. Dewan Gajendra Kumar, president of the Dayal Singh Majitha Trust and Dr Ramji Lal, Principal of the college, welcomed the chief guest. |
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Experts discuss reform policies
Nilokheri, March 12 Dr R.S. Dhankar, Vice-Chancellor of MDU, Rohtak, said it was time for policy-makers to review policies in the post-liberalisation period. “Providing
jobs to millions of skilled as well as unskilled people, provide better
access to education to the poor, balancing the social status, better
management of financial institutions and easing pressures of the market
forces are some of the challenges before our country and these need to
be addressed effectively,” he added. Ms A.K. Ahuja, joint secretary of the Rural Development Department, Government of India, while defending the policy of liberalisation said the nation was far more economically sound than 15 years ago. “Our
foreign exchange reserves have increased from just $ 1 billion in
1989-90 to $ 128 billion as on September 2004. It is even more than the
total external debt of $ 114 billion,” she said. However, she admitted that the agriculture sector had been neglected during the past 14 years. Dr A.K. Mathur, an economist, stressed upon the need to generate more jobs in the rural sector as the impact of liberalisation was limited to the urban areas only. |
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HAU inks pact with Norwegian varsity
Hisar, March 12 According to an official press statement issued here, the pact will initially be in effect for five years, adding that the period might be extended for another five years with mutual agreement. The HAU Vice-Chancellor, Mr M.K.Miglani, said a letter of understanding in this regard had been sent to Prof Knut Hove, Rector of the Norwegian university. |
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Teachers seek aid for GJU
Hisar, March 12 The president of the association, Dr Narsi Ram Bishnoi,
urged the newly formed state government to provide substantial financial
aid for GJU as it was the only technical university in the state. At an
executive meeting, the association also sought a well-defined
recruitment procedure to end nepotism and to do away with the “ancient”
seven-tier file system and the pre-auditing system.
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Mobiles banned in exam centres
Chandigarh, March 12
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Conference on communications
Yamunanagar, March 12 The inaugural lecture was delivered by Mr Ravi
Jaidka, president, of ISGEC, Yamunanagar. Prof P.J. George,
Director-Coordinator, UIET, Kurukshetra University, delivered a lecture
on nano – technology. Dr Shakti Kumar, Director, HEC, Jagadhri gave
a presentation on “Swam intelligence”. While Ms Gurmeet Kaur,
Professor, BBSBEC, Fathegarh Sahib, delivered a lecture on “Fuzzy
logic” related with CDMA technology. Mr
N.S. Aulukh from CSIO spoke on mobile hacking. A DGM of the BSNL, Mr Anil
Bhatia, also spoke. |
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Gandhiji eulogised on Dandi anniversary
Abohar, March 12 The AICC member and state chief organiser, Mr Rajinder Rasrania, led the workers in taking the pledge at a meeting held to celebrate 75th anniversary of the historic Dandi March. Mr Rasrania said the foundation of freedom was actually laid by leaders like Mahatma Gandhi who preached non-violence and respect for all, irrespective of the caste and creed. The country can achieve progress and multi-faceted development only by following the teachings of the father of the nation, he stressed. |
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Youth festival concludes
Karnal, March 12 |
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Youth drugged, robbed
Ambala, March 12 Shalin Saini, 20, who works in Delhi, was coming to Ambala cantonment by bus. When the bus stopped at Pipli, he drank cold drink offered by a person. Thereafter, he lost consciousness. When the bus reached Zirakpur, his co-passengers realised that he was unconscious. They called up his family members, who picked Shalin up from Zirakpur. Shalin was robbed off Rs 20,000. He was admitted to the Civil Hospital here. In another incident, Rs 10,000 was stolen from a man who had gone to deposit the money in a bank. The incident took place when Deepak had gone to deposit the amount in the Nicholson road branch of Punjab National Bank. A person told Deepak that apparently there were some faults in the form which he was going to deposit and the form had to be filled up again. Deepak stepped out of the queue and began filling up another form. He then realised that the cash was stolen.
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Man shot dead
Sonepat, March 12 According to the a report, the alleged assailants, however, managed to escape immediately after the incident. The police has registered a case against Rajesh of Mohalla Jatwara. He is stated to be a close relative of the deceased. A dispute over land and property was stated to be the main cause of the murder. |
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3 open fire at grocery owner
Panipat, March 12 According
to information, three persons boarding a car came to Raju’s shop
situated near the Matloda bus stand and started firing at him. On
hearing the firing, several persons gathered there. At this, the assailants fled the spot while firing in the air. The cause of the attempt to murder could not be known. |
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