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Yamuna water enters 12 villages; six persons missing
Bhiwani faces flood threat
6 villages flooded in Naggal area
No water entered villages, says DM
VHP, BJP condemn attack on Ram Temple
Health Dept cracks whip on drug manufacturers
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Devi Lal varsity to absorb deputation staff
SGPC all set to start Shahbad medical college
Row between Dalits, Sainis over temple path
Journalists protest against attack on scribe
MLA threatens stir over factory closure
HSEB fined for delay in releasing marksheet
Pregnant woman beaten up, aborts
Three held for trying to stop train
Man tries to kill mother
AIR station to start phone-in programme
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Yamuna water enters 12 villages; six persons missing
Yamunanagar, July 6 Discharge of water at the Hathnikund barrage from where river’s water is distributed among shareholder states was 1.56 lakh cusecs this afternoon. Sources in the Irrigation Department said the water started receding in the evening. In the morning the Gumthala-Jathlana-Radaur road was submerged under four feet of water and fields in the area under five feet of water. As per information, Yamuna’s water entered Lal Chhapar, Sandhala, Sandhali, Karehra, Model Town (Karehra), Gumthala, Bagwali, Jathlana, Unheri and other villages of Radaur block at six this morning. Mahipal of Karehra village, Sher Singh and his two servants from Lal Chhapar village and one Kala Kakaa who had gone to their fields across Yamuna in Uttar Pardesh have been reported missing. Villagers said that even after repeated efforts to trace them they could not find them. In another incident, Ankur, Sandeep and Prashant, all aged 12-year and resident of Model Town (Karehra) village, left their homes to see flood water on roads when they lost track and entered into fields. Villagers rescued Ankur and Sandeep but they could not find Parshant, who is believed to have been washed away. A migrant labourer from Bihar who was working in fields too has gone missing. Schools in Gumthala, Chhapar and Sandhali villages were closed as rain water entered the villages. Work at a mini bank in Lal Chhapar village was also affected after it was flooded. Villagers allege that Yamuna’s water entered the villages as the administration had not repaired the studs along the river. As per sources in the Irrigation Department rampant illegal mining in the river bed was another reason behind the flooding. Meanwhile, some of the residents of Radha Swami Satsang Colony in Bilaspur have left home and many were preparing to leave for safer places. The district administration has pressed into service an earth-moving machine to drain off water. The swelling Som rivulet today again damaged crops in Bankut, Katarwali, Ramgarh Majra, Muzafat, and Bhamnoli villages in Bilaspur block. |
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Bhiwani faces flood threat
Bhiwani, July 6 The sewerage in the town has collapsed and machines installed at the only waste disposal house have proved inefficient. When rain comes, the electricity department disconnects power supply to the disposal house and sewage starts overflowing from the manholes. The administration has ordered “thikari pehra” along canals, and bridges. According to the Rule 3 of the Punjab Villages and Small Towns Patrol Act, all healthy persons will patrol day and night for the security of canals and bridges and action will be taken under rule 11 of the Act against the violator. The orders will remain effective for three months. The district magistrate, Mr Sri Kant Valgad, in his orders said since the Met Department had apprehended heavy rains, flood, could not be ruled out. Several social organisations have urged the administration to construct another waste disposal house. The existing disposal house had been constructed for a population of only 30,000. After the devastating flood, of 1995, the town had suffered huge losses. |
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6 villages flooded in Naggal area Ambala, July 6 The villages located close to the SYL canal near the Haryana-Punjab border are the worst affected due to the excess flow of water from the Punjab side. The villages where flooding has taken place include Ismailpur, Bidanga, Saini Majra, Khera, Amipur, Nadiali, Naggal and Dangderiyan. Water in the affected villages began to rise late last night, and by morning most of the villages were inundated. The villagers shifted their precious belongings to safer places. The villagers are maintaining constant watch over the rising water level and if the water level threatened their homes, they would leave the area immediately. A villager claimed that water had entered their village through a cut in the SYL canal in the Punjab side. He claimed that the cut was close to the zero point, where the canal entered Haryana. He said due to the cut, water had entered their fields and affected their homes. Rainfall over the past two days led to a roof collapse in Ambala City. The roof of a store room in the District Public Relations Office in Ambala collapsed today. Nobody was injured in the incident. Meanwhile, the residents of Devi Nagar, which is located close to the Ghaggar river, spent a sleepless night amidst rumours that the river could breach its embankment any moment.
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No water entered villages, says DM
Karnal, July 6 Talking to The Tribune, he said that the level of the Yamuna did rise late last night following sudden release of about 1.25 lakhs cusecs of water from the Tajewala headworks. However, the situation was now normal and the Yamuna waters had started receding. He said that an alert was also sounded in the village a few hours before the extra water was released from the tajewala headworks. There is nothing to
afraid of for the moment as everything was under control”, he said. He claimed that the district administration was well prepared to tackle any situation. Embankments of the Yamuna had already been strengthened and two new studs constructed. |
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VHP, BJP condemn attack on Ram Temple Ambala, July 6 The VHP held a meeting in the Hindu Hall at Ambala City in which several Hindu organisations, including the Sannatan Sabha and the Arya Samaj, participated. While addressing the meeting, the former MLA of Ambala City, Mr Shiv Prashad, said it was a lapse in security arrangements that the terrorists could enter in the inner cordon of the temple. The district president of the VHP, Mr Rajinder Bansal, said it was a challenge to the Hindu organisations. The BJP, local unit condemned the unfortunate incident. The president of the local unit, Mr Sandeep Sachdeva, said it was a Pakistan-sponsored incident and now the Union Government should review the peace process with Pakistan. The president of the Anti Terrorist Front of India, Mr Viresh Shandilaya, said in a statement that Pakistan had been trying to create communal tension in India. He said the front would burn the effigies of the leaders of Laskar-e-Toiba, which is allegedly involved in the incident. The president of the Rajashthan Sadhu Samaj, Swami Virendranand Giri, while condemning the incident, said the CRPF deserved appreciation for saving the sanctity of Ram temple. He demanded from the Union Government that foolproof security arrangements be made on the premises of the Ram Janambhoomi so that such incidents do not repeat in future. Patiala: Yesterday’s attack on the Ayodhya complex by terrorists has been condemned by various organisations with prominent residents of the town sharply criticising the attack. The local unit of the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh(RSS) held a protest march today which began from the Chetna Kendra and ended at Arya Samaj. Organisations relating to the RSS ideology participated in the protest march which passed through the various parts of the city. In a press note, Mr Arun Kumar, Secretary of the district unit of the RSS, blamed the Central and the UP Governments for their failure to prevent such a attack on the complex and termed it as an “attack on the nation’s prestige”. Meanwhile, the Sanatan Dharam Sabha (SDS), Patiala, held an emergency meeting to condemn the incident. In a press note, Mr Ravinder Dhir, secretary of the local unit of the SDS, said the truth was that no Hindu place of worship was safe and such incidents only vindicated this. Mr Dhir asked the government to make stringent security arrangements to foil the designs of the terrorists in future. Dr Pawan Kumar Singla, head of the Department of History, M.M. College, condemned the attack while calling it a “serious security lapse”. He said nobody seemed to have learnt any lesson when such incidents took place in the past at Amarnath, Akashar Dham and Raghunath Temple. He also demanded a probe into how such incidents happened despite the presence of security personnel. Chandigarh: The local unit of the BJP today organised a demonstration at the Sector 17 Plaza to protest against the terrorist attack at Ayodhya. Raising slogans against the UPA government, party workers demanded resignations of the Union Home Minister, Mr Shivraj Patil, and the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav. Addressing the gathering, Mr Yash Pal Mahajan, president of the local unit of the BJP, said incidents of attacks by terrorists had increased after the Congress-led government came to power at the Centre. He said the UPA government had encouraged terrorists to create disorder in the country by its attitude. Mr Purshotam Mahajan, Mr P.D. Mongia, both vice-presidents, and other party leaders also spoke. |
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Protest against Ayodhya attack
Sonepat, July 6 According to a report, they also alleged that the Congress-led UPA government was always trying to
please those seeking disintegration of the country and indulging in terrorists activities. The BJP leaders, Mr Devi Dass and Mr Lalit Batra, said that the attack on the Ram Temple was an attack on the honour of the nation and a challenge to the people of the country, particularly Hindus, They applauded the security forces which foiled the attack. Meanwhile, security was tightened around all religious places in the district. |
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Health Dept cracks whip on drug manufacturers
Chandigarh, July 6 The action was taken under a drive to check the manufacture and sale of spurious and adulterated drugs. The Health Minister, Mrs Kartar Devi, said that the State Vigilance Cell, set up at the headquarters to keep a strict vigil on the manufacture and sale of spurious drugs, had inspected 70 shops of chemists and seized 220 samples of drugs during a special drive so far this year. The State Drug Testing Laboratory was also being upgraded with World Bank assistance. Mrs Kartar Devi said the office of the State Drug Controller and the State Drug Testing Laboratory had been computerised to ensure the exchange of information among the Drug Regulatory Officers in the country. She said that there was a plan to test 5,000 samples every year and reduce the reporting time of tests to less than a month as against the present period ranging from three months to six months. She said three officers had been imparted training in logistics, intelligence work and prosecution with the assistance of the Food and Drug Administration of Maharashtra in Mumbai. There was a proposal to train more such officers to check the menace of spurious drugs. |
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Devi Lal varsity to absorb deputation staff Sirsa, July 6 According to sources, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr R.R. Fuliya, has sought permission from the state government to absorb the staff on deputation. The CDLU officials are expecting a formal nod from the authorities soon. The CDLU failed to recruit even a single non-teaching employee even after three years of its establishment. At present, there are 30 staffers from Guru Jambeshwar University (GJU), Hisar, Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak, and Kurukshetra University (KU). The sources said there was resentment among the deputation staff over their future. Now when the CDLU had initiated the move to appoint non-teaching staff, the deputation staff had learnt to demand the authorities to put them on regular roll or allow them to repatriate to their parent departments, the sources added. Officials said the CDLU would remain dependent upon the deputation staff to look after the fresh staff appointed, hence they were expected to grant incentives. The sources said as a pay back for their services for the past three years, the CDLU had recommended to absorb them on the regular scale. Once the permission was granted, the deputation staff might get benefits, including perks and post, the sources added.
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SGPC all set to start Shahbad medical college
Chandigarh, July 6 Dr SBS Mann, a former Professor and Head, Department of ENT at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI), has been appointed the Director-Principal of the proposed college. Dr Mann, who also worked as the Director-Principal of the Sector 32 Government Medical College and Hospital here, has been entrusted with the responsibility of starting the new college in 2006 by getting all clearances, including the mandatory approval of the Medical Council of India (MCI), for admitting 100 students each year. The SGPC has a 106-beded hospital functioning at the site. It proposes to expand it to make it a 300-bedded hospital before the medical college starts functioning in July next year. Under MCI norms, any new medical college must have a minimum of 25 acres of land, a proper building and laboratories and adequately qualified staff before affiliation is
granted. At present, the SGPC is running a medical college and a dental college in Amritsar. The main grouse of Sikhs in Haryana has been that the SGPC is doing nothing in the field of education, including technical and medical education, as well as on the social front. They say that the income from historic gurdwaras is being utilised by the SGPC elsewhere and nothing is being done in states like Haryana where minorities like the Sikhs are left to fend for themselves. The SGPC has decided that the new Director-Principal will not only oversee the running of the existing 106-bedded hospital but also run a camp office at the Sector 27 Kalgidhar Nivas here to ensure that all mandatory requirements, including the recruitment of the staff and the equipping of laboratories, are complied with before the MCI inspection early next year. |
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Row between Dalits, Sainis over temple path
Sonepat, July 6 Efforts by Gohana SDM Umed Singh Mohan have also failed to bring any compromise between these communities and finally villagers have decided to urge the Deputy Commissioner to intervene in the matter. The Dalits of the village demand a way through the boundary walls of the temple and Sainis, on the other hand, have constructed a “pucca rasta” around the boundary walls of the temple. The demand of the Dalits gained momentum when Dalit leader Om Prakash was allegedly denied entry into the temple. The Dalits, are ready to accept the formula suggested by the SDM a few days ago for giving a two-foot wide rasta through the temple. They said it was one-sided decision of the Mandir Committee to give a rasta around the temple boundary and “we will not accept it.” On the other hand, Mahender Singh, Mahabir and other people of the Saini Community said when the people of other communities of the village came to the temple through the main entrance what problem the Dalits had to enter through the main entrance. They refuted the allegations of Om Prakash and said even his father had donated Rs 2,100 for the construction of the temple and the Dalits had been participating in all religious programmes of the mandir. They alleged that Om Prakash wanted to vitiate the social atmosphere of the village. |
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Journalists protest against attack on scribe
Karnal, July 6 He was attacked with sharp-edged weapons. He was rushed to a hospital in Panipat for treatment. He was out of danger and discharged from the hospital. The Haryana Patrakar Sangh at a meeting here today warned that if the attitude of the police towards the journalists in Haryana was not changed journalists would be forced to take an aggressive step against the Government. He also cited cases of police trying to suppress freedom of press at Karnal, Kaithal, Kurukshetra and Sirsa. He said that the Sangh had brought the matter to the notice of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda but nothing has been thought in this regard. He announced a delegation of the Sangh would meet the CM for the last time on Tuesday evening and if any concrete action in the alleged cases of atrocities against journalists was not taken then the journalists would be forced to boycott the functions of the CM and his Council of Ministers. Later, journalists of Karnal presented a memorandum addressed to the CM to Additional Deputy Commissioner Sanjiv Verma. Earlier, District Magistrate of Karnal Shyamal Mishra refused to take
the memorandum from the journalists without assigning any reasons. |
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MLA threatens stir over factory closure
Chandigarh, July 6 In a press statement issued here today, Mr Yadav said Honda Motorcycle and Scooters India (HMSI) had taken this “illegal action” following the workers’ demand to recognise the labour union formed by them. He added that the workers had made a representation to him saying that they were ready to assure the company of “regular and disciplined production” in lieu of an assurance from it about proper livelihood to them. The MLA stated that the HMSI had set up a factory in Haryana only because it was offered cheap land and infrastructure. Agricultural land had been given by the government to the company for setting up the factory so that people got employment in the unit. Farmers, who lost their land, became cheap labour for the factory, and then all of a sudden they were thrown out of their jobs. The MLA urged the Gurgaon district administration and the Labour Commissioner to intervene and force the HMSI to come to the negotiating table and accept the legitimate demands of the workers. |
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HSEB fined for delay in releasing marksheet
Jagadhri, July 6 Shen Kumar of Kanalsi village and student of a government school, Burhia here, had appeared in class X board examinations in March 2002 and was placed under compartment in Mathematics and English. She appeared in the supplementary examinations and was declared pass in November 2002. However, the board did not dispatch her detail marks card in time. In the meanwhile, she had taken admission in class XI, but since she could not deposit the marks card of the previous class, the school withheld her result and also did not let her take admission in class XII. In her complaint before the forum, she said despite her repeated attempts she could not obtain the class X result card from the board. The board dispatched the marks card only in May 2004. The forum has also asked the school to declare her class XI result and if she is pass admit her in the next class. |
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Pregnant woman beaten up, aborts
Karnal, July 6 Wife of Satpal was beaten up in her lower abdominal region by her neighbours over a wall between two houses. Initially, two women living in her neighbour identified as Birmati and Guddi argued with her but when they came to know that she was alone at home they bashed up her. Later, these women were also joined by male members of their family identified as Raj Kumar, Hukam Singh and Naresh Kumar. According to a statement given by the victim to the police, they all together hit her on her lower abdominal region and also at her breast. They continued beat up her till she started bleeding heavily. Meanwhile, the victim’s husband reached the spot after a few minutes on hearing the news of her wife being beaten-up by neighbours. He took his wife to a hospital in Karnal where she was admitted. The doctors saved her after aborting the baby but she was yet to recover from the trauma of losing her child. The police registered a case under Sections 323, 452, 316, 147 and 149 of the IPC against Raj Kumar, Hukam Singh, Naresh Kumar, Birmati and Guddi on the statement of the victim and her husband. |
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Three held for trying to stop train
Panipat, July 6 According to RPF sources, Arvind of Buddanpur village, Sanjiv of Raipura village and Anil Kumar of Gharaunda entered the guard’s coach and asked him forcibly to stop the train at Gharaunda. However, instead of asking the driver to stop the train, the guard informed the RPF on his wireless set. following which, the RPF personnel arrested the youths when the train reached the Panipat railway station. An FIR has been registered. |
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Man tries to kill mother
Sonepat, July 6 According to a report, the woman told the police that her elder son Baljit had made an attempt to strangulate her when she raised suspicions on the character of his wife. She alleged that despite her repeated complaints about his wife Baljit failed to take any action and instead tried to strangulate her. She was saved by her other two sons, Ramroop and Rohtas. |
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AIR station to start phone-in programme
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