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INLD: high court issue raised to divert attention
Sonia okays coordination panel for state
9 idols, 30 kg of silver ornaments stolen from temple
Supply to 32 fair price shops suspended
Intensive checking of
sugarcane trucks
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Police probing
cause of deaths
Villagers lock school
Kidney removal: woman referred to PGI
Pollution camp for industrialists
Rs 147 crore released for expressway project
Raid on govt high school
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INLD: high court issue raised to divert attention
Chandigarh, November 30 The secretary-general of the INLD, Mr Ajay Singh Chautala, said here yesterday that his party would accept a separate high court for Haryana only if Chandigarh was brought under its jurisdiction. He said at present Chandigarh was under the jurisdiction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court because it was the joint capital of the two states. He alleged that the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, was planning to hand over the jurisdiction of Chandigarh to the proposed separate Punjab High Court in the name of having a separate high court for Haryana. He said the people of Haryana and his party would not withdraw their claim to Chandigarh till the SYL canal was completed and the Hindi-speaking areas of Punjab were transferred to Haryana. Alleging that the Congress had always been harming the interests of Haryana, Mr Chautala said when Mr Bansi Lal was the Chief Minister, he disaffiliated the state colleges from Panjab University, thus allowing it to be exclusively for Punjab. He claimed that the success of the INLD’s Sampla rally was an indication that the people of the state were disappointed with the Hooda government. The law and order situation in the state was worsening and all development works had come to a standstill. |
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Sonia okays coordination panel for state
New Delhi, November 30 The seven-member coordination committee includes Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, PCC President Bhajan Lal and PCC Working President Ram Prakash, former PCC chiefs Harpal Singh and Dharampal Singh Malik and Health Minister Kartar Devi. Mr Janardan Dwivedi, AICC General Secretary, in charge of the state, is convener of the
coordination committee. The five-member Manifesto Implementation Committee has Mr Dwivedi, Mr Hooda, Mr Bhajan Lal, Mr Ram Prakash besides AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot as its members. Sources said apart from Mr Bhajan Lal, the coordination committee had only one of his loyalist while three other members from Haryana are considered close to Mr Hooda. The coordination committee, which will function as a link between the party and the government, is dominated by men from the organisation with only two persons from the government in it. However, the central leadership has tried to give representation to major communities in the state in the coordination committee with presence of leaders from backward classes and the Dalits and the Punjabi
Community. Finance Minister Birender Singh, who was chairman of the manifesto committee before the elections, has been left out of both committees. |
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9 idols, 30 kg of silver ornaments stolen from temple
Yamunanagar, November 30 As per information available, the thieves entered from the first floor of the temple some time after 8 pm. The thieves later broke the locks and took away the idols. They also took away silver ornaments of other idols and cash from the cashbox. The theft was noticed when the temple priest, Mr Bhool Chand, tried to open the temple’s main door, but found it closed from inside. Getting suspicious he called Mr Rajiv Jain, a member of the management. Somehow they entered the temple and noticed the theft. The police was informed. Mr Sushil Jain, president of the temple management, claimed the idols were more than 400 years old and had been brought to the temple from Gujarat in 1989. Members of the community later met Deputy Commissioner Sukriti Likhi and demanded immediate arrest of the thieves.
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Supply to 32 fair price shops suspended
Sonepat, November 30 Disclosing this, Ms Neerja Shekhar, Deputy Commissioner, told media- persons here today that this action followed the checking of 61 fair price shops in the city and elsewhere in the district by the officials of the department during the current year. The department, she said, also cancelled the licences of seven fair price shops and confiscated the security totalling Rs 28,800 of some other fair price shops on serious charges levelled against the owners of the ration shops. According to Ms Shekhar, the department has also lodged a complaint with the police against owners of two fair price shops following detection of irregularities in the distribution of rationed commodities. She also claimed that the department has also taken a series of steps to streamline distribution of public distribution system (PDS) and to check diversion of rationed commodities in black market. She also disclosed that the department has also ensured regular supply of rationed commodities to the families living below the poverty line (BPL) in the district. The department, she said, has also taken steps to ensure the fair supply of the LPG by the agencies. The officials checked as many as LPG agencies and their godowns and lodged complaints against owners of two agencies where irregularities were detected. The department officials also checked 17 petrol stations and three brick kilns during the past one month and found no irregularity. |
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Intensive checking of
sugarcane trucks
Ambala, November 30 Some of the sugarcane farmers from Uttar Pradesh alleged that they are being forcibly stopped at the border even though they had complete documents. Only those trucks whose documents reflected that the sugarcane had been loaded in Uttar Pradesh were allowed to proceed while those trucks where the sugarcane had been loaded in Haryana were stopped at Devi Nagar. Since late last night, an intensive drive had been launched by the district administration to stop and check documents of sugarcane loaded trucks. About two dozen sugarcane-loaded trucks were stopped at Devi Nagar and their documents were checked. A few trucks were allowed to proceed to Punjab after their documents showed their sugarcane had been loaded in Uttar Pradesh while the rest were not allowed to proceed further. Deputy Commissioner, Ambala, J.P. Kaushik, said that about two dozen trucks carrying sugarcane were checked. “We allowed those trucks to go to Punjab whose documents clearly showed that they had come from Uttar Pradesh. The sugarcane loaded trucks from Haryana were not allowed to go to Punjab since it is a violation of the Cane Control Act,” he said. He explained that if sugarcane is taken away from the area of the assigned
sugarmill, it violates the Act. He stated that the capacity of the sugarmill is adversely affected if the sugarcane from the assigned area is taken elsewhere. “The checking of sugarcane loaded trucks is a
continuous process,” he said. “I would like to stress that we are trying to ensure that middlemen do not misuse and make profit. We understand that middlemen buy sugarcane from farmers at a cheaper rate here and sell it at a profit in Punjab,” he said. Mr Kaushik said that direction have already been given to lodge an FIR against one person who was found to be violating the Act. “We are also carrying out checking of the documents of all the sugarcane loaded and appropriate action will be taken against the violators. Incidentally, the sugarcane loaded from Uttar Pradesh were fined for overloading as well as having excess height,” he said. Mr Meher Singh from Sarsawa in Uttar Pradesh claimed that his sugarcane loaded truck had been stopped
even though he had complete documents. “I not only have the receipt of the
`dharam kanta’ in UP, I also have the booking receipt of the truck in UP. We were stopped late last night near the border,” he said. He alleged that the drive has been initiated so that sugarcane farmers were forced to supply only in Haryana. To a query, he said that the situation of sugarcane payment in Uttar Pradesh is worse than Haryana. “We go to Punjab since we get timely payment in Punjab,” he said. |
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Police probing
cause of deaths
Kaithal, November 30 Mr Navdeep Singh, S.P. who visited the village this evening said that the cause of death could not be ascertained till now but the police has started investigation in this case. The S.P. said that according to preliminary investigation there was no truth in the rumours that the victims had consumed spurious liquor. According
to information received here, Baba Singh, 26, and two Dalits — Dhoop
Singh and Romesh — died under mysterious circumstances . Romesh
complained of chest pain and was rushed to Nigdu. Later he was shifted
to Karnal and he died on November 27. Dhoop Singh was also shifted to
Karnal under the same circumstances and he also died on November 27. Baba Singh, alias Jaj Singh, also complained of uneasiness and shifted to Karnal hospital. He too died there. All were cremated in the village. As news of three deaths reached the district headquarters, rumours spread that the victims had died after consuming liquor.. The S.P., Mr Navdeep Singh, too, rushed to the village and said though the investigation was on, the preliminary investigation suggested that the deaths were not caused by hooch. |
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Villagers lock school
Karnal, November 30 The village Sarpanch, Mr Sunil Kumar, along with some other members of the Panchayat and several prominent villagers locked the school when the teacher allegedly misbehaved with them. They had gone to the school to seek information about undue delay in admission to two village children. Mr Sunil Kumar said that instead of giving them proper reply, he threatened them to do whatever they could. The Panchayat then decided to lock the school until action was taken against the teacher, the Sarpanch said, adding that the villagers were fed up with his misbehaviour. This was not a stray incident and he had done so on several occasions earlier also. District Primary Education Officer
(DPEO), Ms Inder Kumari visited the village and assured the villagers that the erring teacher would be transferred. Following the assurance, the villagers agreed to unlock the school. |
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Kidney removal: woman referred to PGI
Panipat, November 30 Omal and her husband, Suresh Malik, had alleged that Dr S. N. Gupta of Panipat-based Geeta Nursing Home had fraudulently removed her left kidney in June, 2003, when she was admitted for a minor treatment. The couple had alleged that during the operation for stone, the doctor allegedly removed her kidney.
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Pollution camp for industrialists
Sonepat, November 30 Mr Samir Mathur, Chairman of the board, presided over the camp. The industrialists pleaded their cases for solving the problems of the industrial units regarding the Water and Air Act and Hazardous Waste Management Rules. The Chairman listened to the grievances of the industrialists. The industrialists were given consent to operate their units. |
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Rs 147 crore released for expressway project
Chandigarh, November 30 Stating this here today, the Haryana Chief Secretary, Mrs Meenaxi Anand Chaudhary, said a communication to this effect had been received from the Union Department of Road Transport and Highways. She said the Haryana Government also had a plan to develop a state-of-the-art global corridor along the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Western Expressway in the National Capital Region passing through Haryana and encircling Delhi. It aimed at attracting investment in the state by developing world-class infrastructure to meet the investors' needs. This corridor would also help boost the economy of the state. |
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Raid on govt high school
Panipat, November 30 On November 23, 2005, the secretary of the school staff, Mr Narinder Singh, had written to the Panipat ADC, Mr JPS Dahiya, about the bungling of the funds under the SSA scheme. He wrote that the former principal had not disbursed the money received by the school claiming that the fund would be used to construct rooms in the school. Under the SSA teachers are given an annual sum of Rs 500 each to purchase study material. The ADC constituted a team led by the DEO, Ms Snehalata, visited the school and inquired about the matter. |
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Ms Sachdeva on Haryana Tax Tribunal
He had resigned to contest the last Rohtak Lok Sabha byelection on the INLD ticket. Mrs Sachdeva was posted as Additional Excise and Taxation Commissioner, Intelligence and Enforcement, before her nomination to the tribunal. |
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