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Gotra row: 36 Poonia families ostracised
Traders threaten statewide bandh
ONGC wants to dig deep to end state’s water woes
HUDA carries out sealing
‘Make course on seismically safe construction must’
Centre committed to separate HC for state: Bhardwaj
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Recruitment: DSP denied bail
26-year-old man murdered
Lahore-bound bus collides with canter, 2 hurt
5 bomb disposal squads set up
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Gotra row: 36 Poonia families ostracised
Badhra (Bhiwani), December 23 The mahapanchayat had yesterday told representatives of Poonia families that it would allow Hawa Singh and other family members to stay in the village provided his newly wed son Ombir and daughter-in-law Saroj did not enter the village ever again. At one stage today, the Poonias agreed to this condition and the dispute was almost resolved. However, the Sheoran panchayatis asked the Poonias to give an undertaking to this effect in writing. The Poonias pointed out that panchayat decisions were traditionally always verbal. However, when the Sheorans insisted on a written settlement, the deal fell through. Immediately thereafter, the Poonias left the meeting and the mahapanchayat decided ex parte to ostracise all 36 Poonia families in the village. It directed that no resident of the village would have anything to do with these families and no villager would even work as a labourer in their fields. The Sheorans also decided to summon a meeting of Sheoran khap panchayat to endorse its decisions including expulsion of the newly weds and ostracism of the entire Poonia community in the village. The date had not been fixed till the time of filing this report. However, despite the unfortunate turn the row has taken, there was no instigation from anyone in the meeting today for violence against the Poonias. The police kept a close watch on the situation but the district authorities showed no interest in getting the dispute resolved. Officials were just disinterested bystanders. The village continues to be tense and the situation definitely volatile particularly after today’s irrational decision to ostracise an entire community in the village by a patently illegal body. |
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Traders threaten statewide bandh
Hisar, December 23 While the government officials carrying out sealing operations maintain that they are following court’s orders, the affected traders assert that they have been paying shop tax and other dues to the municipal bodies concerned. The local shopkeepers had recently blocked traffic and staged a dharna to register their protest against the move. Some of them had reportedly reopened their shops sealed by the authorities concerned. The local HUDA authorities, who have sealed a number of shops located in residential sectors and adjoining roads, have warned the traders not to reopen their sealed shops. In a notice issued here today, the Estate Officer, HUDA, stated that legal proceedings regarding contempt of court would be initiated against the traders who reopened their sealed shops. On the other hand, the Haryana Vyapar Mandal has warned the Haryana Government that the traders would block all roads and resort to a complete “bandh” in the state if their harassment and dislocation in the name of sealing was not stopped. Talking to newspersons here today, the mandal president, Mr Suresh Chand, said they would oppose the sealing operations tooth and nail. “We are prepared to go to jail if need be, but the suppressive measures in the name of sealing operations will not be allowed to continue,” he asserted. The trader leader alleged that the HUDA authorities were conducting sealing operations even in the areas outside their jurisdiction.
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ONGC wants to dig deep to end state’s water woes
Kurukshetra, December 23 Incidentally, the village is the place where archeologists have claimed to discover the riverbed of now-extinct Saraswati. After successfully drilling India's deepest fresh-water well at a depth of about 500-m below the ground-level near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan last month, the ONGC has now started looking for similar possibilities in Haryana, which is facing a severe problem due to the excessive utilisation of underground water. Talking exclusively to this correspondent after his visit to the archeological site here today, Dr M.R. Rao, Coordinator of the Project Saraswati of the ONGC, said the work on drilling would commence within next two months. Dr Rao, working as the GM, ONGC, Dehra Dun, is a geologist. He said the project to tap the deep underground water was taken by the ONGC as a part of its social responsibility. He added that the ONGC consultant, Dr A.R. Chaudhri, had taken several samples from Bhor Saidan site to carry out carbon dating and radioactive dating from the spot to explore the water possibility. Dr Chaudhri informed that the laboratory test report was likely to come within next two weeks. The Tribune had firstly highlighted the claim of the archeologists, Rajesh Purohit and Rajender Singh Rana, relating to the discovery of the riverbed of Saraswati, the river once considered to be mythical. |
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HUDA carries out sealing
Fatehabad, December 23 The team was led by the Estate Officer, HUDA, Hisar, and included an Executive Magistrate, the police and other officials. The team, however, could not do much as most of the 60 commercial establishments running in the area had already removed shutters and constructed walls. The shops included four chemist shops outside the local General Hospital, a beauty parlour, a school-uniform shop and some grocery shops. As many as half-a-dozen doctors running their nursing homes in the residential sectors of the model town had removed their beds and hospital furniture well in advance. They had also wiped off signboards of their hospitals from their buildings. The team, however, ‘sealed’ a building where a private school had been running earlier. The management had shifted the Bal Vatika School running in the building earlier to its new building in the month of April this year, but the HUDA authorities ‘sealed’ the vacant building despite clarification by the owners. The school Director, Mr Rajan Mehtani, told mediapersons that he would drag the HUDA authorities to court for harassing and humiliating him. Earlier, the HUDA authorities had carried out sealing operations at Bhattu Kalan in this district yesterday. As many as 110 shops in the Model Town at Bhattu Kalan had voluntarily closed their shutters and constructed brick-and-mortar walls in their place.
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‘Make course on seismically safe construction must’
Kurukshetra, December 23 These views were expressed by Dr
M.N. Bandyopadhyay, Director, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, while addressing valedictory function of a two-week training programme on earthquake risk management here yesterday. Dr Bandyopadhyay said there was an urgent need to move towards a certification system whereby civil and structural engineers could practice only after they had undergone a course in seismically safe construction. The necessary arrangements for this purpose need to be built up at institutional levels, he added. Dr V. K. Sehgal, Programme Chairman, emphasised on the need to train engineers from private and public sectors so that the housing stocks coming up in these sectors is complied with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Among others who spoke on the occasion included Dr H.K. Sharma and Prof V.P. Singh. The programme was started on December 11 to impart training to the engineers and architects from various government departments. As many as 34 engineers attended the training, which was taken up on the initiative of the National Disaster Management Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi. |
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Centre committed to separate HC for state: Bhardwaj
Rohtak, December 23 Talking to mediapersons on the sidelines of the annual prize distribution function of the local Gaur Brahmin College he hastened to add that the Governor, the Chief Minister and the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, were already trying to resolve the issues at the earliest. He said the centre had sanctioned Rs 1,000 crore for the computerisation of all courts up to the tehsil level in the country. About 7,000 rural courts would be set up all over the country to settle disputes at the village level, he added. Later, he laid the foundation stone of a college auditorium for which he had sanctioned Rs 20 lakh out of his MPLAD fund. The local Congress MP, Mr Deepender Hooda, also gave away Rs 5 lakh for the project out of his fund.
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Recruitment: DSP denied bail
Ambala, December 23 Around three years back 350 constables were recruited in GRP, Ambala. Mr Ravi Azad who was SP, Railway was the chairman of the selection committee and two DSPs of Railway Police — Uday Shankar and Arun Modgil — were the members of the committee. One of the candidates — who was not selected filed a writ petition in Punjab and Haryana High Court alleging that the recruitments were not made in fare way. The court had handed over the investigation to CBI. The CBI had arrested the then SP railway Ravi Azad and two of the DSP’s who were the member of the recruitment committee. Three days back a district court granted bail to Ravi Azad and Uday Shankar. Cyclist killed
A cyclist was killed in a road accident on GT Road near Ambala City on Friday evening. According to information Vazir Singh was working as a waiter in a restaurant in Ambala City and he was a resident of village Devi Nagar. He was on his home and an unidentified vehicle hit him killing him on the spot. The police has registered a case.
— TNS
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26-year-old man murdered
Yamunanagar, December 23 The body, with injury marks on face and rear of the head and near his genital, was found lying in the fields of Mr Alim, a resident of the same village. It appears that a sharp- edged weapon was used to kill Sunil Kumar, the victim. The victim, a worker at a plywood-manufacturing unit is survived by two brothers, mother and father. |
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Lahore-bound bus collides with canter, 2 hurt
Karnal, December 23 Mohammaed Tusail of Gujranwala, Pakistan, received bruises on his face as a windowpane of the bus got damaged in the accident. Another passenger from Delhi, Ms Rehmat Farhan, sustained minor injury. Mr Sibash Kabiraj, SP, said the bus remained stranded on the GT Road for about half-an-hour as the injured were given first aid. No major damage was reported to the New Delhi-Lahore bus owned by the Lahore Tourism Development Corporation. The broken windowpane of the bus was repaired at Kurukshetra. |
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5 bomb disposal squads set up
Chandigarh, December 23 According to a statement issued by the Home Department, every squad will be headed by a senior scientific officer and include senior scientific assistant, assistant sub-inspector, head constable, dog handler (constable), kennelman and two constables. |
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