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Mewat villages to have potable water in 2 yrs
Officials ‘step over’ Mahatma’s rangoli on
Weedicide smuggled from China damages wheat crop
Chief Justice lays stone of judicial complex
Warrants against power board SDO
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Surajkund Mela an all-woman affair
Lift ban on teachers’ appointment, KU union tells CM
10 idols stolen from temple
Dowry death in Khojkipur village
MO held for taking bribe
Man kills wife
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Mewat villages to have potable water in 2 yrs
Nuh (Mewat), January 27 He made this announcement at the state-level Republic Day function at Yaseen Meo Degree College yesterday. He unfurled the Tricolour on the occasion. According to him, the Rs 425-crore drinking water scheme will solve the potable water scarcity in the Mewat area. He said the Congress government in the state had received investment proposals to the tune of Rs 43,000 crore from various investors during two years of its rule. Investments worth Rs 10,000 crore had been made, he added. Around 300 foreign companies had already made investments in Haryana in the past two years. Lauding the state for its rapid growth and modernisation, he said the per capita income in the state was the second highest among the states in the country. He lauded the growing industrial prowess of the state in the manufacturing sector. He said 50 per cent of the cars and their spare parts produced in the country were manufactured in Haryana. Almost 80 per cent of the basmati rice exported from the country was also produced in the state, he added. Touching upon the power issue, he said the state was pledged to increase power generation by 5,000 MW in another three years. He said recruitments were being made by the state in the Health and Education Department. He stressed upon the importance of education and urged for further strengthening the system in the state, particularly Mewat, considered to be one of the most backward districts in the state. He stressed on the need to provide vocational training to the youth. According to many, the fact that the state-level Republic Day function was organised in Mewat indicated that the government and the decision makers were attaching importance to the district. |
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Officials ‘step over’ Mahatma’s rangoli on R-Day
Yamunanagar, January 27 The organisers had put no fence around the rangoli portrait to save it from someone accidentally stepping on it. There were foot marks on the face and chest of the portrait. It could not be known which official let the portrait and flag painting unfenced as officials preferred to remain mumon the issue. An official, requesting anonymity, however, said whatever happened was purely “accidental.” “The moment they noticed it they walked off the portrait,” said the official. However, a large number of officials were of the view that who ever left the portrait unfenced should be taken to task. Deputy Commissioner Nitin Yadav was not available for comments. In a similar incident, some “anti-social elements” blackened with soot a statue of Subhas Chandra Bose in the Railway Workshop area on Republic Day here. Police sources said efforts were on to trace the persons who defaced the statue. Local residents later cleaned the statue. In another incident related with the freedom fighters and Republic Day, the Chandigarh Police yesterday registered six cases under Sections 3A of the West Bengal Provision of Defacement of Property Act, 1976, against Yamunanagar-based Saheed Bhagat Singh Samaj Sewa Morcha for allegedly erecting statues of freedom fighters on six roundabouts of the city. Dr B. Madan Mohan, vice-president of the morcha, criticised the move of the Chandigarh Police. He said the Sector 34 police registered three cases, Sector 36 police two and Sector 39 police registered one case. “We have not committed any crime. We had asked for permission to hold a rally but the Chandigarh Administration did not allow us. So we placed statues of martyrs like Bhagat Singh and Lala Lajpat Rai on roundabouts,” said Dr Mohan during a press conference here today. According to him the morcha was engaged in spreading public awareness about the freedom fighters and martyrs. The morcha had also installed statues of martyrs in Panchkula and Mohali. As per sources, the Chandigarh Administration had removed the statutes on January 25 and took them in its possession. |
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Weedicide smuggled from China damages wheat crop
Panipat, January 27 Reports of crop damage after the use of weedicide have been received from all over the state barring three districts of Gurgaon, Narnaul and Rewari. In Panipat district only complaints regard of damage in 170 acres have been received till now. The affected villages in the district include Patti
Kalyana, Jatal, Machchloli, Bhadra, Babarpur, Sanoli Khurd, Garhi Besak, Jurasi Khas and
Kiwana. The State’s Agriculture Department has asked its officials in all districts to submit reports in this regard and samples of the damaged crops and weedicides had been sent to the Centre as testing facilities were not available in the state. “The district agriculture officials sent a tentative report to the department which appeared to be unrealistic and they had been asked to prepare it again after a survey and submit it to the office of director by January 27”, said Mr R.K. Khullar, Director, Agriculture Department , Haryana. However damages were contained up to a few thousand acres as the department taking an action banned the sale of weedicides against which the farmers had complained, claimed the director. The area of crop damaged due to spurious weedicide should not exceed 2000 acres, added Mr Khullar. Sources in the Agriculture Department said some companies were smuggling weedicide into country to evade heavy duties and this weedicide marketed by wholesalers through small vendors and commission agents was responsible for damage to the crop. The spurious weedicide was taken off the shelves by these sellers as soon as the Agriculture Department banned some weedicide brands in the last week of December, informed the sources. However one seller at Panipat confessed he got the weedicide from a wholesaler from Mumbai and his source was being investigated, said the sources. Explaining the reason behind the presence of smuggled and spurious weedicide in the market sources said the weedicide used for the wheat crop with its technical name Sulfo Sulfuron is manufactured by multinational companies in the country which then is transformed into Wet Dispersible Granules
(WDG). As the highly specialised and costly technique in involved in manufacturing and converting the Sulfo Sulfuron into WDG the reputed and big companies were in the business only. Enticed with the high demand and bigger margin in the sale of weedicide in the region some unscrupulous companies were importing the weedicide from China illegally and poor quality of this smuggled weedicide could be the reason behind the crop damage, said the sources. |
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Chief Justice lays stone of judicial complex
Panipat, January 27 Mr Justice Jain was addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone of a judicial complex to be built at a cost of Rs 12 crore on GT Road here today. Pointing out that the judicial complex at Panipat was being built after 17 years since the inception of the district and around 23,000 cases were pending in the courts here, Mr Justice Jain said the revenue districts should be carved out only when the infrastructure for judicial system was ready. Asserting that the judiciary remained dependent on the local administration for infrastructure, the Chief Justice said the fundamental principle of delivering express justice to the people was to provide proper infrastructure to the judiciary and money put in it was not a charity. Referring to the condition of the court premises in the region, Mr Justice Jain said he would prefer to withdraw his Judges from the courts where even basic facilities were not provided to the judiciary. Justice Khehar, Chairman, Building Committee, Haryana, while speaking on the occasion, said he found during his visits to courts in Punjab that in Hoshiarpur courts did not have toilet facility for women and the court premises at Abohar and Dasuya remained inundated and could not be reached on foot during monsoon. The differences between Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and local MP Arvind Sharma also surfaced on the occasion when the Chief Minister turned down his demand of constructing chambers for the lawyers saying that he did not believe in raising the demands for listening to the clapping from the audience. Then Mr Arvind Sharma, who had already addressed the gathering, came forward again to announce Rs 10 lakh for the purpose from his local area development fund. Nowhere in the state chambers were provided to the lawyers by the government, the Chief Minister, who was presiding over the function, said. |
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Warrants against power board SDO
Rewari, January 27 M/S K.R. Motel Private Ltd., Dharuhera, had applied for the extension of their load from 69.89 KV to 150 KV to the DHBVN authorities, Dharuhera, on September 19, 2005. But, when nothing emerged out of it even after repeated requests, the management filed a petition in the consumer forum, which, through its above order, directed the DHBVN authorities to extend their load subject to completion of all formalities. However, when even after the requisite formalities were completed, the management drew a flake, it again approached the consumer forum, which has now issued non-bailable warrants against the said DHBVN official, Dharuhera. |
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Surajkund Mela an all-woman affair
Chandigarh, January 27 Not only the chief guest and the person who will preside over the inaugural function, but also all main organisers of the mela are women. It will be the Union Minister for Tourism, Mrs Ambika Soni, who will preside over the function at which Mrs Gandhi will inaugurate the mela. From the Haryana side the main organisers are the Minister of State for Tourism, Mrs Kiran Choudhry; the Secretary, Tourism, Mrs Keshni Anand Arora; and the Managing Director of the State Tourism Corporation, Mrs Satwanti Ahlawat. It is a strange coincidence that the Minister of Tourism of Andhra Pradesh and the Secretary, Tourism, of that state are also women --- Dr J. Gita Reddy and Mrs Chitra Ramachandran. Andhra Pradesh is the theme state of the mela this year. The mela is organised by the Surajkund Mela Authority comprising the Union Ministries of Tourism and Textiles and Haryana Tourism every year.
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Lift ban on teachers’ appointment, KU union tells CM
Kurukshetra, January 27 They said, on one hand the government was dreaming of setting up Rajiv Gandhi Education City, women university and regional centre in Jind where as on the other it was imposing ban on new recruitments. Both of them urged the Chief Minister to lift the ban imposed on the recruitment at the earliest so as to help develop healthy academic atmosphere in the state. |
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10 idols stolen from temple
Gurgaon, January 27 The incident took place in the morning when some unidentified men broke open the door of the temple and took away the idols, Mr Devendar Jain, general secretary of the temple committee said. He said some of the idols were as old as
500 years. Mr Jain said the thieves did not touch the silver idols kept
in the temple. They had also locked the temple guard in a room before committing the theft. Senior Superintendent of Police Hanif Qureshi said a high-level team had been sent to Delhi and in parts of Haryana, where similar incidents have taken place in the past, to inquire if this incident has any link with the earlier ones.
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Dowry death in Khojkipur village
Ambala, January 27 Sukhwinder, who was married to Rajinder Singh in Khojkipur village, was hit on the head with a brick yesterday afternoon. She began bleeding profusely. She was taken to a private hospital where she breathed her last. Later, post-mortem was carried out at Civil Hospital, Ambala Cantt. Sukhwinder’s father, Mr Bant Singh, who is a resident of Makhmailpur in Patiala district, said his daughter was married to Rajinder Singh about five years back. They have two children. He said repeated demands for dowry had been made. He said Sukhwinder was hit on the head with a brick by her brother-in-law Baljinder. He said Sukhwinder was being constantly harassed by her in-laws. An FIR has been registered at Mahesh Nagar police station.
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MO held for taking bribe
Rewari, January 27 A case under Sections 7/13/49/88 of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused. Dr Ram Mehar Sheoran was produced in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate C. B. Sheoran, Narnaul, who remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days. A spokesman of the SVB, informed Mukhtiar Singh Gujjar had made a complaint to Mr Rajbir Deswal, SP, SVB, Gurgaon range, alleging the Medical Officer was demanding bribe of Rs 5000 to issue him a medico legal report (MLR). |
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Man kills wife
Sonepat, January 27 According to information, Joginder suspected that his wife was having relations with someone else and the couple used to quar frequently on this issue. The victim, however, left her husband a week ago to live with her parents in Sunaria village. But the sister of her husband brought her back on Thursday. Joginder, a truck driver, also arrived home the same day. Next day, when Geeta was busy in the house, he attacked her. The couple has two children. The husband fled after committing the crime. The police has booked him.
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Life term for killing Councillor’s son
Yamunanagar, January 27 District and Sessions Judge Virener Kumar announced the sentence after examining 13 witness. Mohamad Ahsan had stabbed Vikrant to death on August 18, 2005 near Jagadhri Bus Stand. |
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4 units of power plant trip
Panipat, January 27 According to a press note by Mr Arun Gulati, Chief Engineer, Operations and Maintenance (O&M), PTPS, the fault was the result of tripping all the 220 KV lines from 400 KV Sewah Sub station to the plant on Bus Bar protection due to fault at BBMB end at 9.01 in the morning. |
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