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Bhajan, son not to attend rally
Sirsa decked up for big show
Chautala wants Sonia to announce SYL construction
Fleecing of consumers: Chemist shops
raided
MLA’s son frees himself from abductors
Delimitation exercise leaves Yadavs sulking
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'To raise women consciousness is need of the hour'
CM to lay stone for complex extension
Salman, Saira found innocent
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Bhajan, son not to attend rally
Chandigarh, February 24 Working president of the Haryana Congress Ram Prakash has written personal letters to all party MLAs and MPs belonging to the state, urging them to attend the rally. However, informed sources say Bhajan Lal will fly to Hyderabad tomorrow to participate in the marriage of a granddaughter of former union law minister P. Shivshankar. Bhajan Lal and Shivshankar have been good friends. The sources say Bishnoi will be the chief guest at a function to be held in a Ladwa college in Kurukshetra district tomorrow. The college is controlled by the family of a former president of the Kurukshetra District Congress Committee, Pawan Garg, a close ally of Bhajan Lal. Chander Mohan, elder son of Bhajan Lal, is expected to attend the rally. Chander Mohan is the Deputy Chief Minister in the Hooda Cabinet. By persuading Sonia Gandhi to be the chief guest at the rally, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has hit more than one bird with a single shot. He has forced Bhajan Lal and Bishnoi to play their cards at a time not of their choosing. Though they had been boycotting the functions organised either by the state government or the state unit of the party in the past also, yet to boycott a function attended by Sonia Gandhi needs enormous courage in the Congress. Bishnoi, who has emerged as the political inheritor of Bhajan Lal, has not been mincing words about their future plans. But now they may have to act sooner than they might have planned. Sonia Gandhi’s presence at a function, the hero of which will be Hooda, will also put at rest the plans of the self-professed aspirants for the Chief Minister’s post.
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Sirsa decked up for big show
Sirsa, February 24 Tight security arrangements have been made and the town is all decked up for the first-ever state-level rally to be held at Sirsa. By selecting Sirsa as the rally venue, the Chief Minister has accepted a big political challenge, besides showing his keenness to take the entire state in his stride. Having resolved to make a dent in the citadel of Chautala, Hooda has literally taken the proverbial bull by its horns. Sirsa being situated at an extreme end of the state, smoothly ferrying crowds to the rally venue would also be a big challenge for the organisers. The town's location cannot be considered favourable from this angle. This is one of the reasons why leaders like Devi Lal had selected the centrally located town of Jind as the venue for their rallies. However, if the turnout turns out to be impressive despite all these odds, Hooda is all set to gain statewide acceptance and a great political stature, which can be a cause of worry for his opponents within his party as well as outside. |
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Chautala wants Sonia to announce SYL construction
Chandigarh, February 24 Only such an announcement would justify its nomenclature as ‘Navyug Rally’, Chautala said. He was addressing mediapersons here today in the company of Haryana INLD president Ashok Arora and former Haryana finance minister Sampat Singh.B.D. Dhalila, a retired IAS officer who was Chautala’s principal secretary when he was Chief Minister last time, and K.C. Bangar, who was chairman of the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) during the INLD regime, were also present in the press conference. The INLD chief said the SYL construction issue had already been decided by the Supreme Court in favour of Haryana with instructions to the Central Government to complete the work within a timeframe. Right now there is no issue pending at any of the courts on SYL construction and so the Central Government must not delay the job any further. He said despite the Congress party being in power in Haryana, Punjab and at the Centre for past two years, the Hooda-led Haryana Government had made no effort to get the construction of the canal started. The former Chief Minister said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was trying to attract people to the rally saying Sonia Gandhi would make a big announcement at Sirsa for the people of Haryana. He said the SYL canal would be the biggest gift she could bestow on the people on the occasion.
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Fleecing of consumers: Chemist shops
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Fatehabad, February 24 The authorities have stopped the sales of this product in Haryana and initiated legal action against the manufacturer. An enforcement team of the drugs department, led by the Assistant State Drugs Controller, Haryana, G. L. Singla noticed that bottles of super oxidised solution ‘Oxum’, manufactured by some Daman-based company, on sale at some chemist shops. The maximum retail price mentioned on the bottle was Rs 450 and according to the label on the drug, it was meant for washing of wounds. The drug authorities noticed that the label on the bottle mentioned that it contained 99.9 per cent water with salts like sodium hypo chloride, hypochlorus acid, Hydrogen Peroxide, ozone, sodium carbonate and sodium chloride, etc. Singla told mediapersons today that besides the price of the drug being exorbitant, there were many other anomalies, which indicated clear violation of the Drugs and Cosmetic Act. Water as such, he said, couldn’t be used as an active ingredient of any drug. The manufacturers could use ‘water for injection’ or ‘purified water’ but in that case the manufacturer has to mention it on the label. The percentage of other ingredients too has to be specifically mentioned and the drug could not have been labelled as it was on the bottle, he added. Singla said that going by the declaration of contents on the bottles, it contained 99.9 per cent plain water with salts like bleaching powder (which makes it chlorinated water), common household salt, washing soda and hydrogen peroxide added to it. As for the presence of ozone in the water as claimed on the label, he said that ozone is highly unstable and cannot be packed in plastic bottles. He maintained that it was a case of fleecing the consumers with false claims and exorbitant prices. The contents, he added, could not have cost the manufacturer a rupee or so but the bottles were being sold for Rs 450 per bottle. |
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MLA’s son frees himself from abductors
Chandigarh, February 24 The incident happened just outside the MLA’s residence in Model Town, Sonepat when Vishal, a student of Class IX, had ventured out of his house to buy some eatable from a shop. “The shop is just near our house. Vishal was buying a pack of noodles when some youths arrived in their silver coloured car. They asked him if he knew another youth who lived in the locality. Suspecting some foul play, Vishal alerted that youth who was also standing nearby and this enraged the youths in the car who bundled them into their vehicle and sped away,” Malik told PTI over the phone. He said the youths were given a chase by some of his supporters who were in their car. Vishal, whose legs were hanging out of the vehicle, somehow managed to jump out of the moving vehicle and freed himself even though he received injuries. He was later brought home. “It is still not clear that if the youths wanted to kidnap Vishal or another youth. The police have recorded our statement and registered a case in the incident. We told them that the car had some Delhi registration number, though nobody could note it down,” he said. — PTI
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Delimitation exercise leaves Yadavs sulking
Narnaul, February 24 The grievances of people living in this part of Haryana, known as Ahirwal, are several. The region has always sent a handsome number of soldiers to the Army. But their demand for a Sainik School here continues to be ignored. "There has never been a Yadav Chief Minister in Haryana, except for Rao Birender Singh being at the helm for a brief period.", says S R Yadav. Water shortage and meagre supply of canal water is the most pressing issue in villages. Districts like Hisar and Sirsa have always got more than their share of water, being the home districts of important Chief ministers. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who has promised "equitable distribution of canal waters" is getting the Hansi-Butana canal made to augment water supply, but People here remain skeptical. Following delimitation of constituencies, the Mahendragarh Lok sabha seat has been abolished. Part of the erstwhile Mahendragarh seat has been included in the new Mahendragarh-Bhiwani constituency, while the remaining area forms part of the new constituency of Gurgaon. In the Mahendragarh-Bhiwani seat, Jats constitute a majority while in Gurgaon Meos of Mewat have a strong presence and can make or mar the chances of any candidate. Thus, the Yadav stranglehold over the Mahendrgarh Lok Sabha constituency has gone. Roshan Lal Yadav of the Congress, says the newly created Kosli Assembly segment should have been included in Mahendragarh-Bhiwani or Gurgaon so that the stranglehold of the Yadavs over one seat remained. Kosli has been included in the Rohtak parliamentary constituency represented by Chief Minister’s son Deepender. The Rohtak seat had a Yadav-dominated Assembly segment in Sahlawas. The Sahlawas segment has been abolished in the delimitation exercise. Meanwhile, inclusion of Kosli in Rohtak has not gone down well with local politicians. Though Mr Hooda cannot do much regarding the delimitation of constituencies, he is being partly blamed for the “setback.”
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'To raise women consciousness is need of the hour'
Ambala, February 24 Addressing the gathering, Ms Gupta observed that women live in ignorance even in the present century. She said more than 2 crore girls die in the womb and even if allowed to be born, they are killed by sheer neglect. She felt that such a situation asked for some steps to be taken so as to save women. She opined that although there is no field in which women have not ventured into, but the other side of the picture is dismal. "To raise consciousness of women is the dire need of the hour. Women should be brought to the centre-stage of development programmes. Sensitisation of society was of utmost importance," she said. Dr Kumud said women's identity was established by the multi-faceted roles which she was made to play. She felt that a woman's consciousness was shaped by various factors and it was in a state of continuous flux. She observed that woman's identity was constructed in the shadow of the man. Referring to violence against women, she said it could be checked only if the mindsets of both man and woman were changed. She said it was necessary to sensitise society. A woman needed to carve her own identity/consciousness from her prescribed roles and life spaces. Among others, Prof Karuna Chanana, Dr Ashima Joshi, Dr Meera Gautam, Dr Rama Kant Angiras, Prof Jaya Indirasen, Dr Richa Tanswar, Dr Alka Sharma and Dr Desh Bandhu were present.
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CM to lay stone for complex extension
Bhiwani, February 24 He told mediapersons that the progress of developmental works would be reviewed at the monthly meeting to be held at Panchayat Bhawan on February 26. He said election of members of district organising committee would be held at the bhawan on March 7. He said out of the total 25 members of the committee, five members would be nominated by the state government and election would be conducted for remaining 20 members. The election process would start at 11 am and nominations could be filed by 12 pm. voting would take place from 1 pm onwards. The results would be declared by 1.30 pm.
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Salman, Saira found innocent
Panipat, February 24 Earlier the police rounded up Usman Mohammad a Pakistani national from the ill fated train the same day on Sunday night. Usman was let off by the SIT after interrogation for two days when it was found that he was a 60-year-old resident of Karachi who could not get off the train at the time of incident as he was drunk. According to information Salman who is a Memon muslim and a bootlegger in Ahmedabad had gone to meet his sister Saira at Bikaner when on someone’s information the Bikaner police rounded the duo on suspicion. |
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