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Stoning of gurdwara
Central team visits N-plant site
Govt hikes relief to ex-servicemen
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Stories from Haryana towns falling in the
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New scheme for Housefed customers
Trend-setter in quality education
Chhabeel causes chaos, disorder
Minister seeks better coordination
Health cards for students soon
Now, Sec 144 imposed to conduct exam
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Stoning of gurdwara
Fatehabad, June 18 Fresh incident of a brawl between Sikhs and dera followers was reported today and the police, which maintained that the scuffle was not related to Thursday's incident, has rounded up four persons in this connection. Meanwhile, the police today arrested three more dera followers in connection with Thursday's incident taking the figure of those arrested to nine. The police had registered cases under Sections 148, 149, 295-A, 427 and 452 of the IPC against 169 dera followers after the stoning incident. In yet another development, the Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee of the village yesterday refused to issue village’s common crockery and utensils kept at the gurdwara to a dera follower for the marriage ceremonies of his daughter scheduled for June 19. Hakam Singh went to the gurdwara to take delivery of the common crockery and utensils purchased out of common village funds for the purpose of marriages and other ceremonies. But Jathedar Labh Singh refused delivery of utensils citing edict of Akal Takht against having any association with the dera or its followers. Hakam Singh, whose daughter Veer Pal Kaur's marriage is fixed for June 19, went to the village sarpanch Pohla Ram for intervention, but to no avail. The situation took a turn for the worse today when a group of dera followers led by Kashmir Singh and Pola Singh were embroiled in a brawl with some members of the Sikh community. The two sides threw stones on each other and exchanged hot words. The police that was already keeping a close watch on the developments acted swiftly and rounded up two persons from each side.
The police has maintained that the incident was a result of an old enmity.
Meanwhile, the police today arrested Major Singh, Tarsem Singh and Babu Singh, all followers of the dera, in connection with Thursday's incident. They were produced before Judicial Magistrate, Rattia, Ajay Aggarwal, who sent them to judicial custody. Over a hundred people belonging to the Sikh community today met the Deputy Commissioner O P Sheoran and demanded arrest of rest of the accused in the stoning incident.
Sheoran, meanwhile, has asked the SDM to constitute a peace committee.
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Central team visits N-plant site
Fatehabad, June 18 S. Thakur, executive director and M N Ray, member- secretary of the NEPC, accompanied by K. K. Amrohi, district revenue officer, Fatehabad, today visited the village and some surrounding areas for survey of some suitable site. They also met deputy commissioner O. P. Sheoran to discuss the matter with him. The nuclear power plant has, of late, courted controversy in the region. It was Punjab first which announced to set up a nuclear poser plant but as opposition grew, the plan was shelved.
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Three killed in car-tanker collision
Ambala, June 18 The injured were taken to the
PGI, Chandigarh. The traffic remained blocked for half an hour on the highway. The traffic was later restored with the help of the police.
Five persons were travelling in the ill-fated car. Those killed were identified as Harvinder Singh, Jasmeet Kaur and Pinki Rani. The injured were Bhupinder Singh and Pritam Singh. One of the injured said the passengers belonged to Kurukshetra district. The car occupants were coming from Chandigarh and were on their way to
Pipli. The car was badly damaged in the accident. The bodies had to be pulled out of the mangled car with great difficulty. DSP (headquarter) Bhupinder Singh, who reached the scene immediately after the accident, shifted the injured to the local civil hospital in a police vehicle. Superintendent of Police Sandeep Khirwar also reached the scene. He directed the police officials to extend help to the injured. Khirwar said the Kurukshetra police had been informed about the accident so that the address of the deceased could be traced. The bodies have been shifted to the local Civil Hospital for autopsy.
The police has registered a case against the driver of the tanker.
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Govt hikes relief to ex-servicemen
Chandigarh, June 18 This enhancement has been made with effect from April 1, 2007. While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Haryana Rajya Sainik Board said a number of steps have been taken by the state government for the welfare of ex-servicemen.
The amount of financial assistance admissible to the members of INA for the marriage of their daughters had also been raised from Rs 10,000 to Rs 21,000, he said.
He further said pension at the rate of Rs 600 per month was being given to those ex-servicemen, who were either 60 years old or above and not taking any kind of pension. A four fold increase has been made in the amount of gallantry awards for those who have won the awards after the freedom of the country. The anomaly of not giving benefit to the recipients of gallantry awards prior to July 1, 1985 had been removed. The government had also started providing one-time monetary grant of Rs one lakh to the recipients of Ashok Chakra, Rs 50,000 to the recipients of Kirti Chakra, Rs 30,000 to those awarded Shaurya Chakra and Rs 20,000 to the winners of Sena Medal. He said financial assistance of Rs 10,000 per month was also being given to those who had won gallantry awards before independence, their widows and to the winners of Victoria Cross. The recipients of Military Cross were getting Rs 7500 per month. |
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New scheme for Housefed customers
Chandigarh, June 18 In a statement issued here today, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said such a scheme was being introduced for Housefed customers for the first time. He said the loan-takers, who were defaulters as on March 31, 2007, would be eligible to benefit from the scheme. Hooda said under the scheme, the loan-taker would be required to deposit an amount which was twice the principal loan. He further said the scheme would benefit 7825 loan-takers and interest to the tune of Rs 52.17 crore would be waived off. The scheme would be operative from July 1, 2007 and would be valid upto September 30, 2007. Hooda also announced that the state government had extended the scope of one-time settlement scheme of Harco Bank to include those farmers also who had availed the benefit of re-schedulement of their agricultural loans under the NABARD Scheme, 2005.
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Trend-setter in quality education
Karnal, June 18 In an exclusive interview with The Tribune here on Sunday, director general of MMU prof Kuldip Singh Dhindsa said the university would focus on the modern-day professional and academic requirements to prepare the students for global competition. An internationally acclaimed scientist, prof Dhindsa claimed that being the first private deemed university of Haryana, MMU would be a trend-setter in imparting quality education. In a notification issued on June 12 under Section 3 of the UGC Act, the ministry of human resource development had granted MMU with the status of a deemed university. Prof Dhindsa informed that the university has 10 significant institutes as its main constituents including medical and dental institutes. Besides engineering, computer education, nursing, pharmacy and other institutes are also covered under the recently declared university. Now all the 10 institutes under MMU cease to be affiliated to Kurukshetra University, he informed. Referring to the recommendations made by the National Knowledge Commission about the need of a quality education system, the DG justified the role of private universities in achieving the desired target of 1500 centre of institutions of higher education by the year 2012. He clarified that MMU was bound to follow government rules while fixing fee structure which would be at par with any other institute running under the self finance scheme (SFS). On future plans, he said MMU has decided to conduct entrance tests for medical and dental colleges while admissions in the engineering streams would be as per the merit list of AIEEE. He said the university management has assured to appoint experienced faculty with all the facilities in laboratories and library. He assured that there would be a special thrust on providing certain concessions to candidates from economically weaker sections of the society.
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Chhabeel causes chaos, disorder
Karnal, June 18 In the absence of any policeman to guard the traffic frequent jams hit the NH-1 till evening. Long queues of vehicles on both sides of the highway highlighted the plight of the local authorities in manning the traffic. It was observed that the chhabbel was organised at the Nirmal Kutiya traffic lightpoint. The volunteers had ‘captured' all the four sides of the lightpoint and erected tents to serve sweetened water and food items to the passers-by that led to frequent traffic jams. Commuters had a tough time as stranded passengers assailed the local authorities for allowing the volunteers in stopping the vehicles on the road. Besides, those travelling on national highway, local residents also faced the heat of the ill-organised function. Interestingly, the mini secretariat housing the offices of the DC, SP and DSPs is just a few yards away from the spot but no serious efforts were made to ensure smooth movement of traffic till evening. No effort was made by the local authorities to prevent the volunteers from obstructing the vehicles on the G.T. Road also. District police chief A. S. Chawala said he had instructed the chowki in charge to wind up the chhabeel early in the evening. He said that he would ensure that in future such activities were restricted only to the service lane to ensure smooth vehicular movement on the G.T. Road.
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Minister seeks better coordination Bhiwani, June 18 Dr Bhardwaj showed dissatisfaction with the work being done by the water supply and sanitation department in the town. He was referring to the woes of the people who faced pre-monsoon showers yesterday, in which almost the entire town remained submerged in rain water for several hours. Taking note of the complaint of MLA from Mundhal Khurd, Ranbir Singh Mahendra, the minister directed the release of water in adequate proportions in all the villages. He also directed the deputy commissioner to strengthen the sewerage and drinking water system in the town. Singh also said the officials of the water supply department and electricity department should maintain better coordination among them.
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Health cards for students soon
Yamunanagar, June 18 As per sources in the health department, the cards would be distributed from July 1 onwards. Medical details of children would be mentioned in the card. An official said such cards would come handy during health check-up camps organised in schools. It has been observed that a significant number of children suffer from diseases including anaemia but their parents, especially those with rural background, do not pay much attention towards the health of their wards. Regular health check-up camps under the ‘school health programme’ are held in schools regularly. If a child is found suffering from a serious illness, he or she is referred to the civil hospital while children with minor ailments are given on-the-spot medicine, informed sources. |
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