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Division of SCs in State
400 bullets seized in Karnal
‘Women have vital role in developing countries’
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Gift for 2 poor but bright girls
Veterinary varsity likely at Hisar
Villagers meet ADC
Kidnapped boy found
‘Dead’ man returns
12 injured in road accidents
8 cows killed in road mishap
Diwali Fee Row
‘Conversion’ Bid
Baba Jodh Singh remembered
Tributes paid to Surender Singh
Interviews cancelled
Lecturer attacked
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Division of SCs in State
New Delhi, November 15 The court admitted an appeal of the Haryana government against the Punjab and Haryana High Court order quashing the state’s policy and today served notices on the Centre and the National Commission for SCs and STs, seeking their replies. The notices were also served on several petitioners representing the most deprived sections put in “block-A” among the SCs, supporting the state government’s policy. The state had put better off sections in “block-B” to ensure that the benefit reaches to the lowest rung of the reserved classes. The notices were served by the Court Registry after a Bench, headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, had admitted an appeal earlier, filed by the state against the High Court’s July 6, 2006, order striking down its reservation policy, holding it contrary to constitutional provisions. The government had divided the SCs in block-A and block-B by issuing a notification issued on November 9, 1994, after analysing the 1981 census data finding that representation to the most deprived section among SCs in public employment and admission to education institutions was not only abysmal but almost negligible. In fact, the Haryana government had come up with the policy after the High Court’s full Bench had given its approval to an identical policy brought out by Punjab in an order on July 5, 1980. Punjab, in its policy, had divided the 15 per cent SC quota on an equal basis between “Valmikis” and “Mazbhi Sikhs” on the one hand and remaining sub-castes among SCs on the other in 1975. Several organisations among economically most deprived castes, including the Haryana Valmiki Mahasabha (HVM), had supported the state government’s petition in the High Court by becoming a party to the litigation and consequently they are also supporting the same in the apex court as well. HVM president Banarsi Dass and secretary M.L. Sarwan, a retired bureaucrat, said there was nothing wrong in the state’s policy as it allowed the reservation benefits to go down to the last layer of deprived sections. Supporting the government petition, Sarwan said the Justice Gurnam Singh Commission, set up by the Haryana government in 1990, in its report had stated that the economic condition of most deprived sections of the SCs placed in block-A was pathetic and their representation in government jobs and opportunities to their wards in admission to education institutions were negligible. However, after the implementation of the policy, there was substantial improvement in their representation in jobs and educational institution which had since risen to at least 20 per cent, he said. |
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400 bullets seized in Karnal
Karnal, November 15 The bullets are of 7.62 mm, 9 mm, .45 mm and .22 calibres and are used in AK-47, SLR, .303 rifles and pistols, the police said. Interestingly, the markings on the ammunition indicate that they were manufactured in government ordnance factories. SP A.S. Chawla said the police got information that live ammunition was available in the city and the seller was waiting for buyers. The police raided the house of the accused and recovered the ammunition. During interrogation, Raju, who is a resident of Banda district, Uttar Pradesh, revealed that he used to collect scrap from Madhuban area and Ramesh, who is absconding, sold him the bullets about five months back. Raju further revealed that Ramesh had told him that he had found the bullets tied in a sack in Madhuban Canal. A police team has been dispatched to apprehend Ramesh. Chawla said the police was now trying to find out the motive behind not informing the police about the possession of the ammunition by the accused. He added that as the ammunition was made in the ordnance factories and supplied to the defence forces, the paramilitary and the state police forces, the involvement of some police personnel in throwing the sack into canal cannot be ruled out. A case was registered at the Madhuban police station nearly a year back regarding the disappearance of 812 kg of spent cartridges, used by the police for training recruits at the Madhuban police academy, he said, adding that as the investigation started, the people, who were in possession of these live cartridges, could have disposed them off in the canal. The police is also checking when the ammunition was delivered to the police by checking the serial number stamped on the bottom of the bullets, he added. He said it was a serious development if policemen are found guilty of disposing off the live cartridges. |
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‘Women have vital role in developing countries’
Karnal, November 15 On the occasion, Dr Sushil Kumar, director, NDRI, released a book titled ‘Women: Invisible Energy of Development’, a book on women empowerment, written by Licitra and his team. Licitra said the third world should not repeat the mistakes made by the developed countries. He said care should be taken that development should not eradicate the culture unique to a particular country or region. “Asian and African societies are so vibrant and colourful that in comparison ours is completely bland,” he said. “In our race towards modernisation, we left behind our traditions and culture. Wherever you go in Europe everybody and everything is so similar. We have lost our uniqueness,” he lamented. He said that India is so rich in culture and traditions and these should be preserved and carried forward as country modernises. He said through his project titled international Professional Women Opportunity (iPWO), his centre was trying to create a network of information and education exchange to help women solve their small, but fundamental daily problems such as nourishment of their children. |
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Gift for 2 poor but bright girls
Chandigarh, November 15 Asha Hooda, who was present at the “alankaran samaroh” organised by the Haryana Board of School Education at the residence of the Chief Minister here yesterday to give away gold and silver medals and the Kalpana Chawla Award to meritorious students, announced to personally bear the entire expenditure of providing higher education to the two poor meritorious girl students - Pooja Jangra and Neha Antil. Both these meritorious girls were honoured with the Kalpana Chawla Award. The principal of Arya Girls Senior Secondary School, Murthal Road, Sonepat, Kusum Mudgil, informed Asha Hooda that Pooja hailed from a very poor family but had ranked first in the state by scoring 97 per cent marks in matric examination conducted by Haryana Board of School Education this year. Although the school has already exempted her from paying fee and is also providing books, yet she needs help to attain higher education. Pooja’s father does not earn much and is unable to make both ends meet. The other student, Neha Antil, had ranked second in the state by scoring 91.25 per cent marks in the class XII examination this year. Although she has joined college, she needs help because she has lost her father, the breadwinner of the family. Asha Hooda has announced to bear the expenditure of higher education of these two girls till they get married. Pooja aspires to be an engineer while Neha wants to do MBA. Neha is a student of BA-I economics (honours) at Ramjas College, Delhi. |
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Veterinary varsity likely at Hisar
Chandigarh, November 15 Sufficient land, it is learnt, is available with the animal husbandry department in Hisar. As a result, the city has emerged as an important contender for housing the university since the government will not need to spend any money on account of land in case the university is located there. The Animal Livestock Farm at Hisar is also considered a useful establishment for the students of the proposed university. The animals of the farm will serve the purpose of experimental herd for the students. All these factors have put Hisar in serious reckoning for being chosen as the centre for setting up of the new university. At present, there is only one veterinary science college in Haryana. The college, attached to Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, has only 40 seats. The number of veterinary universities and colleges in the country, it is learnt, is, respectively, seven and 40. The proposed university at Haryana, which has already been approved by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and its brass tacks are now being worked out by officials, is expected to offer the much needed opportunity to the local youth to seek a career in veterinary science. The campus will have seven institutes. The proposed institutes are, college of veterinary sciences, college of animal sciences, institute of animal biotechnology, institute of veterinary public health and bio-medical research, institute of animal welfare and veterinary jurisprudence, institute of dairy technology and institute of fishery sciences. |
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Villagers meet ADC
Yamunanagar, November 15 The woman sarpanch of the village, along with other women, kept sitting at the school gate throughout the day to “catch” the head teacher of the school who is facing allegations of misappropriation of scholarship funds. Men of the village came to meet the district education officer in Yamunanagar for action against head teacher Ram Sharan but they did not get any “satisfactory” assurance from the office of the DEO. Later, they went to additional deputy commissioner O.P. Lohan who assured them of appropriate action if the teacher was found guilty. Sarpanch Sushila Rani and several other women waited for hours for the head teacher but the latter did not turn up. Fakir Chand, Pala Ram and Kharak Singh, who had gone to the DEO office, said the lock on the classroom was found open in the morning when the students reached the school. The keys were with Ram Sharan. The students attended classes in the classrooms but did not get mid-day meal. “The mid-day meal ration was lying in an almirah which was locked; so the meal could not be cooked,” said a villager. Ram Sharan has been accused of misappropriation of scholarship funds meant for Scheduled Caste girls. |
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Idols stolen from temple
Gurgaon, November 15 President of the Parasnath Digambar Jain Charitable Trust Paritosh Jain got a case registered with the Manesar police about the theft of idols. He said a watchman had been appointed to guard the property of the temple and he was present in the temple at that time. The watchman found the main doors of the temple open at 3 am and the idols were found missing. Gurgaon police commissioner Mohinder Lal, along with senior officers, went to the spot. A forensic team also visited the site to take fingerprints of the culprits. Talking to mediapersons, Lal said special teams had been constituted to keep an eye on the sale of ancient idols in the Jaipur, Delhi and Mewat areas. |
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Kidnapped boy found
Gurgaon, November 15 Gaurav, son of Yaad Ram, a resident of Kankorla village, was kidnapped by their tenant, Virender Singh. Police commissioner Mohinder Lal said Yaad Ram had registered a complaint on November 13 that his tenants, who had also left their residence on that very day, had kidnapped his son. Lal said the main culprits of this abduction were Virender Singh and Ahsan. Virender was living as a tenant from last one and a half year. He said the main reason for abduction was jealousy. Virender was jealous of Yaad Ram’s wealth and was also childless. He said the culprits took the abducted child to Barali and later to Gaurakhpur by train. They had plans to take the child to Alipur, the native village of Jyoti, wife of Ahsan. He said the other culprits involved in the incident were Mukhtir and Javed, residents of Kasala
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‘Dead’ man returns
Karnal, November 15 Randhir (35), a resident of the Jundla Gate area here, had gone to work as a “chaat vendor” in three marriages, one after another, on Monday without informing his family members. Meanwhile, a blood-smeared body was found on the Bajida road on Tuesday which was identified by his family as that of Randhir for two reasons: One, it looked like Randhir. Secondly, it had the name of his wife Angoori Devi tatooed on his arm exactly as on Randhir’s arm. The police handed over the body to Randhir’s family after a post-mortem and they cremated him on Tuesday. The next day, Randhir read the news of his death in a vernacular daily along with the names of his family members. He rushed to his house to give a pleasant surprise to his family even as his 10-year-old son Gaurav and father Mange Ram were away to Hardwar to immerse “his” ashes.
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12 injured in road accidents
Jhajjar, November 15 The foggy conditions prevailing early morning reportedly led to the
accidents. A school bus collided with a truck near Noona Majra village. Seven occupants of the bus got injured in the accident. The injured were identified as Aarti (4), Aasha and Manju, all students, teachers Neelam and Devender, bus driver Sunil and his assistant Noor Kasim. In another accident, two trucks collided near Bahadurgarh in which four persons, including drivers, got injured. A resident of Noona Majra village, Chhana Ram, was injured when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a truck. |
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8 cows killed in road mishap
Hisar, November 15 The accident took place when the drunken driver of a truck which was carrying them lost control over the vehicle which skidded off the road and drove straight into a ditch. Since the truck was speeding, the cows fell out from the rear due to the impact. The driver of the truck and its cleaner fled from the scene. Villagers noticed the dead animals in the morning and arranged for disposal of the carcasses with the help of the police. |
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Diwali Fee Row
Fatehabad, November 15 The traders have been booked under Sections 147, 148 and 341 of the IPC. The police has also booked an employee of the Municipal Corporation, Anil Mittal, for causing simple hurt and cheating under Sections 323 and 420 of the IPC. The matter is related to an incident that occurred on the day of Diwali, when Mittal was collecting fees from the shopkeepers for displaying their commodities outside their shops. Mittal had an altercation with a shopkeeper, Subhash Goyal, over the fees and after some time neighbouring shopkeepers too joined Goyal. The police had booked some shopkeepers for obstructing government servant from performance of duties, after the corporation employees went on strike in support of their demands. Traders blocked vehicular traffic yesterday demanding withdrawal of cases against their members and to book Mittal for cheating. |
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‘Conversion’ Bid
Bhiwani, November 15 Two students of a school in Ambala, who were reportedly here in connection with their practicals for the past few months and residing in Housing Board Colony, were allegedly caught hold of by members of a Hindu organisation when they were distributing literature related to their religion. They were taken in procession and later their religious literature was burnt outside their room. The Civil Lines police registered a case in this connection against eight persons but no arrest has been made so far. |
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Baba Jodh Singh remembered
Ambala, November 15 He was an eyewitness to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar in 1919 and was arrested several times during the freedom struggle. A function was held at Panchayat Bhawan here, in which different speakers highlighted the contributions made by Baba Jodh Singh towards overthrowing the British rule. Chairman, All-India Anti Terrorist Front, Maninderjit Singh Bitta was the chief guest at the function. Besides the family members of Baba Jodh Singh, those who were present at the function included retired DGP M.S.
Malik, Haryana Akali Dal spokesman S.S. Kandhari and district president,
INLD, Surjit Singh Sondha. Bitta lauded the role played by Baba Jodh Singh in the freedom struggle. One of the speakers suggested that the Civil Hospital, Ambala City, should be renamed as Baba Jodh Singh Hospital. |
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Tributes paid to Surender Singh
Bhiwani, November 15 Family members, including mother Vidya
Devi, brothers Ranbir Singh Mahendra and Somvir Singh, both MLAs, Nirmal Kanta and Savita
Sheoran, laid wreaths on the samadhi of the late minister. Shruti
Chaudhary, daughter of Surender Singh, also offered floral tributes to her father. |
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Interviews cancelled
Chandigarh, November 15 Stating this here today, a spokesman for the commission said the interviews had been cancelled on administrative grounds. Accordingly, such candidates, who had been issued call letters, were not required to attend the interviews on the scheduled dates. |
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Lecturer attacked
Bhiwani, November 15 |
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Cabinet meeting
Chandigarh, November 15 |
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Clarification
Chandigarh, November 15 |
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