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Hooda announces interest waiver
Govt to construct 4 dams on Ghaggar
Bio-medical waste kills 3 cows
Teenager murdered; residents hold protest
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Industry migrating from state: Bishnoi
NBW against ex-SP
Hailstorm dampens Baisakhi spirit
Hooliganism inside missionary school
Tiranga utsav celebrated
Guv, CM greet people on Ram Navami
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Hooda announces interest waiver
Our Correspondent
Ambala, April 13 Hooda, while addressing a function of the cooperative transport societies organised by the Haryana Cooperative Transport Society Welfare Association at Anaj Mandi, Barara, today said that the interest on the outstanding amount of passenger tax would be waived off if the outstanding amount of the passenger tax was deposited by the societies within one month. Similarly, interest on the cooperative loans would also be waived off if the entire principal amount was deposited by the societies within two months. Hooda also announced that the state was formulating a new transport policy, which would fully protect the interests of the cooperative transport societies, besides providing better transport services to the people of the state. He regretted that some of the transport operators had not taken benefits of the concessions, which were announced by him in a function organized by the Haryana Transport Cooperative Society Welfare Association at Kaithal. He said that concerted efforts were being made to strengthen Haryana Roadways and provide better transport services to the people of the State. He said 1000 additional new buses, including CNG and AC buses, were being added to the bus fleet of Haryana Roadways besides replacing the seven-year old buses with the new ones. Hooda said the Haryana Government has taken a number of welfare measures for the farmers. In this series, interest waiver scheme had been implemented by the State Government under which interest on cooperative loans amounting to Rs 830 crore had been waived off. Earlier, the Chief Minister laid the foundation stone of two bridges over river Sahzadpur one each at village Kaurwa Kalan and Behloli. These bridges will be constructed at a cost of Rs.4.37 crore. He also unveiled the statue of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at Saha and laid the foundation stone of Ambedkar Bhawan at Sirasgarh village, besides unveiling his statue at Dosarka village . Phool Chand Mullana, President Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, Kuldeep Sharma, acting president HPCC, Capt Ajay Singh Yadav, Irrigation Minister Haryana, Ishwar Singh, MP, Krishna Pandit, Parliamentary Secretary (Health), Ram Kishan, Parliamentary Secretary, Nirmal Singh and D.K. Bansal both MLA also spoke on this occasion.
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Govt to construct 4 dams on Ghaggar
Panchkula, April 13 This was stated by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda while laying the foundation stone of Koshalya Dam on river Koshalya at Pinjore near here today. The other three dams would be constructed at Diwanwala, Dangrana and Chhamla. The state is facing acute water shortage in its requirements of drinking, agriculture and industrial use. Against the requirement of 43 million acre feet (MAF) there is merely 14 MAF of water available in the state. The Koshalya dam, to be built within next 18 months at a cost of Rs 118 crore, would help in supplementing the drinking water requirements in Panchkula and Pinjore, along with moderation of floods in the area and recharging of underground water in the region, Hooda added. Claiming that his government was working to solve the drinking water problems of the people of state the chief minister said though Koshalya Dam was proposed in 1952 but it was only now that his government has taken up its construction at a cost of Rs 270 crore. Similar was the case with Dadupur Nalvi canal, he said. This canal would utilize surplus Yamuna waters for irrigation and recharge ground water in districts of Yamunanagar, Ambala and Kurukshetra. Haryana Irrigation Minister, Captain Ajay Singh Yadav while counting on the works being carried out by his ministry said the government would spend Rs 10 crore for revival of sacred river Saraswati in areas of Pehowa and Kalayat. Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Irrigation, R.N.Prasher said Koshalya Dam would store 1368-hectare meter water and the dam would have a minimum life of 100 years. |
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Bio-medical waste kills 3 cows
Fatehabad, April 13 Though the police has registered an FIR and sent viscera of the dead animals for examination, the residents are not satisfied with the police action and have demanded action against the doctors, who they alleged, have been regularly throwing away bio-medical waste in the public park. As the news of the death of three cows in park spread in the morning today, a large number of people started gathering there. The irate residents led by Om Parkash Ralhan, district president of the BJP, Bharat Bhushan Midha of the VHP, Ramesh Kamra of the Pitanjali Yog Samiti and Sanjay Batra of the Gau Raksha Samiti expressed resentment against the authorities when they noticed heaps of bio-medical waste in the park. Sensing anger of the residents, the district authorities sent senior medical officer Hira Lal Gupta, district development and panchayat officer O.P. Sharma, veterinary surgeon S.K. Grover and pollution department engineer Sanjiv Kumar, who took samples of bio-medical waste. The police has registered an FIR for poisoning an animal but no one has been named. Civil surgeon J.K. Bishnoi said under no circumstances, bio-medical waste could be thrown in a public park. He said such waste had to be destroyed in an insinuator and since it was not available here, most of the doctors had annual contracts with a Hisar firm for lifting waste.
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Teenager murdered; residents hold protest
Jind, April 13 The body of Neeraj, 16-year son of Naresh, a resident of a colony here, was recovered last night. It is reported that Neeraj had been involved in a quarrel with some local youths a couple of days back. His body was found dumped at a secluded place behind the colony. According to police the victim had been strangled to death by some unidentified persons. This morning the family members and others assembled at the civil hospital here and expressed dissatisfaction over the postmortem examination. They announced to take the body only after the arrest of the culprits. The police tried to assure them of immediate action, but the crowd started raising slogans against it. The protesters wanted to a march through the city with the body instead of taking it for cremation. While they tried to stage a dharna outside the city police station, police officials tried to convince the family. It reportedly succeeded and with the help of some family members and locals the police took away the body and got it cremated. The police later rounded up four persons in connection with the murder.
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Industry migrating from state: Bishnoi
Rohtak, April 13 “No industrialist is keen to set up a unit in Haryana because of the acute shortage of electricity and deteriorating law and order situation in the state,” Bishnoi said while talking to the Press after inaugurating a party office here today. The HJC leader said it was the first state-level office of the party, while two others would be established at Chandigarh and Hisar. These high-tech party offices would serve as public offices. Castigating the Hooda regime for sidelining the issue of SYL canal after coming to power, the suspended Congress MP held the UPA government at the centre responsible for the spiralling prices of essential commodities. Bishnoi, who was flanked by HJC general secretary Subhash Batra and party’s district unit president Krishan Murti Hooda, said neither the central, nor the state government had taken any steps to check the prices. He said the HJC would not change the party candidates in the impending byelections to the state assembly. “Bhajan Lal, Dharmpal Malik and Rakesh Kamboj, who represented the three Assembly segments, will be the fielded in the byelections as well,” he maintained.
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NBW against ex-SP
Rewari, April 13 The court has now fixed June 11 as the next date for his appearance. Simultaneously, the court has also repeated the existing bailable warrant, which was earlier issued by it against the then district inspector, Rewari, Bhoop Singh, who is now working as DSP at the Police Training Centre in Bhondsi (Gurgaon), as well as the then station house officer of the Kasaula police station of the district, Ranbir Singh Dagar, who is now posted as inspector at Palwal. The court had summoned these police officers on a complaint filed by the then constable of the Kasaula police station, Wazir Singh, who is now posted as head constable at the Bawal police station of the district. Wazir Singh said Ranbir Sigh Dagar had tampered with the daily diary of the Kasaula police station in 2003 to spoil his career while the district inspector and the SP acted in connivance with him.
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Hailstorm dampens Baisakhi spirit
Yamunanagar, April 13 Strong winds uprooted scores of trees causing damage to power cables at several places. All block development and panchayat officers (BDPOs) have been asked by the agriculture department to report the extent of damage by tomorrow evening. Hailstorm coupled with heavy rains and winds lashed several parts of the district in the morning and caused maximum damage to the wheat crop. Maximum damage to wheat was reported from dozens of villages in Mustfabad block here, including Fathepur, Sultanpur, Sablapur and Milak-Kalawar. A delegation of villagers met ADC Narinder Singh and demanded a special girdawari. |
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Hooliganism inside missionary school
Panipat, April 13 They also reportedly abused the teaching staff of the school before escaping on their motorcycles. On the complaint of principal of the school Sister
Catheline, a case has been registered under Sections 148, 149, 452, 323, 342, 427 and 506 of the IPC. The police has taken into possession the photos and CDs from mediapersons, who were present on the occasion, to establish the identity of the persons involved in the incident. Earlier yesterday, around 200 activists and office-bearers of the district units of the VHP, RSS and the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) had taken out a procession in different markets of the town in protest against the killing of RSS activists in Kerala sometime back. Soon after the protest, around 10 to 12 activists of these organisations went to the school on their motorcycles and allegedly indulged in hooliganism.
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Tiranga utsav celebrated
Kaithal, April 13 Paying rich tributes to martyrs of freedom struggle Naveen said it was our duty to safe guard the honour of the tricolour. He also spoke about his legal battle on behalf of the common man’s right to hoist the flag at their houses or business premises. But he cautioned them to follow the Flag code and not show disrespect to the “National Flag”. Jai Parkash, member Parliament, Dr Ram Parkash, member Rajya sabha, Krishna Pandit and Dillu Ram, Parliamentary secretaries, Tejinder Mann, Geeta Bhukkal, Dinesh Kaushik, Ramesh Gupta, all MLAs, Ashok Tanwar, president All India Youth Congress, and Sanjay Chhokar, president Haryana Pardesh Youth Congress were among those who spoke. Deputy Commissioner Vikas Gupta, SSP Anil Kumar were also present. |
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Guv, CM greet people on Ram Navami
Chandigarh, April 13 In a message, which was issued here today, Dr Kidwai said the festival reminded of high ideals of Lord Rama and also inspired people to render selfless service to society. The Chief Minister urged the people to imbibe among themselves the teachings of Lord Rama. |
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Local residents, including activists of some social and political organisations, today held a demonstration against the authorities and some local doctors responsible for dumping their bio-medical waste in the open after three cows were found dead and four more found in a critical condition after eating the medical refuse thrown in Lajpat Nagar Park.
