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Student commits suicide: Rupinder Kaur (22) of Phase IV allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself here this morning. According to the police, the girl was pursuing BA from a college here and was living as a paying guest.
The other girls, who stayed with her as PGs, informed the landlords about the incident who called the police. The police said no suicide note was found. Youth
commits suicide: Sonu Sharma (27) of Lalru allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence late last night. Sonu belonged to Khuda Lahora village and lived here with his wife and a one-year-old son. The police said Sonu was a drug addict and the couple had been fighting with each other for the past many months. Last night also, the couple had a fight following which, Sonu took his son to the room at the roof top to sleep. He was found hanging this morning.
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Inspected: Justice Nirmal Yadav, Judge Punjab and Haryana High Court, inspected Ambala courts on Thursday. Justice
Yadav, who is the inspecting judge of Ambala courts, was given guard of honour at PWD rest house where senior officers of judiciary and district administration were present. Justice Yadav inspected various courts and gave some important instructions to the judicial officers. She also collected information regarding lok adalat and awareness camps. BHIWANI
Body recovered: The police recovered an unidentified body of a 35-year-old woman near Hunnamal water hut on the Bhiwani-Rohtak road on Thursday. It tried to trace the body but failed and later sent it for a postmortem examination to the Civil Hospital. CHANDIGARH
Exam centre changed: Entrance examination for admission to Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehra Dun, for January 2009 term will be conducted at Government Girls College, Sector 14,
Panchkula, instead of Government College, Sector 1, Panchkula, on June 1 and 2 as per a letter issued by the secretary, Rajya Sainik Board,
Haryana. Members nominated: The Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker, Dr Raghubir Singh
Kadian, has nominated members to serve on two sub-committees of the Public Accounts Committee for 2008-09 to identify and scrutinise all paragraphs of the remaining reports of the C&AG of India, which involves huge financial irregularities.
K.L. Sharma will be the convener of the sub-committee (A) and Dr Sita Ram, Kulvir Singh Beniwal and Ramesh Kumar Gupta will be the members of this committee. Similarly, Tejender Pal Singh Mann will be the convener of the sub-committee (B) and Maj Nirpender Singh
Sangwan, Sumita Singh and Rao Yadvendra Singh will be the members of this committee. Applications invited: The Haryana State Counselling Society has invited applications from candidates seeking admission to diploma courses in the polytechnics located in the state for the session 2008-09. A spokesman of the society on Thursday said prospectus and application forms along with OMR could be obtained from and submitted at the prescribed collection centres besides the office of the counselling society. The candidates seeking admission to diploma engineering courses could submit their applications by May 23 and those seeking admission for diploma engineering courses and diploma pharmacy and diploma management could submit applications by May 24.
REWARI
3 booked for duping trader: The police has booked a truck owner, Prithvi Singh, his son and driver, Raju, and Kanwar Singh of the Yadav Transport Company, Narnaul, on charges of forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy for allegedly duping a Rewari trader, Anil Kumar, of his 186 bags of mustard worth Rs 3.50 lakh. Kumar said he had hired Prithvi Singh’s truck through Kanwar Singh on April 11 to transport 186 bags of mustard to West Bengal. When the consignment did not reach West Bengal even after 10 days, he grew suspicious and made inquiries, which revealed that the trio had duped him. SIRSA
Man fined: A local businessman was fined Rs 15 lakh after the vigilance department of the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam detected a power theft at his factory here on Wednesday. Additional director (vigilance) Jeet Ram said the theft was detected at the factory of Amit Kumar. The accused was drawing about 28 KW against the sanctioned strength of 19 KW. A magnet was also found attached with the meter.
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35 donate blood: Thirtyfive village women and youths donated blood in a women and youth awakening workshop organised jointly by Him Vikas Mahila
Mandal, Hardi Kothi, and the Mahila Mandal and the Yuva Jagriti Mandal at
Malothi, about 43 km here, on Wednesday. Bhagat, Ram and Rajesh of the Bilaspur SAI hostel and
Nisha, Rekha and Saroj of the state youth hostel came first, second and third, respectively, among men and women in a district-level cross-country race organized on the occasion. A seminar was also held. Driver dies in truck mishap: Driver Babu Ram of Jukhala village, near here, was killed on the spot when his truck (HP-11-4518) fell into a gorge near
Chadole, near here, early on Tuesday. Reports said here that the truck mishap came to notice after two days. The police extricated the body of the driver lying under the truck. The body has been brought to the local regional hospital for a postmortem examination. CHAMBA
Blood donation camp: To mark ‘Manav Ekta Divas’, a blood donation camp was organised at Mugla in Chamba town on Thursday under the aegis of the Chamba branch of the Sant Nirankari Mission. In all, 148 volunteers donated blood at the camp. The camp was inaugurated by CMO Negesh
Verma. Duni Chand, chief of the Chamba mandal of Sant Nirankari Mission, exhorted the youth to come forward for donating blood to save precious lives. KANGRA
Body found: The decomposed body of a youth, Raman Kumar, was found from the Garmandi forests on Wednesday. He was a resident of Garhjamula. He had reportedly gone to his maternal uncle’s house at Ashapuri 10 days ago. He had been missing for the past six days. Rakesh Chand, father of the deceased, had lodged a missing report with police. The body has been sent for a post-mortem examination. Free ENT camp: The Ripudaman Charitable Trust and the Vivekananda Kendra, Kangra, will hold a free ENT medical camp in Gopal Bagh Gurkhari locality here on April 27 from 10 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. Co-convenor of the kendra B.L.Sharma said Sanjay Sachdeva, Director, ENT, at Fortis Healthcare, New Delhi, would examine the patients during the camp. The patients requiring surgical intervention would be operated upon in Dr. R.P.Govt. Medical College Hospital theaters at
Tanda. Kumarhatti
Labourer found dead: The body of migrant labourer Babu Lal (53) was found at Jharmajri, near Baddi, on Thursday. The deceased was employed in a unit at Jharmajri. The body was noticed in the morning by a truck driver who informed the pradhan of Bhatouli Kalan panchayat. The police sent the body for a postmortem examination. Initial investigations suggest that he had died due to a disease. He hailed from Champaran in Bihar. His family was residing in a slum area of
Jharmajri. MANDI
Epidemic kills sheep, goats: An epidemic that broke out last week has taken a toll of hundreds of sheep and goats in
Sanaur, Badar and Uttarsal belts of Mandi district of the state. Veterinary doctors have been rushed to the affected areas to take blood samples and remedial measures, sources in the Animal Husbandry Department said. The area around Prashan Lake, located at a height of 9,000 ft, was the worst hit, sources said.
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5 live fuses found: Panic gripped Pahloo village in the Anantnag district when five live fuses were found, official sources said. Residents found five live fuses of the Khandroo episode in the village. People were immediately shifted to safer places and a bomb disposal squad (BDS) defused the fuses. Thousands of unexploded shells and fuses have been found in these villages after a devastating fire broke out in the Field Ordinance Depot at Khandroo, in which about 20 persons were killed in August, 2007. Preventive custody: Around 12 activists of the Muslim Khawateen Markaz (MKM), a woman separatist outfit, were taken into preventive custody on Thursday for taking out a procession in the city. Around 50 burqa-clad women marched towards Lal Chowk demanding release of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru and other Kashmiri detainees held in various jails across the country. The police said taking out a procession was in defiance of the prohibitory orders, enforced in the state since 1990. Freight concession: Air-India has offered freight concession for transportation of cherries from here to different parts of the country from May 1, an official spokesman said. He said the Air India had agreed to lift a minimum of 100 kg to 1,000 kg of cherries in each flight operating from here to Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata. Director, horticulture planning and marketing department, has appealed to cherry and fruit growers and traders to contact the marketing manager of Air India here. The HPM could also be contacted for the purpose. 50 lakh for orphanage: The state government on Thursday announced to release Rs 50 lakh for the construction of an orphanage in Baramulla district. “The orphanage will be completed next year and will provide boarding and schooling facilities to about 100 children,” social welfare minister Abdul Gani Vakil said during the foundation laying ceremony of the building. The government has released Rs 50 lakh as the first instalment for the Rs 4.11 crore project, he said.
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