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Purse snatched: Two youths snatched the purse of a woman from near the Phase IV gurdwara on Saturday evening. According to reports, Asha Negi, a resident of Phase VI, was with her friend Deep Mala, when the two youths on a motorcycle snatched her purse. She claimed that her purse contained jewellery worth Rs 15,000, a mobile phone, an ATM card and Rs 3,000. A police complaint was lodged in this regard.
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AMBALA
Tributes paid: Several Hindu organisations and political parties organised functions to pay tributes to the martyrs of 1857 uprising, which is know as the first war of independence here today. Several education institutions also celebrated the occasion. Immunised: Around 4 lakh children between the age group of 1 to 15 year will be immunised from Japanese Encephalitis, said Mohammad Shayin, Ambala DC. He said by given a single dose of this imported injection, children would be immunised like Polio, DPT disease. FATEHABAD
Virk is Bar assn chief: Joginder Singh Virk was elected president of the District Bar Association, Fatehabad, on Saturday. He defeated Ramesh Monga by a margin of 57 votes. Virk polled 218 of the total 382 votes polled in the election, while Monga got 161 votes. KURUKSHETRA
Five arrested: The police has arrested five persons, who were planning to loot a petrol pump. A .315-bore country-made pistol, 9 mm pistol, 4 live cartridges, 1 khukhri, 1 knife, 1 gandaasi and an iron pipe have been recovered from their possession. District police chief Amitabh Dhillon on Saturday said the arrested had been identified as Hoshiar Singh, Pradeep Kumar, Vijender Singh, Prehlad and Satish. Their accomplice, Sandeep, absconded. They were produced in a local court, which remanded them to police custody till May 12. REWARI
Dowry death: The police has arrested Dhirender of Gujjar Ghatal village in connection with the dowry death of his wife, Mamta (23), who died of severe burns at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on May 6. Dhirender on Saturday was remanded to judicial custody. A case of brutal treatment and dowry death was registered against Dhirender, father-in-law Ram Rattan and mother-in-law Santra
Devi. YAMUNANAGAR
Office-bearers elected:
O.P. Mehndiratta has been elected president of the District Tax Bar Association. Mahesh Chawala has been elected the vice-president while M.S. Chouhan and Sushil Kamboj general secretary and joint secretary, respectively. While addressing members of the Bar association, Mehndiratta stressed the need for good administration in the excise and taxation department. He said facilities like better sitting arrangements for traders should be improved in the department office.
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KULLU
Poetess’ meet: The two-day national poetess meet in which participants from 18 states and union territories are participating started in the Kullu valley on Saturday. Over 30 poetess from different states are participating in the meet organised by an NGO of scholars Mahila Sahityakar
Sansthan.
MANDI
Body found: The police on Saturday recovered a decomposed body of an old man, from the Beas river downstream from Pandoh. The body was sent for the post-mortem examination to the zonal hospital, Mandi. The report revealed that the man had died about two weeks ago. However, there were no injuries on his body. The police has began the inquest proceedings as the body remained unidentified so far.Case registered: The police has registered a case of suicide as Meera (32), wife of Hansraj, a labourer in Mandi from Tili village, after her body was found hanging from a tree, about 5 km away from her village three days ago. But her parents have raised doubts on suicide, as she never had any problem with her husband. The medical examination of her body revealed that she had around eight folds of common rope around her neck that raised suspicion. Meera’s body as per medical examination did not bear any marks. NAHAN
Vidya Upasak’s meeting: A large number of primary teachers participated in the district-level meeting of the Gramin Vidya Upasak and Primary Assistant Teachers Association held at Paonta on Saturday. It expressed deep anguish over the attitude of the state government for not issuing notification despite its assurance to increase their wages. Maya Ram Sharma, president, said it was a shameful state of affairs that the teachers who were working in the hard areas of the district were being paid far less than minimum wages announced by the state government. By adopting a resolution the union had strongly opposed to put their services under the panchayats. It demanded to formulate a policy to regularise their services. Jeep falls into gorge, 8 hurt: Eight persons were injured, seven of them seriously, when a Bolero jeep (HP-02 N- 0101) fell into a 200-m-deep gorge at Bharari village, about 150 km from here, on Saturday. The occupants of the vehicle were on their way to Nohra Dhar. One person has been admitted to Nohra Primary Health Centre and seven critically injured had been rushed to Solan district hospital. Those injured were: Kalyan Singh, Bali Ram, Rama Nand, Joginder, Puran Chand, Niranjan, Ganga Dutt and Naresh Kumar, all local residents. SHIMLA
One killed: One person was killed and another seriously injured when an HRTC bus (HP-25-0787) hit them due to a brake failure near a barrier on the outskirts of the town. The bus the Reckong Peo depot had already faced a brake failure near Matiana. The driver of the bus got off at the bus stand and it was while the vehicle was being taken to the Tara Devi workshop of the HRTC that the mishap took place. The victims were standing along the roadside. The injured was taken to Ripon Hospital.
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Quake hits Bhaderwah: An earthquake of mild intensity shook Bhaderwah town in Doda district on Saturday, official sources said. However, there was no immediate word on loss to life or damage to property, while the magnitude of the quake was yet to be recorded, they added. “People came out of their houses in the open as the quake lasted a couple of seconds,” an official said.
SRINAGAR
Consumer commission: The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed New India Assurance company to pay Rs 5,31,320 to one Haji Ghulam Rasool Sofi of Handwara whose insured stocks in trade were gutted in a fire incident in March 1997, an official release said on Saturday. The commission also directed the company for making the payment within two months failing which the complainant would be entitled to interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum from the date of loss. In another case, the commission has directed general manager, BSNL, Srinagar, to pay Rs 10,000 to one G.M.D. Baba besides, Rs 4,000 as appeal cost for disrupting telephone connectivity between June 23 to December 18, 2005.Agricultural management: A meeting of the academic council of the State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) was held under the chairmanship of director, SAMETI, on Saturday. The chairman emphasised the need for trainings to improve agricultural productivity in the state, involving line departments, experts, bank officers, NGOs and scientists. Thrust areas in the field of crops, horticulture, animal husbandry, fisheries, sericulture and allied sectors, were identified and their execution by
SAMETI, discussed by departmental and SKUAST representatives. Rs 39 lakh distributed: The social welfare department has distributed financial assistance of Rs 39 lakh among 2,258 beneficiaries under various schemes in Gurez tehsil in Bandipore district during the last financial year. This was stated during a meeting of officers concerned held under the chairmanship of Sub-divisional Magistrate, Gurez, at
Dawar.
Employment scheme: Under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, 54,000 job cards had been distributed by the rural development department in Kupwara district since February 2006, while registration for other persons was on throughout the district. About 900 rural works have also been taken up.
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