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Judicial officers’ meet: Justice S.B. Sinha, Judge, Supreme Court of India, would be the chief guest for the two-day North Zone Mediation and Conciliation Meet of Judicial Officers to be started on May 17 here at Indradhanush Auditorium, Sector 5. The inaugural session of the meet, being organised by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, would be presided over by Justice Vijender Jain, Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court. The meet will be attended by about 500 judicial officers from Haryana, Punjab and
Chandigarh.
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Effigy burnt: The All-India Anti Terrorist Front burnt the effigy of extremism on Wednesday to protest against the serial bomb blasts at
Jaipur. The vice-president of the state unit of the front, Nitin Uppal, said Pakistan had been backing up the extremist outfits to disturb the peace of India. He demanded the union government to cancel the rail and bus service running between the two countries. Leaders of the Haryana Janhit Congress, led by Romil
Mittal, also burnt the effigy of extremism in Ambala City.
FATEHABAD
1 killed in mishap: A person died and another was seriously injured when the motorcycle they were riding on collided with a tractor near Thuian village in this district on Thursday. Roshan and Krishan, both in their early twenties, were going to Bhattu Kalan. They were rushed to the Community Health Centre in Bhattu Kalan but were referred to Agroha Medical College. Roshan succumbed to his injuries on his way to Agroha, while Krishan has been admitted there in critical condition.
JIND
Man held for killing son: The police has arrested a person who had allegedly hacked to death his 22-year-old son at Morkhi village in the district on Tuesday. The accused identified as Nafe Singh attacked his son Balraj with an axe, while the latter was asleep in his house. According to the police, Nafe Singh’s drinking habit was perhaps the reason behind the incident. The court has remanded him to a 14-day judicial custody. Lightning kills cattle: A woman got injured and two head of cattle died after lightning struck at a place near Narwana town in the district on Wednesday. It was accompanied by thunder and rain, which led to a sharp decline in the day temperature. Parmeshwari
Devi, wife of Ram Kumar of Dhakal village, got injured when she was tending her cattle in her outhouse. While she has been admitted to a hospital with around 30 per cent burn injuries, two buffaloes of her household died on the spot due to the strike. Woman attempts suicide: A married woman attempted suicide along with her two minor kids in her house at a locality on the Apollo road here on Wednesday. The woman identified as
Rajni, wife of Satish, consumed a poisonous substance after giving a similar eatable to her son (5) and daughter (2). She was reportedly upset after a quarrel with her husband last night on some issue. In another incident, a 25-year-old man died after he reportedly consumed a poisonous substance at his house in Bhupender Nagar here on Tuesday. KURUKSHETRA
Lok adalat postponed: A general lok adalat, which was scheduled to be organised by the District Legal Service Authority, Kurukshetra, under the chairmanship of the authority’s president-cum-District and Sessions Judge, R.C. Bansal on the premises of Judicial Complex here on May 17, has been postponed to May 24. Stating this here on Thursday, authority’s secretary-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate N.K. Singhal said the decision was taken keeping in view the north zone mediation and conciliation meet being held at Indradhanush Auditorium, Sector 5, Panchkula on May 17 and 18. ‘Development work in progress’: The development work being carried out in five villages, which had been declared model villages in the district by the Haryana government, is in progress. Stating this here on Wednesday, deputy commissioner Pankaj Aggarwal said the five villages were Haldaheri, Jyotisar, Tangour, Umari and Palwal where basic amenities would be provided to the rural folk by spending crores of rupees on their developmental work. Aggarwal said a sum of Rs 27 lakh had been spent on developmental work.
REWARI
Gang busted, 2 held: The police has busted an inter-state gang of criminals with the arrest of two notorious gangsters, Alim and Shakrullah, residents of Mewat district. It said they were apprehended on Tuesday from a hideout at a canal bridge near Jatusana where they were reportedly planning to loot passing vehicles. A case of attempt to commit robbery has been registered against them. They were produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate (first class) Rajesh Garg, who remanded them to police custody till May 20. Truck, car stolen: A truck of Ritu Road Line Pvt Ltd, Paharganj, Delhi, which had been parked at a petrol station on the Delhi-Jaipur highway near Khijuri village here by its driver Naresh Sharma, was reportedly stolen by some unknown persons on May 13. On his complaint, the Dharuhera police has registered a case of theft. In another incident, a car, which was parked by its owner Feroz Khan of Jaipur in the premises of a hotel at the circular road here, was reportedly stolen by some unknown persons on Monday. Raghu Yadav’s yatra: Former legislator Raghu
Yadav, president of the Sarva Jati Janata Panchayat, a regional political outfit of
Haryana, will commence his five-week long pad yatra of rural areas of south Haryana from Naseebpur village near Narnaul on May 17. At a press conference here on Thursday, he said he along with his party activists would undertake a pad yatra of 70 villages each of
Mahendergarh, Rewari, Gurgaon, Bhiwani and Mewat districts of south
Haryana. He said they would make the people conversant with various development projects, which had either been started or announced recently by the state government.
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Resentment: The Multi-Purpose Health Services Karamchari Mahasangh has expressed concern over the non-payment of honorarium to 1,640 workers for the year 2005-06. In a press note, senior vice-president of the mahasangh Satish Shukla said though a meagre amount of Rs 100 per month was paid to these workers for carrying health awareness campaign among women, the workers had not been paid even that amount for a long period. He has demanded immediate release of payment to the workers. SCVT students protest: SCVT students held a demonstration to highlight their demands on Thursday. They also submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister through the DC, Hamirpur. The students were demanding affiliation and recognition of pharmacy diplomas obtained by them through SCVT institutes in the state that were opened by the state government. MANDI
Career in animation: ‘Comedy king’ Jaspal Bhatti said on Thursday that the state had a lot of talent that can be groomed in animation and regional films in the fields of direction, production, editing and acting. The animation films, TV serials, soap operas and other films in Bollywood and Hollywood promise new vistas for talented people in the region of Himachal, Punjab and Haryana. They can be trained and groomed, as the film industry needs technically trained artistes and technicians, editors etc., he added. He was here to spread awareness about the activities and technical guidance that his own film school at Mohali provides. NAHAN
Body found: Dead body of Jati Ram (66) of Gahail village was found in a 200 feet deep gorge near Mandoli village near Sangrah on Thursday. He was a former security officer of ex-Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. Eyewitnesses said head the deceased was badly damaged and was difficult to recognise. The blood stained body was identified on the bases of photo identity card found from his possession. The dead body was handed over to his family after the postmortem. Rajgarh
BBMB raising day: The Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) celebrated its raising day at Sr Secondary School, Rajgarh, by organising a free medical camp and donating cretin items to the villages of Rajgarh on Thursday. U.C. Mishara, chairman BBMB, declared that the BBMB would construct two rooms, one laboratory and a toilet in the premises of the school. He further declared that the BBMB would pay Rs 40,000 for the purchase of equipment to be used in the lab. He also donated 100 double-seat benches, one cooler to the Primary Health Centre, Baggi, and one cooler to Sr Secondary School,
Hatgarh. SHIMLA
Lecture on environment: The Institute of Integrated Himalayan Studies, a UGC centre of excellence of the Himachal Pradesh University, organised a lecture on Environment Management in the state on Thursday. Various environment related aspects, including the Environment Protection Act, 1986, and the state environment policy, were discussed. Principal scientific officer of the State Pollution Control Board Daksha Gupta delivered a lecture on various environmental issues like scientific disposal of solid waste, bio-medical waste and industrial hazardous waste. UNA
Poll officers’ meeting: An inter-state meeting of poll officers was held at the Una SP’s office, which was presided over by state DGP (law and order) Sita Ram Mardihere, in Una on Thursday. The meeting was organised to control the law and order situation during the Hamirpur Parliamentary byelection and to prevent entry of anti-social elements from Punjab. It was decided in the meeting that all roads leading towards Hamirpur Parliamentary Constituency would be sealed from 16th May to 22nd May. Virbhadra criticises BJP: Former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Wednesday said the BJP government immediately after coming into power lost no time to announce an increase in the daily wages to workers from Rs 75 to Rs 100, creating strikes and problems for industrial units in the state as the government failed to notify the increase and short objections on it. He said BJP leaders were blaming the UPA government for rising prices whereas the central government had reduced excise duty and CST on several items to reduce the prices of essential commodities.
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Ex-cop held for rape: A former police constable allegedly raped a mentally-challenged woman in Poonch district on Thursday. Gurdev Singh raped the woman in a nursery. On hearing the woman’s screams, some schoolgirls passing by informed the police, official sources said. Gurdev was later arrested and a case registered against him.
Bail plea rejected: A local court has rejected the bail application of Captain Chaitanya
Bhatawadekar, husband of Army officer Captain Megha Razdan. The IInd Additional Sessions Judge, Jammu, observed that the evidence oral as well as documentary, revealed a link between the crime and the petitioner, hence the bail application filed by the father of the accused was rejected. The sufficient aspects of investigation and the cell phone record of the petitioner and Seema
Kulkarni, who was projected to be the central figure in the matrimonial discord of the petitioner and deceased, apart from injury marks on the throat of
Razdan, were against the petitioner, the court observed.
SRINAGAR
State finance ministers meet: The state will host the Empowered Committee meeting of state finance ministers of the country for the second time on June 21, an official spokesman said on Thursday. He said all necessary arrangements for the meet were finalised at a high-level meeting under the chairmanship of state finance minister Tariq Hamid
Karra.
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