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Hooda terms Bhajan selfish
People disappointed: Sampat
No rule of law in state: CPM
Wall on road sparks tension
Forum wants full quota for SC students
Kin threaten suicide |
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Rain wreaks havoc in Yamunanagar
Dr Amit and Dr Jeevan, accused in the kidney scam, being taken to Mumbai by the police at the Ambala railway station
on Sunday. Tribune photo: Kamal Sachar
Man beaten to death
Power nigam to distribute free CFLs
Now, summer school for science teachers
Woman strangled, in-laws booked
3 youths killed in mishap
Dept digs up roads in ‘illegal’ colony
Rezang La martyr’s statue unveiled
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Hooda terms Bhajan selfish
Adampur (Hisar), June 15 Hooda had held a similar rally at Indri a few days ago and promised to accord it the subdivision status soon. This had given rise to speculation that he would make a similar promise in case of Adampur also. Several speakers had raised the demand. However, Hooda only promised to consider it. Hooda said even though the Congress nominee Ranjit Singh had been defeated from here, he himself would take care of the development of the area just like he did for his own constituency Kiloi in Rohtak. He said his government had spent Rs 90 crore on development works in the Adampur area during the past more than three years. He would keep up the momentum in the months to come also. He criticised former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal for what he described as practising “selfish politics” and not allowing any one to grow politically. “His entire career was aimed at securing the political interests of his family at the cost of the voters,” Hooda said. He said the results of the byelections had vindicated the policies of the Congress as well as his government. Heavy rain lashed the area while the rally was in progress. However, there was no disruption as the venue was the huge shed of the grain market. HPCC chief Phool Chand Mullana claimed that the Congress would win all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana in the next parliamentary poll. He criticised the Devi Lal-Om Prakash Chautala clan for playing caste politics and ignoring the interests of Haryana. He levelled similar charges against Bhajan Lal also. |
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People disappointed: Sampat
Fatehabad, June 15 Talking to mediapersons here, Sampat Singh said Congress candidate Ranjit Singh had promised a number of things, including power connections to “dhanis” and better water supply, but no reference was made to these demands by the Chief Minister.
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No rule of law in state: CPM
Fatehabad, June 15 Addressing mediapersons after a meeting of the district committee of the CPM, Inderjit Singh, state secretary of the party, said it was a matter of grave concern for any peace loving citizen of the state that the law enforcing agencies themselves were involved in violation of the law with “shameless impunity”. He said the Sarita incident was not the first in which a woman had been sexually abused by men in uniform, but was one which had exposed the real face of the police force, including the insensitivity of senior officers of the police. The CPM leader took exception to the manner in which “sponsored” efforts were being made towards the character assassination of Sarita, a victim of rape, who ended her life after failing to get justice. “Blaming the victim is the oldest defence with the police to wriggle out of a situation whenever its own men have been found involved in crimes like this,” said Inderjit Singh. He termed the recent statement of DGP Ranjiv Dalal that there can be two or three wayward persons in a 47,000-strong police force, as unbecoming of a senior officer. The CPM said the restoration of the rule of law was necessary for restoring the confidence of people in the system. Expressing concern over the increasing prices of commodities, Inderjit Singh called upon all political parties to offer suggestions for meeting the challenge instead of merely criticising the government. The CPM, he said, has already suggested universalisation of the PDS system, ban on futuristic trades, reduction in taxes of petroleum products, ban on corporate dealing in the foodgrains, windfall tax on private refineries who got windfall profits whenever there was an increase in the prices of petroleum products and taxing petroleum products on quantity rather than on value. Earlier, addressing a meeting of the district committee of the party, the CPM leader criticised the authorities for sluggishness on the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). |
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Wall on road sparks tension
Jind, June 15 The local administration is yet to take notice of the development though the wall was built about 24 hours back near Ramkali village in the district. Two residents of the village had got the wall built on the road connecting Anoopgarh with Julana town via
Ramkali, Shamlokalan and Karsola villages yesterday claiming that the land on which the road had been built belonged to them and the authorities had failed to release any compensation so far. The road was built about 10 years ago by the marketing board department of the state government. Two residents of Ramkali village identified as Kashmir Singh and Naresh Kumar had built the four-feet-high wall in the middle of the link road in protest against the non-action regarding their demand of release of compensation for the land on which the road had been built. They said they came to know a few months back, when the revenue department conducted a survey, that a patch of land on which the road had been built belonged to them and the department concerned had not given any compensation for it. They said the land was acquired without any notice and information at the time when the road was constructed. It is claimed that the matter was brought to the notice of the deputy commissioner and other officials and a demand had been made for suitable compensation and relief for the injustice done to them in December last. They said the authorities had failed to respond even in six months. While a senior official of the local administration claimed that no such development had come to his notice, it is learnt that the movement of residents of the region, including
Anoopgarh, Ramkali, Shamlokalan, Karsola and Julana, had got disrupted and no vehicle had been seen on the road since yesterday. A private bus running on this route had also been off the road since then. |
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Forum wants full quota for SC students
Chandigarh, June 15 This demand was made when a delegation of the forum met technical education minister of Haryana
A.C. Chaudhary here on Friday. The forum said the SC students must have the reservation as provided under law in the state seats, all-India quota seats and the management seats in various professional institutions. It also urged Chaudhary to reimburse the entire tuition and development fee charged from the SC students for BE, B Tech,
BArch, BPharmacy, MCA, MBA, HM and FT degree courses in private unaided self-financing institutions and polytechnics in the state. The delegation also pleaded for expediting the implementation of the scheme for grant of stipend and free books and stationery. Financial commissioner and principal secretary, technical education, Ajit Mohan Sharan and M.P. Gupta, director, technical education, who were also present at the meeting, said at present only the tuition fee up to Rs 40,000 per annum was being reimbursed to the SC students, who had taken admission in the academic session of 2007-08.
Jogpal told the minister that of a total of about 34,100 seats of various professional courses in 154 institutions, only about 3,300 seats were in the 23 university departments and government institutions in the state. Thus around 90 per cent of the seats were in the private unaided institutions. But the tuition and development fees charged by these institutions ranged from Rs 40,000 to Rs 60,000 per annum, which the SC students could not afford to pay. This was the main reason for about 2,400 SC students not taking admission against the reserved seats allocated to them last year in these institutions. Ultimately these seats were offered to the general category candidates. |
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Kin threaten suicide
Kurukshetra, June 15 The bodies of Man Chand Garg and eight of his family members were fished out of the Bhakra canal on March 31. The family members had disappeared in mid-March after leaving a note, which mentioned the names of the people responsible for their suicide. Angoori Devi and Sham Lal Garg, mother and younger brother, respectively, of the deceased have now threatened to commit suicide along with the remaining members of the family if the promised CBI inquiry was not initiated immediately. Talking to the mediapersons at Murtazapur, their native village, today, Sham Lal Garg and his mother stated that they had waited for three months in vain. “We do not expect any justice from the Haryana police and trust only the CBI,” he added. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Pehowa MLA and agriculture minister H.S. Chattha and Kurukshetra MP Navin Jindal had assured the agitated people of the area of a CBI inquiry into the sordid incident within 15 days. However, the state government has passed no order to initiate an inquiry by the central agency. — UNI
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Rain wreaks havoc in Yamunanagar
Yamunanagar, June 15 As per reports, water entered in eight villages located along the under-construction Dadupur-Nalvi canal in the block. The level of the Yamuna river and the Som river rose due the rain, which posed a danger of floods to the adjoining villages. Sources in the irrigation department said the river would swell further by evening as it was still raining in the mountains. The rain threw life out of gear in Jagadhri and Yamunanagar because of waterlogged roads and overflowing drains. Over 250 acres was under water in Jagadhri block and the gushing water caused extensive soil erosion, said villagers. Sources said the water had entered eight villages, including Bhukri from the Dadupur-Nalvi canal, and there were apprehensions that the water in the villages would increase further. Meanwhile, there were apprehensions among residents of villages located along the Som river.
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Kidney scam: 2 accused taken to Mumbai
Ambala, June 15 The accused have been lodged in the Ambala Central Jail for the past three months. According to information, a case on charge of removing a kidney of a person was registered against Dr Amit, Dr Jeevan and Dr Upender in 2005 in Mumbai. A Metropolitan Magistrate of a court in Mumbai has issued production warrant against the trio and directed the police to produce them in his court on June 16. One of the accused, Upender, could not be taken to Mumbai, as he was sick and admitted in the Civil Hospital here for the past three days. He had fell down in the court during the hearing of the case. According to hospital sources, his medical reports indicate that he was a patient of heart disease. The Mumbai police wanted to take Upender too, but the doctor attending Upender did not allow as he was under medical observation. The doctor told the Mumbai police that he was not in a position to travel in a train and even if they wanted to carry him, they could take him at their own risk. Finally, the Mumbai police decided to leave Upender here. |
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Man beaten to death
Fatehabad, June 15 Interestingly, the persons, who allegedly committed the crime, went straight to the police station and lodged an FIR of assault against Leelu Ram. It was only when a police party reached the village to take action against the Ram, it was revealed that he was the victim and had already died of severe beating. The police has nabbed three of the accused and begun investigations. Kamla Devi, Ram’s wife, has lodged a complaint with the police that Anil Kumar, his brother Vijender Kumar, Rajbir, Ramdhari Singh, Satbir Singh and his wife came to their residence and started beating him up mercilessly. Passersby saved Ram from the clutches of the accused and took him to a private hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. The police said Anil Kumar was earlier involved in a case of eve teasing and was inimical with Ram over his role in that incident. The police has arrested Anil, Satbir and Rajbir and registered a case under Sections 304, 148 and 149 of the IPC.
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Power nigam to distribute free CFLs
Yamunanagar, June 15 S.L. Kansal, technical director, UHBVN, said this while speaking at a district public relations and grievances meeting presided over by Kartar Devi, Haryana minister for health, here recently. Deputy commissioner Nitin Kumar Yadav said a drive to check storage of eucalyptus and popular wood lying in the open would also launched. Owners of plywood factories had been asked to store wood in their compounds or else face challan and confiscation of the same. The CFL distribution project had been purposed by the ministry of environment and forests as per which the developed countries were required to bring down carbon dioxide emission by about 5 per cent by 2012 in comparison to 1990. Under the scheme, CFLs would be distributed to domestic consumers of the UHBVN. Each consumer would get at maximum of two CFLs. Only GLS bulbs with wattage equal to or higher then 60 would be replaced. GLS bulbs of 60 watt would be replaced with 15 watt CFLs whereas GLS bulbs of 100 watt would be replaced with 20 watt CFLs. The DC said substituted GLS bulbs would be collected and destroyed to make sure that they were not used again. |
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Now, summer school for science teachers
Kurukshetra, June 15 This three-week school for in service science teachers from various colleges and universities is being organised by Academic Staff College of the university. Citing figures, Sharma pointed out that in the past 12 years, this contribution had steeply fallen from 10 per cent to 2.5 per cent whereas during the same period, China had registered a sweeping growth from 4 to 15 per cent. Therefore, he said it had become imperative for Indians to adopt and accept science as a way and principle of life rather than something extraneous superimposed on life. Sharma hoped that the scheme of introducing summer schools for science teachers was a positive initiative in this direction. The summer school, he said, might prove a stepping stone in that and motivate teachers to take full advantage of the UGC quality enhancement programmes.
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Woman strangled, in-laws booked
Jhajjar, June 15 Anita, wife of Ravinder, was found dead at her house under mysterious circumstances this morning. The police took the body to the civil hospital for a post-mortem examination. The post-mortem revealed that she had died due to strangulation. Her brother Sushil, a resident of Bhiwani district, alleged that the brothers of his sister’s husband were trying to grab the land of her share and her husband too was siding with them. The relations of the couple had also been affected over the issue and their two children were staying at Anita's parental house, the complainant stated. On his complaint, the police has registered a case against Anita's husband Ravinder, his brothers Balraj and Sukhchand, their nephew and his wife under section 302 of the IPC. |
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3 youths killed in mishap
Rohtak, June 15 They were coming towards Meham when the accident took place. Manoj and Satish died on the spot, while Samunder Singh succumbed to his injuries at a hospital. The tempo driver fled from the scene leaving his vehicle behind. The police has registered a case of causing death due to rash and negligent driving. |
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Dept digs up roads in ‘illegal’ colony
Kaithal, June 15 DTP, Kaithal, Dhirender Kumar said the colony had been developed without seeking permission and licence from the government and case against one Ram Lal, coloniser, had been registered. No built structure was touched by the demolition squad and only metalled roads were dug up to create awakening among the people not to purchase plots in any unauthorised colony. Meanwhile, a number of persons, who had purchased plots in this colony, criticised the government for not following any set policy regarding laying down of colonies. |
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Rezang La martyr’s statue unveiled
Rewari, June 15 Sepoy Shri Chand Yadav was among the 114 jawans and other officers of the Charlie Company of the 13th Kumaon Regiment who made the supreme sacrifice while valiantly fighting the Chinese at a height of 18,000 ft at the Rezang La post in the snowclad Chushul sector of Ladakh on November 18, 1962. |
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Youth held on charge of raping baby
Faridabad, June 15 |
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Mercy chance for diploma students
Chandigarh, June 15 |
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