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Paswan promises potato chips unit in Kangra
UPA blamed for corruption
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Cong calls it frustration
Six injured as ABVP, SFI activists clash
Dhumal: PR staff must upgrade skills
Tiger skins seized, two held
No solution to CAN vows of farmers
Congress rift to the fore
Sailor goes missing
Dharamsala gets 53.6 mm of rainfall
Removal of coop bank chief sought
102 bid for 17 small power projects
Super Max workers hold dharna
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Paswan promises potato chips unit in Kangra
Palampur, July 23 The minister was at Palampur to inaugurate the one-day Kisan mela in which most of fertiliser producing companies of the country participated. Paswan, however, added a rider to setting up potato chips company by stating that the unit can be set up only if the state government provides adequate infrastructure for the purpose. Earlier also, the union government had planned to set a steel manufacturing unit at Nahan in the state. However, the unit was not set up as the state government failed to provide adequate infrastructure for the purpose. Now, a steel unit is proposed to be set up in Kangra district, he said.
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BJP workers burn PM’s effigy
Shimla, July 23 Led by district BJP chief Ganesh Dutt, the workers raised slogans against the UPA regime and said such unfortunate events would erode the people’s faith in democracy. He said yesterday would go down as a black day in the history of one of the most vibrant democracies of the world. “Strict action must be taken against the Congress leader and others who have tried to make a mockery of democracy by trying to bribe the MPs,” said Ganesh Dutt. He demanded that in view of such unfortunate incidents there was an urgent need to have strict law to prevent exchange of money. The Anti-defection Act enacted earlier must also be made more stringent so that there is no recurrence of yesterday’s happenings. The entire nation had been shamed at the manner in which the UPA regime tried to buy MPs to remain in power. |
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UPA blamed for corruption
Kullu, July 23 Govind Singh Thakur, BJP MLA alleged that the UPA has made “lok tantar as note tantar”. July 22 would be a black day in the history of Indian democracy, he said. Lashing upon the BJP leaders, the Congress leaders condemned the modus operand of the BJP to let down the UPA to cover up their defeat. |
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Cong calls it frustration
Mandi, July 23 The BJP workers led by state president Jai Ram
Thakur, district president Inder Singh, ex-Mandi MP Maheshwar Singh and Nachan MLA Dile Ram today staged a protest march in the town, raising slogans against the Congress-led UPA government. They alleged that the Congress won the trust vote by engineering the cross-votes and using money power, which had brought shame to the institution of Parliament. On the other hand, Congress president Kaul Singh Thakur termed the BJP charges as fabricated ploy aiming at maligning the institution of Parliament and clean image of the Manmohan government. “The BJP has seen the imminent defeat and thus it engineered the shameful act of showing wads of currency notes on the floor of august House,” he alleged. Kaul Singh said the BJP protest here was an act of frustration. |
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Six injured as ABVP, SFI activists clash
Solan, July 23 The injured students, who belong to the SFI, include Geeta Dogra and Ankit while other injured were activists of the ABVP, which include Sanjay Kumar, Rajender Chajjta, Ravi and Santokh Singh. A police posse was later deployed at the college campus, besides intensifying patrolling on the Rajgarh road and the Kotla-Nala area of the town. Trouble started when activists of the SFI were refused permission to hold a general house as the ABVP was already holding their general house in the campus. This infuriated the SFI activists who had some altercation over this issue with the ABVP activists leaving at least six students injured. |
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Dhumal: PR staff must upgrade skills
Shimla, July 23 Presiding over a meeting of senior officers to review the functioning of the department here today he said it was imperative for PR professionals to upgrade their professional skills through regular in-service training. They must be trained in information technology to take advantage of the modern tools of communication like Internet. Dhumal said the departmental weekly, Giriraj, should carry more educative articles and features to make it more acceptable. Public relations personnel should remain in constant touch with the masses, especially in the rural areas, to help get authentic feedback regarding policies and programmes of the government so that necessary corrective steps could be taken. He said more realistic approach should be adopted while implementing "Nasha Niwaran Abhiyan" to make it more effective. Earlier, Dhumal inaugurated the electronic news display boards installed by the department at Hamirpur, Bilaspur, Kullu and Shimla by clicking the button. With this, seven electronic news display boards have been installed in different parts to provide latest news update to the people. |
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Tiger skins seized, two held
Bilaspur, July 23 SP K. K. Indoria said today that a police party had been sent to corroborate the revelations made by the accused and pinpoint the kingpin of the illicit trade. The SP said the Bengal tigers skins were smuggled into the state along with a consignment of shoes.
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No solution to CAN vows of farmers
Palampur, July 23 Despite wide display of fertilizer products by various government and semi-government companies, it failed to solve the basic problem of the farmers of Himachal. The farmers especially the horticulturists need Calcium Ammonium Nitrogen (CAN) fertilizer as soil in Himachal is acidic. The CAN fertilizer is neutral and is required for fulfilling the nitrogen deficiency in the soil. However, the farmers are now being forced to pay double the price for using fertilizers. However, the government has withdrawn the subsidy on CAN fertilizer. This made CAN cost the double than its counterpart urea. The cost of a bag of CAN fertilizer in market is for Rs 500 whereas the cost of urea is for Rs 241. Farmer organisations have demanded that the government should continue subsidy on CAN fertilizer. |
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Congress rift to the fore
Solan, July 23 The rift became apparent after the visit of CLP leader Vidya Stokes where she was greeted by her supporters while the DCC members owing allegiance to Virbhadra Singh were not even informed about her visit. Though a section of Congressmen rued of having no information about Stokes’ visit today, it was interesting to note that they had shown their presence at a press conference convened by former youth Congress general secretary Atul Sharma on Monday. Worse still the Congressmen could not even put up a united show in celebrating the victory of trust vote by the UPA even in the presence of the CLP leader. |
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Sailor goes missing
Una, July 23 Out of 13 crewmen, nine reached the shore after struggling in the sea. But whereabouts of Ajay and three others is still not known. Vijay Kumar, elder brother of Ajay, said yesterday that some of the employees of the ship, who managed to save their lives, informed him that Ajay was missing and the company did not inform the family about the incident. Vijay said till May 15, Ajay called at home. He said the ship owner did not pay him the salary, so he was not in a position to send money. Parkasho Devi, mother of Ajay, gave representation to the Una deputy commissioner and the Una SP to trace her son. She even complained against Ashutosh Lath, who sent Ajay to the ship as a trainee seaman. He never gave him any appointment letter for the same and was not ready to accompany the family to the Delhi UAE Embassy to seek help from it. She has also given the same representation to Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on July 15. The Chief Minister had promised to take up the matter with the Central Government. Vijay said they had not received any response from the Central Government till date. |
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Dharamsala gets 53.6 mm of rainfall
Shimla, July 23 Many areas of Mandi district also had rain. Mandi (4.3 mm), Sundernagar (1.9 mm) and areas bordering Kangra experienced intermittent rain. The southern part of the state experienced dry weather as a result of which the day temperature rose by 3°C to 5°C. Shimla recorded a maximum of 23.7°C and a minimum of 16°C. The local Met office has predicted rain and thundershowers at many places across the state over the next 24 hours. Kangra: Heavy showers dropped the mercury further but left some highways and link roads flooded. Children, students and tourist enjoyed the showers that continued for nearly two hours. Reports of rain were also received from Gagal, Mallan, Shahpur, Nagrota Bagwan and other towns of the valley. There was no disruption of vehicular traffic due to rain. |
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Removal of coop bank chief sought
Shimla, July 23 The union has urged Chief Minister P.K.Dhumal to taken immediate action in the matter as the chairman was harassing employees and misusing powers. It also alleged that the chairman was creating hurdles in the implementation of the debt waiver scheme. It urged the Chief Minister to withdraw Mehta’s powers. |
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102 bid for 17 small power projects
Shimla, July 23 As many as 102 bids have been received for 17 projects with an aggregate capacity of 1968.5 MW for which the free power-based bidding route is being used for the first time. All leading power companies, including Tata Power, Essar Power, GMR, Bhilwara Group, Larson and Toubro, Jindal Steel, are in the race. The state-owned Himachal Power Corporation has submitted bids for 13 projects. Bids were invited for small projects for the first time after the new BJP government changed the policy of the Congress regime to assign projects up to 100 MW by the MoU route and decided to allot all projects of more than 5 MW capacity through competitive bidding. Engineers of the state electricity board have started the process of evaluation of technical bids for pre-qualification after which the financial bids will be opened. |
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Super Max workers hold dharna
Shimla, July 23 The workers marched to the office of the Labour Commissioner to seek his intervention in finding a solution to the problem. However, with the commissioner not being
there, they staged a dharna and raised slogans against the management of Super Max. They demanded that the nine suspended employees should be taken back so that the factory can once again start production. This dispute with regard to the suspension of these workers is already pending before the labour commissioner. The workers said the factory had been lying closed since the June 30 shooting incident in which a worker, Amarjeet Singh, was killed. They said the injured should also be given Rs two lakh as compensation. The workers, along
with BMS, CITU and activists of other unions, have been protesting at Shoghi and here to get a compensation of Rs 15 lakh for the family of Amarjeet Singh. |
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