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MDU staff suspend stir
Tribune Impact
Speaker’s constituency to have rural libraries
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No alliance with BJP, says Chautala
Armed men beat up lawyer, loot house
CPM leader Gorakhpuria dead
Disease hits paddy
Phalgu mela concludes
Conference on neurosurgery
Energy audit of govt buildings
Suicide Case
2 girls end life
Wife beats man to death
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Another bomb scare in Faridabad
Faridabad, September 29 A large number of police personnel reached the scene and precautionary measures were taken to avert any damage following possible explosion of the so-called bomb. A person present there cut the wires even though it was clear that it was an empty box, which could have been used for making a
bomb. The police said it might have been picked up from garbage. The district police chief praised the person but cautioned the public not to tamper with any suspicious object. He said the district police had three experts to defuse bombs. The district police chief convened a meeting of residents and urged them to form voluntary groups and ensure safety and security in colonies. Also, the need for keeping domestic helps and tenants after full verification of their identity was stressed at the meeting. |
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MDU staff suspend stir
Rohtak, September 29 The MDU bosses had got their decision to provide re-employment to superannuated employees approved by the university's executive council. The MDUNTEA was opposing the move and had even held a dharna to register its protest while the council meeting was in progress at the university faculty house on Saturday. The MDU authorities, however, got the agenda item okayed despite the employees' protest. Association members assembled in front of the MDU administrative block today and started raising slogans against the move. A little later, MDU registrar S.P.Vats went to the protesting employees and assured them their promotional and other interests would not be harmed by the decision. He also showed them some papers relating to the proceedings of the council meeting and pleaded that the employees’ interests would be safeguarded. Following this, the association suspended the stir. |
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Tribune Impact
Chandigarh, September 29 The rally will be addressed by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and is being held for allotment of 100 sq yard plots to the SCs, the BCs and the BPL families. She will hand over the allotment letters to mark the launch of the ambitious scheme of the government. A day after The Tribune carried a story on the displays, the department concerned reacted by ordering the removal of these hoardings this morning. The area is considered out-of-bounds for any kind of displays since the secretariat building is a “heritage building” and cannot be fiddled with by putting up any hoardings of posters. Moreover, no permission had been sought from the Chandigarh Administration and the move had elicited a sharp reaction from officials who claimed that they were not aware of such displays “adorning” the building. A former chief architect of Punjab state and Chandigarh and a close associate of city’s creator Le Corbusier, M.N. Sharma, too, had expressed his displeasure for the violation. |
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Speaker’s constituency to have rural libraries
Chandigarh, September 29 Fifty-one libraries will be opened in 41 villages in three days so that youth can spend their time in acquiring knowledge in various spheres. The spirit behind the movement is Haryana Vidhan Sabha speaker Raghuvir Singh Kadian, who is also the MLA from Beri. Kadian will spend more than half of his this year’s discretionary grant on setting up these libraries. Kadian will inaugurate the first library to be named after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the presence of Deependra Singh Hooda, MP from the area. All 51 libraries would be named after Rajiv Gandhi. While Kadian will give Rs 1 lakh to each library out of his discretionary grant, Hooda will give Rs 50,000 to each library out of the MP Local Area Development Fund. He said here today Rs 1 lakh would be spent on purchase of books while Rs 25,000 would be utilised for providing infrastructure. A purchase committee headed by additional deputy commissioner had been constituted. Books on various subjects such as health, history, sports, autobiographies, biographies of martyrs and freedom fighters, yoga, general knowledge and books for preparing the youth for competitions would be provided in each library. |
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No alliance with BJP, says Chautala
Yamunanagar, September 29 He said it was all rumours created by media about the INLD alliance with the BJP. While addressing a press conference here this evening, he, however, maintained that in the forthcoming elections, their party could think of seeking support of a like-minded party, which would be against the Congress and could also extend support to other like-minded parties. “So far, neither the INLD approached any party nor held any talk in this regard,” he added. Commenting on the SEZ issue, he said he would not allow the government to acquire the land of farmers on the name of SEZ. The situation in the state would become like Singur, if the state government made an attempt to acquire agricultural land of farmers. |
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Armed men beat up lawyer, loot house
Rewari, September 29 They thrashed Suresh Sharma (38) and his wife Seema Sharma mercilessly with iron rods, leaving them grievously injured. Then they reportedly looted cash and ornaments following which they fled with the booty. In a critical condition, both Suresh and Seema were admitted in a private hospital at Gurgaon, where they were not in a position to give their statement to the police till the filing of this report. ASP Ved Prakash Godara, who visited the place early this morning, said, while a sniffer dog was pressed into service, fingerprints were also lifted by experts from the place of occurrence. Simultaneously, forensic scientists too inspected the house. To register their protest against this heinous crime perpetrated by the miscreants on a young advocate and his wife, members of the District Bar Association suspended the court work today. A delegation of the protesting lawyers also met the ASP and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits. Meanwhile, the police has registered a case under Section 459 of the IPC in this regard. |
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CPM leader Gorakhpuria dead
Fatehabad, September 29 He was 63 and is survived by his wife Murti Devi, an aged mother, two sons and two daughters. He will be cremated in his native village, Gorakhpur, at 12 noon on Tuesday. Gorakhpuria entered politics while he was a student. He shot into prominence when he tore up his master’s degree immediately after receiving it during a convocation at Kurukshetra University in the early seventies in protest against unemployment. After that Gorakhpuria contested five assembly elections, though unsuccessfully, including one against Devi Lal from Bhattu Kalan in 1977. He was jailed for over 20 months during the Emergency. The other elections contested by him were in 1972 from Badopal and in 1987, 1991 and 1996 from Fatehabad. Prithvi Singh Gorakhpuria was among the tallest leaders of the CPM in Haryana. Mourning Gorakhpuria's death, Inderjit Singh, state secretary of the CPM, said his death was a great loss to the Left movement and the working sections in Haryana. |
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Disease hits paddy
Sonepat, September 29 According to the Agriculture Department, the crops in around 6,000 hectares have been affected by this disease. Taking notice of the disease, the department have launched a special campaign to make the farmers aware about the disease and remedial measures to be taken to control this disease which can cause extensive damage to the crop if not controlled. The department today organised camps at Gohana and Gannaur with the help of the National Food Security Mission to guide the farmers about remedial measures to control the disease. Sub divisional agriculture officer O.P. Dalal and technical assistant B.N. Vashist informed that so far the infection of the disease was of moderate intensity (10 t0 20 per cent) but it had to be controlled asa soon as possible. The agriculture scientists would hold meeting with the farmers in every village tomorrow to motivate them about the precautionary measures to be taken under the supervision and guidance of the experts, they said. The scientists told that the farmers also responsible to some extent for infection of the disease for excessive and untimely use of the fertilisers and pesticides. The sudden change in the temperature in September was also one of the reasons for the spread of the disease, they opined and added that if the disease had completed its three stages, the damage to the crop could be cent per cent. Around 75,000 hectares was under the paddy cultivation and 90 per cent of the cropped area was under the plantation of the basmati and its sister varieties like HR-1121, Muchhal, RH-10 and P-30. |
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Phalgu mela concludes
Kaithal, September 29 A large number of devotees paid obeisance at temple of Phalgu Rishi. It is estimated that twenty lakh persons attended the mela which began on September 15. MP Naveen Jindal, parliamentary secretary Dillu Ram, senior Judicial, civil and police officials besides scores of political leaders also had a dip in sarovar and performed pooja on the occasion. Deputy commissioner Vikas Gupta, SP Sultan Singh, mela administrator SDM Hawa Singh, assisted by a team of civil and police officers, maintained vigil throughout last night to ensure peaceful conclusion of the event. A large number of police personnel, including lady police, also performed their duty with dedication and extended a helping hand to the pilgrims. A team of divers, too, remained deployed to meet an emergency. The information centre set by the Public Relation Department worked round the clock during the last five days. Ram Kaur (90), who had attended the mela on five occasions earlier, expressed happiness over the arrangements. She got separated from her family and was brought to information centre by volunteers of Mahaveer Dal. She got united with her family after the announcement made by the department. |
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Man abandons newborn at PGIMS
Rohtak, September 29 Staff of the PGIMS and Manav Sewa Sangh volunteers are looking after the child, who is in the PGIMS nursery now. Dr Geeta Gathwala, the head of the department of paediatrics at the PGIMS, said the baby was abandoned at the casualty wing on Saturday by a man claiming to be her father. “The man said his name was Bijender and he belonged to Bahu Akbarpur village in the district,” she said, adding that he got the child admitted at the hospital and went away on the pretext of bringing medicine. When the man did not return, the hospital authorities informed the police. Following this, a police team was sent to the address of Bahu Akbarpur village, mentioned by the man. However, the address was found to be fake. “The baby was born premature, is underweight and suffering from jaundice,” Dr Gathwala said. |
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Conference on neurosurgery
Rohtak, September 29 The head of the department of neurosurgery, Dr Ishwar Singh, asserted that the conference had been organised for the benefit of young neurosurgeons and doctors of allied specialities in management of patients of trauma and stroke. Nearly 200 delegates from all over Haryana as well as nearby states attended the CME. Eminent experts in neurosurgery field delivered lectures on the recent advances in the treatment of head injury, stroke, spinal injury and minimal invasive neurosurgery. Dr Rakesh Dua from Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Delhi, laid stress on timely treatment of head injury cases. He underlined the importance of “platinum minutes” and “golden hours”. Dr Naveen Chitkara from Jalandhar emphasised the importance of teamwork in management of head injury patients. |
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Energy audit of govt buildings
Chandigarh, September 29 While stating this today, Deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan said the Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA) had invited bids from energy service companies empanelled by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) of the Government of India to carry out energy audit of 20 large government buildings by October 15. |
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Suicide Case
Fatehabad, September 29 The body of 20-year-old boy was identified by his father today at the Tohana general hospital. The body was handed over to the family after post mortem. According to Azad Singh, the boy was taking computer training in the same centre at Jind, where one of the two sisters was a studying. The three eloped and when they fell short of money, they committed suicide, instead of coming back to their residence, according to the police. Meanwhile, the police said the allegation of the girls’ brother, Manoj, that the girls had taken away Rs 7 lakh had not been found correct. The trio had disembarked from a train coming from Beas at 1 am and consumed poison at 3 am. |
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2 girls end life
Sonepat, September 29 They died in a local civil hospital today after struggling for life for around 24 hours. According to information, the girls reportedly consumed poison at Neetu’s residence. The hospital authorities have handed over the bodies to their parents. The police has registered a case, but the cause of the suicide is yet to be ascertained. Both were students of a local girls’ college. |
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Wife beats man to death
Bhiwani, September 29 According to information, Ompal (38) and his wife Kamla had fight over a domestic issue. Kamla’s sister Darshna and her two sons, Shaukeen and Amit, allegedly attacked Ompal with canes and lathis and forcibly made him drink pesticide. He died on the spot. The police has arrested the accused and has registered a case of murder against them on the complaint of the deceased’s father. |
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