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Gangster, guard killed in crossfire
Honour Killings
Alliance with INLD
Over 10 lakh pilgrims take holy dip on Kartik Purnima
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Solar power plan finds favour
Prisoners to appear in matric exam
Selja justifies action against Alva
2 medicos take poison
IAS officers to supervise HCS (J) exam
Dera founder’s birth anniversary celebrated
Multiplex to be opened in Karnal
1 booked on murder charge
2 labourers killed in mishap; Co booked
Newly-wed woman set afire
Karnal MLA’s nephew killed in accident
Gurpurb celebrated
A gurdwara in Gurgaon illuminated on the parkash utsav of Guru Nanak Dev on Thursday. Photo: Rajesh Kumar Yadav
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Gangster, guard killed in crossfire
Sonepat, November 13 The gangsters managed to escape with Rs 5 lakh, which they looted, and a rifle of a gunman. The deceased have been identified as gunman Jai Kunwar of Kakrana village in Rohtak district and gangster Munsaid of Nangla village in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh. The body of Jai Kunwar has been handed over to his family members after a postmortem whereas no one so far had come to collect the body of the gangster. About 10-odd armed gangsters reached the sand mine of S.S. Company near Garh Mirakpur village and demanded cash from munshi Hari Om at gun-point. When he refused to give the amount, the gangsters started beating him up and the others, including Subhash and Ravinder. After hearing the cries of Hari Om and the others, gunman Jai Kunwar came to the spot and while he was reportedly aiming at the gangsters, someone fired at him from the back, resulting in his death on the spot. Meantime, another gunman Surender started firing indiscriminately, but he was also hit by a bullet and fell unconscious. A gangster was also killed in the crossfire. Taking advantage of the situation, the gangsters managed to escape on their vehicles. The police has registered a case. CHANDIGARH: Chairman of S.S. Company, Sonepat, Som Sethi has announced that Rs 5 lakh would be paid to the family of Jai Kunwar, a gunman of the company, who died while repulsing the attack on the company’s office in Sonepat district by certain antisocial elements on Thursday. Another gunman of the company Surender was injured in the attack. Sethi said the company would also give suitable employment to a member of Jai Kunwar’s family. He belonged to Rohtak district. The company would bear all expenses for Surender’s treatment. |
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Fathers of 2 girls among 7 held
Bhiwani, November 13 “We have arrested seven persons, including Srinivas and Prithvi Singh, who are the fathers of the two girls,” Bhiwani SP Sanjay Kumar said. He said the other arrested were identified as Jagdish, Sumender, brother of one girl and Prithvi’s son, Ravinder, Jaiveer and Devinder - all related to either Srinavas or Prithvi Singh. “All seven were arrested from the village today and have been charged with murder and other sections of the IPC,” he said, adding that they would be produced before a court here tomorrow. The police had on Tuesday registered a murder case against in connection with the suspected honour killing of the two girls in Kaluwas village, 3 km from here, on Diwali even as the father of one girl had earlier claimed that they died of disease. The two girls belonging to the Dhanak community were allegedly attacked with axes and stones after they returned late in the evening escorted by unidentified men. — PTI
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Gautam still hopeful BJP will reconsider decision
Tribune News Service
Sirsa, November 13 Gautam says the NDA is doomed to lose all 10 seats in Haryana in case the alliance continues till the parliamentary elections. Talking to mediapersons here today, the BJP MLA, who has taken up cudgels against his party ever since it has aligned with Chautala, ridiculed the recent statements of the former Chief Minister that the alliance between the INLD and the BJP was a union of hearts and not union of parties or to put in Chautala's words “yeh dillon ka mail hai, dalon ka nahin”. Gautam said here the “backs of the two parties had united and not hearts”, and the two were still seeing in diametrically opposite directions. The BJP MLA came down heavily on his party’s state-level leaders, who, he alleged, had misguided the party high command for their vested interests on the issue of alliance. Gautam alleged that these leaders had, in fact, jeopardised Lal Krishan Advani’s chances of becoming the Prime Minister of the country after the forthcoming elections. Pooh-poohing the statements of some state-level leaders of the party, particularly state president Atam Parkash Manchanda, demanding his resignation for criticising the party, Gautam claimed that he had become MLA due to his personal rapport with the electorate and not due to any wave of the BJP. “As many as 88 of the 90 candidates of the BJP had lost the elections badly, when I won the election to become MLA. So nobody can guide me on resigning,” he said scornfully. “Notwithstanding the claims of these rootless leaders, the fact of the matter is that grassroots workers of the party have felt cheated on this alliance. The thin attendance of BJP workers in the November 1 rally of the NDA at Sonepat is a testimony to it,” Guatam said. He refuted charges that he had been speaking the language of the Congress and wanted to cross over to that party. “I consider Bhupinder Singh Hooda the worst sinner as he failed to take action against the Chautalas after coming to power. Had he exposed the misdeeds committed by Chautalas during their regime and brought them to book, much of the corruption that is prevalent today would have been eliminated,” Gautam maintained. He said he did not want to become MLA or MP by compromising on his principles.
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Over 10 lakh pilgrims take holy dip on Kartik Purnima
Kapal Mochan (Bilaspur), November 13 All banks of the sarovars - Kapal Mochan, Rin Mochan and Suraj Kund - were jampacked. A long row of devotees was seen at the sarovars as taking a dip here is considered to be auspicious after midnight. Keeping in view the religious sanctity of this place and inflow of pilgrims, the state government has designated this fair as of state level. The fair required strong administrative work and planning. While a large number of pilgrims thronged the town for salvation, neither any state minister nor any local MLA took interest in the activities or arrangements of the fair. They did not even come forward for the inaugural function or on the concluding day. Leaders of neither the ruling party nor other parties visited the place during the fair. As many as 2,000 police personnel, including senior officials, had been deployed to streamline the pilgrims. The reserved space of 90 acres for the fair tuned out to be less to accommodate the pilgrims. Thousands of the devotees were left with no choice but to stay in open as temples, gurdwaras and dharamshalas had already been occupied. The administration had banned the consumption and sale of liquor in the fair area. However, one revenue officer was beaten up by pilgrims when he allegedly used foul language in drunken state in front of the deputy commissioner base camp in the fair here late night on the second day of the fair. Besides, consumption of liquor was seen at many places. Devotees came here from various states, including Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Rajasthan. However, most of the pilgrims hailed from Punjab. All senior officials, including deputy commissioner A.K. Aggarwal, additional deputy commissioner Narender Singh and SP C.S. Rao, visited the fair at midnight. |
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Solar power plan finds favour
Gurgaon, November 13 The government wants to make Gurgaon a solar city by requesting residents to adopt solar equipments in place of diesel genset captive power. Secretary of the ministry of new and renewable energy Deepak Gupta was here to know the response of stakeholders about the launching of such a scheme. He also presided over a consultation meet on rooftop grid interactive solar PV system for electricity generation organised by Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA), which was attended by various stakeholders like nursing homes, hospitals, IT parks, hotels, malls, housing complexes, industries and schools. Receiving an overwhelming response from the stakeholders, Gupta said, “In my opinion, the government should go ahead with the scheme.” He said the power generated through gensets could not be used for longer periods, as the price of diesel had been soaring high and petroleum reservoirs were constantly exhausting. Moreover, the emission of harmful gases like CO2 caused environmental hazards, Gupta added. He further said it was high time that people should think of adopting solar energy system as a part of his life. On being asked that why they selected Gurgaon for this project, Sumita Mishra, director, HAREDA, mentioned, “We have chosen Gurgaon for this project because people with different line of thinking reside here who believe in bringing change. Moreover, the building sector here has a rapid growth rate of more than 20 per cent as against national average of 11 per cent.” She also told about various schemes being run by the HAREDA for the promotion of solar energy system. Mishra said, “A capital subsidy on domestic solar water heating system up to Rs 10,000 for all Haryana residents is being given and Haryana is the only state in India to provide 90 per cent financial assistance on installation of solar water heating system (SWHS) in social sector institutions like old age home, working women hostel and the like.” During the last financial year, 1,30,000-litre capacity of SWHS was installed in the state leading to a peak load saving of 1.3 MW and reduction of emission of 1,950 tonnes of CO2,” she added. Mishra affirmed that incentives had resulted in a phenomenal increase in installation of SWHS in the domestic sector and during 2007-08, 125 domestic solar water heating systems of 30,000-litre capacity were installed in the state. Gurgaon topped the list where 27 systems with approximate 5,000-litre capacity were installed. Naming some of the institutions where this system has been installed, she said Brahmkumari Ashram of Bhorakalan village had the largest steam cooking system in the country where food for 2,000 persons was prepared daily besides the solar water heating system. “Financial assistance by way of soft loans through 30 banks is being provided for installing this eco-friendly system,” Mishra added. |
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Prisoners to appear in matric exam
Sirsa, November 13 Director-general, prisons, Haryana, John V. George, who visited the Sirsa district jail in connection with the inauguration of a gurdwara, said the jail authorities planned to provide education to inmates through NGOs and the Saksharta Mission. “To make jails places of reform, we have decided that prisoners will be provided education in jails and 10 prisoners from each of the jails of Haryana will appear in the matriculation examinations this year,” George said, while addressing the inmates. He said help of NGOs and the Saksharta Mission would be taken for this purpose and from next year 50 inmates from each jail would appear in the examinations. He said every inmate of the jail would be provided education at least up to the primary level. “Emphasis has been laid to improve the conditions in the jail and it is being ensured that hygienic and nutritious food is served to inmates in jails,” he said. He said special efforts would be made to reform inmates convicted under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act as 60 per cent of the state’s drug trafficking was reported from Sirsa alone and a majority of the inmates imprisoned in this jail were for this offence. George inaugurated Sri Ichhapurak Gurdwara recently constructed in the district jail. The inmates of jail have set an example of sort by constructing a temple, a gurdwara and a mazar adjacent to each other. The resources for the three places of worship have been pooled in by the inmates themselves and even the job of labourers and masons have been performed by them. |
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Selja justifies action against Alva
Ambala, November 13 Talking to mediapersons here, she said the Antony committee had already submitted its report to the party high command regarding the Karnataka issue and the matter was over. She said the Congress had offered several prestigious posts in the party to Alva, but despite that she had expressed annoyance which had shocked Congressmen. Asked whether she was likely to change her constituency to Sirsa or Jallor in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, she said if the party high command allowed her, she would definitely want to contest from Ambala once again. Referring the delay in the construction of a subway on the Ambala-Rajpura rail section at Ambala City for which the state government has already deposited Rs 1.72 crore with the Ambala railway division around three years ago, she said she had taken up the matter with the railway ministry and the subway would be constructed during her present tenure. Favouring reservation in jobs in the private sector for SCs and BCs, she said it would provide equal opportunity to the youth of the Scheduled Castes too. |
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2 medicos take poison
Kurukshetra, November 13 While the girl from Rohtak district in Haryana died after she was rushed to the local Civil Hospital, the boy from Rajasthan was referred to the PGI, Chandigarh, in a precarious condition. The police has registered a case under Section 309 of the IPC. According to Thanesar SHO inspector Shamsher Singh, the two had stayed in Krishna Dham Dharamshala last night as married couple with fictitious address. When the couple did not respond to staff’s knocks at their door in the afternoon, the authorities called in the police, which broke open the door and found the youngsters lying semi-conscious on their bed. They were rushed to the civil hospital, where the girl died. The boy was referred to the PGI, Chandigarh. However, the police said no suicide note was found in the room. The parents of the girl identified as Anu Chaudhary of Kaloi village in Rohtak district took the body of their daughter after a postmortem. The parents of the boy, Jitender, were also informed. They were expected to reach Chandigarh late night today, the SHO said. — UNI
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IAS officers to supervise HCS (J) exam
Chandigarh, November 13 Stating this here today, a spokesman of the HPSC said that on the request of the commission, for the first time 18 senior IAS officers would be posted as observers during the examination to be written by nearly 6,500 candidates. He said an officer of the rank of deputy
inspector-general of police would also be on duty to supervise the smooth conduct of the examination. |
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Dera founder’s birth anniversary celebrated
Sirsa, November 13 Throwing light on the life of the founder of the cult during a congregation, dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh said Beparwah
Mastana, whose childhood name was Khema Mal, was born to Pilla Mal in Balochistan (Pakistan) in
1891. Beparwah Mastana Balochistani had spiritual inclination from the very beginning and founded the dera, which is now followed by a large number of people. |
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Multiplex to be opened in Karnal
Karnal, November 13 Fun Cinemas, a pioneer in the cinema exhibition and entertainment space in India, will enter Karnal with the inauguration of the multiplex on November 17. The three theatres will have a total capacity of 750 and the multiplex is spread over 22,000 sq ft. Talking to mediapersons here, chief operating officer, Fun Cinemas, Vishal Kapur, minced no words in admitting that it was a profit-oriented venture offering options to choose between the gold class and the silver class suiting individual preferences and pockets. “We are not targeting the agricultural sector,” he specified. “Besides Karnal, we are also planning to enter cities like Bathinda, Baddi, Amritsar and Ludhiana in the region,” he added. |
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1 booked on murder charge
Gurgaon, November 13 Mujeev was a resident of Madhya Pradesh and was working in a construction company in Udyog Vihar here. He was staying along with Muna Lal, who also belonged to his native place, in one room. Mujeev had asked for an advance of Rs 15,000 from his employer which Muna saw and to grab the money, he mixed poison in Mujeev’s drink, who was a habitual drinker. When Mujeev died, he ran away with the money. The police took the body to Safdarjung Hospital where a post-mortem, which confirmed death due to poison. The needle of suspicion pointed towards Muna as he was missing with all his belongings along with the cash. |
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2 labourers killed in mishap; Co booked
Gurgaon, November 13 Around 200 labourers were working at the site when the incident took place. Both of them were taking the bricks to the fourth floor when the trolley lost its balance and fell. They were immediately rushed to a hospital where doctors declared them brought dead. The police has registered a case against the construction company as they should have used an iron grill for the safety of labourers.
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Newly-wed woman set afire
Karnal, November 13 The victim (21), who was referred to the PGI, Chandigarh, with serious burn injuries, told the police that she got married to Gulab Singh on November 5 and he used to allegedly torture her for dowry. She said her husband set her on fire after pouring kerosene on her, she alleged. A case has been registered under Section 498 and 307 of the IPC against Gulab Singh. He was not arrested, as there was no relative to escort the victim to the PGI, police sources said. |
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Karnal MLA’s nephew killed in accident
Sonepat, November 13 The three were rushed to the Civil Hospital here. However, Varun was declared brought dead and the injured were referred to Jaipur Golden Hospital, Delhi. Varun reportedly got married last year and he was the nephew of Karnal Congress MLA Sumita Singh. |
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Dev here today.
The main celebrations were held in Gurudwara Singh Sabha here, where bhog of the Akhand Path was held.
Shabad gaan competition and declamation contest of schoolchildren was also
organised on the occasion.
