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Christmas fair: Convent of Sacred Heart on Sunday organised a Christmas Fair. Various games were organised at the fair like lucky dice, horse racing, hoopla, balloon shooting, etc. Visitors also had a wide array of cuisines to choose from. A magic show was also organised at the fair. Books were also on display by publishers. CHANDIGARH
Placement bureau: The Overseas Placement Bureau, Haryana, has decided to organise seminars for students interested in overseas study. Stating this here on Monday, a spokesman for the bureau said job-oriented courses were available in Australia, UK, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Dubai, Singapore, Thailand and Cyprus. Seminars for intake of students in January, February, July, September, October and November next year would be organised between December 15 and December 20. The first such seminar was held here on Monday at S. Radhakrishnan
Sadan, College of Education, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. Appointed: The government has appointed Om Parkash Singh,
IPS, director
sports, as deputy inspector-general, home guards, against a vacant post with
immediate effect.
JHAJJAR
Man thrashed to death: A man was allegedly thrashed to death by his family members in Kadauda village here on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Satbir Singh. The police has registered a case against a woman and her son on the complaint of deceased’s son Rajesh Kumar. Satbir had a verbal duel with his younger brother Rajender’s wife Birmati and nephew Vinay while watering the fields on Monday. The verbal duel turned violent when Vinay and Birmati allegedly started thrashing Satbir mercilessly, following which he succumbed to his injuries. A case of murder has been registered against Birmati and
Vinay.REWARI
Rao Inderjit sets up office: In view of the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, union minister of state for defence production Rao Inderjit Singh has set up his personal political office in his own estate in Rampura village here, which is a suburb of Rewari city. The office, which is located in the vicinity of Bhagwat Bhakti Ashram, Rampura, was opened on Sunday by Rao Inderjit Singh himself. Rao said while Lok Sabha elections were imminent, the office had been set up to facilitate redressal of villagers’ grievances. SIRSA
Award for Bhandari: Sukhchain Singh Bhandari, Punjabi litterateur, has been chosen for the award of excellence by an NGO, the Friendship Forum of India (FFI). A letter issued by the FFI to Bhandari said the award would be conferred on him at a function to be held in January next year. Demonstration held: Members of the erstwhile Haryana Industrial Security Force (now disbanded) on Monday held a demonstration in front of the local mini-secretariat and gave a memorandum to the deputy commissioner for forwarding it to the President. Alleging that they had been removed due to political reasons, they demanded their rehabilitation in the service. YAMUNANAGAR
Mass awareness programme: The central and the state governments are committed to uplift rural areas of the state and have started a number of schemes for their benefits. This was stated by parliamentary secretary, health, Krishna Pandit after inaugurating a five-day mass awareness programme, Bharat Nirman, organised by the Press Information Bureau in Radaur block here on Monday. As many as 50 stalls of various government departments highlighting the schemes launched by the government were set up to impart information to the villagers. Pandit said the main aim of this mass campaign was to inform the villagers to take maximum benefits of the government schemes.
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Child drowned: Gurdarshan (3) was reportedly drowned in a water tank being constructed by the IPH Department at Daman village on Monday. Police sources said children were playing when the victim slipped into the tank. SP Jagat Ram said according to initial investigation it looked to be a case of accident. However, the police was inquiring for details of the case and appropriate action would be initiated against the erring employee or the contractor. Meanwhile, a case under Section 174 has been registered. The body has been handed over to the relatives after a
post-mortem examination. Charas seized: Around 1.5 kg of charas was seized from two people in this district on Monday. Surinder Kumar, a resident of Badaghar village of Bilaspur district in Haryana, was caught possessing 1 kg of charas by a police party at Phagupul, near Manglore. In another case Som Nath, a resident Jalandhar, was nabbed by the police at Dhalpur for possessing 500 gm of
charas.
SHIMLA
Award: Principal scientist and head of the crop improvement division at the local Central Potato Research Institute Jai Gopal has been conferred “Recognition Award” for 2007-08 by the National Academy of Agriculture Sciences for his outstanding contribution in plant improvement. The award, which carries a cash prize of Rs 50,000, besides a citation, will be presented during the inaugural session of the ninth Agriculture Sciences Congress to be held at Sher-e-Kashmir University in June.Acting president suspended: The Himachal Pradesh Employees Confederation has suspended acting president of the confederation V.K. Kaul in view of the registration of a vigilance case against him. The confederation has urged the Chief Minister to ensure an impartial inquiry into the matter and till its completion Kaul will remain suspended from the post. Awareness campaign ends: A fortnight-long campaign to create awareness about AIDS carried out by the students central association of the Centre of Evening Studies of the Himachal Pradesh University concluded on Tuesday. The students expressed their ideas on the issue through painting, slogan writing and other such activities organised during the campaign. Debate and declamation contests were also held during the campaign for which initiative came from the students.
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ABVP continues protest: The ABVP continued with its protest demonstration for the second day on Tuesday. It has been demanding “open choice” in the ensuing exams at college level. State general secretary of the student organisation Suresh Magotra led the protest demonstration. Students of MAM College and GGM Science College hold the protest demonstration here. Addressing the protest rally, secretary of MAM College unit of the
organisation, Choudhary Nasib Ali criticised the functioning of the “examination cell” at Jammu University. Two found dead: Ram
Charan, a labourer from Chhattisgarh, was reportedly found hanging in his rented accommodation in Indira Colony of Samba on Tuesday. In another incident, the police recovered the body of Madan Lal of Padora Ghar
Majoor, from Piyali Nallah in Padora village of Akhnoor. Meanwhile, two women made abortive bids on their lives by consuming toxic substance at their respective residences. Reports said Keeri (25) of Chhattisgarh and Jyoti Devi of Ramgarh consumed toxic substances to end their lives. They have been admitted to the Government Medical College here. Students’ body meets VC:
Sangarsh, an organisation of Jammu University (JU) students, on Tuesday called on new Vice-Chancellor Varun Sahni and apprised him of issues faced by the student community. As per a press note, the delegation led by Ranjeet Sharma urged the Vice-Chancellor to improve the functioning of examination cell and other departments, including Centre for Quality Assurance and Strategic Planning. Prof Sahni assured the students that every possible step would be taken to ‘overhaul’ the functioning of varsity. Eye camp: The Village Uplift Committee, in association with the Lions Club and the Vikas
Parishad, organised an eye camp at the Primary Health Centre, Raya, on Tuesday. As many as 163 patients were examined at the camp and out of which 25 were advised to undergo cataract operation. The operations would be conducted free of cost at Acharya Sri Chandra Hospital,
Sidra. Besides, medicines were also distributed free of cost to the patients. Director, Health Services, Dr Jasbir Singh inaugurated the camp. Chief medical officer, Samba, Madhu
Khullar, and Dr SS Sudan were also present.
SRINAGAR
One killed, girl hurt in mishaps: Manzoor Ahmad (45) was killed when a tyre refilling air tank exploded at his shop on the city outskirts while a girl was injured in a road accident in down town, sources said on Tuesday. Manzoor Ahmad was critically wounded when the tyre refilling air tank exploded at his shop in Kannitar, Hazratbal. He was rushed to the hospital where he was declared brought dead. A minor girl was hit and wounded by a motorcycle at Gasi Mohalla in down town city.
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