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Good news for haemophilia patients
Dadri-Rewari rail link gets nod
2 youths gun down man, held
Accused of theft, youth ends his life
A sister of Sanjeev (inset), who allegedly committed suicide, points to the suicide note written on a wall of her home in Karnal on Saturday.
Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar |
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Iranian movies screened
at film festival
Teachers for differently abled rue poor salaries
Varsity to have medical college
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda places a turban on the head of Ram Pal Singh, president of the All-India Ror Mahasabha, at a function held in connection with the centenary celebrations of Jagadguru Swami Brahmanand in Karnal on Saturday.
Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar
Over 26,000 families to get free plots
Awareness camp on HIV/AIDS
6 panches resign over stadium construction
Haryana launches energy conservation programme
Two commit suicide
Extortion charge against murder accused
Shopkeeper shot at
Prisoner dies in hospital
Kaithal to have mini Shakti Bhawan
4 killed in road mishap
Wife, paramour held for man’s murder
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Good news for haemophilia patients
Chandigarh, December 27 The minister said it had also been decided to provide free education to all haemophilia children up to class X in government schools of Haryana. The haemophilia patients would also be allowed free transport facility to health centres located in Haryana, Chandigarh and New Delhi in the state roadways’ buses. She said the government was also planning to issue smart cards (photo identity cards) to all haemophilia patients. Kartar Devi said the government had also decided to tackle the menace of anaemia among women and children in a big way in collaboration with the department of women and child development. She said anaemia was one of the main contributing factors of malnutrition and could lead to low birth weight babies, infant morbidity and mortality and ill-health. The minister said the project would cover one crore children between the age of six months and 18 years as well as pregnant and lactating mothers. Weekly supplementations of iron would be given to children up to 18 years of age in anganwari centres and schools. — UNI
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Dadri-Rewari rail link gets nod
Gurgaon, December 27 This was stated by Union Minister of State for Defence Production Rao Inderjeet Singh today. He told The Tribune, “The proposal has been passed by the railway authorities, but we are waiting for the alignment to be cleared, which will be done within a month after which work will be started.” The minister said he had sent the proposal to the railway authorities since it was important for developing Manesar as an industrial hub. “The link will have an advantage of direct connectivity to industries in the Kundali, Sonepat and Faridabad areas, ‘eliminating the need for border-crossing’, which will fulfil a long-standing requirement of the Delhi administration for decongesting Delhi roads of container trailers,” he added. According to sources, the state-of-the-art terminal will be spread over 125 acres and will have a rail-handling and transshipment terminal, a warehouse complex and a domestic cargo hub. The terminal will create a footprint in the Gurgaon area of the NCR and will cater to the industrial areas of Delhi, Bijwasan, Gurgaon, Manesar, Dharuhera, Bawal, Hisar, Sonepat and Panipat in Haryana and Bhiwadi, Neemrana and Behror in Rajasthan.
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2 youths gun down man, held
Rohtak, December 27 The victim, Ramesh Kumar, hailing from Dadri subdivision in Bhiwani district, had come here in connection with some work and was sitting with a property dealer when he was fired upon by the two youths with muffled faces. He died on the spot. It is reported that the accused abandoned their motorcycle and took a lift in a car parked a few hundred metres away. The assailants were nabbed near Rithal village after being chased by a PCR vehicle. The police has registered a case of murder. This is the 66th murder case in the district this year. About 55 murder cases had been registered by the police last year. The district has also witnessed a rise in the number of rape and abduction cases this year. The district has witnessed a rise in the number of crime cases pertaining to murder, rape, abduction, burglary, extortion and robbery. Cases of dowry harassment have also increased this year. The district witnessed 11 more cases of murder this year. There was a sharp rise in the number of rape cases. As many as 35 cases were registered under section 376 of the IPC against 17 last year. As many as 46 attempt-to-murder cases were registered till November-end this year against 47 last year. Till November-end this year, 27, 211 and 207 robbery, theft and burglary cases, respectively, were registered against a figure of 18, 190 and 183, last year. Motor vehicle theft cases have also gone up from 250 to 340 during this period. There was an increase in the number of cases related to the Excise Act with the police registering over 650 cases against 250 last year. The police has claimed success in working out a large number of cases. It said 48 cases of murder and all cases of rape had been solved by the police this year. The police had also arrested as many as 550 bail jumpers, 43 proclaimed offenders and 12 criminal gangs in this period.
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Accused of theft, youth ends his life
Karnal, December 27 The body of Sanjeev, alias Sanju, a resident of the New Prem Nagar locality and unemployed, was recovered by the railway police. After identifying the deceased, the police reached his house. There it found a suicide note written on the wall of his room in which he had stated that as he had been falsely accused of stealing a mobile phone, he had decided to end his life. The police said Sanjeev had recently visited a bookstore in the vicinity of his residence. After he left the bookstore, the owner of the shop found that his mobile was missing. He accused Sanjeev of having stolen his mobile. Following this the owner of the shop asked Sanjeev to pay him Rs 7,000 by January 10 or else he would get a police case registered against him. However, Sanjeev, whose father had died a few years ago and whose mother is blind, was not in a position to pay Rs 7,000 and got depressed following which he took the extreme step, the police said. The railway police has registered a case in this regard. |
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Iranian movies screened
at film festival
Yamunanagar, December 27 He further said Iranian cinema was a low-budget cinema close to masses. He said technically Indian cinema had progressed a lot. He said great movies could be produced if Iranian conceptual cinema and Indian technical cinema were combined together. Throwing light on the history of Iranian cinema, he said the first Iranian movie was produced in 1907, 11 years after the invention of cinema in Paris. Iranian film, “Loar Girl” was a super hit film. He also mentioned the contribution of Iranian women directors like Sameera Makhambaaf and Niki Kareem. Even after more than 100 years of cinema, Iranian films still did not involve sex and violence to attract audience. “I never felt like a stranger in India and extremely delighted with the cordial environment, hospitality and warmth. There are many similarities between Iranian and Indian cinema in terms of language and culture. Geographically, the two countries may be far from each other, but people of both the countries have many things in common,” he added. He also announced that the government of Iran would sponsor a special section on Iranian cinema in this festival here next year. The section would be dedicated to some prominent Iranian women directors, filmmakers and actresses. The government of Iran would not only bear all financial expenses for this special section, but also provide some financial assistance, he added. An Iranian film, “Colour of Paradise”, directed by Majd Majidi, was screened as the inaugural movie of this special section. |
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Teachers for differently abled rue poor salaries
Sirsa, December 27 Special educators, who impart vocational training to children suffering from problems like autism, cerebral palsy and multiple disorders, rued that they had been getting abysmally low pay scales in comparison to teachers working in normal schools though their qualifications are at par with teachers working in normal schools. “According to letter number 8-351-DD (1) 07 - RCI dated July 7, 2008, written by the Rehabilitation Council of India
(RCI) to the governments of Punjab and Haryana, there is no difference in BEd, whether it is in general education or in special education. However, there is a lot of difference in salaries in the two categories in Haryana,” said Bijender Kumar, principal of Disha, a vocational training institute for special children here. “While teachers with regular BEd degree are paid Rs 15,000 per month, those with special education degree are being paid a fixed salary of Rs 4,200 only,” he added. He maintained that schemes like EPF and CPF were implemented in all government and private institutions, but no such social security scheme was in force for them. “It was strange that the government provided financial help to physically disabled students studying in normal schools, but did not employ special teachers for them, who in fact are professionally trained for the needs of these children,” Bijender Kumar said. He also alleged that resource teachers were being appointed under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan but they too were not being paid regular pay scales. Teachers for special children recently presented a memorandum to the commissioner and secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment, Haryana, Navraj Sandhu, when she visited Sirsa and sought her intervention in this regard. The teachers maintained that teachers with special training were being paid better salaries in other states and Haryana was the only state where they were being paid poorly. |
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Varsity to have medical college
Karnal, December 27 The Chief Minister made this announcement while addressing a gathering at a function, which was organised by the Ror Sabha to commemorate centenary celebrations of Jagadguru Swami Brahmanand at the old anaj mandi here today. Hooda maintained that Swami Brahmanand had worked tirelessly in the area of Karnal, Kurukshetra and Kaithal districts while Bhagat Phool Singh worked in Sonepat district to motivate women regarding education and set up a Gurukul for women in Khanpur Kalan village and now the government had raised its status to the level of university and it had become the first women university in northern India. Hooda also announced that Government Polytechnic, Nilokheri, would be named after Jagadguru Swami Brahmanand and a sports stadium would be set up in Kalheri village after the name of Shorya Chakra winner martyr Sultan Singh. He announced a grant of Rs 21 lakh for the construction of Ror Dharamshala in Panchkula. Hooda after exchanging the turban with president of the All-India Ror Sabha Ram Pal, said the relations between two communities would be further strengthened. Referring to the demands put by Ram Pal, Hooda assured that he would look into the issue of building of Government Polytechnic at Pabnawa village, Kurukshetra district, and setting up of a womens’ college in Bastara village in Karnal district.
— PTI, UNI |
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Over 26,000 families to get free plots
Panipat, December 27 Under the scheme, which was launched in October, around 5,000 families have already been given the plots. Deputy commissioner Vijay Singh Dahiya said panchayati land in 155 out of 189 villages in the district had already been identified that would be used to allot plots to BPL families. The department was in the process of acquiring land in 28 villages for the purpose. He said the administration had identified 26,478 families in the district, which would be allotted the free of cost plots. Out of these 16,449 families belonged to the Scheduled Castes, while 10,029 belonged to other sections of society. Besides, the administration had also received applications from 17,468 families for free of cost plots, he said. The DC said the administration was in the process of providing free of cost plots to 6,781 families in the Panipat segment, 4,513 in Israna, 5,696 families in Matlodha, 4,100 in Samalkha and 5,478 families in Bapoli segments of the district. The administration has also asked the departments concerned to provide electricity connections, water and sewer connections to those who had already been given the plots. |
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Awareness camp on HIV/AIDS
Sirsa, December 27 The director of the Shiv Shakti Blood Bank, Dr RM Arora, addressed the seminar. Parveen Baghla, chairman of the college management society, Arun Mehta, director of the Samarghosh Hartron, Shilpa Verma, president of the Parivartan Welfare Society, Rajbir Singh Punia, president of the Help Group Welfare Society, Manohar Sachdeva and Manjit Singh were present during the camp. Arora said HIV patients need a proper counseling for living a healthy life. He said: “People confuse HIV patients with those suffering from AIDS while the fact is that one may be HIV + and may not suffer from AIDS.” “The biggest challenge before doctors is the window period of HIV infection, when individual is infected with the virus and still it is not detectable in tests. Infusion of blood of such patients leads to spread of the virus,” Dr Arora added. Punia said the society had been working for the welfare of AIDS patients in Hisar district for a long time and had been providing medicines to such patients free of cost. President of the Parivartan Welfare Society Shilpa Verma said her NGO would also provide medicines to HIV + patients free of cost in Sirsa from now.
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6 panches resign over stadium construction
Sonepat, December 27 Earlier, the panchayat had passed a resolution and submitted it to the government for constructing a stadium in 19 acres of common land of the village panchayat. However, when villagers opposed the move saying that they would be deprived of the grazing ground for their livestock, members of the panchayat started submitting their resignations in protest against the move said to be of village sarpanch Sumitra Devi. Four panches - Anand Swaroop, Balwan Singh, Kamla Devi and Mahima - had submitted their resignations to the BDPO on December 23. Later, they were joined by two others, namely Jagbir and Panmeshwari Devi, who submitted their resignations yesterday. Villagers pointed out that the land spared for stadium was located in the centre of the entire area of the panchayat common land.
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Haryana
launches energy conservation programme
Chandigarh, December 27 Haryana chief secretary Dharamvir today said the state government had decided to launch the programme. Terming energy conservation as the need of an hour, he said this “catch-them-young” programme had already been launched in 26 selected schools of Gurgaon which would help bring awareness among 25,000 students.
Dharamvir was speaking on the occasion of the inaugural ceremony of 61st annual session of (Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering)
IICHE-CHEMCON, 2008 at the Panjab University Auditorium here. He said under the programme, two teachers and 20 designated energy leaders among the students would be trained who would, in return, sensitise about 1,000 students in every school. The programme would be replicated in 25 schools in every district and energy soldiers would be trained not to resort to power theft and also not to allow others to steal power. The chief secretary said energy conservation was one of the easily available solutions for overcoming shortage of power.
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Two commit suicide
Rewari, December 27 Sources said he took the extreme step out of desperation because of disturbed domestic life. In another incident, Surender Kumar (38), a resident of Shiv Colony of Kosli, reportedly ended his life by jumping before a train near Kosli station last evening. Sources said he took the extreme step owing to frustration caused by an abrupt disappearance of his wife. The Government Railway Police (GRP), Dadri (Bhiwani district), after holding inquest proceedings in both the cases, treated them as suicidal deaths. |
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Extortion charge against murder accused
Sonepat, December 27 After receiving a complaint from Dr Jain, the Gannaur police registered a case against Ajmer and is reportedly planning to take him on a production warrant for further inquiry into the case. Ajmer has been accused of the murder of gram sachiv Vijender of Joli village, which took place about a year ago in a house in Gohana. Since then, he has been in judicial custody in the district jail here. |
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Shopkeeper shot at
Faridabad, December 27 The incident took place near a gurdwara located near Shastri Nagar in Old Faridabad area. The victim was sitting behind a motorcycle and his son was driving the vehicle. The miscreants followed the victim and opened fire at him from a point blank range. They escaped after the incident. The police has registered a case. Family members of Mangla said the miscreants did not shot at Mangla with an intention of looting. They said about three months ago, Rajeev, son of Mangla, was also shot at and injured by some miscreants near Shastri Nagar area. They suspect that some old enmity could be behind both the incidents. |
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Prisoner dies in hospital
Kurukshetra, December 27 According to the local jail deputy superintendent, Deepak Sharma, Daljit, a resident of Galedwa, had complained of chest pain yesterday and after attending to the patient, the district jail doctor referred him to LNJP Hospital here yesterday. Sharma said though Daljit died during his treatment, the reasons leading to his death could be ascertained only after his postmortem report was received. However, Daljit’s relatives have not ruled out murder. Daljit’s brother Manjit Singh and his brothers-in-law Charanjit Singh and Binda have alleged that when Daljit was brought to LNJP Hospital, his ear was bleeding and there were bruises on his hands and feet. However, Daljit was in good health when his wife Prakash Kaur had met him in the jail four days ago, they added. Daljit had jailed for one year over his involvement in a conflict in 1992 and was to be released on January 9.
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Kaithal to have mini Shakti Bhawan
Kaithal, December 27 This was stated by Shamsher Singh Surjewala, Kaithal MLA, while addressing a press conference here today. He said the mini Shakti Bhawan, to be constructed at a cost of Rs 3 crore, would be fully computerised and would house the offices of the Superintendent Engineer, the Executive Engineer, all four SDOs, a complaint centre and cash collection centres. He said a new power house would be constructed at Kutabpur and 33 kV substations would be set up at Chandana, Lander Keema and Budhakhera. |
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4 killed in road mishap
Rewari, December 27 The deceased have been identified as Chhote Lal of Kaluwas village, near here; Kailash Chand of Karoli village in Alwar district of Rajasthan; Ajay Kumar, a resident of Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh; and Santra Devi, a resident of Ferozpur district in Punjab. While three seriously inured were referred to Delhi, two children with grievous injuries are being treated in separate private hospitals at Dharuhera. The other injured have been admitted to various hospitals in Rewari and Dharuhera. The mishap occurred when a bus of Arora Bus Service, reportedly on the way from Dharuhera to Rewari, collided head-on with a cooperative society bus, which was on the way to Dharuhera. |
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Wife, paramour held for man’s murder
Sirsa, December 27 The woman, Rani Devi’s husband Naurang had died under mysterious circumstances at his residence on the night intervening December 7 and 8. The body of the victim was cremated the next day. The victim’s father, Devjeet, yesterday complained to the police that his son had been killed by the latter’s wife Rani and her paramour Raju, a resident of Narwana, who came to their residence late on December 7 night and left early in the morning. Later, Naurang was found dead. |
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Accused of having stolen a mobile phone belonging to a shopkeeper, a 22-year-old youth committed suicide by jumping before a train here this morning.
Karnal, December 27
