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UKD minister Bhatt not in favour of pulling out of govt
Meanwhile, Varun Gandhi’s effigy
burnt
For pupil’s sake, schools to hold sports tourneys
ASHA workers demand monthly wages
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Warning issued to encroachers in Haridwar
Dr RK Jain and other specialist doctors inaugurate infertility workshop at CMI hospital in Dehradun. Tribune photo: Anil P. Rawat
Thousands scramble for college admission
... Even as DAV gears up for exams
Farmers turn their back on BJP
Ordnance Factory Day observed
STF team nabs 3 poachers
Inter-Institutional Cricket
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UKD minister Bhatt not in favour of pulling out of govt
Dehradun, March 18 While a powerful section of the Dal led by senior leader Kashi Singh Airy and legislator Pushpesh Tripathi along with the party rank and file favour withdrawing support to the BJP government, the lone UKD Cabinet Minister in the government, Diwakar
Bhatt, is against the move. The Dal with three MLAs in the assembly had extended support to the BJP government. In the bargain, Bhatt was made a minister and two other senior leaders, Kashi Singh Airy and party chief BD
Raturi, were given responsibilities in state corporations. Now, with Lok Sabha elections approaching and the BJP going it alone, there is resentment in the Dal rank and file. Sources say it will all depend on the stand of Ram
Gopal, the third party legislator in the assembly. If two legislators decide to part ways with Bhatt on the issue, there will be a split in the party. However, the party has yet to take a decision on the issue of withdrawal of support. “ The party will take a decision soon on the issue,” Virender Mohan
Uttarakhandi, chief spokesperson of the party said. Yashpal Benaam has asked the Dal to withdraw support to the BJP government and join hands with him for the Pauri Garhwal Lok sabha seat. Meanwhile, Munna Singh Chauhan continues his tirade against the BJP amid rumours that he will join the
BSP. He started a mass contact programme in the Yamuna and Tons valleys today. He has been touring the area where he enjoys political influence for consultations with his supporters. Sources in the state BSP believe that party supremo Mayawati will soon take a decision on allowing Munna into the party fold. |
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Meanwhile, Varun Gandhi’s effigy burnt
Dehradun, March 18 The protesters burnt an effigy of Varun Gandhi. Addressing the gathering, student leader Faim Chowdhary said BJP leaders wanted to incite communal feelings in the country. Youth Congress leader Taif Ali Khan said Varun Gandhi had lost his mental balance and the country’s youth was strongly opposed to the “evil design” of the BJP to divide the nation on the basis of religion. “ The Congress is the only political party, which is secular,” the leader claimed.— TNS
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For pupil’s sake, schools to hold sports tourneys
Mussoorie, March 18 In this meeting, which was called at the behest of the principal of Oak Grove, the sports instructors from 10 schools decided to forget about their disputes in the past and revive the Mussoorie Schools Sports Association. This association had been dissolved in 1993 following disputes between the schools. According to the principal of Oak Grove School, Anurag Tripathi, “The children were being deprived of a competitive sports environment due to the personal biases and prejudices between the various schools.” He requested all the schools to take a collective decision to start inter-school sports in the town in the interests of the students. In today’s meeting schools have agreed to reformulate the Mussoorie Schools Sports Association and decided to organize a cricket tournament from April 23 to 26. It must be noted that the town, which currently has 15 English medium schools, had a tradition of organising inter-school sports (including an athletic meet) every year but due to the disputes various schools stopped participating. A few schools including Oak Grove, St. George’s College, Wyneberg Allen, Woodstock and Waverly convent had been organising inter-school competitions amongst themselves but since the three years even this initiative had died down. |
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ASHA workers demand monthly wages
Haridwar, March 18 Apart from Haridwar, health workers from Roorkee also joined the agitation and criticised the government for the exploitation. Activists demanded monthly wages and also permanent status as given to those under National Rural Health Mission. Presiding the agitation Rajeshwari Chauhan, head of the ASHA Union, questioned, “Asha workers are responsible for most of the health related work in the rural areas but getting it done without paying fair dues, isn’t it an exploitation? ” While criticising on the paucity of medicines in the government hospitals, divisional secretary of National Council of CITU, Mahendra Jakhmola said the red tapism is putting the health services on the back foot. “While ASHA health activists are generating awareness among rural people but the lack of medicines and health services in dispensaries and hospitals are undoing all the hard work done by these activists,” said Jakhmola. Roorkee union head Khurshida reiterated that all the activists under this union have decided to work in unity and until their demands are met they will continue to agitate in the district. Mangalore ASHA president Geeta Pandey, secretary CITU RC Dhiman, DYFI members were among hundreds of activists from various parts of the district. Dehradun: Meanwhile, the ASHA health workers held a dharna today at Gandhi Park in support of their demands. Owing allegiance to Uttarakhand Health ASHA Workers Union, the members demanding implementation of minimum wage scales and regularisation, raised anti-government slogans. The president of the union Shiva Dubey said that the workers are paid very less honorariums and demanded a rise. “The central government has set an honorarium of Rs 500 which is quite less, instead they should appoint ASHA workers and assigning them minimum wages,” Dubey said. She said that the workers are being exploited and are getting their due.
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Warning issued to encroachers in Haridwar
Haridwar, March 18 Considering the fact that encroachments posing severe problems to various development works going on for the upcoming Mahah Kumbh Mela next year, the Haridwar Police has started an anti-encroachment drive in the busiest Jwalapur market by issuing warning notices to all those who have encroached upon the government area. Senior Police Inspector of Jwalapur said the police want to remove encroachments but we gave them a sufficient time to remove these so that there is no panic in the market. Police is warning people about the encroachments through loudspeakers and asking them to vacate the encroached space as soon as possible or get ready to face action. Meanwhile, locals have welcomed the police stance of removing the encroachments in the city, which has become a menace. “We want the glory Haridwar back but there is no space in the markets. There are illegal constructions everywhere and people are trying to pouch every bit of land which is available,” said Vimla Pandey, a social activist. Meanwhile, the police has demolished the encroachments in industrial area of SIDCUL yesterday which had mushroomed in this newly carved area.
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Stress leads to infertility: Experts
Dehradun, March 18 These views were expressed at the first conference on Continuing Medical Education (CME) on ‘Infertility Update’ under the aegis of Centre for Assisted Reproduction and Endoscopy (CARE), organised by Combined Medical Institute (CMI). Dr KR Sharma an Andrologist from Udaipur Medical College said the infertility in men could be hormonal or due to stress and ailments like diabetes. “Our modern lifestyle has given rise to several disease and there are several men, in their thirties, suffering from diabetes,” said Dr KR Sharma. Today’s generation is increasingly delaying marriages and pregnancies. He stressed on following proper procedures of diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities and said Kleinfelter’s Syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality in males, can be detected early through proper diagnosis. While Dr Anupam Gupta from Akanksha IVF Center Agra said in women tuberculosis, hormonal disorders and sexually transmitted diseases (STD) could be a reason of infertility. “ The problem of Polycystic Ovarin Disease (POD) can set in as early as the age of 14 years and if not treated properly it can lead to complications in adulthood,” said Dr Gupta. He also dwelt at length on the IVF fertility treatment available in the country while Nutan Jain MD of Vardham Trauma and Infertility discussed the endoscopic methods being used for treating fertility. Dr RK Jain, director CMI said every possible treatments related to fertility are being provided under one roof. Dr Sumita Prabhakar, organizing secretary of the conference and in charge of Infertility Department CMI said the treatment of infertility is being undertaken at the CMI from last eight years. |
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Thousands scramble for college admission
Dehradun, March 18 Over 3,000 thousand students of B.Com had flocked to the college to collect their admit cards that are scheduled to begin from March 20. Traffic police had put-up a barricade at the EC road- DAV College road junction to make it one-way. The situation could get worse when private and regular students would come to appear in the examination in DAV (PG) College. College principal, Ashok Kumar Saxena said, “This is the first time that private and regular students will appear together for the examination. Normally, examinations for the private and regular students held separately. But this year, the college authorities are holding both the examinations simultaneously. As a result some 3,000 students will be appearing for the examination”. The college is known for it superfluous students strength, which is around 20,000 that includes at least 13,000 girls and 14,000 boys. This strength is much beyond the college capacity. He said things would be difficult right before the beginning and at the end of the examination. “At this point of time there would be over 5,000 students present in and out of the college campus,” said Saxena. College will be organising its examination in three shifts that is from 7 am to 10, 11 am to 2 pm and then 3 pm to 6 pm. Therefore, there is expected to be a huge congestion outside the college premises at 10 pm and at 3 pm. Though, College authorities are making tall claims that situation would be under control, as they have deployed traffic police to manage traffic congestion and also to make the college road one way. “We will ensure that situation of traffic jam unlike today do not arise again during the exam days that could be a great source of inconvenience to the residents of the area,” said principal.
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... Even as DAV gears up for exams
Dehradun, March 18 Dr. Ashok Kumar Saxena, principal of DAV (PG) College, said they are taking all steps to hold free and fair examinations. He said, “Our top priority would be to curb the use of unfair means by the students during the examination”. The college administration would be putting up barricades alongside classrooms to stop any kind of communication from outside. A college flying squad has also been formed which would be visiting classes at the college premises during the examination. This would be the first time this year that the examinations for private and regular students would held together at the college premises. Due to superfluous students capacity of 20,000 students, the college has to look into the seating arrangements for the students. “To meet the seating requirements, premises of the nearby DBS College would also be utilised for holding the examination. The college administration had also made an extra space of 500 seats in the college to accommodate students,” Kumar said. He further informed that for avoiding traffic congestion near college premises, traffic police would be deployed and the entire traffic on the college road would be made one-way. Saxena also made a special request to the students to wear floaters during the examination to enable the flying squad in easy checking during the examination. The admit cards for various streams have also made available on the net for the college students, for which they have to log on to the college website. But the students who access their admit cards through net have to bring along their identity card, fee receipt and library clearance slip on the day of examination. Dr. RM Saxena has been appointed as the chief examination controller, Dr. Atul Kumar as deputy examination controller and Dr. AM Chaturvedi the chief protector would also be supervising the conduct of examination proceedings.
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Farmers turn their back on BJP
Roorkee, March 18 Gulshan Rod, national president of the Morcha, said here today: “If the party selects a good candidate, we may extend support to the Congress.” He maintained that no outsider would be given support by them at any cost. A meeting, which was attended by over 150 leaders of the Morcha, was held at Manglore two days back to chalk out a strategy. “At the meeting, we decided not to back the BJP. So, we are eager to know about Congress planson the seat,” said Rakesh Aggarwal, national general secretary of the Morcha. He said the ND Tewari Congress government had bestowed several favours on the farmers. Asked what would be their next step if they did not find the Congress candidate suitable, Aggarwal replied: “Then we will back Samajwadi Party candidate Ambrish.” The farmers’ body is happy with the work done by sitting Samajwadi MP Rajinder Badi. “We will evaluate the party policies for farmers before making up our mind,” he added. Ambrish struck a rapport with the farmers while helping them during their two-month-long dharna in September and October last year. “Leaders from the SP have approached us, but we will finalise our strategy only after all things are clear,”summed up the Morcha leaders. In the Haridwar constituency, farmers constitute 32 per cent of the total votes.
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Ordnance Factory Day observed
Dehradun, March 18 Flagging off the celebrations with the Sadbhawana run, Arun Khanvalkar general manager Ordnance Factory said with changing times, the ordinance factories across the country had challenging task at hand to meet the ever increasing defence requirements. He honoured the employees who had excelled in their work. The department’s sportspersons were also honoured at the function. Apart from other programmes, equipments such as telescope, night vision and sighting systems of T 72, T 90 and MTV Arjun Tanks were put up for display as part of the exhibition. A cultural programme was organised for the employees at the Ordinance Factory auditorium.
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STF team nabs 3 poachers
Dehradun, March 18 The STF police under the Vasant Vihar police station apprehended Ranjit Singh, alias Ranjeet Gusain a, resident of Panee Kunjaso in district
Chamoli, and seized the leopard hide, one measuring above 6 ft and the other above 4 ft in length. The accused had reportedly poisoned the leopards to death. Only a week back, the anti-poaching cell of the forest department had confiscated leopard skin from poachers belonging to
Rudrayprayag. Meanwhile, a cash reward of Rs 2,500 has been announced for the STF team that included SI V P
Thapliyal, contable Ramchandra Singh and constable Pankaj Devli, among others.
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ITM defeat ONGC Blue Vishal Thakur Tribune News Service
Dehradun, March 18 Batting first, ITM scored 169 runs at the loss of five wickets. Promod scored a 72 runs for his team and Deepak made 28. For ONGC Blue Narendra, Ajay Rawat, Sanjeev, Rajiv Kumar and Shailendra took one wicket each. In reply, ONGC Blue was all out for 97 runs. Ajay Rawat was the main scorer for the team he made 46 runs, and Rajiv contributed 15 runs. For ITM team, Harvinder was the pick of the bowlers with 3 wickets. The day’s second match was between FRI and LIC, in which LIC got a walkover.
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Tremors in Uttarkashi
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