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LS Nominees
Dairy mela inaugurated
Dr AK Srivastava, Director, NDRI, briefs Dr Tej Pratap (right), Vice-Chancellor of CSK Agricultural University, Palampur, about the functioning of the milking machine during the inauguration of a dairy mela in Karnal on Thursday. Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar
BSP has a dig at Third Front
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EC to attribute surrogate ads
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Ban on red light atop party vehicles
CM’s aides quit
SYL Canal
Shopkeeper shot at by youths
Tractor thieves’ gang busted, 4 held
Couple hacked to death by kin
HJC to announce nominees soon
CBI to probe into custodial death
INLD campaign to go hi-tech
Cong manifesto bundle of lies: INLD
Safety Norms
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LS Nominees
Chandigarh, March 26 Earlier in the day, the three-member screening committee met in Delhi to shortlist the applicants who had applied for the ticket from various constituencies. The meeting was presiding over by its chairman BK Hariprasad, Karnataka MP. It was attended by its two members, union ministers Anand Sharma and Prithviraj Chavan, besides Haryana Congress president Phool Chand Mullana and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Sources said after about one hour, Mullana and Hooda left the meeting, while the three members continued to hold deliberations. It is not known what recommendations the committee has forwarded to the CEC, which has the final word in the selection of the candidates. Though the CEC is meeting regularly these days, it was expected to take up the Haryana list tonight because its meeting was being attended by Hooda and Mullana. The sources said while the sitting MPs from certain seats were sure to retain their nomination, other seats were proving to be headache for the party as there were several strong contenders for these seats. Since AICC president Sonia Gandhi heads the CEC, the contentious issues will be decided by her only. The meeting ended late in the night. According to sources in the AICC, the decision has been kept pending.
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Dairy mela inaugurated
Karnal, March 26 Dr BK Joshi, director of the National Bureau of Animal Genetics Resources, Karnal; Dr AK Mishra, director of the Project Directorate on Cattle, Meerut; and Dr JS Cheema of Cheema Foundation Trust were the guest of honour. While speaking on the occasion, Dr Tej Partap lauded the role being played by the NDRI in bringing about prosperity for the farmers by introducing them to the latest technologies. Dr BK Joshi said it was of great significance for the farmers to keep high yielding animals to accrue profits in dairy farming. Dr AK Srivastava, director, NDRI, said by adopting the latest dairy techniques the farmers stood to benefit immensely. This, he said, would not only improve the living conditions of the farmers, but would also contribute to the national economy. The NDRI would be holding milk-yield competition and breeding beauty competitions for four breeds, including Holstein Friesian cross cows, other cross breed cows, indigenous cows and buffalos during the mela. On the first day, of the competitions emptying of udder of participating animals was held. The institute has also put on display the latest technologies that have been invented during the recent years that could help the farmers increase the milk yield and thus add considerably to their incomes. Various seed companies, tractor companies, fertiliser companies and pharmaceuticals companies have also converged at the institute to participate in the mela where they can directly reach out to the farming community to introduce their latest products to them. Besides, farmers organizations, including the progressive dairy farmers and sister organisation of the ICAR are also participating the mela. As many as two thousand farmers from Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi have come to participate in the mela and nearly 500 animals have been registered at the mela. |
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BSP has a dig at Third Front
Sirsa, March 26 However, state president of the BSP Parkash Bharti once again ruled out any kind of understanding with these parties without naming any specific political party. He even derided the importance of the Third Front and said it would not be able to last long. “Both Congress as well as the BJP are communal parties and have been flaring up the communal sentiments of people for coming to power. But the people of India have now become wise enough to see through their game plan and would not be taken in by their gimmicks,” said Parkash Bharti. |
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EC to attribute surrogate ads
to candidates Gurgaon, March 26 Disclosing the new guidelines here today, District Electoral Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Deepti Umashankar said the Commission had noticed that during elections, many such advertisements were inserted in print media in the name of surrogate or other such organisations. Such advertisements, for and against particular political parties or candidates, figure in the newspapers during the election period. The Election Commission has maintained that if an advertisement is with the consent or knowledge of the candidate, it will be treated to have been authorised by the candidate concerned and will be accounted for in the election expenses of the candidate. The DC said as per the guidelines, if the advertisement was not with the authority from the candidate, then action might be taken for prosecution of the publisher for violation of Section 171 H of the IPC for incurring expenditure in advertisement without written authority from the candidate concerned. She said if the identity of the publisher was not indicated in the advertisement, the information regarding it would be sought from the newspaper and appropriate action taken.
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Ban on red light atop party vehicles
Sirsa, March 26 Stating this, Goyal said judges, administrative officers and authorised officers of the police, transport, health and other departments had been exempted from these orders. He said the orders would remain in operation till the completion of the election process ie May 16 and the person violating these orders would face legal action under Section 188 of the IPC. He said printing press proprietors had been ordered to print the address of their press on the bottom of posters, pamphlets, leaflets and other publicity material being printed by them. They should also keep the addresses of persons who have approached them to get the publicity material printed. They should also verify the antecedents and identity of the persons who has ordered them to get the matter printed. A ban on the use of loudspeakers from 10 pm to 6 am had also been imposed, he added.
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CM’s aides quit
Chandigarh, March 26 It is learnt that one political secretary and two assistant political secretaries posted in the Chief Minister’s camp office in his constituency, Kiloi, have also quit. |
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SYL Canal
Hisar, March 26 In a statement issued here yesterday, he said thus far various political parties had been just politicising the issue as a result of which the SYL Canal had not been constructed so far. If state’s parched fields were to get water, the canal must be built, he added. He said the issue was first taken to the Supreme Court in 1978 by the then Devi Lal government. However, even as the petition was pending, the then PM, Indira Gandhi, laid the foundation stone of the Punjab portion at Kapuri village in 1981, and the then Bhajan Lal government withdrew the case in February 1982. The Haryana government again approached the court in 1995, but the court rejected the plea on technical grounds. The next year the Bansi Lal government filed a petition in the apex court but forgot all about it till its ouster. In July 1999, when the Om Parkash Chautala government came to power, it again approached the court, which decided on January 15, 2002, that the Punjab government complete its portion of the canal within one year and in case it failed to do so, the Centre should complete the work. The state government again approached the court in which it directed the Centre to build the canal through its own agency and it should also arrange for the security of the work force. The court gave a detailed time-bound schedule for the completion of the project. However, Sampat said, days before the deadline was to expire the then Punjab government passed an act terminating all inter-state water agreements. In July 2004, the Manmohan Singh government sent the act for a presidential reference and that is where the matter rested. He said none of the nine Congress MPs from the state ever took up the issue in the Lok Sabha throughout their tenures. Sampat said it was time that all parties made efforts to get the apex court decision implemented so that the state could get its share of water.
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Shopkeeper shot at by youths
Yamunanagar, March 26 According to the police, old rivalry following a land dispute could be the reason behind the attack on Mange Ram. The incident took place when Mange Ram was in his shop and the youths, carrying country-made pistols, opened fire at him and fled. The police has registered a statement of the victim. SP Vikas Arora said after recording the statement of injured, the police had registered a case in this regard and also rounded up two persons in connection with the case. |
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Tractor thieves’ gang busted, 4 held
Bhiwani, March 26 He said a fifth member of the gang was at large. The four arrested members were on remand for interrogation. Referring to their modus operandi, he said after stealing the tractors, they used to sell these in adjoining districts at low prices. He said during interrogation, the members revealed their involvement in 16 other acts of crime. He said the crime branch of the police had arrested Dayanand, alias Nanda, a resident of New Subash Nagar, Hansi; Satbir of Sisai village, who works in the Irrigation Department at Paposa; Sanjay of Shekhupura village; and Raj Pal Singh of Garhi village. However, Vinod of Shekhupura succeeded in giving the police the slip. He said the police had recovered from their possession a Swaraj tractor, which was stolen from Bhiwani, a 12-bore pistol and cartridges, two iron rods and a Maruti car bearing the registration number HR 20 F 6224.
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Couple hacked to death by kin
Jhajjar, March 26 Another son of the deceased also sustained serious injuries in the incident. Deceased have been identified as Dalel Singh (68) and Ratni Devi (64). The police has registered a case under various Sections of the IPC against deceased’s son Naresh, daughter-in-law Kamla and grandsonson Sumit in this connection and launched a hunt to nab the accused. According to information, Dalel Singh had decided to get earth lifted from the fields - owned by the family - by a brickkiln owner against the wishes of his eldest son Naresh. When the earth lifting from the land was in progress, Naresh, along with his wife Kamla and son Sumit, rushed to the fields armed with sharp-edged farm implements. The trio allegedly attacked Dalel Singh and his wife Ratni. The deceased’s youngest son - Nar Singh, who intervened to save his parents also sustained injuries in the incident and subsequently, rushed to the police station to lodge complaint against the assailants. The couple reportedly died on the spot while the trio accused fled from the spot. On getting information, Jhajjar DSP Rajbir Deswal, along with the police force, reached the spot and took stock of the situation. The bodies were sent to the civil hospital for postmortem after the forensic examination.
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HJC to announce nominees soon
Ambala, March 26 “All candidates will win, we are very confident of it,” stated HJC president Kuldeep Bishnoi. Commenting on the INLD-BJP alliance, he stated that Om Prakash Chauthala and the BJP alliance was a fraud, as they shared no common ideology. He also clarified that the BSP and the HJC had never considered an alliance and there was no match even in there ideologies.
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CBI to probe into custodial death
Chandigarh, March 26 The directions follow a petition by the victim’s wife Surinder Kaur. Her counsel had submitted despite repeated efforts, the police stonewalled the attempts to get the case registered. The deceased was allegedly picked up the police on October 31, 2003, and allegedly tortured. He was allowed to go home for bringing Rs 5,000 allegedly demanded by the cops.
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INLD campaign to go hi-tech
Sirsa, March 26 Ajay Singh Chautala, Rajya Sabha member and secretary-general of the INLD, told The Tribune here today that the party had prepared documentaries to be shown to the voters during the NDA’s election campaign in Haryana. “Promises that have not been kept by the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in Haryana and the atrocities committed on the common people have been incorporated in the documentaries prepared for the election campaign,” Ajay Chautala said. The party has also prepared compact discs of these documentaries and these would be distributed among voters so that they could see these on their DVD players or computers and also show these to women members of the families, who usually do not attend election rally. Besides the documentaries, the party has also prepared teams of its workers to enact street plays on the “failure of the Congress government in Haryana and the centre”. Exuding confidence about the NDA forming the next government at the Centre after the parliamentary elections, Ajay Chautala said the UPA was already on the way to disintegration as many of its constituents had been leaving it before elections. Pooh-poohing the Third Front, the INLD leader said only the NDA was an alternative to the UPA and the so-called Third Front was merely an assembly of some disgruntled politicians, who did not have any future. He claimed that the NDA government, led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had been considered the best government that ruled the country so far and added that now Lal Krishan Advani would also provide good governance to the people after the coming elections. Ajay Chautala said incidents of terrorism had increased in recent years and the government had not been able to do anything to stop these acts of terror. He regretted that the constituents of the UPA even doubted the credentials of security personnel who laid down their lives fighting terrorists. Ajay Chautala alleged that the plight of farmers had gone from bad to worse during the tenure of the UPA government and farmers had been forced to commit suicide due to the “wrong policies” of the government.
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Cong manifesto bundle of lies: INLD
Chandigarh, March 26 INLD secretary general Ajay Singh Chautala said here on Wednesday the people would not give another chance to the Congress as its track record over the past five years had been full of failures and broken promises. He said Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s acceptance of not being able to implement the manifesto spoke loud and clear about the deceit with the common men. Chautala said the Congress should have come out with a report card first rather than a manifesto.
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Safety Norms
Gurgaon, March 26 Deswal disclosed here today that the police conducted a special drive to check the means of transport on March 18 and 19, during which large-scale violations of safety norms were found. “As many as 329 school vehicles were challaned, of which 34 were impounded for gross violations,” he said, adding that the challaning of these vehicles was more of advisory nature than a punishment. “The underlying idea behind the exercise was to create awareness among the drivers of school buses and managements of these institutions. All educational institutions are also being individually informed about the violations of safety measures by the drivers of vehicles arranged by them for their children,” Deswal maintained. The Police Commissioner further stated that collective efforts on the part of parents, school managements and the police would ensure fool-proof safety of the children. He disclosed that the Gurgaon police would soon launch a special campaign in educational institutions to teach the children about traffic rules and safety measures at a tender age, which would go a long way in ensuring self-discipline among drivers on our roads. Deswal also requested the parents of the schoolchildren to ensure that the school management was enforcing the necessary guidelines to ensure the safety of children. If they found any violation therein, they should inform the traffic police or senior police officials so that action could be taken against the guilty drivers and school managements. |
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Karnal, March 26
