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Horror Down Under
Govt to help Baljinder’s parents visit Australia
10 BJP leaders in dock
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Surgeries to get cost-effective
Govt to promote Punjabi: CM
MC’s Annual Meeting
Curbing Crime
Says development work helped Cong win
Sanskrit samiti holds protest
Expectant woman burnt alive
2 of family killed in accident
Man kills wife
Rail traffic blocked
Applications for national awards invited
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Horror Down Under
Yamunanagar, May 31 She said the central government would provide all possible help, including financial aid, to Rajesh, who had suffered serious burn injuries after a petrol bomb was hurled at him in his home in Sydney on May 28. She said the medical treatment expenses of Rajesh would be taken care of either by the Australia Government or by the central government. “The government will take up the matter of security of Indians in Australia seriously and extend all possible help to them,” Selja added. Explaining the trauma she had been going through, Amarjit Kaur urged Selja to take up the matter of the security of Indians with the Australian government. Neelam said her brother had to undergo a surgery tomorrow. Therefore, they had requested Selja to take care of the expenses. She said her brother-in-law had informed them that the Australian authorities had assured that it would take care of all medical expenses. “All formalities related to the visa of my mother and maternal uncle have been cleared. However, my mother will not be able to go soon as she has been undergoing treatment, but my maternal uncle will leave for Australia on Wednesday,” she added. Meanwhile, senior leader of the HJC Satpal Kaushik, who also met the victim’s family, demanded that the government should bear the travel expenses of the family. Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar Aggarwal said the administration would provide all financial aid, including travel expenses, to the victim’s family. |
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Govt to help Baljinder’s parents visit Australia
Karnal, May 31 Baljinder was discharged from the hospital yesterday and is recuperating in his house. Karnal Deputy Commissioner Chander Prakash and SSP AS Chawla, who visited the house of Baljinder Singh today, assured the worried parents of all possible assistance. The government would make arrangements to send them to Australia and their passports would be arranged within 48 hours and efforts would be made to get the visa at the earliest, district officers reportedly told Mewa Singh and Krishan Devi, father and mother of Baljinder, a resident of Sector 8, Karnal. Mewa Singh, a veterinary doctor, told The Tribune that he, his wife and son-in-law Suresh Kumar would shortly leave for Australia to meet their son. Baljinder Singh had already completed a course in hotel management and was doing a job in Australia but the “racist” attacks on Indians had made their lives unsafe, Mewa Singh said, adding that they would discuss all security aspects and then take a decision whether to allow Baljinder Singh to continue to work in Australia. The assailants had inflicted multiple injuries on his stomach and he received 16 stitches, said Mewa Singh. He said his son did not even inform them about the incident and he came to know about it from a friend, who saw Baljinder on a TV channel. He said the police was investigating, but the matter must be taken at higher level to ensure the safety of Indians living in Australia. Karan Singh, another local resident, whose two sons are doing a course in hotel management in Australia, said they were disturbed over the recent incidents of violence against Indians and the government must intervene effectively to restore the confidence of the Indian community in the Australian police. There were more than 300 students from Karnal studying in Australia and their parents were under great stress, he added. However, the parents were not in position to withdraw their wards immediately as they had not completed the course and leaving the course in midstream would lead to heavy financial loss and harm their career, Surinder Singh, whose son is doing a hotel management course in Perth, said. |
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10 BJP leaders in dock
Chandigarh, May 31 The decision was taken at the one-day meeting of the state executive of the party held in Panchkula today. According to reliable sources, the meeting identified three main reasons behind its defeat in the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana. The party felt that part of its vote bank was transferred to the BSP because of the social engineering experiment of the latter. The BJP also suffered a set back because some of its voters voted for the Haryana Janhit Congress of Kuldeep Bishnoi. The failure to attract the youth was identified as the third reason behind its defeat. It was decided that in the next Assembly elections, the party must put up a good number of youth candidates. During the 2005 elections, the party had won two seats. But one of its MLAs, Ram Kumar Gautam, resigned from the party as well as the Assembly and joined the Congress in protest against the BJP-INLD alliance a few days before the Lok Sabha elections. Now the party is left with only one MLA, and even he faces disciplinary action. Among the leaders against whom the party proposes disciplinary action within 10 days is a national office-bearer of the women’s wing of the party. Many members said at the meeting that one of the main reasons behind the party’s defeat was that for the past five years, workers had been told to follow the policy of “Akela Chalo”. However, the policy was suddenly reversed before the Lok Sabha elections as a result of which the grass-root worker had not accepted the BJP-INLD alliance. Despite these sentiments, the party has decided to continue with the alliance. Senior party leader Ram Bilas Sharma told mediapersons that the alliances were not formed or broken in a hurry, indicating that the BJP-INLD alliance would continue till at least the Assembly elections. Sharma heads a five-member committee to review the Lok Sabha election results in Haryana. The committee was scheduled to submit its report today but it sought more time from the state executive. Sources said the BJP would now try for an early distribution of Assembly seats with the INLD so that it could identify suitable candidates well before the elections. |
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Surgeries to get cost-effective
Aimed at reforming medicare in government hospitals and to facilitate better patient care, these packages will offer preoperative tests, quality care during the surgery and postoperative drugs for a week after discharge. Of greater significance is the fact that these packages will cost much less than the charges of the same surgeries in the private sector, some coming to even one-fourth of the total cost in the private sector. Also, these packages will cost less than the charges already being levied in government hospitals since patients will no longer have to purchase drugs and other consumables from the market. These, too, will now be supplied by the hospitals only. The packages will be offered in the field of orthopaedics, ENT, eye, gyanecology and general surgery to begin with. The package cost will include all tests, including CT scans, echo, blood testing, drugs, general ward charges, postoperative medicines, dressings wherever required and a week’s medicine following discharge from the hospital. If for some reason, tests involved in the surgery are not available at the district hospital, it will be the responsibility of the hospital to get the same done from outside. “We were very pained by the treatment being meted out to attendants who used to run to the chemists with prescriptions. Now, the patient will know the exact cost of surgery before hand and no additional charges will be sought later. Then, the responsibility of drugs and consumables will be that of the hospitals. This will bring down the treatment cost for the patient since the government hospitals get their supplies at one-third the market cost. It is a challenge but we are game for it,” said financial commissioner and principal secretary, health, Anuradha Gupta. Under this first-of-its kind scheme by a government, while indoor patients will get affordable treatment in these district hospitals, these surgeries will be free of cost for poor patients holding BPL cards. Also, a provision to treat patients from urban slums notified by urban local bodies and holding a ration card or voter identity card has been made under this scheme approved by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda recently. At a meeting of medical superintendents and five surgeons drawn from each of the 21 districts, the packages for various specialities were made known to those in the field for a feedback as also to know the preparedness of district hospitals. The rates were decided by the central committee comprising specialists from the district hospital in Panchkula and officers of the director, General Health Services. The rates could further be “improved upon” on the basis of feedback from the field staff gradually. |
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Govt to promote Punjabi: CM
Panipat, May 31 Paying tributes to Maharaja Jassa Singh, Hooda said he was a true solider of the Sikh panth and a great worrier of the 18th century, who not only won over the Red Fort in Delhi but also kept the enemies away from the Golden Temple. He also lauded the role played by the Sikhs in the freedom struggle of the nation. In an attempt to consolidate the party’s standing amongst the Sikh electorate, Hooda said the Congress had given due representation to the Punjabis in the state legislative Assembly and it would continue to do so in future. On the issue of separate SGPC for the state, Agriculture Minister HS Chatha said the government was in favour of a separate committee for the state and a legal process was on in this regard. He said it was a promise that the Congress had made in its election manifesto before the Assembly elections and it would be fulfilled. Chatha said it had been decided in principle to appoint a teacher of Punjabi in all government schools in the state wherever there were five or more than five students studying the language. Karnal MP Arvind Sharma said the Sikh community was one of the most generous groups of people who lived on the values enlisted in the Gurbani. Working president of the HPCC Kuldeep Sharma said the history of the Sikh community would be written in golden letters for they had made supreme sacrifices not only for the religion but also for the country. Earlier, the CM unveiled a statue of Lala Jagat Narain in Model Town. Addressing a gathering there, he credited the success of Congress candidates to the visionary approach of AICC president Sonia Gandhi and the clean image of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. |
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MC’s Annual Meeting
Rohtak, May 31 The EO has written a letter to DC PC Meena in this regard and requested him to resolve the deadlock over the council’s meeting to clear the annual budget by exercising his special powers, sources said. It is perhaps the first time during the past about one decade that the budget of the council has not been passed yet. It used to be approved in March every year. As a result, payments of various development works completed in the last financial year could not be made to many contractors. However, municipal councillors of the opposition group have also submitted their representations to the authority for holding the meeting saying that the chairperson of the civic body is duty-bound to call the meeting but no action has been taken so far in this regard. The EO, BN Bharti, said: “The meeting of the council regarding approval of the budget is usually called before March 31. However, it has been delayed this time due to the model code of conduct enforced in view of the Lok Sabha elections from the first week of March to the second week of May.” Thereafter, the meeting must have been called immediately but the authority concerned failed to do so. Since the matter is important, it has been sent to the DC for further action, the EO maintains. Meanwhile, officiating chairperson of the council Anita Miglani said she had talked to several councillors about holding the meeting but most of them denied to attend it till designated chairman Ajit Jain, who was on official leave till March 31 and had not joined so far, make his position clear whether he would continue or resign from the post. Anita said she would talk to the DC in this regard. |
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Golden Eye
Sirsa, May 31 A resident of Johri village in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh, she has been living in Sirsa these days in Dera Sacha Sauda, where she trains girls in Shah Satnamji Girls Senior Secondary School and Shah Satnamji Girls College in rifle shooting. Addressed as “dadi” by those living around her, Chandro Devi is a sharp shooter even at this age. She was in her early sixties, when she first started learning this art. “I once went to a shooting club at Johri with my two granddaughters, where they learnt shooting and I tried my hand at a gun. After coming back home, I expressed my desire to learn shooting, but was ridiculed. However, my husband Bhanwar Singh supported me and I started learning the art of rifle shooting,” Chandro Devi said talking to The Tribune. Since then she has not looked back and even at this age she can aim at any object with precision. Chandro Devi has won gold medals in veteran sports events in Ahmedabad and Bangalore and has exhibited her talent on several other occasions. She was among several talented women honoured by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on the occasion of International Women’s Day last year. Despite her talent, Chandro Devi has a regret in life. “The only regret is that I do not know English,” Chandro Devi says. |
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Curbing Crime
Rohtak, May 31 The police has got published books - “Beat” - in which duties, responsibilities and rights of police officials have been mentioned in detail. The book will not only help the police officials in performing their job efficiently, but will also make them competent enough in taking suitable decisions while investigating crime cases. Besides, vital information about the police officer concerned like his/her name, rank, belt number, home address, contact number, blood group and e-mail ID will be given in the book so that his/her identification could be ascertained easily. Perhaps, this sort of book has been published for the first time by the police department in Haryana to make the officials aware towards their duties and responsibilities. The distribution of books among the police officials working in various districts - Rohtak, Jhajjar, Karnal, Sonepat and Panipat - that fall under the range will start soon. It will be obligatory for the police official to keep the book with him while performing the job. Before distributing the books, a special training programme will be organised at every district headquarter of the range to tell the police officials the importance and significance of the book. Top police officers will also interact with the officials during the programme. Inspector General of Police (IGP) V Kamaraja said the book would help the police personnel to prevent crime. “How should a police official function at the time of road blockade, procession, communal riots, road accidents, patrolling, fair and political rallies have been mentioned in the beat book,” the IGP said, adding that the police officials need not depend on anyone for taking decision regarding their duties and responsibilities after going through the book. |
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Says development work helped Cong win
Ambala, May 31 Addressing a party workers’ meeting at Ambala
Cantt, she said Rahul Gandhi had emerged in a big way in Indian politics. She said like Sonia Gandhi, he had also sacrificed the post of a Cabinet Minister for strengthening the party and it would give a new thinking to the youth of the country. She credited her victory to the hard work put in by party workers. She praised Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and said the state government had done record development works in the state during the past four years and it had benefited Congress candidates in the elections. She said she would complete pending projects and would fulfil all poll promises. She thanked the party workers and the voters for reposing faith in
her. HPCC chief Phool Chand Mullana said except Congress, all parties had lost their credibility in these elections. Criticising BSP supremo
Mayawati, he said the social engineering formula of the BSP had completely flopped. Chairman of Haryana election campaign committee and former Union Minister Venod Sharma said the people of Haryana had rejected the BJP-INLD alliance. He said the clean image of Chief Minister and the development works done by him had played an important role in the victory of the Congress candidates in
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Sanskrit samiti holds protest
Rohtak, May 31 The samiti has been demanding continuation of the system of counting the marks of best five subjects in the matriculation examination, making Sanskrit a compulsory subject in schools from classes VI to XII, creation of posts of Sanskrit lecturer in 350 government schools upgraded during the past four years in the state and release of the promotion list of Sanskrit teachers for the post of Headmaster in government schools. Earlier, a large numbers of activists of the samiti, led by veteran Arya Samaj leader and samiti president Acharya Baldev, gathered at Dayanand Math in the morning and marched in procession, raising slogans in support of their demands and against the state government. The protesters reached the Deputy Commissioner’s camp office in the afternoon to submit their memorandum. Since the DC was not available, they decided to march to the Chief Minister's local residence. At Bapu Park, the ADC received the memorandum in which the state government has been warned that it will be responsible for the consequences in case their demands were not met within 10 days. |
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Expectant woman burnt alive
Sirsa, May 31 The victim has been identified as Sunita. The police has booked the victim’s husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law under Sections 302, 304-B and 34 of the IPC on a complaint of the victim’s brother, Pawan Kumar, a resident of Krishanpura village. “Sunita got married to Ram Swaroop 11 months ago and we had given enough dowry to him at the time of the marriage. However, he and his parents - Kalawati and Ganga Jal - started harassing her for dowry,” Pawan Kumar has alleged in his complaint to the police. He said Sunita’s neighbours informed him about her death and when he went to Nimla village, he found his sister dead and Ram Swaroop had absconded. The police has registered a case and sent the body to the PGIMS, Rohtak, for a postmortem. |
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2 of family killed in accident
Jhajjar, May 31 The deceased have been identified as Jagdish and Krishan, residents of Chhapar village. The incident took place when Jagdish along with Krishan was on the way to Dhaud village here to meet his daughter. As they reached near Raiya village, the motorcycle they were riding on collided head-on with a tempo. Consequently, the two fell down on the road and the tempo also overturned. Jagdish died on the spot while four others, including Krishan, driver and two other occupants of the tempo, sustained serious injuries. All were taken to the Civil Hospital in Jhajjar, where Krishan succumbed to his injuries. |
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Man kills wife
Sirsa, May 31 The man, Iqbal Singh, escaped after killing his wife Jaswinder Kaur. Reports said Iqbal Singh had recently married off his daughter and was ridden with debt after that. He had an altercation with his wife today over the debt and after that he allegedly hit his wife on the head. Jaswinder Kaur died on the spot. |
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Rail traffic blocked
Rohtak, May 31 The protesters demanded of clearing the way that remained closed due to construction works on railway overbridge here for a long time. The traffic on the
Rohtak-Delhi and Rohtak-Panipat tracks remained suspended from 5 to 7 pm. The police tried to persuade the protesters to lift the blockade, but could not succeed. Later, the agitating residents lifted the blockade following an assurance by ADC AS Mann that he would talk to the railway authorities in this regard and hopefully the demand would be met. |
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Applications for national awards invited Chandigarh, May 31 Stating this here on Saturday, a spokesman for the Women and Child Welfare Department said National Awards for Child Welfare and Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award for Service to Children were given for the best work done in a year in the cause of children. National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement is given to children who had achieved outstanding status in various fields, including academics, arts, culture and sports.
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