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Power cuts defy authorities’ claims
World’s 2nd buffalo clone born at NDRI
A team of scientists with the world’s second buffalo clone at the NDRI in Karnal on Saturday.
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Dera chief’s case adjourned
Highway robbers’ gang busted, 4 held
Haryana clarification
on pensions
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Power cuts defy authorities’ claims
Chandigarh, June 6 It is learnt that domestic consumers across the state are facing cuts ranging from six to seven hours a day, while the industry is facing a cut ranging from eight to 10 hours a day. In rural areas, people are forced to go without power for 12 hours, while the supply to agriculture consumers is restricted to just six hours a day. Though the scheduled power cuts are just two hours on domestic consumers, six hours on the industry and 12 hours in rural areas, long and unscheduled power cuts have become common. While the domestic consumers are braving the heat, the industrial production, too, has been adversely hit because of poor power availability. Industrialists in the state complained that not only were they suffering long cuts, the frequent voltage fluctuations were also acting as a spoilsport. The Haryana Power Utilities claims that this June they have broken all previous records by supplying almost 930 lakh units (LUs) of power - which is almost 200 LUs more than what was supplied in June last year. But the power demand has shot up by almost 25 per cent over last year (from 750 LUs to 1,000 LUs)- thus upsetting the calculations made by the power department for arranging additional power for the summer months. A senior official in the power department told TNS that as against an availability of 930 LUs (4,850 MW), the demand for power had shot up to 1,000 LUs (5,142 MW). “Generally, when we make power purchase agreements, we taken into account an increase of 10-12 per cent in power demand over the previous year. However, with the demand having gone up by 25 per cent over last year, we have to impose certain restrictions on users. Officials said they were trying to buy power from other states and from this month onwards they had started purchasing 242 MW from Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Besides, they were also making day ahead purchases on India Energy Exchange (power exchange). |
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World’s 2nd buffalo clone born at NDRI
Karnal, June 6 The female cloned calf christened as “Garima” was born at 11.40 am through cesarean operation by a team of six doctors. The operation lasted for 40 minutes. The newborn calf weighing 43 kg was in good health but kept under observation in the ICU. The scientists were taking extra precautions to ensure that it survived as the first cloned buffalo calf died just six days after its birth. Dr AK Srivastav, director of the NDRI, said the second clone was different from the first one in the sense that the donor cell in this case was used from the foetus while in the first case, it was taken from the ear of a newborn calf. He said it was very exciting to see that this buffalo calf was a clone of foetus that never saw the light of the day and this technique developed by the NDRI was an advanced modification of the conventional cloning technique. The second clone was born four days ahead of the due date of June 10 and the delivery period was also 306 days against normal period of 310 days. The scientists attributed the premature death of the first cloned calf to lung infection with symptoms of pneumonia and maintained that the calf stopped responding to antibiotics “It was a failure of medication and not of technique,” they had claimed. The team of scientists, who carried out this cloning technique, comprised Dr SK Singla, Dr RS Manik, Dr MS Chauhan, Dr P Palta, Dr Shiv Parsad, Dr RS Shah and Dr A George. The cesarean operation was done by Dr RS Bisla and Dr SC Arya, both from HAU, Hisar, and Dr KPS Tomar, Dr Subhash Chand and Dr Parveen Kumar from the NDRI, Karnal. The NDRI scientists had received a setback when the second clone aborted prematurely after seven months in March. Dr Srivastava hoped that once the new hand-guided cloning technique was optimised, it could go a long way in faster multiplication of superior milch animals in India. |
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Mandate has added to our responsibilities: CM
Chandigarh, June 6 Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda did not even remotely hint at an early poll though various other speakers urged the workers to be ready for the elections which were “a few months away”. At a workers’ meet organised to thank them for supporting the party and the candidates during the recent Lok Sabha election in which Haryana “created history” by winning nine of the 10 seats for a second time, Hooda said the mandate had added to his existing responsibilities. “I can assure you that I will keep your faith and serve you better. In the past four years, our welfare schemes have touched every section of society. We are also addressing problems of power which have come down to us as a legacy from past governments,” he said, referring to workers as “backbone” and real soldiers who face the action in an election. Crediting the party’s success to the central leadership and youth leader Rahul Gandhi, Hooda said Sonia Gandhi would be invited to address a rally in Haryana soon. “I am not in the habit of condemning anybody but the INLD-BJP alliance neither had principles nor a plan.,” he said. In a rally also attended by three newly elected MPs, Deepender Singh Hooda, Ashok Tanwar and Arvind Sharma, who came “on their own”, Deepender urged the Chief Minister to raise the monthly old age allowance to a uniform level of Rs 700 against the present system of two slabs. He also raised the issue of “respecting the workers and addressing their demands on priority”. HPCC working president Kuldeep Sharma, however, proved to be the most entertaining of all speakers, reciting couplets and making tongue-in-cheek remarks. “Those present here are guided by their heart in politics while those absent play politics with their mind. Good governance has earned goodwill. Now, the Assembly elections are the next challenge,” he said. |
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Dera chief’s case adjourned
Ambala, June 6 Except Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, all other accused in the two cases, including Inder Sain, Krishan Lal, Sabdil, Jasbir Singh, Avtar Singh, Kuldeep Singh and Nirmal, were present in the court. Defence counsel SK Garg Narvana cross-examined the CBI witness, Paramjit Singh, in the Ranjit Singh murder case. The CBI got recorded the statement of Paramjit Singh during the last hearing. The hearing in the Chhatarpati murder case could not be conducted today. The judge fixed July 25 for the next hearing in the Ranjit Singh murder case while the Chhatarpati case will be heard on August 8. The father of Ranjit Singh filed an application through his counsel and raised an objection over video-conferencing. He said in the application that he was not informed that the trial would be conducted through video-conferencing whereas the counsel of the accused was aware of it. The court, however, dismissed the application. The police administration was highly relieved today as it has to make tight security arrangements in the court complex for the security of the dera chief. SIRSA: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh appeared before the CBI special court, Ambala, through video-conferencing from the local district courts on Saturday. The dera chief arrived in the court little past 8 am and remained there for more than five hours, during which evidence of prosecution witnesses were held in the court in
Ambala.
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Highway robbers’ gang busted, 4 held
Kurukshetra, June 6 District Police Chief KV Ramana said here today that the SIT led by inspector Rajesh Kumar nabbed the kingpin of the gang along with three accomplices, including a woman, while they were planning to rob yet another vehicle on the GT Road near Issargarh here. The kingpin has been identified as Rajiv, alias Raja. Ramana added that the team arrested Rajiv of Ludhiana, Ramandeep of Amritsar, Bhupinder Singh of Delhi and Rekha Rani of Ferozepur in Punjab. The team seized a Honda Accord and a Honda Civic from their possession along with 75 revolvers, 10 shotguns, one carbine and heavy amounts of ammunition along with forged documents and Rs 1.5 lakh in cash. |
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Haryana clarification
on pensions
Chandigarh, June 6 Accordingly, the floor ceiling of Rs 3,500 will apply individually to the civil and military pensions. A letter to this effect has been issued by the Finance Department.
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on February 6, 2009, scientists at National Dairy Research Institute
achieved a major breakthrough in cloning technology by producing the world’s second cloned buffalo calf through advanced hand-guided cloning technique here today.
