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Now, gear up for Kumbh, Nishank tells cops
Minister inspects hospitals, pulls up staff
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Ranbir Encounter
Sheltering needs of simians
Fund crunch hits school sports
Haryana are overall athletics champs
Garhwal Boys thrash Khukri Club 2-0
Sunday Classic
75 pc UP athletes overaged
Pratap section lifts title
22 reservoirs in the offing, says Kandari
Another tiger found dead
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Two held in MMS case
Haridwar, August 2 The clip was made a year ago in which the suspects had stripped and physically abused a girl in presence of her boyfriend and had filmed the entire sequence. Later, the clip was circulated in whole area, via Bluetooth, by the miscreants. The case had become sensitive as a person employed in state secretariat and some forest guards were also involved in the act. The miscreants said that they had made the clip a year ago when Manju and Ajesh were roaming in the outskirts of the Sureshwari Devi forest near the sports stadium, Sector 5, BHEL. They beat up Ajesh and tied him to a tree. They beat up the girl too and forced her to undress. The police took up the matter when the media flashed the MMS clip and CO Lakshar Pankaj Bhatt was given the case. The police took the help of local intelligence unit and sent the clip to the special cyber cell of the Special Task Force (STF) in Dehradun for identification of the persons seen in the clip. Lauding the role of the media, SSP Sanjay Gunjiyal said that he took cognisance of the crime only when local newspapers reported it. A reward of Rs 2,500 each has been announced for members of the police team that comprised LS Bisht, KC Bhatt, Vijay Bharati and Sarati Shah. A case has been registered under Sections 292/384/504 of Indian Penal Code, Section 67 of the Information Technology Act and Section 6 of Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act 1986. Two years earlier, an obscene MMS clip had rocked the city when an Gurukul Kanya Mahavidyalaya teacher was filmed by some college employees. However, last month, the accused were let off for lack of evidence. |
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Now, gear up for Kumbh, Nishank tells cops
Dehradun, August 2 Addressing mediapersons after inaugurating an exhibition organised by Uttarakhand Police at the Police Lines here today, Nishank said the cops handled the Kanwar Mela very well. “Kanwar Mela, during which as many as 75 lakh devotees came to Uttarakhand, concluded without any law and order problem. This is extremely laudable and we also got the feedback that conduct of the cops with the pilgrims was very good,” said the Chief Minister. Expressing his views on the preparations for the Maha Kumbh, scheduled to get underway early next year, Nishank said the Maha Kumbh would be a big challenge for the state. “But we are sure that Uttarakhand government will successfully hold the Maha Kumbh,” he claimed. The CM further asked the state police to gear up for the Maha Kumbh. Nishank, scheduled to leave for New Delhi tomorrow, said he would discuss various issues related to the development of Uttarakhand with the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. “With more than 60 per cent forest cover, Uttarakhand plays an important role in maintaining the environmental equilibrium of the country. Hence, the state deserves to get the special packages,” he told mediapersons. Earlier, Nishank took stock of various police activities displayed at the exhibition, including functioning of the bomb squad, latest arms and ammunitions available with the state police, functioning of divers and its fire-fighting methods et al. Nishank was also informed about various police training institutes in the state and their performance. Meanwhile, the CM also gave 10 Bolero utility vans and 20 motorcycles to the police. Half of the 20 motorcycles would be inducted into the special 'Cheetah Squad', while the remaining would be handed over to various police stations.
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Minister inspects hospitals, pulls up staff
Haridwar, August 2
While inspecting the women’s hospital, he was perturbed by the fact that patients have to buy medicines from chemist shops outside the hospital. He directed the officials to stock medicines so that patients get all medical services at the hospital. “If we can’t provide basic amenities such as clean water and sanitation, then how will patients have faith in our medical treatment,” asked the minister. Balwant Singh Bhauriyal said that filling of vacant posts for doctors was his priority. He assured there would be no scarcity of doctors in district hospitals within a few months. He said that the state health ministry plans to have all doctors, nurses and ANMs’ contact numbers displayed in hospitals and medical centres so that patients could contact them. During his visit to Haridwar, members of various organisations met the minister and apprised him of their demands and problems. Rajya Karmachari Sanyukta Parishad, Ministerial Association, Tritya and Chaturtha Shreni Rajyakarmachari Sangh executive members raised the issue of allotment of government quarters and the lack of staff in their departments. Led by Dinesh Lakhera, the delegation also informed the minister about the lack of medical facilities in their areas. “We have given a memorandum in this regard and the minister has assured that the problems will be solved within a month,” said Lakhera.
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CBI team keeps media at bay
Raju William Tribune News Service
Dehradun, August 2 Albeit mediapersons followed the CBI team that visited Ladpur forest area where Ghaziabad boy Ranbir was allegedly killed, as well as the Jain Dharamshala where the deceased stayed along with his two friends, they could not manage to interact with the team. The way the CBI sleuths conducted themselves displayed their professionalism. Apparently, the instructions have been passed to avoid unnecessary media trial like in the high profile Arushi murder case. Although the CBI office in Lucknow is conducting the investigation, officials of Dehradun office had a hard day stonewalling media queries. Being posted here, they are naturally known to the local scribes. “I got a number of calls from many mediapersons looking for some inputs on the progress of the investigation, but I politely refused,” said a Dehradun-based official. The local CBI office is also involved in the investigation. Given the allegations of fake encounter and the wide coverage given to it at the national level, the case was handed to the premier investigation agency to establish the truth. The case assumed political overtones due to the fact that the deceased belonged to the parliamentary constituency of BJP president Rajnath Singh. The involvement of president of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Mahender Singh Tikait also contributed in mounting the pressure on the state government for the CBI probe.
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Sheltering needs of simians
Dehradun, August 2 Presided by Uttarakhand Forest Minister Bisan Singh Chufal, the meeting unanimously decided to come up with a monkey rehabilitation cell within Rajaji National Park. It also identified forest area near Mansa Devi temple as most suitable for creating such cell, which apart from having a night shelter will also have food and medical facilities for the monkeys. The speakers at the meeting also called for plantation of more fruit trees inside the forest areas so as to ensure that monkey got their feed from inside the forest areas and did not venture into settlements. The meeting also decided to entrust Wildlife Institute of India of undertaking exercise towards identification of
new elephant corridors within the state. The responsibility for holding coordination with WII was put on Dr GS Rawat. The speakers held that finding new elephant corridors were all the more important for well being of pachyderms in the state. Further, the meeting also approved construction of Kalika-Bajani-Khamti motorway and the minister himself directed for its survey. The proposal for construction of link road between Joljeebi Baram motorway and Koli village was also approved at the meeting. The wildlife board meeting was prominently attended by Chief Wildlife Warden Srikant Chandola, MLA Karen Mayer and Harshvardhan Verma. |
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Fund crunch hits school sports
Dehradun, August 2
He accused the schools for having a non-serious attitude towards games. He believed that the approach hindered talented students from going ahead in the field of sports. “It won’t be wrong if I say that most of the games that are said to be organised in schools appear just on paper. “But when it comes to organising these games at the ground level, schools do not follow rules in toto. “Instead government school just limit them to domestic games like kho-kho, kabaddi reason being other games like cricket, hockey, table tennis and other such games require big investments,” said Bahuguna. He further said that sports fee charged by the government is minimal: for an inter-session Rs 3 is charged as sports fee, Rs 2 at junior session and Re 1 at primary session per month. Out of which five months sports fees is given to the Education Directorate, whereas the remaining seven months fee is used by schools for the promotion of sports. He complained that had Education Directorate provided funds for the competition then in that case even the government schools could have organised and participated in the competitions. “Seven months fee is not enough to organise competitions or to meet the sports requirements and on the part of the Education Director there is no financial assistance given by them during any competition. “We are left with little resources to organise a competition,” said Bahuguna. SDS Rawat another physical instructor in Rajkiya Inter-College Bhagwarikhal revealed that due to lack of fields children of government colleges are forced to take outdoor coaching. They either move to police line for physical activity or join some sports academy. RS Sharma another sports instructor of a government school further said, “Hockey once use to be an important game in schools but with the time the game has just vanished.” He revealed that non-availability of funds is the reason behind this. He demanded that government should increase the sports fee of the children so that competitions like cricket, hockey, table tennis and badminton could be organised.
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Haryana are overall athletics champs
Dehradun, August 2 Haryana team won 38 gold, 31 silver and 8 bronze, whereas Uttar Pradesh won 32 gold, 26 silver and 34 bronze. Uttarkhand team ended the championship on a high note with 11 gold, 12 silver and 20 bronze much higher than its last year performance. Today Rhaul Mishra and Chandrodaya Singh of Uttar Pradesh set new championship records in 400m hurdles and hammer throw, respectively. It was all Haryana affair at the championship with Haryana team lifting the trophy in men, women, boys u-18, boys u-16, boys u-14, jr. women, girls u-18 and girls u-16. UP won the Jr men trophy, whereas Uttarakhand won the girls u-14 trophy. Results: In u-20 10,000m, Boys: 1st Param Singh, 2nd Samod Kumar of Delhi and 3rd Chanderjeet Pal of Uttar Pradesh In u-20 10,000m walk, Boys: 1st Manish Singh of Uttarkhand, 2nd Sandeep Kumar of Harayan and 3rd Mohinder Kumar of Uttar Pradesh In u-20 10000m walk, Girls: 1st Mamta of Haryan, 2nd Shashi Pal of Uttar Pradesh and 3rd Sumedha Yadav of Uttar Pradesh In u-18 10,000m walk boys: 1st Abhimanyu of Haryana, 2nd Kishori Lal of Haryana and 3rd Krishan Bind Uttar Pradesh. In u-18 50,00m walk, Girls: 1st Khushbir Kaur of Punjab, 2nd Rimpi Kaur of Punjab and 3rd Sanyukta Singh of Uttar Pradesh. In u-16 5,000m Walk, Boys: 1st Kuldeep of Haryana, 2nd Pawan Kumar of Haryana and 3rd Narayan of Uttar Pradesh. In u-20 hammer throw, Boys: 1st Chandraodaya Narayan of Uttar Pradesh, 2nd Harminder of Uttar Pradesh and 3rd Ranjit Singh of Punjab. In u-18 triple Jump, Girls: Pooja Jangra of Haryana, 2nd Loveneet Saini of Chandigarh and 3rd and Pooja Singh of Uttar Pradesh. In u-18 pole vault, Boys: 1st Parvinder Patel of Uttar Pradesh, 2nd Kuldeep Singh of Uttar Pradesh and 3rd Jitender of Haryana. In u-16 discus throw, girls: 1st Atica of Uttarakhand, 2nd Pratima Sarma of Delhi In u-16 3,000m walk girls: 1st. Sugandha of Uttar Pradesh 2nd Ratana Sharma of Uttar Pradesh and 3rd Meenakshi of Haryana. In u-20 run 200m, Boys: 1st Bijender Panghal of Haryan, 2nd Yesu Punjab and 3rd Vikas Singh of Delhi In u-18 200m, Boys: 1st Manish of Haryana, 2nd Ashwini of Delhi and 3rd Gurkaran Singh of Delhi. In u-16 200m, Boys: 1st Vibhor Kumar Singh of Uttar Pradesh, 2nd Surender of Haryana and 3rd Jitender Pal of Uttarakhand. In u-18 hammer throw, boys: 1st Sukhdev Singh of Haryana 2nd Jonny Yadav Uttar Pradesh and 3rd Mulayam Singh Yadav of Uttar Pradesh. In u-20 triple jump, Girls: 1st Shisha of Haryana, 2nd Shamsher Kaur of Uttarakhand. In u-20 pole vault, Boys: 1st Umesh Yadav of UP, 2nd Naresh of Haryana and 3rd Abhimanyu of UP In u-20 200m, Girls: 1st Hasmeet of Delhi, 2nd Manish of Haryana and 3rd Sangeeta of Uttarakhand. In u-18 200m, Girls: 1st Twinkle Pundi of UP, 2nd Ahwani of HAR and 3rd Chinta Yadav of UP. In u-16 200m, Girls: 1st Prithvi Deore of Delhi, 2nd Pinki of HAR and 3rd Varsha Sharma of Chandigarh In u-20 1500m, Boys: 1st Jagdish Mehar of UK, 2nd Raman Yadav of UP and 3rd Sard Chaudhary of UK. In u-18 triple jump, Boys: 1st Surender Kumer of UK, 2nd Sandeep Haryana and 3rd Munender Singh of UP. In u-20 hammer throw, Girls: 1st Bhateri of HAR, 2nd Minakshi Sirohi of UP In u-16 discus throw, Boys: 1st Sachin HAR In u-20 1500m Girls: 1st Rekha Patel of Uttar Pradesh, 2nd Sakshi of HAR, 3rd Rooma Devi of HP In u-20 triple jump, Boys: 1st. Navjot Singh of CHA, 2nd Arpinder Singh of PUN and 3rd Ravinder Singh PUN In u-20 discus throw, Girls: 1st Rinku Sangwan of HAR, 2nd Parmila of HAR and 3rd Risha Singh of
Uttarakhand. Gurwant’s record comes to nought Punjab’s Gurwant Sandhu was unlucky not to have his name among those athletes who set a meet record at the 21st North Zone Athletics Championship. He created shot put u-18 record covering a distance of 20.40m breaking the earlier one by a distance of 1.24m. Gurwant broke the record but AFI observers later told him that officials had erroneously given him a lighter ball. Gurwant Sandhu decided to accept it as his fate. “I am sad not to figure among record breakers.” |
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Garhwal Boys thrash Khukri Club 2-0
Dehradun, August 2 Garhwal Boys team had a clear edge over Khukri Club in the match. In the first half Garhwal Boys team played offensive football right form the beginning to maintain pressure on Khukri Club defense. In the 3rd minute of the match Garhwal Boys team came close on scoring a goal. But its forward played rash shot to let opportunity slip. In the 15th minute Garhwal Boys team created another good move from the right. They penetrated the defense of the Khukri Club to come close on scoring again but failed to convert their chances. Garhwal Boys scored their first goal in the 20th minute of the match through Nitin, who took a powerful shot at the Khukri team goal to help his team take a lead. Four minutes latter Garhwal Boys scored their second goal through Tenzing making it 2-0. At the end of first half Garhwal Boys team lead comfortably. In the second half Khukri Club made attempts to reduce the goal lead. But bad finishing by its player denied Khukri Club the much-needed goal. In the end it was a easy 2-0 victory for Garhwal Boys team. In the second match Doon United team played a goalless draw against Sports College. Doon United raised its standard of play to play a draw against a better competent better side. Tomorrow’s first matches will be played between Rishikesh and Nagar Nigam and the second match will be between 1/5 GR and Garhwal Sporting. |
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‘Amadeus’ draws huge crowd
Tribune News Service
Dehradun, August 2 The life and times of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, who lived in 18th century Vienna, the hub of musical activities continues to interest film buffs to this day. Written by Peter Shaffer the, film is adapted from his earlier stage play ‘Amadeus’ won 8 Academy Awards, including best picture during the course of it’s release. The film on one hand deals with the guilt ridden actions of Salieri who confesses to playing a part in the death of Mozart, the genius composer, who was the envy of many composers in the 18th century Vienna. The film juxtaposes the brilliance of Mozart who burst on the musical scene after he composed a concerto at the tender age of 4 years, a symphony at 7 and full scale opera at 12 and the insecurities of Salieri. In the wake of extraordinary talent of Mozart, insecure Salieri blame God for mocking at his mediocrity while all this play of emotion takes center stage. The director brilliantly weaves a story on the life of the ill starred genius against whom people plot and connive. The effort by Reach Talkies to bring classic films to Doon has been appreciated by the audience that has been thronging the venue at the mini auditorium of KDMIPE in large numbers. On August 9, another classic ‘The Last Emperor’ based on the life of Chinese emperor Pu Yi and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci would be screened.
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75 pc UP athletes overaged
Dehradun, August 2 Technical officials of the Athletic Federation of India
(AFI) made this revelation that about 75 per cent of UP athletes were found to be overage. The Uttar Pradesh team was declared runners up at the meet. A majority of Delhi athletes could not participate as they failed to furnish municipal or class X certificates as proof of their
age. Rakesh Gupta, AFI technical official for the championship, said that the AFI did not take stern action against athletes violating the age code. He said that at the junior level, it was the sole responsibility of the coaches to plan out events for their children. It is not right to penalise a child for the mistake the coach has committed by putting him in an underage category, he said. He said that under AFI rules, the athlete would be banned from participating in any AFI championship for two years. e-Identity cards for
athletes
Rakesh Gupta said that the AFI was planning to provide ATM-like cards to all athletes. The card will contain the history of the athlete. This will be a great help to any official who wants to check the details of an athletes. |
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Pratap section lifts title
Dehradun, August 2 In the first phase of the competition, each section of RIMC participated in musical orchestra competition with as many as 20 instrumentalists enthralling the audience. In the second phase, each section enacted a 15- minute English drama and a five-minute Hindi skit. The award for the Best Dramatist went to Cadet Mayank, while Cadet Section Commander P Promoth pocketed the award for the best director. Cadet Abhishek Khajuria was adjudged as the most promising talent. |
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22 reservoirs in the offing, says Kandari
Dehradun, August 2 The minister was addressing a gathering after the inauguration of water channels in Ramnagar region of Kumaon. He said that the state government was taking all possible steps to strengthen irrigation. While stating that as many as 22 reservoirs were under construction, Matbar Singh Kandari said it was a paradox that Uttarakhand, where numerous rivers originate, faced scarcity of potable and irrigation water. “We have asked our officials to come up with multipurpose reservoirs,” Kandari said.
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LM Bahuguna, sports instructor in Laxman Vidhyalay was angry over the way sports were being dealt in government schools. 
