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CM tells secretariat staff to pull up socks
Trade fair put off due to rain
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Stamp duty exemption for women notified
Anganwadis: Probe ordered into bogus registrations
Markets abuzz with activity on eve of Karva Chauth
ITI principal attempts suicide
Sports College upset Garhwal Boys
Yuvraj fashions Summer Valley’s victory
Madhav powers St Joseph Academy into quarterfinals
Student tests positive for swine flu
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CM tells secretariat staff to pull up socks
Dehradun, October 6 Dr Nishank had directed employees and officials to ensure punctuality, so that files could be disposed of speedily. However, during his surprise check of various sections, he found many officials and employees absent or late. Taking serious note of the absence of some officers and employees from their place of work, he issued a stern warning to them. Chief Minister said disciplinary action would be initiated against such erring officers and employees, if found absent in future, he cautioned. The Chief Minister said the state secretariat played a pivotal role in the entire government and administrative system. He pointed out that top priority should be accorded to discipline and all works should be completed in a time-bound manner. Officers and employees of the secretariat should set an example for others by expediting their work and reaching office on time, he added. After inspecting dispatch registers, the Chief Minister directed that movement of files should be accelerated, so that benefit of welfare schemes could reach to the people. He also directed the officers concerned to ensure an up-to-date maintenance of record and to digitise all documents. |
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Trade fair put off due to rain
Dehradun, October 6 This time there will be almost 500 stalls from various states displaying their specialities. Starting from government departments and ministries, FMCG products, electronics, home appliances, furniture, interiors and exteriors, luxurious home needs, fashion, garment, jewellery, educational institutes and kitchen accessories, there’s something for everyone. “Compared to last year, this time we wanted to make the trade fair youth oriented. We have got all major players in the education, power, baking and agriculture sector so that along with shopping and enjoyment they also get to learn and enhance their knowledge,” said Rohit Verma, Media in charge, Trade Fair. Moreover, along with showcasing unique items of different states, the trade fair particularly lays emphasis on the handicrafts and food items of Uttarakhand. Shawls and Nehru jackets of Uttarkashi district will be offered at nominal rate. Nankeens of Kumoan are also expected to be sold like hot cakes. “Though there are exhibitors from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Orrisa, West Bengal and many other states of India, our endeavour is to promote the host state as we feel that as Uttarakhand is young and has the potential to grow. It should be given a platform so that it can excel in all spheres,” added Rohit. Adding more variety and spice to the fair, a number of cultural shows will be presented every evening. From fashion shows, cultural programmes and stage shows, there will also be a rock show. |
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Stamp duty exemption for women notified
Dehradun, October 6 The Tribune had in its September 29 issue highlighted that the proposal had been hanging fire even as the office of Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank formally received it on August 7. The Chief Minister had announced this in his budget speech this July. It was hailed as a big incentive for women who comprise about half of the total population of the state. As per the notification, if the transfer deed in favour of a woman is valued more than Rs 20 lakh, the stamp duty up to this limit will be calculated on 25 per cent reduced value while the duty on value of property higher than this will be calculated as per the previous prevailing rate. If the deed is executed in favour of one or more women and one man or more, then the stamp duty on such instrument will be reduced to the extent of the share of woman/women. But, if such share is not specified in the instrument, then the duty will be payable as if no reduction in duty had been granted on such instrument. During the Congress regime in 2006, women were given exemption of 25 per cent stamp duty payable on a property worth up to Rs 10 lakh at the time its registration. The decision is estimated to hike loss of government revenue by about Rs 8 crore. |
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Anganwadis: Probe ordered into bogus registrations
Dehradun, October 6 In a letter, a copy of which is with The Tribune, the Secretary, Women Empowerment and Child Development Department, Dr Rakesh Kumar, has written to the Director, Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), to conduct a verification drive at these centres within a month. There are a total of 12,340 anganwadi/mini-anganwadi centres in the state. As per norms, up to 40 children can be registered at each centre. The Central government provides 90 per cent funds while the state government bears the remaining 10 per cent to run these centres. Sources said the government smelt rat as the figures submitted to it regarding the number of children registered at these centres did not seem realistic when compared with the population of the area concerned. The suspicion seemed all the more credible when it was found out that at several places a majority of children were also enrolled at the local government primary as well as private schools. These facts led the government officials to believe that bogus registration had been done to maintain existence of the centres to legitimise the distribution of diet to children only on papers. As per the letter, Dr Kumar gave instructions that the mukhya sewaka of each anganwadi centre would prepare a verification report, which would be countersigned by the child development project officer (CDPO) concerned. The district programme officer concerned would then submit the same to the Director, ICDS. If the figures provided in the verification report did not match with the figures of a random checking done by government officials, the government will take a strict action. In that case, the CDPO, along with mukhya seawak, her assistant at the centre concerned would be personally held guilty. Besides, initiating criminal and disciplinary proceedings, all of them would be liable to compensate the financial loss to the government. |
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Markets abuzz with activity on eve of Karva Chauth
Haridwar, October 6 Markets in Main Haridwar, Middle Haridwar, New Haridwar and sub-urban townships of Kankhal, Jwalapur, Kathaira, BHEL and Bahadrabad wears a complete festive look. Long queues were seen at the stalls of roadside mehndi artists where women were patiently applying mehndi on their hands and feet. Mehndi artists make good business and till late evening were busy carving mehndi designs. Rates of mehndi artists too soared with Rs 50-60 per hand while packages were touching anywhere between Rs 800-1,000. Add to this, Rs 200-400 were charged extra for providing services at the customer’s doorstep. According to Acharya Prateek Mishrapuri, Karva Chauth has a special significance for married women and by observing the fast they pray for the longevity of their husband as well as a happy married life. “The auspicious time for the puja of Goddess Parvati is 7:47 pm and the fast should be broken only after sighting the moon through a sieve. The significance of the moon provides calmness and purity to the minds of the couples,” said Dr Mishrapuri. A huge rush could been seen at the shops of jewellery, make up, bangles, sweets and of puja items especially the speherical clay pots called ‘karve’ which are used to pour water while seeing the moon. The term karva is derived from this while chauth means the fourth day of the Ashwin, hence the term Karva Chauth originated. “This is my first Karva Chauth and my husband works in New Delhi, but he will be here tomorrow and I am excited about the festival. Earlier, I have seen my mother and relatives observing Karva Chauth and so I know all the rituals,” said Meena Negi, a working executive in Haridwar. |
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Now, mehndi artists just a call away
Dehradun, October 6 Along with prayers for the well-being of their spouse, mehndi plays an integral role as it is considered auspicious and must for married women to apply it. While summers and monsoons are not so profitable months for the mehndiwalas, these months of festivals prove quite profitable for them. Mehndi artists at Paltan Bazaar are busy and doing good business as women throng their stalls to apply mehndi for the festival. In order to provide some convenience to their customers, these artists are providing their services at your doorsteps. “Karva Chauth is the best time for our business. We started at 9:30 am today and continue till late evening. The price per hand is Rs 25 and it varies according to the designs,” said Raju, mehndi artist. From basic Indian designs, there are Arabic, Marwari, glitter and tattoos mehndi which are quite popular among all age groups. Arun mehndiwala is in the business from the past 12 years. With a team of 27 workers, he plans to sit till 4 am as there is a mad rush and he doesn’t want to disappoint any of his customers on Karva Chauth. “I started my business from Delhi. For the past 12 years I have got a fabulous response and apart from Dehradun we are have our business in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ahmedabad, Pune, Mumbai, Mysore, Haridwar and Bangalore,” said Arun mehndiwala. Arun’s team keeps travelling to various parts of the country as they receive bookings from everywhere. He painted almost 500 hands on Monday and today he is hoping to break all records. |
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ITI principal attempts suicide
Dehradun, October 6 He was rushed to a hospital in Dehradun and admitted to ICU. His situation is said to be critical. Though the girl (identity withheld) hadn’t lodged a complaint with the police, told mediapersons that she was sexually harassed by the principal. The principal said the girl wanted to tarnish his image as she had to return his money. The SP City said the police hadn’t received any complaint in this regard. Trainee cop dismissed
A police recruit was dismissed from his services today after the documents, which were produced by him during the constable recruitment process last year, were found to be fake. According to the police, Pitambhar Juyal was a typist, but to get priority in the constable recruitment test he presented himself as a Home Guard. He had also submitted Home Guard’s documents, which were found to be fake. The investigating officer of the case said four Home Guards were hired as constables last year and Juyal was one of them. However, one of the Home Guards who couldn’t make it to the post revealed that Juyal was a typist and not a Home Guard. A case under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code had been registered in the Kotwali police station. The police said his arrest would be made soon. 2 wood smugglers held
Uttarakhand Forest officials today nabbed two alleged forest wood smugglers in the Bannakhera area of Terai West Division. However, two of their accomplices managed to flee. Acting on a tip-off, the forest officials, led by circle officer Lalit Mohan Joshi, apprehended four wood smugglers from plot No. 19 of the Bannakhera Range in Reserve Forest area of the division. The smugglers were indulging in felling of sagaun trees. Seeing the forest officials, while two of the smugglers managed to flee, two others were somehow overpowered by the forest officials. Mohammed
Nazim, son of Akram, resident of Kashipur, Rameshwar, alias Dharan, son of
Durjan, resident of Pashiya colony, Bajpur. Five small logs of sagaun wood were seized from the possession of the smugglers whose market value is estimated to be around Rs 50
lakh. Suspected robbers
A drama prevailed at the Basant Vihar police station after the police caught two persons who were suspected to be robbers and later turned out to be grass mowers. The media and senior police officials, including the SP, City, and the CO, City, reached the police station. According to the police, residents of Basant Vihar had gheraoed both persons in the courtyard of a house and claimed that they had come there with the intention of burglary. They called up the police, which took both persons to the station. Those arrested have been identified as Prakash (17) and Phukran (38). They told the police that they were mowing the grass when some kids who were playing nearby approached them to bring their ball which had fallen in the courtyard of the house. As they jumped into the courtyard to bring the ball, some neighbours spotted them and raised an alarm. Following this people gheraoed them and called up the police. One held in bribe case
The Vigilance team today caught Amin of the Revenue Department red-handed for allegedly taking bribe from Himanshu
Jain, a Neshville road resident, here today. According to vigilance officials, Prem Narayan Mishra was caught while accepting Rs 2,000 from
Jain. Jain had complained to the Vigilance alleging that he had taken a loan from the State Bank of India
(SBI) and was unable to pay one of his instalments. But Mishra told him that he would get his due installment waived off and demanded Rs 5,000 as bribe. He asked Jain to give Rs 2,000 today while the rest of the amount was decided to be paid tomorrow. Jain complained to the Vigilance that caught Mishra red-handed while accepting bribe. Body found
A body was found at MKP Chowk near the corporation office here today. The police said the man seemed to be a beggar. The body hadn’t been identified as yet and had been sent for postmortem. Meanwhile, two children who were admitted to Doon Hospital a few days ago died here today. The deceased have been identified as Anjali (8), resident of
Premnagar, and Guddi (15), resident of Haridwar. Both of them had reportedly caught fire. The body of Guddi who was admitted on September 27 had been sent for postmortem, while Anjali’s parents refused the postmortem. In-laws
booked
Roorkee: On the directions of a local court, the police has registered a case under the Dowry Act here
today. Yasmeen of Bharat Nagar here alleged that she had been struggling to get a case registered against her in-laws for harassing her for more dowry for the past couple of months, but in vain. Today, on the direction of the court, the police booked her husband Masroor Khan, a resident of Pathanpura
(Deoband), Shagoofa (mother-in-law), Saleem and Khushnoom (both brothers-in-law) and Chand Bibi (sister-in-law) at the Civil Lines police station. In her complaint, Yasmeen alleged that she was ousted from her in-laws’ house four months ago for not conceding their demand of bringing Rs 50,000 and a motor cycle as dowry. She was married to Masroor three years ago. |
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Doon’s Sangeeta sprints to gold
Dehradun, October 6 Results: 400m hurdles (women): Poonam Bhatt of Haridwar gave an outstanding performance to win gold. Shakuntala of Udham Singh Nagar took the silver and Savita Rawat of 40 PAC had to be satisfied with bronze. In 800m (men), Sandeep Singh of Nainital won gold, Vijay of Udham Singh Nagar had to satisfied with silver and Narendra Prakesh (IRB) won the bronze. In 800m (women), Rekha of Haridwar won the gold. She had yesterday won gold in 1500m. Pithoragarh’s Aruna Chaudhari won the silver and Shermila of 40 PAC got the bronze. In 200m (women), Dehradun’s Sangeeta won gold, Almora’s Bhawan had to settle for silver and Archana Bisht of Champwat was placed at the third spot. In long jump (women), Sunita Negi of 31 PAC came up with gold winning performance, second to her was Zeenet Ahmed of 40 PAC with silver and Dehradun’s Preeti had to satisfy with bronze. In High Jump (Men): Vivek Sati of Dehradun won gold. 46 PAC’s Kamal Rana won silver and Pradeep Sharma of 40 PAC won bronze. In High Jump (Women): 31 PAC’s Sonica came up with a gold performance. Kavita Joshi of Pithoragarh won silver and Neema Bhandari of 40 PAC was placed third with bronze. In 110m Hurdle (Men): Dehradun’s Vivek Sati won his second gold of the meet. Vikram Koshiyari had to satisfy with silver and Sumit Kumar of Nainital was placed at third place with bronze. |
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Sports College upset Garhwal Boys
Dehradun, October 6 It was a closely fought match between Sports College and Garhwal Boys. The young agile Sports College team gave the much-experienced opponents a hard time on the field. Sports College created numerous opportunities but were denied much-needed goal for a long time. It was Sports College forward Dinesh, who scored for his side in the 29th minute of the first half. In the second half, Sports College managed to hold on to the lead and won the match by the solitary goal. In the second match, the Doon Star team dominated the proceedings right from the beginning and gave their opponent Doon Valley a little opportunity to score. Doon Star scored their first goal in the 32nd minute of the match through a powerful kick from Gompo. The team struck again in the 55th minute through Khunchok making it 2-0. The third goal came through a penalty in the 76th minute of the match making the final score 3-0. |
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Yuvraj fashions Summer Valley’s victory
Dehradun, October 6 The Constancia team won the toss and elected to bat. In the first innings Constacia School scored 16 runs at the loss of seven wickets, whereas Summer Valley School scored 17 runs at the loss of seven wickets. In the second innings Constacia teams scored 28 runs. The Summer Valley team achieved the target with six wickets in hand. Yuvraj Singh was the highest scorer for the team with 22 runs. Meanwhile, in the second match between The Heritage School and St Jude Academy was postponed due to rain. Batting first The Heritage School scored 45 runs at the loss of the six wickets before the rain interrupted the match. |
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Madhav powers St Joseph Academy into quarterfinals
Dehradun, October 6 For St Joseph Academy, Madhav scored a hat-trick. He scored two goals in the first half and scored two more in the second half. In the second match, Carman School, Dalanwala, got a walk over against Bala Hissar School.
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Student tests positive for swine flu
Haridwar, October 6 The virus has been found in the student of class VI of Swami Hariharanand School situated in the Kankhal area of the city. The child was reportedly ill for the past few days. As he was showing the symptoms of swine flu, the student was tested and his reports came positive. The school management has closed the school for the fortnight as a precautionary measure. School Principal Hema Patel said the half-yearly examinations had been postponed. |
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