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Develop Gajender’s village, say kin
Nishank to visit 26/11 martyr’s village
Power Projects on Bhagirathi |
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No Mohaan cattle fair this year
Doc held for molesting nurse
Rafting operators up in arms again
Cane farmers hold rally
Minor’s Rape and Murder
Association for physically challenged holds protest
Kidnap accused is my husband: Girl
CM inaugurates Yes Bank branch in Dehradun
ICFAI holds workshop on i-Robotics
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Develop Gajender’s village, say kin
Dehradun November 25 Gajender Singh Bisht, was among one of the NSG Commandos, who lost his life while battling against terrorists in Mumbai attack last year. But today after a gap of one year, tears have still moistened the eyes of the Bisht family who sacrificed his son for the country. He was from Ganeshpur village on Shimla bypass, which is about 30 kms away from Dehradun city. “Government promised to provide us with several help but during this one year no organisation or ministers have come to renders us with assistance,” said Rajender Singh Bisht, elder brother of the martyr. “He was a national hero but his heroism and valour went unsung. Neither central government nor the state government has taken the initiative to offer helping hand to his mother till date,” he added. “The village still mourns on the death of our son. We don’t expect any ex-gratia amount to be disbursed to us, but we request government to do something for the development of our village,” said Aruna Negi, Gajender’s aunt. “We don’t want any monetary help or compensation from government but we request them to start a gas agency by his name or build a school by his name or change the name of the village to Gajenderpur,” she added. Bisht family is basically from Orkund, Garhwal and 72-years-old Shivdevi, mother of the martyr, has been invited by Social Welfare Minister, Matbar Singh Kandari to their native place for the inauguration of gate made in the honour and memory of her late son. |
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Nishank to visit 26/11 martyr’s village
Dehardun November 25 He has asked the public to join hands and come together against terrorism. He also announced that he would pay a visit to late Gajender Singh Bisht’s village,
Ganeshpur, tomorrow to announce the schemes and other programmes for the development of the village.
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Central Secy visits sites
SMA Kazmi Tribune News Service
Dehra Dun, November 25 He was accompanied by Uttarakhand Principal Secretary (Energy) Shatrughan Singh and state power adviser Yogendra Prasad to the project sites on the Bhagirathi and also held talks with a cross-section of people to take their views. Union Secretary for Environment and Forests Vijay Sharma also held an open public hearing in Uttarkashi on the three suspended projects on Tuesday. The visit came in the wake of the October 5 meeting of the Ganga River Basin Authority (GRBA) presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. The GRBA is yet to decide on the fate of NTPC’s 600 MW Pala Maneri and two other projects. After visiting the dam site of NTPC’s 600 MW Lohari Nagpala and other suspended projects, Brahma said he would prepare a report and submit it to the GRBA but did not comment on the likely resumption of these projects. The final decision on these projects would be taken by the GRBA, he said. These projects were put on hold by the Uttarakhand government following protests by Hindu groups led by noted environmentalist Prof GD Aggarwal, who started a fast unto death on the issue in June, 2008. The Hindu groups alleged that those projects would vitiate the sanctity of the holy Ganga revered by the Hindus. Meanwhile, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has so far remained non-committal over the suspended projects, saying that the sanctity of the Ganga should be maintained at all cost. However, Yogendra Prasad said all three projects should be revived to meet the growing power needs of the country as well as Uttarakhand. While NTPC’s Lohari Nagpala project, which is being built in Uttarkashi district with an investment of Rs 2,500-3,000 crore, is at a very advanced stage, the state-run Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (UJVNL) had also done considerable work on Pala Maneri and Bhaironghati. The NTPC had invested Rs 550 crore in the Lohari Nagpala project and the UJVNL Rs 100 crore in the Pala Maneri project.
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No Mohaan cattle fair this year
Nainital, November 25 This was done following indictment of the contractor organising the fair on the charges of various irregularities. The contractor has been blacklisted. Animal rights groups, including Maneka Gandhi-led People for Animals, had also lodged protests against the manner in which animals were being handled at the fair. Senior Congress leader Dhirendra Pratap, who had been countering the campaign launched by various Hindutva outfits seeking a closure of the fair on the grounds that it was providing bovine animals for slaughter, has cried foul over the move of the administration. “I talked to Chief Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank at Uttarakhand stall at the ongoing India International Trade Fair at New Delhi and have lodged my protest in the matter. “He has promised to look into the matter. The government does not have to bow down to every pressure that is coming from the likes of Maneka Gandhi,” Pratap told The Tribune. He added, ”Even I had my reservations against the manner in which the contractor had been functioning. But ideally, the government should have replaced him with an official instead of just shutting down the fair.” He said that the closure of the fair two months before the scheduled time is going to cause a lot of hardships to the farmers who had come from as far as 400 km away to purchase cattle. “I demand that the farmers who are incurring a loss should be compensated by the government,” he said . The contract for organising the fair from 2007 to 2010 was a mere Rs 3.57 lakh. According to reports, the addresses of some farmers, who had purchased cattle heads at the fair, were found to be fake. The contractor was found to be fleecing farmers selling and purchasing cattle heads. He was charging Rs 50 to Rs 100 as entry fee to the fair from the farmers who wanted to sell or purchase cattle heads whereas the entry fee fixed before the fair was only Rs 10. |
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Doc held for molesting nurse
Dehradun, November 25 He was caught by the public present there while allegedly trying to molest the girl. The latter gave him a sound thrashing before handing him over to the police. Girl’s father lodged a complaint with the police. She told the police Satish Prasad Barmola (32), a resident of Subhash Nagar, had always been trying to talk vulgar things with her. The 18-year-old girl alleged that today when she was working the doctor tried to molest her. The girl was working as a trainee nurse at his clinic in RGM Plaza, Barmola. |
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Rafting operators up in arms again
Dehradun, November 25 “We were assured by both the Chief Minister and the Forest minister that a considerate approach will be adopted towards our concerns. But, it looks exactly the opposite as the forest authorities have adopted an adamant attitude and have only provided beach permits for a period of one year,” Deepak Bhatt, an office-bearer of the committee said. Earlier, rafting operators had decided to withdraw their agitation. The action committee also categorically held that there was no going back this time. “The government must now come up with a rafting policy as this frequent harassment of local rafting operators would no more be tolerated,” Dilbar Singh Bhandari said. Devendra Rawat, Sudhir Maihani, Deepak Badoni, Rakesh Chauhan and Yogesh Bahuguna were prominent participants in the meeting. |
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Cane farmers hold rally
Dehradun, November 25 The members assembled at Gandhi Park and held a rally to the Secretariat to submit the memorandum. Regional vice-president Surender Singh said that sugarcane farmers of the country were suffering due to the anti-farmer policies of the state and the Centre. Surender Singh said that according to the Rs 40 per kg rate of sugar, sugarcane cost comes to 280 per quintal. Owing to delay in threshing of sugarcane, the sowing of wheat was also getting affected. The members demanded that the state government should soon hold a conference with representatives of farmers to fix a price beneficial to farmers. The farmers demanded that they should be paid compensation from the high-priced sale of sugar that is earned through the sale of sugarcane. They stated that if their demands were not accepted, they would be forced to intensify the stir. |
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Ramnagar tense; cops appeal for peace
Tribune News Service
Nainital, November 25 Senior most officials of the district administration as well as the police camped in the town on Wednesday appealing to the people to maintain calm and order. For the past three days, the town has been witnessing protests and demonstrations. After two days, the markets opened on Wednesday, but protests marked by sloganeering continued. People expressed their anger at the police for its failure to find the child who had been missing for seven days before her body was found in a decomposed state on Monday morning from a spot that was not very far from a police station. According to the police, Mahima’s body had been recovered from a ditch in a house that was under construction after a week of her going missing. The face of the victim had been crushed and her clothes were carrying blood stains. The police says the postmortem of the body has confirmed that she had been raped before being murdered. Her body was discovered by a labourer who informed the police. The girl was last seen at a marriage ceremony in Paith Padav where she had gone with her parents. It was from there that she had gone missing. “Look at the way things are deteriorating. Even children cannot be taken to social events like weddings as there is no safety. It goes on to show the inefficiency of the government and the administration,” said a government servant from Ramnagar. People are agitated over the fact that for more than a year the police had failed to nab the actual culprits of Priti Sharma who had met a similar fate in Haldwani last year. They are having apprehensions over this case also. 2 held for Rishikesh robbery
Dehradun: The police nabbed two of the robbers who were involved in a robbery in Rishikesh in January this year. They had struck at the house of Shalini Verma and decamped with cash and ornaments worth over Rs 1 lakh. The police recovered a mobile phone and the sim of the same mobile phone that was used by the robbers on the day of the robbery. The police recovered a dagger from their possession. The duo told the police that four more men were involved with them who were, according to them, in Bangladesh now. The police nabbed them yesterday after it got a tip-off from a source that the two were in the Rishikesh area. The police raided the place and caught the criminals. They have been identified as Wazid Ali (32), alias Bunty, and Shahid Ahmed (34), alias Raju. Ali hails from Uttar Prdesh while Ahmed is a native of West Bengal and was putting up in a rented accommodation in Haridwar. The accused said they were all staying in the house of Ahmed. They added that the four other men who were involved in the incident had fled to Bangladesh. The robbed cash and ornaments were with them only, the duo said. However, the police said it was yet to investigate about the robbed items. 10 years on, murder
convicts held
Roorkee: Absconding for the past 10 years, two murder convicts have finally landed in the police net. The police today arrested proclaimed offenders Mukesh Bhatnagar and his younger brother Rajesh Bhatnagar, both residents of the Purani Tehsil locality here, from Saharanpur following a tip-off. The brother duo was convicted of killing Mukesh’s wife Renu in 1996 and was sentenced to 10-year jail by the district sessions court. Renu was reportedly set on fire by Mukesh and members of his family in 1996. The names of his father Rameshwar Bhatnagar and mother were also appeared in the case. Their appeal in High Court in 1999 had been rejected following which both the accused absconded. On a tip-off, the police today raided a place near the Saharanpur bus stand and arrested them. They have been sent to jail. |
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Association for physically challenged holds protest
Dehradun, November 25 At least 30 to 40 protesters marched from Gandhi Park to the Secretariat displaying banners of their association. Special recruitment should be done for physically challenged in government departments was the main demand amongst all. The provisions should be made to provide them three per cent employment quota in industrial private limited companies. They also demanded that physically challenged should be included in Below Poverty Line (BPL) section as they remain deprive of several developmental schemes. The protesters said that likewise SCs and STs the arrangements should be made to provide financial help for the marriages of daughters of physically challenged persons. Besides they demanded that if some couple is physically challenged then one of the spouses should be given an employment so that they can make their two ends meet. Their demand in terms of transport, was that no tax be levied from them in corporation buses while travelling in TGMO and other transport company buses be made fare-free for physically challenged. The association submitted a 14-point memorandum of their demands to the Uttarkhand Governor, Chief Minister, state Minister of Social Welfare and Secretary Social Welfare.
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Kidnap accused is my husband: Girl
Roorkee, November 25 The development took place after the girl deposed before the court that she was a major and had herself gone along with the accused, whom she had married later. The girl, namely Anju, a resident of Shantarpur village, had gone missing around three months ago. The police had arrested Neku of Thaska village on a complaint of relatives of Anju one month ago. The girl was said to have been recovered from Manglore a week ago. Now, the police has moved an application before the court for the release of Neku. 6 injured in accident
Dehradun: Six persons were injured after a Vikram autorickshaw collided with a motorcycle here this evening on the Shimla bypass. All injured were taken to Indresh Hospital by EMRI 108. The two bike riders, Ajay Rawat and Yash Gupta, were seriously injured. According to the police, both vehicles collided head on. |
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CM inaugurates Yes Bank branch in Dehradun
Dehradun, November 25 Nishank too reciprocated in full measure saying that the state welcomes banks like Yes Bank, which wants to invest and participate in the developmental activities of the state. He said, “We want private banks to invest and then spend finances within the state for the welfare of the people. As I get to know, that this bank is already doing good work in the development process of the state, I appreciate its work and inclination to contribute in sectors like agriculture, horticulture and floriculture.” Explaining about the potential of state in these sectors, he said, “The state has some of the unique species of flowers which remain bloomed for two-three months in a year. Similarly, the state has some of the finest and precious herbs, which are not found anywhere else. If the bank invests in these sectors, it will not only generate employment but will also benefit the banks.” He gave example of the biggest pharmaceutical unit established in the state saying that all the pharmaceutical companies throughout the country will depend on it in some way or the other. He stressed that the state being new in its formation has unlimited opportunities to offer to private sector. V Tuli, a senior officer of the bank informed that the bank has already struck partnership with GB Pant University of Technology and Agriculture. It also holds knowledge seminars for IAS trainees of the Lal Bahadur National Academy of Administration, at Mussoorie. It also recently released a publication “A new Era of Economic Development”, released in 2005 highlighting key sunrise sectors and investment potential in the state. The bank has other two running branches in the state, situated in Rudrapur and Kashipur. |
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ICFAI holds workshop on i-Robotics
Dehradun, November 25 The whole programme was conducted under the guidance of Pradeep Kumar Sharma, founder and CEO of Robosapiens India along with his
team and was organised by the Students Welfare Committee of ICFAI University. It was a technical workshop, which taught the basics of robotics comprising knowledge about line-follower robots and light follower robots. It was a 16-hour workshop comprising three sessions per day amongst which the last session was a competitive session in which the team led by Seema won. The programme
was supported by Devendra Bharsar, Brij Kishore Pande, Dr GS Brahma, member of SWC, mechnical faculty team and Manish
Mehta, assistant registrar, ICFAI University. According to Pradeep, CEO of Robosapiens India, it was one of the most comfortable workshops he has ever experienced in his life. The event ended with a conversation between the students and Douzi Imran Khan, Head SWC (ICFAI) and Pradeep. |
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Dehradun November 25
Dehradun, November 25
Dehradun, November 25
