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Rohtak bids tearful adieu to its hero
Capital issue rankles Hooda
Power official blamed for closure of thermal units
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‘N-plant won’t cause health problems’
Spurned, youth opens fire on girl
Prez visits Gurgaon
Pahadia pledges inclusive growth
BSP MLA Deputy Speaker
Dera Row
Look beyond Gurgaon, industry told
Spurious milk unit unearthed
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Rohtak bids tearful adieu to its hero
Rohtak, March 5 The body of the 26-year-old officer reached his house at Bharat Colony here around 6 pm today in a bedecked military vehicle accompanied by senior Army officials. The martyr’s last journey, which began around 6.40 pm, was attended by a large number of local residents, besides family members, relatives and officials of the administration and the Army. A contingent of Army jawans and the Haryana police fired into the air as a mark of respect to the departed officer. Wreaths were laid on the body by local MP Deepender Singh Hooda, besides officials and residents. People had started converging on the residence of Naresh Kumar Sharma, father of the martyr, at Bharat Colony here since yesterday. Deepak had recently got engaged to a woman Army officer and was to marry her in November.
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Capital issue rankles Hooda
Chandigarh, March 5 Talking to the media at the press lounge of the assembly after the conclusion of the first day of the Budget session, Hooda said such issues were not a subject matter of the Governor’s Address. Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal had raised this issue during the Chief Ministers’ conference in Delhi recently. At that time he (Hooda) had said that Chandigarh was the joint capital of Haryana and Punjab. Still if Punjab wanted a separate capital, it was welcome to construct one outside Chandigarh. Hooda took exception to certain advertisements put by the Punjab government, describing the Chandigarh International Airport as “Mohali Airport”. He said in the proposed airport, both Haryana and Punjab were equal partners and it had been agreed by the two states that it would be called “Chandigarh airport”. He said Haryana had no objection if the airport was named after Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh. Hooda said he would expand his Cabinet but did not say when. He said there was no proposal to have a Deputy Chief Minister. Earlier in the assembly, Speaker HS Chatha converted an adjournment motion moved by the Indian National Lok Dal on the steep price rise into a call attention motion. Speaker during zero hour, INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala said his party had moved an adjournment motion so that the House could unanimously pass a resolution urging the Centre to take effective steps to check inflation. Chatha informed him that he had converted the same into a call attention motion and had asked the government to reply on March 9. Chautala was visibly not satisfied with the reply but he chose not to press the issue further.
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Power official blamed for closure of thermal units
Panipat, March 5 President of association RS Dahiya said the state was losing 528 MW of power daily as the thermal generation units had been lying shut. He stated that this had been caused due to lack of decision-making by the director (technical). The thermal engineers claimed that it would take three months to put the units back into action. Dahiya said 110 MW unit no 3 of the Panipat thermal plant was closed on December 29, 2009, due to inflow of lubricating oil in turbine shaft resulting in overheating of turbine. This unit is lying closed for the past two months and the official reason given is turbine alignment. Sumer Singh Yadav, general secretary of the association, said the 300 MW unit number 2 of the Yamunanagar thermal plant was closed on February 22 due to excessive collection of ash in electro state precipitation (ESP) hoppers. He said the damage could have been minimised if the director technical would have allowed immediate shutdown of the unit. This led to damage to ESP hoppers of the unit. Laying the onus of shortage of power due to closure of the two units on director technical, the engineers’ body stated that the power position had worsened due to wrong decision taken by him, who at present was seeking third extension for himself. The association lamented that the management had recommended his name for extension despite his poor performance. It demanded that a new director be posted in his place after the expiry of his second extension. It may be mentioned here that another 110 MW unit no. 1 of the Panipat thermal plant is also not working for the past four days.
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‘N-plant won’t cause health problems’
Hisar, March 5 Nagaich said the world’s coal reserves would be completely exhausted in the next 40 years and thus nuclear plants were the only sustainable way to generate electricity for the future. FATEHABAD: “Generation of electricity in nuclear power plants is cheaper as well safer, besides being eco-friendly. Nuclear power is being considered the best the world over, and over 222 new nuclear power plants will come up all over the world by 2025,” said Sudhender Thakur, Executive Director of NPC, while addressing a meeting of intellectuals, farmers and mediapersons here on Friday. — TNS
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Spurned, youth opens fire on girl
Jind, March 5 The 19-year-old girl, a student of an engineering college, has been admitted to the PGIMS, Rohtak. The accused managed to flee after the crime. The police has launched a hunt to nab the accused after registering a case against him and some of his family members. The incident took place at the residence of Sahib Singh, a resident of Harda Mohalla in Safidon, when the accused, Samandeep Singh, barged into the house of the victim and opened fire on her after hurling abuses on her and her family members for not accepting his marriage proposal. The boy’s family had approached the girl’s father with the marriage proposal three days ago, but since the girl disliked the boy and refused the offer, the accused turned up at her house this morning and opened fire on her. The victim received bullet injuries on her shoulder and arm. The accused reportedly has a criminal background and has been booked earlier in some cases. The police has booked him under Section 307 of the IPC. The other family members of the accused named in the FIR include his parents and grandfather. No arrest has been made so far. Held for kid’s murder
Rohtak: The police has exhumed the body of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, who had been allegedly buried after being murdered by a resident of Shastri Colony here yesterday. The body was exhumed from a spot near Vaish College here today and sent for a postmortem at the local PGIMS. The police has arrested the accused identified as Praveen Kumar hailing from Bihar. According to the police, the accused had an affair with the child’s mother identified as Shakuntla (25), whose husband had died a few months ago. The accused allegedly killed the child by throwing him on the floor. Later, the accused buried the child’s body. |
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Prez visits Gurgaon
Gurgaon, March 5 Top administrative and police officers of the district also welcomed the President, who went to the local residence of senior Congress leader and former Union minister Vasant Sathe. Sathe, born at Nasik in Maharashtra on March 5, 1925, turned 85 today. Later, Bhukkal revealed that a cancer research institute would be set up in the state. Sub-centres for the treatment of cancer would also be opened, she added. —
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Pahadia pledges inclusive growth
In his address to the assembly on the opening day of the Budget session here today, Governor Jagannath Pahadia said during its second term, the government would focus on inclusive growth, keeping in line with the “vision of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to make the common man a partner in progress.” However, he cautioned that the “return to robust growth may take some time.” Pahadia was not comfortable reading his address. After a few paragraphs, he urged the members to take it as read. Making a vague reference to the alleged highhanded rule of the previous non-Congress government, Pahadia said during the past five years, the state’s development had taken place “within the framework of and through the network of democratic institutions.” He said the government was committed to pursuing policies that “unleash creativity and enterprise in the people as also the policies that address the need of every citizen, their right to a decent livelihood, to education, equality of opportunity, and to peace and security.” Maintaining that agriculture was among the primary focus areas of the government, Pahadia highlighted various measures taken by the government to boost agriculture production. He did not forget to reiterate, what has now become an annual ritual, the government’s commitment to get the state’s share in the SYL canal. Elaborating various measures taken in the social sector, he said the government had launched the Rs 150-crore Jawahar Social Infrastructure Mission to set up state-of-the-art schools, vocational education and training centres and institutes for the differently-abled. Expressing concern at the price rise of essential commodities, Pahadia claimed that the state government had taken several measures to ensure that the supply of food articles in the state was not hampered. He said the state would revise its industrial policy by the end of April to ensure hassle-free approval and clearance to various proposals. The government had initiated steps for preparing a 30-year perspective mining plan for the state to ensure that natural resources were exploited in a judicious manner. He also promised a tax structure suitable to the emerging needs of both trade and industry and consumers. Pahadia expressed satisfaction on the law and order situation in the state.
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BSP MLA Deputy Speaker
Chandigarh, March 5 The BSP MLA, who along with seven Independent MLAs supports the Hooda government, was escorted to his chair by Hooda, Surjewala and Chautala. Khan, MLA from Jagadhari, had been a minister in the past.
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Dera Row
Sirsa, March 5 Sat Parkash Ranga, Commandant, Third Battalion, HAP, Hisar, who is also looking after the charge of the SP here during the leave period of SP Satender Gupta, today issued orders of suspension of constables Rakesh, Aman and Ishwar Singh with immediate effect and has sent them back to Bhondsi after recommending departmental inquiry against them. “The three cops had come to Sirsa after the February 27 incident and were assigned duty in the local city police station, from where they went missing on March 2,” said a police spokesperson. “When they came back to duty today, SHO Hans Raj submitted a report on their absence from duty to the SP, who immediately initiated action against them,” the spokesperson added. Sirsa Hundreds of his followers assembled on the road outside the courts complex as well as the route taken by his cavalcade. He entered the court
complex at 5 pm and left at about 6.30 pm. The Ram Chandra Chhatarpati murder case was listed for hearing today. Chhatarpati’s younger son Aridaman Singh, an eyewitness to the scribe’s gunning down, deposed before the court today. His evidence will continue
tomorrow. Security in the vicinity of the court complex has been considerably hiked post February 27incidents of arson, allegedly by
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Look beyond Gurgaon, industry told
Gurgaon, March 5 The MPs were addressing a select gathering at the annual session of the Haryana State Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), which was combined with a panel discussion - “Nurturing New Growth Centre in Haryana” - organised here yesterday. LK Jain, Chief Managing Director, LPS, Rohtak, was today elected Chairman of the Haryana State Council of the CII. Agreeing on the development of new growth centres in Haryana, Harpal Singh, chairman of the CII (northern region), said the state government must acquire land, ensure the provision of sound infrastructure and develop these growth centres in a transparent manner. All procedures and permission for the growth centres must be given quickly and smoothly, he maintained. Rajeev Arora, MD, HSIIDC, disclosed that the corporation was in the process of developing an industrial estate in every district of Haryana. The HSIIDC would also expedite procedures and permission for business-related ventures, he added. Ashok K Taneja, Managing Director & CEO, Shriram Pistons & Rings Ltd, said past success should not be treated as a guarantee for future accomplishments and the state should aim at setting global benchmarks. The state should pay concerted attention towards the development of social infrastructure. Jayant Davar, President, ACMA & past chairman, CII Haryana State Council, said all regions should look at promoting what they are good at, like agriculture production and storage for Sirsa. Nirmal K Minda, Chairman, CII Haryana State Council, shared his idea of development by inviting big enterprises, automatically paving the way for development. Such a model would facilitate entrepreneurship, skill development and empower people at large. Dr Amit Kapoor, Honorary Chairman, Institute of Competitiveness, India, opined that ushering in new growth centres in Haryana would take further the state’s current highest per capita income denomination.
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Spurious milk unit unearthed Fatehabad, March 5 The spurious milk produced in this factory was being supplied to several reputed milk food factories in Punjab and Haryana. Jagwant Singh Lamba, SP, Fatehabad, said today that the police had arrested Som Nath, Prem Chand and Rajender of Khasapathana village and Rajesh from Dholu village in this connection. The police has recovered 1,500 litres of spurious milk, five sealed drums of chemicals used for manufacturing the milk, one open drum and 17 empty drums of chemicals from the premises. They revealed that they used to supply chemical milk to a Tohana-based dairy from where it was sent to milk food factories in Patiala, Samana, Dera Bassi, Mohali, Karnal and
Kurukshetra.
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Thousands of residents bade a tearful adieu to Capt Deepak Kumar Sharma, who fell to the bullets of militants during a gunbattle in the Tral area in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir yesterday morning, during his cremation which took place with full state and military honours here this evening.
It’s high time industrial captains exploit the potential of the hitherto unexplored parts of
Haryana, which have much more to offer than Gurgaon and
Faridabad.Stating this here yesterday, Congress MP from Rohtak Deepender Singh Hooda and Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar exhorted investors, entrepreneurs and industrialists to set up their units at
Rohtak, Panipat, Sirsa, Karnal, Ambala and Kurukshetra so as to ensure social equity and uniform growth across the state.
Chandigarh, March 5