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Brain-mapping of ASP likely
Vets stage demonstrations
Can tigers be cloned?
Wakf Board-run schools to give incentives to pupils
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Man ends life outside DC’s office
Panel to look into poor results of polytechnics
Kanda: 10,000 constables to be recruited soon
DEO: Students weren’t stripped
BTech student drowned
House of khap victim stoned in Samaspur
HJC to felicitate activists hurt during protest
Plots’ Allotment
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Brain-mapping of ASP likely
Panipat, March 22 Sources said the accused were well-acquainted with the police working and had hoodwinked interrogators who had neither been able to recover the extorted money, nor collect evidence against the accused. The sources said the police team which was sent to Jodhpur to recover Rs 4.6 lakh (a portion of extorted money) never reached there. It returned mid-way after ASP Ashok Sheoran changed his statement, claiming he had sent the money to one of his acquaintances in Guwahati. The police had also failed to arrest two more accomplices, one from Charkhi Dadri in Bhiwani and the other from Hisar district, whose names had cropped up during investigation. Even though the policemen have been booked under Sections 395, 397 and 398 (pertaining to dacoity) and Section 120-B (conspiracy) and various sections of the Arms Act, there is high probability that lack of evidence may help them go unpunished. The eight policemen are accused of extorting Rs 6 lakh from stockbroker Rajat Aggarwal and trying to obtain anotherRs 10 lakh from a jeweller, VK Malhotra, on March 10. It is learnt that a special crime branch team that questioned the accused also failed to extract any useful
information. A local court has extended the remand of seven of the accused policemen till March 24 and that of ASP Sheoran till March 25. |
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Vets stage demonstrations
Hisar, March 22 The veterinarians gathered at Krantimaan Park here where they staged a rally. Later, they marched in a procession to the mini-secretariat where they handed over a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister to the district authorities. Dr RK Rohilla, president of the Hisar district unit of the HSVA, said the veterinarians had been wearing black badges at work since March 15 as the government had failed to address their demands despite numerous meetings with the Chief Minister. He said though the fifth and the sixth pay panels had recommended similar scales for veterinarians and doctors, but the state anomalies committee had disturbed the parity by granting three assured career promotions (ACPs) to doctors while denying the same to veterinarians last year. Rohilla said all other subordinate employees and officers of the government were allowed three general or specific ACPs except veterinarians who had been given two ACPS with the second ACP restricted to only 20 per cent of cadre posts. This was the reason why veterinarians stagnated in the same pay scale for two decades or more. He demanded that veterinarians be granted three specific ACPs after five, 10 and 15 years of service without any restriction as was the case with doctors. The HSVA chief said the Centre as well as neighbouring Punjab and Himachal Pradesh had allowed their veterinarians grade pay of Rs 5,400 in Pay Band 3. However, Haryana had not extended this benefit to its veterinarians. He said the basic qualification for MBBS and veterinary courses was the same and so was the course duration. Both veterinarians and doctors performed similar duties and therefore merited similar treatment in all aspects. FATEHABAD: Veterinarians here on Monday staged a demonstration against the alleged anomalies in their pay scales after the implementation of the sixth pay panel reports. They also gave a memorandum addressed to the state government to the Deputy Commissioner. Moti Lal Sharma, district president of the Haryana Veterinary Surgeons Association, alleged that their pay scales were equivalent to those of medical officers before the implementation of the sixth pay commission, but they had been discriminated against while implementing the new pay scales. KAITHAL: Veterinarians wore black badges, organised a procession in the town and submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister through the Deputy Commissioner here on Monday. They were agitated over the refusal of pay and allowances on a par with their counterparts in the Haryana Civil Medical Service while implementing recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission. |
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Can tigers be cloned?
Karnal, March 22 Cloning experiments and their success have kindled a hope that endangered and extinct species can be revived and tiger conservationists are looking forward to some breakthrough in tiger cloning. While the companies in the USA are working on isolating the best breeds of cattle and poultry for cloning to enable the farmers raise the quality of their livestock, scientists at NDRI assert that each species of animal has different characteristics and one cloning method cannot be said to suit all. However, the pertinent question defying an unambiguous answer is that whether “cloning” could come to the rescue of Bengal tigers. A team of scientists headed by SK Singla associated with cloning of buffalo by hand-guided method warns that it is more likely possible with large mammals whose fertility characteristics are known. “Besides, there is a problem of harvesting eggs as it is easy to get a large number of ovaries from buffalos since they are slaughtered for meat, but extracting eggs from live animals like tigers which produces only a few eggs at a time is not easy,” said Director NDRI AK Srivastav. Further, any tiger-cloning project would entail enormous logistics to locate sufficient donor eggs and parent cells and there was also an element of the “unknown” if the captive-bred tigers would survive when released into the wild. Tiger conservationists also point out that the gene pool of wild tigers was already tiny and cloning them will not diversify the gene pool and the best course is to preserve the tiger’s habitat and hope the population recovers naturally. |
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Wakf Board-run schools to give incentives to pupils
Chandigarh, March 22 According to the 2001 census, the literacy rate among the Indian Muslims is only 26 per cent, less than half of the national average. The liberal section of the community believes that the “parallel education system”, a euphemism for the madarsa system, is one of the main reasons for the dismal literacy rate. This belief is borne by the fact that there is a flood of Muslim youths seeking jobs as caretakers of mosques. All such youths are products of the madarsa system. There are some madarsas which impart modern education along with religious instruction. The poorer section in the community prefers to send children to these madarsas where board and lodging is free. Once alumni of these madarsas take up jobs in mosques, they join the ranks of opponents of modern education. Thus the vicious circle goes on. Two leading lights of the Haryana Wakf Board, Administrator Naseem Ahmad and Chief Executive Officer Parvez Ahmed, are strong votaries of modern education. They have the credentials to convince their community members on the need for modern education. A retired IAS officer of the Haryana cadre, Naseem Ahmed is a former VC of Aligarh Muslim University. Parvez Ahmed, a member of the Indian Forest Officer, is also Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Haryana. In a modest yet significant step, the board has decided to launch an education incentive scheme (EIA) for students in the schools run by it. The board has decided that each Muslim student will be given Rs 100 at the time of admission up to Class VIII. Every student will also be given Rs 100 per quarter if he has a minimum attendance of 80 per cent. The board runs three schools, each with its own tale of struggle for survival. While the Panipat school is comparatively better placed, the Fridabad school is on the verge of closure because local religious leaders want it to be turned into a madarsa. The Ambala school was closed by the local community. After the board decided to act tough with such religious leaders, they agreed to allow the schools to be run. Parvez Ahmed says now the board spends over Rs 1 crore every year on education. |
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Man ends life outside DC’s office
Jhajjar, March 22 The police recovered a suicide note from his pocket wherein he reportedly held his wife and brother responsible for the extreme step and demanded stern action against them. Jagbir had reportedly come to the mini-secretariat in the morning to lodge a complaint against his wife and brother for allegedly having illicit relations. However, after some time he reportedly took poison and fell on the floor. He was taken to the Civil Hospital from where he was referred to PGIMS, Rohtak. Jagbir reportedly died there. Jhajjar SSP Sourabh Singh said Jagbir consumed four celphos pills outside the DC office this morning. The police has registered a case under Section 306 of the IPC against the accused and started investigation, he maintained. “A suicide note has been recovered, in which Jagbir stated that his wife had illicit relations with his brother, which forced him to take the extreme step,” said the SSP, adding that he
also demanded stern action against the duo in this regard. |
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Panel to look into poor results of polytechnics
Ambala, March 22 Secretary, Haryana State Board of Technical Education MP Gupta, who is also the Director of the Haryana Technical Education Department, told The Tribune that a committee under the chairmanship of the Additional Secretary of the board had been constituted to analyse the results, find out the causes for the poor results and to suggest remedial measures. He said now fresh results would be declared after getting the report of the committee.The committee would submit its reports within five days. Students of a few polytechnics met the Director in Chandigarh today and told him that some of their staff members were running private academies and were not paying proper attention to regular students. The Director said if the allegations were found to be true, the department would take strict action against such staff members. He said the staff of various polytechnics had remained on strike for 28 days during the academic session and that could also be one of the reasons for the poor results. He reportedly assured the students that their results would be reviewed. |
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Kanda: 10,000 constables to be recruited soon
Sirsa, March 22 The minister said sports academies were being set up in the state for promoting traditional sports and added that a kabaddi academy would be set up at Sirsa. He said the government had given approval to establish 20 sports stadia in Sirsa district. Of these, eight would be set up in the Sirsa Assembly constituency. The minister said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would lay the foundation stones for a number of projects in the district on April 3. In the present term of the government, projects costing Rs 500 crore had been approved for the development of Sirsa town, Kanda claimed.He said a water treatment plant based on a German technique would be set up at Kalenia village, 5 km from Sirsa town. Another plant would be set up at Begu at a cost of Rs 15 crore. The water from these plants would be used for irrigating 15,000 hectares. It would benefit people of over 10 villages, the minister added. |
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DEO: Students weren’t stripped
Kurukshetra, March 22 Stating this on the telephone here today, District Education Officer Saroj Lohchab said enquiries conducted by two flying squads appointed by the board as well as the Deputy Commissioner Kurukshetra, had revealed that no such incident had taken place. Both the school Principal and the examination centre superintendent had told the flying squads that nothing in this regard had come to their notice, she added. Lohchab said an examinee was reportedly slapped by an invigilator following which students had threatened to “see him” outside the examination centre. To avoid any clash, the invigilator had been relieved from duty today, she added. |
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BTech student drowned
Karnal, March 22 Irate students of the institute today blocked the Karnal-Kaithal road for several hours to protest against the indifferent and callous attitude of the authorities concerned in tracing the student’s body. The student identified as
Gagan, a resident of Bhiwani, had gone to the canal along with his friends. The blockade was lifted after he assured that all efforts would be made to trace the boy. Later, the divers called by the local administration made a frantic search and the body was recovered this evening. |
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House of khap victim stoned in Samaspur
Bhiwani, March 22 After the incident, the DSP visited Samaspur with additional force. However, no case was registered. Undeterred, Randhir Singh and his wife Prem Devi said they would not leave the village. “I was born and brought up in this village. A few villagers are raising the gotra issue only to take revenge,” said Randhir Singh whose family is on the verge of starvation. “Our animals too are dying without fodder. But I will not leave the village and will breathe my last in my house,” declared Randhir Singh. |
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HJC to felicitate activists hurt during protest
Fatehabad, March 22 Talking to mediapersons here today, Bishnoi demanded that the matter should be properly investigated. He said a state-level function of the party would be held in Kurukshetra on May 1, where the workers injured during the police lathicharge at the time of the party’s demonstration in Chandigarh, would be
felicitated. The HJC leader said the party would organise a “padyatra” against the five MLAs, who defected to the Congress after winning their assembly seats on his party ticket. He said the party would expose these legislators before their electorates for “switching over sides for money”. The “padyatra” would begin from Narnaul on April 13. |
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Plots’
Allotment Chandigarh, March 22 Acting on the petition for quashing the allotment, Justice K Kannan of Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion to the Haryana chief secretary, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) and 222 allottees. Alleging nepotism, favouritism and arbitrariness in the allotment, Mulkh Raj Dhamija and 10 other petitioners had blamed the HSIIDC committee of ignoring experienced candidates; and allocating plots on basis of political considerations. Failing to get the plots, they added that the ruling party allotted the plots to benefit its supporters. Going into the background, the petitioners said the HSIIDC invited applications in 2008.
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