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Rahul Gandhi’s popularity media creation: BJP
Residents of 72 villages to be
rehabilitated?
Cost accountants give tips on investment
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Head of missing 4-year-old girl found
Anju Gupta’s testimony biased, says BJP vice-president
Traffic jams welcome tourists in Mussoorie
A scene of a traffic jam on the Kincraig-Library road.
Forest data centre gets ISO certificate
No breakthrough in British national rape case
Uma Bharti visits Mussoorie
Workers’ rights need to be addressed: Dhasmana
Yoga camp concludes
Sangathan protests black marketeering
Liquor vends allotted through lottery
A woman gets chocolate-and-red wine facial at VLCC in Dehradun.
Plastic garbage still a problem despite eco-tax
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Rahul Gandhi’s popularity media creation: BJP
Nainital, March 28 “He is just a creation of mediapersons who are obsessed with the western culture. The Congress party has been spending large amounts of money for his publicity,” said Tripathi in an exclusive talk with The Tribune. He was in Nainital on a personal visit. Replying to a query on the recent electoral gains made by the Congress in UP, Tripathi said, “This is just a temporary phase. After seing the misrule of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), people are once again looking
at the BJP to provide an alternative”. Claiming that the BJP is already engrossed in the ground work for the next assembly polls in UP, he said the party had already set up booth committees in more than 60 per cent of the assembly segments. He further disclosed that the BJP would be making corruption in UP and inflation as its main poll planks. “People of the state are terrified and fed up of the dictatorial policies of Mayawati,” said Tripathi. Referring to the recent controversy of the currency garland involving Mayawati, he said, “She is trying to provide a legal cover to everything”. He also hit out at the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre for failing to take any action against Mayawati. “The Congress is scared to act against her as it fears losing Dalit votes,”
Tripathi asserted. On the issue of the conduct of politicians in Parliament and state assemblies, he said there was already a code of of conduct for them which needed to be implemented strictly. “Some unpleasant decisions need to be taken if democracy is to survive in the country,” he pointed out. |
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Residents of 72 villages to be
rehabilitated?
Pitthoragarh, March 28 “For this our task with the Forest Department has almost reached the final stage. After getting land in Terai, these villagers will be shifted there permanently,” said Heera Singh Dhapola, vice-chairman of the Disaster Management Advisory Committee of the state. “In Uttarakhand, more than 35 lakh population is living in zone 5 that is most earthquake prone,” claimed Dhapola. He informed that his department had sanctioned a sum of Rs 34.62 crore for public properties which got damaged by natural disaster last year. Out of this amount, the maximum had been given to Pitthoragarh, Bageshwar, Chamoli and Almora districts where maximum incidents of landslide had occurred last year. “Out of this money, the damaged public properties will be constructed and the villages where personal properties were damaged would be compensated by the Soil Conversation Department of the Uttarakhand government and NABARD, which has separate plans for these victims of natural disaster,” said Dhapola. The vice-chairmen of the committee said other than the natural ones, man-made disaster tragedies had occurred more in Uttarakhand. These tragedies were the results of scientific mining and deforestation in the state. “The present government is of the view that until the mass awareness campaign against deforestation and mining is launched, the state can not be freed from future natural disaster,” said Dhapola.
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Cost accountants give tips on investment
Dehradun, March 28 Yogendra Prasad, Special Adviser (Energy) and chairman of Uttarakhand Jal Vidhyut Nigam Limited, stressed on the importance of finance and people related to this field. He said, “There are key positions, namely human resource and finance, which are back bone of any government or private sector. It is only the Finance Department which sees to it that the company makes profit out of its expenditure and is able to pay handsome salaries to its employees. It is, therefore, quite essential to learn a thing or two about finance and investment to balance the working in any organisation”. Arvind Kumar, vice-chairman, Dehradun Chapter, detailed the participants about the programme schedule. Anil Mittal, Deputy General Manager (Finance), UPCL, delivered the theme address about the main focus of the programme, which is to apprise the participants about various types of investment instruments, their merits and demerits and risk factors of each type of investment instruments.Mittal said, “The purpose of this programme is to enlighten the audience about their rights and to make them conscious about the ways brokers make fool of investors. If they learn about these, they won’t face losses”. Mittal also said in this time when the banking sector was down, their job was to educate investors about investing their money wisely. RP Thapliyal, Managing Director, UJVNL, also stated that the ICWAI would play a dynamic role to motivate the investors in resolving their day-to-day problems. The detailed discussion was made regarding capital market, mutual funds, debt market followed by question and answer sessions. |
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Head of missing 4-year-old girl found
Nainital, March 28 According to information, Deepmala had been missing since March 17. She had returned to her house, along with her family members, in Jawahar Nagar after attending a jagran, but had vanished from the house in the middle of the night. Deepmala and her brother had been found abandoned by one Sunil at Lal Kuan Railway Station a few years ago. At that time she was just a few months old. Sunil earns his living by polishing shoes. He had brought the children home. He had handed over the boy to a relative to be brought up, while had taken care of Deepmala. His wife Gyanmati had given birth to a son days before he had come across Deepmala and her brother at Lal Kuan, but his real son had not survived. Since then Deepmala had been their only child. The police is investigating the matter and has started questioning people on whom Sunil has pointed a finger of suspicion. It is being ascertained whether the child was murdered on account of personal enmity or it was a case of human sacrifice. Senior Superintendent of Police, Nainital, MS Bungyal told The Tribune that the body of the child had also been found along with her clothes. He said the body had also been eaten up by animals. Body of baby girl found
The body of a newborn child was found in a sack at Rukut Compound in Nainital yesterday. Seeing stray dogs fiddling with a white sack, a passerby informed the Emergency Response Service 108 that further informed the police which collected the bag and discovered the corpse of a newborn girl in it. It is learnt that the baby had injury marks on her shoulder and chest and even her umbilical cord had not been cut. The body was buried after postmortem. It is being assumed that the body had been put in a sack and thrown into a drain. The dogs must have dragged the sack up to Rukut Compound. SSP, Nainital, MS Bangyal told The Tribune that the identity of the child was yet to be ascertained. The police has registered a case and is investigating the matter. |
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Anju Gupta’s testimony biased, says BJP vice-president
Nainital, March 28 Mishra said here yesterday, “I was in constant touch with her on that day and I never expected that she would say this. There had been several appeals from the Manch to the Kar Sewaks to stop what they were doing and return. “A senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader who knew several languages had been appealing to the Kar Sewaks in Telugu, Tamil and other languages to stop. Advani did not say what has been conveyed to the court. Even Murli Manohar Joshi did not say anything of this sort. Some people must have said certain things when the structure was brought down, but I did not expect her (Anju Gupta) to say this in the court”. He further stated, “At times the mob became uncontrollable, but it is wrong to say such a thing about the leadership”. Replying to a query related to the poor performance of the BJP in the last Assembly and Parliamentary elections in Uttar Pradesh, while the Congress managed a good show, he said, “People had got wrong messages about the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the BJP coming close. There were events that were interpreted in a wrong way. Episodes related to former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh and SP leader Azam Khan led to a shift of Muslim votes in the favour of the Congress”. He qualified this by saying that the BJP would have to be very cautious in striking alliances for the forthcoming polls. “People still have faith in the BJP and now it is for the party to channelise that faith,” he said. When asked about the recent controversy over the Congress leadership attacking Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan for coming close to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and becoming a brand ambassador of Gujarat, Mishra said, “This simply shows the myopic vision of the Congress. By becoming a brand ambassador, a person does not necessarily subscribe to the political ideology of the ruling party, but he becomes a partner in the development of that state. “It was the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and former President APJ Abdul Kalam who have also praised the Gujarat government for its developmental activities.” |
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Traffic jams welcome tourists in Mussoorie
Mussoorie, March 28 The rush began since morning and the traffic control became immensely difficult for the police. Long queues were seen from Gandhi Chowk till Kincraig leaving tourists parched in the heat of the day. The jam situation was seen at the other places too. A tourist from Patiala, Harnam Singh, was of the view that entering Mussoorie had become a Herculean task now. First they had to face the jam at Kholukhet due to eco-tax collection. The tax collection posts had not been increased or widened and were running behind schedule. The other main reason of traffic jam was the incomplete parking lot at Kingcraig. The parking should have been completed months ago, but due to the non-payment was lying abandoned, thus creating traffic congestion on the road. According to police station in charge MC Joshi, the sudden rush has led to this chaotic jam and another reason is lack of police personnel to control the situation as most of them are on Kumbh duty. He also said situation would improve after the police personnel return from Kumbh Mela duty. |
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Forest data centre gets ISO certificate
Dehradun, March 28 A team of the Union Information Technology Ministry held inspections at the Data Centre recently and approved rendering an ISO 27001:2005 status. Additional Secretary IT AK Sharma led the audit team. Forestry institution, ICFRE, has been taking a lead towards pursuing its goal of e-governance. Two other data centres, Uttarakhand State Data Centre and Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited, are still in an early state of execution. But the ICFRE has been laying much emphasis on e-governance and has already taken it on the implementation stage. Data centre is all set to do away the bottleneck of IT infrastructure management in all ICFRE offices at 12 locations across the country. It will held provide better operations and management control, and minimise overall cost of data management, IT management and deployment costs. Dr Harish Kumar, Project Manager e-governance and Head Information Technology ICFRE, said the ISO certification with coming up of data center, ICFRE has now entered the third phase of its e-governance programme. The ICFRE e-governance roadmap calls for putting all its services online in 2015.
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No breakthrough in British national rape case
Dehradun, March 28 The police has claimed that it had identified the two involved and will soon arrest them. However, the police is yet to make any breakthrough in the case. One accused is a native of Mumbai, while the other is a foreigner. The Laxman Jhula police station SHO said the rape hadn’t been confirmed in the medical as yet. He said she had got her medical done outside with the help of the British Embassy. Superintendent of Police (SP), Pauri, Pushak Jyoti said the medical report hadn’t confirmed the rape as yet and they were investigating
the matter. The SP added that they had identified the suspects and were doing the investigation to trace the duo. The woman, who hails from London, hadn’t come to the police station yesterday. Rather she went to Delhi first to lodge a report with the British Embassy and later an FIR was filed with the intervention of the Embassy officials.
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Uma Bharti visits Mussoorie
Mussoorie, March 28 Uma also said she liked the greenery of the town and commended the efforts of the Eco-Task Force in preserving the environment. The major challenge for the world was climate change now and it was important to find a permanent solution for the erratic change occurring around the globe which was leading to disaster, added Uma. She was tight lipped on the question of forming a new party and returning into the BJP fold. Uma said for now she had no such intentions and was busy in the spiritual quest and attending to the needs of her niece who was studying in Mussoorie. Uma also mentioned that the schools in Mussoorie were of high standards and education was an answer in removing poverty from the nation. |
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Workers’ rights need to be addressed: Dhasmana
Dehradun, March 28 Senior Congress leader Suryakant Dhasmana said the condition of the working class was pathetic as the government is the least bothered about labour laws. “While the power scenario is dismal in the state, inflation too is touching an all-time high,” said
Dhasmana. JP Sharma, state president of the cell, said it was the duty of one and all to protect the rights of the workers. District Dinesh Kaushal said the cell had been constituted to address to the condition of rising unemployment and would be addressed to at the earliest.
Ramesh Chand, district chief general secretary, Sandip Dhulia vice-president, Vinod Kumar, Prem Singh
Thapa, Yashpal Singh, Sahid Begum, Sunita and Kedar Singh were prominent present. |
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Yoga camp concludes
Dehradun, March 28 The yoga trainer said health and fitness was primarily the most important thing in everyone’s life and yoga was the best way to stay in shape as well as in strength. The trainer taught the effective asanas and exercises. He also suggested that people should follow yoga on a daily basis. Rajender Kothiyal, Chatur Das Hurla, Pradhan of Dharmpur, Brij Lal Sharma, vice-pradhan, Vivek Sharma, secretary, Sitaram Bhatt, treasurer, SN Gupta, coordinator, and Jagdish Sharma were present at the yoga camp. |
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Sangathan protests black marketeering
Dehradun, March 28 Eminent member of the Congress City Committee Harish Virmani also participated in the protest. State president of the association Sanjay Bharti said, “The committee has spoken to the administration and given memorandums too. But nothing has been materialised yet. The sugar that costs around Rs 35 per kg at the government depot is being sold at Rs 48 per kg at other grocery shops. We request the administration to immediately look into the matter and help us in curbing the menace of overpricing and black marketeering”. State senior president of the association Shakeel Ahmad, state vice-president Rashid Ahmad, general secretary Rakesh Kumar Santoshi, district president Faiyyaz Ahmad and others were present at the dharna. |
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Liquor vends allotted through lottery
Nainital, March 28 In Nainital, the allotment was carried out peacefully amidst tight security arrangements. Section 144 was implemented in an area of 200 m from the hall in the District Collectorate where the allotment was being done. The revenue targets for the district from the allocation of liquor vends have been put at Rs 50.12 crore from country liquor vends and Rs 31.92 crore from the vends selling Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL). This is 17 per cent more than the previous years. A total of 4,927 applications had been received for 61 liquor vends in the district.
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Rejuvenate skin with choco-wine facial
Dehradun, March 28 Chocolate and red wine are the principal ingredients of this luxury facial, which is designed to pamper the senses, inspire a feeling of well being, comfort and mood enhancement, while delivering their scientifically proven benefits. Beauty expert Geeta Rawat conducted the facial and informed the gathering that choco-wine facial gives a satin smooth velvety feeling, reduces visible signs of ageing, boosts collagen formation, detoxifies the skin, energises and rejuvenates the complexion. Besides, the latest addition has been satisfying customers with VLCC golden glow, VLCC sterling silver, VLCC wine, VLCC white perfect, pigmentation and skin lightening treatments.
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Plastic garbage still a problem despite eco-tax
Mussoorie, March 28 On the contrary huge plastic dumps can be seen every where with the Landour, Kulri and Library Bazars presenting an ugly picture of the town. Residents are of the view that the revenue collected under the eco-tax was meant for the removal of plastic garbage dumps, but no action has been initiated yet. Palika officials said the work of removing plastic from the town would begin in April. |
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