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Tributes paid: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda paid tributes to Fateh Chand
Bhatnagar, father of Suman Bhatnagar, correspondent of The Tribune, at a “Rasam Kirya” ceremony held in Ambala City on Wednesday. Fateh Chand (95) passed away on March 27 at his Ambala residence. A number of Congress workers attended the
kirya. Haryana Pradesh Congress president Phool Chand Mullana and Editor of the Dainik Tribune Naresh Kaushal also paid tributes.
KURUKSHETRA
Gen JJ Singh to visit KU: Governor of Arunachal Pradesh General JJ Singh
(retd) will visit Kurukshetra University on April 10 and address the students and the teaching fraternity. Stating this to mediapersons here on Wednesday, KU Vice-Chancellor Lt Gen DDS Sandhu said: “This will be the Excellency’s first visit to Kurukshetra University and the intellectual fraternity is looking forward to listen to his views on “Essence of Leadership”. Prior to his assignment as the Governor of Arunachal
Pradesh, JJ Singh held the prestigious position of the 22nd Chief of the Army Staff and commanded the second largest Army of the world from January 31, 2005, to September 30, 2007.REWARI
1 held for abduction: The police raided a hideout in Jaipur and apprehended Rajpal
Yadav, who had allegedly eloped with a young girl (22) from Nangligodha village, near here, on March 27. Simultaneously, the police also recovered the girl. Rajpal on Wednesday was produced in the court of JMIC Vikas
Goyal, who remanded him in judicial custody. Earlier, on a complaint filed by the girl’s father, the police had registered a case of abduction coupled with seduction against the accused. — OC Woman commits suicide: Rekha Yadav (28), wife of Satish
Yadav, reportedly committed suicide by allegedly consuming poison at Balawas Ahir village, near here, on Monday night. The woman was admitted to the trauma centre here, where she died on Tuesday. Following a complaint lodged by Hoshiar Singh
Yadav, father of the deceased, the police has registered a case of abetment to suicide against her husband Satish
Yadav, father-in-law Ram Kumar Yadav and one other. Hoshiar Singh alleged that his daughter had to take the extreme step owing to cruel treatment given by her in-laws for dowry. Illicit stock of fertilisers: The police, along with senior officials of the agriculture department, raided a business establishment, Gaurav Trading Company, in the New Grain Market here on Tuesday and detected an “illicit” stock of over 2,600 bags of urea, potash and DAP. A senior agriculture official said while the proprietor of the firm had shown about a dozen bags of fertiliser in the stock details furnished to the department on March 31, such a huge storage of over 2,600 bags was in violation of the departmental rules and regulations. The establishment has been sealed and a case under the Essential Commodities Act has been registered against the proprietor.
Sirsa
police arrests one more Sirsa: The police today arrested another person for alleged attack on minister Gobind Kanda during the April 3 Sirsa bandh, organised by the
INLD. Police sources said Satnam Singh, a resident of the Khairpur area of Sirsa town, had been arrested in connection with the FIR lodged by Gobind Kanda, younger brother of the minister.
The police had arrested an INLD activist, Sanjay Saini, in connection with the case yesterday.
Like Saini, the name of Satnam Singh, too, does not figure among the identified persons mentioned in the FIR.
The police had booked seven identified and 20-25 unidentified INLD activists for a scuffle between the minister.
Devi Lal remembered:
Rich tributes were paid to former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal on his ninth death anniversary here on Tuesday. A yajna was organised in Jan Nayak Chaudhary Devi Lal Vidyapeeth and fruits were distributed amongst special children on the occasion. INLD activists paid tributes to Devi Lal at a solemn function organised in Chaudhary Devi Lal Town Park here. An all-religion prayer was also
organised. INLD leaders Pradeep Mehta, Krishna Fogat and RK Bhardwaj were also present.SONEPAT
5 miscreants held: The police arrested five armed miscreants, Islam, Babu, Ikram, Zulfikar and Zahid of UP, from a deserted room on the Sonepat-Baghpat-Meerut highway on Tuesday. According to SP Mahender Singh Sheoran, they were planning to loot loaded heavy commercial vehicles on the highway. The police seized four country-made pistols, 25 cartridges and a knife from their possession. They were produced in the court on Wednesday and were remanded in police custody, he added. They confessed to have stolen 24 electricity transformers in the villages of Yamuna belt during the past four months. PNB’s 27th branch opened: Punjab National Bank have issued around 15,000 kisan credit cards to farmers in the district and these included 2,500 cards issued during last year. This was stated by Deputy Commissioner Ajit Joshi after inaugurating the 27th branch of the bank on the local Chhotu Ram Chowk on the Gohana road on Wednesday. He said the bank had advanced loans amounting to Rs 342 crore for agriculture purposes to farmers on subsidised rates last financial year. Out of this, an amount of Rs 146 crore was given through credit cards.
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Training camp for CRPF men: A two-week specialised training camp organised for personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on counter-insurgency concluded near here on Tuesday. A defence spokesman said over 100 CRPF jawans attended the camp which was held at the Corps Battle School, Khreuh. A closing ceremony was held at the school that was attended by the GOC, CIF (V) and NC Asthana, IGP (Ops), CRPF (Kashmir).
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