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Wheat bags left to rot in Ratia warehouse
KU chips in to help the flood-hit
NCTE told to shut education shops
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Revenge Killing: Couple shot dead
Use pesticides judiciously: Kataria
Now, anger pours out on highway
Ruchika Molestation
Respite pours in for Mewat, Palwal residents
Now, laser treatment for urology patients at PGIMS
Delhi HC dismisses Chautalas’ plea
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Wheat bags left to rot in Ratia warehouse
Fatehabad, July 8 SDM K Markanda Panduranga has written to the higher authorities to initiate action and improve storage conditions after hundreds of bags of wheat were left to rot in the open at the warehouse of the Haryana Agro Industries in Ratia town.
In a display of shocking indifference, hundreds of bags of the wheat were found damaged in rains on Wednesday in Ratia. Members of the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Naujwan Sabha, an NGO, brought the matter to the SDM. “On reaching the warehouse, we noticed that some workers were filling old wheat containing a large number of pebbles into wheat bags marked 2010,” alleged Mandeep Singh, an activist of the sabha. He alleged that the officials had siphoned away quality wheat and filled the bags with rotten one. SDM Panduranga said he was shocked to find three stacks comprising hundreds of bags of wheat lying in the open during the rains. Several of these had been rendered unfit for consumption. He said he had written to senior officers of Haryana Agro to initiate action against the erring officers. He said he had sought suitable measures for the safe storage of wheat in future. PC Goyal, District Manager, Haryana Agro Industries, however, defended his subordinates. “The stocks were lying there to be picked by a special goods train. Our workers have to load 52,000 bags of wheat in a limited time onto the special trains,” he explained. “ Each time wheat is taken out of warehouses for these special trains, the last row of bags on the stacks is left behind. The workers may have been filling that wheat in the new bags,” he maintained.
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NCTE told to shut education shops
Chandigarh, July 8 Passing strictures on Haryana College of BEd for virtually running a shop to earn money, Justice Ranjit Singh asserted: How the NCTE has granted permission and affiliation to such-like institution would be another strange fact. Is it that some other considerations are at play and such institutions are able to earn affiliation by adopting some other means, not legally permissible? “It is high time that the NCTE takes action against such institutions to derecognise them or to de-affiliate or to withdrawn affiliation so that such shops are not permitted to ruin the career and lives of innocent students.”
“…derecognise them or
de-affiliate or withdrawn
affiliation so that such shops are not permitted to ruin the career and lives of innocent
students...” — Justice Ranjit Singh,
Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice Ranjit Singh asserted: “How the lure of money has led to spoiling a year in the life of a number of students can be made out from the facts in the present writ petitions.” He asserted that 100 seats were allotted for 2009-2010. But “the members of the petitioner-society appear to have acted on their own and submitted three separate lists of 100 students each regarding admission to the BEd course”. The petition was filed after the varsity turned down the plea for issuing roll numbers. Justice Ranjit Singh ruled: The members have acted in this illegal and arbitrary manner apparently only to enrich themselves at the cost of innocent students. Profit not the education appears to be the motto. The action has left the students high and dry. The members of the institution have ruined at least one year of these students, who have been so lured for admission in the BEd course… It is hard to imagine that the college has run any classes to teach. This appears to be a shop being run to earn money... “I am of the considered opinion that each of the student who has been admitted by each of the member of this college management is entitled to seek damages from the college, as well as the individual member of the management, for misleading them and ultimately wasting one year of their life,” said Justice Ranjit Singh. He ruled: While dismissing the writ petitions, I would leave liberty with the students to approach any appropriate forum to seek compensation from the college as well as individual members of the society, which is running the college. This compensation indeed should be exemplary so that such greedy persons are made to learn a lesson of their lives for playing with the lives of innocent students. |
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Revenge Killing: Couple shot dead
Jind, July 8 The killers escaped after the shootout. Old enmity is suspected to be the reason for the crime. The police has registered a case. Earlier, three women were murdered at Khokri village in the district on May 10. The case remains unsolved. Police sources said the killers struck as Sukhbir Singh (53) and his wife Krishna were asleep in the verandah. Their younger son Sonu (20), daughter Manisha (17) and daughter-in-law Shweta, married to their elder son Mukesh, were in their rooms. The assailants scaled the boundary wall and fired several rounds. Gunshots were heard in the locality. Some neighbours rushed out to help but the assailants had fled by then. The injured were rushed to the PGIMS where Sukhbir and his wife succumbed to their injuries. The condition of the three injured is stated to be critical. Mukesh, allegedly involved in a murder case, has been in judicial custody. The family hails from Rathdana village where the murder took place last year. So revenge killing was a possibility, the police said. The police requisitioned the services of a dog squad and fingerprint experts to get some clue about the assailants.Youth rapes neighbour, detains her for 23 days. Youth booked for rape Hisar: A youth has been booked for raping his neighbour and keeping her in illegal detention for 23 days. Eight members of his family, including his brother, sister and mother, have also been booked for kidnap and criminal conspiracy. The girl, a resident of the Railway Colony here, alleged in her complaint that the boy’s sister prodded her to elope with him and marry him. After a medical examination, the police booked the youth and his relatives.
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Use pesticides judiciously: Kataria
Hisar, July 8 Addressing farmers, farm scientists and pesticide dealers at a seminar on “A golden march towards food security and sustainability” at Haryana Agricultural University here, he said agriculture inputs were vital for increasing production. Their judicious use would not only result in greater profit to the farmers, but also check pollution.The seminar was jointly organised by HAU and Dhanuka Agritech. Kataria said sincere efforts were needed to upgrade knowledge and skills of farmers as well as pesticide dealers as both stake-holders were directly associated with agriculture. This, he said would largely benefit the farmers in cutting down input costs, thus, rendering them maximum profits. Vice Chancellor KS Khokhar said by 2021, to feed its growing population, India would need to double its food production by 2050, an uphill task. Khokhar pointed out that India’s food security largely dependent on the judicious use of ground water as well as rainwater. He said a vast majority of food supply came from irrigated agriculture. Only three per cent of available water on earth was fresh. Thus, overexploitation and depletion of ground water would pose a risk to future agricultural sustainability, livelihood and economic growth. Chairman of the Dhanuka Group, RG Aggarwal, said his group was celebrating 2010 as water conservation year to mark the completion of 50 years of the group in agrochemicals. He said programmes aimed at creating mass awareness among farmers on saving water had been launched. |
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Now, anger pours out on highway
Shahbad, July 8 The traffic remained disrupted for about 40 minutes till the administration was able to make the mob see reason. Deputy Commissioner of Kurukshetra Pankaj Aggarwal said the power supply had been snapped to prevent any untoward incident as rainwater had flooded the power stations. A resident alleged that there had been no electricity and drinking water since the past two days. Aggarwal said that a temporary health centre has been established at Shanti Nagar temple, a mobile van deployed at Dider Nagar and a mobile van with doctors sent to the flood-affected villages of Jogna Kheri and Kanipla and Thansewar as also Ghansi Road, Kuber Colony, Vashisht Colony, Layalpur Basti, Kirti Nagar and Gandhi Nagar in Kurukshetra. Kurukshetra, Shahbad and Ambala have been hit hard by the floods caused by a breach in the Tangri river and SYL canal. Reports here said that Bibipur Lake near Jyotisar was also overflowing. Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner today ordered that all schools in the district would remain shut tomorrow because of the floods.
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Parkash used his daughter to settle scores: Abha
Saurabh Malik/TNS
Chandigarh, July 8 As the appeal against conviction and 18-month sentence awarded to Rathore in the case came up for hearing before Justice Jitendra Chauhan this afternoon, his wife-cum-counsel Abha Rathore made attempts to convince the court that Anand Parkash had his own axe to grind and had used his daughter to settle scores. Reiterating her stand on Rathore’s implication being an aftermath of inimical relationships, she said Ruchika’s signatures on the memorandum were forged by complainant Madhu Parkash’s husband Anand Parkash and others, as his father was found gambling when Rathore was Superintendent of Police at Kurukshetra. At that time, Anand Parkash’s father was a commission agent. Abha Rathore also told the court that there was no documentary evidence to support her contention, while adding that Anand Parkash was since then nursing a grouse against Rathore. Her assertion, prima facie, did not go down well with the court. Justice Chauhan asserted: “If the incident is recent, it sounds logical, otherwise….” Abha’s another assertion that Aradhana’s testimony was doubtful, too, did not much move the court. Abha said Aradhana had claimed that she and Ruchika had changed their practice timings to 4.30 pm to avoid meeting Rathore. But the claim that she still saw him at 6.30 pm raised doubts about the avoidance theory. Justice Chauhan added she could go anytime. However, since Justice Chauhan’s observations were made orally in the open courtroom, these could in no way be construed as the court’s final opinion on the merits of the matter. At the most, it can be said that the arguments, on the face of it and at the current stage, did not convince the court. Undaunted, Abha Rathore told the court that people have good memories -- an assertion that was not refuted by Justice Chauhan. She also tried to tell the court that Anand Parkash’s credentials made his testimony and role in the controversy doubtful. She claimed Anand Parkash was compulsorily retired on grounds of corruption and that his final ACR were adverse.
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Respite pours in for Mewat, Palwal residents
Nuh (Mewat), July 8 Residents of local villages have been facing acute shortage of clean drinking water and electricity, especially in summer. The Tribune had also highlighted the multifarious problems being faced by local residents, especially on account of erratic water and power supply, and pitiable health and education infrastructure in the district. During his tour of the villages, Rajpal sought information about the power supply situation at the waterworks there. Following this, he called a meeting of the officials and directed them to ensure uninterrupted power supply to dedicated feeders of waterworks and tubewells meant for supplying drinking water in the villages. The MD directed them to constitute four teams each comprising a junior engineer and four linemen. “There are 13 dedicated feeders for water supply in Mewat and Palwal districts and these teams of technical employees would keep touring the area to check power lines in respective areas and carry out repair and restoration as and when required,” he said, adding that teams would also be provided special vehicles. Rajpal said that the underlying idea behind the move was that drinking water supply should not fail due to power failure.
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Now, laser treatment for urology patients at PGIMS
Rohtak, July 8 The machines were recently acquired by the Department of Urology. Dr Sachit Sharma, senior medical officer, will be looking after the laser treatment. He recently received training for the same from
AIIMS, New Delhi. He completed a six-month International Clinical Fellowship in Advanced
Endourology, Laparoscopy and Renal Transplant awarded by Canada-based
Socie’te’ Internatonale’ d’Urologie (SIU) - the only officially approved International Authority in the field of Urology. Dr Sharma said that the bloodless and precise surgeries would benefit thousands for whom PGIMS serves as a tertiary referral center. It is among select government hospitals in the country to be included in the list of upgradation by the Union Ministry of Health. A special Rs 125 crore grant has been announced to provide better infrastructure and health facilities at
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Delhi HC dismisses Chautalas’ plea
New Delhi, July 8 Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra ruled that there was no infirmity in the February 2 trial court order. The Chautala brothers had pleaded that the CBI had filed the disproportionate cases against them on December 24 last year without the government sanction. The CBI had assessed their properties acquired between July 1999 and March 2005 when they were public servants at Rs 1,467 crore. According to the chargesheet against Ajay, the CBI claimed that he was in possession of assets to the tune of Rs 27.74 crore --more than three times his income of Rs 8.17 crore during the period of 1993 to 2006. The second chargesheet was filed against Abhay alleging his assets were over five times his income of Rs 22.89 crore as per income tax records during the 2000-2005 period. The agency claimed to have found Rs 119.69 crore worth of assets. |
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KU chips in to help the flood-hit
Kurukshetra, July 8 It also decided to provide accommodation on the campus to its present and former employees affected by floods. Vice-Chancellor Lt Gen Dr DDS Sandhu visited flood affected areas across Gate III and ensured that food and water reached those in need. The food was being hygienically prepared in the university itself, said university sources. A team under the supervision of Registrar Raguvendra Tanwar and Chief Warden Sat Dev is monitoring relief operations.
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Repoll in 14 Rohtak booths tomorrow
Rohtak: Repoll for the Panchayati Raj bodies’ election will be held at 14 polling stations in the district between 7 am and 4.30 pm on July 10. The polling stations where repoll will be held are booth numbers 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 and 81 of Pilana village of Kalanaur block, booth numbers 159-165 of Bhalaut village of Rohtak Block and booth number 116 of Jindran village of Meham Block.
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