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Setback for BJP govt
2 held in connection with threat to CM
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Man kills daughter for honour
Five kids drowned in pond
Panel summons Secy over move to scrap quota in Class I posts
Fire breaks out at SIDCUL unit
Hydro power project only hope for employment at Munsiyari: Residents
NREGA: Officials pulled up
Villagers hold dharna against highway widening
Minister warns oil companies against black marketing
No liquor on I-Day
Nishank visits Almora
Panchak yog brings rare occurrence to August
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Setback for BJP govt
Dehradun, August 4 In an attempt to placate two senior party leaders, Rawat and Kedar Singh Phonia, the Nishank government had made them heads of two government boards. But Rawat refused to accept the offer. General Rawat, former Director-General of Assam Rifles, had joined the Congress on the biding of senior Congress leader Satpal Maharaj and won the first-ever assembly elections from the Dhumakot assembly segment of Pauri Garhwal district in February, 2002. He was a cabinet minister in the ND Tiwari-led Congress government from 2002 to 2007. However, after the 2007 elections which he again won, he was disillusioned with the Congress. Despite being a senior member, he was not made Leader of Opposition and the Congress preferred Harak Singh Rawat to head the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) over General Rawat, who then quit his Dhumakot seat as well as resigned from the Congress to pave the way for then Chief minister Major-Gen BC Khanduri (retd). He fought the Pauri Garhwal Lok Sabha seat vacated by General Khanduri in 2008 and became a Member of the Lok Sabha as a BJP candidate. But, he lost the seat to his political guru Satpal Maharaj in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. Since then, he has been unhappy with the turn of events in the BJP. The Chief Minister in a bid to win him over in the intra-party feud with former General Khanduri wanted to make him Chairman of the State Sainik Welfare Board. In a letter to Nishank, General Rawat said he was never consulted on being given this position. He further stated that he had been raising the issue of the welfare of the ex-servicemen and it was not aimed at getting any position. “The news of my being made the Chairman of the State Sainik welfare Board has hurt me,” he writes. He had sacrificed his legislature seat in 2007 with the aim of installing an ex-servicemen as a Chief Minister of a state having a large number of ex-servicemen. He had been working for the welfare of the state as well as the country with dignity and honour and would continue to do so. He requested the Chief Minister to give the position offered to him to another deserving ex-serviceman who had been working tirelessly for the BJP for years. “ Any such position would be unacceptable to me”, he concluded.
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2 held in connection with threat to CM
Dehradun, August 4 The police said the two didn’t have any specific purpose behind calling the control room and threatening the Chief Minister and it was just a mischievous act. The police was earlier suspecting hand of some leftist wing behind the threat call but today after the interrogation of the two it ruled out any such thing. According to the police, the two have been identified as Shankar Singh Rana, native of Chamoli district, and Manoj Kumar, native of Pitthoragarh district. Both are working as security guards and are putting up at Karanpur. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) GS Martoliya in press conference held today said Shankar had made the call to the control room and the phone from which the call was made belonged to Manoj. The latter has claimed that his cellophone and the sim had got lost on July 12 about which he had also informed the police control room. He added that he had later got to know that it was stolen by Shankar. Special Operation Group (SOG) of the police had tracked down the two on the basis of the phone call details that suggested that the address ID on the sim was of Prem Nagar resident Dharmender. But the police found that he had no connection with the threat call. Later, the SOG contacted the other phone numbers on the call details and found that Manoj was using the phone number. Shankar who had allegedly used the phone of Manoj for making the threat call told that he had broken the sim card and had thrown it in a drain. It also came to light that 20 days ago also a call was made from the same number (9458124710) to the police control room and prior to that a few calls were made on the control room number as a mischievous act but no one was threatened. Meanwhile, a case under Sections 420 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Kotwali police station against the two. The SSP said the police would ask mobile phone dealers and companies to verify the IDs before issuing any phone number. “If any company or dealer doesn’t adhere to this directive, then action will be initiated against them,” the SSP said. The police said it found that on a single ID sometimes several sims were issued and there was a need to put a stop to this practice.. Accused to face lie-detector test
Shankar who made the threat call did his Bachelor of Arts in 2008 and had unsuccessfully contested for the post of president of the ABVP. He is also a member of the All India Students Federation (AISF). The police, which wants to be sure that he was not of Maoist ideology or associated with any other vulnerable group, will put him on the lie-detector test. |
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Man kills daughter for honour
Nainital, August 4 According to information, the incident took place at Bhogpur Dam village near Kashipur. One Puran Singh was having differences with his brother Darshan Singh over distribution of land. On Monday evening, the two brothers had a heated exchange of words during which Darshan Singh passed a comment on the social conduct of Puran Singh’s daughter Swarn Kaur. This led to Puran Singh hitting his 16-year-old daughter with an axe killing her on the spot. She was the only daughter amongst four siblings. It is learnt that he was enraged as other people had also been talking about his daughter’s conduct. The police has arrested Puran Singh who is learnt to have told the police that he had taken the extreme step of killing his own daughter in a fit of rage. College girl
abducted
Nainital: In a shocking incident reported from Rudrapur in Udham Singh Nagar, a girl on her way to college was abducted
in broad daylight by some motorcycle-borne youngsters. The incident took place near a police station. According to the information available, Sukhwinder
Kaur, second-year student at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Government Post-Graduate College, was going to the college along with a friend Lalita in a rickshaw when two motorcycle-borne youth halted the rickshaw. They told her that her brother Manjeet had met with an accident. She was asked to accompany them to the hospital which she promptly did. However, when she called on her brother’s phone number, she was told that he had not met with any accident. But her efforts to get down from the motorcycle proved futile. Meanwhile, a letter was handed to her friend by one of the alleged abductors saying that the girl was being kidnapped. The police has rounded up some suspects for questioning but no one has been arrested. |
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Five kids drowned in pond
Haridwar, August 4 According to sources, five children, all belonging to Muslim families, were playing near a pond at Rehmatpur village near the pilgrim area of Piran Kaliyar, about 6 km from Roorkee. However, villagers said they were playing near a pond adjacent to a brick-kiln premises when the incident happened.By the time an administrative-police team reached the spot for rescue operations, all had died. On getting information about the incident, the administrative team, led by ADM Ranbir Singh Chauhan, SP (Rural) RL Sharma, DO of Roorkee SD Kandpal, Circle Officer Kailash Upadhyay reached the spot. The victims have been identified as Shah Ban, Billal, Junaid, Babli and Shadiya. All of them were in the age bracket of 7-9 years. District Magistrate of Haridwar R Meenakshi Sundaram has sought financial aid to the family members of the deceased who were from the poor strata of society. Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Harish Rawat, who is a parliamentarian from Haridwar, has expressed condolences to the bereaved families. Woman cop drowned in canal
Nainital (TNS): A woman constable was killed after the two-wheeler she was riding plunged into a canal at Kathgodam today. According to sources, 30-year-old Veerbala Thapa was posted at the Kathgodam police station and was going to serve a warrant on her scooter that she had bought just five days ago. Veerbala was said to be a learner and the scooter fell into the canal near the Sharda factory after she lost control over it. Seeing the woman drowning, some people jumped into the canal but the current of the canal and muddy waters prevented them from saving her. Her body was recovered from near Jawaher Jyoti Chaupal. Senior Superintendent of Police Mohan Singh Bangyal along with his fellow officers reached her place and offered condolences to her parents and other family members. |
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Panel summons Secy over move to scrap quota in Class I posts
Dehradun, August 4 The commission sought information on the complaint registered by the Scheduled Caster and Scheduled Tribe Employees Welfare Association regarding this matter. Later in the day, addressing mediapersons, Rathore said, “There is 19 per cent reservation for the SCs and 4 per cent for the STs, which has been enforced time to time in the state as per the policies of the government. According to the roaster, first, sixth, 11th, 21st and 24th posts are reserved for these categories. In such a scenario, it is unconstitutional to tamper with the system”. He added that even big states like Uttar Pardesh and Punjab, too, rejected the recommendations of the Supreme Court to do away with reservation for the Class I posts, therefore a small state like Uttarakhand should not think of adopting it. Rathore also cautioned the state government that if it paid heed to the recommendations of the Personnel Department and, enforced the ban on the reservation against the Class I posts, it was likely to end the reservation system in the state. The way single post of daily wagers had been regularised time to time which do not come under the reservation policy, Rathore called for a centralised system and clearing the backlog of releasing posts under the reservation. Two groups led by OP Sisodhia, state president of the Uttranchal Valmiki Krantikari Morcha, and Bhagwat Prasad Makwana, state president of the Uttranchal Valmiki Samaj Kalyan Samiti, also met Rathore, respectively, and demanded a high-level inquiry into the matter through a joint committee having representatives of the SC/ST. Makwana said the argument, which was often given to advocate abdication of the reservation on the Class I post, was the unavailability of candidates of the reserved category with requisite qualifications and capabilities. He charged that despite directions from the state government to fill the posts for which candidates were available in each department, no action was being taken due to lethargy of few bureaucrats and these posts had been shown vacant for the years. Sisodhia added that such incidents were leading to disgruntlement among people belonging to the SC/ST. They also urged to cancel the said proposal and strong action under the Law on Atrocities against the SC/ST against those who brought in the proposal.
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Fire breaks out at SIDCUL unit
Haridwar, August 4 The incident happened around late in the afternoon when the furnace wherein aluminum was being melted suddenly caught fire due to voltage fluctuation. As the temperature during the melting process is about 700 degrees the melting material caught fire that spread into the nearby area. Soon the fire flames began to engulf the adjacent equipment but no employee was hurt as the whole furnace system is automatically controlled and all the employees were at a minimum distance of 5 metre from the furnace. Speaking to The Tribune Administrative head Abhishek Tripathi said no factory employee got hurt due to the incident though factory equipment worth lakhs got damaged. Such was the intensity of the fire that as many as four fire brigades were pitched in to douse the fire. Station Fire Officer SK Sharma said additional fire brigades were moved in to control the fire in minimum time. This year only several fire incidents have taken place in SIDCUL industrial estate once again highlighting the need of having a proper security in house system as well as generating awareness and implying of strict fire safety rules in the 200 odd factory units in this industrial set up.
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Hydro power project only hope for employment at Munsiyari: Residents
Pitthoragarh, August 4 Earlier the region used to have a lion’s share in this trade incorporating not only tribal traders but non-tribal as well. “After the closure of the trade, all the 220 villages of Munsiyari area were affected and left on the business of Himalayan medicinal plants and potatoes cultivation,” said Harish Dhami, zila panchayat member and the leader of the movement. According to Dhami, the proposed hydro-electric project is the only hope for employment for the educated youths of Munsiyari. “More then 75,000 will be benefited of the proposed project in Munsiyari,” said Dhami adding that out of this population the tribal population is nearly 10,000 and the scheduled cast population is 13,000, the rest of the population of the area is in total disarray as neither they have wool trade nor potato or the medicinal herbs. The wool business on which the tribal of the area were traditionally depended and which was the only tool for Tibet trade before 1962 is also on wane. “At present there are only 25,000 sheep in the Munsiyari and Dharchula sub-division of Pitthoragarh district out of which Munsiyari has 14,000 sheep, the number of which is gradually decreasing,” said Dr Gururani District Livestock Officer (DLO) Pithoragarh. The livestock officer said in last 10 years after the creations of the state, the number of. “At present we are producing only 250 quintals of raw wool in our district which used to be ten times of this,” said DLO added either very poor people of the region who couldn’t find other avenues of employment or rich people who can hire labourers for sheep raring were affording the sheep herd. “The traditional shepherds from higher region of Munsiyari close to India-China border have almost left this business and settled to down in the valley doing government services,” said DLO. According to the experts researching on the nature of traditional tribal trade at Indo-China border the old pattern of Indo-China border trade helped almost everyone in Munsiyari and Dharchula region. “Whereas the Bhotia tribe used to carry the cereals and other daily use goods to Tibet, the non-tribal people of the region used to grow these or collect them for the tribal traders to keep themselves involved in the trade,” said Dr Lalit Pant, a college teacher who did his research on the nature of tribal trade. The people who are running movement to start the 261 MW hydro-electric project being constructed by the NTPC said this project is a last hope for the aspiring unemployed youths of Munsiyari region, if it be rejected the people here would the compelled to flee the region in search of jobs. “Out of nearly Rs 2,500 crore of construction cost of this project, a sum of Rs 500 crore will be distributed to casual labourers and small contractors who are essentially from among the ousted villages thus providing opportunity for the youths to get employment at their homeland,” said Dhami.
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NREGA: Officials pulled up
Nainital, August 4 Kumar Pandey has pulled up senior officials
and has order stopping of their salary disbursement for the month. The officials facing the action are from Jalagam and Veterinary Departments. In addition to this, show cause notices have also been issued to certain officials of Horticulture Department and the Irrigation Department on their failure to utilise funds sanctioned under the scheme for the current financial year. The decisions were taken by an agitated CDO
at a review meeting held at Vikas Bhawan in Bhimtal on Tuesday. |
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Villagers hold dharna against highway widening
Dehradun, August 4 The protesters submitted a memorandum to the DM mentioning that the project would hamper the lives of many residing on both the sides of the village. They have mentioned that about 140 houses and 80 shops would be demolished in the project rendering villagers houseless and unemployed. They demanded for relaxation in the norms for the residents of Harrawala in the land acquisition and to allot lands to the evacuated gram panchayats.
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Minister warns oil companies against black marketing
Dehradun, August 4 At a meeting with oil companies in Dehradun, Bhatt warned the companies that the concerned company will put in defaulters list if the LPG cylinder were not provided to customer within seven days of the booking. The minister in particular also raised the issue of hot plate inspection charge of Rs 250 to every consumer after a gap of two years. He said no such inspection is ever made by the gas agencies owners and described the charge as sheer act of fleecing. “No such hot plate inspection ever takes place and gas agencies are also befooling people and fleecing them by charging Rs 250,” he said and pointed out that there was doubt that even there existed any such inspectors in the gas agencies. Later talking to the media persons, Bhatt said he would not compromise on black-marketing of LPG cylinders under any circumstances. He said so far the department has desisted from going for orders like sealing to check gas agencies as it caused great inconveniences to customers linked to that agency. “But with 79 new gas agencies opening up in Uttarakhand, a strict action like sealing could also be taken frequently against erring gas agencies ,” he pointed out. |
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No liquor on I-Day
Dehradun, August 4 He said all shops as well as wet canteens should be closed from the night of August 14 up to August 16 till 11 am. Those who found guilty of flouting the orders would be punished. — TNS
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Nishank visits Almora
Nainital, August 4 His visit was scheduled as a part of celebrations to mark the centenary year of Soban Singh
Jeena. During his visit he announced that a statue in the memory of one of the stalwarts from the region would be erected in his native village of
Sanauli. He said his government had granted the financial clearance for the development of the Base Hospital, construction works on Kosi Barrage to ensure supply of water to Almora and construction of two roads to link Vikas Bhawan with the main town. He inaugurated a multistorey taxi stand developed by the municipality. |
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Panchak yog brings rare occurrence to August
Mussoorie, August 4 Shah has been a practising astrology for 27 years and travelled all around the globe like Spain, France, Germany, England, Italy and Belgium, to name a few, for promoting Vedic astrology and giving sermons on the importance of the various traits used by ancient Hindu saints. He also predicted the World Cup final win for Spain much before octopus Paul’s prediction. Speaking exclusively to The Tribune, he revealed some interesting facts about the month of August this year. Shah said a special and rare planetary configuration was taking place in the solar system, which was named as Panchak yog in Sanskrit, meaning five planets were in aspect with each other. Panchak yoga occurred after every five-six years, but the most interesting fact of the month was that it had five Sundays, five Mondays and five Tuesdays. This rare significance occurred only once in 823 years, he said. Shah further said Sanskrit word Panchak meant five. He also warned that the month of August would witness natural calamities like earthquakes, floods etc due to these planetary configurations and southern America and India might get affected due to this.
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Dehradun, August 4
In a swift action by the Dehradun police, two persons have been arrested in connection with call made to the police control room yesterday about a threat to blow up the state Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
Suresh Rathore, vice-chairman of the Uttarakhand Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, expressed strong resentment over alleged efforts made by the Personnel Department of the state government to deny reservations in Class I posts to the members of the SC/ST and summoned Ramesh Chander
Lohni, Joint Secretary, Personnel Department, to the commission office here today.
Haridwar, August 4
Dehradun, August 4
Jai Krishan Shah, renowned astrologer from Mussoorie, has some interesting facts about the month of August this year.
Shah has been a practising astrology for 27 years and travelled all around the globe like Spain, France, Germany, England, Italy and Belgium, to name a few, for promoting Vedic astrology and giving sermons on the importance of the various traits used by ancient Hindu saints.
