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Another breach; flood threat rises
Unexpected praise from Rahul peps up Chief Minister Hooda
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Rahul’s Hisar visit today
Research scholar alleges harassment by guide
Bansi Lal Development Chair at KU
RWAs resort to Gandhigiri
Shoegate: Accused victim of police firing
Tanwar man is Sirsa DCC chief
Now, Shresth, the cloned buffalo
5 of family consume poison, 1 dies
Now, book LPG cylinders online
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Another breach; flood threat rises
Yamunanagar, August 26 The family was rescued by a team led by SDM (Jagadhri) Devinder Kaushik this morning. Over 2,000 residents of Ghauri Pipli have been asked to evacuate the village, but they are reluctant
to do so. All link roads in this village have been washed away. The embankments of the Yamuna have been breached at various points and crops in hundreds of acres submerged in water again. The situation remains grim in other districts, particularly Karnal, Panipat, Sonepat and also Delhi. The water discharged into the Yamuna is expected to reach Delhi in 40 hours.
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Unexpected praise from Rahul peps up Chief Minister Hooda
Chandigarh, August 26 Rahul’s surprise visit to Mirchpur after a clash between the Jats and the Dalits, resulting in the death of two persons, had embarrassed the Hooda government. For several weeks, the CM remained on the back foot. Appreciation from Rahul, who mentioned Haryana’s land acquisition policy in his speech in Orissa today, is certainly a morale booster for Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Though the policy was framed in 2007, it was made applicable with retrospective effect from 2005 when the Hooda government took over. Apart from handsome compensation, the policy provides allotment of residential or commercial plots to the oustees. A unique feature of the policy is the provision of payment of an annual annuity of Rs 15,000 per acre to the owner for 33 years. In case the land is acquired for private developers, they would have to pay Rs 30, 000 as annuity for 33 years and the annual increment would be Rs 1,000. Before the policy was announced, the government had fixed minimum floor rates for acquiring land for various zones in the state. The immediate beneficiaries of the decision were farmers whose land was acquired for the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal highway. Already a compensation of about Rs 160 crore had been announced for them. But the government ensured that they were paid about Rs 650 crore as relief, keeping in line with the floor rates. So far HUDA and the HSIIDC has paid Rs 8,586 crore as compensation for land acquired by them, besides an annuity of about Rs 45 crore in the past five years. |
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Rahul’s Hisar visit today
Hisar, August 26 The SPG team, which arrived here late last night, has begun putting in place strict security measures. Immediately on arrival here, the team held meetings with senior officers of the administration and officials of the two universities, including the Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology. It is learnt that 1,000 students of HAU and 500 students of the GJU will be issued security passes by the SPG for entry to the auditorium. The local administration has tightened security at the railway station, bus stand and other strategic places to prevent any breach in security. Rahul Gandhi is slated to answer queries from students and the youth during his one-hour interaction with them. Barring a few Congress workers, other senior party leaders, including legislators and MPs, have not been invited to the meeting. Police pickets have been set up at several places. |
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Save our land, farmers write to President, PM
Fatehabad, August 26 The farmers today held a demonstration and submitted a memorandum, addressed to the President and the Prime Minister, to Deputy Commissioner Vijay Singh Dahiya. Making an earnest appeal to the two leaders to save their families from being uprooted from their ancestral land, the striking farmers said it had been the policy of the Central Government to acquire only barren and unproductive land for the construction of nuclear power plants. “The land, where the government plans to install the 2800 MW nuclear power plant in Gorakhpur, receives canal water since 1894-95. The subsoil water of the area is also good and the villagers have installed their own tube wells. “Dwellings of the farmers are also in their agricultural land and they take two to three crops a year,” said the memorandum, highlighting the fertility of the land. “If they are divested of their land, they will come on the road and their families will be left to starve,” the memorandum further added. Hans Raj Siwach, president of the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, constituted to oppose the construction of the nuclear plant, said the selection of the site was completely erratic. “The area is densely populated and towns like Fatehabad, Hisar, Barwala, Uklana, Bhuna, Agroha and Ratia are situated within a radius of 30 km. “So it is not advisable to install a hazardous unit like the proposed nuclear plant here,” Siwach said.Farmers raised slogans in the portico of the mini-secretariat, where leaders of Opposition parties also addressed them. Ram Raj Mehta, a state executive member of the INLD, Suman Siwach, president of the women wing of the INLD, Kuljit Singh Kuleria, Balwan Singh Daulatpuria and Surender Lega, all INLD leaders, Subhash Barala of the BJP, Krishan Swaroop of the CPM and Nihal Singh Matana, district president of the Haryana Janhit Congress, were among those who participated in the demonstration. |
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Research scholar alleges harassment by guide
Rohtak, August 26 “I have been a victim of constant criticism and comments on my personal life, grossly challenging my modesty,” said the complainant, who was registered for Ph.D in 2006. She claimed she had been repeatedly advised to stay back late in the department. The situation turned worse after her marriage in December 2009 with her guide allegedly making derogatory remarks, and threatening to get her Ph.D registration cancelled. “He has made my life miserable with constant remarks like ‘stop wearing a sari and sindoor like Biharins, you deserve a better match, your husband is uncivilised’. “He tries to make conversation regarding my married life. “There has been much more but I feel embarrassed to mention all in writing,” claimed the victim. The scholar said because of the treatment meted out to her by the guide, the most crucial part of research, experimental work, was yet to be started. The complainant was made to withdraw a complaint on the matter in February with the authorities assuring her “proper action”. On the other hand, Prof CS Pundir, claimed that the allegations levelled by the research scholar were “false, baseless and scandalous.” He claimed that since the complainant had failed to submit her progress report and had been “irregular” and “insincere” in her work, she was trying to create sympathy for herself with the sole motive of getting more time for submission of her dissertation. “I am ready to provide her necessary facilities for research if she wants to resume her work with the assurance that she will be regular and sincere,” said Dr Pundir. The complainant is eight months pregnant and has asked for more time for completion of her work. |
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Bansi Lal Development Chair at KU
Chandigarh, August 26 The CM paid rich tributes to the departed leader and said the Chair would promote the study of “developmental economics in perspective of the state’s all-round progress.” He said Haryana was a backward state, but Bansi Lal put it on the track of development. The VC, Lt Gen DDS Sandhu, said the Chair would be a part of the Department of Economics. |
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RWAs resort to Gandhigiri
Gurgaon, August 26 Their major demands include a time-bound solution to the severe waterlogging and sanitation problem, regular power supply and decongestion of Sushant Lok, DLF City, South City and other residential colonies, commercial complexes and malls resulting from encroachment of vacant spaces mainly by the unauthorised parking mafia. “There is a complete collapse of governance in Gurgaon, leading to hardships and inconvenience to the residents of what is touted as the millennium city by the builders’ lobby and other vested interests,” said GCC president RS Rathee and FORWA president Dharam Sagar in a joint appeal to the Gurgaon residents released here today. They said as the successive governments had failed to heed to their countless pleas or take any concrete action thereon, they had been left with no choice but to start a peaceful “satyagraha” to register their protest against the “collapse of governance” in Gurgaon. “We shall start this ‘satyagraha’ with a prayer meeting at 10 am on Saturday at the A-block main gate of Sushant Lok on Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road,” they said. The RWA chiefs asserted that the residents would stop paying charges to builders as well as government agencies if their demands were not met within a reasonable time. |
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Shoegate: Accused victim of police firing
Karnal, August 26 He alleged that the Chief Minister had announced a relief of Rs 10 lakh for those hurt in the police firing and a job, but nothing had
been done. “I was working as a field assistant in a pesticide company before I was injured and now I can’t walk much nor carry weight. I’ve two kids. What should do?” Shakti ran pillar to post for a year and met almost every minister on the job promise but to no avail. “I watched The Legend of Bhagat Singh 15 times and decided that the way Bhagat Singh threw a bomb in the assembly to wake the British government, I would hurl a shoe at the CM to wake up the government on its promises,” he said. Backing Satish, national president of the Rajput Vikas Manch Kawar Ved Pal Singh warned that if the government did not stop “atrocities” against the Rajputs, they would continue to protest. |
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Tanwar man is Sirsa DCC chief
Sirsa, August 26 He replaces Hoshiari Lal Sharma, a long-time confidant of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was “re-elected” to the post last month. Randhir Singh, a brother of Haryana Agriculture Minister Paramvir Singh, who was also “re-elected” to the post of DCC chief at Fatehabad, has been able to retain his post after the “reshuffle” made at the intervention of Tanwar. The party sources said unanimity on various posts of the Congress was reached at Tanwar’s meeting with senior leaders of the party in Delhi late last night. Tanwar has also been able to replace some block presidents in Sirsa district from the list announced by Jai Singh Bishnoi, party’s returning officer for the district last month. Tanwar had taken exception to his disregard in the organisational elections and after his complaint, AICC general secretary Oscar Fernandes had ordered the annulment of poll in his constituency. The party had announced a schedule for holding the poll on August 29, but later cancelled the poll process and announced the list late
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Now, Shresth, the cloned buffalo
In this case, the embryo which led to successful pregnancy and normal delivery had remained frozen at minus 196°C for one week in liquid nitrogen and was brought back to active life upon thawing at room temperature, the Director of the NDRI, Prof AK Srivastav, said. Scientists are of the opinion that the cryopreservation of embryos would have to be made part of the technique so that the embryos could be transported and used at several places. Dr S Ayyappan, Secretary, DARE, and Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, said the new technology of the hand-guided cloning of buffaloes would help meet the increasing demand for milk. |
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5 of family consume poison, 1 dies
Rohtak, August 26 The deceased has been identified as Suresh Nandal, owner of a business group - Royal Freedom - located in the local MR Complex here. Sources said he and four other members of the family, including son, daughter, mother and a brother were rushed to the hospital last night. The doctors found that they had either consumed or had been administered a poisonous substance and had fell unconscious. Though the police has started investigations, sources close to the family claim that they have attempted suicide after the firm run by Suresh suffered huge losses. A case has been registered in this regard. |
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Now, book LPG cylinders online
Narnaul, August 26 A spokesman for the administration said the facility had been made available through website www.nrllpg.indiahostbiz.com. The website would have complete information about consumers and the availability of cylinder. Besides, the District Food Supplies Controller would also have their username and password so that he could get complete information about supplying of cylinders by all agencies. Apart from complaint registration, consumers would also have the facility to get the status of online booking. To book a cylinder, consumers will have to fill the name of company, agency, consumer number and name in the columns.
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