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Wrestler Anil returns home to a
Train panches to counsel kin of runaway couples: HC
Protect environment or persish, warn experts at MDU conference
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Irate students of Government College stage a demonstration in Bawal on Friday. Photo by writer
Wrestler’s son shot dead in Jhajjar
Four cases of suspected dengue in Jakhal
Vitamin Overdose
4 booked for obstructing channel waters
Centre must address Mirchpur Dalits’ issues: Ex-MLA
On Ashtami, tribute paid to girl child
Cash looted from car
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Wrestler Anil returns home to a hero’s welcome
Sonepat, October 15 “Anil ne apne pita ka sapna poora kiya hai.”(Anil has fulfilled the dream of his father), she remarked. Talking to mediapersons, Anil praised CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda for giving encouraging sports and hoped that sportspersons from Haryana would perform even better at the coming international events. To a question on his diet, he said milk, ghee, curd, juice and dry fruit formed key constituents of his diet. “Hamara parivar phalwanon ka hai ,aur doodh, dahi aur ghee ki jaruraton ko pura karne ke liye, hum Murrah nasal ki bhains ghar mein rakhte hain.” (Our family is of wrestlers and to meet the requirement of milk, ghee and curd, we keep buffaloes of the Murrah breed). A warm welcome was also accorded to Deepak Sharma of Garhi Brahmanan, silver medallist in shooting. He was taken to his village in a procession by sportspersons and admirers.
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Train panches to counsel kin of runaway couples: HC
Chandigarh, October 15 A Division Bench made clear that a writ court cannot “abandon its bounded duty to be sentinel of the rights of young citizens who have dared to challenge the rigid social structure”. The Bench of Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Ajay Tewari asserted: “Article 21 and other fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution mandate us to do so”. The Bench expressed the hope that “obscurantist norms” would break down gradually. The assertion came as the Bench put its stamp of approval on recommendations made by Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh over the months for the protection of runaway couples. The Tribune was the first to underscore the issue after Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia took suo motu cognizance of the matter. The directions include granting couples the liberty “to approach the district and sessions judges in Punjab, Haryana and UT Chandigarh for grant of protection”. The Bench also reiterated its decision of asking police officers to “deal sternly with parents, relatives and other members of society, who threaten such couples and create a law and order situation”. The states have also been directed that mediation cells are set up in the offices of commissioners and SSPs to “guide parents and relatives” and false rape and abduction cases are not registered. Initially, the runaway couples would be provided shelter at protection homes for 10 days.The period could be extended from time to time, keeping in view the threat perception. The Bench concluded: We are aware with the advent of modern media, including electronic media, the exposure of the rural populace to liberal lifestyles showing social mobility has increased manifold. Such an exposure has apprised the young citizens of such sections of the society, hitherto governed by rigid and conservative norms, to modern thinking and liberal views on inter-caste inter-state and even inter-religion marriages. “This causes a social upheaval and any marriage contrary to the norms cherished by the elders of the community leads to sanction both physical and social not only on the married couples, but also their families…. We hope and trust that the interim measures will give security and solace to the young couples and that the passage of time would eventually make these measures redundant”. |
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Protect environment or persish, warn experts at MDU conference
Rohtak, October 15 The Department of Environmental Sciences of the university are the hosts of the two-day meet. Inaugurating the conference, Dr GV Subrahmanyam, Adviser, Ministry of Environment and Forests, said there was a need to protect environment for the well-being of mankind. He called for effective conservation and management of living resources. Cautioning that climatic changes had widespread socio-economic implications, he gave a clarion call for adopting 3 Rs-recycle, re-use and reduce. Dr SD Attri, Director, India Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Sciences, said environmental degradation had affected the human immunity system. He called for effective measures to combat environmental degradation. He said an instrument known as sky radiometer would be installed on the university campus to monitor environmental pollution. Prof SS Sangwan, Vice Chancellor, Pt. BDS University of Health Sciences (Rohtak), said over-consumption, materialistic lifestyle and blatant misuse of resources were the reasons behind ecological and health problems. He said sedentary consumptive lifestyle was a major health issue today. Prof Ravi Prakash suggested joint efforts by the Faculty of Life Sciences of MDU and Pt. B.D.S. University of Health Sciences to create awareness on community health and environment protection issues. He said students of Life Sciences could act as effective health communicators in rural areas, provided they were imparted suitable training in this regard. The Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, MDU, called for a massive eco-awareness drive to sensitise the masses on the environmental cause. The Head of the Department of Environmental Sciences also spoke. The meeting has been sponsored by the Directorate of Higher Education,Haryana, CSIR, and the Indian Council of Medical Research. |
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Chided, Rewari student kills himself; principal booked
Rewari, October 15 Later, they blocked traffic on the town’s main road in front of the tehsil office at Bawal, demanding registration of a criminal case and immediate arrest of college principal Dr Kamlesh Yadav, who allegedly rebuked Hoshiar Singh. Notwithstanding the persuasive approach adopted by DSP Mahender Singh Rana and other police officials, the irate students remained adamant on their demands, following which the police registered a case of abetment to suicide against the principal on a complaint lodged by Rattan Singh, father of the deceased. Consequently, the agitating students lifted the blockade and unlocked the college gate. Sources said when Hoshiar and other outsiders were allegedly making indecent remarks against college girls, who were rehearsing for a cultural programme in the girls’ room yesterday, the principal, who was on a round, took them to task. The outsiders fled away while Hoshiar Singh was held by the principal. It is alleged that the principal severely reprimanded him, took his ID-card and sent him away. Later, Hoshiar’s father came to the college to see the principal in this regard, but he had left for his residence. Embarrassed, Hoshiar committed suicide by hanging himself from a hook in a cell at their farm house at Jhabua village. Rebutting the charges, the principal said he just took away Hoshiar’s ID card and asked him to go away.
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Wrestler’s son shot dead in Jhajjar
Bahadugarh (Jhajjar), October 15 The reason behind the murder is yet to be ascertained even as the Bahadurgarh police has started investigation after registering a murder case against two youths on the complaint of the deceased’s father. Dhanna Ram alleged that Dharmender was called by his friend Jitender, alias Jeeta, at his under-construction plot near the bus stand on the outskirts of the village last night. Manoj of Badli village was already present there. The trio engaged in a verbal duel over some issue. Consequently, Jitender allegedly opened fire on Dharmender from a close range and fled from the spot with Manoj in a car,” said Bahadurgarh SHO Vijay Kumar, adding that Dhanna Ram and his kin on getting information rushed to the spot and found Dharmender lying in a pool of blood. They immediately took him to the PGIMS at Rohtak, where he succumbed to his injuries, said the SHO. Jhajjar SP Sourabh Singh said the police had launched a hunt to nab the accused, who had been absconding. A case under Section 302 of the IPC had been registered against them. |
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Four cases of suspected dengue in Jakhal
Fatehabad, October 15 The health authorities said that they would confirm dengue after their blood samples were tested at the government laboratory in Agroha. Pawan Kumar (42) and Surinder Kumar (40),of Jagannath Colony in Jakhal complained of fever a few days back. Blood tests revealed abnormally low platelets count. Munish Kumar, a resident of Mandi area, and Sahil Sapra, a resident of Ajit Mohalla, have also been shifted to private hospitals in Hisar with similar symptoms. Dr Satish Garg, in charge of the community health centre (CHC), Jakhal, said necessary steps had already been initiated. “A house-to-house survey has been launched in Jagannath Colony, Ram Nagar Colony and other areas to find out if there are more such patients,” he said. Dr Garg said he had sent a lab technician to Hisar to take blood samples of the four patients. Meanwhile, larvae of the anopheles mosquito responsible for the spread of malaria have been found in stagnant waters at General Hospital, Fatehabad, and a vacant plot outside the hospital. A surveillance team of the health department from Sirsa checked some town sites today. It found that larvae were breeding in the hospital premises itself. Water in the hospital had been allowed to stagnate by a waterpipe that contained a large number of larvae. The authorities said that mosquito larvicidal oil (MLO) had been sprinkled on the stagnant water. |
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Report blames doctor, school principal
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, October 15 The overdose administered on August 27 this year, had resulted in over 100 schoolgirls falling ill. The principal and two teachers of the school face the same charge. Department action against all five has been recommended in an inquiry report. The ADC, Pankaj Chaudhary, who was entrusted with the job of inquiring into the matter by Deputy Commissioner CG Rajini Kaanthan has cited overdose of the medicine as reason for the illness. Holding Dr Mamta Gupta and ANM Rukma Devi for recklessly administering Vitamin A drops to the girls without any measurement, the report submitted by the ADC says school principal Sukhwinder Kaur and two teachers Shanti Devi and Krishana Devi are also to be blamed. The report says the doctor and the ANM gave an overdose to the girls, without ensuring the students did not have empty stomach. The report says it was the duty of the school principal and the two teachers, especially trained for this purpose by the health department, to fill printed forms with particulars of the girls before administering the dose. But they had failed to do so. The vitamin drops were administered to the students under the centrally sponsored Indira Awas Yojana. Samples of the medicine were sent for testing by the Drug Control Department after the incident but these have been found in order. The Deputy Commissioner said he would write to the Director General, Health Services, for action
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4 booked for obstructing channel waters
Rohtak, October 15 “Though the matter was brought to the notice of the officials and the police, the standoff continued for over 10 days. “The matter was taken up by the authorities only after publication of news reports in the dailies,” claimed Rajpal of Sundana village. He said: “The blockade has not only led to a shortage of water in some villages but has also stalled the process of removing floodwaters in the region.” The police has registered a case on a complaint lodged by the SDO of the Irrigation Department. One of the accused is the husband of the village sarpanch. Floodwater has been standing in hundreds of acres in Ballam, Timarpur, Kakrana, Sundana, Masudpur and Garnawathi villages.
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Centre must address Mirchpur Dalits’ issues: Ex-MLA
Hisar, October 15 He alleged that the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government continued to be insensitive to the issues involved. Therefore, the Centre should take steps to resettle these Dalits, providing them plots free of cost. He said unless the issue was addressed, Mirchpur-type violence could break out anywhere in the state. He said the violence at Mayyar village on the issue of reservation for Jats was a sequel to Mirchpur violence. He opposed the Jat demand for reservation in government jobs. Since
the state was ruled by Jat Chief Ministers for a very long time, Jats had cornered jobs disproportionate to their numerical strength, he added. |
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On Ashtami, tribute paid to girl child
Karnal, October 15 NIFAA chairman Pritpal Singh Punnu said: “The aim was to motivate people not to kill the girl child.” Members of the NIFAA assembled at the local MDD Bal Bhawan and worshiped small orphan girls. The purpose was to make people realise that their religion and culture did not preach female foeticide. Punnu said it was an irony that people worship nine Goddesses during the “Navratras”, but commit the sin of “killing” the girl child. |
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Cash looted from car
Panipat, October 15 Rishi Pal, son of Chandan Singh, filed a complaint with the Model Town Police that he had gone to a private bank and parked his car (HR-42-A-8767) outside the bank. When he came out, he found that the windowpanes of his car were broken and the bag containing Rs 1.5 lakh was missing. The police stated that the matter was being looked into and a case would be registered after the preliminary investigations.
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