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Six of family killed in truck-auto collision
Nuclear research institute for Bahadurgarh
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Narnaul centre to produce aero-sports trainers
Protect children’s rights, says Governor
Electoral roll observers appointed
Govt, corporate staffers begin course in public policy management
Sewage plant on MC land
Ginners lose crores as cotton prices dip
Karnal district leads in paddy arrivals
Two held for school thefts
Chief chemist gets 3-month jail
Fire in steel factory
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Six of family killed in truck-auto collision
Rewari, November 14 The deceased have been identified as Ganga Ram (60), his wife Chand Kaur (55), his son Mukesh (35), Mukesh’s wife Suman Devi (32), Ganga Ram’s another daughter-in-law Anita Devi, wife of Pratap (30), and Anita Devi’s son Vipin (2), all residents of Tehna Deepalpur village, 14 km from Rewari, Sarla Devi, Bhateri Devi, both Ganga Ram’s neighbours, and tempo driver Rohtash of Nainsukhpura village. Ganga Ram’s another daughter-in-law Sona Devi, wife of Moti Ram, who was seriously injured, has been hospitalised here. The mishap took place when the victims were on the way to Tehna Deepalpur village from Kulana village of Jhajjar district. The truck, which was on its way to Jhajjar from Rewari, reportedly collided with the autorickshaw, following which the autorickshaw overturned. Simultaneously, the truck too toppled over the autorickshaw, crushing its occupants to death. The truck driver absconded after the accident. |
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Nuclear research institute for Bahadurgarh
Bahadurgarh (Jhajjar), November 14 “The institute will be established on the pattern of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, and it will benefit Indian and foreign scientists in carrying out novel research in the field of nuclear energy,” said the MP. Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Dr S Bannerjee and former chairman Dr Anil Kakodkar had recently visited Jassaur Kheri village here to explore the possibility of setting up an institute in the state. The MP said Bahadurgarh had been marching ahead on the path of development and with the completion of extension of Metro up to Bahadurgarh, residents of the town would be able to enjoy the same facilities as the residents of Delhi. Lambasting former RSS chief KS Sudarshan on his derogatory remarks against Sonia Gandhi, the MP said Sudarshan had tried to undermine the social harmony of the country through his statement, adding that India was one of the biggest democratic countries of the world and the people of the country had chosen the leadership of UPA chairperson
Sonia Gandhi. |
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Narnaul centre to produce aero-sports trainers
A team from the Aero Club of India presented some exciting demonstrations of aero sports, including power-flying, skydiving, para-jumping, para-sailing, hot-air ballooning and aero-modelling at the centre today to mark Children’s Day. Apart from Aero Club team members and NCC cadets, Dr Priyanka Gupta, wife of local Deputy Commissioner Vikas Gupta, also participated in aero-sports. Four aeroplanes were deployed for the air show, which was viewed by local residents as well as foreign visitors. Aero Club of India project director RC Kanda and Capt Kamal Kishore from Karnal Flying Club were present on the occasion. Earlier, addressing a press conference at the centre yesterday, Sanjay Thapar, director-general (aero-sports) of the Aero Club of India, said the centre would produce trainers for aero-sports. He asserted that this would be the only centre where the trainers for all kinds of aero-sports would be produced. The trainers produced by the centre would train the youth at other aero-sports centres located across the country, he added. In response to a query, Thapar maintained that the training of the youth would commence at the centre after complete infrastructure was ready, adding that the process of land acquisition for the purpose was already on. “The village panchayat has provided 42 acres for extension of the airstrip and another 9 acres are being acquired by the state government,” he said, adding that the state government would provide the land and infrastructure, while the airplanes and other equipment would be given by the Aero Club of India. Initially, training will be provided in para jumping, parasailing, air gliding, hot-air ballooning and micro-light flying, while other aero-sports would be added later. Three centres of the Civil Aviation Department at Karnal, Pinjore and Hisar have also been training the state youth. |
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Protect children’s rights, says Governor
Sirsa, November 14 Daughter of a marginal farmer, Sanju is exceptionally talented. At the age of 16, she has been part of the state cricket team. She also excels in other sports like volley
ball, throw ball and sprint events. Above all, her academic performance is impeccable. Both Gillankhera and the HPCC delegate Gobind Kanda, who presided over the function, gave her Rs 11,000 each for her immediate needs. She was also adjudged “Best Student”. The school students presented a cultural function. Earlier, Gillankhera inaugurated a computer lab in the school set up at a cost of Rs 7 lakh. Former Minister Jagdish Nehra was the chief guest at the Children;s Day function at Bappa village. Fatehabad:
Additional DC Ashok Meena was the chief guest at a function held in Bal Bhawan here. Meena said female foeticide was a slur on a civilized society and people should consider boys and girls equal. The SP, Jagwant Singh Lamba, said children were the future of the country and should be provided all opportunities to fulfill their dreams. Speaking at a state-level function organised by the Haryana State Council for Child Welfare to mark Children’s Day, the governor said children were invaluable assets of the nation and all should contribute towards their proper upbringing to secure the country’s future. He said it was a joint social responsibility. Paying tributes to the country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Pahadia said he was a visionary who had not only contributed to the freedom struggle of the country, but also laid down several world famous-polices. Laying stress on equal rights for boys and girls, the Governor said girls played a pivotal role in social welfare and uplift. He said it was unfortunate that female foeticide was still practised in some parts of the country. He awarded children who had excelled in various fields. |
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Yamunanagar gets Children’s Park
Yamunanagar, November 14 Provision has also been made for lush green lawns, dividers and speed breakers to inculcate better traffic sense among children. Since the aim of setting up the traffic park was to create more awareness on traffic rules, traffic signals had been prominently displayed across the park. Soon, the park would start catering to school students with first-hand experience in road safety without having to risk their lives, sources said. The park meets the long-standing demand of local residents fore a green belt for morning and evening walkers. |
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Electoral roll observers appointed
Chandigarh, November 14 Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana, Sumita Misra said they would observe the revision process and help district election officers in taking timely corrective measures and report the progress to the commission regularly. She said all divisional commissioners would be ER observers in their respective divisions. For Gurgaon district, the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon, would be the observer and other districts in Gurgaon division would be under the Divisional Commissioner. The observers were briefed by the Chief Electoral Officer through video-conferencing recently. The phone number of the Divisional Commissioner of Ambala is 0171-2601333, Divisional Commissioner, Gurgaon- 0124-2324033, Divisional Commissioner, Hisar- 01662-233267, Divisional Commissioner, Rohtak-01262-255253. The phone number of the Municipal Commissioner, Gurgaon is 0124-2220011. She said EROs would visit each district under his or her charge at least three times during the period of the summary revision. The first visit would be during the period of receipt of claims and objections. The second visit would be during the period of disposal of claims and objections by the EROs. The third visit would be at the time of verification of the “working copy” of the block-level officers and printing of the final rolls. |
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Govt, corporate staffers begin course in public policy management
Gurgaon, November 14 The Union Government’s Department of Personnel Training (DoPT) has signed a five-year MoU with the MDI for the programme. Alka Sirohi, secretary DoPT, inaugurated the programme in the presence of Ajay Sawhney, joint secretary, (DoPT); Prof VK Gupta, director, MDI; and Prof AK Rath, Dean, School of Public Policy and Governance, MDI, here recently. The fifth batch of the PGP-PPM comprises 25 participants from 17 public as well as private sector organisations, which include the Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Women and Child Development, the Department of Telecommunication, CBI, CRPF, BSF, Indian Railways, Rajasthan Police, Government of Maharashtra, ICAR and Modelama Exports Ltd etc,. Addressing participants, Prof Rath maintained: “The programme is designed to be a think-tank for the public policy issues which are neglected in our country. All top educational institutes across the world run programmes on the public policy. The MDI has taken the lead in setting up the school of public policy and governance. We hope that the participants will be enriched from this learning environment and contribute to the cause of good governance and effective delivery of public services.” The PGP-PPM offers a unique integration of management concepts, tools and techniques with the requirements of public policy formulation, analysis and implementation, including the design and execution of the delivery systems. The purpose is to enhance the capabilities of participants to better manage the public policy and systems as well as to make them understand the global trends and practices in these areas to allow exploration of innovative options and choices. One of country’s top B-Schools, MDI, has the distinction of being the first internationally accredited Indian business school by the Association of MBA (AMBA) and the South Asian Quality Standards
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Multiple tractor-trailers a safety hazard
Rohtak, November 14 Two persons riding a two-wheeler were recently injured seriously when they were reportedly trying to overtake a tractor with three trailers on a narrow road, claimed Deepak of Kharkara village. “The violation becomes more common during the harvesting season when farmers or agents, who purchase crops, use tractor-trailers to carry crop to the market or the godown and nearly all roads leading to mandis are occupied by such vehicles,” claimed Virender, a local resident. Four persons, including two officials of the district administration, died in a road accident near Meham here recently because of a tractor-trailer. The police had not been keeping any check on the violation of traffic rules by drivers of heavy vehicles, he added. The movement of such vehicles should not be allowed at least during the day. Alleging misuse of the machinery, he said tractor-trailers were even being used for commercial
activities. Transportation of goods like building material was being done openly in violations of the norms. The plying of tractors with more than one trailer had become a common sight, but no action had been taken so far, said an official of the local administration. |
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Sewage plant on MC land
Samalkha (Panipat), November 14 The construction of the treatment plant is likely to start in a couple of months as the Public Health Department, which is to execute the project, has already written to the local municipal council for transfer of the land. The treatment plant, which will be constructed on 4 acres near the local gaushala, will have a capacity to treat 5 million litres of water a day (MLD). Earlier, the state government had initiated the process to acquire the agricultural land near the Nestle plant to set up the treatment plant. However, the farmers moved the High Court, on directions of which it was later decided to set up the plant on land
that belonged to the local civic body. The High Court in a verdict pronounced in June, had observed that the state had issued a notification under Section 4 read with Section 17(2) (C) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, on November 16, 2006, and later made a declaration on December 28, 2006, under Section 6 read with Section 17 (1). However, the Chief Minister did not deem it appropriate to set up the plant inside the populated area, as is evident from the letter dated January 4, 2008. Later, on April 8, 2008, another notification brought an end to the acquisition of the specified land. On May 9, 2008, again a notification was issued to acquire 48 kanals and 8 marlas. However, the High Court ruled in favour of the farmers, whose land was to be acquired and quashed all notifications. Sources in the Public Health Department stated that the new place selected for the project would help the department save Rs 50 lakh, which was otherwise required to set up the plant near the Nestle factory. The department is now hopeful that the construction of the plant would begin in next six months and would be completed by the next year. |
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Ginners lose crores as cotton prices dip
Sirsa, November 14 The prices had started falling as the market opened on Thursday and the maximum price offered was Rs 4,825 per quintal. As a corollary, prices of lint cotton that had risen from Rs 3,670 per mound (37.5kg) in the first week of October to Rs 4,060 (October end) and up to Rs 4,620 on Wednesday came down to Rs 4,325 per mound
on Friday. The prices of lint cotton also started falling since Thursday, when it came down to Rs 4,450 from Rs 4,620, a day before. “This is a worldwide phenomenon that started from China, the largest producer and consumer of cotton,” said Sanjiv Dutt, director, North India Cotton Industries Association. Dutt said in India too, the hiked prices were not real, but was the result of some hoarding as well as panic buying by exporters, who have to honour their commitments by December 15, 2010. “China’s economic planner recently had asked governments in cotton-producing areas of that country to step up their oversight of the market and probe into the dissemination of information regarding cotton price rises, hoarding and other activity that would artificially raise prices,” Dutt said, citing a report on the website quoting China’s official Xinhua News Agency. He claimed that the high demand and expectations of a severe shortage of
supply had kept cotton futures prices at record highs, but the bubble in prices was waiting to burst. Meanwhile, due to the unprecedented rise in the prices of cotton in the past 45 days, a majority of forward trades in the country have crashed with sellers failing to honour their commitments. Sources said of the forward in the country, commitments for 3 lakh bales have been honoured so far. |
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Karnal district leads in paddy arrivals
Chandigarh, November 14 He said the department had purchased over 8.71 lakh tonnes of paddy while over 8.59 lakh tonnes of paddy was purchased by HAFED. In addition, Agro Industries had lifted over 2.68 lakh tonnes of paddy, Confed over 1.57 lakh tonnes, Haryana Warehousing Corporation over 1.41 lakh metric tonnes and the FCI 29,408 tonnes. He said Karnal led the state in terms of paddy arrivals, with over 5.75 lakh tonnes of the crop making its way to mandis in the district. Procurement agencies had procured 71,413 tonnes of bajra out of the total arrival of over 1.06 lakh tonnes in the mandis. The remaining 35,295 tonnes of bajra was purchased by dealers, he added.
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24th State Women Games
Karnal, November 14 Girls from Hisar won the top slot in the relay race with Bhiwani girls securing the second spot and the Panchkula team finishing third. The festival was inaugurated, amid much fanfare, by president of the
women’s wing of the Haryana Congress Pradesh Committee and local legislator Sumita Singh. The other results are: 1500 mts: 1st Komal (Bhiwani), 2nd Meena (Bhiwani), 3rd Sarjeeta (Rewari) 3000 mts: 1st Meena (Bhiwani), 2nd Komal (Bhiwani), 3rd Pooja (Fatehabad) 800 mts: 1st Nirmala (Bhiwani), 2nd Meena (Bhiwani), 3rd Joyti (Rewari) 400 mts: 1st Nirmala (Bhiwani), 2nd Shilpa (Jind), 3rd Reetu (Hisar) 200 mts: 1st Santosh (Hisar), 2nd Rekha (Bhiwani), 3rd Siksha (Panchkula) 100 mts: 1st Kaushalya (Hisar), 2nd Santosh (Hisar), 3rd Siksha (Panchkula) 100 mts hurdles: 1st Rekha (Bhiwani), 2nd Pooja (Hisar), 3rd Sumita (Sirsa) 400 mts hurdles: 1st, Santosh (Hisar), 2nd Pooja (Hisar), 3rd Rekha (Bhiwani) Relay Race: 1st Hisar, 2nd Bhiwani, 3rd Panchkula Wrestling: 63 kg: 1st Sarita (Jind), 2nd Sudesh (Sonepat), 3rd Pratibha (Rohtak) 59 kg: 1st Rekha (Panipat), Tarsham (Sonepat), 3rd Sudesh (Rohtak) 55 kg: 1st Siksha (Jind), 2nd Promila (Sonepat), 3rd Poona (Karnal) 51 kg: 1st Seema (Rohtak), 2nd Kavita (Jind), 3rd
Usha (Sonepat) 48 kg: 1st Rekha (Rohtak), 2nd Mamta (Jind), 3rd Sangita (Sonepat) Boxing: 1st Faridabad, 2nd Ambala, 3rd Rohtak Long jump: 1st Kusumlata (Hisar), 2nd Pooja (Hisar), 3rd Babita (Hisar) High jump: 1st Reena (Kaithal), 2nd Arti (Sirsa), 3rd Sunita (Hisar) Discus throw: 1st Rinku (Rohtak), 2nd Santosh (Bhiwani), 3rd Suman (Rohtak) Javelin throw: 1st Promila (Bhiwani), 2nd Gurmeet Kaur (Sirsa), 3rd Sharmila (Bhiwani) Table tennis: 1st Sonepat, 2nd Rewari, and 3rd
Yamunanagar. Lawn tennis: 1st Jhajjar, 2nd Sonepat, 3rd Fatehabad Badminton: 1st Fatehabad, 2nd Panchkula, 3rd Sonepat Volleyball: 1st Kurukshetra, 2nd Rewari, 3rd Yamunanagar Hockey: 1st Sonepat, 2nd Kurukshetra, 3rd Hisar Basketball: 1st Sonepat, 2nd Karnal and 3rd Hisar Kabaddi: 1st Sonepat, 2nd Bhiwani, 3rd Jhajjar Kho-kho: 1st Bhiwani, 2nd Hisar, 3rd Rohtak Handball: 1st Jind, 2nd Bhiwani, 3rd Panipat Swimming: 1st Karnal, 2nd Gurgaon, 3rd Kurukshetra Gymnastics: 1st Ambala, 2nd Bhiwani, 3rd
Rohtak. |
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Bowled over by Gandhi charm
Fatehabad, November 14 “The opportunity to meet the future leader of the country was like a dream come true. I had never imagined that I would be able to meet him. I am still in a state of disbelief,” she said. It was only after reaching Rahul Gandhi’s residence that she learnt that Parkash Kaur, Suman Bala and another woman Zila Parishad member from Mahendragarh had also been invited. “We were made to fill some forms that sought our names, ward numbers, districts, 3 problems of the ward and some other information,” said Parkash Kaur. “I stressed on the need for schools and primary health centres for every village and the need to step up development in my area,” she said. “When I told Rahul Gandhi that the constituency I represented was ‘Inailo’ he looked puzzled. I then told that it was the name for Indian National Lok Dal (INLD),” said Mamta, who won the civic elections from Ratia, which is represented in the assembly by Gian Chand Odh of the INLD. Bowled over by the charm of the young AICC general secretary, Mamta said Rahul Gandhi “showed interest in the minutest details. The woman members and their spouses remained with the young MP for 14 minutes and then came back after tea with his personal staff. |
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Two held for school thefts
Sirsa, November 14 A police spokesperson said a television set, an inverter and two batteries were stolen at Government Primary School, Vaidwala on April 26 this year while two batteries, a gas cylinder and a water pump motor had gone missing at Government School in Dhani Valecha on August 16. The SP, Satinder Kumar Gupta, had handed over the investigation to the anti-theft cell. The police arrested Ranjit Singh and Suresh of Vaidwala, and recovered the stolen goods.
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Chief chemist gets 3-month jail
Narnaul, November 14 Deputy director (agriculture) Dr Mahvir Singh said a rack of single super phosphate had arrived at the local railway station for farmers on April 2, 2004, and the department had taken samples from the rack. All samples were sent for examination to a quality control laboratory (fertiliser). However, all four samples were below the fixed standard and two of these were above inferable endurance. On the basis of the laboratory report, a case was filed against the company in court, where defendants sought re-examination of both the samples. These were sent to Central Laboratory, Faridabad, under the court supervision. The samples failed to meet the fixed standard, following which the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Sunita Grover punished the guilty. |
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Fire in steel factory
Sonepat, November 14 Though the manufacturing unit was closed because of Sunday, packing work of manufactured steel utensils was being done on the unit premises. After receiving information about the fire, three fire tenders from Sonepat and three from Narela in Delhi reached on the spot. The unit is owned by Paramjit Sharma.
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Bachhaud (Narnaul), November 14