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Eye on polls, BJP steps up campaign
NCP burns effigy of state government
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Pantnagar airport extension takes off
Civilians trained for disaster response
Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydel Project
Jhankar-2011 organised
Teacher-training workshop held
Road cleared for Agarwal’s 2nd term as Traders Assn chief
Religious harmony paves way for peaceful society: Maharaj
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Eye on polls, BJP steps up campaign
Chilla, January 22 Expressing concern of the recent step by Chinese embassy on imparting stapled visas to two sportspersons belonging to Arunachal Pradesh Rajnath Singh said this was a matter of deep concern as it hinders the negotiations regarding boundary settlement efforts. He also termed the response of the UPA Government as a meek one, which was further hurting the Indian stance of Arunachal Pradesh being an integral part of India. The statement of Rajnath coincides with his party predecessor Nitin Gadkari, who was on a five-day visit to China on the invitation of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Singh was in the city to inaugurate the three-day workshop for the state BJP executive members in view of the upcoming state Assembly elections in Uttarakhand. The workshops are being organised to prepare the party representatives, leaders and workers prior to the election. Giving tips to the state unit leaders, Singh reiterated that the BJP has been a party with a difference. He urged the party activists to work hard and convey the developmental works being done in the past five years to the masses. While State Urban Minister Madan Kaushik said while on the one hand the historic development being done in the state by the BJP would be a vital factor in the elections, the rising prices and corruption by the Congress-led government would be an issue during the campaign. State unit party chief Bishan Singh Chufal urged the party members to work diligently to retain the power in the state. Various state ministers, district chief, youth wing, women wing and other units attended various sessions held throughout the day. |
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NCP burns effigy of state government
Dehradun, January 22 Talking to the media, Manoj Dhyani, state spokesperson of the party, stated that the state government had wasted people’s money in regard to the promotion of the Sparsh Ganga project. “The tableau on the theme of Sparsh Ganga was to be displayed on the Republic Day, but the proposal of the same has been rejected by the Indian Defence Specialisation Committee. The state government failed to present a proper proposal and the rejection has hurt the feelings of the residents,” he claimed, and added that the Culture Department had spent around Rs 40 lakh on the project, which was a waste of money. “We can see that people keep on donating in the temples situated across the Ganga. Instead of spending so much on the Sparsh Ganga project, they should have used the amount in the beautification of the place,” Dhyani said. “In a period of four years, the party has spent money on their internal fight or in organising various melas instead of using it for the benefit of people,” he stated. |
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Medical assn members hold protest
Dehradun, January 22 The doctors condemned the Central government for the dissolution of the MCI. “The Government of India is creating another body in place of the MCI, obliterating the identity of the MCI and the medical profession,” said Dr Ajit Gairola, president, IMA. In a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister and submitted to the District Magistrate, the members also demanded the revocation of the Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2009, to regulate hospitals of this country without holding discussions. “This law effectively brings in the licence raj. Every clinic and hospital in this country has to renew its licence once in three years. There are already more than 43 laws governing the hospitals,” Dr Gairola said The doctors instead demanded a single window for all legislations, doing away with licencing, provision of online registration and independent accreditation process. The second issue of national importance was the back-door attempt to impose a three-and-half-year modern medicine course on the nation under the guise of rural health. “The Government of India is gong ahead with the establishment of medical schools in district hospitals to churn out half-baked Bachelor of Rural Health Care (BRHC) graduates,” said Dr Parveen Jindal, secretary, IMA, Dehradun Branch. He said in the age of information explosion, a five-and-half-year MBBS course would be inadequate and insufficient. “How can a three-and-a-half-year course have credibility?” he asked. |
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Clinical Establishment Bill opposed
Haridwar: Opposing strongly the Union Health Ministry’s Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Bill, 2010, the Haridwar unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has termed the Bill as an autocratic step by the Health Ministry.
Besides this, the unit members today submitted a memorandum to oppose the removal of the national chief and general secretary of the IMA by the Central government for six years, terming the decision as an unconstitutional one. The unit members staged a symbolic agitation as well as submitted a memorandum to City Magistrate R Shreedhar Babu to forward it to the Prime Minister and the Health Minister. Addressing the gathering, secretary of the Haridwar unit Sanjay Shah said the IMA was in existence since pre-Independence and the removal of its executive office-bearers without any substantial cause was totally undemocratic. Dr SK Sondhi said though they were on agitation, yet the patients would not have to suffer as they would make sure that medical services would not get affected as their fight was with the unconstitutional methods adopted by the ministry and not with the patients. At the agitation present were Doctors DN Taneja, Vipin Mehra, Rakesh Singhal, Jaspreet Singh, Kailash Pandey and RK
Singhal. |
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Boy of BPL family returns after successful open-heart surgery
Mussoorie, January 22 The open-heart surgery on Naveen became possible only after the tireless efforts of Dr Sunil Sanon, physician in Mussoorie, who arranged the finances fot the operation at the National Heart Institute, Delhi. Dr Sanon said Naveen was suffering from a cyanotic congenital heart disease, commonly known as “hole in the heart” since his birth. It took around 17 years to diagnose his disease, but eventually, when he came to Mussoorie and after consultation with National Heart Institute chief cardiac surgeon OP Yadav, it was decided that Naveen would need an open-heart surgery costing around Rs 2 lakh. Thereafter, Naveen was admitted to the institute on January 12 and discharged after a successful operation on January 19 and had reached Mussoorie safely on Friday. Dr Sanon also informed that Rotary International, Mussoorie, Innerwheel and Divine Light Trust contributed a major amount for the operation. Dr Sanon thanked the generous donors for assisting in the operation and saving the life of a person. He also said the operation was much needed as Naveen had been suffering from breathlessness and palpitations for the past five years. Dr Sanon also said science had progressed a lot and there was no need to fear an open-heart surgery. Speaking on the reasons behind the late diagnosis of the disease, he said for that government needed to put its act together. The immediate need of availability of doctors in remote areas would lead to an early diagnosis, thus providing relief to poor families and lead to less expenditure. Dr Sanon said the Divine Light Trust had helped 19 other such patients in the past and would continue to do so in future too. Naveen’s relative, speaking on behalf of the boy, said Dr Sanon had come as God sent for them and they would never have been able to make such intricate arrangements themselves. He also said the boy was breathing well and feeling good after the surgery. Naveen’s mother thanked all the donors and doctors for their kind support to the
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Pantnagar airport extension takes off
Nainital, January 22 A report in this matter has been sought over the next three days. The administration wants to avail 15.9 hectares of forest land adjoining the airport for extension purposes. Dr Purshottam asked his subordinate Hemant Verma to take up the transfer matter with the state administration and write on his behalf to the Chief Secretary and the Revenue Secretary. He also ordered that a report be given after a field survey regarding the felling of trees that had to be done within the present airport and in the adjoining area. Purshottam has also asked Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Vir Singh Budhiyal, officials of the Forest Department and the Gobind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology to survey the residential colonies coming up in the area and submit a report on the same to him at the earliest. He has asked the SDM to warn people not to go in for the construction of pucca houses in the area. Purshottam further stated at the meeting that he would take up the matter pertaining to the removal of the road joining the Rudrapur-Pantnagar road to the Haldi Railway Station with Vice-Chancellor of the university BS Bisht. Meanwhile, executive engineer of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) PS Martoliya will suggest ways to solve the problem of waterlogging at the airport after carrying out a survey. Deputy general manager of the airport MC Aggarwal related the problems being faced. He said although the permission for the transfer of the forest land has been granted by the Centre in principle, the delay was being caused on account of the identification of the land that has to be given over to the Forest Department in exchange of these 15.9 hectares. He further stated that the road connecting the Rudrapur-Pantnagar to the Haldi Station would come within the premises of the airport and the issue has to be addressed. Similarly, the two-storeyed houses in the Sanjay Nagar and other illegal colonies will hamper the traffic flow. He also pointed that almost 200 trees need to be cut for the extension of the airport. |
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Civilians trained for disaster response
Pitthoragarh, January 22 “The 8th Battalion, based at Noida (UP), has sent these members in this highly disaster-sensitive district to train civilians, including students, village panchayat members, government employees, ex-servicemen and NGO workers,” said Rana. “The civilians are being trained on how to respond at first at the time of any type of disaster, including earthquakes, landslides and road accidents,” said Rana. According to the coordinator, the civilians were being trained in first aid, casualty carrying and in usage of some mechanical equipments like hydraulic cutters spreaders, diamond circle cutters and use of air lift bags during the time of disaster. “Besides providing the training, the team is being familiarised with the geography, geology and geo-morphology of the landslides and earthquake-prone areas, roads, rivers and the catchments areas of various rivers in the district,” said Rana. The National Disaster Response Force is a multi-disciplinary multi-skilled and high-tech force raised recently to respond at all types of the natural and man-made disasters. “The team has an experience in the district during last year’s Kailash Mansarowar Yatra, when its members fished out trapped pilgrims near
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Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydel Project
Dehradun, January 22 Satpal Maharaj said Uttarakhand kept enormous hydro-power potential and could emerge as a power state in the days to come. He urged the President to issue necessary directions to the Union Environment and Forest Ministry for the immediate start of the pending project. He informed her that an amount of Rs 3,000 crore was to be spent for the construction of the project for which a big amount had already been issued by the World Bank. “An Environment Ministry’s go-ahead is all that is needed”, Maharaj added. He said the new project would help Uttarakhand overcome the power crisis in the state. |
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UKD stages dharna seeking civic amenities
Dehradun, January 22 Rawat said, “The city is grappling with all these problems while no one from the state government seems to be interested to solve these. The roads are jammed with traffic load all the time, the bridge has been under construction for years, the issue of the widening of the Chakrata Road continues to hang fire for several months and people of the city face a harrowing time waiting for the arrival of a gas cylinder. There appears chaos all over. If the state government does not redress these problems, then the UKD, out of compulsion, will have to come on the roads to protest”. The others who participated in the dharna included Atul Rana, Shailash, Deepender Negi, Rajender Pradhan and Mohit Kumar etc. |
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Jhankar-2011 organised
Dehradun, January 22 Medhavi Singh was declared the winner in group A, while Mohit Mangai and Nimishika were declared first and second runner-up, respectively. Mishal Pandey from New Teri was chosen winner of group B. Sakshi Sharma and Yarsir Ansari were selected as first and second runner-up, respectively. Rishu Nargas won
the competition in group C, followed by Soni Uniyal and Prabha Kumari as
first and second runner-up, respectively. The winners will be groomed for 30 days by the academy. The first runner-up will get training for 20 days and second runner-up of 10 days. Talking to The Tribune, Noopur Gupta, Director of the academy, said she was very soon going to launch a dance show on television and the winners of this competition would be given a chance to show their talent. The academy has earlier selected 15 boys and girls from the audition who participated in the competition.
Ridhim Agarwal, IPS, SP, Vigilance, Uttarakhand, was the chief guest of
the function. She also judged the participants along with VK Sharma, Director, Daksh Dance School. The show was compared by Aradhya Kumar. |
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Choices had dried up for J&K militant
Dehradun, January 22 Goha Marmat in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir - the area of Javed Qureshi alias Gulam Nabi - was fast losing its mass base and Nabi was just looking for hideouts for himself. The dreaded commander was left with only two or three men under his command and had failed to recruit any youngsters in the outfit. He found Doon to be a safe haven as the J&K police was desperately looking for him. This was revealed by sources in the J&K police who had brought Nabi and his aide Tanvir Ahmed to Doon to produce him in court. “Most of his men were killed. Only two or three are left. Nabi doesn’t know about their present whereabouts. They are in hiding at different places in the country,” told a cop of the J&K Special Operations Group (SOG) to The Tribune preferring not to be quoted. “The people in J&K have realised that the result of joining these terrorist organisations is nothing else but death. Nabi was not able to get ammunition and other support from Pakistan,” added the cop. As per the police, J&K had announced a cash reward of Rs 2.5 lakh on his head. According to the Doon police, he was earlier commanding about 30 to 35 men in the country. Nabi had entered Pakistan through Muzafarabad in 1993-94 and took six-month arms and ammunition training there. In 2002, he was made the district commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen and in 2007, was promoted to divisional commander. |
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Teacher-training workshop held
Dehradun, January 22 The workshop was organised at Jaswant Modern Senior Secondary School (JMSSS) in association with REACH, Dehradun. Superintending archaeologist, Dehradun Circle, Dr SN Dimri, who inaugurated the two-day workshop, stressed upon the importance of preserving the historical monuments. The workshop will motivate teachers to use appropriate resource material in the classroom teaching and encourage them to play an effective role in sensitising the children about the heritage. The high point of the workshop was the field visit to the Guru Ram Rai Durbar, a heritage site in the heart of the city. Heritage activists Lokesh Ohri conducted the walk. The schools that participated in the workshop included JMS, Welham Boys’, Welham Girls’, DAV Public School, Sapience School, Unison World School, DSB School, Whizzkid International School, Grace Academy and several others. |
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Road cleared for Agarwal’s 2nd term as Traders Assn chief
Mussoorie, January 22 Kumar and Naresh Anand withdrew their support in favour of Agarwal, thus clearing the road for him to run for the presidentship of the association. Speaking in a hurriedly called press conference held at a restaurant in Kulri Bazar, Goyal said to keep the unity of the traders intact and also to avoid any sort of animosity among them, the overnight deliberations bore fruit when the two presidential candidates consented in the larger interest of the traders to withdraw their nomination and support Agarwal for the another term as president. Goyal further said by providing another term to Agarwal, the pending works started by the present body would be completed in the next term. Replying a question posed by the media whether another such consensus would also be arrived at for the other posts, Goyal said efforts were on to talk to all factions and bring them under the one roof. He said other probable candidates had provided unconditional support to Agarwal. Sushil Kumar, one of the probable candidates, said after detailed deliberations he also felt that Agarwal should be given another term and, hence, the decision. Agarwal thanked all for arriving at the conclusion and said if he was elected for another term, he would work for the interests of the traders diligently. Political analysts in the town have viewed this incident as an important one in the Traders Association politics that might have a bearing in the forthcoming Nagar Palika elections in 2013. |
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Religious harmony paves way for peaceful society: Maharaj
Haridwar, January 22 The spiritual guru cited various ills that have crept into our society, particularly the degradation in character, as of a result the country is witnessing a large number of corruption, violence, riots and unrest. He said by observing religious faith, self-introspection and following the path of the religious guru will erase from society these ills. Addressing a large number of devotees who had gathered to listen to his sermon as well as wish their spiritual guru on his birth anniversary, Pushpanandan Maharaj stressed on mutual love, peace, positive thinking and observing good behaviour which will strengthen the country. Devotees in large numbers thronged the ashram to attend the function where a “bhandara” was also organised. |
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