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HIV kids to receive aid through banks
BJP protests against stopping of yatra
Census from February 9
Chopper passengers left in the lurch
Passengers protest at the Kullu airport against the non-landing of helicopters in Lahaul, on Tuesday. Photo: Kuldeep Chauhan
Reliance launches 3G services in HP
First Voters’ Day celebrated
One held with charas
Thousands leave from state
BJP candidate is Chamba ZP chief
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Stokes calls on Virbhadra
Pratibha Chauhan/TNS
Shimla, January 25 It is learnt that the CLP leader, who has been an arch rival of the minister for the past over 15 years, met him at his residence here last evening. The meeting between the two senior leaders lasted almost two hours, which has given a rise to speculation that the two could bury the hatchet. “I had to discuss the issue of Shimla ZP election with Virbhadra Singh so I met him at his residence,” said Stokes. She said no final decision had been taken so far but once Singh returned from Delhi tomorrow, names would be finalised so that the Congress could win the posts. Meanwhile, Virbhadra Singh today termed the election of the Kullu ZP chief as an “unholy alliance” where the compromise with the BJP was a setback to the traditions of the Congress. “Strict disciplinary action must be taken as it appears that this compromise was done to achieve personal vested interest at the cost of the party,” he remarked. He said the HPCC chief should have taken timely steps to stop such a situation and the party could have to suffer its consequences in the long run. He warned against any such alliances in future, which were not in line with the party ideology and interest. With the election for the chairman and vice-chairman of Shimla ZP scheduled for January 27, the two leaders were supposed to meet and discuss. The election could not be held on January 17 due to lack of quorum but the main reason was that the Congress failed to decide on the candidates to be fielded for the posts. Though the Congress has almost 12 ward members in the ZP of 24, but it has failed to evolve consensus as to who should be fielded. As such, it was felt that both Virbhadra Singh and Stokes should discuss the issue so that the BJP does not take undue benefit of the situation.
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Govt staff get 10% DA
Dharam Prakash Gupta Tribune News Service
Hamirpur, January 25 While making an announcement regarding the release of DA, Dhumal said, “The DA allowance from July to December, 2010, will be deposited in the GPF accounts and will be paid in cash from January, 2011.” Talking about strides made by the state during the last 40 years, Dhumal said, “The state had made tremendous progress with a great contribution by the people of the state.” He said, “Our state had won the best state award and our GDP which used to be Rs 223 crore in 1971 was Rs 42,726 crore in 2010. The per capita income has risen from Rs 651 to Rs 49,211 during this period and the plan outlay has increased from Rs 17 crore to Rs 3,000 crore.” The Chief Minister also announced to open a market yard in the lower region to benefit farmers of Una, Bilaspur and Hamirpur districts and said the head office of the JICA project would be opened at Hamirpur. The Chief Minister announced to grant Rs 1.38 crore for completing different stadia and sports tracks in the state. Four sportspersons — Vijay Kumar, Samresh Jung, Meena Kumari and Sonia Rana were given cash prizes and were also honoured in this function for their achievements in sports. Dhumal also inaugurated a census rally, adhar programme to provide UID number during the day. A cultural function, a dog show and acrobatic exercises by police personnel were also presented on the occasion.
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HIV kids to receive aid through banks
Dharamsala, January 25 The money is given to children up to the age of 18 years as an assistance for their living and educational requirements. An amount of Rs 10.4 lakh has been distributed under the scheme. Of these, 161 are orphans and 30 are HIV positive. In addition, milk powder to children of HIV positive mothers was also supplied. Guardians of these children are elated and have expressed hope that in future the government will take steps to ensure that the funds are release in time. Dr RK Sood, District AIDS Programme Officer, Kangra, appealed that “In case, there is any eligible person who is not registered under the scheme, he can submit an application addressed to the CMO and submit it at the nearest integrated counselling and testing centre (ICTC). The ICTCs in the district are located at Community Hospital, Kangra, Dehra, Nurpur, Palampur, Ayurvedic College Paprola, Zonal Hospital, Dharamsala, Dr RPGMC Tanda, and Community Health Centre, Jwalamukhi. They should also open a zero balance bank account at any nationalised bank and submit a copy of passbook.
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BJP protests against stopping of yatra
Shimla, January 25 BJP leaders said it was unfortunate that the yatra, which passed peacefully through 10 states, was stopped at the entry to Jammu and Kashmir even though BJP leaders were not trying to create any tension. “It is surprising that we are not free to hoist our National Flag in Srinagar which is a part of our country,” said Balnatah, legislator from Rohru. He added that such a step would only embolden the separatist forces to step up their activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP leaders lamented that the manner in which the Prime Minister and other Union ministers had advised the BJP to stop the yatra only indicated that the UPA regime had surrendered before the separatist forces. They warned that in case the yatra was not allowed to proceed, the BJP would launch a nationwide campaign. BILASPUR: Both the Centre and the J&K Government are dancing to the tune of terrorists as they have pressed their entire machinery to prevent thousands of BJP activists and leaders from going to Lal Chowk in Srinagar for unfurling the National Flag on Republic Day. BJP state spokesman and MLA Randhir Sharma said this while leading hundreds of BJP and Yuva Morcha activists in a three-hour dharna at the Shahid Park here today. They were protesting against the arrest of their leaders — Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar — at Jammu by the government last evening.
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Census from February 9
Shimla, January 25 Officials informed that the appointment of 8,832 enumerators and 1,503 supervisors had already been made and currently their training was on at 263 venues in the state. The exercise would involve 14,133 revenue villages. The Chief Secretary issued necessary directions to the officials to complete various activities, including population enumeration, in a time bound manner. The second phase of population enumeration would be carried out from February 9 to 28 with the provisional round from March 1 to 5. This would cover 58 tehsils, 25 sub-tehsils, 19 municipal councils, 19 nagar panchayats, five cantonment boards and two census towns. Census rallies are being organised in all district headquarters as a publicity measure. Tractor rallies will be held in due course to create awareness in the rural areas. Census week will be observed in the last week of January in 206 schools to create awareness.
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Chopper passengers left in the lurch
Kullu, January 25 The passengers raised anti-airways and anti-government slogans at the airport. The helicopter had taken 18 passengers each in the two flights today to Rawa and Udaipur helipads but the pilots flew back to Kullu citing the lack of enough snow-cleared space available at these helipads. The helicopter flew
to Udaipur helipad yesterday and dropped 18 passengers there. As many as 54 passengers in the Lahaul valley could not fly to Kullu due to non-landing of the helicopter flights. The district administration of Lahaul-Spiti blamed the non-landing of the helicopter flights on the lack of experience as the pilots were new. But the residents told The Tribune that the PWD labour staff is ill-equipped. They have made their own wooden equipments to clear the snow. AL Thakur, assistant engineer, PWD, Lahaul, told The Tribune from Keylong that the PWD had cleared about 50X40 metres space of these helipads. It is strange that helicopter could not land. Perhaps the pilot may be new, he added. |
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Reliance launches 3G services in HP
Shimla, January 25 He said the service would be available to customers in Shimla, Solan, Baddi, Nalagarh, Paonta Sahib, Mandi, Kullu, Palampur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Dalhousie, Dharamshala and Una. “The tariff will be very flexible with no hidden charges and assures a high speed up to 21 Mbps with a wide variety of cutting edge services, including video calling, mobile television, video streaming and applications, accessed on a variety of mobile and personal computing services,” he said. He said having over 16 lakh subscribers in Himachal already, Reliance Communication assured quality services to all. |
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First Voters’ Day celebrated
Dharamsala, January 25 Gupta said, “The future of the country lies in the hands of young voters between the age of 18 and 20 years.” The young voters present on the occasion were told about the importance of voting right and were also given an oath by Gupta to use their votes with utmost care. The first National Voters’ Day was celebrated as per the directions of the Election Commission of India. January 25 has been the foundation day of the country’s Election Commission. The newly registered voters were invited from Dharamsala, Ramnagar, Shamnagar and Badol MC to take part in the function. |
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One held with charas
Dalhousie, January 25 According to a report, the police seized the contraband when it searched the luggage of the accused. The accused had been identified as Gurdyal. A case has been registered against him under Section 20 of the NDPS Act. Further investigations in the case are on, the report added.
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Thousands leave from state
Nurpur, January 25 The party workers, led by state morcha president Narinder Atri and state BJP general secretary Ram Sarup Sharma, assembled at Kandwal on the Punjab and Himachal Pradesh border and left for Jammu and Kashmir. The local MLA Rakesh Pathania had made an elaborate arrangement for the stay and catering of party workers who had thronged here in thousands to join this ambitious yatra.
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BJP candidate is Chamba ZP chief
Chamba, January 25 For the post of vice-chairperson, Congress-supported Pawan Kumar of Biana ward got 10 votes while his rival Raj Kumar got five votes. In the 17-member zila parishad, two members were debarred from voting in the elections due to their late arrival.
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More than 100 passengers, who wanted to go from Kullu to Udaipur, Rawa and Sissu and who wanted to travel to Kullu from the snowbound Lahaul valley in the state-run helicopter, today were left in the lurch as the pilots, flying Jagson Airways chopper, refused to land it at
Rawa, Udaipur and Sissu helipads for want of enough snow-cleared space at these helipads.
