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Counting for Haridwar panchayat polls begins
Lunthi expels eight members from Cong
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Cong lashes out at Nishank Govt
Accuses it of doing nothing on developmental front, terms CM’s Vikas Yatra as Vishwasghaat Yatra Nainital, February 21 The Congress today lashed out at the Nishank-led BJP Government in the state and accused it of doing nothing on the developmental front. The Lake City witnessed a massive show of strength by the Congress at the Jan Aakrosh Rally and Satyagraha programme of the party.
Couple flees to get married; father alleges kidnapping
Anupama Murder Case
Women constables deployed for Mansarowar Yatra
Nigam staff continues stir
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Counting for Haridwar panchayat polls begins
Haridwar, February 21 The zila panchayat seats in the district are 42, for which 861 candidates are in the fray, 2,508 candidates are contesting for the village pradhan post, 2,025 BDC contestants and 6,810 are contesting for gram panchayat membership. Till the filing of the report, the counting process was going on at all the six block division headquarters, Roorkee, Khanpur, Bhagwanpur, Bahadrabad, Narsain and Lakshar. The declaration of the results, barring the zila panchayat seat, will be declared at the respective development block divisions only, while the zila panchayat seat winners will be announced from the zila panchayat office only. In view of the counting, elaborate security arrangements have been made at all the counting centre’s with deployment of the police personnel and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC). Aiding these personnel are commandos from the elite commando force of the state, with quick reaction team on alert round the clock. Speaking to The Tribune, nodal officer for election cell Assistant Superintendent of Police Nivedita Kukreti said, “A platoon of the PAC has been deployed in addition to more than 300 state police personnel in view of the sensitivity of the electoral counting at each counting centres.” She said the strong rooms, where the ballot boxes were kept, were also under tight security. “We have laid a three-tier security cordon at the counting centres. No one is allowed without passes at the counting centres with detection being done with hand held detectors and door framed metal detectors (DFMD) apart from separate entry for the candidates, media and administrative officials.” “A quick reaction team is also posted in case of any exigency to ensure the counting process goes on smoothly, besides Section 144 is already in place in the region,” said Nivedita. |
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Lunthi expels eight members from Cong
Pithoragarh, February 21 “The state Congress president has permitted me to do so,” said Lunthi. However, the expelled members have challenged their expulsion. “We had asked the members to explain their stand in three weeks’ time, but they failed to reply to our show-cause notices and we had to take this action,” said Lunthi. He added that these members had worked against the basic principles of the party to empower the weaker sections of society, including women. The divide within Pithoragarh Congress surfaced today as the expelled members challenged their expulsion on the ground that the district president could not expel them as he had not given them any notice before the voting took place on January 19. “Our expulsion is technically wrong as some of us, including me, are Youth Congress members and only the Youth Congress state president can expel us from the party,” said Harish Dhami, an expelled Zila Panchayat member from the Baram area. They also challenged the validity of the present District Congress president and said he had neglected veteran Congressmen in the district. “When we, the Congressmen of the district, were fighting for the survival of the party, the present Congress president was in the Bahujan Samaj Party. He cannot teach us Congress philosophy,” said Dhami. The expelled members also said they would appeal to Congress leader Sonia Gandhi through union minister Harish Rawat to expose the District Congress president. “If to get
justice, we have to begin a sit-in before Sonia ji, we will also do so,” said Dhami. |
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Cong lashes out at Nishank Govt
Nainital, February 21
The rally marked the unofficial start of the campaign of the party in the region, particularly
Nainital, which is seen as the home turf of party president Yashpal Arya. Arya was the most vocal in attacking the Nishank Government. Terming the ongoing Vikas Yatra of Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank as yet another political gimmick, he said, “He has no right to carry out a Vikas Yatra in the state. Going by the manner in which the government has treated the people of the state over the last four years, the yatra should be termed as a Vishwasghat Yatra (cheating
yatra).” Arya said, “The government has let the youth of the state down on every front. It has failed to generate employment over the last four years.” He accused the government of indulging only in allegations and questioned that why the
Centre-sponsored funds being allowed to lapse. Arya pointed out that the people have witnessed unearthing of a series of scams, including the Citurgia and hydropower project case, during the present regime. He also accused the Nishank Government of misusing the funds that were given for providing relief to the people after the rain-related disaster that hit the region during the prolonged monsoons last year. Talking to The Tribune after the rally, he said, “People are totally disillusioned with the present government and desperately want a change. They see the Congress as the best option for ushering in an era of development in the
state.’’ Lok Sabha member from Pauri Satpal Maharaj also attacked the state government for failing to deliver on every front. He said, “The BJP has always accused the Centre of step motherly treatment towards the state. It is for the people to decide now and bring the Congress to power.” He said development has stagnated in the state. Commenting on the recently launched Atal Khadyann
Yojana, Maharaj said the state government was simply trying to mislead the people of the
state. Lok Sabha member from Nainital parliamentary constituency KC Singh Baba accused the state government of being anti
Dalit. He raised the issue of the Bindukhatta area and stated that the state government had failed to provide basic amenities like power to 60,000 people residing there. Baba also questioned the government on its failure to implement the Special Component Plan
(SCP). The Congress leadership claimed that at least 6,250 party workers and supporters courted arrest after the rally to protest the failures of the state government. |
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International Convention
Haridwar, February 21 The convention is dwelling on the key role the senior citizens play in the society with stress laid on keeping them healthy by adopting traditional Indian remedies. Swami Satyamitranand Giri, founder of the Bharat Mata Mandir Shankarcharya, said, “Being humans, our existence survives with the society and, thus, one has to make it mandatory to serve one’s family and society. Remembering God and performing religious rites will pave way for the benefit of the human kind”. In various sessions, senior citizens were apprised of medical remedies which were quite essential as several ailments affect most of the people falling in this age bracket. Renowned ayurvedic expert, Acharya Balakrishan from the Patanjali Yogpeeth urged the elderly to practise yoga which would cure their ailments. Balakrishan said, “By practising yoga and meditation, aided by ayurvedic remedies, one can lead a healthy life”. Free check up of the participating senior citizens was also being done at the seminar. Other dignitaries who addressed this international convention were Acharya Dr Lokesh Muni, Mahamandaleshwar Swami Yatindranand Saraswati, Dr Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Mahant Rajendra Das, Satpal Brahamchari, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Pandit Nyay Mitra Sharma, ID Shastri, RC Aggarwal, Dr NK Sharma, Sawita Sharma, Dr BT Chidanand, Indrani Verma, Divya, Sunil Yogacharya, MR Rangaswami, Balwir Singh Yadav, Anju Aggarwal, Narendra Pandey and Dr Vinod Aggarwal. |
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Couple flees to get married; father alleges kidnapping
Dehradun, February 21 The cops have started looking for the two. However, they said both were adults and had fled with their own wish. The police said the two had got married and planned to settle outside Dehradun. Mahender Singh Chauhan, the girl’s father, alleged in his complaint last month that his daughter had been kidnapped by Mohammad Hasant Ali, alias Danish, a native of Kishanganj, Patna, in December. The police registered a case under Sections 366 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code yesterday. The police said that both did not want to come forward and ,therefore, it was trying to trace them. Ali was running a shop in the same locality where the girl lived and both fled from there to get married. Missing girl recovered by police
A Madrasi Colony minor girl, who was allegedly enticed into running away by a boy of the same locality three days ago, was recovered by the police today. The police has arrested the boy, Sayal, and handed over the girl to her family. The boy has told the police that they were in love, but the cops said this was not the case as the girl was a minor and had not confirmed the same. Station House Officer (SHO) of the Kotwali police station Kailash Panwar said, “They were found strolling in the city when they were apprehended. The boy said they were in love, but the girl is a minor, thus it cannot be confirmed as per the law”. Sunny, the girl’s brother, had lodged a complaint three days ago that his sister was lured by Sayal into running away with him. Following this, the police had started searching for Sayal who hails from Muzzafarnagar (UP) and registered a case under Sections 363 and 366 of the IPC. Headway in Khatima
double murder
NAINITAL: The police claims to have made a headway in the case pertaining to the murder of two Nepalese citizens in Khatima last week. Devendra Joshi and Dhanraj Joshi, both relatives, have been detained for interrogation in the matter. The bodies of two persons had been found from the fields adjoining the railway track at Chakarpur in Khatima last Friday. They had been killed with a sharp-edged-weapon and the face of one of the victims had been badly crushed. The victims had been identified as Shivlal Joshi and Dhan Bahadur Khatri and were residents of Jumla in Nepal. The locals had told the police that the victims were relatives who used to sell blankets in the area. On last Friday that they had seen two bodies dumped in a wheat field adjoining the railway tracks. According to sources, deceased Shivlal was a prime witness in a murder case which involved the accused persons’ relatives. He had been threatened with dire consequences in the past if he gave a statement in the court against the accused. It was with the motive to stop him from becoming a witness that the murder had been committed. The murder was that of Nepali Congress leader Umakant, who was Shivlal’s paternal uncle. The lead was provided to the police by Shivlal’s brother-in-law Rajesh Kumar. Further investigations are underway. |
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Agitating shopkeepers burn MDDA officials’ effigies
Dehradun, February 21 They also submitted a memorandum to the Uttarakhand Governor. The association, under the leadership of Sanjay Sharma, patron of the samiti, burnt two effigies each of vice-president RK Sadhanshu, secretary Vinod Suman and joint secretary Anuja Singh. Talking to the media, Sharma affirmed that if the local administration failed to provide them justice, they would move towards the government. “They need to immediately remove the officials of the MDDA and shut the office as they are just giving a headache to residents of the capital. If no action is taken, we will block the city next week,” he said and added that all the members would be begging on the roads tomorrow as the administration had left them with no other option. “We will talk to public representatives and businessmen regarding the same and move towards the MDDA office as well as the Vidhan Sabha,” Sharma said. The boiling point was reached after the team, comprising the vice-chairman and the secretary of the MDDA, smashed the structures raised by the shopkeepers in the old bus stand area. |
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Anupama Murder Case
Dehradun, February 21 Jhuma, along with her advocate, came from Kolkata to appear before the Cantt police to give her statement. The police asked her several questions regarding the Anupama murder case. AS Rawat, Station House Officer of the Cantt police station, said Gulati had told Jhuma that he had divorced his first wife and got married to her in 2008. She told the police that she was not aware of his first wife. Jhuma is now living with her husband and other family members in Kolkata. She was called by the police a few days ago, but she had requested the police to allow her to come today as her children had to take final examinations. Gulati had reportedly married the Kolkata woman when he was already married to Anupama in 2008. Gulati and deceased Anupama, parents of two twin children, in those days had a bitter relationship. The software engineer during this period had gone to the USA and directly returned to Kolkata where he developed a friendship with Jhuma and married her. |
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Women constables deployed for Mansarowar Yatra
Pithoragarh, February 21 Informing this today, ITBP commandant Vishwamitra Anand said, “A contingent of 40 women ITBP constables will be with us in the month of April. They will be sent to high Himalayan ranges at Gunji to acclimatize”. The yatra is scheduled to begin from June 1. “Besides the women platoon, an expert team on disaster mitigation will also reach Didihat from Chandigarh, which will be deputed between Gala to Lamari, the most sensitive area from disaster point of view in the yatra route,” said Anand. The ITBP is also preparing to guard the new route of the yatra assigned for this year from Narayan Ashram. “We are sending an advance team to locate the new route of the yatra, so that the pilgrims do not face any difficulty,” said the commandant. |
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Dehradun February 21 According to representatives, the dharna will continue for the next four days and turn into an indefinite strike if the state government does not accept their demands of regularisation of daily wagers and contractual employees and the cancellation of 10 high-level appointments made in July last year. The associations also threatened to disrupt the gas supply in the state. MD of the GMVN B Santhiyal did not make any effort to pacify the agitators. Coordinator of the agitation Purushottam Puri said they rejected the MD’s demand of 15 more days. — TNS
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Absentee bank staff: DM for taking up matter with RBI
Taking a serious note of bank representatives not making it to important co-ordination meetings called by the administration, District Magistrate (DM) Shailesh Bagauli has ordered that the matter be taken up with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Expressing displeasure over the attitude of banks that are neither providing the required information, nor are their representatives attending meetings, Bagauli has ordered that the RBI should be written to on this matter. He has also said the administration should withdraw its funds from such banks and deposit these elsewhere. He has ordered that the required information must be provided to the administration well in time. The District Magistrate has also expressed concern over the fall registered in the Credit Deposit (CD) ratio in the third quarter of the current financial year. Tourists from Delhi ‘thrashed’ by guides
The Bijrani Gate of the Jim Corbett National Park became a venue of turmoil on Sunday evening as a group of tourists from Delhi was allegedly thrashed by guides and their supporters for having misbehaved and manhandled their colleague. It is learnt that the tourists from the Nagla area in Delhi allegedly beat up a guide when he asked them not to sit on the bonnet of a four-wheeler they had hired to take them inside the park. This led to the four tourists being thrashed and taken captive by the guides and their accomplices. They went on to manhandle police personnel who reached the spot to intervene in the matter. Sources say that the police had to fire in the air to bring the situation under control. 40 at wedding suffer from food poisoning
More than 40 persons attending a wedding at Lal Kuan were taken ill after they suffered from food poisoning. According to information, a number of people attending a Forest Department employee’s daughter’s wedding complained of vomiting and diahorrea after taking their meals on Saturday night. The number of such people swelled by the hour and they had to be admitted in various hospitals in Lal Kuan and Haldwani till Sunday morning. Govt to probe co-ops
running in losses
Cabinet minister Bansidhar Bhagat has stated that the government will be probing those co-operatives in the state that are running in losses. He said the government intended to know the cause of such losses. He was addressing a meeting of a co-operative bank management in Haldwani on Sunday. The minister was approached by a large number of farmers at the meeting who raised the issues pertaining to the non-availability of fertilizers to them. Gang of vehicle
lifters busted
The police in Haldwani claims to have busted an inter-state gang of vehicle lifters. They have recovered 10 stolen motorcycles from the two persons arrested by them. Those arrested have been identified as Pradeep Yadav and Neeraj Yadav of Kashipur. Two of their accomplices are still at large. The police says that the vehicles recovered from them had been stolen from Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts in Uttarakhand and from Bijnor district in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. The police is also investigating their alleged involvement in a murder case. |
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