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Couple among nine Haryanvis out to conquer Mt Everest
Pay Scales
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2 brothers shot dead over land dispute
Kid sodomised, murdered
‘LeT threat’ to blow up rly stations
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Plan for Delhi-Chandigarh expressway
Gohana (Sonepat), May 15 The minister said Rs 810 crore would be spent on an 80-km road between Panipat and Gohana, which would be completed in three years. It would have three railway overbridges, three major bridges, five minor bridges and 15 under-passes. Presiding over the function, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the UPA government had provided a financial assistance of Rs 6,100 crore for the development of the road network and other related infrastructure, including the elevated flyover at Panipat, to the state. The state government had also sent a proposal to the Centre for upgrading eight state highways to national highways and all formalities on the part of the state government had already been completed. He said there was a plan for the construction of a Delhi-Chandigarh expressway along the Yamuna canal, which would make the journey between Delhi and Chandigarh comfortable. Later, addressing a “nav nirman rally” in the new Sabji Mandi at Gohana, the Chief Minister said the government was planning to set up a power plant near Gohana, which would supply round-the-clock power to all villages located within a radius of 10 km of the plant. Reiterating the government’s commitment to promote education among girls, he announced the setting up of a girls’ college at Bhainswal Kalan village, which would be affiliated to Bhagat Phool Singh Women University. Meanwhile, the boys’ wing of the government college would be shifted to the new site near Barota village on the Sonepat-Gohana road, he said. He said the government had already spent Rs 510 crore on setting up Bhagat Phool Singh Women University and an additional amount of Rs 170 had also been earmarked for the university. He said the government had released a sum of Rs 210 crore for the construction of the Sonepat-Gohana-Jind railway line. Conceding the demands of MLAs Jagbir Malik and Sri Krishan Hooda for a railway overbridge at the level crossing on the Jind-Gohana road, the Chief Minister approved a Rs 30-crore project. He also announced development grants of Rs 10 crore each for the villages of the Gohana and Baroda constituencies and Rs 5 crore for Gohana town. Later, the Chief Minister inaugurated the building of a 50-bedded government hospital and laid the foundation of a mini-secretariat. |
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Medical Reimbursement
Chandigarh, May 15 Fifteen new hospitals have been added to the list of already empanelled hospitals for the reimbursement of medical expenditure incurred by the employees or pensioners and their dependents. A spokesman said expenditure incurred on the treatment in the newly empanelled hospitals would be reimbursed on rates of the PGI plus 75 per cent of the remaining amount. Already empanelled hospitals as well as newly empanelled would remain empanelled for a period of two years. All empanelled hospitals would provide treatment to the employees in the event of life threatening emergencies without asking for deposition of the cost of treatment in advance. The patient would pay the dues before taking a discharge from the hospital. All empanelled hospitals would maintain a record of the treatment of the patient in the format to be prescribed by the Health Department. Whenever implants would be used in the process of treatment of a patient, the cost of implants would be reimbursed at the rates notified by Central government health schemes and adopted by the Haryana Government from time to time. The cost of the implants would be reimbursed only to the extent of the cost specified in the policy as amended from time to time or the actual cost, whichever is less, he added. Ordinarily, no relaxation from the policy would be given, said the spokesman, adding that, however, for the convenience of the employees, relaxation in the policy could be granted in exceptional cases with the prior approval of the Chief Minister and the Finance Department. |
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Independents rule the roost
Gurgaon, May 15 Of the two, the INLD got a major share. On the other hand, most stalwarts owing allegiance to the Congress lost the electoral battle. A total of 378 candidates, including 132 women, were in the fray for 35 wards of the MCG, voting for which was conducted here today. Gurgaon Additional Deputy Commissioner VS Hooda, who was also the returning officer for the MCG elections, said the polling went on in a smooth and peaceful manner. Though the final poll results had not been declared till the time of the filing of this report, official sources said more than 65 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the elections. Fifty duty magistrates and an equal number of supervisors had been appointed to keep a close watch on the law and order situation. Twelve assistant returning officers (AROs) had also been appointed. As many as 459 polling stations had been set up in the MCG area for the smooth conduct of the poll. Of these, 78 polling stations had been declared hypersensitive, while 116 polling stations had been placed in the sensitive category. Nearly 2,300 officials were deputed as presiding officers and polling officers. Gurgaon District Magistrate PC Meena has enforced Section 144 of the CrPC in the MCG area, thereby prohibiting the carrying of weapons. He had also ordered that dry (no-liquor) days would be observed in the municipal limits of Gurgaon from May 14 to 16. |
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Fuel price hike fuels protest
Sirsa, May 15 Activists of the BJP and the BJYM assembled at Subhash Chowk here in the morning and held a demonstration against the hike of Rs 5 per litre in the prices of petrol. Gurdev Singh Rahi, district president of the BJP, Renu Sharma, state president of the women wing of the BJP, and Vikram Chanana, state vice-president of the BJYM, led the protesters. The BJP leaders alleged that the UPA government had shown its anti-people face immediately after the results of the Assembly poll in five states. The BJP demanded that the UPA government should resign on moral grounds as it had “stabbed people in the back” by burdening them with the price hike after seeking their votes on “false promises”. The Indian National Lok Dal has also condemned the hike in the prices of petrol. Padam Jain, district president of the INLD, said the hike would have a cascading effect and the prices of other commodities, too, would rise. Jain alleged that the UPA government had raised the prices of petrol nine times, thereby putting a heavy burden on the pocket of the common man. He alleged that on the one hand several ministers of the UPA government were steeped neck deep in corruption, while on the other hand, the common mn was being subjected to miseries. FATEHABAD: Nishan Singh, district president of the INLD, on Sunday condemned the hike in the prices of petrol. He said the UPA government had hiked the prices of petrol by Rs 23 per litre during the past one year. The INLD leader demanded a rollback of the price hike. |
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Couple among nine Haryanvis out to conquer Mt Everest
Kathmandu, May 15 “We were inspired by Mamata Sodha,” says Vikash Kaushik, a 24-year-old computer science student from Kurukshetra University, who is among the nine Haryanvis trying their luck, skill and courage on the mountain that has already claimed three lives this season. Mamata Sodha, a 28-year-old teacher, scaled the peak last year and returned home in glory, asking people to “do something different”. So Kaushik is now biding his opportunity on the freezing slope, hoping to do her bidding. And he is not alone. Accompanying him on the challenge is his wife Sushma, a 27-year-old constable with the Haryana police serving in Panipat. “We hope to do something different. We hope to become the youngest couple to scale Mt Everest together,” said Kaushik. The first married couple to scale Mt Everest together were Slovenians Andrej and Mariga Stremfelj, who scaled the peak in 1990. Eight years later, the peak took the lives of a climbing couple, American Francys Arsentiev and her husband Serguei. Though Nepalese girl Moni Mulepati and her husband Pem Dorje Sherpa were younger than the Kaushiks when they scaled Mt Everest in 2005, the Haryana couple can still claim the record technically since Mulepati and Sherpa were not married when they went up. The pair exchanged vows only on the summit and then had a formal wedding ceremony after they came down. The Vikash-Sushma pair also projects a refreshingly different image of Haryana and, indeed, India - she is the elder partner and is the breadwinner while he is still a student. The 11-member second Eco-Everest Expedition, of which the Kaushiks are members, has three more aspirants from Haryana, including a woman, Sunita Singh Chokan (26). Also attempting the climb is a third woman from Haryana - Richa Sheokand (25), who is part of the international expedition that saw Tine Mena, the first woman from India’s northeast, scale this week. The Haryana boom is also being attributed to the generous patronage that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s government has shown to athletes. “Mamata was promoted to the rank of Deputy Police Superintendent after she scaled Mt Everest,” says Captain Sanjiv Vajpai, father of Arjun Vajpai, the New Delhi schoolboy who created history last year when he scaled Mt Everest at the age of 16, thereby becoming the youngest Indian to achieve the feat. — IANS |
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Pay Scales
Kurukshetra, May 15 A delegation of the HFUCTO, led by its president Pradeep Chauhan, met Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal at her residence after the talks broke down last night and apprised her of the situation arising out of the deadlock and non-settlement of their long-pending demands. The talks reached a deadlock last evening as the government negotiators expressed their inability to make any firm commitment on some of the demands of the teachers. The HFUCTO has convened an emergency meeting at Kurukshetra on May 17 to take stock of the situation and take a final decision regarding boycotting the examinations, commencing on May 19. Teachers of four universities and 78 government and 97 private-aided colleges were boycotting “evaluation work’ and if the federation gave a call for boycotting the examinations too, the situation would become grim and the future of nearly 8.5 lakh students would be at stake, said a spokesman for the federation. |
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high court
Chandigarh, May 15 Taking up a petition filed by Shiksha Devi against the HVPN Managing Director and other respondents, Justice Ranjit Singh has also held the respondents at fault for not taking timely action to shift the loosely hanging high tension power cable despite representations. Justice Ranjit Singh asserted: “The son of the petitioner has expired due to electrocution on June 21, 2010. This happened while he was working on the rooftop of a house. The petitioner’s son was trapped from the rooftop of the house as a high tension wire was not tightened by the respondents. “In fact, representations were given for shifting the high tension wire. Reference is made to such representations and these have been placed on record. The petitioner has moved this court for the grant of compensation by way of public law remedy”. In his detailed order, Justice Ranjit Singh asserted: “Though initially the respondents contested the claim of the petitioner, in the reply filed now, the Executive Engineer, Operation Division, UHBVN, Yamunanagar, has considered the issue and on the asking of the court has made some calculation as to how much compensation is to be paid. “An inquiry has also been held by the department. The wire which was crossing over the house has also been shifted. Though the respondents made an attempt to side-track the responsibility, I am of the view that the respondents cannot escape responsibility for the tragedy. The respondents had failed to take timely action…. “In my view, the payment of Rs 3,50,000 in lump sum would be adequate compensation and the same is allowed to the petitioner. The petition is accordingly allowed with direction to pay compensation of Rs 3,50,000. Let the amount be deposited/paid to the petitioner within a period of one month”. |
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2 brothers shot dead over land dispute
Sirsa, May 15 The police has registered a murder case against 10 persons, including the victims’ cousin and brother-in-law. Dabwali DSP BL Yadav said the victims, sons of Gurdev Singh, had a dispute with their father’s cousin Natha Singh, who wanted a share in the agriculture land for his two daughters. The two sides were involved in a prolonged litigation. Villagers informed the two brothers this morning that Natha Singh came to their agriculture fields with 8 to 10 persons and was destroying the crop sown on their field with a tractor. Darshan Singh and Kaul Singh immediately rushed to the fields, where they were allegedly gunned down. Darshan Singh died on the spot, while Kaur Singh succumbed to his injuries at the general hospital in Dabwali. The police has booked Natha Singh, his daughter Paramjit Kaur, son-in-law of Natha Singh and five others on the charge of murder. The assailants had come prepared with arms to take forcible possession of the land. |
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Kid sodomised, murdered
Jhajjar, May 15
The Bahadurgarh police has registered a murder case on the complaint of
Dharampal.
The incident came to light when Harsh was found lying outside a dharamshala in Jatwara Mohalla here in an unconscious state by his kin. They took the child to a private hospital, where he was declared brought dead. The body bore marks of multiple injuries. Bahadurgarh DSP Rajeev Deswal along with other police officials rushed to the hospital and sent the body to the Civil Hospital for a postmortem. “The postmortem report of Harsh said he was strangled to death and he was also sodomised before being murdered,” said the
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‘LeT threat’ to blow up rly stations
Karnal, May 15 The railway police immediately beefed up security at railway stations and trains, and intensified checkings to avert any terrorist attack. Besides, it has registered a case against unknown persons. The SHO of the Karnal railway police, Surender Singh, said all precautions had been taken and the letter had been sent to the divisional railway manager at Ambala. The letter, purported to have been written by the area commander of the LeT, mentions the Chandigarh, Panchkula, Gurgaon, Rohtak, Bhiwani, Jakhal, Hisar, Rewari, Kalka, Jagadhri, Panipat and Karnal railway stations, bus stands and cinema halls as targets. |
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Woman clubbed to death
Karnal, May 15 The deceased, identified as Beeru Devi, was at home when her brother-in-law Joginder Singh allegedly started abusing her family. When she went out and asked Joginder not to use abusive language, he rushed to her house and hit her on the head and abdomen using a “lathi”, which proved fatal. Beeru was taken to the trauma centre, where she was declared brought dead by doctors.
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