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REWARI
Boy crushed to death: Vikas (12) was crushed to death by a school bus at Gothra Tappa Dahina village, 35 km from here, on Sunday. The bus ran over Vikas, who was playing there, when the driver was parking it.1 dies in mishap: Ran Singh (50) of Buroli village was killed while several others were injured, one of them seriously, when a jeep, carrying passengers from Rewari to Dahina, overturned on the Rewari-Mahendragarh road, near Saharanwas village, 6 km from here, on Monday afternoon. Rajender Singh of Dhawana village, who was severely injured, has been referred to the PGIMS, Rohtak. Jeep driver Ashok Kumar absconded after the accident. Tree plantation: Kuldeep Sharma, Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, inaugurated a tree plantation programme at BCM Polytechnic College, Raiya, in Jhajjar district, 55 km from Rewari, on Sunday. He inaugurated the programme by planting a sapling of a herbal plant in the college complex. Sharma exhorted the youth to grow more plants to save the environment from pollution.
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BILASPUR
Woman dies after bitten by bees: Har Devi (47) of Dol Daaber village, near Namhole, was killed after she was suddenly attacked by wild bees at Gudran Dugga village, near here, on Sunday. Reports said the bees stung her when she was passing down the path near the bee colony. She was rushed to Namhole Primary Health Centre where she recovered after treatment. But next day on returning home, she fell seriously ill and died. Youth’s death: Cops visit Punjab: A police party has left for Kiratpur Sahib, bordering Punjab, to unravel the mystery of the murder or accidental death of Tarun Kumar (27) of Upper Nihal sector of this town. He was reported missing by the family on May 19 after he had left on his motor cycle on May 18. SP Santosh Patial said here on Sunday that Tarun’s body was found lying on the bank of a canal near the Kotla Power Plant in Kiratpur Sahib. In another FIR in the City Chowki here a family of the Main Market here has complained that their daughter had left with
Tarun.
 PALAMPUR
Singhmar is Palampur SDM: Ashish Singhmar, an IAS officer of 2008 batch, has been appointed as the new SDM of Palampur. Prior to joining as the Palampur SDM, Singhmar also served as the Block Development Officer (BDO) at Baijnath and
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Lawyer on armed forces panel: A n advocate of the state High Court Kuldeep Rathore has been appointed Senior Panel Counsel for the Army, Navy and Air Force for the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) at Chandigarh. The appointment has been made for a period of three years. He is already a Senior Standing Counsel for the Centre for the CAT. SOLAN
Industry bodies join hands: Various industry associations of the state joined hands on Sunday to form an All-Himachal Industrial Federation (AHIF) to take up various industry-related issues with the government. At a meeting held at Baddi, Sanjay Guleria, president, Himachal Drug Manufacturers Association, was chosen as the chairman while Sachin Shridhar as the chief adviser of the
AHIF.
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Case registered: A case was registered against Sanjay Bhatt, spokesperson for the Uttarakhand Jan Sena, for allegedly entering into an altercation with Dehradun District Magistrate Sachin Kurve here on Monday. Sanjay, along with other members of the sena, went to meet the City Magistrate to apprise him of the felling of trees in the name of widening of roads. He was later sent to the District Magistrate. He requested the District Magistrate to make sure that instead of cutting the trees these should be transplanted somewhere else. But, somehow the talk turned into an argument and the police was
called. Sanjay claimed it was the District Magistrate who started “misbehaving” with him and other members of the sena. Drowned: A pilgrim from Ludhiana was drowned in the Bhagirathi at Makuri in Uttarkashi district following a sudden flow of water in the river from the Maneri Bhali hydroelectric project. According to the police, three pilgrims bathing in the river were swept away.Two of them were rescued by locals while the whereabouts of the third one was not known. Demolished: An anti-encroachment team of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation that went to demolish illegal jhuggis at Dak Bangla basti, near the Sai temple at Rajpur, faced resistance from residents. They threw stones at the team. However, more than 100 illegal jhuggis were demolished in the operation. Arrested: Sanjeet Kumar,resident of Clementown, was arrested by the Dehradun police on a charge of possessing 632 capsules of illegal intoxicating drugs. According to police officials, investigation was on.
Kumaon Briefs
Five killed in mishaps: Five persons were killed in separate accidents in Udham Singh Nagar district. According to information, Kalpana Devi (20) and her one-and-a-half-year-old son, Naveen, were killed when the bus they were travelling in rammed into a tree near Bazpur. In another incident, Satnam Singh (19) and Baljit Singh (18) were killed when their tractor-trailer, in which they were bringing hay from Dhakiya village in UP, overturned in a ditch, crushing them near Angadpur village. In yet another incident, 34-year-old Avnish Kumar was killed in Rudrapur when he was hit by an unknown vehicle. He was returning home from duty on foot.
Programme for farmers:
Officials in Almora district have been asked to propagate the need for water conservation, the construction of temporary ponds and polythene tanks during the ‘Sarkar kisan ke dwar’ programme, which was launched on Monday with the Zila Panchayat Chairman Mohanram Arya flagging off krishi raths. The programme will continue till June 1. The purpose of the programme is to provide technical know-how to farmers besides promoting agricultural investments. Arya said during the programme, farmers would be provided knowledge about the new varieties of seeds for kharif crop, latest farm implements, dairy development, fisheries and medicinal plants. Death mourned:
Lok Sabha member from the Pauri Garhwal constituency Satpal Maharaj has mourned the death of Yogambar Singh Rawat, a former Congress legislator. He said the efforts of Rawat for giving a voice to issues related to the masses and for developing the state are historical. Rawat had died on Saturday evening after a prolonged illness. He was cremated on Sunday. Dowry case:
The Ramnagar police has arrested one person on the charge of harassing his wife for dowry. According to information, a case was registered against Satish Garwal of Kheda village, along with six other members of his family, on May 18 following a complaint from his wife, Bhawna Devi. They got married in May 2010 and the accused had allegedly been harassing the victim for bringing Rs 5 lakh and a motorcycle. She had allegedly been turned out of her house by the accused after being beaten up on April 4 this year. Since then, the victim had been living at her parental home in Kyari village. The couple also have a child. Theft charge:
Residents of Awas Niwas locality in Haldwani nabbed a schoolboy while he was allegedly trying to steal a motorcycle. The accused is a student of Class 10. Sustained interrogation led him to reveal the names of his seven other accomplices, who were also rounded up. While five of them were released, one of his accomplices has been booked along with him. (Compiled by Rajeev
Khanna)
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