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BJP Kisan Morcha: Naib Singh, general secretary, BJP Kisan
Morcha, said a dharna would be staged outside Parliament on August 3 in protest against wrong policies of the Congress government, including the land acquisition policy. He said: “The Congress-led governments in states are exploiting farmers due to the faulty land acquisition policy.” CHANDIGARH
Disease control: Ramkishan Fauji, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Health, said a non-communicable disease control programme had been started in four districts -- Mewat, Ambala, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar. Fauji said the Centre had selected 100 districts in 21 states for the prevention and control of cancer, diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular diseases. FATEHABAD
Dhruv Dahiya third in IES: Dhruv Dahiya has achieved a distinction by securing third position in the Indian Economic Service examination 2010, the result of which was declared by the Union Public Service Commission on July 19. He is first among the boys. Dhruv completed his M.Sc in econometrics and mathematical economics from the London School of Economics in July last year. KURUKSHETRA
PO arrested: A proclaimed offender, Sushil, alias Shibbu, of Amin village, has been arrested here on Friday. A police spokesman said Beena (name changed) had registered a case against Shibbu alleging a rape charge on him. A police team raided his residence on Friday night and arrested him. REWARI
Man booked: Following a complaint lodged by Subhash Devi wife of Sunil Yadav, the police has registered a case of attempt to murder against her father-in-law Chhote Lal Yadav, of Raipur village. Sources said Chhote Lal, who was allegedly bent upon having illicit relations with his daughter-in-law, attacked with an axe at Sunil on the night of July 18. Sunil was admitted to the Safdarjung Hospital (Delhi) in a critical condition.
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Woman dies of burn injuries: Sunita Devi (25) of Gangath village on Saturday succumbed to her burn injuries at the DRPGMC, Tanda, where she was undergoing treatment for the past few days. According to the police, Sunita had received serious burn injuries at her house while working in the kitchen. In her dying declaration, Sunita said she had caught fire accidentally.Poison case
registered: Ankit (23) of Mundla falling under Nagrota Bagwan police station was admitted to DRPGMC, Tanda, as a poison case. The police said Ankit stated that he was ailing for quite some time and had consumed some poisonous thing instead of his genuine medicine by mistake. He was under treatment in the hospital. Four hurt in road accident: Four persons were injured, one of them seriously, when a car in which they were travelling dashed against a tree at Khabli Dosarka village falling under Dehra police station on Saturday, the police said. Ravinder Kumar, driver of the car, had lost control on his vehicle. The injured identified as Shukuntalai Devi (42), Mansa Devi (62), Ravinder Kumar (42), and Sandeep (22) were admitted to
DRPGMC, Tanda. NURPUR
One arrested for thrashing woman: The local police arrested Kewal Krishan of nearby Jonta village on Friday evening for allegedly thrashing and outraging the modesty of his sister-in-law when she was alone in her house on July 11. According to DSP Rajinder Jaswal, the victim had lodged a complaint with the police on July 12 and the accused had been absconding and trying for an interim bail from the District and Session Court, Dharamsala. But following rejection of his bail application, the local police had arrested him. A case has been registered against the accused who was produced in the court on Saturday. The court has sent him to 14-day judicial remand.
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Srinagar
2 youths killed in explosion: Two youths, Ahmad Khan and Babar Khan, were killed when an explosive device they were fiddling with exploded in the Dangiwacha area of Baramulla district on Saturday.
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DEHRADUN
Van Mahotsav organised: The Kasatriya Chetna Manch on Saturday organised Van Mahotsav at Government Inter College Soda Siroli, Dehradun. Students and staff of the college participated in the mahotsav, which was inaugurated by Raghubir Singh
Rawat, Principal Conservator (Forests) Uttarakhand. Planting an amla sapling, Rawat called upon people to work for the conservation of forests. The president of the manch, Thakur Mohan Singh Chauhan, explained the students about the protection of the environment and the benefits of
undertaking plantation. The general secretary of the manch, Thakur Ravi Singh Negi, the purpose to organise the
mahotsav was to create awareness among children.Plea to withdraw ban on project: Former state Cabinet minister and Congress leader Mantri Prasad
Naithani, along with state party leaders, on Saturday met the Union Forest and Environment Minister in Delhi and sought the withdrawal of the ban on the Srinagar hydro-power project.
He said the completion of the project was must for the development of the region. Solid waste management: Dehradun Mayor Vinod Chamoli on Saturday visited the Tyagi road site of solid waste management.
He said the services would start soon. The Mayor said 70 per cent of the work
had already been done.
Kumaon Briefs
Metalling of Haldwani-Kaladhungi road: A detail project report on the metalling of the Haldwani-Kaladhungi road has been sent to the Uttarakhand Government. The project will be financed by Asian Development Bank (ADB). Ghansyam Bansal, Director of the ADB (Dehradun unit, said the work was likely to start by November.
Sanitation drive launched in Haldwani:The Haldwani Municipal Corporation has launched a sanitation campaign, wherein safai karamcharis will now visit all residential areas to collect garbage. Meanwhile, it has also decided to include 70 villages from surrounding areas of the city. Stir in support of landless farmers:The UKD unit of Khatima will launch an agitation in favour of landless farmers in the area after July 25. Chairman of the party’s Central Parliamentary Board Ranjit Vishwakarma alleged that the state had been ignoring farmers. He said it had also issued ID cards to those who did not even participate in the statehood movement. 77 inducted into Sashastra Seema Bal:As many as 77 new recruits were inducted into the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) after the completion of a 43-week basic training course at the Almora training centre, here on Saturday. The DIG (SSB) P Stowadan said these jawans belonged to 15 provinces of the country and would man the Indo-Nepal border. Resentment over mining at tourist spots:Residents of the Lake City have expressed resentment over the increasing pollution and mining at tourist spots. Hindi writer Laxman Singh Bisht “Batrohi” has taken an initiative and written to the Nanital District Magistrate that all garbage in the city was directly going to the Naini lake and polluting it. He has sought his intervention in the matter. Plea to end contractual system:Demanding employment for local youths, residents of villages situated near Almora Magnetite Limited took out a protest rally on Friday and demanded the cancellation of the contractual system in the company and jobs to the affected villagers living near the company. “If the company failed to do so, we will go on an indefinite fast from July 25,” said Pratap Singh, a resident of Jhiroli village. Statehood agitators’ meeting on July 25:Demanding a fair policy to identify statehood agitators, a meeting of the All-Party Statehood Agitators will be held at Jaspur town on July 25. Later, a state-level meeting of the statehood agitators will be held, where further strategy would be chalked out. They also appreciated the state government’s decision to give reservation to statehood agitators in government jobs till 2015 and expressed hope that it would solve their other problems also. (Compiled by BD
Kasniyal)
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