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Two held for rape bid: Two persons were arrested on Thursday for allegedly trying to rape a woman at Sahaspur. They have been identified as Irfan and Faizan, both residents of Sahaspur. According to the complaint filed by the victim’s husband, the two tried to rape the woman near her house. However, she managed to escape. They also warned the complainant of dire consequences. A case under sections 376, 511 and 506 of the IPC has been registered against the two at the Sahaspur police station.Jumbo kills rly employee: An elephant killed a railway employee in the Rishikesh area on Wednesday night. Jagdish was on night duty when the tragedy happened. He had left for the inspection of the railway track when an elephant attacked him. The elephant banged him repeatedly on the earth resulting into his death. State lad shines in tennis tourney: Dhruvpal of Uttarakhand entered boys’ under-14 final of the National Super Series Tennis Tournament being held in Guwahati. He paired Kolkata’s Richi Agarwal in the boys doubles under-16 to enter the final. The other players of the state are also doing well in the tournament, said Arun Kumar Saxena, office secretary, Uttaranchal Tennis Association.
Kumaon Briefs
Community radio broadcast: The community radio centre opened by the GB Pant university of Agriculture, Panatnagar, meant to communicate the latest agriculture technology to the farmers, will start its broadcast from the next month. The radio station, opened with the help of Bharat Electronics, Bangalore, is ready to be functional. “The agricultural programmes to be broadcast from the centre would be available three times a day and could be listened to within a 20-km radius of the university,” said Shivendra Kumar Kasyap, Director of the centre.
LPG supply to Ramnagar resumed:
Long queues were seen at the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) depot in Ramnagar as the supply of the LPG refills could be resumed to the town after two days’ gap. The consumers from the nearby villages have gathered at the depot in large numbers to get refills. “Nearly 650 LPG cylinders are consumed by the town daily but due to the two-day backlog on the part of the Mota Haldu gas plant, the consumer could not get their refills, hence the shortage. But, the supply has been normalised,” said Anand Prakash, in charge of the gas distribution agency. Delay in nod to anti-flood projects:
The low-lying areas of Kashipur, Jaspur and Bazpur towns will have to face the fury of floods this year as well due to the delay in clearance by the Ganga Basin Authority to the projects to tame the Dhela, Feeka and Lewara rivers. “Under the Rs 205-crore projects, coffer dams will be built and boulder pitching work done along these rivers so that dozens of villages are saved from the fury of floods every year,” said Prashant Vishnoi, Executive Engineer of the Irrigation Department. Bageshwar-Kapkot road opened:
After remaining closed for six days, the Bageshwar-Kapkot road was opened by the workers of the PWD on Wednesday, providing people from Kapkot to the district headquarters. “The road, which had remained closed at Jhatquali since July 22, had caused great inconvenience to the people who were dependent on this road for the supply of essential goods to the area,” said a district administration spokesman. The road was opened with the help of a JCB machine brought here from Haldwani. Students briefed on floriculture:
The Lohaghat Krishi Vigyan Kendra of the GB Pant University of Agriculture, Pantnagar, has now started a campaign to imbibe the tendency of floriculture among schoolchildren by inviting them to their flower nursery situated at Sui village. “We have also briefed the students of DAV Public School, who came in large numbers to the nursery, on how to earn a living by cultivating flowers besides vegetable cultivation,” said Dr SP Singh, Director of the centre. Kargil war soldier felicitated:
The Local Taxi Operators Union at Champawat felicitated the lone Kargil war survivor from the district at a function held on Wednesday. Dan Singh Mehta, a retired soldier who fought the Kargil war, was honoured with a shawl and a citation by the taxi union office-bearers, according to Gopal Singh Bhandari, president of the union. (Compiled by BD
Kasniyal)
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