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Now, Rao Inderjeet questions land acquisition policy
Gurgaon MP, Capt Yadav bury the hatchet
Teachers not to retire in mid-session
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Move to tighten drug rules will misfire: Chemists
Chandigarh, July 31 The Union Government’s move to amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, and insert a new schedule HX to prevent misuse of antibiotics has not gone down well with chemists.
2 youths shot dead in Rohtak market
Beauty parlour owner held for duping shopkeepers
HSGPC to contest all 11 SGPC seats
May 17 accord not kept, alleges teachers’ body
Poor Condition of Ratauli Road
Cut-off date for job applicants’ age mixed up
ACQUISITION OF LAND
Pension arrears to be cleared by Aug 10
Tributes paid to Udham Singh
7 booked for duping villager of Rs 29.4 lakh
Armed men hack girl to death
Youth held on rape charge in Karnal
Private hospital sealed
Haryana STET on Sept 24, 25
24 nakas set up to nab chain snatchers
HC orders fresh postmortem
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Now, Rao Inderjeet questions land acquisition policy
Gurgaon, July 31 AICC general secretary in charge of Haryana affairs BK Hariprasad could not help commenting on the coming together of the titans considered opposed to each other. During his address, he exhorted the Congress men and others in the gathering to work cohesively. He supported Rao Inderjeet’s demand for the constitution of Gurgaon Development Authority (GDA) and promised to make efforts to get it fulfilled. Congress MP and co-in charge of Haryana affairs Tara Chand Bhagora congratulated Rao Inderjeet for the success of the rally and for his efforts in getting party-supported candidates made Mayor and his deputies. The rally had been organised to felicitate the Congress-supported Mayor, his team and councillors of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG). Coming down heavily on the state leadership, he pointed out that a development plan for the Gurgaon area had been made till 2032, which meant that a major chunk of agricultural land would be acquired by then. The MP questioned the motive behind mitigating the agricultural land of the area and demanded that at least the wards of the landowners on whose land industries were coming up should be given jobs in those, making them partners in progress. He urged the party’s central leaders, present on the occasion, to back the demand of South Haryana’s people for the setting up of a state/regional university here. Rao Inderjeet lamented that Gurgaon contributed nearly 50 per cent revenue to the state exchequer, but it lagged way behind even in development of basic civil infrastructure and other public amenities. |
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Gurgaon MP, Capt Yadav bury the hatchet
Chandigarh, July 31 Though there had been a growing talk of improved relations between the two over the last few months that the ice had thawed was evident when Rao Inderjeet Singh extended an invitation for the “samman rally” to Capt Yadav and the latter accepted it. The two leaders are very upbeat about this “new found love” and maintain that it will be to the advantage of southern Haryana as also to the Ahirwal belt, which has not been given its due in the past. Rao Inderjeet Singh told TNS that this “friendship” would benefit the entire southern region. “We have decided to sink all our differences and clear the air of any misunderstanding of the past to move ahead and give our region a voice so that development can flow in,” he stated. Maintaining that all projects, which had so far come to southern Haryana were essentially centrally sponsored, he said the two leaders were keen on getting a share in the state-sponsored projects as well. Underplaying the animosity and cold war between him and Yadav, the MP said all that was behind them. Capt Yadav confirmed after the rally that the “misunderstandings” that divided the two leaders in the past were over and they stand united now. |
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Teachers not to retire in mid-session
Jhajjar, July 31 She said teachers would now retire at the end of the session on March 31. Teachers whose retirement was scheduled in the middle of the session would be reemployed till the end of the academic session. Besides, the quality of midday meal was being improved and the government had provided gas burners and pressure cookers in schools to provide fresh and nutritious food to students. Bhukkal said the government had released Rs 6 crore as interest on the outstanding various social security pension dues like old-age allowance, pension to widows and destitute women, cash assistance to destitute children and eunuchs and allowance to Kashmiri migrants. She said commerce and science classes were being started in 10+1 and 10+2 schools where at least 60 students wanted to study these subjects. “These streams will be started in 300 such schools from this session. The District Education Officers have been directed to take the services of retired science and mathematics teachers on a prescribed honorarium,” said
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Move to tighten drug rules will misfire: Chemists
Chandigarh, July 31 An organisation of the chemists has given a call for a bandh tomorrow. However, the Haryana State Chemists and Druggists Association (HSCDA) has decided not to participate in the bandh to avoid inconvenience to patients. But the HSCDA is as much opposed to the move as the All-India Chemists and Druggists Federation (AICDF), which has given the bandh call. A member of the executive committee of the All-India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), Sanjiv Goyal, said here today that the move would not serve its stated purpose and would affect the availability of life-saving antibiotics to a large section the population severely. The HSCDA is affliated with the AIOCD. President of the HSCDA Ramesh Khurana said his organisation appreciated the government’s concern over the misuse of antibiotics. But it was equally concerned about the implementation and impact of the government’s move. He said the government had framed Schedule HX following reports of super bug but it had not addressed the main cause of misuse of antibiotics and had found a scapegoat in the chemists. Schedule HX has put 16 antibiotics in Part A to be supplied directly by the manufacturers to tertiary care hospitals. Part B has 74 drugs and formulations, which can be sold by the chemists against the prescription of a registered medical practitioner (RMP) in duplicate. A copy of the prescription is to be retained by the chemists for two years. Any chemists violating the law would be punished with a fine up to Rs 20,000 and/or imprisonment of two years. Goyal said the government had not taken into account various factors like unavailability of RMPs in rural areas. Even the President of India admitted in her speech at a Medical Council of India function that most of the doctors were unwilling to work in the rural areas. Similar observations were made by the Supreme Court in the Subhsakhi case. |
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Non-screening of ‘Khap’ film in Haryana
Karnal, July 31 The film could not be screened in Haryana cinema halls as the owners feared violence and, in fact, it was the failure of the government to provide adequate security and instill confidence among the theatre owners, Seema said, for whom life has come to a halt. “This is another glaring example of high-handedness of powerful khap leaders that the government is afraid of taking any action against them and the people can well understand what will be the fate of young lovers in their hands,” she lamented. Seema said the khap leaders were arguing that the screening of the film would tarnish the image of khaps and added that they were themselves sullying their image by not allowing screening of the film by openly issuing threats. “They talk of traditions and culture but why don’t they oppose screening of vulgar films which are destroying our culture. Instead they are targeting a film like ‘Khap’ based on a relevant social theme,” she said. The producer of the film has demonstrated courage in exposing the “truth” behind “khaps and honour killings” but the khap leaders did not want the youth to know the truth, she added. Accusing the leaders of amassing wealth, she said they had no time to look into the problems of the people and added that it was unfortunate that the “mindset” of the people had not changed. Construction of roads and bridges and other developmental works would not ensure dignity and security of people and change in the old mindset was required to stop honour killings, she observed. Chandrapati, widowed mother of Manoj, said the killing of Manoj and Babli had been shown in the film and everyone should see it. “Non-screening of the film in Haryana is failure of law and order and has exposed how powerful the khaps are and how helpless the government is in dealing with them.” |
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2 youths shot dead in Rohtak market
Rohtak, July 31 The accused is reported to have been well known to the victims and is stated to have a dispute over the property business with them. The police has booked a case but no arrest has been made so far. According to police sources and eyewitnesses, the incident took place around 10.30 am when three youths, riding a motorcycle, reached the market in connection with some work. Panic erupted after cries and gunfire shots as one of the youths, who was later identified as Naveen and who was riding pillion on the mobike, took out a revolver all of a sudden and opened fire on the other two, Virender Kumar and Sashi Kant, identified as his friends and partners in a property business, said the police. The fire was opened from a close range and both the victims died before they could be taken to the PGIMS hospital. While Virender hailed from Bhaini Chanderpal village in the Meham subdivision, Sashi Kant belonged to Ghillaur village of the district. The accused, Naveen, has been a resident of a locality on the Jind road here. The trio had been well known to one another and had shares in a property business for the past several months. Naveen appears to have been nursing a grudge against them over a matter related to work, said the district police chief, Satish Balan. Though Naveen managed to flee, we will arrest him soon, said Balan. Ashok, brother of Virender, told the police that there could be a dispute over share in a property among them and the accused had a verbal spat and arguments with his brother in the recent past and this could be the main reason behind this cold-blooded double murder. |
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Beauty parlour owner held for duping shopkeepers
Sirsa, July 31 The police said that the woman took away artificial jewellery and bridal make-up items from some shops and beauty parlours at Sirsa and Fatehabad on hire basis, but did not return these items. The victims had lodged separate complaints with the police in this regard. She was later identified by the police on the basis of the footage of CCTV cameras installed at a shop in the local Mohta Market, from where Kiran allegedly hired an artificial jewellery set worth Rs 36,000 and did not return. Kiran was produced before a local court today, where she was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days. Speaking to mediapersons in the court today, Kiran denied having duped anyone“My husband Sartaj is a drug addict and is under treatment in a drug de-addiction centre. I did not intend to keep anyone’s articles with me. Only, the return has been delayed due to my circumstances,” Kiran maintained before
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HSGPC to contest all 11 SGPC seats
Sirsa, July 31 Jagdish Singh Jhinda, president of the HSGPC (Ad hoc), Malkiat Singh Josan, Sukhwinder Singh Khalsa, president of the Haryana Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Sabha, and several other Sikh leaders deliberated on the future course of action at a meeting in the local Gurdwara Chilla Sahib today. “We have divided the 11 Haryana seats into two zones for the purpose of the elections. The western zone includes one seat from Sirsa, one from Dabwali and two seats from Hisar (one reserved for women). Similarly, the eastern zone has two seats of Ambala (one reserved for SC), two from Yamunanagar (one reserved for women) and one each from Karnal, Kurukshetra and Kaithal,” said Jhinda after the meeting. the HSGPC (Ad hoc) constituted a seven-member committee for the selection of candidates for two seats of Sirsa district and also announced a five-member committee to suggest candidates for the two seats in Hisar. Jhinda said the committees would submit their list in the first week of August. |
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May 17 accord not kept, alleges teachers’ body
Kurukshetra, July 31 A delegation led by president Pradeep Chauhan and general secretary Attar Singh called on MS Chopra, principal OSD to the Chief Minister, and submitted a memorandum to the CM, seeking his intervention. An emergency meeting of the HFUCTO state executive would be convened shortly to draw up a strategy to get the pending demands accepted, Prof Pradeep Chauhan said. The government representatives had agreed to implement all demands on May 17 last but the July 20 notification was a gross violation of the agreement, he asserted. The major issues involved were advance increments at the entry level as per UGC recommendations for higher educational qualifications like PhD/ M.Phil/M.Tech /LLM, creation of posts of professor in colleges, pay fixation of directly recruited readers and a lecturer’s selection grade as per UGC norms, minimum pay of Rs 43,000 to directly recruited professors and raising the retirement age to 65 years, as recommended by the UGC. The federation leaders rued the delaying tactics and piecemeal approach adopted by the government and said even after two-and-a-half years the demands of university and college teachers had not been accepted. |
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Poor Condition of Ratauli Road
Yamunanagar, July 31 Springfield Public School is located on the Ratauli road, just 1 km from the bypass and the mini-secretariat. Thousands of students, staff and parents ply a minimum of twice a day to the school. The road is dotted with pits. The road running from the main road to Ratauli village has seen an increasing number of accidents because of poor maintenance. It is in such a bad condition that it is unsafe for both pedestrians and drivers. Veena Chopra, Principal of the school, said she was upset at the condition of the road, adding that the management and the school supported the villagers in their agitation for the reconstruction of the road. She alleged that it was due to gross negligence on the part of the administration that the situation had assumed such proportions. The request to reconstruct the road had been made numerous times but, so far, nothing had been done. A member of the school staff said this and many other roads were full of potholes. When it rained, the potholes were filled with muddy water that was splashed over children passing by. They had to go home and change clothes. Some returned late, missing classes, and some did not turn up at all. |
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Cut-off date for job applicants’ age mixed up
Rohtak, July 31 This has been claimed by Subhash Lamba, General Secretary of the Sarv Karamchari Sangh, Haryana (SKS) in a letter written to the department. The authorities concerned ought to rectify the mistake and insert a corrigendum immediately, he added. In the communication addressed to the Technical Education Minister, Haryana, and the Director, Technical Education, Lamba has highlighted that while the advertisement bearing number 1/2011 mentions the age of applicants as not less than 21 years and not more than 40 years, adding that the cut off date has been given as August 1, 2010, while it ought to have been August 1, 2011, as the advertisement has been given recently and not in the past year. If the cut-off date of last year was considered, then a large number of candidates who would be attaining the age between the period of August 1 last and this year would be denied a chance to apply for the posts. He said a large number of applicants fell in this category and they and their parents had approached the offices of the department concerned but no proper assurance had been given or step taken so far to remove the grievance or the glaring mistake at the level of the clerical staff. It is added that this lacuna had been present in the advertisement posted for recruitment against the above posts for the government polytechnic at Manesar of Gurgaon district. A copy of the complaint in this regard has been sent to the Chief Minister, the Financial Commissioner and the Secretary of Technical Education, Haryana. |
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ACQUISITION OF LAND
Sonepat, July 31 The decision to sit on an indefinite dharna was taken unanimously at a meeting of the villagers under the banner of the “Bhoomi Adhigrahan Virodhi Sangharsh Samiti” at the village chaupal last evening after their meeting with the Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, could not be arranged by the MP, Jitender Singh Malik, and the Rai MLA, Jai Tirth, on Saturday. However, some of the families close to the family of Jai Tirth, who is also an original resident of this village, tried to get the dharna postponed, saying that some solution to the issue could be found without staging a dharna but it was not agreed to by other villagers, said the samiti convener, Virender, while talking to The Tribune. Virender said that about 282 acres of land of the villagers was acquired in November 2005 and the award of the acquisition amount was announced in February 2006. However, the land owners refused to accept the award and started an agitation against the acquisition of their land. “If there is any positive response from the government with regard to our demands, the samiti will end the dharna immediately,” he added. Meanwhile, the farmers of Sevli village whose land was also acquired for Rajiv Gandhi Education City also held a meeting in the village today and supported the demands of the farmers of Badkhalsa village. |
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Pension arrears to be cleared by Aug 10
Jind, July 31 There are a total of over 1.33 lakh pensioners in the district at present. According to the Deputy Commissioner, the work on resolving the problem regarding the distribution of pension through the banks had been completed. Stating that he had directed the bank and the agency hired for the work to depute ample staff for help and guidance of the pensioners in the district, he said teams had been deputed to visit villages to carry out pension disbursement on the spot from 12 noon to 7 pm daily. He said of the total amount of about Rs 27 crore received under the pension scheme, Rs 15 crore had already been disbursed among the beneficiaries. Each and every pensioner in the district would be getting the dues by August 10. He said the bank and agency involved in the work had been asked to get the work completed by the due date so that none of the beneficiaries was left without payment. |
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Tributes paid to Udham Singh
Sirsa, July 31 Tanwar was speaking to mediapersons in the Congress Bhawan after a meeting of the district unit of the Congress to pay tributes to martyr Udham Singh on his 71st death anniversary. He said Chautala and his sons had no moral right to remain members of the state legislative assembly after the recent indictment and framing of charges against them in a case involving assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. Later, rich tributes were paid to Udham Singh in a state-level function organised by the Haryana Kamboj Sabha in the local Kapas Mandi today. Tanwar said it was due to the supreme sacrifices made by martyrs like Udham Singh that Indians were able to breathe in the fresh air of independence. Gopi Chand Kamboj said the Kamboj community was proud of its martyr. |
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7 booked for duping villager of Rs 29.4 lakh
Kurukshetra July 31 Suresh Kumar said in his police complaint that he last year met Rampal and his son, Jaikishan, of Garhi Roran village, Inder of of Kolian Khan village in Kaithal district, Jai Prakash and Baldev of Rohtak, Devi Singh of Jind and Anand Kumar of Delhi. They promised Suresh Kumar that they would get a gas agency allotted to him. He paid the said amount to them. However, he could not get a gas agency even after months. Suresh Kumar alleged all seven persons repeatedly assured him that they would try their best to get him a gas agency but if they failed to do so, they would get his son appointed as a ticket collector in the Railways. But, when they failed in their mission, Suresh Kumar demanded his money. Instead of returning the money, they threatened to eliminate him, he alleged. A case has been registered. |
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Armed men hack girl to death
Panipat, July 31 Kala, a resident of Pashuram Colony, along with his accomplices descended on the house of Raj Kumar and attacked them with swords. The grievous injuries proved fatal for Rani, Raj Kumar’s daughter. Her father, Raj Kumar (32), grandmother Santosh (46) and grandfather Jagat Singh (50) sustained serious injuries. According to the police, Raj Kumar and Kala had old animosity and the two had a fight at the shop owned by the former in Bhagat Nagar yesterday. Kala along with 12 other persons later reached Raj Kumar’s house and attacked his family. Though a number of neighbours assembled outside Raj Kumar’s house, none could muster courage to intervene. The attackers fled from the scene before the police reached the spot. Rani, her father, grandmother and grandfather were rushed to the Civil Hospital where Rani was declared brought dead while the others were referred to the PGI, Rohtak. The police has booked Kala, Angrej Singh, Billu and Intezzar, among others. Efforts are on to nab
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Youth held on rape charge in Karnal
Karnal, July 31 In her complaint, the girl alleged that she had gone to Janak Singh’s shop for recharge of her mobile where accused Sandeep and another person were present. Sandeep caught hold of her hand and dragged her inside the shop where she was raped while the shopkeeper and the other person went out and locked the shop from outside, the victim alleged Hearing her screams, passerby opened the shop and found Sandeep forcing himself on the girl and beat him up. The other two culprits fled from the scene. The police booked the trio and produced Sandeep in a court, which remanded him in 14-day judicial custody. |
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Private hospital sealed
Hisar, July 31 A spokesperson of the board said here that the local CMC hospital had been issued a notice two weeks ago but despite that it failed to comply with the prescribed norms. The hospital had not been using waste containers of the prescribed colour to segregate different types of bio-medical waste, which has to be disposed of mechanically. He said the sealed rooms could be opened after a written assurance that the norms would be followed. Besides, a penalty of Rs 1lakh would be imposed on the hospital management. The spokesman said similar raids would be conducted on different hospitals in the city to ensure that bio-medical waste was disposed of properly. |
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Haryana STET on Sept 24, 25
Bhiwani, July 31 On September 25, the test would be conducted for the lecturers' category. The application forms for the test would be made available at the board headquarters here and book sellers registered with the board and the District Coordination Centres.
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24 nakas set up to nab chain snatchers
Sirsa, July 31 The “nakas” were functional from 8 to 12 in the morning and from 4 pm till late in the night. Over nine cases of chain snatching have been reported in the city in July, five of these in the last week of the month. |
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HC orders fresh postmortem
Karnal, July 31 Karnal SP Rakesh Arya said Mukesh’s body had been sent to Chandigarh for a post-mortem. As the deceased’s relatives were not satisfied with the first post-mortem, the HC ordered the second post-mortem at the PGI. Meanwhile, the Haryana BJP human rights cell has urged the NHRC to take cognizance of the incident and recommend action against the guilty.
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