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Cong govt shifts focus to Hisar
Engineers demand reallocation of power
Gross irregularities found in BSF Coop Society
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CM to hoist Tricolour in Bhiwani
Officer in dock in eco-cabs case
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award for Hisar scientist
Government employees hold demonstration
Naraingarh Civil Hospital to be upgraded
Land acquisition compensation
Acid attack on girl students
Workshop on basic techniques in biotechnology held
Women’s cell set up in Bahadurgarh
Panipat police for public participation in solving crime
Concern over commercialisation of education
SBoP opens branch in Fatehabad village
Awareness programme on female foeticide
Flesh trade: Five booked in Rewari
Hisar Rotary Club gets first woman president
Rotary Club holds installation ceremony
Land Acquisition Bill will grant relief to farmers: Selja
Anti-terror training programme for cops
40 pc kids malnourished in state: Study
Dowry victim’s family awaits relief to fight case
Now, complain to Gurgaon
MC on Facebook, Twitter
Kandhari criticises Haryana SGPC over college issue
Man concocts loot drama
‘Domain names in regional languages to improve Internet penetration’
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Cong govt shifts focus to Hisar
Hisar, August 1 Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda recently addressed an MNREGA awareness camp here in which villagers, panches, sarpanches and members of the panchayat samitis and zila parishads participated. While ostensibly the exercise was aimed at creating awareness about employment opportunities available to rural labourers in their own villages, the real purpose was to mobilise rural masses and win their support for the forthcoming byelection. Hooda is also scheduled to address a rally here later this week. Again, even though the rally is officially dedicated to memory of industrialist-turned-politician the late Om Parkash Jindal, the Chief Minister is expected to announce a series of development projects for the area. Recently, the government released funds for several projects for different assembly constituencies included in the Hisar Lok Sabha seat area. These projects had been announced by Hooda during his recent visits here. These include: Nalwa - Rs 10 crore, Uklana - Rs 2 crore, Barwala - Rs 5 crore, Adampur - Rs 10 crore, Hansi - Rs 5 crore and Hisar city - Rs 2 crore. All these projects would be completed within a few months. In addition for Hisar city, a Southern Bypass would be constructed at a cost of Rs 50 crore which will help ease traffic congestion in the city. The project estimated to cost Rs 50 crore will be completed in 18 months. The bypass will be 20 km long. The Congress leaders of the district, especially local legislator Savitri Jindal and her son Naveen Jindal, MP from Kurukshetra, have been touring the area for the past week or so to canvass support for the August 6 rally.
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Engineers demand reallocation of power
In a letter to the Union Power Ministry, Shailendra Dubey, general secretary of the federation, stated that the northern states were paying heavy penalty in lieu of unscheduled interchange (UI) charges paid for overdrawing power from the grid to meet power demands due to less allocation of power. While private discoms in Delhi were earning huge money by simply surrendering the surplus power allocated to them. He said during 2010-11, the Delhi discoms earned Rs 764.41 crore by surrendering surplus power allocated to them and that even without generating a single unit. On the other hand, states like Haryana, Punjab, UP and Rajasthan ended up paying heavy penalties. As per the official figures, Haryana topped the charts by paying Rs 1,133.72 crore as UI charges, UP paid Rs 897.62 crore, Rajasthan paid Rs 880.37 crore and Punjab deposited Rs 521.03 crore. Even small states like Uttarakhand had to pay paid Rs 176.89 crore on account of UI charges. Figures showed that Delhi had a surplus of 24,698 lakh units (LU) during 2010-11 while Haryana overdrew 32,325 LU, Rajasthan overdrew 25,682 LU, UP 15,283 LU and Punjab 9,252 LU as the power allocation to these states is far less than that of Delhi. Dubey said all northern states had been allocated less power while Delhi had been allocated 5,000 MW of surplus power, which was much more than its requirement. He said the private discoms in Delhi were earning huge profits by surrendering extra power allocated to them while the northern states were being forced to shell out hefty amounts for overdrawing power. He said the federation had requested the Union Government to issue directions for the reallocation of power in the northern region so that no utilities could earn money regularly by simply surrendering power.
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Gross irregularities found in BSF Coop Society
Gurgaon, August 1 A complaint had been made by Raj Singh Phogat and other residents against a former president of the society. Chief Parliamentary Secretary Prahlad Singh Gillakhera directed the constitution of a committee under the chairmanship of the SDM for taking immediate measures in this regard. Manoj maintained that prima facie, it had been had found that certain officials of the Cooperative Societies Department worked allegedly in collusion with Rajesh Puri and others builders. He alleged that the expensive land of the society had been sold off illegally to the GTM builders and gross irregularities like not depositing the membership fee into the society’s accounts, constructing a higher number of flats than allowed, selling of area for car-parking, illegal selling of space for shopping complex, non-construction of community centre and EWS flats, constructing 11 towers instead of seven, printing fake letter pads of the society and no treatment of sewerage were found. The CPS said if any government servant was found involved in the said irregularities, the case would be sent to the Vigilance Bureau. Meanwhile, a complaint against the Anupama Engineering College authorities, which were not refunding the fees of a student whose admission had been cancelled, also came up for hearing at the committee meeting. SDM (Pataudi) GL Yadav said the college management had referred to prospectus, which states that fees once deposited could not be refunded in any case. The nominated members objected to it, maintaining that since the college had admitted another student on the same seat, so it was liable to refund the fees of the student, whose candidature had been rejected. Gillakhera said nominated member Ravinder Jain would look into the matter and if the complaint was found to be true, legal action would be taken against the college authorities. A total of 18 complaints were put up before the committee.
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CM to hoist Tricolour in Bhiwani
Chandigarh, August 1 An official spokesperson said the Speaker, Haryana Vidhan Sabha, Kuldip Sharma, would hoist the National Flag in Rohtak while Deputy Speaker Akram Khan would unfurl the National Flag in Panchkula. He said Finance Minister Harmohinder Singh Chattha would unfurl the National Flag in Karnal, Power Minister Capt. Ajay Singh Yadav in Sirsa, Industries Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala in Fatehabad, Revenue Minister Mahender Pratap Singh in Gurgaon, Public Health Engineering Minister Kiran Chaudhary in Palwal and Agriculture Minister Paramvir Singh in Jind, Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal in Sonipat, Health Minister Rao Narender Singh in Faridabad and Cooperation Minister Satpal Sangwan in Narnaul. He said Minister of State for Labour and Employment Shiv Charan Lal Sharma would hoist the National Flag in Nuh (Mewat), Minister of State for Urban Local Bodies Gopal Kanda in Kaithal and Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs Sukhbir Kataria in Ambala. Among chief parliamentary secretaries, Anita Yadav would hoist the National Flag in Kurukshetra, Rao Dan Singh in Panipat, Dharambir Singh in Rewari, Jaivir Balmiki in Yamunanagar, Jaleb Khan in Dadri, Prahalad Singh Gillankhera in Narwana, Ram Kishan Fauji in Bahadurgarh, Sharda Rathore in Shahabad, Sultan Singh in Barara, Ram Kishan in Kharkhoda and Vinod Bhayana in Jhajjar. He said in case any of the ministers could not reach at the designated place on the day, the National Flag would be hoisted by the deputy commissioner concerned. He said the National Flag would also be hoisted atop all government buildings.
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Officer in dock in eco-cabs case
Chandigarh, August 1 The directions by Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ajay Tewari came after the Bench was informed that the state’s response was not too serious towards The Bench observed that it had asked the authorities on March 25 to get in touch with Navdeep Aseeja of the Graduate Welfare Association in Fazilka for taking advantage of his viewpoint on the issue of introducing eco-rickshaws. The spacious rickshaws are 25 per cent lighter than the existing models. Aseeja informed theBench that the Director, Urban Bodies, did call representatives of his organisation. But due to lack of seriousness, Haryana did not encourage his representatives. They were not given the impression that effective steps would be taken by the state. Chandigarh too was granted time to seek appropriate instructions on the introduction of an eco-rickshaw scheme.
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Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award for Hisar scientist
Hisar, August 1 This is the highest award given by the ICAR for notable research work in agricultural and allied sciences. It carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and a citation. The award was presented to Dr Singh by Union Minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar. Dr Singh has contributed significantly towards the development of a number of vaccines and diagnostic tests, assays and kits. He has also been instrumental in generating baseline data on sero and molecular epidemiology, sheep pox, goat pox, buffalo pox, camel pox, equine influenza, glanders and equine infectious anaemia. The vaccines and diagnostics developed by him and the data he has generated will immensely help strategise and launching national programmes on control and eradication of goat pox, sheep pox and buffalo pox. The technology will help minimise the use of both capital and human resources. Development of the thermo-resistant PPR vaccines will benefit a large number of animals.
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Government employees hold demonstration
Rewari, August 1 While Sube Singh, state general secretary of the JEM, presided over the rally, state JEM chief Kartar Singh Malik, its working president Rajender Singh Rathi, its state chairman Ram Kishan Nagar, state president of the Village Chowkidars’ Sabha, Punjab Singh, state vice-president of the Anganwari Workers and Helpers Union, Pushpa Dalal, Raj Bala Chauhan, Krishna Yadav Santosh Dhillon and several other functionaries prominently addressed the rally. Flaying the state government for its lackadaisical approach towards the longstanding demands of the employees, they sought the regularisation of services of all provisional employees, cessation of proceedings to privatise various government departments, revocation of the PPP Scheme, withdrawal of the new pension policy, payment of minimum monthly salary through treasury and official recognition as government employees to Anganwari, Asha and Mid-Day Meal workers, Village and DTH chowkidars, implementation of the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission on the pattern of the Union government and disbursement of a monthly educational allowance of Rs 1,000 to all government and semi-government employees. Later, they marched from Rao Tula Ram Park, the venue of the rally, to the district secretariat where they submitted a memorandum to the district administration that was addressed to the Chief Minister.
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Naraingarh Civil Hospital to be upgraded
Naraingarh (Ambala), August 1 Disclosing this here recently, Ram Kishan Gujjar, the local legislator and the Chief Parliamentary Secretary, said he had personally followed up the matter of improvement in health care services with Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. He said as a consequence of these, the Chief Minister had sanctioned this grant. Official sources here disclosed that the government had sanctioned the grant for strengthening of basic infrastructure in the hospital which had been in a dilapidated state for quite sometime. Talking to The Tribune, Ram Parkash, senior medical officer, said the hospital would now be provided with modern equipments. He said an ultrasound machine would be installed in the hospital soon. All toilets in the hospital would also be made functional. It is also proposed to change electric wires as fittings needed urgent replacement and repair. He said the hospital had a good team of efficient doctors and the number of OPD patients had registered a steep increase by 110 per cent and the number of pregnancy cases had become double during the past one year. He said the hospital had a team of 11 doctors and it had treated 9,002 patients in OPD during June this year as compared to 4,278 patients during the same month previous year. Some patients complained that their attendants were put to great difficulty as all the lavatories in the hospital were either not working or in a bad shape. Additionally, there was no arrangement for the stay of attendants of patients admitted to the indoor wards of the hospital. In the given circumstances, attendants were forced to stay put in the indoor wards itself and they were prone to infections from there.
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Land acquisition compensation
Chandigarh, August 1 The significant directions expected to benefit farmers and other landowners were issued by Justice Permod Kohli while taking up a petition filed by Deep Chand and eight other residents of Kaithal. In their petition for punishing land acquisition collector Satish Bhardwaj and two other respondents, the petitioners had alleged that the general directions issued by the High Court vide order dated September 15 last year stood violated. The petitioners also sought directions for the initiation of proceedings under the provisions of the Contempt of Court Act against the respondents “for not releasing the amount illegally deducted as the TDS out of the enhanced compensation, despite High Court directions”. Going into the background of the matter, the petitioners had added that their land was acquired for the development of green belt in sectors 19 and 20 in Kaithal. Dictating the orders in the open court, Justice Kohli observed apparently the payments were being made in pursuance to the issuance of notice in the contempt petitions. Describing it as “unfortunate”, Justice Kohli asserted the respondents were forcing the beneficiaries of the judgment to come to the court by initiating contempt of court proceedings. Issuing notice to the respondents to show cause why proceedings under the Contempt of Courts Act should not be initiated against them, Justice Kohli also directed that the benefit of the judgment by refunding the amount be granted to all the beneficiaries of the verdict, and other similarly placed persons. Before parting with the case, Justice Kohli also fixed August 23 as the next date of hearing in the matter, when the respondents would file their replies to defend their alleged action of not passing on the benefits of the judgment to the beneficiaries.
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Acid attack on girl students
Rohtak, August 1 CPM Haryana state secretary Inderjit Singh has expressed anguish over police inaction in not arresting the culprits who threw acid on three girl students in Rohtak on June 18. In a letter to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, he has complained against the district officials for showing utter insensitivity in dealing with the most heinous crime of throwing acid on schoolgirls in which one of the girls has received severe burn injuries. The CPM leader has regretted that no senior official or elected representative displayed minimum courtesy by visiting the injured in hospital or extending financial assistance for their treatment. Conveying his resentment, he said laxity on part of the police was deplorable when the culprits had been identified by one of the victims. He has also urged upon the Chief Minister to ensure free treatment of the injured girls in the best hospital of the state. “The lack of action against the accused is a failure of law and order machinery,” said Raj Singh Hooda, a local resident and a social activist here. He said the police should be more alert on the issues related to crime against women. Raj Kumar Kapoor of the local unit of the BJP has also condemned the delay in the arrest of the accused.
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Workshop on basic techniques in biotechnology held
Sirsa, August 1 Dr RP Bajpai, a former vice-chancellor of Kurukshetra University and presently director general MM University, Mullana, was the chief guest and Dr KC Bhardwaj, vice-chancellor of Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, presided over the inaugural function. In this workshop, 12 resource persons, including one from New Mexico, US, delivered lectures on the latest topics, including stem cells, nanotechnology, RNAi technology, plant transformation technology, bioinformatics, evolution and phylogenetic analysis, nutraceutical and functional foods. Dr Rattan Tiwari, principal scientist, DWR, Karnal, Dr Sudhir Kumar Sharma, professor, Department of Bioinformatics, CCSHAU, Hisar, Dr PK Pati, reader and chairperson, Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Dr JS Rana, professor, Department of Biotechnology, Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal (Sonepat), Dr RK Jethi, a former professor, Department of Biotechnology, Ambala College of Engineering and Applied Research, Devsthali, Ambala, Dr DS Arora, professor, Department of Microbiology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Dr Prem Singh Yadav, principal scientist, CIRB, Hisar, Dr DS Sogi, associate professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Dr Ashok Malik, Department of Chemistry, Punjabi University, Patiala, Dr Manda Clair Jost, professor, Department of Natural Sciences, New Mexico, US, presently, Fulbright-Nehru Fellow at KU, Kurukshetra, Dr SK Bhat, senior scientist, NRCPB, IARI, New Delhi, and Dr Sriniwasan, senior scientist, NRCPB, IARI, Delhi, were resource persons in the workshop. As many as 19 participants - Sanju Bala, Dr RK Salar, Dr Priyanka Siwach, Dr Dharmender Rathee, Dr Surekha, Dr JS Duhan, Dr Neeraj Kumar, Dr Maninder Kaur, Dr Kushal Bala, Dr Kawaljeet Singh Sandhu, Dr Sudhir Kumar Kataria, Dr Baljeet Singh Saharan, Dr Anil Kumar Chhillar, Dr Vikash Hooda, Dr Akhilesh Kumar, Jagmesh Jakhar, Manju Nehra, Vijay Singh and Dr Vinay Lather - attended the workshop. The latest technique for the detection of bacterial and viral pathogens through the loop mediated isothermal amplification was shown to them. It is one of the latest techniques in molecular biology and this department was one of the few departments in the world to standardise and develop this technique, said Prof SK Gahlawat, chairperson of the Biotechnology Department of the host university. Biotechnology was currently being used in many areas, but the main applications of biotechnology were animal biotechnology, bioinformatics, plant biotechnology, microbial biotechnology and food biotechnology. Biotechnology had opened up new areas where microorganisms could be exploited for the production of industrially important biochemicals. The microbial biotechnology component of the training was specially designed to train the participants in the latest microbial techniques. In plant biotechnology, the participants learned the protocols for in vitro propagation of plants like Peepal and Kinoo. Dr JS Yadav, a former dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, was the chief guest on valedictory functions and distributed the certificates among the participants. Dr Vikram Singh, a former dean, Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering, presided over the function.
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Women’s cell set up in Bahadurgarh
Bahadurgarh (Jhajjar), August 1 As per information, a woman police official of sub-inspector level will head the cell along with six other women officials so that cases concerning atrocities against women could be sorted out at the earliest. The cell will work under the guidance and supervision of Bahadurgarh DSP Rajeev Deswal who will also assist the cell staff to dispose of the cases in an efficient manner. Earlier, the complainants had to waste their time visiting the Jhajjar police headquarters which is nearly 25 km from this town. Moreover, the complainants had to take rounds of Jhajjar to be present before the women cell on every hearing of the case. The exercise caused unnecessary harassment to the complainants, who also had to spend extra money in the shape of bus fares for reaching Jhajjar to attend the hearing. “The setting up of the cell in Bahadurgarh will benefit a large numbers of woman complainants who have been making rounds of Jhajjar for getting justice,” said Santosh, a complainant. DSP Deswal said besides the women cell, a separate cyber cell was also being established at Bahadurgarh. “Similarly, the demand for setting up of a separate cyber cell at Bahadurgarh town was being raised for a long time. Being located on the border of Delhi-Haryana states, mobile phones are usually used by anti-social elements to perpetrate criminal activities in both the states, said the DSP, adding that now the Bahadurgarh police officials would be able to utilise their time in investigating cases which got lapsed in ferrying information about the mobile number and location of the criminals.
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Panipat police for public participation in solving crime
Panipat, August 1 Revealing this, district police chief Pankaj Nain said a need was felt to seek public support in dealing with crime following which it had been decided to constitute public committees. The committee would also make certain that public sensitivities were not effected due to any police action, he said. The committee comprising representatives of the general public would not only discuss a number of sensitive issues with the police but also give its opinions in solving important cases of crime, the SSP said. He said prominent public figures, who are not affiliated to any political party, would be entrusted the task of making suggestions to the police, which would also help improve the image of the department. He said it was being expected that through this initiative, the department would be able to promote the trust of the general public and also get their help in solving the crime cases. According to experts, in a country where public opinion is considered to be of great importance, the step is likely to go a long way in enabling the department work in tandem with those for whom it works. They said the police was one such department which could not disagree with the public opinion and thus the committees would pave the way for healthy interaction between the police and the public.
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Concern over commercialisation of education
Kurukshetra, August 1 Speaking on “Excellence Models for Teachers in a Changing Economic Scenario” at the orientation programme at UGC Academic Staff College here, he said there was a need to promote healthy reaction to individualism and materialism, emerging as dominant trend of modern education and re-conceive the process of education. “Education is not merely an instrument to provide jobs but a continuous activity that nurtures the growth of the mind and the spirit and as such the educational value of education is more important than economical value,” he stressed. Prof Goel said he was pained to say that spiritual bankruptcy and the commercialisation of education were the root causes of deterioration in educational standards in India, which was a serious issue of concern for “polluting relationship” between the teacher and the student. He admitted that teachers were also responsible to some extent for eroding the faith and confidence in the Indian education system.
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SBoP opens branch in Fatehabad village
Fatehabad, August 1 AK Sareen, assistant general manager, and Harish Khurana, manager of the Fatehabad branch of the bank, were present on the occasion. Visweswaraiah said it was the 1,017th branch of the bank in the country, 164th in Haryana and ninth in the district. He said it was a rural branch with all kind of banking facilities. The bank opened over 100 accounts on the the first day of its opening, added
Khurana.
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Awareness programme on female foeticide
Jhajjar, August 1 “The decline in sex ratio has become a big social problem. Hence, there is a need to make people aware of the laws to check the illegal practice. Adequate steps must be taken in this regard,” said Vikas Yadav. Sarla Devi said instead of waiting for a law, women should come forward to raise a voice against the evil practice in her different roles as a daughter, mother and a mother-in-law. “As a daughter, she can nourish the perception of the family. As a mother, she would give priority to the birth of female in the family and as a mother-in-law, she would not only denounce dowry, but also support her daughter-in-law’s decision to bear a girl child,” she said, adding that women should fight for their rights in a proper manner. Dr Chitar Lekha, in charge of the legal literacy cell, said if female foeticide was not eliminated in time, it would pose a serious threat to society. “Female foeticide harms society as it not only puts the nation to shame but also causes a decline in the female birth rate,” said Sudrashna Rathi, associate professor, adding that the campaign had been launched to motivate the people for rooting out the social evil. Giving a note of caution, Neeru Rohila, associate professor, said if the unhealthy trend continued, it would change the demographic composition of society which would give rise to many problems. She exhorted the people to come forward against the evil that had assumed alarming proportions. College students, Saarika, Monika and Divya, also expressed their views and called upon the students to fight against female foeticide for rooting it out from society. “Girls can also do better than sons in every field if they are given proper opportunities for proving themselves, but it is unfortunate that most girls become a victim of gender discrimination,” Saarika said, adding that the time had come that this orthodox approach must be changed.
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Flesh trade: Five booked in Rewari
Rewari, August 1 Police sources said a girl (16) of Purnea district in Bihar, who was lured allegedly by a family acquaintance Jul Mohammad and his accomplice Amal, was brought to Dharuhera on July 26. She was then sold for flesh trade for Rs 1.20 lakh to Raj Kumar and his wife Anita who kept the girl confined in their rented accommodation at Dharuhera. However, the girl somehow managed to get out of their confinement on July 30 after which the Dharuhera police swung into action. On her statement, the police registered a case and then got her statement recorded in a local court on July 31 after which the girl was sent to Nari Niketan at Karnal. Prior to this, she was also medically examined here. Meanwhile, ASI Sanjay Kumar, investigation officer of the case, informed that efforts were on to nab the culprits.
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Hisar Rotary Club gets first woman president
Hisar, August 1 Rotary International District 3090 governor Amjad Ali, who was the chief guest of the ceremony, installed the new team. Congratulating the new office-bearers, he urged Rotarians to serve the humanity following the principles of Paul Percival Harris, the founder of Rotary International. He said this year’s Rotary International theme was “Reach within to embrace humanity”. Bhandari said the club would go all the way to implement new social service projects keeping in mind the theme of Rotary International.
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Rotary Club holds installation ceremony
Ambala, July 31 Sudesh Bhanot, wife of the newly elected president Ramesh Bhanot, inaugurated the function. Senior office-bearers of the club Adish Jain, KK Khurana, Naresh Aggarwal, Vijay Uppal, KS Walia and MM Maini welcomed the former district governor. Former secretary of the club Vijay Uppal presented the annual report. Former president of the club MC Gupta presented rotary symbol to the newly elected president Ramesh Bhanot. While addressing the Rotarian, Lakshmi Sagar said the Rotary Club had become the symbol of service throughout the world. He said Rotarian should come forward to serve society at every level. —
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Land Acquisition Bill will grant relief to farmers: Selja
Ambala, August 1 She said the proposed compensation and provisions in the Bill would ensure the farmers’ survival especially in UP where Rahul Gandhi had to launch padyatra in their rescue recently. She said the National Food Security Bill and the Lokpal Bill would also be tabled in this Parliament session. It would also grant a relief to common people. She said the UPA government was committed to fight against the corruption. Replying to a question she said it was a shame on the part of BS Yeddyurappa to stick to the chair despite the Lokayukta’s verdict indicting him in the mining scam. She said the BJP never cared for moral values otherwise Yeddyurappa had stepped down immediately. On the other hand the Congress had always taken such matter seriously. —
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Anti-terror training programme for cops
Madhuban (Karnal), August 1 Police officers from the US were specially invited as instructors for the course which was completed successfully. As many as 17 officers benefitted from the programme. Chief guest BS Sandhu, ADGP (law and order), described terrorism as a challenge not only for India but also for the entire world and said the Indian police had accepted the challenge. “The indomitable spirit of our security forces and the strength of our democracy have defeated the evil desires of the terrorists and it is a matter of pride for the Haryana Police for being selected by the Home Ministry to impart training on an important issue like terrorism,” he said. Inaugurating the event, Sudhir Chowdhary, director, Haryana Police Academy, highlighted that India and the US were two great democracies of the world and faced with many similar challenges, including that of terrorism, and therefore, their police officers must learn from the best practices prevalent in their respective countries. He admired the initiative of the MHA and the BPRD in starting such programmes and said the programme was one small step in that direction. Shrikant Jadhav, DIG, said by providing training to Haryana police officers, the Bureau of Police Research and Development had expressed faith in its training facilities. The programme was coordinated by Shashi Kant Sharma, district attorney, Haryana Police Academy. Darbara Singh, DIG, CRPF, presented the report on this training programme on behalf of the participants. NC Joshi, a former director of the Bureau of Police Research and Development, was also present.
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40 pc kids malnourished in state: Study
Sirsa, August 1 The analysis on nutritional status of children shows that in all sample villages, more than half of the children are suffering from low height vis-à-vis age (stunting) and low weight vis-à-vis age (wasting). As far as weight for height (wasting) is concerned, about 40 per cent were found malnourished in Haryana. In her report, Dr Rajeshwari has studied the nutritional status of children, adolescent girls and married women in the age group of 15 to 49. “As it is known that the agricultural scenario in Haryana has undergone a drastic change and the state now contributes significantly to the national food stock, it is really shocking to find through the national family health surveys that about half of children in 1 to 3 years of age group are undernourished,” she says. In the present study, the nutritional levels of children, adolescent girls and women in age group of 15 to 49 years have been studied. In case of children, stunting, wasting and underweight, the three anthropometric indicators of nutrition were studied in detail. These were taken on the logic that the body of a child responds to malnutrition in two ways: i) a deceleration or cessation of growth, which over the long term results in low height-for-age or stunting; and (ii) body wasting, which is a short-term response to inadequate intakes, commonly assessed by weight relative to height. Height-for-age and weight-for-height thus discriminate between different biological processes, unlike weight-for-age, which could be low because of stunting (short stature) and/or wasting (recent weight loss). The third, weight-for-age or underweight is influenced by both the height of the child (height-for-age) and weight (weight-for-height). Weight-for-age cannot discriminate between short and long-term forms of malnutrition given that children classified on its basis are a mixed group in terms of their nutritional status. Dr Rajeshwari says that child malnourishment in relation to caste status does not show any correspondence. However, it shows correspondence with educational status and occupational status of the head of the household, meaning thereby that wealthier households have better levels of children health. The analysis on gender differentiation in child nutrition however reveals that malnutrition among girls is much more and all pervasive irrespective of wealth categories.
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Dowry victim’s family awaits relief to fight case
Ambala, August 1 The police had booked Nidhi’s father in-law, mother-in-law, husband and another female member under sections 304-B and 302 of the IPC in this regard and all are currently in judicial custody. After the incident, the ADGP, State Crime Record Bureau, had sent a letter to the Yamunanagar deputy commissioner in which he stated that as per the Rajiv Gandhi Pariwar Bima Yojna, there was a provision for granting Rs 1 lakh claim in case of death in such matters and requested the DC to initiate necessary action so that the aggrieved family could be compensated accordingly. A copy of the same was also sent to Surender Goel, victim’s father. Goel, who has no means of income, met officials of the Social Welfare Department and tehsildar at Jagadhri and completed all formalities, but several months have passed since then and he is yet to get any compensation. He recently contacted officials of the Social Welfare Department who told him that his case had been sent to the directorate at Chandigarh for some clarification and it might take another one month to settle. Goel rued that he had no money to engage a lawyer to contest the case against the in-laws of his daughter. He said even if he did not get the compensation his struggle for justice would continue. He had decided to sell his one-room house constructed over just 25 sq yd to fight the case, he added.
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Now, complain to Gurgaon
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Gurgaon, August 1 “People often complain that their common grievances are not redressed. Most of the time, they decide against lodging complaints as they are apprehensive of the hassles involved in the process. With this new concept, all they have to do is to log on to any of the said social networking sites and lodge their complaint(s) on the page titled Nagar Nigam Gurgaon. With specific complaints and corroborating evidence (photographs), it will be easier for us to nail the guilty,” said Gurgaon municipal commissioner Sudhhir Rajpal. Complaints can also be lodged at MCG website www.mcg.gov.in and on the call-centre number 1860-180-1817, he added. Rajpal pointed out that the MCG had banned the dumping of garbage and sewerage water in the open by using its power under Section 292 (1) of the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994. The municipal commissioner maintained that the residents who did not have access to the sewerage system could get the sewerage and garbage lifted through tankers, but they should ensure that the sewerage water is dumped only at the sewerage treatment plants at Dhanwapur, Behrampur or DLF Sector 43. “If any tanker is found dumping sewage waste in open plots or green belts, strict action will be taken against the owners of the tanker and the house from which the waste has been lifted,” he asserted. Rajpal advised the residents to get the waste lifted by a tanker which is registered with the MCG. The tanker owners desiring to get their tankers registered should contact the MCG Executive Engineer-II, he added.
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Kandhari criticises Haryana SGPC over college issue
Ambala, August 1 Expressing happiness over the reopening of Guru Harkishen Khalsa College at Panjokhra after five years, he said admissions had been started for the arts and commerce courses for this session. Addressing a press conference, he said the college was opened in 1995 and had to close down due to financial constraints since it remained deprived of grant in spite of assurances by the government. Sant Singh Kandhari and Gurdip Singh Bhanokheri, both SGPC members, said the management also planned to introduce other courses like BBA and BCA from the next year. Kandhari said SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar had announced a grant of Rs 1 crore for the development of the college. They assured that the college would provide quality education to a large number of students residing in the surrounding areas of Ambala. He made an appeal to the people to make this college a success. The SAD leader said this college was fully under the control of the SGPC, therefore HSGPC (ad hoc) had no claim over it and the former would not allow any interference in this matter.
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Man concocts loot drama
Sonepat, August 1 According to a police spokesperson, a complaint was lodged with the police by Surender that he was carrying a bag containing Rs 11 lakh in his car and was going to hand over the amount to his brother in Delhi. When he reached near Halalpur village, another car stopped in front of his car. Before he could react, four armed youths got down from the car and fired at him. The bullet hit the window pane and to save his life, Surender jumped into the canal. When he came out of the canal after the armed gangsters had left the place, he found that the cash bag was missing. On receiving information, SSP KK Rao, DSP Randhir Singh Saini and SHO, Kharkhoda, also reached the spot to have first-hand information of the incident. During investigation and his interrogation, it was found that Surender himself had fired at this Scorpio from his own licenced revolver to misguide the police investigation. He confessed that he was to pay about Rs 3 lakh as a monthly committee contribution. He had also taken Rs 5 lakh from his brother and this amount was spent by him on construction of a house. The spokesperson added that legal action was being taken against him for giving false information. A recommendation has been sent to the deputy commissioner for the cancellation of his arms
licence.
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‘Domain names in regional languages to improve Internet penetration’
Sonepat, August 1 In ICANN, there is a Government Advisory Committee (GAC) to receive advices on the interests and needs of stakeholders that do not directly participate in the supporting organisation. The committee consists of representations of a large number of national governments from all over the world. N. Ravi Shanker, additional secretary, Department of Information Technology (DIT), and Dr Govind, CEO, NIXI, are the member of the GAC from India. Talking to The Tribune after returning from the meeting, Hooda said participation from India was still sparse in such policy framing bodies. In ICANN 41 meeting at Singapore, the main emphasis was on secure, stable and unified Internet for all the world community and to increase the number of generic top-level domains, she said and added that the ICANN Board of Directors approved the creation of new generic top-level domains as they would provide rich platform for innovations and business. “The NIXI Fellowship Programme is conceptualised by N. Ravi Shanker to make the Internet within the reach of the commoners as well as to prepare young generation leader in the field of Internet and Internet-related technology so that they can raise their voice on the international Internet policies framing bodies, keeping in mind the issues prevailing in our society,” she explained. She pointed out that for the past few years, Internationalised Domain Names (IDN) was also one of the major concerns in ICANN meetings, especially significant for multilingual countries like India. “We are having only 33 per cent English-speaking population (young) in India, but still Internet content is dominated by English language/Roman Script,” she said, adding that IDN would provide an opportunity to get domain names in regional languages and this would improve the Internet penetration in the remote areas as well as lead to non-English content generation. She informed that DIT had already taken necessary steps for IDN and policy document for the latter in Indian languages had been prepared. “Very soon, we are going to get IDN in seven languages - Hindi, Bangla, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati. A proposal in this regard has already been submitted to ICANN,” she said. Hooda said in ICANN 41 meeting, the president and the CEO, ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, duly acknowledged the contribution of India in the Internet growth and the country received applaud in the international community for the same. “I am very much optimistic that this will help to unify economic and social divides and will open new avenues of opportunity for the Indian IT sector and ultimately, this will lead Indian economy towards more sustainability and prosperity,” she concluded.
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Panipat, August 1
ICANN is an international body. It is responsible for managing the Internet protocol address spaces (IPv4-IPv6) and the assignment of address blocks to the regional Internet. Primary objectives of ICANN are to preserve the operational stability of the Internet, to promote competition and to frame the policies appropriate to its mission theory based on bottom-up, consensus-based process.