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3 held for woman’s murder
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Dengue Cases
International Girl Child Day celebrated
Children present an item at a function to mark Girl Child Day in Dehradun on Saturday. A Tribune photograph
Entrepreneurship awareness camp begins
Guru Nanak school wins painting contest
Mussoorie student best debater
A trophy is presented to two students at the AC Deb Memorial Inter-school English Debate competition held
in Dehradun on Saturday. A Tribune photograph
Dilip Jawalkar takes over as DM
Acid attack on BJP leader
Protest by MGNREGA workers continues
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3 held for woman’s murder
Addressing a press conference here, SSP Gopal Nath Goswami said two of the accused, Sachin of Baliwala Chowk, and Dineshpal of GMS Road, had allegedly murdered the old woman and looted the house while the third accused, Sunny of Vikasnagar, had helped them in hiding the booty. He said they had recovered Rs 28,000, gold ornaments and the deceased’s cellphone and passport from the trio’s procession. The police had got information that Sachin who used to study in Sarasvati Mandir School situated near the victim’s house would often visit her and helped her in her household works. However, he had been missing after the incident. Sachin and one of his friends, Dinesh, were allegedly planning to loot a house. As they were looking for a soft target, they planned to loot Kailash Bhatnagar’s house. On September 12, the duo managed to gain entry to her house at 8 pm and hid behind the stairs of the house to wait for the woman to sleep. At 12:30 am, they tied her hands, legs and face with the sari she was wearing. They asked her for the keys of the almirah to which she refused. Later, the duo allegedly strangled her and broke down the almirah and took away Rs 60,000 in cash, gold and silver ornaments, a watch, the victim’s cellphone and passport. Sunny had allegedly helped Sachin and Dinesh in selling the ornaments and later deposit the cash in his account. After the incident, Sachin had left for Amristar while Dinesh started living at Sunny’s rented house at Vikasnagar. However, thinking that the matter was now dead, the duo again started living in Dehradun. However, they were later arrested by the police. The police team that carried out the entire operation has been given a cash prize.
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Dehradun, September 24 “In an interview conducted by the college management and the university last week, I have been selected as the principal of DAV PG College but technically some formalities are yet to be performed,” he said. Bhasin, who is a former student of DAV PG College and has served as Chairman of the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GMVN) for four years, favours major developments in the curriculum and activities of the college. He wants to upgrade the infrastructure and encourage quality education on the college campus. “My prime objective as a Principal of the college will be to keep a check on the hooliganism, which has been associated with the college’s name as a label for years. Control the anti-social activities in the college will be the tedious job for which I expect students also to cooperate,” he added. Bhasin was a state spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party and media convener of the state ruling party but admits that his political activities has nothing to do with the functioning of the college movement. “My political activities are way behind the gates of the college campus and I never let them influence or hamper the functions of the college,” asserts Bhasin. On being asked what are the challenges he is facing or will face as the principal of the college, he replies, “The strength of the college is the most challenging thing to handle. As per the government and the University Grants Commission (UGC), the college was sanctioned to have about 12,500 students only but it has now exceeded to 33,500 due to which the productivity of the institution has deteriorated.” “I have put a restriction on the strength of students from the new academic session and I am now working on controlling the examination process of the college. However, we are also working on the settlement of the results of 2500 students of the college, which are yet to be declared by the university,” added the chairman of state media advisory committee. He swanks on his accomplishment of conducting peaceful the college Student Council elections this year while looks forward to the proposal sent to the UGC for gaining the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) accreditation for the college.
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Rush of patients from UP at Doon Hospital
Tribune News Service
Dehradun, September 24 Poor medical facilities in these towns is forcing the patients to flock to Dehradun and Doon hospital that has to make arrangements for additional rush of patients from outside. “Inadequate arrangements there are forcing the patients to come to Dehradun. Most of these hospitals do not have blood separators (used to separate blood components). We have established a special response team comprising physicians and experts to tackle dengue cases,” said Dr BC Pathak, Chief Medical Superintendent of the hospital. He said the misuse of the platelet therapy while treating serious cases of dengue was also responsible for the rush of patients at the hospital. “In serious cases, the platelet (blood component) therapy is required, but it should not be the norm. Only if there is evidence of bleeding and platelets count dips below 20,000, a dengue patient should be administered blood. But these general rules are ignored and in panic patients rush to hospitals which have blood separators,” said SD Joshi, a senior physician. However, the symptoms at times may be confusing as the disease sets in with high fever, headache and even muscular and joint pains. “Recently, the cases of fever were reported in Chakrata, Sahiya and Kalsi, but so far dengue cases have not been reported from these areas. Dengue cases in the state have been reported from Haridwar and we have set up a team to monitor the situation in Sultanpur village,” said Dr Asha Mather, Director-General, Health and Family Welfare.
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International Girl Child Day celebrated
Dehradun, September 24 The function began with Saraswati Vandana performed by school students. A large number of girls from various schools participated in the event and helped the association in spreading the awareness of saving the girl child. The children performed Punjabi dance, Garhwali dance and sang songs and poems. Winners in various categories were given prizes. The chief guest appreciated the efforts of UMA. Addressing a gathering, UMA president Sadhna Sharma said, “Though India, in the recent past, has produced women leaders like Sarojini Naidu, Indira Gandhi, Kalpana Chawla, Gauri Devi and many more, today we are facing the brunt of female foeticide which is causing imbalance in the sex ratio.” Meanwhile, Punjab National Bank, Dehradun, also celebrated the occasion at Shri Guru Ram Rai Public School, Jhanda Bazaar. They congratulated the girl students of the school and also prayed for their furure. The bank also donated a few computers to the school to encourage computer education among students.
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Col Brown School lift football trophy
Dehradun, September 24 The match ended in a goalless draw as no goal came in the stipulated time. Following this, the tiebreaker round was taken in which Col Brown defeated SGRR 3-1 to be crowned champion. Deepak Ray, Mohit Shogi and Akashdeep Singh Rawat converted their chances for the winning team while Shivam Shah was the only scorer for SGRR as it’s another players missed the chance. Meanwhile, the teams and players were given away prizes in a prize distribution ceremony. Honey was declared best goalkeeper, best defender title was given to Akashdeep, best half was awarded to Tarun, best forward was given to Jit Bahadur and best upcoming player award went to Depender Singh Negi. Aishwarya Nath of the title winning team walked away with golden boot.
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Entrepreneurship awareness camp begins
Dehradun September 24 The Department of Science and Technology along with the Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) under the NIMAT Project 2010-11 sponsored this camp. V.M.Tripathi, who presented a case study on sustainable comprehensions, gave the introduction to entrepreneurship. Following it was the first technical session based on the entrepreneurial competencies and their evaluation presented by Rajkumari Pereira and Dr R.K.Trivedi. They also discussed Business Opportunity Identification with the participants. The second day session started with the interaction of SP Bahuguna, who talked about “Information on various Government support system agencies”, especially in context of Uttarakhand. The session was followed with the interaction of Dr Arvind Mohan on business plan preparation with participants. MK Diwedi, chief lead bank manager, PNB, spoke about the support and financial assistance from banks for entrepreneurs. The programme concluded with an interactive session by Vijay Sabharwal, founder and owner of Bonjour Breads, who shared his success story with participants. He shared his practices and the challenges he faced during the establishment of the venture.
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Guru Nanak school wins painting contest
Mussoorie, September 24 More than 120 students from 12 schools participated in the competition organised under the aegis of the Lions Club Hills, Mussoorie, in which the GNFC emerged overall winners. In the senior division, Mansi Gautam (GNFC) was declared first, Trishta Bhandari (Hampton Court) second and Shakun Jain (Musoorie public school) third. In the junior division, Ananya (Oak Grove) stood first, Shivang Nautiyal (Hampton Court) stood second and Natasha (GNFC) stood third. In the sub-junior division, Mansi Arora (GNFC) stood first, Harish (Mussoorie Girls Inter-College) stood second and Aaanchal Rauthan (Hampton court) stood third. Chief guest on the occasion MC president OP Uniyal presented the citation to the winners.
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Mussoorie student best debater
Dehradun September 24 Arathi Nair of the school won the second prize and her partner Swapnil Srivastava was the next best debater. Anuj Taparia from St. George’s College, Mussoorie, however, secured the top prize as the best debater. His college also was runner-up in the team event. Nine teams participated in the contest. The subject of the debate was “Indian Democracy is a Boon” and evoked good arguments from both sides. The standard of the debate was by and large quite high while SS Rautela, Ashima Chandana and M Kukreja judged the competition. The programme concluded with the vote of thanks delivered by Alok Virmani, principal, Raja Ram Mohan Roy Academy. Also present on the occasion were Dr Kalyani Roy, secretary of the Board of Governors, Veena Sirohi and NS Datta from the “Society for the Advancement of Education” that runs nine schools in Delhi and the NCR, besides Raja Ram Mohan Roy Academy in Dehra Dun.
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Dilip Jawalkar takes over as DM
Dehradun, September 24 While speaking with the media, Jawalkar said he would see that the pension was disbursed on a regular basis and people should not face problem in receiving it. The DM said he would be holding a meeting with the health officials soon to check the spread of dengue in the state capital. On being asked about the increasing crime in the city, Jawalkar said he would ensure that the crime graph come down as soon as possible.
— TNS
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Acid attack on BJP leader
Dehradun, September 24 The woman, who sustained 65 per cent burns, is under treatment at Coronation Hospital. The post-mortem examination of her daughter’s body who died of shock has also been done. The body has been handed over to her family. SP (Rural) GC Dhyani said the accused, Lakshman, had been sent to a 14-day judicial remand. Though in her complaint to the police the woman alleged that it was an acid attack, the police said it might be a mixture of petrol and acid that was thrown at her.
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Protest by MGNREGA workers continues
Dehradun, September 24 Three of them who had climbed a cellphone tower in support of their demands on Thursday have refused to climb down. The protesters also staged a dharna in front of the state Assembly today. MGNREGA workers, including junior engineers, computer operators and gram rozgar sewak, have been demanding that they should be put under the category of contractual workers.
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On the occasion of International Girl Child Day, the Uttaranchal Mahila Association
(UMA) organised a programme “Adarsha Nariyon” here today. The chief guest on the occasion was Sushila
Baluni, president, Rajya Mahila Ayog accompanied by Y P Arora, president, Uttranchal Gramin Bank as special guest.
The function began with Saraswati Vandana performed by school students.
Dehradun September 24
Dehradun, September 24