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ROHTAK-DELHI ROUTE
MP seeks Shatabdi’s halt in Sirsa
TEACHERS’ ELIGIBILITY TESTS
Crime against women rampant in state
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2 get six-month jail for smuggling dope into prison
Villagers demand sarpanch’s resignation
CPM, INLD, BJP oppose petrol price hike
Workshop on emergency care concludes
EC deletes ‘road roller’ poll symbol
Delay in handing over sale deeds of plots
CPM to contest Ratia seat
Abandoned motorbike creates panic
No nomination on 1st day
Govt doctors to go on mass leave from Nov 8
Demand for Ransom
Bhukkal: HTET scores to get weightage
KU Teaching Depts’ team wins overall trophy
Use of Blind Hippo
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Trial of high-speed trains from Nov 15
Bijendra Ahlawat Tribune News Service
Rohtak, November 5 As the trial run will begin from November 15, the facility is likely to reduce the travel time between this city and the national capital drastically. This was stated by Rohtak MP Deepender Singh Hooda while addressing a gathering at the local railway station last evening. He was there to receive the Delhi-Ludhiana Shatabdi Express, which had its inaugural run on this route. Shatabdi will halt only at Rohtak in the state during its run between Delhi and Ludhiana. According to the MP, the electrification of the rail route, which had begun about two years ago, had been completed and the Railways would soon be launching electric trains on this section. As the trial run was expected to begin soon, the plying of such trains on this section would help in the reduction of travelling time. The average time taken by passenger and express trains between Delhi and Rohtak, which had a distance of around 75 km, ranged from 1.45 hours to 2.20 hours at present. He claimed that the expansion of such a facility would prove beneficial not only to the commuters, but also in promoting commercial activities. Now, a trader from this town could commute daily to Ludhiana, a hub of hosiery and other industries, as the travelling time had been shortened considerably with the new super fast train. The starting of the Shatabdi train and electrification of the route would fulfil the aspirations of the railway commuters to quite an extent as plying of the EMU trains was expected to begin soon, he said. He also announced that a new train halt would soon be operational at Lakhanmajra town on the Rohtak-Jind section of the Railways. Meanwhile, the demand for a halt of the Shatabdi Express at Jind has also been made. Jind has been a leading train junction on this route after Rohtak. The arrival of the Shatabdi from Delhi will be at 8.17 am in the morning and it will reach Ludhiana by 12.20 pm. While the travel time between Rohtak and Ludhiana had been reduced to just four hours, the arrival of the train from Ludhiana would be at 8.27 pm. It will be reaching Delhi at 10.05 pm
MP seeks Shatabdi’s halt in Sirsa
Sirsa, November 5 The train started by the Railways from yesterday, does not have a halt at Narwana, Jakhal or Tohana, the three railway stations of the Sirsa parliamentary segment coming on its route. Tanwar, accompanied by MP Deepender Singh Hooda handed over a letter of request to this effect to KH Muniyappa, Union Minister of State for Railways, when they were travelling in the Shatabdi Express together on its maiden run from Ludhiana to Delhi. |
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Rush of candidates disrupts traffic in Hisar Tribune News Service
Hisar, November 5 Since the organisers had taken a policy decision not to allow any candidate to appear for the test at any centre in their home district, all candidates were from outside. Although special buses had been deployed at all district towns to ferry the candidates, these proved insufficient. Other passengers were greatly inconvenienced due to the lesser number of buses plying on different routes. Crowds were witnessed at all bus stands in the district. Taxis were also in short supply as candidates hired these to reach the examination centres in time. The taxi operators charged double the normal rates in view of the increased demand. The examinees were critical of the authorities for sending them outside their home districts. They said the invigilators could have been from other districts. That would not have led to disruption of bus services as the number of invigilators who would have been required to travel would not have exceeded a few hundred. At the end of the first session of the examination, most local roads were choked with vehicles carrying the candidates. Traffic jams were reported from all parts of the city in the afternoon.
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Crime against women rampant in state
Chandigarh, November 5 Leading from the front, Haryana reported 5,562 cases against women as against 4,518 cases in Delhi, 2,853 cases in Punjab and 1,028 cases in Himachal Pradesh. Haryana accounted for maximum rape cases (720), followed by Punjab (546), Delhi (507) and Himachal Pradesh (160). As far as kidnappings and abductions were concerned, Delhi recorded 1,740 cases as against 714 by Haryana, followed by 576 cases in Punjab and 162 in Himachal Pradesh. In the case of dowry deaths, Haryana retained its dubious distinction with 284 dowry deaths, followed by Delhi (143) and Punjab (121).The hill state of Himachal Pradesh reported only two cases of dowry death. However, what reflected the secondary status of women in households in the state were incidents of cruelty by husbands and relatives. Haryana reported 2,720 such cases as against 1,404 cases in Delhi. While Punjab reported 1,163 cases, there were only 275 cases in Himachal Pradesh. The data showed that sexual harassment (eve-teasing) cases were also highest in Haryana at 580. Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Delhi, reported 78,38 and 80 sexual harassment cases, respectively. In the case of molestation incidents, Haryana with 476 cases was placed second to Delhi which reported 601 cases. In Punjab, there were 349 cases while Himachal Pradesh accounted for 350 such cases. Children comparatively safer in Haryana While women bore the brunt of criminals in Haryana, children seemed to be safer in the state. Delhi reported 3,630 cases against children, followed by Punjab with 627 cases. While Himachal Pradesh reported 246 cases against kids, the figure for Haryana was not very alarming at 303. (Concluded) |
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2 get six-month jail for smuggling dope into prison
Karnal, November 5 Justice Jasmine Sharma found the duo guilty of offence under various sections of the NDPS Act and sentenced them to six months’ imprisonment. In another case, a head constable was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by the court of Justice Parminder Kaur for submitting fake documents about his educational qualifications to the authorities for getting a job in the police. The convict, Rishi Pal, at present serving as a head constable, had joined the police services in the mid-1980s as constable by submitting fake documents. Years later, some unknown person wrote a letter to the DGP, informing him that the cop had submitted fake documents to get the job. Subsequently, an inquiry was ordered into the complaint and Rishi Pal was found guilty and a challan was put up in the court. |
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Villagers demand sarpanch’s resignation
Garh Sarnai (Panipat), November 5 Villagers started demanding Kanta Devi’s resignation after her son, Jitender, reportedly shot a letter to Pankaj Nain, district police chief, informing him about the marriage of a 13-year-old daughter of Rambali Sharma, who was a daily wager, with a 28-year-old Sanjeev of Kaithal on October 29. Following this Rajni Gupta, district Protection and Child Marriage Prohibition Officer, reached the village and stopped the wedding after the girl’s parents failed to produce her birth certificate. Some of the villagers said the girl studied in Class VII at a village school and her parents were solemnising her wedding at an early age to do away with the expenditure of bringing her up. |
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CPM, INLD, BJP oppose petrol price hike
Rohtak, November 5 He has asked all party units to take the issue of the UPA government’s alleged treachery to people during the ongoing campaign of the party. The party has demanded rollback of the fresh hike in petrol prices and effective measures to be immediately taken for bringing down inflation. Kurukshetra: While addressing Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) workers on the premises of Punjabi Dharmshala here on Saturday, INLD state president Ashok Arora and Ladwa MLA Sher Singh Barshami said by increasing the petrol price, the government had aggravated the woes of common man instead of healing them. The workers’ meeting was convened to mobilise them for the agitation to be organised on district level here on Monday in protest against the purchase of paddy on low rates by the government, increasing dearness and petrol price. Rewari: BJP activists held a protest at the Dharuhera Chowk here on Saturday against the petrol price hike. Led by their district president Laxman Singh Yadav and district mahila wing chief Sushma Charaya, they raised slogans and burnt an effigy of the UPA government. Similarly activists of the Bharatiya Shiv Sena led by their senior district vice-president Ravinder Yadav also staged a protest and burnt an effigy of the government at the bus stand here. |
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Workshop on emergency care concludes
Madhuban
(Karnal), November 5 The focus of the workshop on “Emergency Care” organised by the hospital, in association with Dr Davinder Kapur and his team of experts from Northern Ireland Ambulance Services, was on the need to train more volunteers among public and paramedics on different aspects of pre-hospital emergency care, like ABC (airway, breathing, circulation) of resuscitation. “As a result of road accidents, 1.35 lakh people die of trauma-related injury or disease every year in India and there is need to create awakening in the society for accident victims’ care and more volunteers are needed to be trained in the basics of trauma care procedures,” the trainers asserted. The experts, including Dr Davinder Kapur, Frank Armstrong and Mark Anderson, who conducted the workshop pointed out that the subject was pertinent in today’s context because of large number of deaths due to road accidents.
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EC deletes ‘road roller’ poll symbol
Chandigarh, November 5 A controversy over the allotment of the road roller symbol had erupted following the declaration of the result of the byelection of the Hisar parliamentary seat where an Independent candidate had netted over 27,000 votes. This symbol was deceptively similar to the “tractor” symbol allotted to the HJC. Following the declaration of the result, Kuldeep Bishnoi, the HJC-BJP combine candidate, who was declared elected from the seat by a margin of over 6,000 votes, had maintained that the margin could have been higher had the confusion over the election symbol not arisen. Earlier this week, at a press conference, Bishnoi said that he had given a representation to the Election Commission of India, stating that contesting candidates should not be “The votes polled for the Independent candidate with the road roller symbol were actually meant for me,” he had claimed. Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana, Sumita Misra, today said that the ECI issued a notification to deleting the road roller symbol from the list of
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Delay in handing over sale deeds of plots
Gurgaon, November 5 The Deputy Commissioner ordered the suspension of registration clerk Randhir Singh and transfer of reader Baljeet Singh. He also withdrew powers to register the sale deeds of tehsildar Manvir Singh Sangwan and naib tehsildar Anil Kumar. He asserted that handing over of the registered sale deeds of immovable property on the same day was included into the 15 essential services for which the state government had fixed a delivery time-line. He said this was a violation of the orders of the state government and would not be tolerated.
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CPM to contest Ratia seat
Fatehabad, November 5 Inderjeet Singh, state secretary of the CPM, said the party had been contesting the Ratia seat in the past too, and it had a long history fight for the rights of farmers and poor people in the constituency. He said the party would take a decision on Adampur very soon after consultation with the Hisar unit of the CPM. Earlier, in a meeting held under former MLA Harpal Singh, the district unit of the CPM overwhelmingly voiced in favour of contesting the Ratia (SC) seat. |
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Abandoned motorbike creates panic
Ambala, November 5 The police suspected that some explosive could have been planted in the motorcycle. The DCP, Shashank Anand, was also informed. The DCP and other senior officers rushed to the place. The bomb disposal and the dog squads were summoned there. The bomb disposal team searched the motorcycle thoroughly but nothing was found in it. Later the police took the motorcycle in its possession. The police is investigating as to who left the motorcycle abandoned in the cantonment area. Last month, about 5 kg RDX was seized from an Indica car that was parked at the Ambala Cantt railway station. — OC
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No nomination on 1st day
Fatehabad, November 5 The notification for Ratia (SC) and Adampur seats in Haryana was issued today and with that, the process of nominations began. An official spokesperson said no candidate filed his or her nomination papers today.
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Govt doctors to go on mass leave from Nov 8
Chandigarh, November 5 Announcing this here today, president of the Haryana Civil Medical Services Association Rajesh Kumar Khyalia said almost all doctors working in the government health facilities of the state had submitted applications for casual leave for November 8 and November 9 in pursuance of the decision taken at the general body meeting of the association at Rohtak on October 16, 2011. He said the leave applications were collected districtwise and submitted together to the respective Civil Surgeons of the district concerned. Khyalia said all arranagements, including the second line of office-bearers of the association, had been made to continue the agitation. Maintaining that the association and its members were committed to provide the best healthcare to the people of the state, he said the government had forced them to go on mass casual leave by its “insensitive and callous attitude” towards their demands.
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Demand for Ransom
Hisar, November 5 Talking to mediapersons here, he said the two inmates of Tihar jail in Delhi, who were reported to have sent two emissaries to the showroom owner for seeking ransom, had been brought here for interrogation. However, he said, they appeared to be intent on confusing the police. A special team led by a DSP had been constituted to interrogate them and find out the truth. Shenvi said nine companies of paramilitary forces had been requisitioned for the November 30 byelection to the Adampur Assembly constituency. He said all licensed firearms holders would be asked to deposit their weapons in view of the byelection. He said banks had been requested to install high-quality cameras at their ATMs to curb misuse of the facility. |
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Bhukkal: HTET scores to get weightage
Chandigarh, November 5 She said the Haryana Government was pro-actively seeking quality teachers for the schools in the state by conducting eligibility tests of the aspiring candidates because an effective teaching system fine-tuned the students to face the challenges of life in a better way and ensured for them a brighter future. However, she added that qualifying the HTET would not confer a right on any person for recruitment or employment as it was only one of the eligibility conditions for appointment. In addition, the candidate would have to fulfil other additional qualifications and conditions prescribed from time to time as per the State Recruitment Rules at the time of applying for the said post. — TNS |
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KU Teaching Depts’ team wins overall trophy
Kurukshetra, November 5 While giving away the prizes to the winning students and the teams, the chief guest, Dr KC Bharadwaj, Vice-Chancellor Choudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, called upon the students to participate in extra-curricular activities besides pursuing their regular studies. Dr Bhradwaj said, “Extra-curricular activities are a medium of self-expression. To succeed in life, one must be an all-rounder.” He congratulated the university authorities for successfully organising the Ratnawali festival for the past 26 years. The Lt-Gen, Dr DDS Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, said culture and society were co-related and students acted as ambassadors in propagating the culture. Dr Sandhu said Kurukshetra University was doing its all to preserve the vibrant culture of Haryana and showcasing it on the national and international levels. He congratulated the winners of the events and said that those who could not win need not be disheartened as participation in such programmes was more important to learn the values of team spirit, discipline and self-motivation. More than 3,000 students from all over Haryana participated.
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Use of Blind Hippo
Panipat, November 4 In a petition moved in the court of the CJM, which was admitted today for hearing on November 8, Naresh Kadyan, the Indian representative of the OPIA, said circus owners were subjecting animals and birds, including the blind Hippo named Raja, elephants along with horses, cats, docked-tail dogs, feathers-chopped parrots, camels and pelicans to cruelty, which was punishable under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act, 1960. In his petition, Kadyan maintained some of the exotic species that were covered under the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) were also being used by the circus in violation of the norms. |
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Traffic on the main roads and bus services to and from the city were badly affected by the influx of thousands of candidates appearing for the Haryana Teachers’ Eligibility Test (HTET) and State Teachers’ Eligibility Test (STET).
Kurukshetra, November 5
