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Khanduri was ready to join our
morcha: ex-minister
Women urge people to shun alcohol, non-veg food
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Oppn creating confusion on Lokayukta Act: Pant
Dereliction of Duty
Lone Siberian tiger in India dead
Regional front forms coordination panel
First forest congress
from tomorrow
Man dies during police recruitment trials
Rogue tusker missing in forest
Autorickshaw union convention opens
Maharana Pratap college win title
All-India Police team win boxing championship
CSJM, Delhi varsities winners
Sports contests on Child Rights Day
Carman School, St Thomas victorious
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Khanduri was ready to join our
morcha: ex-minister
Haridwar, November 20 General Rawat, who has been the Minister for Tourism in the Narayan Dutt Tiwari-led Congress government, in a chat with The Tribune, said the Chief Minister, Major-Gen Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri (retd), had assured him that he would join the Bhrashtachar Raksha Morcha, when he was sidelined by the BJP high command, but later stepped back as he was made the Chief Minister again. Lashing out at General Khanduri, he said: “We could have changed the politics of Uttarakhand as well as the future of the people of this new state. He compromised on his principles for state’s premier post but I didn’t, as both the Congress and the BJP are deep in corruption and dirty politics,” said Rawat. On whether he formed the separate outfit, which is now being given the status of an electoral party by the Election Commission, in consultation with General Khanduri, Rawat said: “He was on the verge of joining this outfit as there was no place in the BJP for honest, development-oriented and field workers. He was offered the Chief Minister’s post by the BJP, which, initially we thought he will decline, but we were proved to be wrong. He lost an opportunity to change the destiny of this state but not is much lost as I will be working for the people’s interests”. Rawat, who is a legislator from the Dhumakot Assembly constituency in Pauri Garhwal, pointed out that the people of Uttarakhand had seen both the BJP and the Congress governments in the past 11 years and both had not lived up to their expectations and the necessities of a new state. Neither have the hills benefited from statehood nor has a systematic development been done in the plains of the state. Considering different geographical conditions, there is a need for separate policies for both the regions, he added. He also pointed out various anomalies in the just enacted Lokayukta Act. |
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Women urge people to shun alcohol, non-veg food
Haridwar, November 20 Belonging to the religious ashram of Baba Jai Guru Dev of Mathura, the women urged people to shun alcohol, drugs, tobacco and mutton. Holding placards and banners, the women also distributed pamphlets that carried information about the ill-effects of consumption of alcohol and non-vegetarian food. Chief of the Jai Guru Sangath Ganga Ram said alcohol and non-vegetarian food affected the internal system of body so much that in the coming decades the life expectancy, according to scientists, would be quite low. He said the non-vegetarian food paved the way for many diseases while drugs and alcohol slowly affect one’s thinking ability. Lata, a woman from a rural village, said a person couldn’t be said to be pure if he was consuming such things as one way or the other he was consuming those substances which were not conducive to his body. The organisers of the march said they had carried out such marches in many cities and towns. |
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Oppn creating confusion on Lokayukta Act: Pant
Nainital, November 20 Responding to a query on the allegation that the Lokayukta would not be able to take the Chief Minister, cabinet ministers and legislators to task until there is a unanimous decision among the entire panel to do so, Pant, while talking to The Tribune, said: “There is a confusion being created. Right now only the Act has been enacted. The rules are yet to follow. We do not want to give a veto power to the members of the institution of the Lokayukta. We will make sure that the Chief Minister, cabinet ministers and legislators would be taken to task by either having a provision of the Lokayukta panel members deciding on it by simple or two thirds majority”. He added on similar lines a bench would decide on complaints that are received against the secretaries and above to the office the Chief Secretary. He pointed out that a provision had also been made to impose a heavy fine on anyone registering a false complaint before the institution of the Lokayukta. In an interaction with mediapersons in Nainital today, Pant claimed that the BJP government in the state had delivered on the promises made by it in its manifesto before the last Assembly poll. Referring to the issue of industrial development, he said at present there were more than 4,000 industries in the state that employ 2.36 lakh youngsters. He claimed that the global recession had failed to have a major impact in Uttarakhand as there was very little Information Technology (IT) industry while the major units were involved in automobile and other production. But the withdrawal of the special industrial package by the Centre has hit the state hard as the process of industrialisation has suffered. He further claimed that the new industrial policy of the state government envisages taking industry to the hill areas by giving the industry the same benefits that the Centre had given to the state under the special package. He claimed that 1300 letters of interest had been received by the government which wanted to bring non-polluting and tourism-oriented industry to the hills. |
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Dereliction of Duty
Pithoragarh, November 20 “During my visit to the high schools and intermediate colleges of the Munsiyari area it was found that in the name of doing departmental work, the teachers had taken leave affecting the teaching work,” said Dr Mukul Kumar Sati, Pithoragarh District Education Officer. According to the officer, taking benefit of being situated at a distance from the district headquarters, the teachers in these colleges are taking undue benefits and neglecting the teaching work in their colleges.” The attendance register and other documents in these colleges have been filled wrongly as the teachers in connivance with the Principal have taken leave following wrong procedures,” said the officer. A teacher in Government Inter-College, Mawani Dawani, Munsiyari subdivision, has not attended the classes for the past eight months without giving any information to the Principal or other staff. “We have initiated departmental proceeding against this teacher and also taking strict steps against those teachers who remain absent from the classrooms without prior information,” said Dr Sati. In Champawat district, District Education Officer NC Pathak, during his surprise visit to the Digali Chaur intermediate college found the Principal absent from the college without taking leave. “It was found that the literacy centre at Rausal in an interior area of Champawat district was closed and the staff absent from their duty,” said Pathak, District Education Officer,
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Lone Siberian tiger in India dead
Nainital, November 20 The 18-year-old tiger that was 11 ft in length had been keeping unwell for some time. It is learnt to have died due to old age. Officials of the Forest Department have decided to retain its body after getting taxidermy done on it. It was one of the most popular animals at the zoo. According to information, till the last decade, India had four Siberian tigers out of which two were lodged at a Darjeeling zoo and two at Nainital. With the remaining three having died earlier, Kunal had been the lone survivor till death came to him on Saturday evening. The zoo authorities have already been making efforts to get a new Siberian tiger for its premises. They plan to take up the matter with the Russian Embassy in Delhi through the Central Zoo Authority and the Government of India to see if the friendly nation could provide another Siberian tiger for the zoo. Sources at the zoo said normally, a Siberian tiger is known to live for 13 years in wilderness and in captivity it is known to survive for a bit longer. Officials say every care was being taken of Kunal to ensure that it completed at least two decades of existence. For this purpose, it was being given a special diet that was nutritious and had an additional component of calcium. This zoo in the Lake City is unique as it is the only high altitude zoo in the country which is compact in size and yet offers a variety of high-altitude birds and animals to the visitors. |
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Regional front forms coordination panel
Dehradun November 20 The heads of the political parties who attended the meeting included Trivender Singh Panwar, president of the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (Panwar), Vijay Rawat, state secretary, CPM, Samar Bhandari, state secretary of the CPI, Rajiv Kothari, spokesman for the Uttarakhand Parivartan Party, Rajender Bhandari of the Uttarakhand Raksha Morcha, Harjinder Singh, president of the Janata Dal (Secular), Sardar Gurcharan Singh, secretary of the Lok Janshakti Party, and Ajay Sharma of the Janwadi Party. The meeting was presided over by Panwar. It was decided to nominate the heads or the state secretaries of these parties as members of the coordination committee who will henceforth take final decisions on critical issues such as the distribution of seats. Panwar said: “The members agreed on bringing about a white paper on the changed land use norms. They also condemned the ‘weak’ Lokayukta Act enacted by the present BJP government to garner publicity. It was also decided to oppose the government’s move to hand over public property to outsiders through the PPP mode”. The front will hold
its next meeting on November 25.
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First forest congress
from tomorrow
Dehradun, November 20 Speaking about the congress, Dr VK Bahuguna, Director General, Indian Forestry Research & Education, here today disclosed that Union Minister of Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan would be inaugurating the congress which would have the presence of Rajya Sabha MP MS Swaminathan and other personalities. Union Environment and Forests Secretary Dr T Chatterjee, Director General of Forests, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Dr PJ Dilip Kumar and United Nations Development Programme’s Director Caitilin Wiesen will give a theme-based keynote address. The DG, ICFRE, held that about 400 participants, including planners, scientists, forestry professionals, scholars, representatives from industries, the farming community from India and abroad, are expected to attend the congress. He said the congress would prove to be an excellent opportunity for the forest community and stakeholders to discuss advances on various aspects of forestry. Bahuguna said the threat from climate change was not only looming large but it had set in affecting water and food security of the country. “There are reports of excessive rainfall in short duration followed by prolonged droughts. As many as 350 million rural poor and tribals are living in the fringe areas of forests and they are heavily dependent on them for their livelihood”, he observed. |
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Man dies during police recruitment trials
Pithoragarh, November 20 “Lalit Mohan Bhatt (38), former soldier, who was taking part in the 3-km run during the physical test of the recruitment process, fell down after he had crossed one km of the race. He was rushed to the local hospital were he was declared dead due to a heart attack by the doctors,” said Amit Srivastava, recruiting in charge of the police.
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Rogue tusker missing in forest
Dehradun, November 20 Led by Conservator of Forests Bhagirathi Circle SM Joshi, the forest officials are constantly monitoring the situation at Chorpani. “For the past two days, we have not been able to see the tusker but have rather come across a female elephant with a calf”, Joshi said. He said they were still hopeful that the killer tusker was in the interiors of the Chorpani forests. Meanwhile, Corbett camp elephants that were expected to reach Chorpani today failed to make it and could just reach Ladhang in Haridwar by the evening. Citing the reasons for the delay in arrival in camp elephants, SM Joshi disclosed that the camp elephants were being brought on foot which was consuming time. He said bringing elephants on truck as planned earlier was not feasible. The tusker has killed five people in the Shivpuri forest range of the state in the past few months. This forced Uttarakhand Chief Wildlife Warden SS Sharma directed for the shooting down of the tusker. However, after resentment by the wildlife conservationist, Uttarakhand Chief Wildlife Warden SS Sharma later assured that the state wildlife authorities would first make efforts to capture the tusker alive and only shoot as the last resort. |
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Autorickshaw union convention opens
Dehradun November 20 He asked the members to follow traffic rules, maintain contacts with the administrative officials, charge permissible fairs from customers, drop customers at the right place during night time and remain updated with the rules and regulations regarding transportation. On this occasion, general secretary of union Dhan Singh Rana, vice-president Firoz Khan, treasurer Kanwaljit Singh were also present. |
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Maharana Pratap college win title
Dehradun, November 20 At the finals played at the Parade Ground, Maharana Pratap Sports College beat Haridwar in the boys’ section with score card reading 25-19, 25-11 and 25-11 in sports college favour. The match was totally a one-sided affairs with Maharana Pratap Sports College players excelling Haridwar in almost all departments of the game. In the girls’ section, Dehradun team beat Nanital 25-21, 25-20 and 25-22 in a closely contested match. Host Uttarakhand Volleyball Association president Avadhesh Kumar handed over the medals to the winners. He reiterated association’s commitment to promoting volleyball in
the state. Former international volleyball players Arshad Khan and other office-bearers of the Uttarakhand Volleyball Association were present on the occasion. |
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Maharana Pratap college win title
Dehradun, November 20 At the finals played at the Parade Ground, Maharana Pratap Sports College beat Haridwar in the boys’ section with score card reading 25-19, 25-11 and 25-11 in sports college favour. The match was totally a one-sided affairs with Maharana Pratap Sports College players excelling Haridwar in almost all departments of the game. In the girls’ section, Dehradun team beat Nanital 25-21, 25-20 and 25-22 in a closely contested match. Host Uttarakhand Volleyball Association president Avadhesh Kumar handed over the medals to the winners. He reiterated association’s commitment to promoting volleyball in
the state. Former international volleyball players Arshad Khan and other office-bearers of the Uttarakhand Volleyball Association were present on the occasion. |
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All-India Police team win boxing championship
Nainital, November 20 The team won two gold and four silver medals. The second position was bagged by Haryana (two gold and three silver medals) while Uttarakhand won the third position with one gold and five silver medals. Mamta of Manipur was declared the best boxer at the event while Geeta Solanki of Delhi was chosen the best loser. Rekha Swami of Delhi was declared the best referee and Raji Sonwal of Rajasthan was declared the best judge. The finals in various categories were played today. A large number of people had gathered at the Flats Grounds to cheer up the boxers. In the finals of the 48-kg bout, Mamta of Manipur defeated Krishna Thapa of Madhya Pradesh (MP) with the score reading 29 points against 11. In the 48 kg-51 kg category, Sonia of Andhra Pradesh (AP) won against Vinita Mahar of Uttarakhand with the referee stopping the contest. In the 51-54 kg category, Suman of Uttarakhand won the title. The 54-57 kg finals saw Sunita Rani of Haryana beating Priyanka of Uttarakhand 8-6. In the 57-60 kg category, N Usha beat Preeti Beniwal +13 -13. In the 60-64 kg category, Suman beat Monika Saun 7-6. The 64-69 kg category saw B Sweeti of Haryana defeating Seema of Delhi 11-6. In the 75- 81kg category Maya Pundil of MP beat Nirmala of Haryana 24-15. The 81 kg -82 kg category saw Kavita beating Poonam Vishnoi as the referee stopped the contest. In the last bout of 69 -75 kg, Jagriti of Delhi beat Alari of Assam. Cabinet minister Prakash Pant gave away prizes to the winners. |
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CSJM, Delhi varsities winners
Dehradun, November 20 CSJM University, Kanpur, defeated Himachal Pradesh University by 172 runs. The Kanpur team won the toss and chose to bat first. With the help of a brilliant century (107 runs) by opener Aditya Dingar and 77 runs by Manvendra Singh, the Kanpur university team scored a massive 325 runs all out in 79.3 overs. Ajay Saklani took four wickets for 98 runs while Laxmi Kant took three wickets for 81 runs for the Himachal Pradesh team. In reply, the Himachal Pradesh University team could score 153 runs all out in 57 overs to lose the match by 172 runs. Ajay Mohan was the highest scorer with 34 runs. Jatinder Pal took four wickets for 25 runs for the Kanpur university team. In the second match, Delhi University beat Punjabi University, Patiala, by 64 runs. Opener Akash Yadav of the Delhi University team scored a well-crafted 110 runs in 192 balls. The team was all out for 299 runs in 78.4 overs. Rajwinder Singh of the Patiala team took six wickets for 84 runs. Despite valiant attempt by Rajwinder Singh who scored 90 runs in 124 runs and 51 runs by Karan, the Punjabi University team was all out for 236 runs in 60.2 overs. They lost the match by 64 runs. Lokender took four wickets for 92 runs for the Delhi team. |
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Sports contests on Child Rights Day
Dehradun November 20 As many as 120 children participated in the competition. Among the grown-up children, the girls won the race. Their names are Sharda, Kiran, Meena and Kiran-2. Among small children, Rahul stood first in the 50 meter race, Shagun came first in group I of Banana Race, Arti in group II and Rajan in group III. In 100 meter race among 10-year-old children, Manisha made it to the top position, in sack race Raj, among girls Seema won the first slot. In 200 meter race, Rahul came at the first position and Kiran topped among girls. Senior Health Officer, Dehradun Municipal Corporation, Kailash Joshi inaugurated the competitions. Anu Duseja, chairperson and Nasim Mohammad, senior member of the NGO were
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Carman School, St Thomas victorious
Dehradun, November 20 Being played at St Joseph Academy’s ground, the first match saw clash between Carman School and Guru Nanak Academy (GNA). Electing to bat after winning the toss, Carman School scored 140 at a loss of seven wickets in the allotted 20 overs. For Carman, Abhishek scored 56 runs followed by Ashutosh, who contributed valuable 46 runs to the team score. For GNA, Satpal took 3 wickets in his 4 over spell whereas Nirmit got 2 wickets. Batting next, GNA batsmen were all out for just 127 runs, thereby ensuring 13 run win for Carman. Ravinder with unbeaten 22 runs was the highest scorer. Abhishek for Carman took 4 wickets whereas as Ashutosh got 2 wickets. In the second match, St Thomas won by 7 wickets in a closely contested match against Indian Public School, Dehradun. Batting first, Indian Public School could just muster 106 runs losing all its wickets in process. Indian Public School’s Shubham Varma scored valuable 27 runs. St Thomas easily got to the target score losing just 3 wickets in process, thereby, ensuring itself a 7 wicket victory. For St Thomas, Kartik scored the highest 39 runs. Priyam contributed 31 runs. For, Indian Public School, Azim Akram and Vijay Singh took 1 wicket each.— TNS |
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The Bhrashtachar Raksha Morcha, led by former Pauri Garhwal parliamentarian Lieut-Gen Tej Pal Singh Rawat (retd), organised a massive convention in the district, giving shivers to not only the BJP and the Congress but also to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which has a mass base in the district.
To create awareness among people about the ill-effects of consumption of alcohol and non-vegetarian food, hundreds of women took out an awareness march here today.
