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Ratia Byelection
Adampur: Shake off Bishnois’ hegemony, CM to voters
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1,76,129 to cast votes
Mobile phone dealers directed to provide data of SIM cards regularly
KUTA Demands
Improve milch cattle breed through cross-breeding: Expert
Farmers told to sow wheat by Nov 30
Better roads promised in industrial sectors
Playing National Anthem before Movie Shows
Vacating disputed properties
Man held on rape charge
Chain snatcher arrested
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Ratia Byelection
Ratia, November 27 In an impressive show of strength, a day ahead of the end of campaigning, the Congress today organised a rally in Ratia town, where BK Hariprasad, AICC general secretary and in charge of Haryana affairs, also patted Hooda’s back by showering praise for, what he termed, people-friendly policies. Encouraged by an impressive turnout and effusive eulogies showered by several leaders, particularly those coming from neighbouring Punjab, Hooda announced, “Aaj se main Ratia ka, aur Ratia mera.” (From today onwards, Ratia is mine and I belong to Ratia). Reiterating his earlier stand on development with the help of figures, copies of which were distributed among mediapersons, Hooda said he spent Rs 330.48 crore on Ratia during his six-and-a-half year term against Rs 99.36 crore spent by his predecessor Om Prakash Chautala in his six-year regime. He assured voters in Ratia that if his candidate, Jarnail Singh, was elected the area would witness more development in the next three years than that in the past 30 years put together. In her speech, Bhattal said the people of Punjab cited the example of Haryana in the matter of progress, as the state, she maintained, had left her state far behind in several aspects. “Your Chief Minister gives you Rs 750 per month as old-age pension and Rs 31,000 on the marriage of poor girls under the ‘shagun yojna’, while in Punjab, the rates are Rs 250 and Rs 15,000, respectively, and that too are not paid for months together,” she said. BK Hariprasad ridiculed Chautala’s oft-repeated claims about fall of the Hooda government after the Ratia byelection and said whatever the results of this election, Hooda was going to complete his term and would again bring the party to power after the next elections. HPCC president Phool Chand Mullana, MP Ashok Tanwar, Ministers Paramvir Singh and Gopal Kanda, and CPS Prahlad Singh Gillankhera also addressed the rally. Meanwhile, Chautala today repeated that the Hooda government would fall soon after the Ratia and Adampur results. Chautala alleged that Hooda was trying to mislead people by making false claims about development. BJP nominee Mahavir Parshad today toured several villages and made an emotional appeal to give him the first victory of his political career. Meanwhile, a large number of the Congress leaders from neighbouring Punjab have spread out in the Sikh-dominated villages of Ratia. Balvinder Singh Goraya, joint secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, who has been camping at Ratia with his supporters, said they would remain here till polling was over. |
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Adampur: Shake off Bishnois’ hegemony, CM to voters
Adampur (Hisar), November 27 He said a victory for Congress nominee Kulbir Beniwal would open floodgates of development funds for Adampur, making it see unprecedented development of infrastructure for the next three years . Hooda said the Bishnois had only been bettering their own lot at the cost of those who elected them. It was now time that the hegemony was ended to enable the voters reap the benefits of democracy. The Chief Minister said former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala was claiming to form government after these byelections let him first explain how he planned to do it when the Congress enjoyed the support of 53 legislators in the 90-member House . He asked people not to be misled by these claims as the Congress would not only complete this term but also form the next government after the 2014 elections. HPCC chief Phool Chand Mullana said even Bhajan Lal was given the Congress ticket from Adampur by the Chief Minister’s late father, Ranbir Singh Hooda. He said the Bishnois had betrayed the party which had taken them in their fold for decades. Such people could not take care of the interests of their constituents. Congress general secretary BK Hari Parasad said the Congress was competent enough to look after the interests of all 36 communities of Haryana. All leaders claimed the Congress was certain to win the byelection. |
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1,76,129 to cast votes
Ratia, November 27 As many as 188 polling booths had been set up in the constituency, 170 in rural and 18 in urban areas, he said. The Haryana government had notified November 30 as a public holiday. |
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Mobile phone dealers directed to provide data of SIM cards regularly
Karnal, November 27 The dealers have been asked to verify the documents given by the customers as proof of identity and warned that any lapse on this count or instance of issuing more than one SIM against the same ID would attract action. While some of the dealers were indulging in such malpractices to meet the targets, some of the duplicate SIM cards were being used for criminal activities. Rakesh Arya, SP, Karnal, admitted that some SIM cards issued on fake IDs were being misused. He said the hoax bomb call in Kalra Market on November 3 was promptly traced by the police, but it was found that the SIM card was issued on a fake ID. Such SIM cards were used by criminals and posed problems for the law enforcing agencies. It was imperative that the district police had data about the SIM cards issued by the dealers along with ID proofs, he said. As per the law, a SIM card cannot be activated unless the documents pertaining to ID proof are verified, but in most of the cases the dealers activate the SIM card immediately. Complaints of misuse of ID of bonafide customers by the dealers have also come to notice. In one case, a dealer issued five SIM cards on the same ID and the customer was not even aware that his ID was being misused by strangers. The step would rein in the unscrupulous dealers who issued the SIM cards without proper identification and facilitating the criminal and anti-social elements. |
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KUTA Demands
Kurukshetra, November 27 The two demands, creation of posts of professor in the university-managed colleges and the Directorate of Correspondence Courses (DCC) and a five-day week for the teachers, had remained unresolved during the final round of talks of the KU authorities and KUTA on November 22 and the agitation was called off after the authorities assured that these demands would be placed in the meeting on the EC on November 29. Dr Pradeep Chauhan, KUTA president, said: “We are hopeful that the university will keep its promise and accept both demands and warned that in case the demands are not amicably settled, the teachers may resume the agitation.” Dr Chauhan said both Vice-Chancellor and the government had assured that the demands would be favourably considered but we still appeal to the Chief Minister to intervene in the matter and direct the officials concerned to resolve the matter in a positive manner. Pleading that the university’s colleges are a part of the university, Dr Chauhan said the government notification and the University Act was very clear in this regard and the university was competent to take a decision on this issue. Regarding the five-day week demand, he said the same had already been implemented for non-teaching staff and two universities of the state had already implemented it for the teachers and as such there should be no hitch in taking a decision on this issue also. KU teachers had started agitation on November 16 and threatened to stop all examination and evaluation work and resigned from additional responsibilities and called off the agitation on November 22 after extracting an explicit assurance from the VC that the demands would be discussed in the EC meeting. |
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Improve milch cattle breed through cross-breeding: Expert
Karnal, November 27 Speaking at the one-day “Dairy Conclave” organised by CII Northern Region, he said providing artificial insemination facility on farmers’ doorstep alone could achieve it. Stressing that the dairy sector must go hi-tech for higher milk productivity, Dr Dangi said keeping in view the limited availability of fodder, improving the breed of unidentified species of Indian milch cattle by cross-breeding with high-yielding animals alone can increase milk production and also reduce the number of non-productive animals. He said the Haryana Government was providing subsidy to dairy farmers to go hi-tech, added that the state had fully controlled the “foot and mouth disease”. Director, NDRI, AK Srivastava stressed the need for the extension of processing units and stated that out of the total production, 36 per cent of milk did not reach the market and effective steps needed to be taken to ensure that the maximum quantity of milk reached the processing stage. The main objective of the conclave was to bring the farmers, researchers, processing industry and dairy experts on one platform to discuss the twin issues of increasing both production and productivity of milk and strengthen the dairy sector economy. Issues like optimum farm size, proper dietary management and advanced genetic techniques were also discussed during the conclave. During discussions on “Economics of Indian Dairy” stress was also laid on Private Public Participation (PPP) for building and strengthening dairy infrastructure and evolving strategies to cope with the increasing domestic demand and at the same time leveraging the export potential of dairy products to capture the vast global market. |
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Banking aspirants cane-charged
Karnal, November 27 A large number of candidates, who were not carrying the required documents and other proofs like receipt of the fee paid, identity proof or the roll number slip, entered the examination centres but after checking the documents, they were sent out. The angry candidates, including a large number of women, lodged a protest and raised slogans and the situation aggravated to such an extent at Dayal Singh College that the police had to resort to a mild cane charge to disperse the crowd. The situation was no different at other centres and on an average about 100 candidates were declared ineligible to sit for the test for want of documents. Some students who had downloaded the roll number slips from the Internet were also not allowed to appear in the test. The candidates complained that they had paid the fee but there was no record at the examination centres and all their pleas to allow them to sit for the test were dismissed. |
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Farmers told to sow wheat by Nov 30
Jind, November 27 According to Dr Amardeep Singh, Deputy Director, Agriculture, though the primary and main season of sowing the main varieties of the crop had nearly been over, he said those farmers who had been waiting to sow the late varieties, including the PBW-373, RAJ-3765, UP-2338 and WH-1021, ought to hurry up and complete the work by end of this month, if they want good or desired yield. Those farmers who opt to sow the crop after November 30 could face the risk of decreasing yield up to 5 kg per acre and this yield could go up reducing 5 kg per acre per day after this period. It is stated that this could be due to that fact that seeds require proper humidity and temperature to get due germination and in a desired time so that the yield was not affected at the end. For good result he said the farmers should put 5-10 kg of additional seeds in one acre and ensure that sowing was done with help of a sowing machine instead of manual method. While it is stated that farmers must get the seeds treated with a pesticide, including the Rexol, the farmers using the late varieties have been asked to get the manure of urea sprayed during the sowing period so that seeds get proper warmth to germinate immediately. Regarding the irrigation, it is claimed that first supply of water to the field was required to be made on the 21st day of the seed sowing. The advisory states that farmers ought to be careful about the quality of soil and humus in the field and should get these tested and treated as indiscriminate use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides tend to affect adversely the overall fertility of the soil and a proper management of the soil and humus quality could be an important factor for reaping a rich harvest of the crop. |
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Better roads promised in industrial sectors
Faridabad, November 27 The assurance was given by Rakesh Gupta, Deputy Commissioner, during his meeting with a delegation of the Faridabad Industries Association (FIA). Representatives of local departments as well as Municipal Corporation Faridabad (MCF) attended the meeting. This is the first meeting of the Deputy Commissioner with entrepreneurs of the city after he assumed charge a few days ago. SK Goel, president of FIA, said that the major issue of concern at the meeting was the below-par infrastructure in industrial sectors. NK Katara, Chief Engineer, MCF, assured that the choked drains in those sectors would be cleared on a priority basis. He made a commitment that minor repairs and patchwork on industrial sector roads would be completed by the end of the year. Sectors 6, 24, 25 and DLF are industrial sectors in the city. Poor roads and drainage system are the long standing complaints of the industrial units here. The roads get submerged in water during rains as there is no proper drainage system. The Deputy Commissioner directed the Joint Commissioner, NIT, MCF, to remove encroachments along the Neelam-Bata Road as well as near the erstwhile thermal station in the area. This was in response to a suggestion by Navdeep Chawla, senior vice-president, FIA. |
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Playing National Anthem before Movie Shows
Panipat, November 27 The two multiplexes - Fun Cinemas and the multiplex in the Mittal Mega Mall - were found violating the Act by playing the National Anthem before the movie shows. Instead of initiating legal action against the violators, the district administration let them off lightly by issuing a notice, which banned playing the National Anthem before the movie show. Deputy Commissioner JS Ahlawat said, “The National Anthem could not be played or sung in a closed room, and thus it was a violation of the Act. The ban has been imposed to prevent insult to the National Anthem.” However, the move did not go down well with legal experts, who stated that the multiplexes should not be let off so easily and legal action should be initiated against
them. Momin Malik, a senior lawyer of the district, said while granting permission to operate multiplexes, the owners were required to give an undertaking that the Act would not be violated. He said if the multiplex violated the clauses, the authorities should withdraw the permission given to them. |
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Vacating disputed properties
Karnal, November 27 The police made the arrests on a complaint filed by Dr Anil Sharma, who alleged that six persons came to his clinic and threatened to kill him and his family if he did not vacate his clinic, took Rs 20,000 in cash and also told him to arrange Rs 5 lakh in two days, DSP (City) Joginder Rathi said. The police registered cases against the suspects, Om Prakash, Gulab Singh, Ajmer Singh, Ashok Kumar, Narender Batra and Balraj Singh, under various sections of the IPC for allegedly forging documents and threatening the doctor. Rathi said eight cases had already been registered against the suspects and during interrogation, they revealed the names of some other members of the gang and a manhunt had been launched to arrest them. However, some miscreants of the Ram Nagar area blocked the Karnal-Kaithal road near Hansi Chowk for one hour, alleging that the cops had arrested innocent persons. The modus operandi of the gang was to identify disputed properties, forge the property documents and get the premises vacated by intimidating and threatening the occupants or extorting a huge sum of money from them by posing as property dealers. Surprisingly, five out of the six arrested persons have been outstanding athletes and sportsmen. One of them was a national hockey player, two were kabbadi players while two others were state-level wrestlers. |
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Man held on rape charge
Rewari, November 27 A senior police official said when the girl was going to take a tuition on November 6, she was taken by the accused in his tempo to a deserted place where she was raped and then dropped back near her residence by the accused who also threatened her with dire consequences if she opened her mouth in this regard. Subsequently, the girl fearing social stigma committed suicide on November 8. However, recently when deceased’s sister scrutinized the call details of the victim’s mobile phone, she came to know that it was Ramesh who was behind the demise of her sister. Last evening, she informed the police, which arrested Ramesh who confessed to the crime. |
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Chain snatcher arrested
Rewari, November 27 When the motorcycle-borne duo snatched Laxmi’s chain, she
overpowered Sanjay while Sachin managed to flee. Subsequently, Sanjay was handed over to the police. He was produced in a local court, which remanded him in police custody for four days. |
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