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Molestation
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Move to improve parking spaces in Mussoorie
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Shopkeepers consult lawyers over removal of shutters
St. Thomas College win junior cricket tourney
Panditwari residents block traffic in protest
Shoddy carpeting of roads irks Dalanwala residents
Prof Aggarwal, saints start meditation to save Ganga
Prof GD Aggarwal sits on meditation for Ganga cleaning in presence of Swami Avi Mukteshwaranand, MC Mehta and Swami Shivanand at Matra Sadan in Haridwar on Thursday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Mayank, Anshul steer SGRR to victory
A batsman in action in a match in the 60th Dehradun District Cricket Tournament in Dehradun on Thursday. A Tribune photograph
Institute holds national debate competition
Skins of tiger, leopard seized, five arrested
Chakrata traders meet Garhwal zone Commissioner
RIMC debate contest 
Chandragupta section winner
Dehradun, February 9 An inter-section English debate competition was held in two categories at Rashtriya Indian Military Academy (RIMC) today. The competition was held in the junior and senior categories. In the senior-category, there were two rounds- preliminary and the finals. Carol P Joseph, Principal, Kasiga School, presents a trophy to the winners of the debate competition at Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun.
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Panwar accuses SI of implicating him
Ajay Ramola
Mussoorie, February 9 Panwar, who got bail in the case from the district court yesterday, also accused the police of falsely implicating him in the case. He alleged that a sub-inspector posted at the local police station had threatened him with dire consequences after he refused to accept bribe in an accident case a few months ago. The sub-inspector falsely implicated him in the molestation case on February 4, picked him up from his home and took him to Dehradun without informing his parents. Panwar told the SHO that the sub-inspector had been waiting to settle scores with him and on Saturday last when he (SHO) was not in the town and he registered a case of molestation against him on a false complaint by a woman employee of a hotel. Panwar said though he had been active in politics for several decades, he had never been accused of being involved in any crime. He demanded strict action against the sub-inspector, who allegedly acted out of personal grudge and tried to defame him by implicating him in a false case. Local MLA Jot Singh Gunsola also came out in Panwar’s support and demanded an inquiry into the incident. Gunsola said it was condemnable that the police was acting in such a vindictive manner. He requested the SHO to act in a transparent manner in the case and arrest the real culprits to give justice to the aggrieved woman. Members of Panwar’s family also alleged that the sub-inspector had also conspired to register a case under Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC against Panwar which was quashed by the court in Dehradun yesterday. The SHO assured the protesters that he would look into the issue and if any police official was found involved, strict action would be taken against him. The sub-inspector concerned was not available for comments as he had been on leave since yesterday.
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Move to improve parking spaces in Mussoorie
Mussoorie, February 9 The officials met MMC president OP Uniyal and shared with him their views on the ways to beautify and develop the town. Uniyal apprised the officials about the chronic problem of parking in the town due to which the tourists had to suffer, especially during the peak season. Uniyal along with the officials visited several areas like Library Bazaar to explore the possibility of constructing new parking spaces. Uniyal also suggested to the inspection team to upgrade open spaces owned by the MMC at the Library bus stand and beautify them so that tourists could relax there. The visiting officials also discussed the possibility of improving other basic amenities. They earmarked a location for parking in the town. Later speaking to mediapersons, Uniyal said a list of proposed works was being prepared to provide relief to the residents of the town and the tourists.
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Shopkeepers consult lawyers over removal of shutters
Dehradun, February 9 Anil Kumar, shopkeeper, said he install shutter in his shop after leaving a space of two metres as per the MDDA guidelines and felt that he did not do anything illegal in doing so. He blamed the MDDA for harassing shopkeepers for no reason. Vinod Gupta, another shopkeeper, reasoned saying that they could not keep the stock in their shops in open and required shutters for the safety. “The place becomes dark and unguarded at night time. Who will take the responsibility if the things kept in our shops gets stolen. We need to ensure safety of our shops,” he said. The shopkeepers want to wait for a week till the state government clears the picture on the space to be left before the shops. Ajay Goyal, shopkeeper, said, “The Commissioner, Garhwal Zone, has assured us taht the picture would be clear in the next 5 days whether to leave two meter space as the MDDA wants or two feet as we demand. There is no purpose in removing the shutters now as the decision on this issue will come within a week.” The shopkeepers are also assuming that the threat of penalty of Rs 500 a day for shutters will also be waived on their demand.
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St. Thomas College win junior cricket tourney
Dehradun, February 9 The St. Thomas College team won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 106 runs for the loss of five wickets in the allotted In reply, St. Josephs’ Academy scored 100 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs, thus losing the match by six runs. Garvit was the top scorer for St. Josephs’ Academy with 26 runs. Naveen Rana took three wickets for 11 runs while Rishab Ramola and Shivang Vauish took two wickets each. Rishab Ramola was declared the man of the match. Brother George, principal, St. Josephs’ Academy, who was the chief guest on the occasion, gave away the prizes. Other guests included RV Gardner, principal, St. Thomas College, Brother Anthony, vice-principal, St. Josephs’ Academy, and Alok Virmani, principal of Raja Ram Mohan Roy Academy.
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Panditwari residents block traffic in protest
Dehradun, February 9 The protest resulted in a traffic jam, which lasted for two hours. The residents also gheroed the Panditwari police post. Additional Mukhya Nagar Adhikari Harak Singh Rawat was also called in to pacify the agitated residents. The traffic was allowed to resume only then. The water in the locality had been accumulating for past few months, as there is no exit point for water in the area. The PWD was supposed to build drains up to half a kilometre from Panditwari to Anurag Nursery for a smooth outflow of water. This project worth Rs 11 lakh had been sanctioned but the work has not started yet. Rawat said the matter had nothing to do with the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC). “The DMC had no role in the matter. The PWD has to make the drains, but what I found out was that one of the two pits dug by the DMC had blocked and I got that opened. Besides, the DMC will also build makeshift drains up to Anurag Nursery till PWD starts its work. This will certainly solve their problem to a large extent,” he said. A team of engineers and experts hired to prepare master plan for the flawed drainage system of the city had specifically pointed out Panditwari. They pinpointed it for being wrongly built at a lower slope. After this locality was built, the free flow of the water got blocked. Now the residents are paying heavily for it.
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Shoddy carpeting of roads irks Dalanwala residents
Dehradun, February 9 Balbir Road which was carpeted a month ago has broken at many places. Pritam Road had been damaged at various points. Nemi Road had been covered up roughly after sewerage and drinking water pipes were laid down there. Huge pits can be seen on the road. Many roads have been dug up to lay pipelines and as per the previous experience, these will take another two months to complete the pipe work, another two months to finish the covering up and another two months for carpeting. There seems to be no end to the woes of Dalanwala residents as far as the bad condition of roads is concerned. President of the All-India Consumers Council, Uttarakhand, Brigadier KG Behl (retd), said, “Many aged people in Dalanwala can neither walk nor drive around on such roads as the repeated jolts are not good for their joint or back problems.” Many got injured while treading on broken roads. He also complained of the inordinate delay in carpeting the roads. President of the Dalanwala Resident Welfare Association Chander Nandwani expressed surprise the way the carpeting was completed on the roads within a month. He also mentioned, “There is utter confusion about the agencies because some are built by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation and some by the PWD and now the ADB too has jumped in. When complaints are made to any one of them, it passes the buck to another.” SK Jain, Executive Engineer, ADB, washed his hands off the responsibility of carpeting, saying, “We just covered the dug-up roads and the carpeting was done by the PWD.” About the repair work abandoned in the middle and the digging started on many roads, he said, “The repair work was left at many spots in Dalanwala which now will be completed. Similarly, we will also cover roads within two months of digging work.” It was difficult to believe his words as the ADB jumped over its deadlines by three to four months in the previous cases, he said. On the issue of faulty carpeting, Chairman, PWD, Lalit Mohan admitted shortcomings in carpeting and said, “The weather is not right as the main ingredient in carpeting bitumen does not stick together and chips off easily. But given to the extreme pressure put on us due to the Assembly election in the state, we had to carpet the roads in December to give temporary relief to the residents. Now when the rain gets over and summer sets in, we will carpet the roads again.”
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Prof Aggarwal, saints start meditation to save Ganga
Haridwar, February 9 Aggarwal along with four other saints, including noted environmentalist and Magsaysee awardee Rajendra Singh, are meditating as part of the Ganga Seva Abhiyan (Save Ganga-Save Future campaign) to ensure the river remains clean and its sanctity intact. Haridwar is the second phase of the meditation movement, which began at Ganga Sagar and later at Prayag. The movement initiated by Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswatiji, a disciple of Sri Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati Maharaj, is based on five important points. The foremost point is to allow an unhindered flow of the Ganga and other important rivers Mandakini, Alaknanda and Bhagirathi by ensuring that no more dams and hydroelectric projects are implemented on them. Further, concrete steps should be taken to ensure the Ganga flows naturally till Ganga Sagar with prohibition on hydroelectric projects. Secondly, the ecology of the Ganga should be handled with sensitivity and the diversion of the river water to canals should be strictly monitored by framing a proper policy. Thirdly, the allocation of thousands of crores of rupees in the name of cleaning the Ganga should be stopped and emphasis should be laid on utilising the funds generated from the Ganga itself by way of quarrying, irrigation water rent and other means. Similarly, the activists are also demanding the shifting of industrial units to a place at least 50 km from the Ganga riverbed in all cities where industries are polluting the river with industrial waste and chemicals. A Bill for making the Ganga clean be passed with provisions of stern punishment for those who polluted it. About the meditation movement, Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati said after various Ganga pollution control initiatives of the Central government, social movements, awareness drives and even legal litigation failed to deliver, they decided to take to the meditation path. He added the activists felt as sage Bhagirath brought the holy Ganga to earth through tapsya, they too decided to adopt the path of meditation to clean the river. Matra Sadan founder Swami Shivanand said the government and the people too needed to be serious about the issue as the Ganga was worshipped by Indians worldwide. This meditation would continue till Phalgun Poornima and if the government did not take any action, they would take the movement to Kashi as well. Prof Aggarwal is living only on water.
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Mayank, Anshul steer SGRR to victory
Dehradun, February 9 In the first match, University of Petroleum defeated Shivalik (A) by 165 runs. After winning the toss, University of Petroleum elected to bat first and scored 240 runs.
In reply, Shivalik (A) was all out on 75 runs. Abhishek remained the highest scorer for the team with 16 runs. In the second match, SGRR beat Modern Knight by 2 wickets. After winning the toss, Modern Knight elected to bat first and scored 143 runs all out. Mayank and Anshul made the highest score for the team, 45 and 27 runs, respectively. For the SGRR team, Randeep took four wickets while Rajesh, Mohit and Prashant took one wickets each. In reply, SGRR scored 144 runs with two wickets in hand. Manoj and Gulzar remained the highest scorers for the team with 38 and 28 runs, respectively.
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Institute holds national debate competition
Dehradun, February 9 The competition was formally inaugurated by lightening of the lamp by guest of honour Padamshree Shri Liladhar Jaguri, accompanied by renowned poet Puran Pant Pathik, Chairman of the institute SP Singh, managing secretary Gaurav Deep Singh and Director of the institute Prof B R Panhotra. The programme commenced with the speech by Prof Panhotra, who threw light on the life of Late Sardar Gurcharan Singh. Addressing the gathering, the managing secretary of the institute thanked the chief guest for gracing the occasion. Top universities and colleges of the country participated in the debate competition, including Delhi University, Aligarh Muslim University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Lucknow University and Doon University along with St Joseph’s Academy, Heritage School, Asian School, Kendriya Vidyalaya (FRI), Summer Valley School, Raja Ram Mohan Roy Academy, Navodalaya Vidyalaya and DAV Public School-Kotdwar. The panel of judges comprised of Dr AK Bhatnagar, Ex-Director of the Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dr Satpal Singh Sahani, Deputy Director Higher Education, Uttarakhand, and Dr VS Saini, an ex-scientist, the Indian Institute of Petroleum.
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Skins of tiger, leopard seized, five arrested
Dehradun, February 9 Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Northern Region’s head Ramesh K Pandey disclosed that acting on a tip-off, a joint operation involving the WCCB, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force and the Najibabad police started today in Najibabad which led to the arrest of five persons and seizure of one tiger and four leopard skins apart from bones and two iron-traps used for trapping of big cats. The kingpin of the five-member gang Dharmveer was also among those arrested. One of the five persons arrested is a native of the Dharchula area in Uttarakhand.
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Chakrata traders meet Garhwal zone Commissioner
Dehradun, February 9 Nabiyal assured them that he would forward their appeal to the state government. The traders also forwarded their demand in writing before the vice-chairman, Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA). MDDA officials had been insisting the traders to leave a 2-metre space before each shop on Chakrata Road for parking purpose but 40 shopkeepers, who have little space in their shops after the demolition, are insisting to reduce the space limit to two feet only. The president of the Chakrata Freehold Association, Virender Rawat, said, “The Commissioner has asked us to wait for another five days.” In the delegation, president of the Chakrata Traders Association Shashikant, president of the Doon Vyapar Mandal Vipin Nagliya and president of the State Traders Association Umesh Aggarwal also went to meet the Commissioner yesterday. It was after traders had met the Chief Minister on this issue, the CM directed the Commissioner to intervene in this matter and resolve the problem.
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Chandragupta section winner
Tribune News Service
Dehradun, February 9 The result of the competition is as follows- Junior category Best Speaker- Cadet Watandeep Singh (Chandragupta) Second Best Speaker- Cadet Gurvir Talwar (Pratap) Runners-up: Pratap section (195 points) Winner- Shivaji section (196 points) Senior category: Best Speaker in preliminary round- Cadet Rishav Raj (Chandragupta) Best Speaker in finals- Cadet Rishav Raj (Chandragupta) Second Best Speaker in finals- Cadet Amit Kumar Rai Runners-up: Chandragupta section Winner- Shivaji section The overall winner was the Chandragupta section. The judges on the occasion were Dr Shivika Dutt, Anne Singh and Sonia Sidhwani. Carol P Joseph, Principal, Kasiga School, was the chief guest. He praised the cadets for their chivalry, discipline and intellect. In his vote of thanks, Col Pankaj K Kumaria, Commandant, RIMC, thanked the judges and the chief guest for their presence.
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Officials of the Mussoorie Municipal Council (MMC), Tourism Department, Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) and the Public Works Department today inspected several places.
Dehradun, February 9
Residents of Dalanwala are upset over the shoddy repair and carpeting work done by Asian Development Bank
(ADB) agency as well as the Public Works Department. The roads which were carpeted hardly a month ago had begun chipping off at many places and water getting accumulated during rain. Those roads which were not carpeted had been left.
Renowned Ganga activist Prof GD Aggarwal, who has taken sanyas and is now known as Gyan Swaroop Sada
Nandji, has launched a meditation movement at the Matra Sadan ashram, 5 km from Haridwar city, to make the holy river clean.
University of Petroleum and Sri Guru Ram Rai (SGRR) school won their respective matches in the 60th District Cricket League here today.
In the first match, University of Petroleum defeated Shivalik (A) by 165 runs. After winning the toss, University of Petroleum elected to bat first and scored 240 runs.
Madhur and Mohit made the highest score for the team, 64 and 37 runs, respectively.
Under the aegis of Uttarakhand Technical University, the Sardar Bhagwan Singh Post Graduate Institute of Bio-Medical Sciences and Research,
Dehardun, conducted a two-day long Sardar Gurcharan Singh Memorial 5th National Debate Competition here today.