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Councillor, union leaders bury the hachet
Encroachments removed, 3 arrested
Annual fest at Kanya Mahavidyalaya concludes with gala cultural eve
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Weapon owner held in BSP nominee shooting case
Ravi Malik, one of the accused in the shooting case of BSP candidate from Mussoorie Manoj Sharma, in police custody in Dehradun on Friday. A Tribune photograph
Spring festival begins today
Raslila by Braj artistes in Mussoorie
The Holi Milan function under way in Mussoorie on Friday.
Dr Jain is VC of Doon University
Sorry state of affairs for admission seekers to B.Ed courses
Police Water Sports Championship
Folk songs, dances mark day 2 of union week
Food Security Bill discussed
CM celebrates Khadi Holi
Clarification on signatures
Doon club beat DR Cricket Academy
Srijan-2012 fest concludes on happy note
DIG rewards police team for uniting lost boy with family
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Councillor, union leaders bury the hachet
Dehradun, March 2 Councillor Surender Singh Kukreja and the union
leaders signed a common letter in which they expressed regret for the incident and gave assurance to take precautions to avoid such disputes in future. Both sides agreed to sign the common letter, the content of which were smartly woven that did not hurt the ego of any side and conveyed the message as well. Kukreja, however, was hurt over the turn of events. “The way the issue was highlighted in this case clearly shows that there was some hidden hand behind this. Be it someone within the party or opponents will soon be exposed.” He thanked BJP as well as Congress councillors for backing him. Punit Mittal, city president of the BJP, said, “The councillor’s acceptance of having beaten the employees of the power department and electricity theft was not acceptable to us at any cost. If the councillor flew in rage, it was because of the brashness of the employees of the power department. So both sides committed mistakes and should feel regretted for that, which they did and the matter got resolved amicably.” GN Kotiyal, president of the Junior Engineer Association said, “The employees had only gone on strike but not snapped the electricity connection. They were unhappy over the insincerity shown by the administration toward them in this matter. Now we are pacified over the way the issue has been resolved. But we stand adamant on the legal case we filed against the councillor as the law will take its own course.” According to police sources, with the stalemate between both sides getting over, the legal case pertaining to the issue will also stand cancelled. Besides Kotiya, Principal Secretary, Power, SS Sandhu, Additional District Magistrate Vinod Kumar and Superintendent of Police, City, Jaswant Singh also mediated. BJP leaders who came with councillors were president, Dehradun Traders Association, Umesh Aggarwal, city BJP president Punit Mittal and state treasurer Vinay Goyal. Representatives of various union leaders of the power department that took part in the talks were AP Amoli, KR Kashyap, DC Dhyani, YS Tomar, Keshar Singh and GN Kotiyal.
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Encroachments removed, 3 arrested
Dehradun, March 2 Without giving any immidiate notice, the team just razed these houses to the ground once again. He also filed an FIR Their names are Manju, wife of Shiv Kumar, resident of Bijnaur, Dinesh Kumar, son of Jagan Nath, resident of Darbhanga, Manohar Yadav, son of Rameshvar, resident of Behraich. They have been arrested by the police. Rawat threatened the encroachers to vacate the land otherwise their household items, too, would be taken in possession.
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Annual fest at Kanya Mahavidyalaya concludes with gala cultural eve
Haridwar, March 2 Such was the varied performance of the participants that the whole auditorium reverberated with claps and applause from fellow students throughout the programme. Cultural, patriotic, folk and devotional acts cast a spell on the audience, with, time and again, teachers having to prevent students from coming on to the stage. Richa, Anamika Mishra and Kalpana Mishra gave a stupendous performance while enacting as Radha-Krishan and Yashoda. Patriotic touch added with folk and Bollywood genre by a group of girl students clad in Indian Tricolour attire was the highlight of the cultural eve. Prior to inaugurating of the event by renowned academician Mahavir Aggarwal, rendition of Saraswati Vandana and Lord Ganesh was done. In his address Mahavir Aggarwal highlighted the pivotal role of Kanya Mahavidyalaya in providing education with morality for the past few decades. He also urged students to participate in as many curricular activities as they could and show their hidden talent. This would increase their confidence in themselves. College head Veena Shastri highlighted the academic, sports and other achievements of the college in the past year. Dr Geeta Joshi, Dr Pradeep Joshi, Mool Chand Shastri Vidyapeeth, Principal Ashok Sharma, Pratibha Chauhan, Monika Tomar and Dr Aparna Sharma coordinated the whole event. Prizes and certificates were also given to the winners by Dr Veena Shastri.
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Weapon owner held in BSP nominee shooting case
Dehradun, March 2 Meanwhile, Manoj Sharma, who was under treatment at Jolly Grant Hospital, has been admitted to Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon. His condition is stated to be stable. According to information, Malik had worked for Manoj Sharma as his personal security officer for two months during the state Assembly elections recently. Malik, who had retired from the Army in July last year, had bought the .32-bore pistol used in the crime from Indian Ordinance Factory and got its licence issued from Udhampur, Jammu, in 1999. The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), GN Goswami, said the licence of the pistol would be verified. According to details, on Wednesday afternoon, Malik had gone to Sharma’s office to take his payment of Rs 20,000. However, he did not get the same. Later, he went to meet Lalit Yadav, a close friend of Sharma, near the latter’s office, where he was sitting in his car. The duo consumed liquor together. Thereafter, they followed Sharma’s Scorpio when he left his office for a guesthouse near Kolukhet. When Sharma came out of the guesthouse, Yadav opened fire at him from Malik’s pistol. After committing the crime, the duo fled the spot. After reaching Muzzfarnagar, Malik hired a private vehicle. Malik said he was not aware what had happened as he was in an inebriated state that time. Malik said he came in contact with Yadav through Sharma. He also refused that he had asked for Rs 20,000 from Sharma. Goswami, however, said they would interrogate him further to reach to the facts of the case. The SSP said a case against under the Arms Act would also be registered against
Malik.
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Spring festival begins today
Dehradun, March 2 Addressing a press conference today, Principal Secretary to the Governor Ashok Pai said along with promoting the commercial potential of the flower industry, the festival would also focus on curbing malnutrition among women and children through natural resources. “Besides the main flower exhibition, on display will be different techniques of floriculture. The two-day festival will provide opportunity for flower growers to interact with scientists and entrepreneurs and discuss the latest techniques and measures to improve the flower stock,” said Pai. He further said the state Governor would also release the first-day cover on Fuoli, a flower found in Uttarakhand. The main attraction will be a flower competition in different categories along with events in photography, fresh petal rangoli competiton, hanging pots and painting competition for children.
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Raslila by Braj artistes in Mussoorie
Mussoorie, March 2 Singers from Garhwal and dancers from Brindavan and Mathura presented a fusion of the two distinctive cultures that were much appreciated by the audience. The artistes from Garhwal namely Jeetendar Panwar, Kanta Prashad, Prem Khanduri, Sandeep Rana, Vijay Singh Binwal and Arvind Singh Negi sang several songs in the regional dialect in tune with the pecock dance performance from the group specially invited from Brindavan and Mathura. The team from Brindavan and Mathura presented Raslila, a form of dance belonging to the region of Braj, in which the stories of Lord Krishna and his consort, Radha, were enacted. Artistes Aakash and Prahlad, dressed in a colourful attire of Radha and Krishan, performed the peacock dance and song item on the basis of poems composed in Braj (A variant of Hindi spoken in the region of Braj). Later in the evening, the people also joined in to celebrate the colourful festival of Holi by throwing flower petals at each other. The president of PB films Pradeep Bhandari said Holi is celebrated to unite people and forget animosity with each other so that a harmony in the society is maintained. He further said the artiste from Uttarakhand and Brindavan had shown two different cultures could play an important role in uniting people despite differences in their lifestyle.
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Dr Jain is VC of Doon University
Dehradun, March 2 Dr Jain is Professor, School of Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. The Governor, who is the Chancellor of the university, has appointed Dr Jain in exercise of power vested under section 11, sub-section (1) of the Doon University Act, 2005. Earlier, Dr Girijesh Pant, the first VC of the university, had returned to his parent university of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, after a three-year stint. — TNS
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Sorry state of affairs for admission seekers to B.Ed courses
Dehradun, March 2 Sunil Aggarwal, secretary, Association of Self-financed Institutes, Uttarakhand, is of the opinion that the B.Ed and BP.Ed courses whose academic session has been delayed by a year were losing the number of admissions year by year, resulting in migration of B. Ed aspirants to other states of the country. He informed that there were no admissions to the B.Ed course in 2010. “The session for 2011-2012 would begin this year and would extend the entire admission process till the month of November, resulting in delayed session again,” he said. When contacted, the regional director of IGNOU, Dehradun, Anil Kumar Dimri, could not explain the reason behind refraining the B. Ed course from the new academic session. He said: “Through the circular passed by the higher authorities, IGNOU, at New Delhi, we are instructed to stop the new admissions in the course at six of our centers all over Uttarakhand directly associated with IGNOU, Dehradun.” However, the Association of Self-financed Institutes has proposed the university to regularise the course and scrap the delayed academic year 2011-12, to avoid further inconvenience of the students.
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Police Water Sports Championship Tribune News Service
Roorkee, March 2 In double scull (2,000 metre), Gyarsi Lal and Sushil Kuman of the ITBP won the gold medal while Vakinder Singh and Jagmeet Singh of Punjab bagged the silver medal. The Uttarakhand duo of Atul Singh and Yogendra Yadav won the bronze medal. In cock-less pair (2,000 metre), CS Sahu and Rajendra Singh and R Rajesh Kumar and Sinder Pal of the ITBP won the gold and silver medals, respectively. Uttarakhand again bagged bronze as its pair of Parminder Dhasmana and Dan Singh finished third. Uttarakhand clinched its first gold medal of the championship in cock-less four (2,000 metre) event when Manish Bhakuni, Bhaskar Dutt, Hoshiyar Singh and Deepak Mehta clocked the best timing of the event. ITBP team members CS Sahu, Rajendra Singh, Tarsem Singh and Sarma Singh had to be content with the silver medal while ITBP team of Khem Singh, Dharmendra, Robin and Sinder Pal won the bronze medal. IG Alok Sharma, SSP, Haridwar, Pushkar Sailal, Commandants, PAC, Sunil Kumar Meena, Ajay Rautella, circle police officers Kamlesh Upadhyaya, Manikant Mishra, besides distinguished sports persons witnessed the events. Heat events for kayaking and canoing were also held today with the final round scheduled for tomorrow.
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Folk songs, dances mark day 2 of union week
Dehradun, March 2 The programme began with the welcoming of the chief guest, Subodh Uniyal, former Congress MLA, Narendernagar. He was accompanied by Suryakant Dhasmana, state Congress vice-president, and Vishal Dobhal. Folk songs and dances were also presented.
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Food Security Bill discussed
Dehradun, March 2 Anil Kumar was speaking at a two-day Regional Consultation for North Zone on Right to Food Bill here today. The Livelihood Thematic Action Group of the Wada Na Todo Abhiyan along with Food and Water Security Coalition India, Oxfam (India) and Disha Social Organisation organised the function. Civil society members from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand discussed the Food Security Bill. Five regional consultations and a two-day national-level consultation are being organised on the issue across the country. On the other hand, Usha Goel, a social activist, said 70 per cent of the people suffering from hunger globally comprised of women. She added the Bill was good but we needed to bring accountability in its implementation. Avdhesh Kaushal, RLEK, said it needed to be ensured that food reached deserving people.
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CM celebrates Khadi Holi
Dehradun, March 2 He exhorted the guests to keep up the spirits of the festival and urged them to maintain the brotherhood along with cultural diversity. Local artistes of Uttarakhand presented folk songs and dances.
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Clarification on signatures
Dehradun, March 2 The office yesterday stated that such a procedure is not part of the rules and after consulting with the Election Commission, the Uttarakhand electoral office, the issue was brought to light. State Congress committee’s vice president Suryakant Dhasmana also said that during the time of counting of votes on March 6, the returning officers would match the serial number on the ballot and also if the signature was attested on Form-3 A. The Congress leader pointed out that counting of postal ballots will be taken up initially followed by counting of votes in the EVMs. —
TNS
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Doon club beat DR Cricket Academy
Dehradun, March 2 Batting first after winning the toss, the DRCA team scored 181 runs all out in 35 overs. Deepak was the top scorer with 44 runs. Opener Ankit also scored 31 runs. Rohit took three wickets for 21 runs. In reply, the Doon Tigers Club team scored 185 runs for five wickets to win the match by five wickets. Opener Vineet was the top scorer with an unbeaten 66 runs. Rohit and Arvind also scored 31 and 34 runs, respectively. Shaksham and Hari took two wickets each. —
TNS
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Srijan-2012 fest concludes on happy note
Dehradun, March 2 The event witnessed gathering of large number of students participating in various competitions from other colleges of Dehradun. A number of stalls of various games, lucky draw, jewellery, music and food courts were put up by students of various departments. The programme culminated with the closing ceremony of the fest while Arvind Gupta, chairman of the institute, gave away the prizes to the winners.
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DIG rewards police team for uniting lost boy with family
Dehradun, March 2 The boy, who was brought up by his maternal uncle Mukesh Kumar, employee at Ordinance Factory, Raipur, had ran away from home on October 21 last year. He had eaten gutka and got frightened when one of his friends threatened to inform about it to his maternal uncle. He ran away from home and travelled without ticket till Haridwar, where he joined nomads, who sell desi medicines by perching tents on roadsides. With them he left for Bareilly. Meanwhile, Kumar filed an FIR at Raipur police post on October 31 and thereafter met DIG Gunjiyal, apprehending kidnapping of the boy. The DIG constituted a team under Shweta Chaubey. According to her, it was difficult to trace the boy as he did not carry a mobile phone. The pressure from Ordinance Factory Union, too, was mounting on the police. Police teams raided the houses of his friends and relatives but of no avail. He called up one of his cousins in the city on January 26, from where the police began tracking him. It was then some women in the nomad group identified the boy from the picture and led the police to him. The boy who had now learnt some of the namads’ skill had gone to catch pigeons with the group. He is now happy for having reunited with his maternal uncle’s family. His lives with them as his own parents are very poor.
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The police today arrested Ravi Malik of Prem Nagar in the shooting case of BSP candidate from Mussoorie Manoj Sharma.
Malik’s pistol had been used to shoot at Manoj on February 29. The prime accused, Lalit
Yadav, is still absconding. Meanwhile, Manoj Sharma, who was under treatment at Jolly Grant Hospital, has been admitted to Medanta Hospital,
Gurgaon. His condition is stated to be stable.
Mussoorie, March 2
Amid colourful performances by students and local artistes, the festivity on the second day of the union week at DBS PG College today was filled with great enthusiasm.
Dehradun, March 2
