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Poaching Fear
World Water Day
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Family members of missing Irish journalist visit Mussoorie
commercial use of cooking gas
Tender process for parking lots begins
Alva greets people on New Year
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Poaching Fear
Dehradun, March 22 According to the reports, the newly elected MLAs who were to return to Dehradun from New Delhi yesterday were suddenly sent to MP and instructed to visit the famous Mahakaal temple. A senior leader from the BJP said the MLAs are now availing the hospitality of the MP government, “As a precautionary measure, the BJP is trying to keep the group of MLAs (around 22) together, most of them are new recruits to the party and the Congress leaders have tried to get in touch with them. Instead of keeping one or two MLAs cloistered in a hotel room that would have attracted unnecessary attention, the party decided to send a group of MLAs together to MP,” added the leader. Meanwhile the MLAs are not only enjoying the hospitality of the Madhya Pradesh government but would also get acquainted with the ideology of RSS. “It is not certain, if the MLAs would be delivered oath of allegiance to the party and the RSS but the visit to the Mahakaal has provided a spiritual angle to the MLAs sudden movement to Madhya Pradesh,” said the leader. Faced with the prospect of it’s MLAs deserting from the party in Karnataka, the BJP central leader ship had conducted similar exercise when most of the MLAs were kept holed up at a famous resort. A fractured mandate in Uttarakhand has made the MLAs susceptible to all kinds of inducements, with the Congress yet to prove it’s majority, the BJP is keen to guard it’s MLAs and even if it means keeping them holed up in a resort with all the VIP facilities. “The BJP is keen to keep it’s flock together, as the Bahuguna government faces the trust vote in the coming days,” said the leader.
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World Water Day
Mussoorie, March 22 The officials recovered several bills in the process and also diconnected four water
connections due to the non-payment. Out of the four water connections discontinued today, two were of domestic consumers while other two were commercial connections. Jal Sansthan JE TS Rawat said the exercise would continue till the end of March and the target was to achieve 100 per cent recovery results. He further lamented the fact that consumers were not paying their water bills despite the fact that the drinking water was being provided at subsidised rates to the consumers. He appealed to the residents to deposit their pending bills on time or else face disconnection. He further said the storage capacity of drinking water in Mussoorie was around 7.67 MLD (million litre per day) and the demand was around 14 MLD resulting in the shortage of 50 per cent which was being met through 2.58 crore litre water stored in the reservoirs during winter. TS Rawat said the installation of additional 11 kv electricity supply line apart from already existing 6 KV line for the Kolti pump house has enabled the department to use their water pumping stations round the clock. The continuous availability of electricity has enabled the department to supply adequate drinking water to the town at present. When questioned about the damaged drinking water stand posts installed in the various areas of the town for poor residents in the town, JE Rawat said all such post would be replaced by new ones within a day or two. “We hope that this year the department is able to supply adequate drinking water to the consumers as there is enough water in natural springs due to good rainfall and snow in winter and in case of any drinking water crisis in summer, they were ready to supply water through tankers” added TS
Rawat.
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Family members of missing Irish journalist visit Mussoorie
Mussoorie, March 22 Jonathan Spollen (28), a freelance writer and journalist from Ranelagh, has not been seen or heard since February 3. Members of Jonathan’s family also contacted many shopkeepers and hotels around Mussoorie early this morning in the hope of getting information about his whereabouts. Jonathan’s family members said till recently he had been based in Hong Kong and was working for the International Herald Tribune. He was reportedly staying in Rishikesh of late. Jonathan’s father David Green, who is also here to assist in the search for his son, told The Tribune that Jonathan was planning a trek to the Himalayas at the time he went missing. He had planned to visit Delhi to meet a friend but he changed his mind. Jonathan arrived in India from Nepal in November last year and was planning to leave the country by February 21 when his visa was due to expire. David said his son was an international journalist. “He was a kind of journalist who was interested in people; many of his reports were human interest stories within big political events,” he said. He added Jonathan left Hong Kong in November, 2011, to explore his interest in India and to do trekking. “What we know so far is this: Jonathan rang up his mother on February 3 to say he was going on trekking before his visa expires on February 21. He told his mother that he would contact her in a couple of weeks and was looking forward to returning home. He had been contacting friends and his family frequently. No one has heard from Jonathan since then,” David said. “On February 13, Jonathan spoke to an American tourist at Laxman Jhoola when the latter was reading a book, “Shantaram” by GD Phillips that he was also reading. This was the last time he was seen. On March 10, two American tourists found a small rucksack with a sleeping bag, some clothes, a passport and bank cards near a stream about 3 km from Phoolchatti. Searchers found some more documents a kilometre up the track,” added David. The police in the area has made all efforts to trace Jonathan and brought a sniffer dog from Dehradun for the purpose. Local trekking companies also helped the police to trace him in the Garur Chatti to Neelkanth area, but to no avail. Ailing David Green has appealed to the people to contact the police at Laxman Jhoola at phone number 0135-243 0228 or Jonathan’s family to provide any clue about his whereabouts.
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commercial use of cooking gas
Mussoorie, March 22 The local administration team, headed by Nayab Thesildar Matadin, began the raid discreetly from Library Bazaar and carried on till the other end of
the town. The team confiscated domestic gas LPG cylinders from Hotel Imperial, Hotel Hill Queen and Hotel Mall Palace. They also checked the kitchen of famous restaurant Nirulas where all cylinders in use were found to in commercial usage. As soon as the news of the administrative checking drive spread, shopkeepers were seen hiding domestic cylinders in hurry. Informing the media, Matadin said the drive was carried out in the wake of the tourist season and of numerous complaints of misuse of domestic
cylinders for commercial purposes. He further said the use of domestic gas cylinders by commercial establishment would not be tolerated and apart from taking legal action, such surprise raids would be conducted from time to time in future. Some residents raised the issue of favouritism while conducting the raid to which Matadin said all
were equal in the eyes of the law and raid would be conducted without partiality.
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Tender process for parking lots begins
Dehradun, March 22 The DMC earned Rs 2.94 lakh as fee from the parking lots at the Telephone Exchange and Rs 2.47 lakh from the parking lot at Deen Dyal Park last year. This year, it is expecting increase in earning from the parking lots. Public places like Gandhi Park and commercial areas like Estely Hall and Chakrata Road, where the DMC earlier invited tenders for allotting parking lots, had been declared free for public use.
This decision was taken at the last meeting of the board. “The decision regarding free parking areas for public was taken by the members of the DMC Board on popular demand. This means loss of income to the DMC but such decisions have to be taken in public interest,” said Mayor Vinod Chamoli. Leader of the Opposition Ashok Verma said the way the DMC lost revenue from three parking lots in the city, which always remained crowded, did not augur well for its financial health.
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Ex-director of sahitya akademi remembered
Dehradun, March 22 Twenty-five students from Punjabi University and Gurmat College, Patiala, also participated in the event. Dr Harbhajan Singh, Director of the akademi, released the March edition of the akademi publication ‘Panchvati Sandesh’. The commemoration began with the ‘akhand paath’ followed by ‘kirtan’ by Bhai Kanwar Pal Singh. Prithvi Pal shed light on the glorious past of the organisation and the contributions of Bibi Mohinder Kaur in enriching the religious literature on Guru Nanak Dev and Guru Granth Sahib. Dr Pal said, “The manuscripts based on the scripture with regard to the subject on Guru Nanak Dev should be digitised to preserve them for posterity.” Dr Jaspal Singh said Bibi Mohinder Kaur’s death anniversary would be commemorated on the premises each year the expenditure of which will be incurred by Punjabi University. A memorial lecture in her remembrance will also be held at Punjabi University. Bibi Mohinder Kaur, an adopted daughter of noted Punjabi litterateur Dr Balbir Singh, donated her residence to Punjabi University to carry out research work on Sikhism, especially on Guru Granth
Sahib.
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ONGC former Chairman interacts with trainees
Dehradun, March 22 In this context, he said the ONGC had an outstanding group of Directors at the top and the same type of expertise at various other levels down the line. “It is the leadership, motivation and the morale which enables them achieve the highest level of performance. The most important aspect is human relations,” he said. Col Wahi further said leadership equaled managerial skills and emotional intelligence. He pointed out that it was very important to develop leadership abilities. Elaborating further, he said, “Leadership is an ability to influence and inspire a group of people to move willingly and enthusiastically to achieve a common objective in a synergistic manner.”
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Exhibition of masks inaugurated
Dehradun, March 22 “The objective is to provide a platform to the artists to come up with their creative insight,” said Samia Akbar, REACH. She said the rural entrepreneurship for art and cultural heritage has always endeavoured to encourage unusual representations of art and crafts from across the country and present it to the people of Dehradun. This exclusive collection of masks produced by these creative beings will be showcased till March 28.
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Alva greets people on New Year
The Governor said, “May the Vikram Sanwat
2069 bring happiness, peace and prosperity in everyone’s life and enhance the feeling of brotherhood
to ensure progress.
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Shivalik B beat Doon University
Dehradun, March 22 Sukant of Doon University took four wickets. Chasing the target, the Doon University team was all out for 43 runs. Ajay scored the highest 23 runs. Aditya Tomar of Shivalik B took three wickets whereas Shravan Rawat took two.
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Dehradun, March 22