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Now, legal literacy in schools
Kids shown documentary
Monitoring ultrasound machines
No entrance test at CDLU
2 Dabwali fire victims crack IIT-JEE
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Sohna, Farukhnagar plans okayed
Gurgaon environment institute a non-starter
One shot, woman sarpanch hurt
No action against IFS officer
Cracks appear among agitating BPS law college students
Bhukkal promises security to girls
1 dead, 2 hurt in
mobike-Canter crash
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Now, legal literacy in schools
Rohtak, May 20 This was stated by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at the state-level legal literacy programme for students at Tagore Auditorium of the Maharishi Dayanand University here today. While Justice Swatantar Kumar of the Supreme Court was the chief guest, Justice MM Kumar of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the chief of the Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HSLSA) presided over the function in which several students were rewarded with cash prizes. Announcing the government’s decision to include the subject of legal literacy in the school curriculum of Haryana from the academic session 2013-14, Hooda said the field of legal literacy had assumed importance over the years. The students who would be taking over the reins of the country soon were required to be educated and armed with legal education and their rights in society so that they were able to fulfil their duties and obligations as aware citizens of the country. Claiming that Haryana had come up as a frontrunner state in the field, he said Legal Education Clubs had already started functioning in as many as 1,525 schools and 176 colleges across the state. Such clubs would also come up soon in various educational institutions. Regarding the menace of female foeticide in the state, he said several persons, including doctors, had been held and punished under provisions of law. Stating that the students were required to have knowledge of the legal framework and rules, Justice Swatantar Kumar said it was the youth who could use this knowledge for the betterment and welfare of society as a whole. |
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Kids shown documentary
Fatehabad, May 20 Even though he had merely been an onlooker, the police booked him, too, for smoking at a public place and put all five children in a reform centre as his poor mother was unable to arrange funds to get her son freed on bail. In the reform centre, Guddu was sexually abused by a warden and he and his friends murdered the warden while he had been asleep. In this way, a misdemeanour led Guddu to commit the heinous crime of murder, which marred his entire career. This is not a real story, but excerpts from a documentary shown to the children of DAV Centenary Public School here on Saturday by the DLSA to make them aware of legal issues. “Had Guddu and his mother been aware of their legal rights, they could have been saved from committing a bigger crime,” Gupta said. |
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Monitoring ultrasound machines
Chandigarh, May 20 The proposal had been prepared "to install silent observer chips in all ultrasound machines to assess the total number of ultrasound cases examined per day." — IANS |
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No entrance test at CDLU
Sirsa, May 20 The university has taken the decision in view of the lesser number of
candidates applying for admission to various courses. “Entrance test, essentially, is a process of elimination through which students with poorer aptitude are done away with to make room for meritorious students,” said the Vice-Chancellor, Dr KC Bhardwaj. |
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2 Dabwali fire victims crack IIT-JEE
Dabwali, May 20 Both survived, but not without suffering of
over 70 per cent burn injuries that have been tormenting them for the past 17 years. Today, despite all odds, both Prabhjot and Bhavik have cracked the IIT entrance exam due to their hard work and dedication. Prabhjot has secured the 84th rank while Bhavik is placed at the 1152nd rank in the merit list. “It is a great achievement that has made us all
proud,” said Vinod Bansal, general secretary of the Dabwali Fire Victims
Association. “Their feat becomes even more commendable as they have passed through a trauma of skin grafting surgeries and defacement due to the injuries they
suffered in the fire,” Bansal said. |
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Sohna, Farukhnagar plans okayed
Gurgaon, May 20 At the DPC meeting presided over by Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner PC Meena, it was decided to make provision for low-cost housing to meet the residential requirements of EWS and middle-income group people so that they do not go in for buying property in unauthorised colonies. Ahmed suggested that the width of the land strip outside the “Lal Dora” for villages having present population of 8,000 or more should be increased from 120 metres to 150 metres for future expansion.
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Haryana resource crunch Pradeep Sharma Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 20 Proposed to be set up during the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12), the institute could not be set up “due to lack of funds”, official sources said. A budget of Rs 2 lakh for environment awareness programmes in the 2011-12 budget had been released for the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB), Panchkula. The proposal for the institute, intended to promote sensitivity about environmental issues and close interaction with the industry, was first mooted in 2008-09. In the same year, Rs 1 lakh was released to the Haryana Institute of Public Administration (HIPA) for conducting refresher courses/training courses for industrial workers and the general public. While the institute failed to see the light of the day, the state government released Rs 1 lakh to the HSPCB in 2009-10. At one point of time, the state government even mulled the opening of the institute in HIPA’s complex in Gurgaon. It was also reported that the top brass of the state government, including the Chief Minister, was seized of the matter. Yet nothing concrete came out of the proposal. Why Gurgaon needs institute
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FEUD: LAND FOR COWS OR TEMPLE? Manish Sirhindi Tribune News Service
Panipat, May 20 In the incident, 55-year-old woman sarpanch of the village, Kamlesh, sustained a gun shot injury in her left foot while a 70-year-old villager, Sada Ram, was killed on the spot. Shiv Kumar, husband of the sarpanch, said the feud had erupted over four acres of village common land that had recently been spared for the construction of a Thakur temple in the village. However, Kala, another villager, wanted that this land should be used to construct a shelter home for cows. However, as the village was in favour of getting a temple constructed, the contentions put up by Kala were rejected by the panchayat. This did not go down well with Kala who descended on the house of the village sarpanch last evening along with some of his accomplices and opened fired at the sarpanch’s house. Villagers said Kala and his men fired at least 25 rounds at the sarpcnah’s house in which Kamlesh’s one and half years old granddaughter Sonu had a narrow escape. The police said it had registered a case against Kala and several others and had arrested Rakesh and Gopi, residents of the same village, while efforts were on to track down others who were involved in the firing incident, the police said.
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No action against IFS officer
New Delhi, May 20 Sanjeev Tomar had committed suicide on December 14, 2009 and his death was closely followed by the registration of an FIR for abetment to suicide against the then Division Forest Officer of Jhajjar, Sanjiv Chaturvedi, the Haryana cadre IFS officer who has been in the news since 2007 for allegedly exposing irregularities in the forest department of the state. No arrest was made in Tomar’s suicide case nor was any interrogation conducted. While Chaturvedi’s lawyers maintain that the act of suicide happened four months after the IFS officer’s transfer from Jhajjar, the father of the deceased insists otherwise. “My son was driven to commit suicide by Sanjiv Chaturvedi. He harassed my son. He used to send obscene SMSes to my son, who on May 22, 2009 complained to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests in this respect. The police even has a suicide note in my son’s hand. Chaturvedi should be arrested and questioned,” says 65-year-old Rampal Singh Tomar of Rohtak, who recently approached the NHRC and PMO for help. Both have recommended the Haryana Government through the DGP to take appropriate action. To strengthen his case, Rampal Tomar cites a report of the Forensic Science Laboratory, Madhuban, Karnal, which said that the handwriting in the suicide note was that of Tomar. While a father continues his fight for justice, Chaturvedi’s involvement in the abetment to suicide case remains to be proved. The state police is learnt to have prepared a closure report in the FIR concerned dated December 28, 2009 registered in Jhajjar police station against Chaturvedi and one woman but is yet to file it in court. The NHRC intervention to take “appropriate action” in the case is expected to lead to fresh action in the long-standing matter. Chaturvedi’s lawyers further maintain that the IFS officer during his tenure in Jhajjar exposed a plantation scam in which Tomar was involved and was suspended. Chaturdevi has faced a lot of heat in Haryana since 2007 for his role in exposing alleged forestry scams. And though the Central Vigilance Commission and CBI have recommended a probe on Chaturvedi’s complaint of forestry corruption in Haryana, the Department of Personnel and Training, in a recent note to the PMO, has said that the Centre has no jurisdiction to intervene. |
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Cracks appear among agitating BPS law college students
Sonepat, May 20 The number of the students sitting on an indefinite dharna in front of the main gate of BPS Mahila Vishwavidyalaya had gone down to around 25-30 by this evening from more than 1,000 on the first day and around 400 on the second day yesterday. In support of the agitating students, INLD activists led by the party’s secretary general, Ajay Singh Chautala, blocked the Gohana-Panipat national highway and the Gohana-Khanpur Kalan road on the outskirts of Gohana town this morning and the blockade continued till evening. It caused great inconvenience to the road users. Addressing the protesters, Ajay Singh Chautala blamed the university for such incidents on its premises and the government for its reluctance to inquire into such incidents
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Bhukkal promises security to girls
Jhajjar, May 20 Bhukkal was interacting with mediapersons after listening to public grievances at her residence here today. "The university authorities have also been directed to appoint more security personnel under outsource policy, if required, so that students could study amid a safe and congenial atmosphere," said the minister, adding that the police authorities did a great job by apprehending the accused within a record time. Making an appeal to protesting girls to end their agitation, Bhukkal said the protesters should now lift the blockade as all accused in the case had been arrested. In reply to a question regarding a demand being raised by some political and non-political outfits for a CBI probe into the Apna Ghar shelter house case, the minister said an impartial investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse, mental and physical exploitation and bonded labour was being conducted by the police authorities from various angles. Responding to another question, Bhukkal said final preparation was being made by the Education Department for smooth organisation of the State Teacher Eligibility Test (STET). The test would be conducted in July and a notification in this regard would be issued soon, she maintained.
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1 dead, 2 hurt in
mobike-Canter crash
Rewari, May 20 Girver and Lallan were referred to the PGIMS, Rohtak. The mishap took place when the youths were returning to Suthani village after attending a function at Bawal while the Canter was on its way to Jaipur. Navin and Girver worked as junk dealers whereas Lallan, a Bihari youth, ran a chicken shop in Suthani. |
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7 held for ‘satta’
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Adequate legal awareness regarding one’s rights has been instrumental in strengthening the democratic system of governance and it was time for a mass movement to achieve the objective of a level playing field for the common man.
Describing the incident of gang rape of a law student of BPS Women University at Khanpur Kalan village as “unfortunate”, Haryana Education and Social Welfare Minister Geeta Bhukkal has said the Congress government is serious towards the safety and security of girl students in the state hence the Vice-Chancellor of the university and the Sonepat district authorities have been asked to adopt measures to ensure that such incidents do not recur in future.
Both lost their mothers and a sibling each in the inferno that consumed 442 people, mostly women and children.