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HUDA residents to get potable water soon
DC asks govt to extend water supply to Mahendragarh canal
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Automatic Fingerprint Identification System set in motion
Electronic directory of blood donors launched
Jail inmates told to enhance creative skills
BJP Yuva Morcha holds protest
Karnal liquor vends to close at midnight
Over 1.56 lakh families in Sirsa have toilet facility
Media Courses
Khanpur Kalan institutes making a mark: Speaker
KU issues academic calendar for 2012-13
Five friends held for murder of student
3 held for stealing cotton from Pak-bound trucks
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HUDA residents to get potable water soon
Sirsa, June 14 Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar informed this in a meeting where representatives of the Resident Welfare Associations of the HUDA sectors raised their long-standing problems before the authorities. The HUDA has developed three sectors in Sirsa: Sector 19 and 20 and Sector 21 through a private approved developer. The residents, here, were not getting clean drinking water even after 20 years of the making of the first sector. Tanwar said a sewage-treatment plant (STP) for Rs 45.34 crore would also be set up very soon for the HUDA sectors. At present, the residents are getting water supply from tubewells installed in nearby Farwai village while there is no sewerage-treatment plant for the sector. Residents allege they have been getting water with higher total dissolved sold (TDS) contents than specified for drinking water. The sewerage waste of the sectors is being left in the open towards residential plots of Part 3 of Sector 20. Tanwar, whose own palatial house is coming up in Sector 20, said Sirsa would be the only city where HUDA is setting up
STP so early. “In many other towns of Haryana, the HUDA has not set up any STP though six or more sectors have been developed,” he said claiming credit for the two projects. Deputy Commissioner J Ganesan, ADC Rajiv Rattan, SDM Munish Nagpal and members of the Residents Welfare Associations of the HUDA sectors were present in the meeting.
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DC asks govt to extend water supply to Mahendragarh canal
Jhajjar, June 14 A communiqué in this regard has recently been sent by the Mahendragarh district authorities to Financial Commissioner-cum-Principal Secretary, Irrigation. Mahendragarh Deputy Commissioner Dr Saket Kumar has urged the commissioner to extend water supply to the
Mahendragarh canal system by a week to meet the requirement of filling of tanks and village ponds of the district. Notably, the Mahendragarh canal has dried up because its flow was stopped thrice last week owing to recovery of bodies from the canal. “The Mahendragarh canal usually runs from June 2 to June 17 every year but the canal system this time received hardly one third share of the required water supply. Water supply has been affected in the Narnaul branch which meets the requirement of potable and irrigation supply of a large numbers of villages,” said Kumar. He maintained that water tanks could not be filled because of inadequate supply of water leading to hue and cry among the masses due to scarcity of drinking water for human as well as animal population in Narnaul and adjoining areas. The DC has urged the Financial Commissioner to continue water supply till June 25 instead of June 17 due to extensive heat
conditions. “The village fields and taps in houses have dried up. Water tanks are empty affecting water supply to residential areas. Village ponds have also dried up,” said Rajesh Kumar, a local resident. Meanwhile, an Irrigation Department official said that the district gets its water supply from the Yamuna but the supply dropped tremendously
this time.
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Eight peacocks succumb to heat stroke
Gurgaon, June 14 The situation is particularly awful during the cruel summer months, with many of the hapless creatures succumbing to the intense heat wave and dry environs. For instance, at least eight peacocks have died at the Hasanpur village of the district located in the Aravalli foothills during the past few days. After being informed of the deaths by the villagers, local Wildlife Department officials visited the spot and sent the carcasses of three peacocks, including a peahen, for the postmortem examination. Some other peacocks, which were found in a critical condition, have been sent to a local veterinary hospital for treatment. According to a veterinary officer, the postmortem examination of the dead peacocks had indicated that heatstroke was the probable cause of the deaths. Local villagers and bird lovers said the temperature in the treeless hilly areas - like the village where the peacocks died - remains considerably higher than that in the fields, resulting in deaths of tender birds and animals.
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Automatic Fingerprint Identification System set in motion
Karnal, June 14 The DGP said as digital technology develops, fingerprinting is
steadily being used to prevent fraud and identification of criminals.
The process would not only facilitate quick verification of identity but
would also save time. All districts will be provided with local
fingerprint recording and matching station known as Remote Query
Terminal (RQT) and will be connected to a main server at SCRB through
State Wide Area Network (SWAN). Terminals would be established at 21
districts, three commissionaires and one at GRP would be made functional
in a month’s time. The device used for scanning live fingerprints
into AFIS is called ‘Live Scan’. Haryana police is among the first
few states that has acquired this technology after Rajasthan, Karnataka,
Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Uttrakhand. With the
help of this new system it will be easier to match fingerprints of
suspects or criminals automatically. Live scanners which are main
fingerprint input devices will also be installed in district courts,
main railway stations and other important places to check the identity
of suspects or criminals. Moreover, the police van fitted with
fingerprint-based live scanner “Pehchan Kaun”, having criminal
records, including fingerprints of 25,000 criminals operating in Haryana
as well as adjoining states, would become more effective after being
connected with AFIS. The AFIS would give the result in just 40 seconds,
Dalal added. Director of State Crime Record Bureau Laik Ram Dabas said
the AFIS would result in further improvement in police working in
Haryana.
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Nagrik Abhinandan Samaroh held in Rewari
Rewari, June 14 Thakur Attar Lal, state chief of the AIRM and a prominent INLD leader of the region, presided over its proceedings. While INLD chief OP Chautala was reverentially offered a silver crown by Thakur Attar Lal, he was also presented with a portrait of Maharana Pratap, the legendary hero of Mewar, by Pankar Tanwar, additional director of the college. The INLD supremo urged the supporters to extensively propagate the policies of the INLD among the people and enlist new persons as party activists as well. State INLD president Ashok Arora, Rao Bahadur Singh MLA (Nangal Chaudhary), national INLD secretary Kanwar Singh Kalwari, Thakur Rattan Singh and other party leaders also addressed the gathering.
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Electronic directory of blood donors launched
Sirsa, June 14 Sanjay Gupta, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the ISBTI, said the electronic directory of blood donors would help blood banks to store and maintain a minimum level of inventory of all blood groups. This will eventually eliminate emergencies and burden on the patients and their attendants, he added. To collect donors’ data a user-friendly SMS system has been developed by Dr Rajeev Joshi, Director, HITECH Medical Informational Services Pvt Ltd, Pune. To register, people need to send a text message ‘BRAVO BLDDNR’ to the number +919246356765. On receiving the SMS, the electronic registry will send a text message asking the donor’s blood group (ABO and Rh), age, sex, area, city with pin code and number of donations. This directory will be accessible from blood banks all over the country. The donors as well as people who have not donated blood before can register with the service. The ISBTI is also in the process of launching India’s largest online database of blood donors in collaboration with HITECH, Pune, and Netrum Foundation, Delhi. This donors’ database will be accessible a web portal to all blood banks. The blood banks can search donors using advanced information technology, Gupta added. Jind Deputy Commissioner Yudhbir Singh Khyalia, who is also national president of the ISBTI, said, “Our mission is to achieve 100 per cent voluntary blood donation in the country and to attain quality standards in blood transfusion services. Our vision is that safe blood should be waiting for patients and not the other way around. World Blood Donor Day To register, people need to send a text message ‘BRAVO BLDDNR’ to the number +919246356765. On receiving the SMS, the electronic registry will send a text message asking the donor’s blood group (ABO and Rh), age, sex, area, city with pin code and number of donations.
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Jail inmates told to enhance creative skills
Karnal, June 14 How such programmes can transform the minds of jail inmates was evident at the conclusion of the five-day yoga programme organised by the
Bharat Vikas Parishad in Karnal jail. A hardcore criminal Rajesh, along with 20 other inmates, took oath “never to indulge in any illegal activity in future”. Karnal SP Shashank Anand, who was chief guest on the occasion, was impressed by the talent of the prisoners. He advised the inmates to enhance their creative skills, besides pursuing education while in jail
to lead a better life after their release. He said he was amazed to see the talent of the inmates and praised the efforts being made by Jail Superintendent Sher Singh
to mould the mindset of the inmates. The green and clean environment of the jail was a tribute to inmates who were motivated by the Jail Superintendent to take active part in various programmes like literacy mission, computer training, vocational education,
medical camp, yoga camp, dairy farming training camp, etc.
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BJP Yuva Morcha holds protest
Sonepat, June 14 Mahipal Dhanda, state president of the Yuva Morcha, and Manoranjan Mishra, national general secretary, led the protest. The activists also handed over a memorandum addressed to the Governor of Haryana, to the Deputy Commissioner, Pankaj Aggarwal. The speakers accused the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre of not taking appropriate steps to check the rising prices of essential commodities. They also blamed the state government for playing with the careers of educated youth by delaying the recruitment process for government jobs.
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Punjabi ghazal singer enthrals gathering
Fatehabad, June 14 A disciple of Ustad Zakir Hussain of Punjab Gharana and Sharafat Ali Khan of Sham Chaurasi Gharana, Maghar Ali performed nonstop for over three hours during which he rendered ghazals of famous singers Ghulam Ali, Mehdi Hassan and others and also Punjabi folk songs of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and others. Maghar Ali, who hails from Bathinda, has performed at various places in the country and abroad. His rendition of ghazal “mohabbat karne wale kum na honge, teri mehfil mein lekin hum na honge” and “is shone roop da maan na kar, us shone rabb to dariya kar” were profusely applauded. Several other singers of the area performed at the cultural evening. Tulsi Anupam, a member of noted singer Gurdas Mann’s troupe, KK Pappu, Mamta Sharma and several other local singers captivated the audience with their renditions. Anandvir Singh Gillankhera, vice-president of the Youth Congress (Sirsa parliamentary seat), who was chief guest of the function in place of his father Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Haryana, Prahlad Singh Gillankhera, announced a grant of
Rs 51,000 for the Surabhi Kala Manch. Anandvir said music made people better individuals. Subhash Sharma, a former principal of DNPG College, Hisar, Prof JL Thakkar, Banwari Lal Taneja, a former municipal chief, Dr HC Dahiya, Dr Viney Singla, Dr PC Chauhan and Dr Deen Bandhu were among those present in the cultural evening.
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Karnal liquor vends to close at midnight
Karnal, June 14
Reviewing the crime-control measures being taken by the police, he stressed the need for setting up an “information exchange” within the state Police Department for sending quick information about crime to all police stations, essential for making coordinated efforts to control crime. He said walkie-talkie sets were also very useful in dissemination of information and the Police Department had already distributed 300 sets to police stations and police posts in Karnal district for effectively controlling the crime. Anand said there should be no delay in registering the FIR as it was constitutional right of every citizen and directed the police to take strict action against violation of traffic rules.
— TNS
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Over 1.56 lakh families in Sirsa have toilet facility
Sirsa, June 14 Balbir Singh Malik, Director-General, Development and Panchayats Department, stated this to villagers at Meerpur in Sirsa, where he came to launch a drive against polythene. He himself removed some polythenes from drains in the village. He said at present there are 1,78,779 families residing in Sirsa and out of which 22,309 families still do not have toilets in their homes. He said such families would be encouraged to construct toilets under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee (MGNREGA) Scheme and Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) of the government. He said construction of a toilet costs Rs 9,900. A sum of Rs 4,500 would be provided to the poor and to the families belonging to Scheduled Castes under MNREGA. A further financial help of Rs 4,500 would be given under TSC. The concerned person had to bear the remaining amount of Rs 900. He said Sirsa would be made polythene free and all the villages of the district would be made 'Nirmal Grams'. He said out of 303 villages in the district, 283 villages have already been included in the category of 'Nirmal Grams'. He urged the people to help the government in making the district neat, clean and polythene free.
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Anti-Child Labour Day
Ambala, June 14 Led by its president Sunil Arya, members participated in the awareness campaign which included distribution of oath letters for not employing children below 14 years in their work places. The public was made aware of the ill-effects of child labour like labourers turning thieves, low literacy rate, child marriages, etc. Poor families of labourers and brick-kiln workers were given information on family planning. They were advised not to keep small children at home while going out for work themselves. Om Prakash Aggarwal, chairman of E-max institutes said that there are millions of children who are deprived of adequate education, health, leisure and basic freedom, violating their rights. Of these children, more than half are exposed to the worst forms of child labour such as work in hazardous environments, slavery, or other forms of forced labour, illicit activities such as drug trafficking, prostitution, involvement in armed conflict, etc. E-Max vice-chairman PR Bansal asked the poor labour class to send their wards to schools.
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Media Courses
Kurukshetra, June 14 Stating this to mediapersons here recently, Prof Rajbir Singh, director of the institute, said: “IMC&MT is the biggest institute of media courses in North India, which is offering a number of job-oriented courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level”. He said admission to all UG courses, including BMC, B.Sc multimedia, B.Sc graphics animation and gaming will be based on the marks secured by students in class XII examination, while for PG courses, including M.Sc graphics animation, M.Sc multimedia, MMC, M.Sc mass communication and M.Sc electronic media, the institute will conduct entrance exam on July 14 at 11 am in the institute itself. “The students will have to pay Rs 400 as examination fee in form of a demand draft to appear in the entrance exam. The students, who are applying through Internet, will have to submit a demand draft of Rs 400 for UG courses and Rs 800 for PG courses. To make the admission process much easier for the students, the institute has also started a helpline for the students. Prospectus of the institute is available at the printing press of the university,” he said. As per the admission schedule, the students would have to submit their forms by July 10, 2012. The entrance exam for PG courses would be held on July 14 and the result of the entrance exam would be declared on July 16. The first round of counselling for both the PG and UG courses would be held at the department on July 17 and the list of successful candidates would be out on July 18. The successful candidates could submit their fees by July 20. After then, two more rounds of counselling would take place on July 24 and 25 and the classes would start from July 25 onwards, he added.
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UK delegation visits Kurukshetra technology institute
Kurukshetra, June 14 The delegation met Director-Principal Dr PJ George and heads of the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Engineering and discussed the scope for tie-up in the areas of teaching, training and research for the mutual benefits of students and faculty of both the institutions, said the spokesperson. Both the sides have agreed to cooperate each other and start activities related to training, postgraduate studies, short-term courses and faculty exchange for the purpose of imparting world-class technical skills to the students in order to make them competent to face the challenges of modern industries. The spokesperson said Bissel interacted with third-year and fourth-year students of the Mechanical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Engineering Departments and briefed them about The University of Lincon, UK. During the visit of these departments, Bissel showed keen interest in understanding the working of these departments, he added.
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Khanpur Kalan institutes making a mark: Speaker
Sonepat, June 14 Speaking on the occasion, director of the government women medical college and hospital Dr RC Siwach said that besides commencing the first academic session of 100 girls students of MBBS classes from 2012-13 session, the hospital had achieved the distinction of providing 400 bed capacity after starting the hospital on trial basis with 100 bed capacity in September last year. Dr Siwach claimed that besides having a strength of 135 specialist doctors, 200 staff nurses and 50 para medical staff, the medical college hospital had facility of 20-bed ICU and round the clock emergency. The average daily OPD footfall had increased up to 1800 and 20 to 25 surgeries were being performed by the surgeons every day, he added. The Speaker announced a grant of Rs one lakh for providing RO fitted water coolers to the patients and assured that other demands of the medical college and hospital would be brought to the notice of the CM. The Vice Chancellor of the Mahila Vishwavidyalaya, Dr (Mrs) Pankaj Mittal gave a brief account of the existing education facilities at the university premises and assured that care was being taken to ensure safety and security of the students. With an aim to providing education of international standard to the girls, she claimed that the university would emerge as one of the best learning centres of higher education for the girls in the years to come.
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KU issues academic calendar for 2012-13
Kurukshetra, June 14 Prof. Sawhney said the admission to undergraduate classes would commence from July 2, 2012 and classes of odd semester would start on July 17, 2012, while the examination of UG classes would start from November 21, 2012. The teaching of even semesters of UG students would start from January 1, 2013 and the examinations would be held from April 25, 2013. Admissions to PG courses would commence from July 2, 2012 and the classes for odd semester would start from July 24, 2012. The examinations would start from December 1, 2012. The teaching of even semester would start from January 1, 2013 and the examinations would start from May 4, 2013, said Prof Sawhney. Admissions to certificate courses, diplomas, PG diplomas and other annual system classes would be held between July 2 and July 22, 2012, while teaching work of these classes would start from July 23, 2012 and examinations would be held from April 1, 2013.
— OC
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Five friends held for murder of student
Karnal, June 14 Bijender was killed by his friends owing to old enmity and his body was buried in nearby fields in
Bastara village. The police said Jitender and Rikki had admitted to the murder. The accused had confessed that five of them had made a plan to kill Bijender and called him to a deserted make-shift room in the fields. Rikki admitted that on reaching the ‘kotha’, he attacked Bijender with an iron rod and when he fell down, all of them killed him and buried him in nearby fields. Bijender’s body, with his legs crossed, was dug out by the police on June 9. Meanwhile, aggrieved over slow action by the police in arresting the accused behind the assault on her son Maninder on June 3, former INLD MLA from Gharaunda, Rekha Rana yesterday met SP Shashank Anand. The police had booked 11 persons, including Vishal, Kuldeep, Jatinder, Ravinder, Surrender, Narender and Manish, but no arrest has been made so far. Rana had alleged that Vishal alias Billa, son of an ASI were involved in the attack and the police was shielding the culprits.
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3 held for stealing cotton from Pak-bound trucks
Fatehabad, June 14 The police also recovered 25 quintals of cotton worth Rs 2.5 lakh from a Tata Ace vehicle, which Manjinder, Kuldeep and Bhajan Singh had allegedly stolen from the two trucks. The driver of the second truck Krishan Kumar fled from the spot. The consignments belonged to a Sirsa-based export firm. The firm was suffering losses due to pilferage during transport in the past as well, said Gurpreet Singh Nagpal of Royal Cotgin, Sirsa, and secretary of the District Cotton Industries Association. “The market rate of cotton is Rs 10,000 per quintal. The exporter lost Rs 8 lakh due to pilferage in the May 22 consignment and Rs 9.20 lakh in the last consignment,” he added. A case under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC has been registered against the accused and the police has impounded the two trucks.
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Chakradhaar
Directed by: Shakur Sir, Dharam Prakash “Chakradhaar” is a film about a simple righteous young man’s fight against corruption. Delhi boy Abhishek Anand makes his debut in Bollywood with this film. Presented by JVM Movies Pvt Ltd, “Chakradhaar” has Urvashi Sharma, Vidya Malvade, Akhilendra Mishra, Darshan Zariwala, Mrinalini Sharma and Zakir Hussain in key roles. The actions of this movie are by Abbas Ali Moghul, lyrics by Sameer and music by Jatin Pandit and Anand Raj Anand. Watch this film from today at Fame Shalimar - Panchkula, Suncity - Hisar, Movie Time, Harsha (Karnal), Hind - Kaithal, BMG, Everest (Rewari), Anand - Sonepat, PVR Sahara, PVR MGF, PVR Ambience, DTCC, DTMM, DT Star Mall, Big Cinemas Palam, SRS Omaxe, SRS Wedding (Gurgaon), INOX, Q Cinema, Parsavnath City Mall, SRS Sector 12, SRS Shubham, SRS Eldeco, PVR Crown Plaza (Faridabad), Fun, Minerva (Ambala Cantt). Ferrari Ki Sawaari
Directed by: Rajesh Mapuskar The film, which has been shot at real locations in Mumbai, had some of its sequences in real life “Kolis”. Based on the relationship between a father and a son, this Vidhu Vinod Chopra presentation “Ferrari Ki Sawaari” revolves around the father trying to fulfill his son’s cricketing dreams that are realised when the son gets a chance to play at the historical Lord’s cricket stadium. Sharman Joshi plays the role of a Parsi father. Boman Irani plays Sharman’s father. “Ferrari Ki Sawaari” has a beautiful Laavani dance number “Mala jau de…” picturised on “Dirty Picture” fame Vidya Balan. Vidhu Vinod Chopra has produced this film, which will hit the screens today at Fame Shalimar - Panchkula, Fun, Nigar (Ambala), Satyam, Bangar (Rohtak), Glitz - Kurukshetra, Dimple - Jagadhri, Radhika, BMG (Rewari), PVR MGF, PVR Sahara, PVR Ambience, SRS Omaxe, SRS Wedding, DTCC, DTMM, DT Star Mall (Gurgaon) INOX, Q Cinema, Movie Time CM, SRS Pristine, SRS Eldeco, SRS Shubham, PVR Crown Plaza, (Faridabad), Fun, Cinemax (Panipat), Movie Time - Karnal. — Dharam Pal
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