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Chandigarh
Mid-day meal workers’ wages up: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced an increase in the monthly remuneration being paid to mid-day meal workers from Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,150.
He was presiding over a meeting with mid-day meal workers and Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) here yesterday.
Hisar
Yoga expert killed in mishap: Laxman, a yoga expert who had won several medals in competitions at national level, was killed when he was run over by a truck near the thermal power plant at Khedar, about 35 km from here, on Tuesday. Hailing from Bado Pati village of this district, he had gone to Haridwar four days ago to bring a ‘kavar’ (water from the Ganga). He was on his way back home when a truck ran over him near a railway crossing. Kaithal
Liquor vendor booked: The police has registered a case under various Sections of the IPC against a liquor vendor and staff of the UHBVN following the death of a liquor vend employee due to electrocution on Monday. Om Parkash, a resident of Shakti Nagar, lodged a complaint that his brother Ramesh, who was working at Pehowa Chowk Country Liquor Vend, died due to the negligence of liquor contractor and power board staff when he was opening shutter of the shop on Monday morning. Farmers protest power shortage: Scores of farmers under the banner of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, led by Didar Singh Habri, expressed resentment over power shortage, irregular power supply, replacement of damaged transformers and delay in grant of new connections. The protesters reached Rajeev Gandhi Vidut Bhawan here and submitted a memorandum to SK Bansal, superintendent engineer, Kaithal OP Circle, on Tuesday.
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HIMACHAL PRADESH |
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Bilaspur
One killed in car-truck collision :
Vijaya Kumari of Bardhin village near Ghumarwin, near here, was killed instantaneously as their car was hit by a truck on National Highway No. 21 (Chandigarh-Manali) near Kothipura, 15 km from here, this evening.
Reports said car driver Shashi Kant of Jukhala was injured seriously and rushed to the Regional Hospital here by passers-by and villagers who rushed to the spot.
The police has registered a case and taken the body of the deceased into its possession for post mortem examination. The matter is being investigated further.
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JAMMU
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Katra
Vaishno Devi pilgrim dies of heart attack: A pilgrim died of a heart attack on his way back from Vaishno Devi shrine in Reasi district last evening.
V Chandran Rao (75), a resident of Hyderabad, suffered a heart attack near the Bhawan area of the Jammu region. He along with his family was returning from the cave shrine in the Trikuta hills. Rao was shifted to a hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.
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Amritsar