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Raids in Sirsa; Kanda’s
kin, aides questioned
Union protests Maruti’s new HR policy, sacking of staff
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Schoolgirls vow to fight female foeticide
Shivalik board reconstituted
Samjhauta
Blast Case
Land pooling scheme notified
Mother, daughter found hanging
Scribe shot dead in Bahadurgarh
Medical store sealed in Ambala
Minimum wages hiked
4 youths walk away with Rs 14.5 lakh from bank
No ragging on GJU campus, claims VC
Train crushes two students
to death
Flesh trade racket busted in Rewari
NSUI opposes extension to
GJU Registrar
Civil services rules to be revised
Admission date extended
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Raids in Sirsa; Kanda’s
kin, aides questioned
Sirsa, August 17 A team led by Inspector Pradeep Kumar of the Crime Branch of the Delhi police today went to the residence of Bunty Bansal, a close relative of Kanda who was detained during raids on the night of August 15 after the police learnt that he had talked on the telephone to someone in Nepal for over 40 minutes. The police had come to Sirsa after tracing a long duration call made to some telephone number in Nepal from mobile phone 09215720999. Though the SIM of this number is registered in someone else’s name, Bansal had been using it for a long time. The police questioned Bunty’s wife Shilpa Bansal, who reportedly told the police that her husband had spoken to her aunt, who lives in Nepal. The six-member police party quizzed Bunty Bansal’s family members for over a quarter of an hour. Meanwhile, Kanda’s supporters today expressed their resentment at repeated raids carried out on their houses and alleged that the Delhi police was harassing them without any reason. |
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Union protests Maruti’s new HR policy, sacking of staff
Gurgaon, August 17 According to sources, the policy was formulated for selecting lower staff after the resignation of a few managers following the July 18 violence. “The management was perturbed when many managers resigned as they feared that mayhem might recur. But now those managers have the power to choose workers," said a senior Maruti Suzuki official. The company has sent termination orders to 500-odd workers, including the 154 who have been arrested for indulging in violence on July 18. Workers’ unions have condemned the move, calling it biased and unfair. Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union (MUKU), the workers’ body at the Gurgaon factory of Maruti Suzuki India (MSI), along with other unions like Left trade unions CITU and AITUC organised a protest rally against the termination and new HR policy. The unions demanded Haryana government's intervention in reversing the decision. Condemning the decision, CITU general secretary Tapas Sen said they opposed the violence at the plant on July 18 in which the General Manager of the factory was killed and many injured. "We demanded a comprehensive independent enquiry into the incident, including the antecedents to punish the guilty as well as the provocateurs behind the violence. But, instead the state government launched a witch hunt, targeting the workers and began their mass-scale arrests. In such a context, summary dismissal of 500 regular workers is tantamount to inflicting capital punishment on them in respect of their livelihood before the guilt is proved. The termination of such a big number of workers requires obtaining prior permission from the government," said Sen.
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Schoolgirls vow to fight female foeticide
Jandli Kalan (Fatehabad), August 17
“It will be my sincere effort to awaken my family members, kin and society against the menace of female foeticide and I will oppose the practice, ” the girls took a collective pledge during the open seminar. Among those witnessing the resolve of the schoolgirls were Fatehabad Deputy Commissioner ML Kaushik, Chief Judicial Magistrate (Legal Services Authority) Harish Gupta, City Magistrate Shalini Chetal and DSP Shamsher Singh Dahiya. While the mahapanchayat against female foeticide held recently in Bibipur (Jind) was special due to the role of khap panchayats in it, today’s open seminar at Jandli Kalan was unique as it was organised exclusively by schoolgirls. Jandli Kalan, a Jat-dominated village located nearly 18 km from Fatehabad town, has a population of 5,238 — 2,716 males and 2,522 females. In the 0 to 6 years category, there are 241 girls against 273 boys, as per the household survey conducted by teachers for enrolment of dropout children. The village has at least 150 men living under forced bachelorhood as their families could not find brides for them due to the skewed gender ratio in the state. More than 20 village youths have “purchased” brides from Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. The nearby Gorakhpur village has nearly 500 men living under forced bachelorhood. The problem is becoming acute in almost all villages in Haryana, which stands at the bottom of the gender ratio table in the country. “In today’s programme organised by the girls from senior secondary classes of the Jandli Kalan government school, among the participants were girls from 35 schools from rural areas and women sarpanches and panchayat members from nealy 20 neighbouring villages,” said school principal Krishan Kumar. |
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Shivalik board reconstituted
Chandigarh, August 17 The board was set up for the development of the Shivalik region covering the districts of
Ambala, Yamunanagar and Panchkula. The intention was to develop the hilly area of Haryana on the same footing as Himachal
Pradesh. About four years ago, the board had decided to promote horticultural and watershed management programmes in the area under it to create job opportunities and maintain the ecological balance. As the petition for the release of funds to the board and nomination of non-official members came up for hearing before the Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Jasbir Singh and Justice Rakesh Kumar
Jain, an affidavit by Commissioner (Ambala)-cum-board chairman R.P. Gupta was placed on record. The affidavit said the board’s governing body meeting too had been fixed for August 30. It was added that a grant of Rs 700 lakh was received against the allocation of Rs 1,000 lakh in 2011-12. Of this, Rs 418.55 lakh had been released for Panchkula district. In all, more than 50 per cent of the funds were released and spent on development works. The assertion came on a petition filed in public interest by advocate Vijay
Bansal. In his petition against the State of Haryana and other respondents, he had sought directions for the release of funds for the development of the area falling within the board’s jurisdiction. Directions were also sought for the nomination of board’s non-official members as it “had not been done since 2001”. Gupta, on the other hand, claimed that the board’s coordinate committee met in October 2007, August 2009, June 2011 and August this year. The governing body too met on August 19, 2008. |
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NIA seeks non-bailable warrants against accused
Hina Rohtaki Tribune News Service
Panchkula, August 17 The case came up for hearing today before judge Kanchan Mahi. The application moved in the court by the NIA states that the court should issue non-bailable warrants against Rajender. The case has been deferred till September 3. Rajender is at large and reportedly one of the accused who planted the bombs on the train. On August 9, the NIA had filed a charge sheet accusing two persons, including disgruntled RSS worker Kamal Chauhan, of planting bombs along with their associates in the Indo-Pak train which claimed the lives of 68 people, mostly Pakistanis. The charge sheet was filed against two persons - Chauhan, alias Bhai Saab, alias Badrinarayan, alias Lucky, alias Vijay and Amit, alias Ashwani Chauhan, alias Prince, alias Hakla, alias Ashok, alias Tutalla - in a special court at Panchkula charging them with murder, conspiracy and other offences. On November 19 last year, Aseemanand, a member of the right-wing Hindu group Abhinav Bharat, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from Haridwar in Uttarakhand for his alleged role in the 2007 masjid blast in Hyderabad in which 14 people were killed. The NIA had questioned Aseemanand about his role in the Samjhauta Express blasts on Feburary 18, 2007, at Diwana village near Panipat. The Samjhauta Express is a peace train between India and Pakistan.The train was going from Delhi to Attari, the last station on the Indian side. The passengers were to board the train to Lahore in Pakistan the next day.
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Land pooling scheme notified
Chandigarh, August 17 While referring to the salient features of the new scheme, a spokesman said after the state government had notified any land for acquisition for development of industrial and supporting infrastructure under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, landowner would have the choice to opt for developed land measuring 1,200 square yards for each one acre of land proposed to be acquired in lieu of the compensation package and all other benefits admissible under the Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R and R) Policy of the government. Landowner would be eligible to participate in the land pooling scheme only if a minimum of half acre or more of his land is acquired. The entitlement of developed land shall be in proportion to the land acquired or pooled by landowner at a rate of 1,200 square yards per acre. The option for the scheme will have to be exercised by landowner in writing in the prescribed form within a period of four months of the publication of Section 4 of the notification. Where a landowner opts for the developed land
under the land pooling scheme, he would have the freedom to sell his developed land in the open market. The land use in respect of such land shall remain industrial and
shall not change under any circumstances. However, any subsequent purchaser of land shall be governed by the Estate Management Procedures of the
HSIIDC as applicable from time to time. |
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Mother, daughter found hanging
Jhajjar, August 17 The police has registered a case under Section 174 of the CrPc on the complaint of Poonam’s father Dharamvir Singh of Jathana Ki Dhani village in Rewari district in this regard. The incident came to light late evening when some villagers spotted the bodies hanging from a tree in the farm. They informed the family of the deceased and the police about the incident. The Jhajjar police rushed to the spot and sent the bodies to the Civil Hospital for postmortem. The police also recovered a suicide note from a pocket of Poonam. “In her suicide note, Poonam said her husband Naresh had gone missing under mysterious circumstances five years ago. They did not have any information about him since then hence they were shattered and ending their lives voluntarily. No one was responsible for this extreme step,” said a spokesman of the Jhajjar police. The bodies of Poonam and Munesh were handed over to their kin here today. |
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Scribe shot dead in Bahadurgarh
Jhajjar, August 17 Bahadurgarh DSP Rajeev Deswal rushed to the spot and took injured Praveen to the Civil Hospital from where he was referred to the PGIMS, Rohtak, following his critical condition. Praveen reportedly succumbed to his injuries on the way to PGIMS. The Bahadurgarh police has started investigation after registering a case against four youths, Mukesh of Ghewra village, Dharambeer of Jatwada Mohalla, Manjeet of Patel Nagar and Amit of Chhikkara Colony in Bahadurgarh, on the complaint of the deceased’s father, Jai Singh. Enmity is believed to be the reason behind the killing as Praveen was an accused in an attempt-to-murder case. Earlier, he had also been accused in two other criminal cases but was later exonerated by the court, the police said. |
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Medical store sealed in Ambala
Chandigarh, August 17 Schedule H medicines are those drugs whose only legitimate use is for scientific research and required to be sold on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner only. This legal requirement is made to prevent self-medication. The medicines were hidden in toilet in the rear portion of the shop, he said, adding that the seized medicines include Lomotil tablets, Spasmoproxyvon capsules, Nitrazepam, Alprazolam, Lorezapam and Rexcof cough syrup among others. Over 40 shops have been sealed recently in the state for the illegal sale of such medicines, the spokesman said. The department is initiating the required steps to take action against the guilty persons, he added.
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Minimum wages hiked
Chandigarh, Aug 17 The unskilled labourers would now get a minimum monthly wage of Rs 4,967.29 or Rs 191.04 per day, semi-skilled (A) Rs 5,097.29 or Rs 196.04 daily, semi-skilled (B) Rs 5,227.29 per month or Rs 201.04 daily. Similarly, the skilled labourers (A) would now get minimum monthly wages of Rs 5,357.29 per month or Rs 206.04 daily while skilled (B) would get Rs 5,487.29 per month or Rs 211.04 daily. The highly skilled workers would now get minimum wages of Rs 5,617.29 per month or Rs 216.04 daily. The decision will benefit more than 11.5 lakh labourers working in factories, shops, dhabas, small undertakings and brick-kilns.
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4 youths walk away with Rs 14.5 lakh from bank
Ambala, August 17 The incident took place at 11 am when the head cashier of the branch, Mala
Devi, came out of the bank’s strongroom with a bag containing the currency notes for routine transactions in the
bank. Mala Devi had withdrawn Rs 14.5 lakh from the strongroom and kept the bag at a counter. While, she was working on a computer, four youths who were standing nearby, picked up the bag and disappeared from the spot. As the matter was reported to the police, a team of investigators reached the bank and questioned the staffers after which a case under Section 380 of the IPC was registered against four youths. Baljit Singh, SHO Sadar police station, said the police had collected the CCTV camera footage.
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No ragging on GJU campus, claims VC
Hisar, August 17 Addressing a meeting of the anti-ragging committee of the university, he said the vigil by the anti-ragging panel and the stern law against ragging in Haryana, the freshers had spared the ordeal this year. He asked the anti-ragging committee to maintain strict vigil as the possibility of senior students resorting to ragging could not be ruled out. The anti-ragging committee has also decided to celebrate an anti-ragging day and an anti-ragging week to spread awareness among students. |
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Train crushes two students
to death
Jhajjar, August 17 The deceased, Amit and Rohit of Jakhoda village here, were Class XI
students at Government Senior Secondary School in Bahadurgarh town. The mishap took place this morning when they were walking along the railway track to reach Aasudha railway station to catch a train for
Bahadurgarh. As they reached near the railway station, the Gaurakh Dham Express crushed them to death. The Railway Police has sent the bodies to the Civil Hospital for a postmortem examination. |
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Flesh trade racket busted in Rewari
Rewari, August 17 The police sent a decoy customer before raiding the house and apprehended five women, including a local pimp, who procured clients for the women brought here from Gurgaon for flesh trade. Abhishek Garg, SP, said the women revealed that they hailed from Kolkata and had been brought here from Gurgaon. The women were remanded in 14-day judicial custody.
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NSUI opposes extension to
GJU Registrar
Hisar, August 17 A deputation of the NSUI headed by Rakesh Lohchab met Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda in this connection. The deputation also submitted memoranda to HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Union minister Sachin Pilot. They pointed out that the present incumbent had been occupying office for the past seven years. During this period the academic standards had gone down. |
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Civil services rules to be revised
Chandigarh, August 17 |
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