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Rebate for farmers: To motivate farmers for timely sowing of wheat crop, the Haryana Government has decided to provide a special rebate of Rs 100 per quintal on the sale of certified seed of wheat of all varieties, except the C-306 variety. Paramvir Singh, Agriculture Minister, said here on Friday that this special rebate would be applicable with effect from November 12 at the outlets of Haryana Seed Development Corporation, HAFED, Cooperative Societies, IFFCO, Kribhco, NSC, CSFC and other government agencies claiming subsidy on wheat seed from the government. This special rebate will remain effective up to November 30.Kurukshetra
1 dead in mishap: Mangal Singh, a resident of Dayal Nagar, Shahabad, was killed on the spot when he was allegedly hit by an unidentified speeding vehicle near the Pipli bus stand, 5 km from here, on Friday. 
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BILASPUR
Health check-up camp: The District Ayurveda Department organised a health check-up camp under the Anaemia Free Himachal programme at Government Boys Senior Secondary School here on Friday and blood samples of 262 students were examined. Programme In Charge and Ayurveda Officer Sandipa Sharma said not only students, but teachers and parents should also ensure that students got sufficient nutrients in their daily meals and their diet contained green vegetables, black
chana, amla etc. She said anaemia was caused due to lack of proper cleanliness in our food and habits, worms in stomach, going to dirty places barefoot and not washing vegetables and fruits before eating these. Students were also given medicines free of cost.
Kangra
Man hurt in blast: Roshan Lal (55) was seriously injured when the ammunition that he was preparing for killing pigs exploded in Bharwara in Dehra subdivision on Thursday. Roshan was rushed to the TMC, where he was admitted to the burns unit. The police registered a case against him.
A blood donation camp at the IIT, Mandi, on Thursday.
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MANDI
IIT students donate blood: Fifty students and staff members of the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), on Thursday donated blood at a camp on the campus. The camp was opened by a first-year B Tech. student in the presence of Prof B Subramanian and Dr PC Ravi Kumar. The camp was monitored by the medical team from the Zonal Hospital,
Mandi, comprising Dr Arindam Roy, Dr Lata Chandel and senior lab technicians Kaushalya Chauhan and Balwant
Yadav. Nurpur
1 convicted of sodomy: Indora Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Pankaj Gupta on Friday sentenced Ramesh Rwali, a migrant labourer from Jharkhand, to three-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for committing sodomy with an eight-year-old at Seerat village. It was proved that the labourer had lured the child when he was alone and took him to a field nearby, where he committed the crime. Science congress ends:
The three-day district-level National Children Science Congress-2012 concluded at the Government Senior Secondary School, Rehan, near here, on Friday. As many as 270 students of private as well as government schools from eight subdivisions of Kangra district participated. Vipon Guleria, senior scientist, Regional Horticulture Research Station, Jachh (Nurpur), presided over the concluding ceremony.
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srinagar
Poppy straw seized: The police recovered a huge cache of poppy straw in Shopian district on Friday night. Acting on a tip-off, the police seized 104 kg of poppy straw in the orchard of Manzoor Ahmad Bhat of Khasipora village, a police spokesman
said.Two convicted: A local court here has convicted two persons who were accused of making forged certificates to secure undue gains. “The court of CJM, Srinagar, on Saturday convicted Gulshana Akhtar daughter of Ghulam Hassan Bhat, resident of Litter, Pulwama, for obtaining admission in a diploma course on the basis of fake 10+2 certificate, a court official said. Man held:
Residents in the old city’s Khanyar neighbourhood caught hold of a man on Friday night and handed him over to a local police station for trying to set ablaze a shrine of a revered saint. The man was later found to be mentally unstable.
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Almora
25 persons acquitted: The Additional Sessions Judge, Almora, on Friday acquitted 25 residents of the Boraro valley of Almora district, who were arrested for agitating in support of demand for essential services four years ago, due to lack of sufficient evidence. “The protesters, who had continued the agitation for 31 days and were booked under various sections of the IPC, were found innocent,” said advocate Shekhar
Lakhchaura. Champawat
Black day observed: Members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Employees Federation observed the Uttarakhand formation day on Friday as black day. They also held a dharna in front of the District Magistrate’s office at
Champawat. They demanded resumption of reservation in promotion in government jobs.
 Dehradun
Halloween celebrated: The junior wing of Asian School celebrated
Halloween on Saturday. The students had a fun-filled morning with a lot
children dressed as witches and wizards of the University of Hogward.
They participated in activities like spider making, hat making, straw
toppers etc. The children terrorised the heads of the school and played
tricks on them.
Liquor seized: Forty cartons of Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) were seized at the Uttarakhand-Himachal border. District Dehradun Excise Officer TK Pant, along with his team at Premnagar, intercepted a car coming from the Paonta Sahib road side of Himachal Pradesh. When searched, 40 cartons of IMFL were seized. The police has arrested Sunny, resident of Rishikesh, and Manujendra, resident of Patiala, Punjab. A case has been registered against them. The seized liquor was meant to be sold in
Dehradun. Banks open on Dhanteras:
The banks and post offices will remain open in the state on Sunday (November 11) on the festival of Dhanteras. Gold coins and other Divali investment schemes will also be sold. While the banks have announced the opening up its branches on
Sunday, the senior post master office in Dehradun on Saturday also issued orders for the
opening up of post offices on dhanteras. Women protection cell:
A women protection cell has been constituted in Dehradun. Sub-Inspector Ravi Saini has been made the in-charge of the cell. The cell has been made with an objective to check eve-teasing. According to Dehradun SSP Kewal Khurana, policemen in mufti would be deployed, particularly at colleges and
schools, in the city, who will nab the miscreants. Transport Dept castigated: Congress leaders have alleged large scale corruption in the state Transport Department. President of the OBC cell of the Congress Jamil Ahmed also accused Transport Minister Surendra
Rakesh of doing little to curb it. Haldwani
5 children rounded up: The police has rounded up five children, aged between 12 and 15 years, in a case of theft at the house of a schoolteacher in the Unchapul area of Haldwani town last week. According to the police, two children, said to be masterminds of the theft, were still at large. “All the children are below 15 years and they have admitted to their involvement in the crime,” said JS
Bhandari, ASP, Haldwani.
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UKD for Gairsain as capital: UKD (P) workers staged a dharna in various districts in the Kumaon region on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the formation of the state on Friday. They demanded that Gairsain be declared the permanent capital of the state. “If Gairsain gets the permanent capital status, development of hill districts, including the border district, will get a boost. This will help in checking migration from the hill region,” said Devendra Singh, a UKD leader.
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