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Selja, Birender target CM
Storm damages power network, delays trains
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Mango growers bear brunt of freak weather
Jalan to be Central PF Commissioner
Finance nod to Indira Gandhi varsity in Rewari
Hisar continues to simmer
Failure to submit Expenditure Details
4 women in the race for Rohtak Mayor
Rao seeks varsity in Mewat
Villagers block road after death in accident
Kisan sabha flays UPA, Hooda govts for farmers’ plight
Boy dies in freak accident
Man gets death for raping, murdering minor
Lured minor recovered
Two arrested for minor’s rape
Youth, woman held on rape charge
Quack held for raping minor
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Selja, Birender target CM
Karnal, June 7 They charged the government with oppression of Dalits and tardy implementation of policies and programmes of the Centre for the uplift of Dalits. The rift in the Congress came to the fore again as Karnal MP Arvind Sharma and Haryana Mahila Congress president Sumita Singh, also the local legislator, stayed away from the 'sammelan' organised by Rajya Sabha member Ishwar Singh to create awareness among Dalits. Addressing the gathering, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Selja expressed concern over increasing atrocities against Dalits and said the Centre would soon enact a stringent law to protect the interests of Dalits. State governments had been urged to enact effective laws to stop atrocities and crimes against Dalits, she added. Firing a salvo at the state government, she said the poor and backward were deprived of the benefits of Central policies due to faulty implementation and non-issuance of below poverty line ration cards to Dalits. Expressing apprehensions over implementation of the 'Priyadarshani Awas Yojna', Selja said it might not meet the same fate as did the other schemes and asked why the state government did not acquire land for giving 100 square metre plots to the poor. She said the Union Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry had convened a meeting of states for discussing provisions for a stringent law to curb atrocities against Dalits, but no representative of the Haryana government attended it. The Union minister expressed concern over the low pass percentage of government schools in the class X Haryana board examination as a majority of students at those schools were from poor and Dalit families. "If the Dalits are not provided better opportunities for studies, how will they come into the mainstream," she asked. She said there was a huge backlog in vacancies for Dalits and weaker sections in government jobs and the state government had not constituted the Scheduled Caste commission. Chaudhary Birender Singh called for a change in the mindset for the socio-economic uplift of Dalits and weaker sections. He said mere reservation in jobs was not the answer as they had to be made partners in national resources. He demanded 20 per cent reservation for Dalits in plots in HUDA sectors. Attacking Narendra Modi, Chaudhary claimed that the Gujrat Chief Minister was an oppressor and his mentality was anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The leaders asserted that the 'sammelan' would strengthen the Congress. Ishwar Singh raised the demand for reservation in jobs for Dalits in the private sector.
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Storm damages power network, delays trains
Yamunanagar/Ambala, June 7 The snapping of power cables resulted in delay of trains on the Ambala-Delhi and Ambala-Chandigarh tracks. Communication services, including mobile and Internet facilities, remained suspended throughout the day. Residents protested outside complaint centres of power utilities and damaged furniture as well. They alleged that local officials did not make any effort to restore power supply. Power officials claimed that engineers worked overtime to restore power supply. A spokesman said they suffered huge losses and supply to most affected areas was restored this evening. |
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Mango growers bear brunt of freak weather
Yamunanagar/Ambala, June 7 It was learnt that mango growers in Manuja Khamban, Adoya and Shahzadpur segments of Ambala and Chhachhrauli and Sadhaura segments of Yamunanagar suffered the damage. According to Gian Chauhan, who along with her husband Prithvi had a 35-acre mango orchard at Adoya, the rain and strong winds shattered their hopes of a good harvest at the crucial second phase of picking fruit. She said the sudden change in weather had resulted in major damage to the crop. “Last year we had a good crop which translated into profits of around Rs 10 lakh. This time the crop has been destroyed by the winds,” she said. She added that state government should come to the aid of mango growers. Krishan Rana, who owns a 12-acre mango orchard in the Shahzadpur area, said the unpredictable weather wreaked havoc. He said mangoes had not ripened enough for plucking and a few days more could have helped the fruit firm up. Growers in the region had been expecting a good mango crop this season, but the weather dashed their hopes. A total of 950 hectares are under mango cultivation in Panchkula, 629 hectares in Karnal and 430 hectares in Kurukshetra. As per government figures, the area under mango cultivation had increased from 3,553 hectares in 1990-91 to 9,125 hectares last year. Mango production had registered a rise from 19,900 tonnes in 1990-91 to over 65,000 tonnes last year. An additional 250 hectares were brought under mango cultivation in the last two years.
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Jalan to be Central PF Commissioner
Chandigarh, June 7 Additional Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister SS Dhillon will hold charge as Principal Secretary, Irrigation Department, in addition to his own duties. — TNS
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Finance nod to Indira Gandhi varsity in Rewari
Chandigarh, June 7 Power Minister Ajay Singh Yadav said here today that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had ordered the issuance of an ordinance for setting up this university. He said approval for the same would be given in the next Cabinet meeting. It may be recalled that Chief Minister Hooda had recently announced in a public meeting at Rewari that the Indira Gandhi Postgraduate Regional Centre, Meerpur, would be upgraded as a university.
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Hisar continues to simmer
Hisar, June 7 This is the third death due to heat in Hisar. Earlier, two farmers had died of heatstroke in Shamsukh and Satrod Khas. The Indian Metrological Department website showed today's temperature in Hisar at 45.4°C. — TNS |
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Failure to submit Expenditure Details
Chandigarh June 7 He said under the Haryana Municipal Election Expenditure (Maintenance and Submission of Accounts) order, 2006, every contesting candidate had to file his or her account of election expenses within 30 days after the declaration of the election result. These candidates are Reena and Santosh of ward 4, Urmila and Saroj Bala of ward 15, Sanjeev of ward 27 and Sweety of ward 32 . Meanwhile, the State Election Commissioner said that the names of candidates elected in the recent MC elections had been notified He said polling for 144 wards of the Municipal Corporations of Ambala, Panchkula, Karnal, Panipat, Hisar, Rohtak, Yamunanagar and 28 wards of the Kalanaur and Farukh Nagar Municipal Committees was held on June 2.
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4 women in the race for Rohtak Mayor
Rohtak, June 7 While Sushila Indora was a Municipal Councillar earlier in Bhiwani, Renu was an ANM before she quit the job to enter the fray. The third aspirant is Poonam whose husband represented this ward in the previous term. The fourth aspirant is Mamata, who has won from ward 2 here. This is perhaps the first time that 50 per cent of the total winning candidates are women. |
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Rao seeks varsity in Mewat
Gurgaon, June 7 The Centre has planned six minority universities across the country. The Zila Parishad of Mewat had written to the ministry highlighting the educational backwardness of the area, especially of Meo-muslims. Pingwan village in the area had offered 268 acres of land to the ministry for setting up the university. Rao Inderjeet wrote to the minister:"You will remember that on your last visit here, you had given me an assurance that it would be considered on priority. Long time has passed but nothing has happened. I request you to look into it personally and ensure that one of six minority universities is opened in Mewat". |
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Villagers block road after death in accident
Gurgaon, June 7 The staged a dharna against the highway authorities for the reportedly poor management of traffic. "There is nobody to check traffic and vehicles are driven at high speed. It is time things are looked into and there is proper management of the stretch near villages," said a village leader. The dharna and ongoing construction of a flyover worsened the situation. It took around three hours to control the situation. "Traffic was blocked near the 44-kilometre milestone after a road accident in which a person died on the spot," said a senior police officer.
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Kisan sabha flays UPA, Hooda govts for farmers’ plight
Hisar, June 7 Hannan Mollah, a former MP and a member of the Central Kisan Council of the AIKS, alleged that a farmer was compelled to commit suicide every half an hour in India as farming was no longer a viable and sustainable profession. Addressing a rally of farmers before inaugurating the convention, he asked farmers and agricultural workers to unite and launch struggle to get retrograde policies reversed. Amra Ram, a Rajasthan MLA and national vice-president of the AIKS, accused the Congress governments of Haryana and Rajasthan of fraudulently taking away farmers' prime land and handing it over to Robert Vadra to appease Sonia Gandhi. Jatinder Chaudhary, a minister in the Tripura government, highlighted achievements of the CPM-led Left Front government by stating that land had been distributed among all landless, power given free for tubewells, education imparted free to all up to the college level. The All-India Democratic Women Association (AIDWA) vice-president Jagmati Sangwan called upon women to stand up and launch social movements unitedly with struggling farmers against female foeticide, alcoholism, violence against women, casteism and other social evils.
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Boy dies in freak accident
Sirsa, June 7 The victim, Jaskaran, was passing near the pole when a car hit it. The car driver Lakhbir Singh was going towards Dabwali from Mansa in Punjab when his car collided with a pole in a bid to avert a collision with a pick-up van. Jaskaran died trapped under the transformer by the time people pulled him out. The police has booked the car driver. — TNS |
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Man gets death for raping, murdering minor
Faridabad, June 7 Additional Sessions Judge RN Bharti, presiding over a special court on crimes against children, awarded death by hanging to Inder Saini (23) and slapped fine of Rs 25,000 on him. The convict lured his tenant's nine-year-old daughter to his room on the evening of January 15 last year and raped her. He then strangulated her and stabbed her to death. He put the body in a gunny bag and hid it in an alley near his house. He had consumed liquor at his house with friends before committing the crime. The victim's parents, who sold food on a 'rehri', had been staying in the house for the last 15 years. They were at home when the crime was committed. They became suspicious when they did not see their daughter around. When they went looking for her in the convict's room, they saw blood splattered on the bed. The convict was not in the room, which made them suspicious. During the search for their daughter, they found the gunny bag containing the body. |
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Lured minor recovered
Karnal, June 7 Jagshir was produced in court which remanded him to 14-day judicial custody and the minor was handed over to her family. |
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Two arrested for minor’s rape
Karnal, June 7 The youths Jagdish and Deepak, who came on a motorcycle, allegedly abducted the minor and took near a tube well on the night of June 5. Jagdish sexually assaulted her, the police claimed. The victim's father filed a complaint following which a case of sexual assault was registered and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act were invoked. The accused were arrested from their house at Mor Majra and the the motorcycle used by them for abducting the minor was impounded. The victim's medical examination was conducted at Kalpana Chawla Medical College here and her statement was recorded under Section 164 CrPC. |
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Youth, woman held on rape charge
Rohtak, June 7 The incident reportedly took place after the victim, around 26 years old, was called to provide service at the residence of the accused. She told the police that Pardeep and Nisha beat her up after which she was raped. The victim alleged that the accused wanted her to be a part of the prostitution racket they wanted to run in the garb of the beauty parlour business. The police registered a case and arrested the accused who were remanded to judicial custody. |
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Quack held for raping minor
Fatehabad, June 7 The accused was today produced in a local court which remanded him to judicial custody. The girl revealed the incident to her mother recently when she fell sick and her mother wanted to take her to the quack. The girl refused to be taken to him and started crying when her mother persisted. The girl then told her mother that the quack had called her to his clinic, situated near her house, five months back and raped her there. The girl added that the quack had then threatened to kill her if she narrated the incident to anyone. |
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Mango growers bore the brunt of unseasonal rain and storm last evening. The crop was at various stages of harvesting.
Mango is cultivated on 5,419 hectares in Yamunanagar district and 1,257 hectares in Ambala district. The districts recorded an average of rainfall of around 40 mm, but the strong winds led to the dropping of the unripe crop, resulting in huge losses.
