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Death of three black bucks sparks protests in Fatehabad
Fatehabad farmers worried over
waterlogging, soil salinity
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Lok
Sabha, Assembly Elections
Centre releases Rs 98.5 cr for crop diversification
New selection criteria for aided pvt college principals
Sacked Maruti staff get INLD support
Animal Care Centre told to submit audited balance sheet
Shops at first agro mall await buyers
Haryana to use new power technology
Villagers oppose workers’ meeting
Kin protest youth’s death in hospital
Legal aid clinic inaugurated in Hisar
Gang rape, murder case filed; two held
SI murder: No clue so far
Two booked for gang rape
Three held on gang rape charge
Constable accused of rape found dead
Man murdered
Man electrocuted
Man, woman found dead
1 held for duping two of Rs 9.5 lakh
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Death of three black bucks sparks protests in Fatehabad
Fatehabad, July 7 One black buck was trapped and killed in the metallic web last evening while two more died this morning. A black buck died on Friday. In a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, the All India Bishnoi Jeev Raksha Samiti demanded criminal action against NPCIL officials. Bishnois and People for Animals (PFA) activists held a demonstration and threatened to block National Highway 10 at Badopal if the fencing work was not stopped forthwith. Fatehabad Subdivisional Magistrate Baljit Singh and Divisional Forest Officer (Wildlife) Shakti Singh reached the spot and assured villagers of a solution. Over 500 black bucks live on barren land at Badopal where 185 acres has been acquired. With their natural habitat divided by the fencing, black bucks are getting trapped in it while running towards animals on the other side or while saving themselves from stray dogs. “It is a criminal act to drive the animals to death. The authorities are yet to receive a clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests,” said Rameshwar Bishnoi, president of the All-India Bishnoi Jeev Raksha Samiti, and Badopal sarpanch Ram Murti Bishnoi’s husband Joginder Singh. Vinod Kumar Karwasra, a member of the samiti and district PFA president, said their opposition was not to the nuclear power project at Gorakhpur, but to the manner in which the black bucks were being driven to death. Deputy Commissioner Saket Kumar said he had ordered the catching of stray dogs in the vicinity of the site and told the NPCIL authorities to cover the fencing with tarpaulin so that the animals were able to notice the fence. NPCIL Project Manager TR Arora said he would send officials to New Delhi tomorrow to purchase suitable tarpaulin sheets for covering the fence. Not satisfied, the Bishnoi community and animal rights activists demanded postponement of the fencing work till some concrete plan for relocating the animals was made. |
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Fatehabad farmers worried over
waterlogging, soil salinity
Badopal (Fatehabad), July 7 Mahabir is like several other farmers of Badopal village of Fatehabad whose lands have been hit by waterlogging and salinity. Farmers say nearly 400-acre lands of Badopal have been rendered unfertile for years due to salinity and waterlogging. Pointing to the building of a government primary school whose ground is filled with white salt and whose walls up to six or seven feet have been moistened with subsoil water creeping on them, the villagers said the water table was so high that it damages the buildings too. “The water table at some places has come as high as two to five feet at certain places and water starts oozing out of the land during rainy season,” said Rajiv Kumar, owner of 17 acres of land, all affected by salinity and waterlogging. Rajiv Kumar owes Rs 4 lakh to banks, Rs 2 lakh to private money lenders and Rs 2 lakh to friends and relatives. “Year after year, we sow crops in the hope of better luck, spend money on seeds, fertilisers and pesticides, but before we are able to reap the harvest, a single rain is sufficient to damage our crops beyond redemption,” said Sanjay, another farmer. He said the farmers had to pay the revenue, but they were not able to get any produce from their lands. “We have been helplessly watching our families ruined, as the authorities are doing nothing to reclaim the land,” villagers said. The problem is not merely Badopal specific. Over a dozen villages of Fatehabad and a large number of villages of Haryana are hit by this problem. The twin problems of waterlogging and soil salinity are threatening the sustainability of agricultural production in several parts of the state. This is because of the fact that alarming rise in the water table is causing a threat to the highly productive agricultural land of the state. According to a rough estimate, an area of about 3.50 lakh hectares in Haryana is either waterlogged or salt affected. Out of this, about 50,000 hectares is under critical condition. Fatehabad Deputy Commissioner Saket Kumar said a committee under Additional Deputy Commissioner Rajiv Rattan had been set up to prepare a project. Rattan said nearly 10 to 12 villages of Fatehabad were affected by the twin problems of waterlogging and salinity. He said under a scheme the Haryana Operational Pilot Projects (HOPP), a project was being made to tackle the problems in these villages. He said samples of soil had already been taken in these villages. Rajiv Rattan said the project was started in Pili Mandori village of Fatehabad some years back, but it was put off due to some unknown reasons. |
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Three persons carrying cattle beaten up
Bhiwani, July 7 One of the injured, Anees, has been shifted to the PGIMS, Rohtak. The animals were being brought from Rama Mandi in Punjab in a big truck used for ferrying cars. The villagers stopped the truck on the Bahl-Bhiwani road. While the three persons found in the driver’s cabin were caught by local people, three others travelling in the truck with animals were beaten up. The six identified themselves as cattle traders from UP but could not produce any documents showing that these animals were
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Sabha, Assembly Elections
Karnal, July 7 The overall view that emerged was that the party should "keep all options open", state party chief Chowdhary Ved Pal said. The NCP has alliance with the Congress at the Centre, Maharashtra and Meghalaya and the party would extend issue-based support to the Congress government in the state, but there was no decision yet on supporting the party in the elections, he said. A detailed report about the deliberations at the meeting will be sent to the party high command and a final decision in this regard will be taken on the basis of the advice given by the party, Chowdhary added. The executive also expressed concern over rising prices and inflation and said the party would go to the public on this issue. The party also demanded remunerative prices for farmers for their produce. The NCP also decided to launch a mass contact programme and enrol youth, among others, to strengthen the party. |
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Centre releases Rs 98.5 cr for crop diversification
Chandigarh, July 7 The Agriculture Department has prepared estimates for various heads of crop diversification, with the lion’s share of Rs 66.52 crore going to the popularisation of cultivating alternative crops such as guar, maize and basmati (short-duration hybrid DSR), planting poplar and inter-cropping in agro-forestry to break the wheat-paddy cycle, sources said. An amount of Rs 10 crore has been set apart for the farm mechanisation and value addition component and Rs 20 crore for on-site specific activities to popularise drip irrigation, laser land leveller, seed drill, zero till drill and seed drill-cum-planter. During the ongoing kharif season, the government plans to divert around 60,000 hectares under paddy to other crops, including guar (16,800 hectares), maize (9,250 hectares), poplar (25,000 hectares) and short-term rice (3,000 hectares). A subsidy to up to Rs 10,000 per hectare is slated to be given to farmers on seeds and insecticides for opting for alternative crops. The ambitous diversification programme has been launched as most rice-consuming states in eastern India have become self-sufficient in rice output and diversification is the only way for agrarian economies to survive in times to come. The declining water table is a major challenge for paddy-growing areas due to the over-exploitation of groundwater for irrigation, with several blocks in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh reaching the critical stage of a low water table. During his last Budget speech, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, while announcing a diversification fund of Rs 500 crore, had said, “The original Green Revolution states face problems of stagnating yields and over-exploitation of water resources and the answer lies in crop diversification.” The recent central grant for crop diversification for Punjab (Rs 224.5 crore), Haryana (Rs 98.5 crore) and Uttar Pradesh (Rs 127 crore) has come from the diversification fund of the Centre. |
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New selection criteria for aided pvt college principals
Chandigarh, July 7 Under the new criteria, the maximum weightage of 30 per cent has been given to the teaching experience and managerial skills. While the academic background and research performance based on the academic performance index (API) score will carry a weightage of 25 per cent each, the interview will carry the least weightage of 20 per cent marks. Officials said besides the new criteria, the UGC instructions and relevant service rules would continued to be followed in the recruitment process. The teaching experience of only those candidates will be considered, who have tought the subject concerned after acquiring the eligibility qualifications. In science subjects, the candidates with 65 per cent and above marks at the postgraduation level will be given a maximum of 15 marks. In the arts stream, candidates scoring 60 per cent and above marks will be given a maximum of
15 marks. In both streams, the teaching and managerial skills, which carry a maximum of 30 per cent, will be taken into account. These skills include holding posts of officiating prinicipal and other teaching and extra-curricular activities undertaken in his/her teaching career. Special emphasis would be laid on holding such posts such as NSS programme officer, NCC posts, hostel warden, bursar, time table in charge, women cell in charge, placement cell in
charge etc The performance in the interview will be assessed regarding knowledge of service financial rules and information, communication and technology (ICT) tools (10 marks), decision-making, leadership and communication skills (5 marks) and overall personality (5 marks).
Criteria for college principals
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Inderjit rules out patch-up with state Cong leadership
Hisar, July 7 He said he had raised the banner of revolt after feeling that a large section was being neglected. He announced that the next function would be held at Jhajjar. Ruling out a reconciliation with the state leadership, he alleged that the Haryana Congress had become a private firm as no party leader was being allowed to raise issues concerning the public. The dissident Congress leader criticised Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for sharing the dais with former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh at a recent function of Jats in Delhi on the demand of reservation. “Was it appropriate to join hands with the person who terminated the inter-state water agreement by passing the Punjab Terminations of Agreement Bill in 2004 to deny Haryana its share of water,” he questioned. Former Haryana Congress spokesperson Ved Prakash Vidrohi demanded a white paper on government jobs and development projects in Haryana. |
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Sacked Maruti staff get INLD support
Kaithal, July 7 The party took out a procession yesterday and submitted a memorandum for the Haryana Governor to ADC Dinesh Singh Yadav. The demands in the memorandum included an impartial probe into the lathi-charge, withdrawal of cases against protesters and an inquiry into the role of the Kaithal administration that day. The protesters were led by state president Ashok Arora and INLD leader Ram Pal Majra. Abhey Chautala was scheduled to lead the protest, but could not come due to other engagements. The party leaders alleged that the protesters were thrashed by the police and over 100 arrested. While many workers were released the next day, 12 persons, including municipal councillor Prem Chand, were booked under Section 302 of the IPC. They were still in jail. They alleged that the administration had acted at the behest of Kaithal MLA and Haryana minister Randeep Singh Surjewala. Addressing party workers, Ashok Arora and Majra expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order situation, atrocities on the Dalits and increasing incidents of rape and murder in the state. They also criticised a steep increase in prices and the deletion of the names of a large number of beneficiaries from the BPL list. |
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Animal Care Centre told to submit audited balance sheet
Chandigarh, July 7 The development is significant as the NGO is run by animal rights activist-cum-senior BJP leader, Maneka Gandhi. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Augustine George Masih directed the government to pay the cost of camels to their owners and recover the amount from the NGO. A total of 68 camels were seized by the Centre from their owners. Out of them, 10 have allegedly died. The Bench also directed the Haryana police to proceed against three functionaries of the NGO — Gaurav Gupta, Sukhram Khatana and Banwari Lal. The court also took note of the Centre’s demand for Rs 25 lakh from the owners for the upkeep of the camels. But, counsel for the Centre clarified that the demand was made only to avoid the camels being taken away by the owners, who would have allegedly slaughtered them. The court had also slammed the Haryana police for its inability to get the camels released. Alleging a nexus between the Haryana police and the animal shelter, a Gurgaon court had earlier referred to an incident in which eight persons had claimed they were the owners of 68 camels seized by the Haryana police. They were arrested by the Haryana police on the complaint of the animal shelter, which alleged the camels were being taken for slaughter. The Gurgaon court had held that the camels were released to Gandhi’s animal shelter, but not given back to the owners. |
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Shops at first agro mall await buyers
Rohtak, July 7 The department will soon hold the next auction of the shops. Suresh Kumar, zonal administrator of the HSAMB, claimed that the department was confident of selling all the commercial space and would easily recover the money invested in the project. There was no cause of worry. He said the commercial space could be sold and leased out according to the specifications laid in the norms adopted by the HSAMB and since open auction was the only way, it could take some time. He, however, admitted that slowdown in the real estate market was perhaps resulted in the delay, but he said that the mall was located in a posh and prime commercial area of the city. The next auction is likely to be held in the last week of this month. According to Kumar, the allotment letters of the shops previously auctioned or sold would be issued soon. The board had sold out as many as 35 shops located on various floors in the third auction held on June 26. The scheme of providing fresh vegetables and fruits through a mobile van by the board to the local residents also failed to take off due to the lack of interest by the growers and required coordination among various agencies, admitted the officials concerned. The mall has been built at a cost of around Rs 92 crore, excluding the cost of the land. It was formally inaugurated on March 14 this year. The authorities have proposed to build a multiplex theatre complex and allow retail sale of consumer items other than agro-products to increase the footfall. The authorities claim that the agro mall, which is the first of its kind in the state so far, would enable the farmers in getting remunerative prices and value addition to their produce besides benefiting the traders through direct sale. The same kind of malls would soon come up at Panchkula and Karnal, said sources in the department. |
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Haryana to use new power technology
Chandigarh, July 7 Yadav, who recently led a delegation to France and Switzerland to know the GIS technology said the experience during this study tour would help the Haryana power utilities to decide the extent of usage of the GIS technology, substation automation technology and hybrid technology. He said the GIS technology is mostly being used for the substations commissioned within the limits of urban areas and air insulated substation technology for sub-urban areas in France and Switzerland. |
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Villagers oppose workers’ meeting
Gurgaon, July 7 The villagers have opposed the meeting, apprehending disruption of peace and order in the area. Nearly 20 sarpanches of villages located in the vicinity of Manesar have urged Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner PC Meena and Police Commissioner Alok Mittal not to allow the meeting. A delegation of the sarpanches and other panchayat members met the local administrative and police authorities concerned and submitted a memorandum in support of their demands. |
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Somb, Pathrala rivers flood Yamunanagar villages
Yamunanagar/Ambala, July 7 This led to the flooding of more than 12 low -lying villages in the two segments of the district. The standing crops in the affected villages got submerged in the water. The villages, including Bhamnouli, Bankat, Ramgarh, Chintpur, Lalhari, Alisherpur Majra and Khanuwala, got affected by the floods. |
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Kin protest youth’s death in hospital
Rohtak, July 7 The kin demanded the registration of a case against the doctors allegedly responsible for negligence. The hospital authorities sought police action against the kin who reportedly manhandled the doctors on duty and resorted to violence. No case was registered so far. Satish Kaushik of Bohar village said his nephew Sandeep (25), admitted yesterday after he complained of diarrhoea symptoms, died this evening allegedly due to doctors' negligence. He said doctors discharged Sandeep yesterday allegedly without proper treatment. In an application to the police, Kaushik sought action against the doctors concerned. Doctors on duty refuted the charge of negligence. They claimed that the deceased's kin beat up two doctors and damaged property. The police reached the spot after some time and pacified the protesters. Dr Ashok Chauhan, Medical Suprintendent, claimed that there was no negligence on the part of doctors and charged the deceased's kin with taking the law in their hands. He said the patient was attended to by doctors and was discharged after all tests as nothing serious was found at that time. |
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Legal aid clinic inaugurated in Hisar
Hisar, July 7 The member secretary of the HLSA, Deepak Gupta, chairperson of the district legal services authority and District and Sessions Judge AK Jain, labour court judge SK Gupta, additional senior judge RK Yadav, CJM-cum-district legal services authority secretary Narender Sharma were present on the occasion. Justice Mittal said the HLSA had set up legal aid clinics on the pattern of the Primary Community Health Centres where self-employed paralegals and advocates provide legal information to the rural people. He said each of these legal aid clinics had been set up for a group of 22 villages. "The main objective behind setting up of these clinics is to create legal awareness among students and their guardians and to provide them with legal aid," he added. He said anybody visiting these clinics for legal aid would be provided with information about different laws by legal aid
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Gang rape, murder case filed; two held
Fatehabad, July 7 The Fatehabad police has arrested Hotel Kaluram owner Kalu Ram's son Pawan and the victim's alleged boyfriend Manjit Beniwal after registering a case under Sections 376-D, 302 and 34 of the IPC on the victim's kin's complaint. "The girl came to the hotel with her luggage and certificates, which makes evident the intention of eloping with Manjit. She allegedly knew him for some time. Later her body was found in the bathroom, which bolted from inside," said Fatehabad SP Vikas Dhankhar. He said Manjit told the police during interrogation that the girl wanted to elope with and marry him, but he was not keen. The SP said hotel manager Sushil, also named in the FIR, possibly fled because he had given the room to the girl without making an entry in the register. The victim, a 21-year-old student of a Sirsa college and resident of Sherpura, went to Hotel Kaluram around 9 am yesterday. Manjit arrived there after some time. A waiter told Pawan in the afternoon that a girl was lying unconscious at room 105. Pawan and Manjit rushed her to the General Hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead. Dhankhar said the post-mortem examination was conducted today and the police was likely to get the report by tomorrow. He said there was no mark of violence on the body. |
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SI murder: No clue so far
Rohtak, July 7 The victim was shot dead after he intervened in a case of loot during routine checking on the national highway on Friday. "The shocking incident of the murder of the SI on duty is perhaps the first-of-its-kind this year, the policeforce which had already been overburdened due to increased VIP movement in view of the city being the hometown of the Chief Minister," said sources in the department. It is learnt that the deceased policeman (Balwan Sharma) was unarmed at the time of the incident. |
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Two booked for gang rape
Rewari, July 7 The woman reported that she came in contact with Sunny in 2007 when they were doing the same course at an institute in Delhi. She added that Sunny brought her to Dharuhera, where they had a live-in relationship. She stated that Sunny continued to exploit her for about two years on the pretext of marrying her. She alleged that Sunny subsequently pressurised her into intimacy with Vivek. Sunny and the woman shifted to Bhiwadi, near Dharuhera, around six months ago and the woman gave birth to a daughter. Sunny later sent her and the infant to the Badshahpur area in Gurgaon district. She learnt that Sunny's family was making preparations for his wedding to another girl. She took the infant with her to Dharuhera and lodged a complaint against Sunny and Vivek. She was medically examined. A police official said efforts were on to arrest the accused. |
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Three held on gang rape charge
Rewari, July 7 The three youths were yesterday produced in a local court, which remanded them in judicial custody. Sources said the victim married a youth of Chelawas village last year. She was abducted on July 1 from Nangal Jamalpur village, where she was staying at her parents’ house. She was allegedly gang-raped and dropped by the trio near Nangal Jamalpur village on July 2. The victim’s medical examination had confirmed sexual assault. She had filed a complaint, following which the police booked the trio for abduction and gang rape. |
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Constable accused of rape found dead
Gurgaon, July 7 The police said Bal Kishen's body was found at the railway track. The body was identified on the basis of the constable's identity card and other documents found from his pockets. It was being suspected that he committed suicide after the registration of a police case against him. Bal Kishen, 38, belonged to Ishapur village in Sonepat district. He is survived by his wife, three daughters and a son. |
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Man murdered
Sonepat, July 7 The victim was identified on the basis of his driver's licence and his family was informed. The 30-year-old victim's father Azad told the police that Anil, driver of a private vehicle, left on a motorcycle around 8 pm yesterday. Azad said the family did not have enmity with anyone. Gannaur DSP Rajinder Singh went to the Civil Hospital and assured the family that those involved in the murder would be identified and arrested soon. |
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Man electrocuted
Kurukshetra, July 7 In another case, Angrez Singh of Rajond and a woman were injured when a car hit his motorcycle near Salarpur Chowk here last evening. Angrez Singh succumbed to his injuries at LNJP hospital here today. The police has registered a case. |
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Man, woman found dead
Bhiwani, July 7 A motorcycle was also found near the bodies. The police identified the man as Rajesh of Garhi in Hisar, who is in his early forties while the woman in her late thirties has been identified as Om Pati of Devsar in Bhiwani. Rajesh has three children while the woman has two. The police has sent the bodies for a postmortem examination. |
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1 held for duping two of Rs 9.5 lakh
Kaithal, July 7 According to the police, Sanjay, a local resident, won the confidence of
his uncle, who paid him Rs 4.7 lakh in June, 2012. Sanjay told his uncle that if any of his friends was interested, he could arrange another plot. Following this, Bira Ram and his friend paid Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 3.3 lakh, respectively, in August, 2012. He asked both of them to sign some papers and assured the allotment of the plots. However, the victims were neither given any plot documents nor the money despite repeated requests. The accused threatened them of dire consequences, following which they lodged an FIR. |
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