Stone of new dist court complex to be laid today
Dehradun, October 19
The foundation stone of the new district court complex will be laid tomorrow by the Chief Justice of the Nainital High Court, Barin Ghosh and Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna here. The foundation-laying ceremony will be held at 3 pm, where many state dignitaries will be present.

Haridwar, October 19
With the Ganga canal having been closed for a fortnight, Ganga devotees, religious-social activists, teerth purohits, pandits, sants and several non-government organisations are using this closure to keep the Ganga clean.

The activists are cleaning the canal of filth, polythene, garbage and other materials daily.

Volunteers of the Teerth Maryada Raksha Samiti and the Small-Scale Trader Association today carried out the Ganga cleaning drive at the Birla Ghat.

Led by the representative of the traders,

Sanjay Chopra, the volunteers cleared filth and garbage at Birla ghat. Local people too pitched in to clean the holy river and ghats.

Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Yuva Teerth Purohit Mahasabha carried out the clean Ganga drive at Har-ki-Pauri, Malviya Deep ,Kangda ghat and the Pantdweep mela zone.

Teerth purohit Ujjwal Pundit urged the people to not put religious items and clothes in holy Ganga river. Ward councillor Har-ki-Pauri Kanhaiya Khewadiya also joined in the clean Ganga ghat drive.

Sikh women cleaned the Prem Nagar Ashram ghat near Ranipur. Shantikunj Akhil Bharatiya Gayatri Parivar activists will be carrying out mass cleaning drive at Har-ki-Pauri and other adjacent ghats tomorrow.

Haridwar, October 19
Perturbed at the alleged inefficiency of the civic body in checking the spread of dengue in Haridwar, local residents have launched an awareness drive. The number of dengue patients in the district has touched 750.

Residents, under the aegis of a social outfit, namely Rashtriya Krantikari Manch, are identifying vulnerable pockets in the city.

Led by social activist Ambrish Kumar, they are roaming around the city generating awareness about the virus.

At the Chandracharya intersection at Ranipur, Ambrish Kumar urged people to take precautionary measures as dengue has affected more than 700 persons in the past two months in Haridwar.

Ambrish Kumar accused the Mayor, local BJP legislators, namely Madan Kaushik, Aadesh Chauhan, Chandrasekhar Bhattelwala, Swami Yatishwaranand and Congress MP from Haridwar Harish Rawat, of not playing a proactive role in carrying out efforts to check the spread of the menace. "Referring dengue patients to Dehradun, Rishikesh or nearby hospitals is all what government hospitals in Haridwar are doing. There are no preventive measures in place. The health department, the civic body, the district administration and political representatives have failed to check its spread," he said.

Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal and a religious outfit, Teerth Maryada Raksha Samiti, have also blamed the district administration, the civic authorities and the health department for ignoring the problem.

Dehradun, October 19
Women of the Jahkan area raised slogans and demanded the arrest of a woman, who was allegedly the main culprit in the brawl between the two families on October 13 on the issue of illegal grabbing of temple land.

Jaya Baluni, CO, Mussoorie, reached the spot with the police and pacified them. A scuffle was reported on October 13 between two families on the issue of land grabbing in which a woman blamed the members of other family of trying to kill her by strangulating her.

The matter reached to the SSP after which the police arrested the men of both families who were involved in the brawl. Today, members of one family were demanding the arrest of the woman who tried to manhandle them on October 13. Both parties also filed cross complaints against each other.

Both families live in the same campus where a temple is situated. A dispute is going on between them on the ownership issue.

Dehradun, October 19
Former Air Chief Marshal FH Major (retd) today called upon students of The Doon School not to look for quick fix solutions but endeavour towards consistency and hard work.

Addressing the students on the 78th founder’s day celebrations at the school, the former Air Chief Marshal, who was the chief guest on the occasion, exhorted students not to abandon hard work for moments of glory that may not last. “Your glory lies in routine work, that may at times seem boring but would lead you to achieve greater heights,” said the former Air Marshal.

He exhorted the students to touch the sky with glory, the motto of the Indian Air Force, which had never failed to inspire throughout his chequered career. Chairman, Board of Governors, Gautam Thapar, also threw light on the activities of the school and the way forward. Earlier, Headmaster of the school, Dr Peter McLaughlin, welcomed the guests at the Rose Bowl comprising AICC President Sonia Gandhi, Vice-President, AICC, Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi along with her husband Robert Wadra. The other guests included Union State Minister for Home Affairs RPN Singh, Union Minister of State for Power Jyotiraditya Scindia and former students of the Doon School. Due to the presence of the high profile guests, elaborate arrangements were made by the security agencies.

The function ended with a musical concert Nadpravah, presented by the Doon School Orchestra and Choir.

Earlier, Governor Aziz Qureshi received AICC President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul at the Jolly Grant Airport.

Mussoorie, October 19
The area around the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) was closed for traffic movement because of the visit of President Pranab Mukherjee. The restrictions on the movement of traffic caused inconvenience to the local residents and shopkeepers.

The area around the LBSNAA gate and the Dalai Hill was cordoned off completely with the heavy deployment of police force. The residents and even the school children were restricted from entering the Zero point toward the LBSNAA gates, till the President's presence at the academy.

The shops around the area were shut down by the police due to security reasons.

Many residents had to wait for several hours to reach their homes due to the restrictions on the movement of traffic.

The normalcy returned only after the President left for the Jolly Grant Airport from the polo ground at around 3:1O pm.

Dehradun, October 19
Waste Warriors, an NGO , in association with Media 24 x7, will hold a competition, namely 'Art for Change' with the theme ‘Stop littering - keep the city clean.

The NGO has asked schools to participate and make the programme a grand success.

The opening date of the competition is October 20 and the last date to submit entries is November 11. Two of the winning designs chosen from the entries will be displayed on hoardings on Rajpur Road.

Waste Warriors has also extended an invitation to schools, offering to do presentations, show videos about their work on the environment, conduct interactive educational sessions, evaluate school waste management systems and conduct waste workshops.

Jodie Underhill, CEO and co-founder of Waste Warriors, said, “Rajpur Road has turned into a dumping ground. Many illegal vendors have come up in the area. We are finding it difficult to clean it. We hope that hoardings designed by young students will spread the important message of ‘stop littering - keep the city clean’.

Haridwar, October 19
The Ranipur wing of the Delhi Public School has won the coveted North Zone Inter-School Cricket championship held recently, at Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh.

On reaching here today, at DPS Ranipur school campus, the winning team contingent was given a warm welcome by thevschool staff and students.

Welcoming the winning team school principal Dr KC Pandey said the meticulous and hard work pitched in by each player, team coach and supporting staff had resulted in Ranipur wing becoming the North Zone champion.

Pandey added that school management is trying its level best to ensure best of the playing facilities to the students in the school.

Veteran cricketer and secretary of Haridwar Cricket Association Inder Mohan Barthwal congratulated the DPS Ranipur team on their major achivement.

Barhtwal said the recent laid state of the art cricketing facility and pitches in the school cricket stadium had been instrumental in achieving this mega victory.

"Haridwar players were better off their opposition teams in acclimatising to varied pitches like spinning, bouncy and seaming. Owing to this high class training facility at school ground itself, we hope more such victories in near future too" said Barthwal.

Cricket Association head Neeraj Kumar, KS Bhandari, Ajay Kumar, Vikas Goyal, Pradeep Sharma, Kaushal Sharma, Sulabh Goyal, Sanjeev Goyal, Umesh Dimri, Kamal Bahukhandi among other cricket lovers of the city have expressed their happiness over DPS Ranipur school cricket team's emphatic victory.

Dehradun, October 19
The Pratap section successfully defended the Inter Section Athletics Trophy, edging out a determined Shivaji section by 6 points in the annual athletics meet at the Rashtriya Indian Military College, here today.

In an epic finale, the Pratap section needed to win the 4x400m race to lift the trophy. And that was exactly what Cadets Md Salman, Akash, Nelson and Akshat did. In a record timing of 3 minutes and 42 seconds, they brought the cup home for their section. Valuable contributions from Cadets Pratik Jadhav, Shikhar Singh, Amul Rawal, Aryan Ahluwalia, Lalit Kumar, Hemant Poonia, Louizink, Raghav Vaid and Anil Kumar tremendously helped them in lifting the cup. The Pratap section finished with 236 points, closely followed by Shivaji at 230. Ranjit and Chandragupta sections fought for the third position, with Ranjit securing it with 167 points, Chandragupta finished last with 163. It marked the end of one of the most keenly contested Inter-Section Athletics Meet held at RIMC. Cadets Shashank Shekhar, Saurabh Shukla, Vijay Choudhry, Rishi Pangeijam, Adarsh Parmar, L Sailo, Sohail Islam, Sameer Ansari, Kush Kumar, Aurobindo Mishra, Sachin Kumar and Vijayant Rana performed excellently for their sections. The Individual prizes won by the cadets are as follows:

Best athletes (A Div): Cadet Sameer Ansari, (B Div): Cadet Pratik Jadhav, (C Div): Cadet Shashank Shekhar and O Nelson Singh.

The chief guest for the evening was Col HS Bainsla, SM, Commandant RIMC. Lt Col (Retd) LK Pandey, an alumnus of RIMC, presented scholarships to the children of the employees of RIMC.

Dehradun, October 19
The Heritage School and Hilton School have made in to the finals of the Inter-Council School Junior Boys Basketball tournament after winning the semifinal matches played at The Heritage School here today.

In the first semifinal match, Hilton School defeated Shiwalik International School by 43-6 score. Hilton school took an infallible lead in the first quarter after scoring 15 points with conceding mere 2 points. In the second quarter, Hilton scored 8 points whereas, Shiwalik managed to score 4 points. In the 3rd and the final quarters, Hiton scored 12 and 8 points respectively and Shiwalik failed to score even a single point.

In a one-sided encounter, The Heritage School thrashed GRD School by 27-2 score. In the first three quarters, the GRD team could not score a single point whereas, Heritage School scored 6, 8 and 7points respectively. In the last quarter, The Heritage School had put 6 baskets and the GRD only scored 2 baskets. The final match between the two semifinal winners would be played on Monday.

Dehradun, October 19
Shiwalik Football Club registered a massive victory after defeating Vikasnagar Football Club in a one-sided encounter by 6-1 in the ongoing Drona College 70th Nemidas Memorial District Football League here today.

Laxman scored the first goal for Shiwalik at 12th minute with Anurag scoring another goal at 25th minute. Bhupendra stuck double blow at 33rd and 36th minutes for Shiwalik. Nitin and Manish netted a goal each at 45th and 48th minute respectively. Adil scored the lone goal for Vikasnagar at 13th minute of the match.

In the second match of the day, Vijay Cant Football Club defeated Tapovan Football Club by 1-0. Nitin scored the only goal of the match at 28th minute for Vijay Cant. — TNS

Dehradun, October 19
Sai Grace School defeated Saraswati Vidhyamandir by 8 wickets in the ongoing 1st RK Agarwal Memorial Inter-State School T-20 Cricket Tournament here today.

Saraswati Vidhyamandir won the toss and choose to bat first. They scored 96 runs in their innings. Naval of Vidhyamandir scored 29 runs. Sai Grace chased down the target at the loss of 2 wickets. From Sai Grace, Rajat scored 61 runs on 44 balls and won the match for his team.

In the second match between The Doon Global and Roots International, the Doon Global School took to batting first and scored 123 runs in the end. Roots International had a bad start as both the openers got out without making much runs on the board. The team was bowled out at 88 runs and lost the match by 35 runs.