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Over 100 Cong leaders vie for LS ticket
R-Day celebrated with patriotic fervour
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Yamunanagar-Panchkula
Quality medicines for VIPs, cheap ones for ‘aam
aadmi’
Quash FIR against doc couple: IMA
Vehicle crushes two car crash survivors
Varsity authorities booked for fraud Sanskrit scholar receives President’s award Padma Shri dream come true: Coach
Jewellery shop burgled in Karnal
Vet science convention from today
2 held in murder case
AIG Jagjit Singh gets President service medal
Employee electrocuted
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Over 100 Cong leaders vie for LS ticket
Chandigarh, January 27 While the Rohtak parliamentary seat has only one applicant for the party ticket, making sitting MP Deepinder Hooda the only “unchallenged” candidate, a maximum of 22 applications have been received from Sonepat. Sitting MP Jitender Malik has already announced that he is not keen on contesting the next parliamentary elections. The Hisar parliamentary seat, presently represented by Haryana Janhit Congress supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi, has 18 applicants. The Ambala seat represented by union minister Selja, seen as a dissident leader, has 15 applications, while 13 applications have been received from Kurukshetra and Sirsa each, represented by Naveen Jindal and Ashok Tanwar, respectively. While three applications have come from Karnal, represented by MP Arvind Sharma, two applications have come for the Faridabad seat, which is represented by Avtar Singh Badhana. While former state youth Congress president and son of power minister Capt Ajay Yadav, Chiranjeev Singh, also the son-in-law of Lalu Yadav, has demanded a ticket from Gurgaon. Transport Minister Aftab Ahmed’s name was proposed by party workers during a district meeting at Mewat. Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dan Singh was also learnt to be keen on contesting from Gurgaon. Sources said a handful of sitting legislators were among those who had staked their claim for the parliamentary seats. State unit sources said the party office was yet to receive the applications of a few sitting MPs. However, they said they were not sure if the applications of all such leaders had been sent to the party in charge in Delhi or were in the queue, since the office could not put together all the applications owing to a snag. The Congress has nine of the 10 seats in its kitty. The final call on the applications will be taken by the party top brass. |
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R-Day celebrated with patriotic fervour
Gurgaon, January 27 The Governor also honoured freedom fighters and war widows and presented tricycles to physically challenged persons and gave awards to the village panchayats who contributed in water conservation and improving sex ratio in their villages. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda unfurled the Tricolour at Nuh in Mewat district. Addressing a gathering, Hooda said, “Haryana is observing 2014 as Year of Inclusive Development and schemes worth Rs 3,000 crore have been implemented since January 1.” Chattha at Ambala
Finance, Irrigation, Planning and Solar Energy Minister Harmohinder Singh Chattha unfurled the Tricolour in Ambala. He said to fulfil the wishes of late Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi, the Panchayati Raj Institutions were being strengthened. Deputy Speaker at Jhajjar
Vidhan Sabha Deputy Speaker Akram Khan hoisted the National Flag at Jahan Aara Stadium in Jjajjar yesterday. Children from various schools presented a cultural programme. Surjewala at Sonepat
After unfurling the Tricolour in Sonepat, Industries Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala honoured freedom fighters, war widows, brave women, schools for cleanliness drive, villages for save water campaign and other persons. Labour Minister at Panipat
Labour and Public Relations Minister Shiv Charan Lal Sharma hoisted the National Flag at
Panipat. Speaking on the occasion, he said, “All of us should work in the direction to fulfil the dreams of those martyrs who had sacrificed their lives for attaining freedom.” Chief Parliamentary Secretary Ram Kishan Fauji, who was to unfurl the National Flag at Pehowa, did not turn up for the function. In the absence of Fauji, Pehowa SDM HC Bhatia unfurled the National Flag. Meanwhile, Transport Minister Aftab Ahmad unfurled the National Flag at
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Fondness for 'yatras'
Politicians have always been fond of taking out 'yatras' with an eye on public support. Devi Lal perhaps started 'yatras' in Haryana when he set out on his statewide tour on 'Vijay Rath' during 'Nyaya Yudh'. Recently, Haryana Janhit Congress supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi took out a 'yatra'. Now, former Union minister Venod Sharma of the Congress was on a 'yatra'. With the general election round the corner, Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar announced his 'Jai Sirsa Lok Sabha yatra'. He will cover all nine Assembly segments of his parliamentary constituency. In Chautala's footsteps
It seems that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is carrying forward the legacy of his predecessor Om Prakash Chautala. During the latter's tenure, public parks, stadiums and institutions were named after his late father Devi Lal. Since Hooda took over the reins, he left no stone unturned in projecting his late father Ranbir Singh as a freedom fighter and mass leader. A considerable chunk of land acquired for an industrial zone on the outskirts of Rohtak was diverted for the construction of Ranbir Singh memorial. Maharshi Dayanand University got Ranbir Singh Chair and Ranbir Singh Institute of Social and Economic Change. The PGIMS got Ranbir Singh OPD. A big chunk of public land next to the Deputy Commissioner's residence is being clandestinely prepared for the installation of a big statue of Ranbir Singh. "Notwithstanding allegations against Hooda, nobody can deny that he has proved a doting son," said a social activist. Tea diplomacy bid
A Congress legislator whose constituency is a part of the Rohtak parliamentary constituency has started tea diplomacy to keep his supporters together and holding off the influence of the Aam Aadmi Party. He has roped in close associates to get tea organised at houses of prominent persons, but it seems that they are not easily accepting the proposal. A young man active in social circles quipped, "A close associate told me that the legislator wished to have tea at my home at the earliest. When I asked him the reason, the associate said the legislator wished to be connected with the youth and men doing a good job in the social sector. I refused, saying I did not wish to be declared a Congress activist by organising the programme for a legislator who did not try to connect with the youth and the common man in the last four years." Contributed by Sushil Manav, Sunit Dhawan and Ravinder Saini
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Four-laning of highway runs into rough weather
Construction firm Gammon Infra to pull out of the project Shiv Kumar Sharma
Yamunanagar, January 27 Sources said Yamunanagar-Panchkula Highway Private Limited (YPHPL), a sister concern of the Gammon Infra, had sent a letter to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) Chairman to pull out of the project. Besides raising several issues in the letter, the YPHPL mainly raised the issue of a 20-km stretch, including 4-km area of the Khol Hai Raitan Wildlife Century in Panchkula and 16-km area in an eco-sensitive zone, which was a major hurdle in starting work on the project. The issue of the 20-km stretch was put up before the State Wildlife Board headed by the Chief Minister last year for clearance. However, there was no progress in the case even after several months. “If the board gives its approval, then the case of the 4-km stretch will go to the Supreme Court and after its approval, it will go to other departments. This process may take seven to eight months,” said an official. Sources said the YPHPL had not shown any interest to start the work without getting clearance since it had to build two toll plazas on the road, one at Sultanpur which falls in the 20-km stretch and the other near Bhambholi in Yamunanagar district. Amarinder Kaur, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, said, “This case will be discussed in a meeting of the Wildlife Board.” The YPHPL had bagged the contract of this 104.77-km road for Rs 934 crore. PD Mathur, Project Director, NH-73, said, “We have obtained clearance from the Forest Department in December 2013. We are hopeful that other pending clearances would be obtained soon.” He said the authorities had been holding talks with Gammon to resolve its grievances.
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Quality medicines for VIPs, cheap ones for ‘aam
aadmi’
Rohtak, January 27 Raising questions over the quality of medicines meant for the common man, the Haryana Civil Medical Services (HCMS) Association has demanded that these drugs be tested at some reliable laboratory outside state. HCMS doctors expressed serious concern over the supply of cheap drugs at a state-level meeting of the association here yesterday. “Doctors resented the callous attitude leading to a compromised delivery of services to the common man,” said Dr Kuldeep Singh, association president. The association demanded that the common man get the same medicines as supplied to the Chief Minister, MLAs and other dignitaries. The association has called a general body meeting under the banner “Save Health” at Rohtak on February 4 to discuss various challenges facing the state health system and to decide its further course of action. The association lambasted the ‘erroneous’ government policy of recruiting doctors on contract at a monthly salary of Rs 80,000 to 90,000 and called it “a makeshift arrangement and eyewash”. Other demands include revision of entry-level pay scales, provision of health allowance on the Mewat pattern and removal of anomalies in the ACP scheme.
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Kashyap INLD’s candidate for Rajya Sabha seat
Chandigarh, January 27 Senior INLD leader Abhay Chautala and state president Ashok Arora announced Kahyap’s name here today. Kashyap is president of the Backward Classes Cell of the INLD and a former member of the Haryana Public Service Commission. Chautala said unlike the Congress it was the INLD’s endeavour to name leaders belonging to backward and downtrodden classes for various elections in the state. Depending upon their strength in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, the Congress and the INLD would bag one Rajya Sabha seat each in the elections. Two seats would fall vacant after the retirement of the Ishwar Singh (Congress) and Ram Parkash in April this year. Meanwhile, former Haryana minister Attar Singh Saini joined the INLD today. Saini said corruption was rampant in the Congress. There was no place for upright people like him in the party, he added. Meanwhile, Chautala demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for the alleged involvement of his ministers and MLAs in cash-for CLU scam. He said a party delegation would handover the other eight video CDs, allegedly showing Congress MLAs and their kin demanding money for getting CLU permissions, to the Lokayukta tomorrow. |
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Quash FIR against doc couple: IMA
Sirsa, January 27 Led by their local unit president Dr RK Mehta, the doctors have been staging a dharna in Town Park of Sirsa town demanding that the FIR registered against Dr MR Bansal and his wife Dr Promila Bansal be quashed. The police had booked the couple under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act and the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, after a health team raided the couple’s hospital on January 25 and found several irregularities. While most of irregularities pertained to discrepancies in Form F, a mandatory document under the PNDT Act for performing ultrasound test on a pregnant woman, the team found a case of alleged detection of sex of an unborn female baby and its subsequent abortion in the hospital. “We have met the Deputy Commissioner as well as the SSP and demanded quashing of the FIR because the raiding party had taken a case of spontaneous abortion due to medical complication called cervical incompetence as a case of female
foeticide,” said Dr Mehta. He claimed that the authorities had assured to get the matter probed before taking any action against the couple. |
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Vehicle crushes two car crash survivors
Ambala, January 27 Prince and
Mahip, residents of Ambala Cantonment, owned business at Barara. They were returning home last night when the car they were travelling in rammed into a tree near the Saha powerhouse. They survived the crash and stepped out of the mangled car. They managed to reach the road to seek help, but were crushed under the wheels of a speeding vehicle. The police said the matter came to light this morning when some commuters spotted two bodies on the road and informed them. The Saha police said a team were rushed to the spot, which shifted the bodies to the mortuary at the Civil Hospital. They were identified from the documents found at the spot. The police said they could not identify the vehicle involved in the accident so far, but concluded from circumstantial evidence that it could be a heavy vehicle. They said an investigation was on. |
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prize of Rs 5 lakh. Dr Sharma, a Sanskrit scholar, has over 10 published works to his credit.
He has traced 60 rare manuscripts of scholars of Haryanavi origin. He has served Haryana Sanskrit Academy as its director from 2005 to 2011. He has also been the Secretary of Haryana Sanskrit Sammelan since 1978. A recipient of the Haryana Sanskrit Gaurav, conferred by the Government of Haryana, he is currently vice-chairman, Haryana Sanskrit Academy, Panchkula. He is engaged in the propagation of the Sanskrit language.
— TNS
Sunil Dabas, the coach of the Indian women kabaddi team since 2005, has got the Padma Shri award. A Dronacharya awardee, she belongs to Mohammedpur Majra village in Jhajjar district.
She is first woman coach from Haryana and first woman kabaddi coach in country to get Dronacharya Award. The team coached by her won six international gold, including at Asiad 2010 and World Cup 2012. Talking over telephone, she said it was a dream come true for her.
— TNS
Five applications have come for the Bhiwani-Mahendergarh seat, where Shruti Choudhry is the sitting MP. Ten applications have come from Gurgaon, where the sitting is MP Rao Indrajit. He has announced that he will not contest the next election from the Congress ticket.