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Inter-caste marriage triggers tension in Fatehabad village
7 power officials suspended over financial irregularities
Calf from dead Murrah bull’s semen produced
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Rewari on chain snatchers’ radar
‘BJP will provide corruption-free government’
BJP workers observe fast in Ambala City
Hooda govt failed to utilise Central funds, says Union minister
Counselling for engg courses begins on Aug 4
Sarpanch among five booked for RTI activist’s murder
Guv appoints four new VCs
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Inter-caste marriage triggers tension in Fatehabad village
Fatehabad, July 26 The police today arrested five members of the girl’s family for rioting and assault even as heavy police has been deployed in the village in view of the tension. A series of meetings organised by the sarpanch and some prominent villages have failed to end the imbroglio even as the couple, who were living under police protection after the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s orders, have Sunil (29) eloped with Ritu (18), both of different sub-castes of the SC community, from the same village some days ago. Later, they appeared before the police on July 23 with the HC’s order directing the police to provide protection to them. On July 23, the girl’s kin attacked Pawan and Ram Chander of husband’s family. Later, another member of the same community, Veer Bhan, was also attacked. Since then, members of the community have been living under fear and four of the man’s kin – Jagdish, Suresh, Gobind and Jaila Singh – have fled the village with their families after locking their houses. Rohtash Kumar, SHO, Bhuna police station, said five persons from the girl’s family– Suraj Mal, Baljit, Manoj, Rajinder and Jaipal – have been arrested for the July 23 incident and police had been deployed in the village to prevent any untoward incident. Man’s family attacked
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7 power officials suspended over financial irregularities
Hisar, July 26 Sources said the suspended officials included Subhash Deswal, CE, Delhi zone, RS Yadav, SE, three XENs — Vikas Mohan Dahiya, Jitender Dhull, and Ramniwas Yadav — Mandeep Kundu, assistant engineer and Anil Solanki, SDO. Sources said the Vigilance had started an inquiry against them following a complaint about financial irregularities in the purchase of pillar boxes in the Faridabad circle of the DHBVN. The nigam had given a contract for the purchase of material worth Rs 75 crore in June and December last year. As per the norms and conditions, the nigam was to release a payment of Rs 25 crore following the purchase of certain material. But the entire payment was released. Moreover, the stock was also shown more than the actual purchase. Arun Kumar, managing director, DHBVN, confirmed the suspension of seven officials in the case. He said the nigam had started the process of issuing chargesheet to the officials who had been indicted in the Vigilance inquiry. The opposition leaders have also levelled allegations of irregularities worth crores of rupees in the purchase of material, including transformers and pillar boxes. INLD MP from Hisar Dushyant Chautala had pointed out at four Congress ministers and one former minister among the high power purchase committee who purchased transformers from 2007 to 2012. He alleged transformers were purchased at higher than the market rate, alleging a Rs 200 crore scam. |
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Calf from dead Murrah bull’s semen produced
Karnal, July 26 Scientists said: “It is the first alive male clone of the world, which is produced from a somatic cell of frozen semen of a bull, which died 10 years ago and was the best bull of the NDRI ever.” Earlier, they said they had produced a clone with this method, but it survived only for 13 hours. NDRI director Dr AK Srivastava said the scientists at the institute produced ‘Rajat’ through the institute’s Hand-guided cloning technique on July 23. The calf was born by normal parturition and its weight at the time of birth was 32 kg. He said: “The efforts of the scientists, including Dr SK Singla, Dr MS Chauhan, Dr RS Manik, Dr P Palta, Dr Shiv Parsad and Anuj Raja and Amol Sahare, has made this achievement possible.” He said the newborn
calf was keeping a good health. The NDRI scientists have been working on the cloning technique for the past 16 years to fulfil the goal of increasing progeny tested bulls and high yielding animals in India, the director said, adding that the technique has proved its worth in the dairy sector for faster multiplication of superior germplasm. Srivastava said: “There is a shortage of around 80 to 90 million dosage of semen in India and this technique will help in meeting this shortage.” He said there was an acute shortage of outstanding bulls and the technology of hand-guided cloning could diminish the gap and supply
elite bulls in the shortest-possible time. Dr S Ayyappan, DARE secretary and Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, congratulated the team. He said: “This new achievement of producing cloned calf from progeny tested bull will facilitate faster multiplication of elite germplasm and help in facing the challenges of increasing demands of milk due to growing human population. Clone class
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Rewari on chain snatchers’ radar
Rewari, July 26 The government has made chain snatching a non-bailable offence with a higher quantum of punishment, but it fails to check crime as such incidents are being perpetrated in a routine fashion here. In a latest case, two motorcycle-borne miscreants snatched the gold chain of one Saroj Sharma of Mohalla Khasapura here on the Konsiwaas road, when she had gone out for some work last night. She raised an alarm, but to no avail. A similar case happened three days ago, when two motorcycle-borne youths grabbed the gold chain of one Jyoti of Sajjan Colony at the TP Scheme locality, while she was on her way to the temple. A day before this incident, two youths on a bike snatched the gold chain and a ring of Deepika at gun point in Sector 3 here. Saroj Bala, who is a house wife, said: “Rewari city has become a hunting ground for criminals who are fearlessly perpetrating the crime due to police inaction.” Neelam, a teacher, said: “The police must ensure the safety of women in Rewari, as it has become unsafe for them to venture out due to rising crime in the city.” |
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BJP may go solo this Assembly polls
Jind, July 26 On the directions of senior BJP leaders, Gangwar is in Haryana these days to assess the mood of party workers to help the party in finalising its strategy to go solo in the forthcoming elections or to go in for an alliance with Kuldeep Bishnoi-led HJC. Gangwar also held a party workers meeting, where a majority of party workers and leaders advocated that BJP must go it alone from all 90 Assembly seats in the state. “Presently we are preparing to go solo. Whether BJP will have an alliance with HJC or not, I cannot comment over it as I am not the final authority. After taking a final decision over the fate of the alliance in the coming days, we will finalise our poll strategy,” said Gangwar. The statement appears to be a big setback to Kuldeep Bishnoi, who three days ago in Jind, had claimed that there was no problem and the alliance was on track. About the appointment of senior BJP leader Kaptan Singh Solanki as the new Governor of Haryana amid the ongoing tussle over the formation of HSGMC and speculations that Solanki may review the legality of the HSGMC Act, Gangwar refused to comment. |
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State BJP chief welcomes Karnal Mayor into party fold
Karnal, July 26 Earlier, she was in the Congress and had contested the election of Municipal Corporation as an Independent candidate. After winning the election, she became the first Mayor of the city with the support of a majority of councillors. Her brother-in-law Suresh Gupta, the Chairman of the Municipal Committee and an active member of the Congress for several years, also joined the BJP. Ram Bilas Sharma welcomed them and said the BJP had been gaining momentum in the
state. Many leaders of the opposite parties were joining the party inspired by the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party’s ideology. While talking to the mediapersons, Sharma said the last decision on the alliance with the HJC would be taken by the central leadership of the party. He admitted the decision should have come many days ago, but still it wasn’t too late. Answering a query on the of Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee for the state, Sharma said the Sikhs of the state deserved their rights, but Hooda had been playing dirty politics of divide and rule and had politicised the issue. Former Congress Dadri MLA Nirpender Sangwan and Independent MLA Sukhbir Farmana also joined the BJP in Rohtak on Saturday. |
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‘BJP will provide corruption-free government’
Kaithal, July 26 Sharma said the Congress government had committed irregularities while making recruitments during its regime. “All sections of the people, including farmers, employees, shopkeepers and farm labourers, are fed up with the Hooda regime and have made up their mind to change this corrupt and inefficient government,” he said. The law and order was worsening day-by-day and incidents such as rape, murder and loot had created a sense of insecurity among people, he
said. — OC |
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BJP workers observe fast in Ambala City
Ambala, July 26 The government had assured the local residents that a modern bus stand would be constructed soon. Since then, a temporary bus stand of a tin shed has been running here. There’s no proper arrangement of toilets and drinking water. A new site for the bus stand was finalised two years ago, but the construction has not started so far. Former MLA Jasbir Mallor and Pavitar Singh Bajwa, Chandar Mohan Fauji and Suresh Sahota—were
present. — OC |
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Hooda govt failed to utilise Central funds, says Union minister
Panipat, July 26 Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said this while addressing a gathering here today during the Kisan-Mazdoor Sammelan organised by state president of Bharatiya Kisan Morcha Mahipal Dhanda, who is aspiring to get a BJP ticket from Panipat Assembly seat. Radha Mohan Singh said: “The Centre had allocated ~542 crore under various agricultural schemes to Haryana in 2013-14, but it did not utilise ~266 crore and this amount had to be returned.” Urging state electors to oust the “anti-farmer” and “anti-public” Hooda government in the coming elections, he said: “The Swaminathan Commission was set up by the Vajpayee government in 2003 to benefit farmers and was reconstituted in 2004. It had then submitted its report with over 200 pro-farmer recommendations in 2007. Now, the Modi government will implement these recommendations gradually, as it is performing its responsibility of clearing the mess created by the Congress governments during its 60-year rule.” He said the Modi government in its two-month’s rule had already started two new important agricultural schemes — Pradhan Mantri Gram Sinchai Yojana and providing a Soil Health Card (SHC) to every farmer. BJP state co-incharge Dr Anil Jain urged voters to repeat history of BJP’s victory in the coming Assembly polls. Thanking the Modi government and agriculture minister for announcing a Central Horticulture University in Haryana, Bharatiya Kisan Morcha national president OP Dhankhar said the Hooda government had failed to provide uninterrupted power to farmers despite his 10-year rule. Mahipal Dhanda said the Hooda government was playing a cruel joke with state farmers by providing Rs 5 and Rs 10 as compensation against their damaged crops. |
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Govt staff begin 24-hr-long fast
Sirsa, July 26 Addressing the striking Sarv Karamchari Sangh activists, JP Pandey, a state-level leader of the sangh, alleged that the Haryana government was not serious about solving problems of the farmers. The sangh leader alleged the state government had termed the employee’s demands genuine during talks with them, but it had failed to issue orders to show that their demands had been fulfilled. He alleged that the state government’s policy of regularisation of temporary employees had proved a farce. Fatehabad: Bhag Chand Sharma, district president, Sarv Karamchari Sangh, and Kurra Ram, organising secretary, presided over the 24-hour fast of the employees that began outside the DC office here today. The fast will continue till 10 am tomorrow, said the SKS spokesperson. Beg Ram, district president of the SKS, alleged the state government was adopting a delaying tactic on their demands by imposing illogical conditions. He threatened that if the demands of the employees were not fulfilled, they would launch ‘jail baro’ campaign on August 11. |
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Counselling for engg courses begins on Aug 4
Chandigarh, July 26 An official spokesperson said all candidates willing to participate in the counselling would have to deposit ~500 as the centralised manual counselling fee through challan in Axis Bank or PNB in the account of the HSTES. Counselling for the TFW along with BE, BTech (JEE main rank) in the reserved category, including HGST, would be held at 9 am on August 4 and for JEE ranks up to 1.75 lakh at 9 am on August 5. Similarly, counselling for the JEE ranks up to 4.25 lakh would be held at 9 am on August 6 and for the JEE ranks above 4.25 lakh at 9 am on August 7. Counselling for the BTech-LEET (OLET rank) reserved category of all ranks would be held at 9 am on August 5 and from rank 1 to 2,000 at 9 am on August 6.
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Sarpanch among five booked for RTI activist’s murder
Fatehabad, July 26 Later, the police registered a murder case against sarpanch Prabhu Dayal, his two sons Ramesh and Balraj, the victim’s brother Sushil and his son Rakesh. The victim’s wife Kavita alleged that Vinod Kumar had sought information from the sarpanch for his “irregularities” under the RTI Act and on July 31, the sarpanch was to appear before the Information Commissioner for violation of the RTI Act. She alleged that Prabhu Dayal had threatened to kill her husband. She said when Vinod had gone to fetch milk on his bike, Prabhu Dayal along with others followed him in a Bolero vehicle and hit him. Later, Vinod died in the hospital.
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Guv appoints four new VCs
Chandigarh, July 26 Dr SK Gakhar of Centre for Biotechnology, MDU, Roh-tak, would be the new Vice Chancellor of Chaudhary Bansi Lal University, Bhiwani. These Vice Chancellors would serve a term of three years. Dr RS Sharma, Vice Chancellor of Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, has been given the additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar.
— TNS |
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