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Animal sacrifice ban looms large over Kullu Dasehra
African govt bullied me, says Dalai Lama
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NGOs hail cancellation of Nobel Peace summit
Swachh Bharat abhiyan
Tourists make beeline for Himachal, hoteliers happy
Online authorisation of hazardous waste starts
Green signal to new Town and Country Planning Rules
ICAR grants Rs 38 lakh for bee-keeping
Lawrence School Sanawar celebrates Founder’s Day
Community library opens near Kasauli
Rabid dog creates terror in Una
Calf rally, dog show organised
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Animal sacrifice ban looms large over Kullu Dasehra
Shimla/ Kullu, October 2 Amid a tight khaki garrison of 1,700 odd policemen deployed here to ensure that no animal sacrifice takes place this time, the Dev Samaj and the KDC are walking on a tight rope as they are pitted against each other. The fundamentalists,
led by Kullu legislator Maheshwar Singh, chief representative of Lord Raghunath, the presiding deity of the Kullu Dasehra, are rooting
for carrying out the age-old tradition. If they do not perform the ritual, they will incur the wrath of Devi Hidimba, chief guest of the Lord Raghunath, who comes all the way from Manali and camps at the Dhalpur Maidan, takes the sacrifice of a he-buffalo only as her feast, said devotees of Devi Hidimba. Maheshwar is caught in dilemma as he is not only a Kullu legislator but chairs the KDC as well. “He has to ensure
that the High Court order is implemented and he fears that he will incur the wrath of Hidimba Devi and the Dev Samaj,” said members of the Kardar Sangh that supports him. Even the Dev Sansad and the Samaj remain a confused lot. The Jagati Pooch ritual of devis
and devtas held last month at the Jatati Pat temple at Naggar to take stock of the HC ban on animal and bird sacrifice in the state, has empowered the Dev Sansad to “go ahead with the animal sacrifice during the Lanka Dahan ceremony on the last day of Dasehra”. On the other hand, the KDC, under vice-chairman-cum-District Collector, Kullu, Rakesh Kanwar, has put in place a strong police force of 1,700 cops in Dhalpur Maidan to ensure that the HC order is not violated. “It is a testing time for the people in Kullu and Dev Samaj as devis and devtas are respected in each and every household in the valley,” said Dr Vidya Thakur, a renowned writer from Kullu. “But they, as law-abiding citizens, have to respect the High Court verdict and they can go for the symbolic sacrifice,” he said. “The committee has to ensure that the ban is implemented and the Dev Samaj has to convey its decision on how to perform the last ritual of Lanka Dahan at Lanka Behar, the ritual site at the end
of the Dasehra ground,” said Kanwar. “We will need extra force if the need be, but the Dev Samaj is cooperating with us,” he added. Maheshwar refused
to comment as they are exploring an option to file petition in the Supreme Court against the High Court order. Kadar Sangh members remained a divided house over the issue. How it all began
The Kullu Dashera started being celebrated somewhere in the mid-17th Century during the reign of the then regime of Jagat Singh, the forefather of Maheshwar Singh, the present scion of the Kullu kingdom.
Panchang Bali, the animal sacrifice of five creatures is performed by the family members of Maheshwar Singh.
The five animals - a fish, a multi-legged kenkra (whichever is available) and a cock were kept hidden inside a closure raised on the platform, while he-sheep (bhedu) and a buffalo - were tied in a open public view.
There are three symbols of Ravana, Kumbhkarana and Meghnatha, kept inside the enclosure, which are pierced by the bow and arrows by the "royals".
Animal rights activists have hailed the ban saying that cruelty to animals in the name of seeking blessings from the God or deity was rightly banned as it was barbaric and inhuman. |
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African govt bullied me, says Dalai Lama
Dharamsala, October 2 The South African government has thrice denied visa to the Dalai Lama on various occasions, including for a function to celebrate the 80th birthday of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The denial of visa to the Dalai Lama to attend the 14th summit of the Nobel Peace Laureates in Cape Town has come as the latest trigger for the reaction. The Dalai Lama was speaking at a function organised by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at McLeodganj to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the conferment of Nobel Peace Prize on him today. The function was attended by two other Nobel Peace Laureates, including Jody Williams of the US and Shirin Ebadi of Iran. Yesterday both Nobel Laureates had flayed the South African government for denying visa to the Dalai Lama. They had also criticised their counterpart Desmond Tutu for maintaining silence over the denial visa to him. The 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates scheduled at Cape Town in South Africa was cancelled after six Nobel Laureates protested and declined to be a part of it due to the denial of visa to the Dalai Lama. It is likely to be held in Rome now. The Dalai Lama, while referring to fellow Nobel Laureates Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams, who were in Dharamsala to attend the function, said they were his protection. The felicitation programme organised at Tsuglakhang temple courtyard at McLeodganj was organised on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi as a mark of respect to his message of peace and non-violence. “Words will not do enough, we need to carry out his principle of non-violence and simple living,” the Dalai Lama said. He also referred to African-American Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther who was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and practitioner of non-violence and simple living. “Our protest is not against our friends of the host country, who had invited us, but it is a message of protest against China,” said Jody Williams, the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. “We want China and those countries, who succumb to its pressure and restrict the Dalai Lama’s freedom of movement, to hear that we firmly stand with the Dalai Lama and Tibetans living in exile,” she said. “It would have been awesome to celebrate the legacy of Super Laureate Nelson Mandela,” she said. Shirin Ebadi said the respect she has for the Dalai Lama has grown more after seeing his world and his people preserving their culture and tradition. “These are difficult days for people living in exile. Fortunately you have His Holiness, who teaches peaceful resistance,” said the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner. She said the people of the world have learnt a lot from the Dalai Lama. No one could prevent the sun from rising and cover up the truth and the only thing that one needed was to stay tolerant, she said. “The day is not far when we will celebrate a free Tibet in presence of the Dalai Lama,” she said. |
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NGOs hail cancellation of Nobel Peace summit
Dharamsala, October 2 “This is a major victory for justice and for peace,” TNC president, Jigme Ugen, said. “We thank these esteemed Nobel laureates for standing on the side of justice and for standing up to the Chinese government, the only regime in the world currently imprisoning a Nobel Peace Laureate,” he said. The TNC also thanked over 10,000 people, who signed its petition launched in early September, urging the Nobel Laureates to boycott the summit and relocate to a venue, where a government will not censor their voices. Signatories supporting this call to boycott or relocate included prominent political leaders from six countries, dissidents, lawyers, and musicians and artists from across the world. This petition campaign was supported by the International Tibet Network and Students for a Free Tibet and led to a groundswell of grassroots support. On September 24, the TNC was contacted by the executive director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, one of the summit organisers in South Africa, who wrote that TNC’s campaign may lead to the cancellation of the summit. The TNC engaged in a public dialogue with the de Klerk Foundation and expressed its belief that the relocation of the summit would demonstrate that Beijing and its allies cannot dictate terms of a Nobel meeting. In a press release distributed globally by PR Newswire that same day, TNC asserted that the summit must be relocated to an alternative venue to avoid irreparable taint of accepting censorship by the Chinese government. “The action of Nobel laureates in boycotting and relocating the summit is a testament to the strength of the universal ideals of freedom for which the Dalai Lama stands and of the power of collective action to successfully resist the bullying tactics of the Chinese government,” said Ugen. The summit organisers must announce where the gathering would be relocated. On September 30, the TNC wrote to the permanent secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates to suggest Rome as an appropriate alternate venue. TNC’s letter noted that the secretariat is based in Rome, where eight prior Nobel summits have been hosted so far. “While the current summit should be held in a freely-accessible city like Rome, we strongly support holding a future summit in Cape Town, once the South African government puts the interests of its own people before the interests of the Beijing regime,” said
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Heptulla launches campaign in Shimla
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Shimla, October 2 Chief Secretary P Mitra administered cleanliness pledge to the employees of the Himachal Pradesh Secretariat. He exhorted officials to come forward to participate in the cleanliness drive to fulfill the dream of Mahatma Gandhi to make India neat and clean. Additional Chief Secretary VC Pharka, Principal Secretary, Forest, Tarun Sridhar, Principal Secretary, PWD, Narender Chauhan, Principal Secretary, Finance, Dr Shrikant Baldi, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Ali Raza Rizvi, Principal Secretary, Ayurveda, Sanjay Gupta, Principal Secretary, Education, PC Dhiman, Principal Secretary, Industries, RD Dhiman, Principal Secretary, Food and Civil Supplies, K Sanjay Murthy, Special Secretary, Urban Development, Purnima Chauhan, and other senior officers and employees participated in the cleanliness drive. Chairman of the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (HPPSC) KS Tomar and member Pradeep Chauhan also joined the cleanliness drive at the HPPSC office. Rakesh Sharma, Director, Information and Public Relations, administered an oath to employees and exhorted the employees to make the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a big success. Vice-Chancellor ADN Bajpai, Himachal Pradesh University, along with the staff members cleaned the campus. Senior officials of the various department participated in the cleanliness drive. The BJP and Congress leaders also participated in the cleanliness drive and paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur
Shashtri.
Rural Development Minister Anil Sharma, BJP MP Varinder Kashyap, MLAs, schoolchildren and members of the local organisations took part in the campaign. Hamirpur: The nationwide Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was carried out in Hamirpur today. “The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is focused on sanitation, hygiene and waste management,” said former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, while addressing students of Trisha and SVN BEd colleges at Town Hall. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had chosen Gandhi Jayanti to flag off Swachh Bharat Abhiyan because it was a dream of Mahatma Gandhi to make the country clean. Dhumal said the BJP government had initiated clean and green drive in the state by banning the use of plastic and polythene bags and the state had earned citations not only from the Centre but also from the World Bank. Earlier, Dhumal arrived at Bhota Chowk to flag off a cleanliness drive organised by the district unit of the BJP. In another programme organised by the district administration at Gandhi Chowk, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Inder Dutt Lakhanpal said the clean India drive would make Gandhi’s dream come true. Kullu: Swachhata Diwas was celebrated at the historic Kala Kendra here today. Kullu DC Rakesh Kanwar paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and administered an oath to officers and employees of various departments and police personnel. Kullu SP Surinder Verma, ADM Vinay Singh Thakur and senior officers of various departments were also present. Satya Prakash Thakur, former minister and chairman of the Kullu Zila Sadak Parivahan Janhit Vikas Samiti, highlighted the biographies and events in the life of Mahatma Gandhi and former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri. Kangra: The Central University of Himachal Pradesh (CUHP) began a sanitation drive here today keeping in view the Prime Minister’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Prof Yoginder Singh Verma, Vice-Chancellor, launched the cleanliness drive and administered oath to faculty members, non-teaching staff and students to contribute significantly in achieving the target. He said the university had prepared an elaborate calendar and decided that on rotation basis one department would contribute an hour daily for the programme. The cleanliness drive was also carried out by the Aganwari workers at Birta and around the SDPO office locality. The drive was initiated at different government and primary schools in Kangra and Dehra subdivisions and children participated with enthusiasm in the drive. Chamba: Deputy Commissioner M Sudha Devi kick-started a cleanliness drive as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan here today. The DC administered an oath to officers and staff. She took part in the cleaning drive and cleaned streets with a broom. She appealed to the public to make it a mass movement. She also warned them that those throwing waste in the open would be dealt with strictly. She directed shopkeepers to keep their surroundings clean. Meanwhile, the Dalhousie tehsildar administered an oath to officials and participated in a cleanliness campaign. Nurpur: The local administration organised a rally to generate awareness about cleanliness under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan here today. SDM Ashwani Sood led the awareness rally at Jassur. Safai karamcharis of the municipal council collected garbage from Jassur town. Students of Noorpur Public School also took out awareness rallies in the town. Sundernagar: Students of various schools, government employees, representatives of panchayats, municipal council, social workers and political workers took part in the cleanliness drive in Sundernagar, today. SDM HS Rana initiated the drive at Jawahar park. SK Sharma, Chief Engineer, BBMB, led the team at the BBMB Colony here. ML Gupta, Additonal Chief Engineer, BBMB, headed nine teams at the BBMB Colony in Pandoh and carried the cleanliness drive. Kumund Kumar Goyal, General Manager, Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (HPPCL), administered an oath of cleanliness to employees of the HPCCL at its complex in Sundernagar. Una: As part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Lok Sabha MP Anurag Thakur led a cleanliness drive at the Una railway station today. He was accompanied by BJP state president Satpal Singh Satti. The programme was organised by the Ambala division of the Northern Railways. Speaking on the occasion, Anurag urged people to keep their surroundings clean and discard waste at designated places only. He administered an oath to people and urged Mamta Kashyap, chairperson of the Una Municipal Committee, to prepare a waste management plan for the city. He also assured financial help from his local area development kitty. Later, he wielded a broom to clean the station platform. Besides Satti, Kutlehar MLA Virender Kanwar, former minister Parveen Sharma, district BJP president Balbir Bagga and former MLA Balbir Chaudhary also participated in the campaign.
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Tourists make beeline for Himachal, hoteliers happy
Shimla, October 2 The Mall Road and The Ridge, which witnessed the kicking off of the Swachh Bharat campaign on the birth anniversary of the Father of Nation, are brimming with tourists. Similar is the case in the tourist towns of Manali, Kullu and Dalhousie and Dharamsala, where tourists from Punjab, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru and other parts of the country have been zeroing in on for celebrating Dasehra holidays. Elated hoteliers said tourists were still making inquiries from across the country not only for this weekend, but till October 8 as well, even as the hotels in Shimla, Manali, Dalhousie, Narkanda and other places were packed to capacity. Foreign tourists have also registered their presence in hill stations even as the trekking season has come to a close. Tourists from West Bengal, who are on Durga Puja holidays, have almost flooded the pilgrim spots of Kali Bari in Shimla, Chintpurni, Jawalamukhi, Chamunda devi in Kangra, Naina Devi and Hidimba devi in Manali and even the distant Mrikula devi in the snowbound Lahaul & Spiti. “It is a holiday-cum-pilgrimage to the shrines of the devis in the hills for most of the Bengali tourists,” said Pranav and Aparna Majumdar, a tourist couple from Kolkata. “The occupancy has zoomed to 90 per cent and in some cases it is 100 per cent,” said Harnam Singh Kukreja, president, Shimla Hoteliers and Restaurants Association. “The occupancy is at its peak till October 8 and enquiries are still coming in,” said Ishwar Singh, manager Combermere hotel in the city. The scene is no different in Manali, where Hidimba devi has embarked on her journey to Dhalpur Maidan for week-long Kullu Dasehra festivities. “The hotels are packed to capacity as tourists have flooded the town for holidays as Kashmir remains flood ravaged and Dasehra is starting from tomorrow,” said AR Thakur, president, Manali Hoteliers’ Association (MHA). Even the HP Tourism Development Corporation run hotels in the state are booked till October 6. “The holidays have turned out to be a good week for the hospitality industry as all hotels even in small spots such as Chindi in Karsog are booked,” said Yogesh Behl, general manager,
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Online authorisation of hazardous waste starts
Solan, October 2 Hazardous waste is among the most toxic waste emitted by various industrial units and its management is supposed to be done in accordance with the Hazardous Waste (management and handling) Rules, 1989. The Board is not only supposed to compile and publish an inventory of sites within the state where such wastes have been stored or disposed of, but information relating to its amount, nature and toxicity at each such site is also supposed to be made available in the inventory. The units disposing such waste are also supposed to maintain records and file returns pertaining to their quantity, mode of disposal, etc, with the Board. Interestingly, even as the Board was introducing online clearances, the inventory of its hazardous waste generating units in the state was not being updated on its official site and it reflected figures of March 2013 when the annual waste generated was 34,033 metric
tonnes. Vineet Kumar, member secretary, SPCB, while terming the system of online authorisation as a step towards introducing more transparency in the operations of the Board said: “This will help streamline the system. We have also put in place an online monitoring system to ensure timely disposal of this waste by 4,000 industrial units which generated it.” Apart from this, a system to grant online approvals to renewal of consents has also been introduced and this would help reduce the
pendency. A petition filed before the National Green Tribunal has pointed out that nearly 50 per cent of the 2,063 industrial units in Solan district lacked the consent to operate and the Board has been directed to inspect the units and present a report to the
NGT. The introduction of online monitoring of its various operations was a step to curb the
pendency. With staff shortage already affecting the Board’s working, it remains to be seen how effective would online clearances be in helping the industry in avoiding delays and whether it would also adopt a time-bound approach to ensure timely grant of
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Green signal to new Town and Country Planning Rules
Shimla, October 2 The new rules, which would repeal the 36-year-old 1978 Rules, would be notified in the official Gazette and have legal sanctity and the adhoc regime of regulating the planning construction activities through executive orders would come to an end. The Rules, read with the parent Act provide that colonies with less than eight apartments and 2,500 sq mt area would not be covered under apartments and 25 per cent flats would be reserved for the BPL, economically weaker sections and bona fide Himachalis and the government would develop a mechanism to fix the prices of these flats. The floor area ratio (FAR) for estate agents would be 1:75. The provisions have been made in the rules for mandatory soil testing, structural safety, solar passive features and hazards caused by telecommunication towers. Under the revised rules, the compounding fee for regularising deviations and covering setbacks up to 10 per cent has been reduced by 50 per cent and the same would be Rs 1,200 per sq mt in municipal areas for ground level and Rs 600 per sq mt for each subsequent floor. In case of building falling outside the municipal limits the compounding fee would be Rs 600 and Rs 300 per sq mt, respectively. The fee for the submission of building maps has also been reduced by 50 per cent and no fee would be charged from BPL families, while bona fide Himachails would not require permission for change of land use for utilisation of their lands for other purposes. However, the rules would not give any relief to builders and house owners, whose deviations are more than 10%, the government would bring a fresh amendment Ordinance or Bill to bail out law breakers. There are 33 planning and 34 special areas in the state, which would be covered under the rules. Meanwhile, the Urban Development Minister Sudhir Sharma said the amended rules would facilitate common people living in planning areas in getting planning permission in a trouble-free manner besides ensuring planned and systematic development of these areas. The upside of it
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Mahatma Gandhi, Shastri remembered
Shimla, October 2 Later, the Governor participated in a cleanliness campaign at Raj Bhawan. Earlier, Anita Tegta, Secretary to the Governor, administered the cleanliness pledge to officials of Raj Bhawan at the Governor’s house to launch the Swachh Bharat Mission. Members of the HPCC celebrated the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri by paying floral tributes to them at Rajiv Bhawan here today. Addressing party workers on the occasion, Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu said Mahatma Gandhi followed the principles of truth and non-violence even in difficult circumstances, which was the reason that his birth anniversary was celebrated as International Day of Non-Violence across the globe. Sukhu said former PM Shastri was gave the slogan of ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’, out of his love for farmers and the armed forces. Kangra: Floral tributes were paid to the Father of the Nation on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti at Rait here today. Forest Corporation Vice-Chairman KS Pathania and other Congress workers observed the day. Pathania said the history of Indian freedom was written in Shimla where a lot many things relating to Mahatma Gandhi were still preserved. The Kangra District Congress Committee too observed the day at Jogipur panchayat where HPCC secretary Ajay Verma and district Congress chief Suman Verma, besides city Congress chief Sanjeev Gupta and Jogipur village pradhan Raj Kumar paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi. A special programme on Mahatma Gandhi was held at Government Primary School, Nandar, and Rainbow International School, Nagrota Bagwan, on the occasion. |
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ICAR grants Rs 38 lakh for bee-keeping
Palampur October 2 Vice-Chancellor Dr KK Katoch said the centre would come into operation at the Bee Research Station of the university in Nagrota Bagwan. He said initially the ICAR had sanctioned a sum of Rs 37.83 lakh along with a post of assistant scientist (apiculture) and para apiarist. “Keeping in view the suitability of the area for beekeeping and historical heritage of Bee Research Station, the centre will play a significant role in focussing on research programme as well as on dissemination of the latest technology on various aspects of beekeeping and pollinators. It will also help in popularising the profession among farming community of the state, especially in Kangra and neighbouring districts,” Dr Katoch added. The VC thanked the ICAR and project coordinator Dr RK Thakur for sanctioning the centre. He said the position of para apiarist was on contractual basis and Rs 10 lakh would be spent on creating the facilities of a training hall. The Bee Research Station was established in 1936 and is pioneer in introduction of Italian honey bee (Apis mellifera) in the country.
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Lawrence School Sanawar celebrates Founder’s Day
Solan, October 2 A vocal rendition of Gandhi’s favourite ‘Ram
dhun’ was presented by the school choir. The school head-boy and head-girl sensitised the audience with the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi. Reminiscing Gandhi they said: “He was an apostle of peace with truth forming the bedrock of his ideology. There is a Gandhi within each one of us.” Headmaster Vasisht highlighted the importance of unconditional love, purity, honesty and optimism. He portrayed Gandhi as an epitome of indomitable spirit who had no room for hypocrisy. Quoting Gandhi he said: “After putting away my sword, I have nothing much to offer than a cup of love to my enemy.” The function culminated with prize distribution to the winners of various competitions. The contest was instituted by Naveen
Chawla, former Chief Election Commissioner, and a distinguished alumnus of
Sanawar. Zia Kaur Mann and Janhvi Arora came first and second and Subhav Kapoor came third. |
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Community library opens near Kasauli
Solan, October 2 The school, under its on-going village adoption programme, has undertaken two service projects within the panchayat. Besides the community library, the other project is constructing public toilets at Nande-ka-Thada village under the same panchayat. The library has been initially equipped with 200 books, two newspapers and two fortnightly periodicals. A caretaker, appointed by the village, will operate the library for which an honorarium will be paid by the school. The school will start its 167th founder’s day celebrations from October 2 to 4 which include a three-day cultural extravaganza. The mega event will be launched with the Gandhi Jayanti celebrations and followed by chapel service for the 1954, 1964 and 1989 batches commemorating their diamond, golden and silver jubilees, respectively. |
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Rabid dog creates terror in Una
Una, October 2 Dr Ashok
Daroch, Senior Medical Officer, Una district hospital, confirmed that about 25 persons had already reported to the hospital during the last two days with dog bites and the suspect animal appears to be common to all. “In view of the serious nature of the problem, we have informed the higher authorities,” he
said. Suman Puri, a homemaker, who was bitten by the dog at two places on her body yesterday, said the hospital authorities provided anti-rabies injections to only below poverty level
(BPL) persons, while the others have to procure it from the open market. Meanwhile, Deputy Director of the Animal Husbandry Department, Dr RC
Sahota, said it was the duty of the MC to act in such a situation. Chairperson of the Una Municipal Committee (MC), Mamta
Kashyap, said they did not have the staff to catch the rabid dog or to take the stray dogs to veterinary institutions. |
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Calf rally, dog show organised
Shimla, October 2 Dr Sushil Sharma, Assistant Director, Cattle Production, Palampur, said it was after a long gap of eight years that such an event was being organised on a large scale in this area. A total of 75 cattle owners participated in the event and Anita Kumari’s female calf from Jersey and Krishna Devi’s female calf bagged the first prize in the below one-year category. In the above one-year category, Malkit Singh’s Jersey heifer and Surender’s buffalo heifer won first prizes. In the dog show, a female German Shepherd dog of Arun Dogra from Dheera was the champion of the show. A total of 80 dog owners participated in the show. |
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The Dev Sansad and Kardar Sangh of devis and devtas and the Kullu Dasehra Committee
in Kullu valley are heading for a historic litmus test following the High Court ban on the 450-year-old tradition of animal sacrifice.
The Dalai Lama, for the very first time, spoke against the denial of visa to him by the South African government.
The Dasehra holidays have come as a windfall for hoteliers in the state, as tourists are making a beeline to the hills.
From tiny hill spot of Chindi in Mandi to Narkanda and Manali, hoteliers have never been happier at this time around, when the world-famous Kullu Dasehra has set the tone for the weeklong festivities in the valley of gods.
Solan, October 2
Shimla, October 2
