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Solan
1 dies in mishap: Delhi resident Yogesh Kumar, alias Nishu, was killed and three were injured when an Esteem car (DL-3C 0496) rolled into a 500-foot-deep gorge near the Timber Trail resort on the Kalka-Shimla highway around 2 a.m. on Sunday. The car could not negotiate a steep curve as the road was owing to rain and fell into the gorge. The injured are Hemant Soni and Ricky of Delhi and Sanjay of Abohar. A case of rash and negligent driving leading to death has been registered against driver Hemant. He was later let off on bail. The body of Yogesh was handed over to his relatives after a post-mortem. Nurpur
BJP vindicated: The issues raised by the BJP in the Hamirpur byelection like rising prices, corruption, halting of development and discrimination with lower Himachal, unemployment, backdoor employment to favourites, promoting regionalism and nepotism by the Virbhadra Singh government had been vindicated by the electorate of the parliamentary constituency, state BJP spokesperson Rajinder Rana said in a statement here on Saturday. The electorate had given a befitting reply to the Congress leaders who had been misleading the people that the BJP was contesting the byelection without issues. Shimla
Blood donation: Local voluntary organisation Manas Kalyan organised a blood donation camp in collaboration with IFCAI National College here on Sunday. Shimla mayor Narinder Kataria inaugurated the camp in which 56 persons, including some tourists, donated blood. General secretary of Manas Kalyan Sonia Vyas said that a directory of blood donors would soon be compiled. Deepak Sharma donated blood for the 81st time , municipal councillor Sanjay Sood for the 55th time and Rajiv Sood for the 54th time. Office-bearers: Chairman of the state BJP ST Morcha Jia Lal has appointed the following office-bearers: Bhagat Singh (Kinnaur), Karamvir (Lahaul-Spiti) and Gopal Negi (Kulu)-- vice-presidents; Padam Singh Negi (Kinnaur)-- general secretary; Rajender Kumar Rao, Suman Devi and Turoop Chand - secretaries; and Ashok Sharma -- treasurer. Ramesh Kumar, Kaljad Funchong, Shyam Thakur Jarasangh, Pratap Chand, Kuldeep Singh, Nageen Thakur, Maan Singh, Pangi, Parmodh Kumar Negi, Santosh Kumar, Tenzin, Ganga Bhagati Negi, Ajit Sumanmpa, Om Prakash Sharma, Sohan Singh, Santosh Kumar Negi, Hari Ram Thakur and Nargu Kaljang have been named members of the executive committee. Dharna opposed: The Himachal Pradesh Promotee School Lecturers Association has opposed the "dharna" being staged on Monday by the State Direct Lecturers Association against the decision of the government to assign classes IX and X to lecturers for teaching. President of the association Jeewan Sharma said that the promotee lecturers were not averse to teaching class IX and lass X along with the plus two Classes. No promotee lecture would participate in the dharna. Representatives of the association would meet the director of education on June 20 to discuss their demands, including rectification of the faulty seniority list of principals and equal distribution of work among school lecturers.
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Voicing concern through verse
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Akanksha Chaudhary
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At a stage when most girls are busy preparing for competitive exams in medicine or management, Akanksha Chaudhary of Rohtak has been engrossed in penning poetry. At present a student of political science (honours) at Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi, this budding poetess is moved by the plight of the poor and downtrodden, particularly rural women and labourers. Apart from voicing her concerns and feelings through poetry, she contributes her bit for the uplift of the have-nots. She has a flair for photography too. Akanksha does not lag behind in studies either. “She is quite different from other girls her age,” says her mother Dr Swarnlata, who teaches public administration at the Government College, Rohtak. “The story is the same; I live under nobody’s name…I am but one, a soul perhaps, a sufferer nevertheless…” gives a fair insight into her poetic self. While a number of her poems and other write-ups have been published in The Tribune, besides other papers and magazines, an anthology of her pictures and poems is ready for publication under the title “The Unspoken Thoughts”. As of now, she is writing a novel on child marriage.
Serial success
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Gurpreet Singh Bhullar
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Serial killers are a terror among the masses. But these special criminals are themselves terrified of this cop. Gurpreet Singh Bhullar of the Punjab Police, posted as SSP, Ludhiana-Rural police district, is the cop who nabbed the two serial killers that had spread panic among the residents in Jalandhar and Jagraon areas. Bhullar was the brain behind the arrest Darbara Singh of Jalandhar and Mewa Singh of Hansa Kalan village in Jagraon, the two serial killers to have struck in Punjab in recent times. He had led the operation against Darbara Singh in Jalandhar as the SSP and similarly, laid the trap for the arrest of Mewa Singh as SSP of Ludhiana-Rural. Though Mewa Singh was allegedly active six months before Bhullar assumed office, the police had failed to nab him. An alumnus of St. Stepehens College, New Delhi, Bhullar carefully studied the modus operandi of these killers and gave crucial leads to his staff. He had told them to keep an eye on alcoholics and addicts of the area.
Fond farewell
Representatives of various social and literary organisations of Bhiwani present a huge abhinandan patra to social activist Rajinder Kaushik. |
In a special gesture last week, more than a 100 social and literary organisations of Bhiwani got together on one platform to bid farewell to social activist Rajinder Kaushik, who has left the town for Kolkata on promotion as vice-president of a Birla company. During his stint in Bhiwani, he was General Manager of Birla group’s Bhiwani Textile Mills, the town’s biggest industrial unit. Kaushik, who hails from Suhansara village near Loharu in Bhiwani district endeared himself to the residents with his deep involvement in social and literary activities. He mobilised Rs 30 lakh to build two overhead water tanks for drinking water supply in his ancestral village. His village lies in the midst of desert where water is perennially in short supply. He is now getting a boundary wall built around the 10 acre cremation ground in the village at a cost several lakhs. All the 100-odd organisations jointly presented Kaushik an abhinandan patra measuring 6 x 3 feet. Deputy Commissioner Mohinder Kumar described Kaushik as a “true gentleman” the likes of which are hard to find. Subhash Yadav, SP, said the coming together of 100 organisations to honour an individual was a rare gesture. A visibly moved Kaushik said he would remain indebted to Bhiwani and its people for the love they showered on him. Contributed by Sunit Dhawan, Jupinderjit Singh and Raman Mohan
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