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Chandigarh
APPOINTED: Neel Kanth Sharda has been appointed vice-president of the District Congress Committee (urban-II), according to a press note. Sharda’s appointment has been hailed by all members of the Committee.
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Bhiwani
Homoeopathic dispensary inaugurated: Treatment of chronic diseases is possible with homoeopathic medicines and homoeopathy doctors should stress on new research to discover treatment for a maximum number of diseases. This was stated by the deputy commissioner T.L Satya Prakash while inaugurating a homoeopathic dispenary opened by Vaid family at Ram Mandir temple premises at Kamla Nagar on Sunday. He said homoeopathy is a simple system and homoeopathic medicines were affordable. He gave assurance that a homoeopathic dispensary would be set up at the district Red Cross society premises like in other districts.Fatehabad
2-yr jail for drug trafficking: The District and Sessions Judge Lachhman Sharma sentenced a drug trafficker to two years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000. The accused will have to undergo a further imprisonment of one month in case of default. The accused Rajinder, a resident of Kukranwali village was arrested by the police on May 10, 2006, after the police received a tip off that he had stored large quantities of poppy husk at his residence. The police had recovered 35 kg of the contraband from his residence during the raid. Rewari
2 bodies found in a day: A young man, Manoj Kumar (30), reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree outside his house at Ramgarh village, 7 km from here, on Saturday night. The body was brought to the civil hospital here for the post-mortem examination. In a second incident, Salim of Uttar Pradesh, was found drowning in the JLN Canal, near here, on Saturday morning. Salim, a labourer here, had been missing since November 27. Liquor seized:
Vehicular traffic on the Jhajjar-Rewari road suffered disruption when a truck (HR 38W 6151), loaded with several thousand bottles of liquor, abruptly overturned on the road near Tehna Mastapur village, 10 km from here, on Sunday morning. While a number of bottles got broken and liquor spilled all around, while the truck driver and his colleagues were reportedly absconded. The truck with the smuggled liquor was presumably going to Gujarat. Preetpal Singh, station house officer of Rohrai police station, told The Tribune that while the overturned truck was uplifted with the help of a crane, the scattered bottles of liquor were taken into possession. — OC Sonepat
Glass factory worker killed: A worker, identified as Krishan Murari of Uttar Pradesh, was killed on the spot when he was trapped under the boxes while working in Gold Plus Glass factory at Liwaspur village, about 15 km from here, on Saturday night. The Rai police has registered a case and sent the body for postmortem examination.
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BILASPUR
Youth work camp: A five-day youth work camp organised by the district Neharu Yuva Kendra at Sai Brahamana concluded on Saturday evening near here. As many as 35 youths drawn from various yuvak mandals and mahila mandals participated in it. At the concluding function, district youth coordinator Som Dutt Zard said the campers constructed a playground and cleaned the traditional water tank. Gram panchayat president Rup Lal presided over the function while local yuva mandal president Madanlal was also spoke. HAMIRPUR
House gutted: A house was gutted at Dhoban village on Sunday morning causing an estimated loss of around Rs 2 lakh. The house was completely destroyed.
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Commitment, fortified
Nachhattar Singh |
The historical fort at Bathinda is close to the heart of Nachhattar Singh, who has been working for the preservation of the national monument for the past 33 years. Hailing from Kalian Bangan village in the Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan, over the years he has got so emotionally attached to the fort that he does not want to leave the place even when he retires four years later,
in 2011. At present, he is working as the monument’s caretaker and resides within the fort. A local court recently imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on a house owner who built the structure without obtaining permission of the Archaeological survey of India (ASI). It was Nachhattar Singh who had filed the complaint about the encroachment with the police station concerned. His only son, who was born in the fort in 1976, is also an employee of the ASI and is posted at Abohar. Nachhattar Singh is pained by the fact that though the literacy rate has increased, many educated visitors to the fort take pleasure in causing damage to the monument by defacing it. They mindlessly scribble their names on the walls that have been rebuilt under the conservation plan. Some visitors even pull out bricks to carry back with them as souvenirs. In the past, the visitors were more protective about their heritage,
he laments. During the day, he takes several rounds of the fort that sprawls over an area of 14.75 acres. Even at the age of 56 he does not hesitate to give a chase to young boys who try to damage the monument. He has been supervising the conservation work at the mud fort that has collapsed at several places. The gurdwara within the fort collapsed in 1987, and he then carried the holy Guru Granth Sahib to a
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Service and security
The Air Headquarters Communications Squadron, with the winged steed dominating its crest, is largely about transporting VVIPs. These are not your everyday red beacon varieties, but national and foreign leaders, service chiefs and top dignitaries, who are ferried everywhere from Leh to Kanyakumari. For them, the squadron’s motto of “service with safety” spells reassurance. On the occasion of its diamond jubilee, the “Pegasus” squadron, based at Palam in New Delhi, has brought out a lavish coffee table book. The photographs are testimony to its rich history, and features aircraft ranging from the vintage Vampires and Dakotas to the later Boeings, and, the latest, the new Embraer-135 Legacy. The people it has ferried are the Who’s Who of modern India – from Jawaharlal Nehru as well as Lord and Lady Mountbatten to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. The Pegasus squadron was established on January 1, 1947. The winged horse crest was awarded to it by then President Dr Rajendra Prasad in 1962. Like its aircraft, its motto has undergone changes as well. In 1952, it adopted the rather grandiose “Ba Hikmat, Himmat aur Hifazat,” meaning “With wisdom, courage and safety.” It later became Raksha Mulam Hi Kaushalam (protection through skill) before settling for the current “Seva aur Suraksha.” Any pilot or technician, in order to join the squadron, has to have an impeccable record – no accidents or “incidents.” That’s an ideal to aspire for. Contributed by S.P. Sharma and
Sridhar K. Chari
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