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Vidrohi alleges irregularities in supply of flour to BPL families
Rewari, December 1
The president of the Haryana Janata Dal (U), Mr Ved Prakash Vidrohi, has criticised the distribution of flour instead of wheat through the government-sponsored ration depots to families living below the poverty line (BPL) in Rewari district.
Funds flow in, but will health services improve?
Faridabad, December 1
The European Commission’s decision to release special aid of Rs 18 lakh for health services in the district may be music to the ears of many, but will these funds be put to proper use or go down the drain as usual?
5 women among 10 injured in road accident
Sonepat, December 1
At least 10 persons, including five women, were injured when a maxi jeep in which they were travelling overturned on the Sonepat-Gohana road near Barwasni village, about 5 km from here late last evening.
Escapee continues to give police
the slip
Sonepat, December 1
The Gohana police have failed to achieve a breakthrough to rearrest a dreaded criminal Sunil, involved in a number of criminal cases. He had escaped from the police custody while being taken to Gohana for appearing before a judicial magistrate there last week.
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Man attempts suicide
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Girl kidnapped
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Dalits’ complaint
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FARIDABAD
Draft of Education Bill put under scanner
Faridabad, December 1
While the Union Government is likely to take up a new Bill on ‘Free and Compulsory Education of Children’ in the coming session of Parliament, a debate on the draft and its proposals seems to have taken off in the NCR. Several social and educational organisations and experts from these fields deliberated over some of the proposals at a meeting organised by Ashok Aggarwal, an advocate and social jurist, at Delhi recently.
CM to dedicate centre for mentally retarded
Rohtak, December 1
The Chief Minister, Mr Om Parkash Chautala, will dedicate a newly constructed centre for mentally retarded here on the occasion of ‘World Disabled Day’ on December 3. The centre, named as ‘Shravan’, has been constructed by the District Red Cross Society at a cost of Rs 85 lakh.
‘Strike a weapon of freedom fighters’
Rohtak, December 1
Delivering the keynote address in the inter-departmental debate on the ‘Right to strike’ in the Maharshi Dayanand University here today, Prof S C Srivastva, of the Indian Law Institute, Delhi said that it was not necessary on the part of the Supreme Court to comment upon the moral and equitable right to strike.
Door-to-door billing
Noida, December 1
The UP Power Corporation has decided to launch a door-to-door billing and payment of power bills for domestic and commercial consumers with a load less than 25 kilowatts in Noida from the first week of December.
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