One held for raping girl in Haryana
Chandigarh: Haryana police arrested a person alleged for deceiving a girl by making false marriage proposal and sexually assaulting her for about two years, acting swiftly on a complaint received at Women Helpline Number 1091. A spokesman of the Police Department said that the complainant, who is about 27 years of age, had lodged the complaint against the accused Deedar Singh, who is 23, a resident of Malikpur, Safidon, district Jind on April 19. The accused had married another girl about 15 days ago, he added. Medical examination of the accused is being carried out by the police.
‘State to pay for freedom fighter’s Myanmar Visit’
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced that the State Government will bear the expenses for the visit of freedom fighters and widows of freedom fighters of the State to Rangoon and Mandla in Myanmar and Cellular Jail in Andaman and Nicobar on Monday. He said that they would be able to take along an attendant, also at the expenses of the Government.
Printing, Packaging Cluster
Chandigarh: Tl Satyaprakash, Director Haryana Industries Department said that the work to set up a Printing and Packaging Cluster Private ltd in Karnal is under progress and clusters are also being set up to promote textile in Panipat, footwear in Bahadurgarh, hospital equipments in Bhiwani and auto parts in Faridabad. In the first phase, this scheme has been implemented at seven places in the state including Ambala, Karnal, Panipat, Kundli, Bahadurgarh, Faridabad and Bhiwani.
Defence Civilian Pensioners celebrate annual day
Chandigarh: About 250 delegates assembled from 9 zonal offices from Northern India apart from tricity celebrated their Annual day function at Govt Museum and Art Gallery Auditorium here on Monday with Justice RS Mongia, retired Chief Justice from Gauhati High Court as Chief Guest and Amrit Dhingra President Senior Ctizens Association as Guest of Honour. The thrust of the Presidential speech of SK Puri, the President, and KK Joshi, Secretary General, was on the persistent outstanding demands of the Pensioners which till date remained unfulfilled and unattended by the Central Govt. One of the main demands is Restoration of full pension after 12 years of retirement as against 15 years arbitrarily fixed by the Govt.
Physiotherapy panacea for all ills
Chandigarh: The 3rd International Conference on Manual Therapy-2013 (INTERCOMAT) jointly organised by Cheshta Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Ivy Hospital, Super Speciality Hospital Mohali, Sardar Bhagwan Sing Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Balawala Dehradun and Capri Institute of Manual Therapy, New Delhi here at GMCH, Sector 32. Bains said that the need of Physiotherapy in the modern health care system as it effectively helps in the rehabilitation of the patients, inflected with several critical diseases especially in the cases of trauma. Physiotherapy was almost needed in every faculty of Medical Science ‘as recuperating therapy’. In the modern Medical Science Physiotherapy has done a miracle in not merely curing the patients but also help them leading a normal life.
9th annual blood donation camp organised
Chandigarh: In order to commemorate the Birth Anniversary of Swami Satyanand ji Maharaj, the founder of Sri Ram Sharnam, Ninth annual blood donation camp was organized at the Ashram near PGI in which as many as 27 persons participated in blood donation. Blood was collected by the team headed by Dr Usha Rao of Blood Bank PGI Chandigarh.
Intl photo festival of Tibet inaugurated at PU
Chandigarh: Punjab Governor and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh, Shivraj V Patil, after inaugurating, Buddha’s Home Coming, an International Photo Festival of Tibet by Indian photographer Vijay Kranti at the Museum of Fine Arts, Punjab University on Monday said that Buddhism emerged as a world religion essentially of peace and humanism influencing the religious, social and cultural lives of millions of people in the vast Asian continent and the world at large. Art and Culture, Music and Truth have no boundaries. He said music and art has its own language and that all the photographs in this exhibition would be liked and appreciated in all the states of India and also in other countries of the world.
Wheat procurement in progress, Punjab
Chandigarh: Government agencies and private millers procured more than 43 lakh tonnes of wheat till last evening. The State Government has set up more than 1,750 procurement centres and activated its total machinery to ensure smooth procurement of wheat. Government agencies procured 43,04,472 tonnes of wheat till date whereas private traders procured 21,728 tonnes of wheat.
Punjabi language in Haryana
Chandigarh: Punjabi language is being fully conserved in Haryana and students of the State are getting good marks in exams of Punjabi language. Director General Information, Public Relations and Cultural Affairs, Sudhir Rajpal said at a function organised by the Punjabi Sahitya Academy to give away prizes for best stories and honour those students who got merit in Punjabi in examinations conducted by Haryana Board of School Education in Panchkula. Rajpal said that the State Government is making every possible effort to promote Punjabi language and Punjabi teachers are being recruited from time to time as per the need.