Punjabi Media meets Haryana CM
Chandigarh: As Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced to give cashless health benefits at par with those being given to government employees to media persons as well across Haryana, accredited journalists from Punjabi newspapers thanked and expressed their gratitude towards the Chief Minister on Saturday. A delegation of media persons associated with Punjabi journalism met the CM and expressed their gratitude towards him. Hardeep Kaur Virk, Senior Journalist and National President, Disha Mahila Kalyan Trust said that due to this important announcement made by the Chief Minister, Haryana has become the first state to play a leading role in protecting the interests of journalists. She said that this announcement is certainly going to benefit the media community at large. The delegation included senior journalists, A.S Nagpal, Prem Singh and Nav Narayan Singh Grewal.
Hry CM expresses grief on demise of Mann Kaur
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has expressed grief over the sad demise of 105-year-old Athlete Bebe Mann Kaur. Expressing his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family in a message, the Chief Minister prayed to God to give strength to the family to bear this irreparable loss. Khattar said that the demise of Bebe Mann Kaur is sad news for the sports world and her contribution will always be written in golden words in history and she will always remain a role model for the youth as well as the people of her age.
Haryana Transport Deptt earns over Rs 24 lakh
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has decided to auction vehicles with specific numbers which generated an income of Rs.24.55 lakh through auctioning of HR26EQ series of Gurugram on Saturday. Haryana Transport Department Commissioner Amitabh Dhillon said that the registration of vehicles with new series HR26EQ of Gurugram was opened for auctioning. In this new series, Registration Number-001 went for Rs. 7.10 Lakh, 002 for Rs 2.25 Lakh, 003 for Rs 1.15 Lakh, Number-005 for Rs 1.60 Lakh, 006 for Rs 1.45 Lakh, 007 for Rs 1.50 Lakh, 009 for Rs 5.60 Lakh, 0014 for Rs 65,000, 0017 for Rs 60,000, Number-0018 for Rs 50,000, 0026 for Rs 75,000 and 0099 for Rs 1.40 lakh were given through open auctioning. For all numbers, a price of Rs.15.25 Lakh was reserved, while people purchased it for a total sum of Rs 24.55 lakh. The highest auction was for registration number 009, which was purchased by a bidder for Rs 4.10 lakh more than the reserve amount. Similarly, registration number 0001 was given to the bidder for Rs 2.10 lakh more than the reserve amount, a statement said.
Five held in bank robbery case in Palwal
Chandigarh: Haryana Police on Saturday busted an inter-state gang of robbers with the arrest of five persons from Palwal district. The gang was involved in many criminal cases including bank and other robberies in Palwal, Bihar, Rajasthan and West Bengal. The arrested were identified as Suraj Kumar Singh alias Sunny, Manish alias Nanki, Mahesh Kumar alias Ronak, Saurabh Kumar and Inderjit alias Kundan, all native of district Vaishali in Bihar. A pistol, two desi katta, five cartridges, two swords and a car also recovered from their possession. A Haryana Police spokesperson informed that the robbers were arrested by police teams which were formed after the incident of Rs 95 lakh robbery in a private bank branch in Sector-2 Palwal on July 14.
Tiranga Yatra today in Ballabhgarh
Ballabhgarh: Haryana Transport Minister Mool Chand Sharma on Saturday said that to honour martyrs, a Tiranga Yatra will be organized on Sunday in Ballabhgarh assembly constituency. He said that it is the duty of every citizen to respect martyrs who laid down their lives for the nation. Therefore, everyone should actively participate in such programmes. The Transport Minister was speaking during a plantation programme in Ballabhgarh.
55 held in case of Bogus firms
Chandigarh: Acting swiftly on the directions given by Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij, Haryana police registered 19 FIRs in connection with bogus and Shell firms running in Fatehabad district. As many as 55 people have been arrested along with a recovery of Rs. 9.32 lakh. The preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had cheated the said recovered amount as GST in the name of Shell firms. A complaint regarding these bogus Shell firms was submitted in a letter during the Janata Darbar organized by the Home Minister. Acting swiftly on the said complaint, 19 FIRs were registered and 55 accused were arrested and an amount of Rs 9.32 lakh recovered from them.
‘SC Welfare Act, election stunt’
Chandigarh: Terming Capt Amarinder government’s announcement of SC Welfare Act for the Scheduled Castes of the state as an ‘election stunt’, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) Harpal Singh Cheema said that the Congress government in its last days should not make a misleading attempt to woo the Dalits by introducing a SC Welfare Bill as the Dalits cannot forget the neglect, fraud, scams and breach of promises made to them in the last four and-a-half-years. Cheema said the 'Election Welfare Bill' of the ruling Congress was in fact a failed attempt to squander crores of rupees of scholarships for lakhs of Dalit students and quell public anger over breach of promises. He said by announcing the enactment of the new law, Capt had accepted that in the last four-and-a-half-years, his government had not brought any economic and social development for the Dalits; but had used them as mere vote banks. The LoP further said if the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh had been really serious about the Dalits, he would have kept special funds for the Dalits in the total five budgets presented earlier; but now with the elections looming, Captain Amarinder Singh was trying to fool the Dalits.