Villagers stranded on nandhaur river bank
lalkuan: More than a dozen villagers returning from a cremation were stranded on one bank of the Nandhaur river on Thursday evening after the level of the water in the river rose rapidly following rains in the region. On receiving information about this case, the officials of the local administration and police reached the site in order to facilitate the rescue operation. However, till the time of this report being written, the people had not been able to cross the river. The sub divisional magistrate of Haldwani, AB Bajpai, police circle officer Rajiv Mohan, Chorgaliya police station in charge Sanjay Joshi, police rescue team and a fire brigade vehicle had reached the site in question at the time of this report being filed.
According to information received, late on Thursday evening, a group of villagers was returning from the last rites of an old lady in the Chorgaliya area. Near Amkheda, about 20 people could not cross the Nandhaur river due to the strong current of the water flowing in the river. The Chorgaliya police station in charge Sanjay Joshi informed that there is no serious cause for concern because there is secure ground and jungle on the opposite bank of the Nandhaur where the group of people had been held by the situation. He said that the people had been unable to cross the river because of the level of the water rose rapidly in the river. He further informed that the administration and police team are at the site and involved in the relief and rescue operation. The local villagers and family members of the affected people had also reached the site to assist the authorities in the relief and rescue efforts.
Doon police chalk out traffic plan
Dehradun: Dehradun police have drafted a traffic plan in view of the religious procession to be taken out from Tapkeshwar Mahadev temple on Saturday. SP Traffic DS Gunjyal said that the religious procession would start from Tapkeshwar at 10 am and would reach the Clock Tower at 3 pm. Some routes would be diverted as per the requirement. As per the traffic plan, vehicle coming from Kanwal Road from Saharanpur Chowk would be diverted at Balliwala towards Ballupur Chowk. Vehicles coming from Bindal towards Clock Tower would be diverted towards Cantt and Dilaram Chowk as per the route diversion.
local group organised meeting
Dehradun: On Thursday, a local group called Film,literature and Journalism organised a meeting where the contribution of the students of the Welham Girls School to Hindi Cinema was discussed.Mala Sen,who wrote the book India's Bandit Queen on which the film Bandit Queen was based belonged to Mussoorie and had her schooling in Wehlam's.Deepa Mehta,the maker of films like Fire,Earth and Water,also studied there and so did Anuradha Tiwari,the writer of films like Fashion and HeroineAnuradha Tiwari was the All India topper in the ISC exam.Alankrita Srivasatava,who is in the news for her film lipstick Under my Burkha is also an alumni of the institution.Nitya Mehra,the writer and director of Baar Baar Dekho also studied there.Students Garima Thapliyal and Satyam Bhandari spoke about these personalities.
Meenu Goyal Chaudhary spoke about V V Purie,who started as a film financier-distributor of the films of Mehboob Khan,Raj Kapoor and B R Chopra went to become a press baron-he is the founder of the India Today group.Urdu Writer Naseem Bano Ansari spoke about the films based on the short stories of Tagore-Kabuliwala and Upahaar.Manoj Panjani spoke about writer,producer,director Nasir Hussain.While Meenakshi Kukreti Bhardwaj spoke about Hindi films based on the plays of Shakespear. Vidya Singh presided over the programme. Hindi novelist Anita Sabharwal and poet Kanta Dangwal were also present on the occasion.