Tag: Haryana

  • Girl absconded with boyfriend, case registered

    Girl absconded with boyfriend, case registered

    Ambala : The girl, who came to her house 10 days back in Ambala, Haryana, eloped with her boyfriend. The girl is a BA first year student of MDU Rohtak in Rohtak. After admission, she was living in the hostel of the university. On Friday morning, she left the house on a bike on the pretext of bringing goods from the bus stand, but did not return. The girl’s bike was found parked outside the Sarpanch’s office. The girl’s mother has submitted a complaint to the Barara police station demanding action against the youth. A woman resident of village Ugala told that her daughter was living in the hostel with a room for the last one year.
    On June 13, his daughter came to her home from Rohtak. The woman said that on June 23, at 9 am, her daughter had gone to the Ugala bus stand on a bike to collect goods from home. When she did not return for a long time, he searched for his daughter. There was no trace of the daughter anywhere. The bike on which his daughter had left the house was found parked outside the Sarpanch’s office. The woman told that Rinku, a resident of Jasia village in Rohtak, is related to her. Rinku also used to talk to his daughter on the phone. Rinku used to tell his daughter that I will marry you only. This was told by his daughter after coming from Rohtak. He suspects that Rinku has abducted his daughter with the intention of marrying her. The woman has demanded that action should be taken against the accused youth by searching for her daughter. Barara police station has registered a case under section 366 and started investigation.

  • Haryana surpasses DSR sowing target

    Haryana has surpassed the target of getting farmers switched to the direct seeding of rice (DSR) method from the traditional one of transplanting rice seedings.

    As many as 44,309 farmers of the state have adopted the DSR method on 3,11365 acres this year till June 21 against the target of 2,25000, said the data of the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department.

    The data said that eight districts had already achieved the target, while two were close to achieving it.

    Farmers of Sirsa district have adopted the DSR method on 74,087.34 acres against the target of 25,000 acres, the data revealed.

    Karnal district was given the target of adopting the DSR method on 25,000 acres and so far, it has surpassed the target and sown paddy on 32,767.50 acres by the DSR method.

    Hisar district has also crossed the target and has sown paddy through the technique on 26,845.91 acres against the target of 12,000, the data added.

    Jind district has covered 40,704.24 acres against the target of 25,000 acres, while Yamunanagar has surpassed the target of 13,000 acres and sown paddy on 16,015.47 acres, while Fatehabad has sown paddy through the DSR method on 30,129.11 acres against the target of 25,000 and Kaithal district has sown paddy on nearly 22,050.36 acres, while the target is 20,000 acres. Rohtak district has covered 11,686.19 acres against the target of 10,000 acres.

    The data stated that Ambala district had so far covered 12,029.63 acres of DSR against the target of 13,000 acres, while Panipat has been given a target of 15,000 acres and so far, it has covered 14,054.62 acres, and Sonepat district has sown paddy through the DSR metod on 14,816.29 acres against the target of 20,000 acres.

    However, the last date of the registration of the DSR method on the ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora portal’ is June 30 and officials are hopeful that the state would achieve a milestone this season to save groundwater.

    “Five days are left and many farmers are coming forward to register themselves on the “Meri Fasal Mera Byora” portal. A large number of them have already sown paddy through the DSR method and the number of growers switching to the technique will be a record this year,” said Karam Chand, Kaithal DDA.

    “The DSR technique helps in saving groundwater significantly,” said Aditya Dabad, Karnal Deputy Director Agriculture (DDA).

    The state government extends an incentive of Rs 4000 per acre for switching to this method, which is helpful in saving groundwater in comparison to the traditional transplanting of paddy.

  • Rain lashes several parts of Punjab, Haryana

    Several parts of Punjab and Haryana were lashed by rain in the past 24 hours, the weather office said on Monday.

    In the 24 hours ended at 8.30 am, Haryana’s Rohtak received 96.3 mm rainfall. It was followed by Narnaul (24 mm), Karnal (22.1 mm), Kurukshetra (19.5 mm), Gurugram (9.5 mm), Ambala (7.4 mm), Sirsa (4.9 mm) and Bhiwani (1.7 mm), according to a Met office report.

    In Punjab, Amritsar was the wettest place with the rainfall recorded at 113.2 mm. It was followed by Gurdaspur (26.7 mm), Faridkot (24.8 mm), Ferozepur (16 mm) and Pathankot (14.1 mm). 

  • Cylinder explosion while filling gas, seven scorched including five children

    Cylinder explosion while filling gas, seven scorched including five children

    Faridabad. In Chawla Colony of Ballabhgarh, Faridabad, a house exploded while filling gas from a big gas cylinder to another cylinder. Seven people, including five children, got scorched due to the explosion of a gas cylinder. Of these, four children have been sent to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi in critical condition. Others have been admitted to private hospitals in the city.

    Outpost in-charge Chamanlal of Chawla Colony told that there is a shop in Sonu Thakur’s house itself, which is run by Rajesh. On Monday late evening, gas was being filled from one gas cylinder to another. During this suddenly the cylinder exploded. Seven people including five children were injured due to cylinder blast. Among the injured are Umesh Poddar (73), who reached the shop to get food items for his grandsons Manav and Jiyash. Apart from this, shopkeeper Rajesh and other children playing there got burnt.

    Immediately after the accident, social workers Vinod Goswami, Krishna Goswami and others reached the spot and took the scorched children and people to Ballabhgarh Hospital by car. Soon after getting information about this, Station City Incharge Satish Kumar and Chawla Colony Police Outpost Incharge Chaman Lal reached the spot along with the police force. According to the police, four-year-old Manav, three-year-old Jiyash, 11-year-old Chhavi, nine-year-old Amra have been referred to Delhi Safdarjung in critical condition. Apart from this, eight-year-old Abdullah, 25-year-old Rajesh, Umesh Poddar have been admitted to the local hospital. Outpost incharge Chamanlal says that investigation has been started in the matter. Action will be taken according to the negligence that will come to the fore.

  • friend killed friend in birthday party

    friend killed friend in birthday party

    Panipat. A friend shot dead a friend during a birthday party at a property dealer’s office in the evening at Harinagar Kabadi Road under Old Industrial Area Police Station in Panipat, Haryana. After the property dealer was shot, it was the accused who took him to the hospital. Where the doctor declared him dead. The relatives of the deceased told that Vijay is a resident of Harinagar. Vijay has a property dealer’s office at Jain Chowk. He told that the police will soon catch the one who fired. DSP Headquarters Dharamveer Kharb told that many friends had reached Vijay Pehelwan’s birthday party in Harinagar. The DSP told that at around 7.30 pm both Sumit and Vijay’s friends had abusing each other.

    Dharamveer told that Sumit had an illegal weapon from which he fired a bullet which hit Vijay. The injured Vijay was brought to the hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. The DSP said that on the complaint of Suresh Kumar, the father of the deceased, a case has been registered against the accused. The DSP told that the accused would be arrested soon and interrogated. Only after that the reason for the murder will be known. Dharamveer told that liquor was running in the party and both were drunk.

  • Heavy collision between omni van and tractor, 4 people including husband and wife died

    Heavy collision between omni van and tractor, 4 people including husband and wife died

    Lakhimpur Kheri. An Omni van and a tractor collided head-on on Palia Nighasan Road in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Haryana. 4 people died in this accident. As soon as the information about the accident was received, the police team reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem. There was a face-to-face collision between an omni van and a tractor near Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir in Bojhwa on Palia Nighasan Road in Tehsil Palia of Lakhimpur Kheri. The collision was so severe that the tractor split into two. Where one part of the tractor landed on the side of the road, the other part fought in the bike coming from behind. In which four people, including a woman and a child riding a bike, died on the spot. After the incident, a large number of crowd kept pouring in. Kotwal Pramod Kumar Mishra reached the spot with the team force and took all the dead bodies to the hospital with the help of an ambulance. Among those who died, Jabir son Alisher resident 20 Sitapur 38, Khushnuma wife Jabir 32, Jannat daughter Jabir 6 and Jabir’s brother-in-law Chand son Samasuddin resident Trilokpur 35 were coming to Palia, from here Jabir had to go to his home twenty 20 with his family. The moon had come to leave him.

  • 4 people of Haryana’s Jind died in a road accident

    4 people of Haryana’s Jind died in a road accident

    Four people were killed and 24 injured as a truck hit in a pickup van on the Panipat-Hardwar highway on Friday night.

    As many as 28 people of Kamach Khera village of Julana in Jind district were on their way to Hardwar.

    As they reached near Sanoli on the highway a truck hit their vehicle.

  • Haryana CM Khattar To Meet Himachal Counterpart Sukhu On June 5

    Haryana CM Khattar To Meet Himachal Counterpart Sukhu On June 5

    Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his Himachal Pradesh counterpart Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu will meet on June 5 to discuss interstate issues, according to a statement issued on Wednesday.

    Khattar chaired a high-level meeting with administrative secretaries to review projects worth more than Rs 100 crore, it said.The issues include construction of the Kishau Dam, a new parallel linked channel from Dadupur to the Hamida Head, Saraswati river rejuvenation and heritage development projects and the water cess issue (for hydro projects), the statement added.

    Khattar said in the meeting that work is being done on various drinking water and irrigation schemes.

    “It is the priority of the state government to provide clean drinking water in sufficient quantities to the citizens across the state uninterruptedly. Also, water will be available for irrigation to the farmers after these projects are completed,” he added.

    The officers apprised the chief minister that work is underway to remodel the Gurugram Water Service channel and construction of the Mewat Feeder Canal project, besides increasing capacity of the JLN Canal and Hansi branch canal’s carrier system.

    “These irrigation and water projects will provide relief in areas with groundwater crises and water for irrigation will be available to industries and farmers,” he said.

    The officials added that work on remodelling of the augmentation canal in Yamunanagar, concrete linking and remodelling from the Munak Head (Karnal) to Khubru Head (Sonipat), increasing the capacity of the sewage treatment plant channel in Dhanwapur and Behrampur (Gurugram), among others, are being expedited.

    Khattar said the state government is endeavouring to strengthen the metro and road network in Gurugram and Faridabad.

    The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority will commence the civil work on the 28-kilometre metro network within a month. Metro connectivity from Rezang La Chowk to Dwarka Sector 21 and the Regional Rapid Transit System from Sarai Kale Khan to Panipat is also being formulated.

    Khattar directed the officers to expedite the work on the state’s first international-level convention centre being built in Faridabad’s Sector 78.

    The centre will include a 200-room hotel, an exhibition and an auditorium block.

    -With PTI Input

  • Kejriwal To Attend AAP’s Tiranga Yatra In Haryana’s Jind With Eye On 2024 State Polls

    Kejriwal To Attend AAP’s Tiranga Yatra In Haryana’s Jind With Eye On 2024 State Polls

    AAP national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will participate in a Tiranga Yatra in Haryana’s Jind district next week as part of his party’s campaign for the assembly elections in Haryana slated for next year.

    The term of the state legislative assembly will expire on November 3, 2024.

    “A Tiranga Yatra along with a road show has been organised in the Jind district of Haryana on June 8 to sound the poll bugle in the state,” AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Gupta, who was recently appointed as the party’s Haryana unit president, told PTI on Monday.

    Both Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will participate in the mega event in which around 50,000 people are expected to take part, he said.

    Earlier in the day, Kejriwal held a meeting here with his party’s Haryana unit leaders who came to invite him to the event.

    The meeting was attended by AAP’s national organization secretary Sandeep Pathak, Gupta, and other party leaders from Haryana. Ashok Tanwar, who was recently appointed as the AAP’s campaign committee chairman for Haryana, was also present at the meeting.

  • Police deployed in Haryana to ‘prevent’ entry of protesters into Delhi

    Police deployed in Haryana to ‘prevent’ entry of protesters into Delhi

    To prevent protesters from reaching Delhi to support wrestlers, police authorities in Haryana on Sunday set up road barricades on borders with Punjab and deployed additional police forces to monitor and ‘prevent’ their entry into the national capital.

    A police official on duty at the Punjab-Haryana border said Haryana Police installed barricades to monitor the movement of traffic.
    “We are ensuring that movement of essential goods is not impacted with a large volume of traffic moving towards Delhi,” he said.

    Officials admitted to IANS that sufficient police force has been deployed to maintain law and order in the state.

    Restrictions have been imposed for the past few days at most of the interstate border points with Punjab, including in Sirsa, Kurukshetra and Jind districts.

    Police have been deployed in force on the Ambala-Rajpura and Ambala-Delhi highways and link roads.

    Farm representatives and people associated with over 35 khaps from Haryana have been reaching Jantar Mantar in Delhi to express their solidarity with the wrestlers, who have levelled allegations of sexual harassment against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.