कर्नाटक में भारतीय जनता पार्टी (भाजपा) को एक और झटका लगा है। जयनगर विधानसभा सीट कांग्रेस ने जीत ली है। कांग्रेस उम्मीदवार सौम्या रेड्डी ने 16 राउंड की गिनती के बाद भाजपा के उम्मीदवार बीएन प्रहलाद को लगभग 2900 वोटों से हरा दिया। इससे पहले, आठवें राउंड की गिनती के बाद कांग्रेस उम्मीदवार सौम्या रेड्डी, भाजपा प्रत्याशी बी एन प्रहलाद से 10,205 वोटों से आगे चल रही थी। मतों की गिनती सुबह 8 बजे से शुरू हुई थी।
ZIRAKPUR:
Hundreds of residents of MS Enclave, Dhakoli, have been suffering hell for the past 72 hours due to stinking surroundings caused by overflow of sewerage water on roads from the treatment plant of Sector 20, Panchkula. For the past more than a decade, the residents have been telling the authorities that during rainy season the sewerage overflow makes life difficult. But all their words have fallen on deaf ears.
On Sunday at 10am, the sewerage water flowed in the area and there was flood-like situation on roads. The dirty water entered houses and for the past three days, people are living with it. During a visit to the area, residents said they suffer as the authorities were not regular in cleaning the sewer.
Zirakpur municipal council employees, who are entrusted with the job of cleaning the sewer, said there were a large number of plastic bags, bottles and thermocol blocking the sewer. They said they have used the sucking machine also, but as the quantity of these things was huge they have to clear it manually.
Lalit Goyal, a restaurateur, complained that since Sunday his eatery has been shut due to waterlogging. He said he had bought the shop in 1998 and during every rainy season the sewerage water overflows and a temporary cleaning is done by the authorities. “The problem might continue till Wednesday, as the technique the authorities are using is traditional,” he added.
Another resident, Rahul Kumar, said since morning the MC had collected one trolley of garbage from the overflowing sewerage and the work was still on. “Garbage has chocked the sewers,” he added.
Area councillor Devinder Singh Brar said this was the story every rainy season. “In 2017, a letter was sent to the Panchkula deputy commissioner and he was asked to get the manholes repaired, but to date nothing has been done. In the complaint letter, the residents had stated that the diameter of the manholes in Dhakoli was smaller than in Panchkula,” he added.
Manbir Gill, executive officer of the MC, said JCB machines are on the job to clean the sewerage. About the main cause, he said the Haryana government installed the sewerage treatment plant (STP) in their area almost a decade ago and under their project they have to lay pipelines in Punjab too as it’s located on the border. But to date, they have not completed the project due to which the problem occurs every year, he said, adding that they had raised the matter with the Haryana government, but to no avail.
भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस छात्र संगठन, एनएसयूआई हरियाणा के प्रदेश मीडिया प्रभारी दीपांशु बंसल ने भाजपा सरकार का जनविरोधी चेहरा बेनकाब करते हुए बताया कि सरकार द्वारा प्रदेश के 59 राजकीय महाविद्यालयो में विभिन्न 39 विषय बंद कर दिए गए है।
एनएसयूआई हरियाणा सरकार की इस जनविरोधी व छात्र विरोधी फैसले का विरोध करते हुए रोष प्रकट करती है।
दीपांशु ने बताया भाजपा सरकार द्वारा तुगलकी फरमान जारी करते हुए 39 विषयो को बंद करके गरीब व मध्यम वर्गीय परिवार के बच्चो को उच्चतर शिक्षा प्राप्त करने से वंचित किया जा रहा है।हरियाणा प्रदेश में अधिकतर राजकीय महाविद्यालय दुर्गम व पिछड़े क्षेत्रो में है।भाजपा सरकार द्वारा प्रदेश में शिक्षा के निजीकरण के लिए , विभिन्न विषयों को बंद करके छात्रो को प्राइवेट महाविद्यालयों की ओर आकर्षित किया जा रहा है जहाँ शिक्षा महंगी है व गरीब-मध्यमवर्गीय परिवार के बच्चो के लिए शिक्षा प्राप्त करना आसान नही है।
अधिकतर राजकीय महाविद्यालयों में प्राध्यापक, प्रयोगशाला व लाइब्रेरी जैसी मूलभूत सुविधाएं तक नही है वही दूसरी ओर भाजपा सरकार प्रदेश में लड़कियों को उच्चतर शिक्षा प्रदान करने के उद्देश्य से 30 राजकीय महाविद्यालय खोलने के दावे कर रही है।राजकीय महाविद्यालयों में प्राध्यपको के पद रिक्त है व विषयो के बन्द होने से नई भर्ती नही की जाएगी जिससे शिक्षित युवाओ व लोगो की बेरोजगारी बढ़ेगी।भाजपा सरकार ने 20 छात्रो से कम वाले विषयो को 2018-19 शिक्षा सत्र से बन्द करने का एलान किया है।
सरकार द्वारा राजकीय महाविद्यालय कालका में फिलॉसफी, म्यूसिक-5, म्यूसिक-1 ,जूलॉजी , बॉटनी, बीसीए-1 , फिजिकल एजुकेशन, बीबीए-1 – राजकीय महाविद्यालय पंचकूला में एंथ्रोपोलॉजी, म्यूसिक-5 संस्कृत, होमसाइंस, बॉयोटेक, बीएमसी-1 , राजकीय महाविद्यालय सेक्टर 14 पंचकूला में बीबीए -1 बीसीए 1 , अम्बाला केंट में संस्कृत , कैथल में बीएससी (आईटी), अम्बाला शहर में मैथेमैटिक्स , जियोग्राफी, बरवाला में संस्कृत , पोल साइंस, इकोनॉमिक्स , फिजिकल एडुकेशन , फिजिक्स , केमिस्ट्री , होम साइंस , साइकोलॉजी , छछरौली में जूलॉजी , बॉटनी समेत कुल 59 कालेजो में 39 विषय बंद करके छात्रो के हितों के साथ कुठाराघात किया है जबकि दीपांशु ने बताया कि जिला पंचकूला , अम्बाला व यमुनानगर शिवालिक क्ष्रेत्र के अधीन है , यहाँ अर्ध पहाड़ी क्षेत्र है व तमाम नियमो से छूट है जबकि बाकी जगह के मुताबिक सबसे ज्यादा विषय इन जिलों में बंद किए गए है।
साथ ही एनएसयूआई , हरियाणा सरकार से मांग करती है कि तुरन्त प्रभाव से इन विषयों को पुनः शुरू किया जाए अन्यथा प्रदेशाध्यक्ष दिव्यांशु बुद्धिराजा के नेतृत्व में पूरे प्रदेश में एनएसयूआई ,सरकार के इस फैसले का विरोध करेगी।भाजपा की केंद्र सरकार व राज्य सरकार द्वारा शिक्षा का स्तर कम किया जा रहा है व छात्रो को निजी महाविद्यालयों में उच्चतर शिक्षा प्राप्त करने के लिए विवश किया जा रहा है।
यदि प्रत्येक विषय मे छात्रो की कमी थी तो सरकार अन्य माध्यमो से क्लब आदि करके उन विषयों को चालू रख सकती थी परन्तु सरकार की मंशा निजीकरण की ओर है।
British man accused of killing RSS leaders in Punjab have to face law: India to UK
A British man, accused of conspiring targeted killings of RSS leaders in Punjab, will have to face law in India, Union minister Kiren Rijiju is believed to have told his UK counterpart Baroness Williams.
During an hour-long meeting at New Delhi on Tuesday, Rijiju is said to have conveyed to Williams that Jagtar Singh Johal is suspected to be one of the conspirators in carrying out targeted killings of seven RSS, Shiv Sena and Dera Sacha Sauda leaders between January 2016 and October 2017, an official said on Wednesday. The visiting minister has been told that Johal will have to face law in India for his alleged role in the crime in Punjab, the official said.
The National Investigation Agency, in a charge sheet filed in a court in Punjab’s Mohali on May 4, had claimed that Johal was involved in the funding of the conspiracy to kill Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leader Ravinder Gosain in Ludhiana last October. Johal is currently in a jail in Punjab and other cases against him are under various stages. Rijiju told Williams that regular consular access is being provided to diplomats of the British High Commission to meet Johal and so far 11 consular visits have been facilitated.
All legal avenues are available for Johal and his lawyers to pursue his case through India’s independent judicial system, the Union minister of state for home told his British counterpart. India has been maintaining that Johal, a citizen of the UK, has become a rallying point for Sikh groups in Britain. There was also a debate in the UK Parliament on Johal’s issue and providing the consular access to him. Since Johal’s arrest, a false, slanderous and orchestrated media campaign has been initiated by militants and their sympathisers as well as radical elements based in Britain and other Western countries against the Punjab government and the Punjab Police, another official said.
There were instances when Punjab Police officers received death threats targeted at them and their family members from such elements over phone, WhatsApp and various social media platforms, the official said. During his meeting with his UK counterpart recently, NSA Ajit Doval had even suggested that one can approach the National Human Rights Commission, which is an independent body with investigative and judicial powers, to look into allegations of mistreatment.
Johal had claimed that police threatened to shoot him and set him alight with petrol, according to the British media reports.
Pakistan’s powerful Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday met with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul, where the two discussed wide range of issues including peace efforts in the strife-torn country, checking the rise of ISIS and terror activities along their shared border.
Bajwa returned to Islamabad after the day-long visit to Kabul, where he had a one-on-one meeting with President Ghani, according to a statement by Pakistan Army. “The discussions encompassed wide range of issues especially the ongoing efforts for reconciliation in Afghanistan, measures needed to check the rise of ISIS and the issue of terrorists taking benefit of the porous border to indulge in terrorism, smuggling and drug trafficking, being often networked together,” it said.
Bajwa also congratulated Afghanistan authorities on recent peace initiatives during the holy month of Ramadan and Eid and wished that these steps gained more permanence leading toward an enduring peace. He said the recently-agreed Afghanistan Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Stability (APAPPS) was expected to bring more cooperation and coordination between the two countries.
Referring to the border fencing with Afghanistan, he said it would help check terrorism but not pose any hurdle for people on both the sides. Ghani shared contours of his vision about regional development, efforts to extend ongoing temporary ceasefire and steps related to creating conditions for reconciliation.
The Pakistan Army chief also had meetings with Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and Commander Resolute Support Mission (RSM) General John Nicholson, the statement said. Talking to Nicholson, Bajwa said that Pakistan desires that US and NATO Forces must succeed and leave behind a peaceful and stable Afghanistan, according to the statement.
Blaming bureaucrats for not working AAP CM will continue his “dharna” and his entire cabinet will be on roads.
As Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues continue to stage a sit-in protest at L-G Anil Baijal’s office for the third straight day, AAP MLAs and workers on Wednesday will march to Raj Niwas to protest against the bureaucratic crisis in the national capital. “We are not sitting here for ourselves. We are sitting here for the people of Delhi, for schools, water, mohalla clinics, so that the people of Delhi get the facilities,” Kejriwal said in a video message from LG’s office.
The BJP and Congress slammed Kejriwal, terming his ‘dharna’ at the L-G office a “mockery of democracy” and a “drama”. Raising the water shortage issue in the city, BJP’s Delhi unit will also stage a protest at Kejriwal’s residence today.
Kejriwal, along with Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain and Gopal Rai have been staging a sit-in at the LG’s office since Monday to protest against agitating IAS officials and to get an approval for the doorstep ration delivery scheme. Jain also launched an indefinite hunger strike over the demands.
An Assistant Commandant was among four Border Security Force (BSF) personnel killed and three others injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistan from across the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Chamliyal area of Samba district on Tuesday night.
Three of the deceased have been identified as Assistant Commandant Jatinder Singh, Assistant Sub-Inspector Ram Niwas and constable Hans Raj. The ceasefire violation comes days after the Pakistan Rangers held two flag meetings with the BSF and agreed to maintain ceasefire along the border.
Giving details of last night’s firing, sources said that a BSF party was moving to a mound for holding night long surveillance when the Pakistan Rangers opened fire. Three personnel died on the spot while another succumbed to injuries at a local hospital.
The firing lasted in the area for some time, sources said, adding that there is peace at the moment.
When Parmish Verma shot the music video of his chartbuster Punjabi song `aa le chakk main aa gya’ at Kikar Lodge, not many Punjabi artists knew about picturesque Kikar Lodge as an outdoor location right here in `sadda-Punjab.’
This one song brought a whole host of production houses to the doorstep of Kangar Village in Noorpur Bedi District Ropar. And today Kikar Lodge is famous for having had almost a dozen songs shot here.
In addition to songs, the breathtaking views at Kikar Lodge are also being used for pre-wedding shoots and destination weddings.
Not to be left behind are the people from Punjab who want to cash in on the growing craze of the resort close by. Most upmarket kitty parties are now being held at Kikar Lodge. “Kikar Lodge has its plus points of being close by with all facilities like swimming pools, good food and drinks and activities for the children too,’’ states Jugnu Sandhu who just attended a kitty party at the Lodge.
Kikar Lodge is also a blessing for the pocket friendly who want the tag of `going out of town for a kitty’ but do not want to spend so much. States Amarinder Singh, CEO Kikar Lodge: “Yes. We have seen a rise in the number of kitty’s and song videos being shot here in recent times. It could also be due to the fact that people want to unwind in environment friendly surroundings.’’
Boasting of 22 cottages and 8 rooms, the property guarantees visitors an opportunity to re-connect with Mother Nature, while being surrounded with comfort and luxury.
The resort is also a haven for those looking to escape the polluted environment of cities. Due to its location within a private forest reserve, the resort houses more than 100 species of birds and is also home to animals like leopards, barking deer, sambar and wild boar. Thus, the resort offers a memorable stay coupled with the thrill and excitement of staying close to animals and birds in their natural habitat.
The resort has four swimming pools, where guests can unwind and beat the heat of the afternoon sun. The Restaurant and Bar offer a wide range of impeccable cuisines that are sure to set your taste buds tingling.
With a tariff to suit every pocket and five star facilities, the place is becoming a favourite choice amongst visitors who would like to travel out of town but still stay in their very own Punjab.
चंडीगढ़:
हरियाणा में अब 42 साल की उम्र तक सरकारी नौकरी मिल सकेगी। राज्य सरकार ने सरकारी सेवा में प्रवेश की ऊपरी आयु सीमा 40 वर्ष से बढ़ाकर 42 वर्ष करने का निर्णय लिया है।
एक सरकारी प्रवक्ता ने आज यहां यह जानकारी देते हुए बताया कि इस सम्बंध में सभी प्रशासनिक सचिवों, विभागाध्यक्षों, मंडलायुक्तों, रजिस्ट्रार, पंजाब एवं हरियाणा उच्च न्यायालय, सभी उपायुक्तों एवं उपमंडल अधिकारियों (नागरिक), बोर्डों, निगमों, सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के उपक्रमों तथा सभी विश्वविद्यालयों के रजिस्ट्रारों को इस निर्णयानुसार अपने सेवा नियमों में संशोधन करने के निर्देश दिए गए हैं।
चंडीगढ़, 12 जून
हरियाणा के स्वास्थ्य मंत्री श्री अनिल विज ने कहा कि प्रदेश में पहली बार मातृ मृत्यु दर का आंकडा 26 अंक गिरकर 101 प्रति लाख रह गया है। हरियाणा, इस ‘सहस्राब्दी (मिलेनियम) विकास लक्ष्य’ (139 प्रति लाख) को प्राप्त करने वाले देश के सर्वोच्च 10 प्रदेशों में सातवें स्थान पर रहा है।
श्री विज ने कहा कि हरियाणा की जनता के लिए यह हर्ष का विषय है कि एक मई 2018 को जारी सैंपल पंजीकरण प्रणाली (एसआरएस) के आंकड़ों के अनुसार वर्ष 2016 में हरियाणा मातृ मृत्यु दर 101 प्रति लाख रह गई है, जोकि वर्ष 2013 में 127 प्रति लाख थी। राष्टï्रीय स्तर पर मातृ मृत्यु दर का यह आंकड़ा 130 का है। उन्होंने कहा कि स्वास्थ्य विभाग ने वर्ष 2030 तक यह लक्ष्य 70 तक लाने का रखा है ताकि माताओं की सुरक्षा सुनिश्चित की जा सके।
स्वास्थ्य मंत्री ने कहा कि राज्य में संस्थागत डिलिवरी वर्ष 2014 की तुलना में इस वर्ष तक करीब 6 प्रतिशत बढक़र 92 प्रतिशत हो गयी है, जिसके कारण प्रदेश में एमएमआर में कमी आई है। उन्होंने कहा कि राज्य के सभी स्वास्थ्य केन्द्रों में मातृ स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं में बढ़ोतरी की गई है, जिसके तहत गर्भवती महिलाओं की प्रसव पूर्व तथा प्रसव उपरान्त देखभाल पर पूरा ध्यान दिया जाता है। सरकार ने राज्य में उच्च जोखिम गर्भावस्था योजना, विशेषज्ञों की सेवाएं, प्रथम रेफरल इकाइयों तथा लेबर रूम को आधुनिक बनाया गया है।
श्री विज ने बताया कि सरकार द्वारा केन्द्र की अनेक योजनाओं को राज्य के स्वास्थ्य केन्द्रों में शुरू किया जा रहा है, जिसके फलस्वरूप इस प्रकार के सकारात्मक परिणाम सामने आ रहे हैं। इनमें प्रधानमंत्री सुरक्षित मातृत्व अभियान, जननी शिशु सुरक्षा कार्यक्रम, जननी सुरक्षा योजना तथा आपातकालीन प्रसूता देखभाल इत्यादि शामिल हैं।