Farmers’ unions to meet at Moga
Moga: Farmers’ unions and organisations will meet here to chalk out plans for the next stage of agitation against the Punjab government. Presidents of all the eight farmers’ unions and four farm labourers’ organisations will hold a meeting here on Wednesday. Disclosing this here on Tuesday, BKU (Ekta) General Secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokari said that the Punjab government was not sincere in accepting farmers’ demand. The main demands of farmers include Rs 40,000 per acre compensation to the loss of cotton by the whitefly, Rs 20,000 to farm labourers, Rs five lakh compensation to the families of farmers who committed suicides. Earlier, the farmers’ unions have staged ‘Rail Roko’ agitation and also gheraoed various Punjab ministers houses. (PTI)
Six electrocuted in Madhubani
Madhubani: Six people were electrocuted to death and three others sustained serious burn injuries when they came into contact with a high voltage wire near main road under Jainagar police station in Madhubani district on Tuesday. Police said here that some people were purchasing essentials from local market near Mainroad when an over-head high voltage wire got snapped from the pole and fell on them. Six people died on the spot while three others sustained serious burn injuries. ” Two with serious burn injuries, were admitted to Darbhanga Medical College Hospital(DMCH) while the other one was admitted to a local hospital”, police said adding that inquiry was being conducted into the incident. (UNI)
Baby’s head separated
from body during birth
Rampur: In a gruesome incident, the head of a baby got separated from its body during delivery when the doctor allegedly pulled it out of the mother’s womb forcefully. A 32-year-old woman was admitted to the district hospital on Sunday when she experienced labour pain and the delivery took place in the evening. The incident came to light on Monday after the local people raised a furore, alleging medical negligence. A local leader has also alleged that severed parts of the body were dumped in a dustbin. Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) of Rampur Dr Shankar Lal Saraswat said the matter would be enquired into. Chief Medical Superintendent of the hospital’s women wing Dr Pant said enquiries into the matter has started and those found guilty will be punished. Tension mounted in the area following the incident and Rampur District Magistrate Rakesh Kumar Singh visited the hospital today. “I will give my opinion only after getting details of the incident,” said DM Singh. (PTI)
60-yr-old man gets life term for murder
Jajpur (Odisha): A Jajpur district court has sentenced a 60-year-old man to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of murdering his sister-in-law about 20 months ago. Additional District and Sessions Judge Rohitlal Panda yesterday convicted Babu Bai of Haripur village under Sukinda police station for the murder of Jayanti Bai (40) on March 9, 2014. Babu Bai was also slapped a fine of Rs 25,000. The court examined 18 people as witnesses during the trial in the case. According to the prosecution, Babu Bai and Jayanti had a quarrel over some domestic issue on March 9, 2014, and, in a fit of rage, he hit her on the head with a crowbar killing her on the spot. (PTI)
Boys and girls should not sit together in classrooms: Kerala Minister
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Education Minister P K Abdu Rabb on Tuesday said he did not agree with boys and girls sitting together in college classrooms in the state. He was reacting to a controversy over the expulsion of a male student from the Farook College in Kozhikode for sitting together with girls on a bench. ”Personally and also as a minister, I don’t feel good about boys and girls sitting close in class rooms,” he said. ”If it is separate chairs for boys and girls, that is okey. But I don’t think there is any college in Kerala where boys and girls are allowed to sit together in a bench. I have also not received complaints on Farook college issue,” he said. The Minister’s remark sparks a controversy with pro-Congress and pro-Marxist students unions coming out strongly against such gender-based segregation in classroom. The controversial remarks came a few days after Kerala High Court stayed the order of Farook College that expelled BA student Dinu K for sitting with girls. However, students unions associated with the Muslim Student Movement and Students Islamic Organisation supported the argument of the college authorities that boys and girls sitting together on a bench doesn’t suit the ?culture? of the 67-year-old institution. (UNI)
Himachal vendors protest ban on sale of single cigarettes
Shimla: Cigarette vendors across Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday staged a protest in the state capital, seeking revocation of the ban on sale of single cigarettes and withdrawal of the proposed legislation to introduce license for selling them. “The ban on single cigarettes has threatened our livelihood. Most people buy a single cigarette that gives us more profit than the sale of packets,” seller Ramesh Chand told reporters. Around 200 vendors, who sell cigarettes along with confectionary items, backed by regional cigarette distributors under the banner of Bidi Cigarette Vikreta Sangh, staged the protest.
The state on November 4 banned the sale of single sticks of cigarette. (IANS)
