The authorities in Haryana have ordered an inquest into the disappearance of sculpted marble tombstones and other artefacts from the Victorian Age cemetery in Ambala district.
“There are reports that a number of metallic embellishments, marble statuettes and even entire tombstones have gone missing from the old cemetery in Ambala Cantonment. This is very serious and I have ordered an inquiry by the municipal commission as well as sought a report from the chief executive officer of the cantonment board,” Ambala deputy commissioner Samir Pal Saro told this newspaper on Wednesday.
According to the officer, the Ambala cemetery is one of the oldest in the country with immense heritage value.
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Primary kids stir against J&K protests
Srinagar : A group of primary school students on Wednesday protested against the 80-day-long agitation in Kashmir Valley, saying it was denying them the right to education.
Dressed in their school uniforms, nearly 20 students from a school in Ganderbal staged the demonstration here, demanding an end to the ongoing agitation, on the ground that it had marred their learning process.
The students held placards which read “we want freedom from poverty, we want freedom from illiteracy, we want freedom from backwardness.”
A mainstream political activist Farooq Ahmad Ganderbali said that the agitation in the Valley was spoiling the future of students. —PTI
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76 held for vandalism at refinery
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
Bhubaneswar
Contractual workers, who reportedly lost their work after some projects implemented by work-contractors were wound up at Vedanta Aluminium’s Lanjigarh refinery in Orissa’s Kalahandi district, went berserk on Wednesday and ransacked properties of the plant.
At least 76 contractual workers were taken into custody and the police said they would be forwarded to court on Wednesday night.
“We have taken into custody at least 76 people who indulged in vandalism. They will be forwarded to court after questioning,” Kesinga sub-divisional police officer Akshaya Nayak said.
Kalahandi district collector told this newspaper that a team of senior officials have rushed to the site.