Karnal Chilling at 3.6 Celsius; Fog engulfs the region

Many parts of northern India reeled under biting cold conditions as dense fog engulfed Punjab and Haryana with Amritsar registering a minimum temperature of 1.6 degrees Celsius.
Karnal experienced a cold night at 3.6 degrees C, three degrees below normal.

Picture shows Nirmal Kutia Chowk at 8:00 pm with vehicals facing visibility less then 2 mts. due to heavy Fog.

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Cold wave intensifies in Karnal

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Cold wave intensifies in Karnal

Cold wave conditions today intensified in Punjab and Haryana where night temperatures registered a further fall since yesterday.
In Haryana, Narnaul was the coldest at 3.6 C, two below normal. Rohtak also experienced a cold night at 5.5 C, down by a degree while the minimum at Ambala dropped to 5.1 C, two below normal.

The low at Karnal was 5.8 C, down two degrees.
Meanwhile, fog continued to hit normal life in the City for the fourth day today.
Fog reduced visibility early morning at places including NH1, Railway Road, Kunjpura Road and Urban Estate.
The Met has forecast further fall in night temperatures during the next two days in Haryana, with fog or mist likely to engulf most places in the region during early morning.
and late evenings.

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Bomb Hoax in Karnal

The Police was on a high alert following a hoax call of a bomb lying here on main kunjpura road, in karnal.


The suitcase, with a number lock, was found on the scooter of Amit Kumar, who had parked in a gully between two garments shops, while he had gone to bank.On returning he was astonished to see the suitcase and enquired from the nerby shopkeepers about it & when no one came forward to claim the suitcase, fear and panic gripped the people.
Suspecting a bomb in the suitcase, people informed the police, DSP surinder reached the spot and a bomb disposal squad was called from Madhuban. People heaved a sigh of relief when the suitcase was found empty.





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Is it going to Rain in Karnal...?

This is a very cool and simple application. Just click on the Link and you'll be directed to this page where you will know the answer to the question.
If you click from Karnal, you'll know about Temp. and rain in Karnal otherwise you can also entre a city youself.

Also see this related video posted earlier.




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Movie Ticket for Harsha K3C Mall Karnal

Now booking a movie ticket for Karnal Harsha K3C is jsut a click away.
Just Click Here.
For now they are only offering Tele Booking but On-line booking will start soon.
Just dial 0184-4022701/2 to book your tickets.

Fun Cinemas, one of India's largest cinema chain that has significantly altered the multiplex culture has launched the first multiplex in the city of Karnal. The 3 screen multiplex at Harsha K3C Mall, Sector-12 provides excellent cinema experience.

With a total seating capacity of 735, it is equipped with the state-of-the-art technology, three-way surround sound system, wide format and world class facilities.


Also read related:

• Karnal’s First Multiplex to be inaugurated today

• Karnal Will be Malla Mall soon

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Minimum temperatures dips in Karnal

A day after the minimum temperatures across Punjab and Haryana witnessed a slight increase, the region on Tuesday experienced cold waves as the temperature dropped by a few notches here. Karnal experienced a cold night at 8 C, down three degrees.

The picture shows a View of Karna Lake on a cold Morning.

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Power of Literacy

The National Literacy Mission has started a silent revolution in Haryana's Karnal district by empowering the weaker sections to seek equality and freedom from unjust social mores.

Read Full story HERE..



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Parking crisis on Kunjpura Road

The Kunjpura road, right from Sabzi Mandi chowk till Hospital chowk, attracts a large crowd due to

Huge stores mainly Garment stores,

Banks like HDFC, Bank of Punjab (also HDFC now) & Bank of India

Kunjpura Mandir, Mahabirdal Mandir,

Head Post Office,

And Mahabirdal Hospital.

It as also is the main road for commuters, going to Dyal singh colony, Subzi mandi, Nehru palace and Karan Gate etc.

On a busy day sometimes it takes more then 20 min to cross this 500mt Road…!!!

The main reason for this traffic jam is unavailability of parking space on virtually every store, all of these stores are raised in the residential houses most of them without any CLU (change of Land Use).

It is difficult to predict the future of these huge stores if the situation is not taken into control at this stage. The parking area at the back of Mahabirdal hospital should be developed and there is a need of revolutionary methods like Underground parking.

The picture shows unauthorized parking in front of HDFC Bank, Karnal.

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Telephone Directory

I Came across this link, here you can find any Telephone number of Officials of Karnal city.
Just click on the link.


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Karnal’s First Multiplex to be inaugurated today

The one the much awaited and talked about Mall cum multiplex project Harsha K3C will be inaugurated today with the screening of film ‘Fashion’.

In the first stage the 3 Audi Multiplex will be opened for Public and in the coming months other showrooms will also be operative.

The expectations of the people of Karnal are high; the reactions will come in coming days…!!

On the other hand the other Mall, The Super Mall, claimed to be bigger in space then Harsha K3C, is also ready and waiting for final approval from the various departments of the City Authority.

Also Read Related : Karnal Will be Malla Mall soon.

Guru Parab in Karnal

A Nagar Kirtan was organized by Guru Parab Prabandhak Committee and Sikh community here in Karnal. The ‘sangat’ and representatives including children of various institutions and school followed the Kirtan on all the major streets of the city including Kunjpura road, Committee chwok, Railway Road, Model Town etc.

The 540^th Parkash Guruparab is being celebrated on 13^th Nov.

Some of the Pictures are posted below.

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Maharashtrian family 'threatened' in Karnal

The after affects of the communal fire burning in Maharashtra, U.P. & Bihar were also felt here in Karnal.

A family from Maharashtra, residing here for the last 15 years, has lodged a complaint alleging that they were threatened by two men who barged into their house.
Kalpana, the wife of a construction worker, has alleged that they were threatened as they belonged to Maharashtra, police said. “It is an isolated threat as no threat has been issued against other families from the state who reside here,” an officer said.
Some of the links of related news are as under:

Maharashtrian family 'threatened' in Karnal

Maharashtrian family threatened in Haryana

Haryana Police file case after threat to Maharashtrian family

Maharashtrian family threatened in Haryana

State to lease out airfields to private groups

Proposal to open flying training institutes, improve facilities

In a major fillip to aviation training in the state, Haryana Government has decided to open its four airfields for private operators to start flying training institutes, involving light and medium aircrafts.

The state has decided to offer its airfields at Pinjore, Karnal, Bhiwani and Narnaul for training courses. It will decide later on expanding the sphere of training, depending on the response to these training facilities. The government has retained the right to withdraw any airfield from this offer.

Read full story at IndianExpress

Improvment in Power System of Karnal

In view of annual growth of over 10 per cent in power load in Karnal district, the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN) have jointly prepared a plan to strengthen the transmission and distribution system in the district.

A spokesman said here today that a new 220-KV sub-station will be set up at Bastara village and two new substations would be constructed at Sita Mai and Nadana villages.

Read Full story at: expressindia.com

And talking of the present sitution of Power Cuts, now it's only limited to 1 hr. per day previously the power cut was for about 10-12 hrs per day....!!!

not so… “HAPPY DIWALI”

The impact of World wide economy recession was also felt, during the festive season, here in Karnal City.

According to one of the ‘White goods seller’ the sale during this season saw a decrease of 15 % as compared to last year. The gift shop sellers also felt that ‘less expensive gifts’ were more in demand.

The only section which was least affected was that of officials of different government departments as their premises were a definite crowd pullers…!!!

The traffic situation during the festive weekend was badly affected, the authorities seemed to least bothered about long traffic jams in different part of city including Clock tower Chowk, Kunjpura road, and Link road to sector 13.

Despite of all the odds, the festive spirit of all the sweet citizens of the Karnal city were on a high…!!!

Happy Diwali to all.

Alpha G:Corp's Festive Offering to Buyers at Alpha International City Karnal

The 3 upcoming integrated townships in Haryana encompassing 450 acres, have recently launched a festive sales scheme of free hold plots in namely, Alpha International City (AIC) in Sectors 28-29 of Karnal, AIC in Sector 29 of Kurukshetra, and AIC in Sector 4 of Fatehabad. Limited numbers of free hold plots in the prime sectors of these towns are being offered during this festive season.

CHD Developers launches Silver County in Karnal

CHD Developers, one of India’s leading real estate developer engaged in development of prime residential and commercial properties has formally announced the launch of its much anticipated project, the Silver County, an integral part of CHD Developers’ Rs. 1000 crore mega project, CHD City at Karnal. Silver County will feature 200 expandable stand-alone villas with excellent facilities and amazing conveniences to be constructed with an investment outlay of Rs. 75 crores.
The uniqueness of the stand-alone villas at Silver County is its affordability and that there will only be ground floor construction distinguishing them with the high-rise apartments. Each villa will have an earth quake resistant structure and foundations designed for expansion of further one and a half stories. The area of each villa will be 200 sq. yd. with a built-up area of 1150 sq. ft. comprising 2 bedrooms, 1 drawing-dining room, 1 kitchen and 2 bathrooms. There will be open space (verandah) both in front and at the backside of each villa.

For More Log on to: Moneycontrol.com

The Karnal Flying Club

KarnalFlying Club, also known as Karnal Airport, is a small airstrip situated about 3 KM east of the city of Karnal, It is also the airport where the famous Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla first became interested in flying and it the only airstrip in the surrounding area mainly used for landing of Chief Minister of the state.
Here is an arial view of the Airport from Google Maps.

Voice of Karnal now on iPhone

There is a good news for the readers of this blog, now you can Browse through Voice of Karnal from your iPhone also.
Just click Here (from your iPhone)...!!!

Ram Lila in Karnal

It is festive season in India; here in Karnal city also the preparations for Diwali are going on. Here in the pictures are ‘Jhankis’ of Lord Ram and Sita.

What about Weather in Karnal City…?

If you are not in Karnal and ask this question whenever you call people in Karnal,
here is an easy way just log on to Weather Underground and get a detailed report on current weather condition of any city of the world.

And if you want it on hourly bases (if you are so obsessed…!) you can do so by subscribing a feed. Here I have given a link for Google Reader.

High quality of Banana developed

The Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory at Uchani in Karnal has developed a high quality plant of banana by using Tissue Culture Technology and with this the banana production in Haryana would be started by next year. Giving this information a spokesman of the Horticulture Department said today that in this Laboratory, successful research had been conducted on Kufri Badhshah and Pukhraj varieties of Potato which were brought from Central Research Center at Shimla.

He said that in the year 2007-08 after doing research, the Laboratory had developed about 30,000 plants of banana in March-April and were sold to the farmers for plantation. The State Government had put a target to produce one lakh plants of banana for farmers during January-Febuary 2009, he added. He said that the main objective of this Laboratory was to conduct research on plants like Potato and Banana and also to increase the quality of the plants.

Besides, to popularize the tissue culture technology among the farmers of the State.
He said that the farmers in the State had shown a keen interest in the Banana crop.
During the last year the farmers of Kurukshetra, Karnal, Yamunanagar, Rohtak and Rewari districts had shown their interest in buying Banana plants at large scale. With this, like other States the banana production would be started in Haryana also.

He said that with the achievment made by this laboratory, the Ambassdor of Israel had assured his full cooperation for various projects in the State.


Source: hindu.com

Publication date: 10/13/2008

24 hours in Karnal City

I came across this travelogue about Karnal City written by a Canadian lady who was visited Karnal in 2006. Although the review is not good but it gives detailed description of some places of interest with photographs. To look to the Log click here.

Jewel to come up with a New 5 Star Hotel Karnal

Karnal-based Jewel Classic Hotels will come up with its second hotel property at Karnal, Haryana, by end-2009. The property, which is under construction at a prime location on National Highway 1, will be the first five-star property of the group. The hotel will come up on eight acres of land and will consist of 140 rooms.

Manbeer Chaudhary, Managing Director, Jewel Classic Hotels Pvt Ltd says, “The hotel will have a 2.50 Lakh square feet area with a commercial space of 32,000 square feet. In Haryana, we are free to use 15 per cent of our total FAR for commercial purposes.”

The hotel will have a spa, convention facilities, and multi-cuisine restaurants. “We want to take the advantage of our proximity to New Delhi. Therefore, we will promote the hotel by offering special weekend packages,” adds Chaudhary. The group is in talks with international brands like Hilton, Sheraton, and Carlson for franchise agreements for the upcoming hotel. Jewel Classic Hotels currently has a four-star property in Karnal with around 45 deluxe executive class rooms and 10 suites.

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RETIRED & OVER 60? HERE ARE SWANK HOMES FOR YOU

CHD Developers Limited will build four exclusive townships across north India. Named Active Senior Lifestyle Townships, these will comprise flats and villas and be targeted at senior citizens, with an investment outlay of Rs. 1700 crore. The uniqueness of these projects would be that they will comprise only ground floor villas and only those above 60 years of age would be allowed to own a property here.

CHD Developers plan to develop 7,000 such homes and villas in these projects planned for the cities of Karnal (Haryana), Rishikesh (Uttarakhand), Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) and Neemrana (Rajasthan) over a total land area of 350 acres at an approximate cost of Rs 5 crore per acre.

The first of these townships is slated to come up in Karnal and will be spread over an area of 100 acres and have approximately 2,000 villas. The project is expected to be complete by 2011 and the estimated cost for the Karnal Township is Rs 500 crore. The project in Rishikesh will be the largest with 150 acres of land.



Courtesy:- HT dtd:- 4th Oct.2008

Bihar Flood relief fund from Karnal

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday flagged off a train at Karnal railway station to carry relief supplies for the flood affected people of Bihar.

This relief material has been collected by Lions Club Greater, Karnal, an official release said here.

The Chief Minister also presented a cheque for Rs 1.01 lakh on behalf of Lions Club Greater for flood affected people.

Live Video of Rain in Karnal

It's Raining from almost last 35 hours. The video a captured for all my friends living abroad. Do comment and i can upload more videos on request.

Freedom fighter’s martyrdom observed at Karnal

The 100th martyrdom day of Madan Lal Dhingra was observed in the state. A state level function was organised at Karnal on the occasion. Paying tribute to the martyr, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the people of Punjabi community have brought laurels not only to the state but also to the entire nation.
Hooda said martyrs and freedom fighters such as Madan Lal Dhingra, Bhagat Singh and Rajguru played a very important role in the freedom struggle.
Hooda also unveiled the life size statue of martyr Madan Lal Dhingra on the occasion. Addressing the people Arvind Sharma, MP from Karnal said that the CM had taken a number of welfare steps for freedom fighters and their families. He also demanded a piece of land for the construction of dharamshalas for Punjabi, Balmiki and Brahmin communities.
(Read full story at http://www.expressindia.com/)

Happy Independence Day

So, it’s Independence Day or the ‘I-Day’, as referred by many publications, today.

Today when I was reading the newspaper suddenly this thing strikes , that, has the meaning of this day changed to us….?

Is it now merely means ‘Big Independence Sale on all Garments’ from almost all Companies….

Or it means Cheap Grocery, Electronic goods, Home items offered by Big MNC Retail Giants …irony isn’t it?

Or for that matter Chief ministers of various states rolling out huge advertisements wishing all us ‘INDIANS’ I-Day in one line and rest of the page full with achievements and developments made by them….!

But then I think, the meaning of this day might have shifted to

Youngsters partying out, people from different communities asking for their rights and so on….

But the core essence remains the same ….

Jai Hind to all my fellow karnaliets …to all INDIANS all over the globe…!!!

Bindra bags India's first individual gold at Olympics

India's Abhinav Bindra won a gold in men's 10-metre Air Rifle event in Beijing. Bindra shot 104.5 to take his total to 700.5 in the final. This is India's first ever Olympic gold in any individual event and ninth in total.(NDTV.com)
The people of karnal are also in celebrations,
but one question is striking me again and again that are we, the country of more then a billion, is worth this one Gold only....!!!

KARNAL... A RETIREMENT RETREAT

“The Town Of Karnal, Is Soaking In Real Estate Projects As National Developers Line Up Their Residential And Commercial Projects Here.”

After Gurgaon, Panchkula and Faridabad , experts feel that Karnal in Haryana will be the next big thing to watch out for as it has everything going for it – strategic location, well laid out infrastructure and roads – all the economic drivers and a socio-cultural environment which are conductive to development.

An idyllic retreat, Karnal is far from the madding crowd and as Avinash Tandon, who had a brief stint at a Panipat refinery at Engineers India Ltd, puts it: “Bangalore and Pune are now in the grip of last paces urbanization and they have betrayed the definition of pensioners’ paradise. But Karnal truly embodies that definition and is the new age pensioners’ paradise, just the kind of place where I would love to live post retirement.”

Near Namaste Chowk, in sector 35 and 36 are residential townships by Ansal Housing &construction as well as Ansal API Ansal Town by Ansal Housing is spread over 130 acres and has 810 numbered plots, measuring between 200 and 500 sq yard (200, 250, 358, 374, 419, 500 sq yard), which are being sold at the rates between of Rs. 7000 and Rs. 7500/sq yard. A 200- to 300 sq yard plot is going for Rs.7500, 300-400 sq yard for Rs.7250/sq yard and 400-500 sq yard plot for Rs. 7000/sq yard.

Adjacent to Ansal Housing project is the another Ansal project and this can often lead to confusion, like for instance, investors going by one groups advert even have ended up investing in the other. Ansal APIs township spread over 350 acres has plots of sizes ranging from 239, 300, 400, 500 sq yard at the rate of Rs.6000- 6250 per sq yard but the bookings for phase I have closed now they are getting approvals for the second phase.

Ansal APIs has a group housing component; Sushant Royale spread over 11.25 acres

(Ground plus 6) with each flat having built up area ranging from 1427 to 2833 sq ft. In all

these are additional external development as well as internal development charges. Possession of plots will commence by mid-2009 and flats by October 2008.

Alpha G Corps integrated township Alpha International City near Liberty Chowk is spread over 141 acres and has a total of 1129 plots, of which 20% are EWS (237 plots on 60 sq yard) and NPNL plots over 164 sq yards. The plots of sizes 250, 360, 500, 970 sq yards are available at the rate of Rs.8, 500 per sq yard and they are charging a premium over the prevalent market rates. “We are providing world-class amenities and social environment that is worth the premium,” explains Deepender Sing Nanra, senior manager at Alpha G Corp.

This includes an MOU with GEMs international high school on 8 acres, with healthcare institutions such as Max and retail majors such Big Bazaar and plans for organic farms and theme parks and eco-friendly environment within the complex. While phase I will be ready by May 2009, the next phase, post 2009 will have commercial development plus group housing 2/3/4 BHK on a G+6 format.

CHD developers are also coming up with integrated township with plot, plot plus villa, and group housing. The first group to test the market with the apartments was Aerens with their Palms Residency project and they got fairly good response. With so many projects, and more in the pipeline, thequestion to be asked is who is driving the sales investors, or end users and local market. Clearly, the developers want us to believe that their projects are supported by the local market. Nanra says: “in 2005-06 we had investors from Delhi but later we got a good response from the local market. These included Karnal coming residents, as well as people in the neighbouring towns such as Gharounda, Panipat who wanted to graduate to an uptown location.”

Courtesy: -27^th June 2008

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Karnal to Venice

Living in Karnal, gives you many extra benefits…!
Come few centimeter of rain and suddenly you find yourself in a different part of the world… “voila” you are in Venice……!!!
I’m even thinking of diversifying my business by opening the first boat shop of the region….!
All of you should also plan to buy cars which can be converted in boats at the time of Rainy season.
Jokes apart I think the authorities should take major steps to avoid water logging, in almost all the major areas of the city including Kunjpura road, Railway road, Kaithal road, Model town and Urban-estate.

Salute to Kalpana Chawla - Its Her Birthday

Kalpana Chawla was born in Karnal, Haryana, India.Kalpana in Sanskrit means "imagination of the mind" and thus also "creation." Her interest in flying was inspired by J. R. D. Tata, a pioneering Indian pilot and industrialist.She studied at Tagore Public School, Karnal for her earlier schooling and she pursued further studies aeronautical engineering at Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, India, in 1982 where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree. She was one of the three women in the college at the time. She moved to the United States in 1982 and obtained a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington (1984). Chawla earned a second Master of Science degree in 1986 and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Later that year she began working for NASA Ames Research Center as vice president of Overset Methods, Inc. where she did CFD research on V/STOL.[2] Chawla held a Certificated Flight Instructor rating for airplanes, gliders and Commercial Pilot licenses for single and multiengine airplanes, seaplanes and gliders. She held an FCC issued Technician Class Amateur Radio license with the call sign KD5ESI. She met and married Jean-Pierre Harrison, a flying instructor and aviation writer, in 1983 and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1990.

All of us here at Karnal are proud of her...!

Mercury falls as rain lashes Karnal City

Light to moderate rains lashed a few parts of karnal disst. on Tuesday causing drop in maximum temperature. Karnal received light showers and the maximum dropped to 34.8 degrees Celsius, five below normal ,the Meteorological Department said here.

the video below was shot at Karan Lake...Karnal.

Street Juglers in Karnal

I was ammused to see how these Little Kids (all below 12 years of Age) were performing these stunts...

just for the sake of 27 rupees ( which they 'earned' during this half an hour 'show'...!!)

Poor children.

Introduction of Video Post (Podcasting) on Voice of Karnal

This is not something new, but it is new for our Blog... it was suggested by one of my friends from U.S.
He wanted me to upload atleast a video a day... so he could see wat's happening in the City.
So here we are...waiting for your comments.

Karnal reaches freezing point...!

Karnal recorded a record low of 0.6 degrees, last night.
The lowest average of last 4 days remaind to be less than 3 degrees.
In other parts of Haryana, Ambala shivered at minus 1.3 degrees, again 8 degrees below normal. Narnaul was at 0 degrees and Rohtak at 1.3 degrees.

Karnal will be ‘Malla Mall’ soon…

After a long wait, it seems that finally people of Karnal will be getting their first Mall.
Currently two projects namely ‘Super Mall’ and ‘K3G Mall’ are almost ready to operate at 12 sector. It is again uncertain that which mall will be inaugurated first!
At least now karnaliets will not have to drive all the way to panipat or Chandigarh to watch movies at multiplex.

Where’s the Party Tonight…!

What were ‘Karnaliets’ doing on the 31st of Dec. i.e. New Year’s Eve? The answer seems to be precise and boring. People were either at ‘The Karnal Club’ or ‘Gymkhana club’ or else watching T.V. at home. At least I felt the same as there is no place for partying in the city…!
On the New Year’s Eve, when the people of the world were celebrating, people of Karnal were roaming from ‘Haweli’ to ‘Lake’ and then to’ New world’ via sector 12 and ‘Kalra Mkt.’ at sector 13. Except few other who had planned the Bash well in advance to other places like Simla, Chandigarh or Delhi etc.
Now with upcoming Malls and a proposed Disc. At an upcoming five star Hotel near Lake, let’s hope some change in style of celebration on the coming New Year Eve i.e. 31st of December 2008…!!!