Tag: Haryana

The Haryana government has decided to extend the benefit of the 7th Pay Commission to non-teaching staff of privately managed government-aided colleges in the State. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has approved the proposal to give the non-teaching staff revised pay as per the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, effective from January 1, 2016, […]

New Delhi: A man from Sundergarh who was abducted from Old Delhi Railway station area three months ago, was rescued from Kurukshetra in Haryana, Delhi Police said today. Ganesh Salima of Tangarapalli in Sundergarh district was on a pilgrimage to Vaishno Devi on March 27 with his wife Manju. While returning home, some miscreants kidnapped […]

Bhubaneswar: In a tragic incident, two Odia labourers died of asphyxiation while cleaning a sewerage drain at Faridabad in Haryana on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Umakanta Pradhan and Nalini Swain of Rajnagar area in Kendrapara district. More details are awaited.

Chandigarh: Establishing it grip on state politics just ahead of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, Haryana’s ruling BJP won the Jind Assembly seat in a multi-cornered contest on Thursday by 12,935 votes. BJP candidate Krishan Lal Middha was declared elected after getting 50,566 votes. The winner will have a tenure of only nine months […]

Gurugram: The wife and son of an Additional District Judge were on Saturday allegedly shot at by the judge’s security guard, injuring them. “The two are injured and have been admitted to a hospital,” Gurugram Police Commissioner K.K. Rao said. “The doctors are monitoring the condition of the two, who have been very critically injured,” […]

Chandigarh: The Haryana Police’s Special Investigating Team (SIT) on Sunday arrested the two main accused in the Rewari gang-rape case. The accused, Pankaj and Manish, were on the run for almost two weeks. They were arrested from Satnali in Mahendragarh district. The victim, a 19-year-old school topper, was abducted and gang-raped after being drugged on […]

Chandigarh: Over three days after a 19-year-old board examination topper was gang-raped in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district, the police has failed to make any arrests, officials said on Saturday. The state police has set up a special investigation team (SIT), to be headed by Nuh Superintendent of Police (SP) Nazneen Bhasin, to probe the incident. Though […]

Chandigarh: Three men accused of allegedly gang raping a 19-year-old board examination topper in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district continued to evade arrest on Friday, more than 52 hours after the incident. The Haryana Police on Friday launched a manhunt after the girl alleged that she was raped by them on Wednesday near Kanina village. The victim, […]

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to persuade Haryana to continue supplying the same levels of water to the national capital it has been supplying for the last 22 years. “I urge you to kindly use your good offices to persuade Haryana to continue supplying […]

Chandigarh: A minor fire in the Haryana secretariat building here on Thursday led to a scare among people. Three fire engines were rushed to the spot to extinguish the fire. No casualty was reported in the incident, police said. The fire was noticed on the second floor of the building in the morning before the […]

Jaipur: The Shree Rajput Karni Sena on Thursday denied any role in stone pelting on a school bus in Gurugram in Haryana over the screening of “Padmaavat”. Speaking to IANS, Vijendra Singh, Karni Sena spokesperson, said: “Rajputs can never even think of attacking a school bus. This is a plot being created by politicians, who […]

Chandigarh: A Class 12 student allegedly shot dead the principal of his school in Haryana’s Yamunanagar on Saturday, police said. The victim, Rita Chhabra, was sitting in her office when the alleged assailant came and opened fire on her from close range from his weapon. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she died. The […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the operation of orders banning the release of the film “Padmaavat” by the Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana governments. Staying the “notifications and orders” banning the release of the controversial film by the three states, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilklar and Justice D.Y. […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Thursday a plea by the producers of “Padmaavat” challenging the ban on the controversial movie in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana. When the producers’ counsel Mahesh Agrawal, mentioned the matter on Wednesday before a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud […]

Rohtak (Haryana): Former world champion L. Sarita Devi (60kg) and Asian silver-medallist Sonia Lather (57kg) advanced to the semi-finals after winning their respective quarter-final bouts at the National Women’s Boxing Championships here on Wednesday. Former World Championships silver-medallist Sarju Bala (48kg) of Manipur also cruised through to the semis, beating Madhya Pradesh’s Deepa Kumari 5-0 […]