Tag: Haryana

New Delhi: The CBI has registered a case against a Haryana resident and others on charge of collecting money by misusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name, an official said on Friday. The agency registered the case on Thursday against J.P. Singh, who claims to be President of Faridabad-based Narendra Modi Vichar Manch, and some unidentified […]

Mumbai: The 54th Femina Miss India World 2017 winner is Manushi Chhillar from Haryana, while the first runner-up is Sana Dua from Jammu and Kashmir and the second runner-up is Priyanka Kumari from Bihar. The event was held at Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai on Sunday night. Manushi, born to doctor parents, studied in St. […]

Chandigarh: Teams of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would inspect the excavation being carried out at an archaeological site in Haryana’s Fatehabad district to verify claims of it being the oldest civilisation in the world. Archaeologists have recovered artefacts pre-dating the Harappan […]

Chandigarh: President Pranab Mukherjee has expressed the desire to adopt 50 more villages in Haryana to develop them as smart villages, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Friday. Khattar told the Haryana assembly on the last day of the budget session that the President, who had earlier adopted five villages in the state for […]

Jind (Har): Ruling BJP won the high-stakes Jind bypoll in Haryana on Thursday with party candidate Krishan Middha defeating his nearest rival, Digvijay Singh Chautala of JJP, by over 12,000 votes. The BJP wrested the seat from the main opposition INLD, which was decimated in the by-election. Middha won by a margin of 12,935 votes, […]

  Chandigarh: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij today said that the vyayamshalas and yogshalas being opened across the state by the government can be used by all sections irrespective of their caste, creed or religion. “The yogshalas (yoga centres) would not be allowed to be used for any religious, social or political purpose,” the Health […]

Hisar: A six-year-old girl, who was raped and killed in Haryana’s Uklana area, was cremated today amid tight security, as the agitated locals protested over the gruesome crime. Some unidentified men had allegedly abducted the girl on Friday night when she was sleeping with her sister and mother in their home in a slum area. […]

New Delhi: UPSC member Chhatar Singh has resigned, over three months after he was questioned by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in the allotment of 14 industrial plots in Haryana’s Panchkula. President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted his resignation with effect from September 22, an order issued by Personnel Ministry said. Singh took […]

Chandigarh: Mobile Internet services have been suspended for 72 hours in Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh, ahead of the court verdict in the sexual exploitation case against the Dera Sacha Sauda sect head tomorrow. The decision to suspend mobile Internet services was taken in a coordination committee meeting of Haryana, Punjab and Union Territory Chandigarh held under […]

Jind: In a shocking remark that may trigger a political row, BJP MP Raj Kumar Saini on Sunday said Congress leaders should be “beaten up with shoes” for allegedly not bringing development in Haryana. “The Congress has formed government in Haryana on multiple occasions. It has turned people into beggars. “And now, when the BJP […]

A five-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a 17-year-old boy at his residence here, police said today

Jharsuguda: Jharsuguda police today arrested two persons from Brajarajnagar here in connection with the alleged torture of a minor girl from Odisha in Bhiwani area of Haryana. The arrested two have been identified as uncle of the minor girl, Tankadhar and her neighbour, Ajay Ganjari. On the other hand, two teams comprising police and district administrative […]

An IAS officer was arrested by the crime branch for allegedly conspiring to murder a city-based businessman, Delhi Police said here today

After terming farmers who commit suicide as "cowards" and "criminals under law", a senior Haryana minister retracted his statement today and said that committing suicide was a sign of "weakness" and the state's farmers were brave

A 28-year-old man, accused in four murder cases, was on Monday shot dead by unidentified assailants near Jind bypass here