CHANDIGARH,OCT 5 : Polling for all the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana began on Saturday morning amid tight security arrangements, officials said. The fate of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Congress leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat, besides the JJP’s Dushyant Chautala and 1,027 other candidates, will be decided in the polls in which […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 1 : A month before the assembly elections in Haryana, Olympic wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Saturday pledged her unstinted support to the protesting farmers at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana, who marked the 200th day of their agitation there. The farmers were on a ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation demanding legal guarantee for […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH,JULY 17 : Months ahead of the assembly polls, Haryana’s BJP government announced Wednesday a 10 per cent reservation for Agniveers in the recruitment of constables, forest guards and jail wardens, along with quotas in other posts. Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini also said that the government will provide interest-free loans of up to Rs […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH, JULY 8 : More than 40 schoolchildren sustained injuries injured after a Haryana Roadways bus overturned near Pinjore in Panchkula district on Monday. The injured were admitted to Pinjore Hospital and Sector 6 Civil Hospital in Panchkula. A woman, who sustained critical injuries was referred to PGI Chandigarh. As per the police, the accident […]Continue Reading
Chandigarh, Jun 6 : Kangana Ranaut, Bollywood actor and BJP’s MP-elect from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, on Thursday alleged that a CISF security official at Chandigarh Airport slapped her while she was travelling to Delhi. According to Ranaut, when she was proceeding to the boarding point after the security check, the CISF woman official, Kulwinder Kaur, […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH, MAY 28: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the murder case of his former manager Ranjit Singh. The Sirsa-headquartered sect chief, who is also serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples, is currently lodged in Sunaria jail in […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH,FEB 19: Newly elected Chandigarh Mayor Manoj Sonkar resigned from the post on Sunday, amid allegations that the January 30 mayoral polls were rigged, according to sources. This comes a day before the matter is to come up for hearing before the Supreme Court. Mayor Manoj Sonkar has submitted his resignation to the municipal commissioner, […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH,FEB 13: Several spots along the Punjab-Haryana border witnessed chaotic scenes as the Haryana government tried to disperse farmers trying to reach Delhi from Punjab with tear gas. Farmers demanding a law on Minimum Support Price (MSP) were met with tear gas by the Haryana administration at multiple borders, including Shambhu border and Khanauri border. […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH,JAN 1: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has designated Satwinder Singh alias Satinderjit Singh alias Goldy Brar, the Canada-based gangster and mastermind behind the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Earlier, the Canadian government had named Brar among the 25 most wanted criminals of Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH,DEC 27: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday morning visited an “akhara” in Haryana’s Jhajjar district and met a group of wrestlers including Bajrang Punia.According to a senior Haryana Congress leader from the district, Gandhi reached the “Virender Akhara” in the Chhara village early morning. He later interacted with the Continue Reading