Ruchika Girhotra case: No parole for Rathore

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday refused to release Ruchika Girhotra molest accused and former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore from jail on parole.

Dismissing Rathore’s petition against his 18-month jail term, the court reportedly said the act

Haryana to set up its own human rights commission to prevent violation

Haryana will soon establish its own human rights commission to prevent violation of human rights like honour killings and attacks on Dalits.

“The state government has directed the administration to take necessary steps to establishing our own human rights c

Rahul Gandhi urges Haryana youth to join politics

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday interacted with students at various educational institutes in Hisar, Kurukshetra and Karnal districts of Haryana and urged them to join politics.

Elaborate security arrangements were made at Kurukshetra Univers

Haryana varsity makes Hindi compulsory for foreign students

Foreign students at the Chaudhry Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU) in Hisar will now have to study Hindi as a compulsory subject, a varsity official said Sunday.

The academic council of CCSHAU decided to make Hindi language a compulsory

Now computer education compulsory in Haryana colleges

The Haryana government has made computer literacy compulsory in all its colleges from this year, a minister said Sunday.

Minister of State for Agriculture and Cooperatives Sukhbir Singh Kataria said in a statement that modern computer labs are being set up

Haryana approves Rs 15.88 bn metro link to Faridabad

The Haryana government Monday approved a budget of Rs.15.88 billion (Rs.1,588.6 crore) for the extension of the Delhi Metro till the industrial town of Faridabad in Haryana, adjoining New Delhi.

Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda approved the state govern

Seven get life term for lynching Dalits in Haryana

A court here Monday awarded life imprisonment to seven people for the 2002 lynching of five Dalits in this Haryana district.

All the convicts were produced in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge A.K. Jain, amidst heavy security. After the se

500 kg cannabis seized, three held in Sonepat

Police Sunday said they had busted an inter-state drug racket, seizing 500 cannabis and arresting three people, including a Nepali, from this Haryana town.

“Following a secret tip-off from our source, we laid a trap and intercepted a truck. During a search

Three Haryana cops killed in accident

Three Haryana policemen were killed and four others seriously injured when their vehicle collided with a government bus in a Punjab town Tuesday, police said.

Seven policemen, including a superintendent of police, were in the vehicle when the acc

Four arrested for trying to sell off 12-year-old girl

An alert 12-year-old girl raised a commotion and got a large crowd around her in this Haryana town when she realised that four of her relatives, including two women, were planning to sell her off for Rs.50,000. The four have been arrested, police said Monday.<

Floodwaters recede in Haryana district

The flood situation in Haryana’s Yamunanagar district improved gradually Monday as the water level in various rivulets passing through the region substantially receded, officials here said.

“The flood situation is totally under control. The water

Dalit man murdered in Haryana

A 31-year-old Dalit man, a resident of a village in this Haryana district, was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in adjacent Sonepat district Sunday, police said.

Police identified the deceased as Vijender Singh. His body was recovere

Rivulets overflow in Haryana’s Yamunanagar, villages submerged

Nearly 60 villages were inundated and hundreds of acres of agricultural land submerged in floodwaters in Haryana’s Yamunanagar district as rivulets flowed above the danger mark following heavy rains, officials said Sunday.

District officials said

Haryana’s grassroots democracy scores many firsts

When nearly 68,000 elected representatives, including 24,800 women, from Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) stood up in this Haryana town to take their oath, it was the first time such a huge congregation had gathered to be part of India’s grand experiment in

Foodgrain worth millions lost to official apathy

Everyone in this village in Haryana’s Sirsa district saw flood water entering the area earlier this month but that did not move officials. Not till nearly 200,000 bags of wheat worth millions of rupees were lost to the floods.

The state governmen

Emergency landing by IAF chopper in Haryana

An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter made an emergency landing near the fields of Chinder village in Haryana’s Fatehabad district Sunday due to a technical snag in the engine, police said. There were no casualties.

“The IAF helicopter had flown f

Haryana, Punjab in blame game over floods

Chandigarh, July 11 (IANS) The floods in parts of Punjab and Haryana has led to a spate of angry exchanges between the two states, each accusing the other of causing the flooding on their side.

Ruling political leaders of Haryana and Punjab are a

Train services resume on Ambala-Delhi route

Ambala (Haryana), July 9 (IANS) Train services resumed on the Ambala-New Delhi section of the railways Friday morning after the track, which had sunk at a few places due to floods, was strengthened with sand bags.

Train traffic was stopped Thursd

Fresh breaches, more rain in Haryana, Punjab

Chandigarh, July 8 (IANS) The army was Thursday called for rescue and relief work in Haryana’s Kaithal district Thursday as fresh breaches in rivers and canals in Haryana and Punjab flooded more areas.

At least 10 people have been killed by dro

NH-1 blocked by protesters in flood-hit Haryana

Chandigarh, July 8 (IANS) Scores of people, who have not been getting water and power supply in flood-affected Shahbad town of Haryana, blocked the National Highway-1 (New Delhi-Ambala-Chandigarh) Thursday morning.

Hundreds of vehicles on the bus