A man has been arrested for attacking a Sikh youth and allegedly chopping off his beard following a scuffle over ice-cream in the Cantonment area here, police said today. The Sikh youth, Gurjeet Singh, who runs an ice-cream parlour in Palledar Mohalla, in his police complaint alleged that a customer came to his shop last [...]
Scheduled Caste students studying in technical education institutions in Haryana will get scholarships under a special scheme floated by the state government. The scholarship money would be credited to their bank accounts as the state government has decided to transfer the funds electronically. An official spokesman said that the new system of transfer of funds [...]
Two persons have been arrested in Haryana’s Karnal district for allegedly betting on the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches. On an information that some persons in Rajivpuram area of Karnal district were involved in betting on the IPL cricket matches, police conducted a raid and arrested Amarjit Singh and Gaurav Kumar, police said [...]
In Rohtak, a local court yesterday extended the police remand of a woman and her daughter for five more days till May 18th in the shelter home sexual abuse case. A National Commission for Protection of Child Rights team on May 9th raided the children’s shelter home run by NGO Bharat Vikas Sangh and found [...]
Over 83.25 lakh metric tonnes of wheat was so far purchased by six government procuring agencies in Haryana this season. Of the 83,25,781 metric tonnes of wheat arrived in Haryana mandis till yesterday, 463 metric tonnes of wheat were purchased by the traders while remaining were procured by six government agencies, a spokesman of Haryana [...]
The Centre is bent on bringing FDI in India which will allow global companies to enter retail sector and ruin local retailers in the country, INLD supremo Om Parkash Chautala said here today. “It is being done under the pressure of America,” he told reporters here. This decision would ruin retailers of the country, he [...]
Eight day old baby boy is lucky to be in hospital. He would have been dead otherwise. The infant was found abandoned near a garbage dump close to a Jain temple. The cries of the child alerted a man who informed the police. The baby was then rushed to the civil hospital. The baby is [...]
Violence rocked Nuh in Mewat district of Haryana last evening after a youth died in an accident while trying to give the slip to the traffic police. It so happened that the police had laid a naka to check traffic violations. The youth riding a motorcycle without helmet tried to speed away, but was knocked [...]
In Ambala, a local court has sent two women in a relationship to a Nari Niketan after they knocked its doors fearing a threat to their lives from their parents. The two girls claimed that they had eloped and got married. One of them hailed from Ambala, while the other was from Jalandhar. The two [...]
In Karnal an 18 yr old student was murdered last evening. Praveen Kumar a student of class 9 went out last evening with his two friends on their bicycles. While they were in Ansal Colony two youths from a village caught him and accused him of eloping with a girl from their village. A scuffle [...]
