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Congress President Sonia Gandhi selects Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the Chief of Haryana. He has been sworn-in as the Chief Minister of the state for the second consecutive term on Sunday.
Governor Jagannath Pahadia administered the oath of office and secrecy at a simple function at the Raj Bhawan.
Hooda is expected to shortly constitute his Council [...]
GURGAON, India: After Sunday’s stone pelting and firing by the police at the Gurgaon Expressway in a clash between two groups of company employees of an auto component firm, a worker named Ajit Kumar Yadav, 26, died last night out of critical injuries.
In the protest of Yadav, workers of about 60 factories in Gurgaon [...]
The campaigning in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Haryana Assembly polls ended on October 13 (Sunday).
The canvassing of four long weeks saw high profile leaders of national and regional parties hitting the campaign trail on a large scale. Personal attacks were very much seen in the campaign.
Though the Naxalites struck in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra [...]
Japanese auto major Honda threatens to shut the 2-wheeler plant in India. This came after the recent labour unrest at the Manesar factory in Gurgaon, outskirts of Delhi. The company negotiatd a new wage settlement with the workers but this has crippled the production of the company and has forced Honda to stop accepting new [...]
The Haryana assembly election is slated for next month following Hooda Government’s decision to dissolve the assembly seven months in advance. It is tipped to become a bigger contest than in the past with nominations filled by 1,874 candidates. Of the 1,874 nominations, a whopping 432 nominations have been rejected during scrutiny on Saturday. That leaves 1442 candidates still fighting for a seat [...]
A Delhi court has on Saturday allowed the plea of police seeking further interrogation of an alleged kingpin of an inter-state prostitution racket for nabbing & cracking the entire network. Metropolitan Magistrate Ravinder Singh sent Geeta Arora alias Sonu Punjaban to two days police remand, allowing the plea that her custodial interrogation was needed. The [...]
Around 800 doctors, including 500 specialists, will be recruited by the Haryana health department in the next one & a half months, the state’s health minister Kartar Devi said Friday. The minister has said that recruitment of 200 of these doctors was already in process & the remaining recruitments would also be done shortly.
Kartar [...]
The Indian Election Commission of India has on Tuesday announced one-day poll in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi & Mizoram while Naxalite-infested Chhattisgarh will have two-phased elections between November 14 & December 4. The two-phased polls in Chhattisgarh will be held on November 14 & 20 while elections will be held in Madhya Pradesh on November [...]
The Delhi High Court has on Saturday rejected the bail plea of Sanjeev Nanda, son of former naval chief S M Nanda, who was sentenced to five years’ rigorous imprisonment for mowing down six persons in BMW hit-and-run case of 1999.
Nanda filed the bail plea in the High Court along with an appeal following his [...]
A 27 years old woman producer of a news channel was shot dead in the wee hours on Monday at a posh area of south-west Delhi while she was on her way back from work. Soumya Viswanathan, who worked as a producer with a news channel “Headlines Today”, was found dead in her car on [...]
At least four people have been killed, Including 11 years old boy, & 20 others injured in a bomb blast at flower market in South Delhi’s Mehrauli area on Saturday afternoon. The explosion took place outside an electronics shop, near Andheriya Mod. The market has been closed & the blast site cordoned off. Police said [...]
Delhi: At least 24 trains have been diverted & 10 trains cancelled due to flood in Yamuna River. Following an increase in the water level, the old Yamuna bridge was closed for rail & road traffic since 3 a.m.
The water-level of the river increased due to release of 4,00,000 cusecs of water into western Yamuna [...]
At least 36 Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested in New Delhi for residing here without valid documents. The illegal immigrants were taken into custody from Kalyanpuri in east Delhi during checking in the area yesterday.
Among the arrested, ten are women & 11 are children. Police has intensified its drive to flush out illegal immigrants in [...]
Police has on Sunday arrested three suspected militants allegedly involved in the Delhi serial blasts. The three identified as Zia, Shakeel & Shakir-ur-Rahman were arrested from a south Delhi locality. Zia & Shakeel were involved in the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts that claimed more than 55 lives.
Earlier, two HuJI militants wanted in connection with [...]
Bringing down temperature, heavy rains lashed the North India for the third day on Friday affecting vehicular movement & inundating several low-lying areas. Heavy Rains in Patiala, Ludhiana, Punjab, Haryana have inundated low-lying areas & destroyed crops, especially of bajra & paddy which was ready for harvesting. Traffic jams were also reported in some places [...]
Two militants have been killed & one arrested in an encounter in the Jamia Nagar locality in South Delhi by the Special Cell of Delhi Police. However, two terrorists managed to escape. Two policemen of the Special cell were also injured in the encounter.
According to police tip-off, there were five terrorists holed up in an [...]
An earthquake of 5.7 magnitude struck Northern India, New Delhi, Pakistan & Afghanistan on Saturday morning. The epicentre of this equake was in the Hindukush mountain range in Afghanistan. There were no immediate reports of any Casualty or damage.
The quake struck at a depth of 174 kms. In India, the tremors were felt at around [...]
Anshul Chhatterpati, who has filed a case against Gurmeet Singh, flayed the Haryana Government for helping Dera chief indirectly during the trial in CBI court at Ambala. Chhaterpati, son of Ram Chander Chhatterpati who was allegedly murdered in 2002, alleged that the government has been shielding the dera chief. He told media persons that the [...]
Apple has launched third generation iPhone in India on Thursday. Crowds lined up outside a Gurgaon mall & a few shops in Delhi to pick up the latest Apple iPhone that went on sale at midnight on Thursday in India & no one was daunted by the Rs 30,000-plus price.
The Apple iPhone 3G was launched [...]
Six flights, mostly bound for Kolkata, have been cancelled on Wednesday as airport employees went on a 12 hour strike on the issue privatization of government-owned airports & wages. Their stir is in support of the country-wide general strike-call given by the Central Public Sector Trade Unions.
Hundreds of Airport Authority employees staged a demonstration at [...]
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