India has proposed “constructive talks” on the contentious issue of transit facility through Bangladesh to reach its north-eastern region once a new government takes office in New Delhi after the general elections.
India is particularly keen on railway connectivity between Akhaura in eastern Bangladesh and Agartala, capital of Tripura in India’s north-east, New Age newspaper said.
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if the managing directors of the power utilities of Haryana have their way, very soon all the employees of the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN), Power Generation Corporation and Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) would be seen in uniforms. And this would be applicable to employees from all classes including the managing directors themselves. [...]
Where Do you go when you want money? A bank, of course. Following that logic, a resident of Gurgaon, walked into a public phone booth at the Post Office Crossing on Monday, called up a branch of the Karnataka Bank in sector 14 and asked for Rs 5 lakh.
The phone was slammed down. But since [...]
Indian police have recovered 15 skulls, many of children, from a house on the outskirts of New Delhi, officials said on Saturday, believing many of the victims were sexually abused before they were killed.
A domestic worker in the house has admitted killing the children, a senior policeman said, while another official suggested the children might [...]
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Friday announced several sops for media persons in the form of reserved housing and higher insurance cover.
Accredited journalists will be acknowledged as professionals like advocates for allotment of plots in urban estates developed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA).
The chief minister said plots would be reserved [...]
Living in Mumbai, i am somehow bound to the “Will Mumbai become Shanghai?” phrase and all its connotations and interpretations. Before i come to my submission on our state of great expectations, a few words on the Shanghai syndrome.
First, Mumbai should look for a new phrase. That’s because, to my mind, Delhi has already [...]
The Capital continued to be under the grip of intense winter chill with the miniumum temperature recorded at 5.2 degree Celsius, a day after the city experienced the coldest day of the season.
There was no fog and the morning sky was clear, much to the delight of passengers who were planning the New Year [...]
The state Vigilance Bureau today caught an assistant sub-inspector (ASi) for taking bribe, busted a racket involved in issuing fake national permits to heavy vehicles, and held a medical officer for demanding bribe to issue certificate to a physically challenged person.
According to officials, ASi Ram Singh, posted at security branch of the Mini Secretariat, [...]
Tourists visiting or passing by state-run tourist complexes in Haryana will have something new to look forward to - low calorie and trendy dishes.
This marks a changeover by the Haryana tourism in menus across its tourist complexes starting Jan 1.
Cooks from Haryana tourism’s complexes were given a few culinary lessons at the Food Craft Institute [...]
The Delhi police took a few more crucial steps towards its goal of modernisation this past week with the acquisition of a fingerprint-based Computer Remote identification of Suspects (CRiS) system and formal inauguration of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at the crowded Sadar Bazar market, billed as the largest wholesale market in Asia attracting nearly a [...]