Sulking Jaffer Sharief arrives in Delhi; to meet Sonia

Senior Congress leader C K JafferSharief, who has resigned from the party, arrived here on Saturday for a meeting with party chief Sonia Gandhi but remained non-committal on the future course of action.
Sharief, a six time MP who was humbled in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, said he could not predict the outcome of […]

Haryana delivers 14.01 lakh metric tonne of rice

The Haryana Government has delivered 14.01 lakh metric tonnes of rice to the Central pool so far, Deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan said today.
Out of this, 10.32 lakh metric tonnes of rice has been delivered by the six Government procuring agencies while the millers have contributed 3.68 lakh metric tonnes of rice in the […]

SAD to make soldiers slain in ‘84 riots a pol ...

Batting for all those servicemen killed during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in various parts of the country while they were in transit, the ex-servicemen wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal is bent upon making it a poll issue.
National secretary general of the ex-servicemen wing of the SAD, Col P i S Phulka (retd) said […]

Reliance Energy bags Rs 38 bn power project

Reliance Energy (REL) has outbid state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) to bag an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract worth Rs 38 billion for setting up a 1,200 mega watt (MW) coal-fired power plant at Yamuna Nagar in Haryana, reports Economic Times.
The project, implemented by the state government, has received the mega power plant […]

Rains break dry spell in Punjab, Haryana

Rains at many places in Punjab and Haryana today broke the long dry spell and also brought down the Mercury, which had witnessed a steep rise in the region during the past five days.
Rain lashed Chandigarh, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala, Ludhiana in Punjab and Ambala, Karnal, Panchkula and Kalka in Haryana, the Met Department here […]

Reliance Fresh: move to Delhi

‘Content Reliance’s move into Delhi is part of a second expansion push following the firm’s successful entry into retail, which was initiated through its opening of 11 Reliance Fresh outlets in Hyderabad in November last year. So far, the growing number of 2,300 square foot stores, offering around 200 SKUs of vegetables and staple foods, […]

At New Delhi’s speaker’s corner, raw de ...

On a chilly January afternoon in india’s capital, about 100 people gather to watch a traditional dance by pink-clad bare-armed teenage girls hailing from a little district with big aspirations.
The performance aims to stir interest in the long-running demands of the Greater Coochbehar People’s Association which wants Coochbehar — a former kingdom in pre-independence india […]