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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Four Additional Judges of the Delhi High Court — Justice Kailash Gambhir, Justice G.S. Sistani, Justice Hima Kohli and Justice S. Muralidhar — have been appointed permanent Judges of the Court.
Though they were appointed Additional Judges on May 29, 2006, for a period of two years, they have been made permanent within 15 months.
Justice [...]
A petition seeking direction to the Centre to approach the President for referring the Indo-US nuclear deal to the Supreme Court was on Thursday dismissed by the Delhi High Court.
A division bench of Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna while dismissing the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) said “as of today there [...]
Most towns in Haryana on Thursday remained calm but tense after two days of caste violence across the state following the killing of a Dalit youth in Gohana town, though protesters torched a bus in Hissar district.
Dalit demonstrators on Thursday torched a Haryana Roadways bus in Hansi town near Hissar, 350 km from Chandigarh.
Police officials [...]
Hundreds of agitated parents damaged public vehicles and hurled stones at a state-run school in the Capital on Thursday after a sting by a private news channel showed one of its teachers allegedly forcing girl students to act in pornographic films. Nine people including a municipal councillor were injured in the violence and police retaliation. [...]
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda tonight ordered a magisterial inquiry to look into the circumstances leading to the murder of a dalit youth in Gohana and subsequent events which occurred in the town.
Stating this here, Haryana’s Chief Secretary Prem Prashant said that the inquiry would be conducted by Sub Divisional Magistrate, Gohana who [...]
Learning a lesson from the fact that Gurgaon’s proximity to south Delhi and international airport were the two main reasons behind the city’s growth, Haryana government is all set to create three more similar cities in Delhi’s vicinity. These would be within the range of 60 kilometres from Delhi with the closest one being the [...]
Expressing concern over the ongoing strike by resident doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the Delhi High Court today directed the Central Government to solve the crisis.
“We are conscious, and we must be concerned on the issue. The Government must act to sort out the problem because patients are facing [...]
The Haryana bandh call given by the Adi Dharam Samaj to protest against the murder of Gohana Dalit youth Rakesh, alias Lara, had a lukewarm response in Ambala district today.
All commercial establishments and shops in the district functioned normally throughout the day. All educational institutions including schools and colleges remained open. The vehicular traffic including [...]
Inter-caste rivalry broke out in Haryana’s Sonepat after a Dalit youth was killed on Monday. For the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, caste-related tensions between Dalits and Jats in Gohana town of Sonepat, Haryana, could not have come at a worse time.
With the possibility of fresh general elections becoming imminent, the clash between Dalits and [...]