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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Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said Haryana had acquired the number one position in the country with per capita investment of Rs 78,709, as per a survey conducted recently by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. This leap to the top is from 14th position some years ago.
Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the [...]
Water almost sucked out of its bowels, Haryana is now so desperate to quench the thirst of its millions that it has embarked on an ambitious, almost Quixotic, attempt to reach the Saraswati, hoping it will unravel both river and mystery.
In the middle of a festering water row with Punjab on one side [...]
The Haryana Assembly on Friday censured former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala for misleading the House by making a false statement during the budget session being held here.
The censure of Chautala came for his statement made inside the House about long-term and short-term farmers loans waived off during the government of Chautala’s father [...]
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday telephonically conveyed his congratulations to cricketer Virender Sehwag for scoring the fastest-ever three centuries in the Test match against South Africa in Chennai on Friday.
Expressing elation , Mr. Hooda said it was a moment of pride for every Indian.
With his fine batting performance, he had [...]
The Haryana police have launched an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a family of commission agents from Pehowa town near here and the recovery of 11 unidentified, decomposed bodies from an irrigation canal near Karnal. Kurukshetra police officials told IANS that a link between the Pehowa family that disappeared earlier this month and [...]
Till a few years back almost 70 per cent women in Haryana delivered babies at home, with the help of a dai or a midwife.
Parvati is the first woman in her family to get routine pregnancy checks. The Haryana government runs delivery huts in order to look after pregnant women right till their children are [...]
Punjab and Haryana are all set to start the next procurement season for wheat from April 1, with central agency FCI and state agencies expecting to lift a total 125 lakh metric tons of the grain during the rabi marketing season 2008-09.
The minimum support price (MSP) for wheat is now Rs 1,000 per quintal. [...]
About 67 per cent children till the 5 years have been covered on the first day of the Sub-National Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation round of 2008-09 on Sunday in 12 districts of Haryana.
These are Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mewat, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak, Sonepat and Yamunanagar.
About 26 lakh children are to be [...]
Two days after ACP Rajbir Singh’s father and son demanded a CBI probe into the murder, suspecting a deeper conspiracy, Haryana chief minister Bhupender Singh Hooda said on Thursday that his government has decided to seek a probe by the agency. State director-general of police (DGP) R S Dalal said they would be sending [...]