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.
A [...]
The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee on Friday sought Haryana government’s clarification on the fact that it was holding an auction for the mines of Khori Jamalpur and Sirohi when the apex court had asked for status quo to be maintained. The committee was forwarding a complaint it had received from an NGO citing the [...]
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramdoss on Saturday termed the setting up of a campus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Jhajjar a “milestone” in the development of Haryana.
Addressing a gathering during “Bhoomi pujan” function and land transfer for the proposed AIIMS at Bhadsa village here, Ramdoss said the medical [...]
The Gurgaon police’s anti-laptop robbery squad is facing an unusual hurdle — the English language. The one-of-a-kind team was formed to probe the rising number of laptop thefts — 125 in 2008.
The policemen, chasing two gangs of laptop-robbers, had to return empty handed from Tamil Nadu and Kerala last month because they could not communicate [...]
The drying water table in Haryana due to excessive mining in the Aravallis has been a concern for many.
And now, the environmentalists and civil right groups are angry with the Haryana government’s decision to transfer its top forest official in Gurgaon.
Balyan, who is also the chief conservator of forests for the region, was one of [...]
An intensified round of polio vaccination was today conducted in 13 districts of Haryana in which 18.67 lakh children were administered pulse polio drops.
The Sub-National Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation round of 2008-09 was conducted today in 13 districts of the state, a spokesman of the Health department said here.
The districts in the campaign were Ambala, [...]
Transferred to Chandigarh but given no posting, Haryana environment minister ‘not aware’
As the issue of mining on the foothills of Aravallis rages on, with one waterbody after another going dry in Faridabad and Gurgaon districts, the Haryana government on Friday transferred Conservator of Forest (south circle), Gurgaon, R P Balwan.
As per orders issued on [...]
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who started her day-long whirlwind tour of Haryana from here in Sonepat district, disappointed the people who had gathered here since morning to listen to her when she left without speaking and merely waved to them from her multi-utility vehicle.
Ms. Gandhi was officially here to lay the foundation for a medical [...]
They are incredibly spacious apartments and much bigger than most in the NCR Gurgaon area. Salcon, a venture of Saluja Constructions, has launched ultra premium condominiums — The Verandas — at one of the most premium locations, the Golf Course Road in Gurgaon.
The Verandas is spread over nine acres, with more than 80% being open [...]
The body of a Class XI student was found on Friday with a rope tied around his neck, the police
said.
The victim, identified as Chander Kumar, 16, was found strangled to death on Rao Tula Ram Marg in south Delhi around 8 a.m. Friday.
A rope was tied around Kumar’s neck. He stayed with his family in [...]