ROHTAK: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday stated that Chandigarh was a part of Haryana and several people from the state had struggled for long for the city. Talking to media here, he was reacting to last week's address in the Punjab assembly by Punjab governor Shivraj Patil in ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday urged the union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal to enact legislation on Right to Play on the pattern of Right to Education. The chief minister made this suggestion at a sports award function in New Delhi. Earlier, the chief minister had ...

NADALA (KAPURTHALA): Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday lambasted Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal for rendering Punjab a backward state during the SAD­ BJP's five-year rule. Attacking the SAD-BJP government, Hooda alleged that Punjab government misused the central government funds meant for the poor. Addressing an impressive rally ...

ABOHAR (FAZILKA): Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda may be campaigning in some parts of Punjab but he is evading this constituency even though his daughter is married here. In this Hindi-speaking belt of Punjab bordering Haryana, the SAD-BJP candidate, Vijay Laxmi Bhadoo, is "samdhan" of Hooda as his daughter Anjali ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda approved 7.5% annual increase on original consolidated pay for employees of Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS), an official release said on Monday. These employees would be benefited to the extent of about 4 crore annually, the release said adding that the enhancement would be ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda expressed grief over the death of former Indian cricket team captain Mansur Ali Khan -Pataudi on Thursday. In a condolence message issued here, Hooda said that in his death, the country had lost a great cricketer. He conveyed his condolences to the members ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who met Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihiko Noda, at the India-Japan Global Partnership Summit in Tokyoon Tuesday, stressed the need to combine technological prowess of Japanese with the enterprise and technical skills of Indians. A delegation led by Hooda, is attending the India-Japan Global ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Monday that the state government had spent 2,223 crore on the development of Rewari during the past six years against merely 361 crore spent by the previous government during an equal period from 1999 to 2005 for the same purpose. Addressing a ...

RUPNAGAR: Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said on Wednesday that PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh had no knowledge of the Hansi-Butana canal issue. "He is ignorant about it. His PA has been issuing press notes after going through newspapers. He does not even read these press hotes before ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday criticized the Punjab government for making new statements every day on the issue of strengthening the bund near the Hansi-Butana link canal by the Haryana government. Responding to a question by media persons at his residence, Hooda said that the ...

CHANDIGARH NEWS: The committee constituted on the issue of a separate Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) in Haryana had submitted its report in favour of having a separate SGPC and was being legally examined by the state government. Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said this while interacting with media persons ...

CHANDIGARH NEWS: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday announced to release all the pending tube well connections. The chief minister directed that demand notices for over 40,000 pending tube well connection applications till December 2010 should be issued with immediate effect. The chief minister announced this major relief while reviewing ...

CHANDIGARH NEWS: Union law Minister Veerappa Moily has assured Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda that his request to expedite the process -to set up a separate high court for the state would be considered favourably. He also expressed his desire to open a national law university in Haryana, an official ...