CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has decided to install solar energy applications in government and semi-government buildings to make them sustainable. A spokesperson for the renewable energy department said the state government would bear 40% of the project cost, while the Centre would incur 30% of the cost. The buildings will be installed ...

ROKTAK: Farmers' organisations, including Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) (A) and Bhoomi Adhigrahan Virodhi Sangarsh Samitis of various villages organised a mahapanchayat Rai village of Sonepat district on Sunday. They demanded scrap­ ping of the old Land Acquisition Act of 1894 and the new Land Acquisition Act. Their other demands were that ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government will soon open four new rehabilitation centres in the state to help drug addicts kick the habit and enable them to join the mainstream. The new centres would come up in Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Sirsa and Narnaul, state's health minister Rao Narender Singh said here on Tuesday. ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Monday issued the posting and transfer orders of an IAS officer and an RCS officer, an official release. SS Prasad, financial commissioner and principal secretary, higher education, has been given the additional charge of financial commissioner and principal secretary, women and child development department, during ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Monday sought a month's time from the Punjab and Haryana high court to submit its final report about the constitution of a state human rights commission. The counsel for the state told the division bench headed by Justice MM Kumar that the meeting to discuss ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has given the additional charge of director general, science and technology, to Vineet Garg, special secretary, personnel training, vigilance and parliamentary affairs departments; director general, training (ex-officio) and inquiry officer, vigilance Haryana, relieving Anurag Aggarwal of the said charge. SOURCE-HT

CHANDIGARH: Haryana government on Tuesday issued transfer and posting orders of three IPS officers and three HPS officers. IGP RTC Bhondsi PR Deo and IG south range Sudhir Chowdhary will swap their respective places of posting. Maheshwar Dayal deputy commissioner of police (DCP) West Gurgaon becomes DCP East Gurgaon. Abhay Singh SP ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has roped in consulting firm Mott MacDonald for carrying out a fresh survey of industrial units, including micro, small, medium and large enterprises. Stating this, a senior official of Haryana Industries Department said the consulting firm, with which MoD would be signed soon, would submit its final ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana government has issued transfer and posting orders of two IAS officers and one HCS officer with immediate effect. Pradeep Kasni, joint secretary, health department, has been posted as officer on special duty, planning board against a vacant post. Vikas Yadav, managing director, Haryana Seeds Development Corporation has been given the ...

NEW DELHI: The Central Vigilance Commission has favored a probe by the CBI into a multi-crore forest scam in Haryana that allegedly involved some powerful politicians and bureaucrats. Reverting to the union environment ministry's request, CVC has advised it to ask the Haryana government to file an FIR after which ...

ROHTAK: Haryana government has withdrawn the security of senior Congress leader Ved Parkash Vidrohi, a day after he had shared stage with Gurgaon Member of Parliament Rao Inderjeet Singh, who spoke against chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at his ‘janchetna rally' on Sunday in Mahendargarh district. On Sunday in Mahendargarh district, ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has formulated a policy to partly fund the operations of district rehabilitation centres and district handicapped welfare centres run by district red cross societies and Haryana Saket Council. Social justice and empowerment minister Geeta Bhukkal on Monday said financial assistance would be provided in the form of ...

SIRSA: The district authorities allegedly flouted norms laid down for allotment of plots under a Haryana government scheme for people belonging to below poverty line (BPL), Scheduled Castes and back­ ward classes. Under the Mahatma Gandhi Gramin Basti Yojana (MGGBy), terms were violated so that the ineligible became beneficiaries while the ...