NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCFA) on Thursday approved a 10 % state sale in consultancy major Engineers India Ltd (EIL) through a public issue, a move likely to fetch the exchequer around Rs800 crore. The government holds 80.4% in EIL and post divestment, the shareholds in the company ...

PATNA: Nine persons died in Patna, allegedly after they had consumed illicit liquor on Friday, Six of the nine bodies were cremated without any postmortem examination. One of the victims was taken to Nalanda Medical College Hospital, where he died. This is the second major hooch tragedy in Bihar within ...

NEW DELHI: A New Delhi court on Thursday dropped the proceeding to make Chanshivroop Singh, an employee of ex-Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and co-accusedin the Geetika suicide case, an approver.  Additional Chief metropolitian magistrate DK Jangala dropped the proceedings, begun earlier on Singh’s plea, after he failed repeatedly to appear ...

NEW DELHI: Delhi, Punjab and Haryana may be economically progressive, but they have a skewed sex ratio compared to other states, a new study by National Commission for Women (NCW) said on Tuesday. Decades of struggle against gender discrimination has borne little with statistics showing that 'huge' gender deficits continue to ...

NEW DELHI: A serving city police officer on Tuesday told a Delhi court that complainant Jagdish Kaur, who had accused Congress leader Sajjan Kumar of instigating a mob to kill Sikhs during the 1984 riots, had refused to join the probe. Inspector Sunil Kumar Vashisht, working with the security unit of ...

NEW DELHI: The Haryana government on Friday assured the Supreme Court that it would supply food grains free of cost for the next four months to over 100 families affected by the April 2010 caste-driven violence in Mirchpur viilage of Hisar district. Counsel for Haryana told a bench of Justices GS ...

HISAR: Haryana Police have released the CCTV footage of the youth who robbed Tersem Chand of Hisar of 2.05Iakh. The person who will inform the police about the youth will be suitably awarded and his identity will be kept confidential. The information could be given on 01662-281416 or 9996200406. SOURCE-HT

NEW DELHI: The trial of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others for their alleged roles in a 1984 anti­ Sikh riot case was deferred in Thursday to the next month. Sunita Gupta, who was conducting the trial earlier as District Judge­ cum-Additional Sessions Judge (East), has been Promoted to District ...

HISAR: District election officer and deputy commissioner Amit Aggarwal has said people can see thevote count on the website http://e-hisar.in/ online from 8am onwards on Monday. The site will be updated after every round of counting in the nine assembly segments of the parliamentary constituency. Aggarwal added that such an ...

NEW YORK: A US-based Sikh advocacy group has approached the Belgium government seeking criminal prosecution and arrest of union minister Kamal Nath, who is scheduled to visit Belgium next week, for his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. In a letter sent to Belgium Prime Minister Yves Leterme, the Sikhs ...

SIRSA: Four members of a family including three women, were killed when the car they were travelling in collided with a Punjab Roadways bus in Ding area here on Friday, police said. Rohit, 27, his mother pushpa, grandmother Dharma Devi and her sister Deva were killed in the mishap near Moriwala ...

NEW DELHI: Expressing solidarity with agitating Maruti workers, about a hundred protesters from various trade unions staged a demonstration outside Haryana Bhawan on Thursday, seeking the government's intervention for reversing the suspension and dismissal of workers. The development comes after talks brokered by the Haryana government between the management and workers ...

NEW DELHI: Maruti suzki India (MSI) on Tuesday said it would hire 100 new permanent employees for its troubled manesar plant to replace those who have refused to sign the good conduct bond. “Up to 100 new permanent workers will be recruited,” said accompany spoke person, adding so far 103 existing ...