KAITHAL: The "denial" of old-age pension by a private bank prompted senior citizens to come out on streets on Wednesday. They held dharnas in the town; Pharal and Pabnawa villages of the district. Protesters, including women, blocked traffic near Municipal Council office in Kaithal; on the Pundri-Dhand road in Pharal and ...

KAITHAL: Three girls were reportedly crushed to death at Chandana village in Haryana's Kaithal district on Tuesday when a wall fell on them after some monkeys pushed the wall. The victims - identified as Sanjna, 7; Simran, 3; and Khusboo, 1- were sitting on a cot in a house's courtyard when ...

KAITHAL: All-India Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress president Shamsher Singh Surjewlala on Thursday urged the members of Jat community not to resort to blockades. He said these blockades were disrupting supply of essential commodities, besides causing inconvenience to the common man. In a statement issued here, he thanked Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh ...

KAITHAL: Residents of Karora village here on Monday, met the deputy commissioner Amneet P Kumar and complained that some influential persons had started filling Kundiwala pond with soil, with the intention to grab it. They said there have been several attempts made earlier to allegedly grab a large portion of ...

KAITHAL: Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Wednesday that there was a plan to set up a 1,500 MW gas based power plant in Faridabad. I He added that efforts were being made to make the state self-reliant in power by next year. The chief minister was speaking at ...

KAITHAL: Relatives of a rape victim and residents of Balu village in the district staged a sit­ in outside the camp office of the Deputy Commissioner here on Saturday and demanded immediate action against the culprits. Alleging that five persons were involved in the gangrape, the protesters demanded registration of case ...

KAITHAL: Three armed men looted Rs 11 lakh at gunpoint from the local Maruti showroom here on Tuesday. Two employees of Eakansh Motors, local dealers of Maruti, were driving down to the HDFC Bank branch to deposit cash at around 3.30 p.m. on a motor­ cycle when the three, who also ...