KARNAL: Activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) burned effigy of Vidhan Sabha speaker Kuldeep Sharma here on Monday. They were protesting against Sharma’s decision to set aside disqualification petitions against five HJC legislators who had defected to the Congress after the 2009 assembly polls, providing ...

KARNAL: The district administration here on Sunday distributed Rs 5 crore among 2,100 families from Scheduled Caste and Backward Classes sections under Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Vivah Shagun Scheme. Deputy commissioner Chander Shekhar said the money was distributed on the seventh day of every month. Driving licenses domicile and caste certificate were ...

KARNAL: Representatives of Brahmins, Jats and Jat Sikhs are among those from 15 communities who have asked for inclusion in the backward classes (BC) category in Haryana. If granted, the status would make these communities eligible for reservation in college admissions and government jobs, apart from a host of other benefits. The Haryana ...

KARNAL: Sikh leader’s of Haryana seeking a separate gurdwara management committee for the state have decided to campaign against the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) in the forthcoming elections of the Delhi Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC). Didar Singh Nalvi, president of a faction of the Haryana SGPC (ad hoc), told HT, "Religious ...

KARNAL: President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil will be in Panipat on January 14 to attend two social functions. Panipat deputy commissioner JS Ahlawat told Hindustan Times on Tuesday that the President would be the chief guest at a programme to be held in the memory of noted Urdu poet Khwaja Altaaf ...

KARNAL: Five persons, including two women and a child received serious injuries when a speeding truck allegedly hit their car near Chiroa village near here on Wednesday. The child received critical injuries and was referred to the PGI, Chandigarh, while others were admitted to Trauma Centre here. Police said the car was ...

KARNAL: In a bid to inculcate road safety habits among locals, the Karnal police on Sunday celebrated the 23rd Road Safety Week at HUDA ground here. "Road Safety Week", an awareness campaign, is observed throughout the country every year in the first week of January. On the inaugural day the superintended of ...

KARNAL: A youth was found murdered late on Sunday night. The victim has been identified as Shiva, a resident of Hansi road, here. Police said that Shiva was involved in anti-social activities, including theft, and the crime could be an outcome of rivalry among the local goons. SOURCE-HT

KARNAL: Noted Punjabi singer and actor Babbu Mann, on Thursday, accused some officials of the Panipat police of extracting money from his associates on GT Road. Mann said here on Thursday that some FCR cops stopped his associates when they were carrying prints of his Punjabi film Hero Hitler in Love ...

KARNAL: Public health engineering and excise & taxation minister Kiran Chaudhary skipped a press conference scheduled here on Friday, much to the cha­grin of media persons ,who were kept waiting for two hours. The minister, who was here to attend two functions, failed to make it to the press conference. The ...

KARNAL: Extending support to the district administrations move to curb female foeticide, the Kamal chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) took out an awareness car rally in the town on Sunday. SOURCE-HT

KARNAL: On Haryana Day, the Didar Singh Nalwi faction of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (ad hoc) accused the Punjab, Haryana governments of being "anti-Sikh". The former registrar of Punjabi University, Nalwi said it was unfortunate that despite promises the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-government had not implemented constitutional provision for the formation of ...

KARNAL: The district administration and the health authorities have rubbished reports of outbreak of a mysterious disease in a local village that caused eight deaths within a few days. A health department report said six persons from the village had died in the last two months but they were not treated ...