PANCHKULA: The special designated court of National Investigation Agency (NIA) here on Tuesday extended the judicial remand of Swami Aseemanand, an accused in Samjhauta Express blasts, till June 20.Aseemanand was presented in the NIA court through video conferencing from Ambala Central Jail. The special designated court had earlier also issued non-bailable ...

PANCHKULA (Punjab): A special CBI court on Friday directed Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim to appear in person before it here on May 28 in connection with the murder cases of Ram Chander Chhatarpati and Ranjit Singh. The CBI counsel informed judge AS Narang that the dera head's ...

PANCHKULA(Punjab News): A stone crushing unit operating round the clock near the boundary of Kalesar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yamunanagar has made the forest department sit back and take a note. Since it is illegal to run such activities in a km radius pf the sanctuary, the department has decided to ...

PANCHKULA: Even as the CH Yamunanagar police reportedly continued their searches to nab poachers, the state forest officials held that they would take up the issue with their counterparts in Himachal Pradesh. While Yamuna nagar SP Mithilesh Jain could not be contacted despite repeated efforts, senior forest officials who had reached ...

PANCHKULA: The state forest department has tied up with its Madhya Pradesh counterpart for an online and real­ time forest management plan through remote sensing. Stating that the Rs 2-crore plan had been set up under the guidance of Madhya Pradesh, a pioneer state in forest management in the country, principal ...

PANCHKULA: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has in its latest report brought to fore various financial irregularities in the functioning of the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board. Referring to the performance audit of the board, the report said deficiencies in the preparation of budgets, gaps between production and ...

PANCHKULA: The Haryana forest department is on a noble mission, persuading politicos and bureaucrats to do an Angelina Jolie. The department wants them to be foster parents, to zoo animals in this case. "Forest and environment minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav, who recently adopted a black buck at a Pipli zoo, ...

PANCHKULA: The recent decision of the higher education depart­ment to discontinue the subject of physical education in the gov­ernment colleges has anguished the faculty members, even as the state government college teachers' body has threatened to launch a stir if the decision is not revoked immediately. Referring to the decision taken ...

PANCHKULA: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Monday deffered the trial of Swami Assemanand, accused in the Samjhauta blast, till February 21. NIA officials moved an application stating since the Rajasthan ATS probing the Ajmer blasts had been taken Assemanand on further remand, he could be presented on or ...

PANCHKULA: The specially-designated National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Thursday granted the permission to NIA to produce Samjhauta Express blast accused Swami Aseemanand on Februarx 7 after NIA informed it that he could be presented as he was currently in the police custody in Ajmer in connection with a ...

PANCHKULA: Acceding to the long-standing demand of its allottees and applicants, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has finally decided to set up a toll free telephone-based help line to answer peoples' queries from across the state. Stating that they had already floated expressions of interest for the same, senior HUDA ...

PANCHKULA: Even as a special court on Thursday sent Swami Aseemanand, an accused in Samjhauta Express blasts case, in 14-day judicial custody in Ambala jail, it also accepted the National Investigation Agency's application for recording his statement under Section 164 CrPC in the court of the chief judicial magistrate here ...

PANCHKULA: All government­ aided and private recognised schools in Haryana will reopen on January 17 (January 16 is Sunday) after an extended winter break, education minister Geeta Bhukkal said in an order on Wednesday. She also directed all deputy commissioners to ensure that the order is enforced fully under Section ...