ROHTAK: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday stated that Chandigarh was a part of Haryana and several people from the state had struggled for long for the city. Talking to media here, he was reacting to last week's address in the Punjab assembly by Punjab governor Shivraj Patil in ...

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 ...

ROHTAK NEWS: Haryana state drug controller-cum-joint commissioner GL Singhal has said that about 30% milk samples and 12% samples of other foodstuffs, collected from across the state, had failed the quality tests. Singhal, speaking at a meeting with members of chemists' associations of Rohtak, Jhajjar and Bhiwani districts here on Monday, ...

ROHTAK: In a shocking incident, a minor girl was allegedly sexually exploited for three months at Sanghi village, the native place of chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The district administration has ordered a probe and registration of a case against the accused, reported to be a constable in Delhi Police. The ...

ROHTAK: In the jailbreak case, the Sonepat police have arrested another jail inmate, Jagbir, a resident of Chamrada village, who managed to escape on the intervening night of January 17 and 18 from the district jail complex. The police have so far arrested two escapee inmates and 13 conspirators involved in ...

ROHTAK: Haryana government has withdrawn the security of senior Congress leader Ved Parkash Vidrohi, a day after he had shared stage with Gurgaon Member of Parliament Rao Inderjeet Singh, who spoke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, ...

ROHTAK: Gurgaon Congress MP Rao Inderjit Singh on Sunday alleged that the Hooda government had neglected south Haryana as far as development in the state was concerned. At a rally in Mahendergarh district, the Congress MP accused chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of discriminating against Gurgaon, Rewari and Mahendergarh districts on ...

ROHTAK: In a Talibani diktat, panchayat of Boria Kamalpur village in Rewari district has expelled a 34-year-old widow, Nirmala, and her paramour Naveen Kumar (24) from the village for having an illicit relationship. Passing the order on Friday, the panchayat said their relationship was against social customs of the village. On ...

ROHTAK: Indian National Lok Dal general secretary Ajay Chautala on Tuesday visited the Central jail here and met former Meham MLA Balbir Singh alias Bali, who is behind the bars for the last eight months in connection with a firing incident at Kalanaur Grain Market on May 5 this year ...

ROHTAK: Dalbir Thekedar, the sarpanch of Naya Baans village in Sampla sub-division here, was shot dead by four assailants on Sunday night. He died on the way to a hospital. The four men barged into his office and shot him. The police said his family suspected the role of a former sarpanch, ...

ROHTAK: After initiating procedure to auction Myna tourist complex, now it is the turn of the district agriculture office to go under hammer. The agriculture office, spread over an area of more than five acres on the Rohtak-Delhi road, would soon be shifted to new premises provided by the Market Committee ...

SAMPLA (ROHTAK): Thousands of farmers on Thursday, under the banner of All India Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti warned the central and the state government to approve their long-pending demands of reservation in government jobs or face stir. Members of the samiti threatened to boycott the government in the ensuing assembly elections in ...

ROHTAK: The inordinate delay in completing the new administrative complex project has log escalated its cost by Rs 10 crore. The work on the project nm began in June 2007. It was sup- by posed to be completed in two years at a cost of Rs 14 crore. But having missed ...