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CHANDIGARH: Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, has been received 43 transfers in 20 years of service is now being threatened for having exposed the land deals involving Robert Vadra. “I met him and he told me that he has received some phone calls in which people have threatened him and asked…
Senior Haryana official, Ashok Khemka who has been transferred, cancelled on his last day the mutation of a prime plot in Manesar area of Gurgaon district that was sold by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra’s company to realty giant DLF for Rs58 crore. In what could be an…
Rohtak (Haryana): Haryana’s Sarva Khap Jat Panchayat, will now discuss the bizarre suggestion that the marriage age for girls be lowered to curb rising incidents of rape in the state. The supreme council is an umbrella body of khap panchayats across the state. Khaps have no legal sanction but often function…
Congress today defended Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda over a series of rape cases in the state. Here are the highlights of what party leader and spokesperson Renuka Chaudhary said: Do not think we need to advise the Haryana Chief Minister. Action is being taken. It is not a…
Jind (Haryana): Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday met the family of a Dalit teenaged girl, who immolated herself after being allegedly gang-raped in this district, and said perpetrators of such “barbaric” crimes must be severely punished. She said those guilty of such heinous crimes, which take place not only in…
SURAJKUND (Haryana): The BJP national council on Friday approved an amendment to the party’s constitution to allow a second consecutive term for its president. Hitherto, a BJP president could only serve a single three-year term. The amendment to Section 21 of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s constitution says that any eligible…
Launching a scathching attack on Congress-led UPA government, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are directly responsible for series of scams uneartherd in last few years. Addressing party workers BJP National Executive meet, organised at Surajkund, party chief said,…
Haryana Police have nabbed four persons from district Karnal while making bets on India’s inaugural match in the World Twenty20 match against Afghanistan. “Randeep, Praveen, Pradeep and Deepak were arrested while gambling on cricket match between India and Afghanistan,” an official spokesman said. Police recovered five mobile phones, a colour…
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday hailed UPA government’s decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail saying the move would benefit all stakeholders. He congratulated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for this “bold initiative”. “The move will benefit all stakeholders, especially the farmers. Haryana, which accounts for 44…
Rewari (Har): BJP has said the party’s alliance with Haryana Janhit Congress is the only alternative to defeat the ruling Congress in the next Assembly elections in the state. “Only the BJP-HJC combine can defeat the Congress, with whose misrule people are fed up,” state BJP president Krishan Pal Gurjar…
New Delhi: CBI has recommended registration of corruption case against former Haryana Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala for alleged irregularities in selection of candidates to the state Civil Services Executive Branch in 2003-04, the Supreme Court was informed on Wednesday. A bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir would examined the report…
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday again questioned starlet Nupur Mehta who had earlier hurled serious allegations at the former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, the main accused in the Geetika Sharma murder case. Earlier, Nupur Mehta had termed Kanda as playboy who would relish the company of beautiful girls. Nupur…
