In an incident that is enough to give you Goosebumps, an 80-year-old woman was assaulted and killed in the most horrific way in Sonipat’s Bathgaon village in Haryana on Wednesday. The attacker who is yet to be identified, inserted a plastic bottle of the toilet cleaner Harpic into her private[Read More…]
A leopard which strayed into human habitation and injured nine persons in Gurugram on Thursday was allegedly hacked to death by villagers, said officials. The animal was spotted around 8 am and ran amok for more than three hours on the streets of Mandawar village, 26 kilometres from Gurugram, local[Read More…]
Authorities in Haryana have initiated action against 1406 farmers, who have defied orders on burning paddy stubble. A senior official told PTI that a total fine of Rs 13.75 lakh has been collected on Saturday. Many farmers in Haryana and the neighbouring Punjab have continued with the practice, leading to[Read More…]
16-year-old Sonali Sheokhand from Jind district will be honoured by the Haryana State Pollution Control Board with a cash reward of ₹11000 for reporting the case of stubble burning by her father to the authorities. Sonali had reported the case of stubble burning by her father to the local pollution[Read More…]
With the centre approving the name change on Wednesday, Gurgaon has now officially been rechristened as Gurugram. The announcement was made by Haryana chief minister, Manohar Lal Khattar shortly after he presided over the first meeting of the state-level Swarna Jayanti (golden jubilee) celebrations committee in Panchkula. “From now on,[Read More…]
The call for a ‘third front’ was raised at the ‘Sadhbhavna Samman Rally’ organised by INLD in Karnal on Sunday. The gathering saw leaders like Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, SP’s Shivpal Yadav who claimed that people were looking for an alternative to Congress and BJP and hence ‘third front’ of[Read More…]
Elevating tension in Haryana, a fraction of Dalits from a village have threatened conversion alleging the inaction by state authorities against some persons who allegedly ‘illegally occupied’ land given to them, by the state. The land was allotted to them by a cooperative society formed under the Punjab Nazul Act 1956. The villagers[Read More…]
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday stayed reservation for the Jat community. The law was challenged by petitioner Murari Lal Gupta through public interest litigation (PIL) and a two-judge bench of justices Gurmit Ram and SS Saron had issued notices to the Haryana govt to respond by July[Read More…]
In another shocking attack by ‘self-proclaimed cow vigilantes,’ a Muslim woman was gang raped for allegedly “eating beef.” The 20-year-old and her 14-year-old cousin were attacked by a group of men who trespassed into their home in Mewat, Haryana, and murdered their uncle and aunt before sexually assaulting the female victims[Read More…]
Not sure if it is a serious step or just an attempt to extort free Biryani, the Haryana police is ‘tasting’ or rather testing Biryani to sniff out traces of beef from this delicious preparation. This seemingly bizarre task just ahead of Bakri Eid, has been given to the police[Read More…]
A day after heavy rainfall triggered waterlogging and traffic jams in Gurgaon, the city’s police commissioner Navdeep Singh Virk has been transferred to Rohtak. In his place, Sandeep Khirawar will be the new police commissioner in Gurgaon. This comes in the wake of the Gurgaon deputy commissioner TL Satyaprakash admitting[Read More…]
Since last night #Gurugram is trending on Twitter. And it is not related to the name change of ‘Gurgaon’ to ‘Gurugram’. The natives are venting out their anger on the micro blogging website after being stuck in jam for hours. A number of images of water logged roads and traffic[Read More…]
It could be guessed how much the Haryana government is concerned about women safety in the state as a shocking case has come in to light which says that a Dalit girl who was raped three years ago has been raped again on Wednesday by the same men who had[Read More…]
The Haryana minister for education Ram Bilas Sharma, who is known for his controversial statements has yet again created one by saying that male teachers in their forties or younger should not opt for jobs at girls’ schools, a move purportedly linked to women’s safety. Sharma said, “The educational institutions[Read More…]
The Haryana government is all set to introduce lessons from the Gita and other spiritual texts in the school curriculum as part of the state’s moral education syllabus that will be started from July 1. The lessons will be delivered in classes 6-12. State Council of Educational Research and Training[Read More…]
