Haryana govt blames Opposition parties for making misleading assertions on crime rise

Haryana govt blames Opposition parties for making misleading assertions on crime rise

Dismissing Opposition parties’ allegation surrounding the rise in crime in Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on Sunday (July 20, 2025) termed the assertion as “misleading and factually baseless”. In a statement issued here, the State government said that under its ‘Zero Tolerance for Crime’ policy, it has taken significant and effective measures to strengthen … Read more

From block prints to big dreams: Haryana women weave success

From block prints to big dreams: Haryana women weave success

In an attic on top of a two-room house, 31-year-old Sundar is block-printing on a five-metre bedsheet with a maroon dye at Rohtak’s Lakhan Majra village in Haryana, which lies around 90 kilometres to the north-west of Delhi. The room, open on three sides with iron mesh, allows gusty and dry summer wind to pass through … Read more

Haryana CM sips Yamuna water, says no poison going to Delhi; Kejriwal hits back

Haryana CM sips Yamuna water, says no poison going to Delhi; Kejriwal hits back

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Wednesday (January 29, 2025) took a couple of sips of water from River Yamuna and hit out at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), saying there is no poison in water coming from his State to national capital. He alleged that the minds of AAP leaders are definitely filled with … Read more

Monthly pension: Odisha govt to offer Rs 20,000 pension to those who were imprisoned during Emergency period

Monthly pension: Odisha govt to offer Rs 20,000 pension to those who were imprisoned during Emergency period

The Odisha state government, under the leadership of the Bharatiya Janta Party, has introduced a scheme to provide a monthly pension of Rs 20,000 to individuals who were detained during the Emergency period between 1975 and 1977. This pension will also cover medical expenses for eligible recipients who are still alive as of January 1, … Read more

EC rejects Congress charges of irregularities in Haryana Assembly election

EC rejects Congress charges of irregularities in Haryana Assembly election

Representative image. Former Haryana CM and party leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda addresses the media after a meeting of Congress delegation with the Election Commission over concerns on Haryana Assembly election results, in New Delhi | Photo Credit: ANI The Election Commission on Tuesday (October 29, 2024) rejected as “baseless” allegations made by the Congress of … Read more

Harvinder Kalyan elected as Speaker of Haryana Assembly

Harvinder Kalyan elected as Speaker of Haryana Assembly

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini, left, applauds as Harvinder Kalyan assumes as the new speaker of the Haryana Legislative Assembly, in Chandigarh on Friday, October 25. | Photo Credit: PTI Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Harvinder Kalyan was unanimously elected as Speaker of Haryana Assembly on Friday (October 25, 2024), even as the newly-elected MLAs … Read more

Haryana BJP legislature party to meet on October 16 to pick leader; hectic lobbying for berths continue

Haryana BJP legislature party to meet on October 16 to pick leader; hectic lobbying for berths continue

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini praying at the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati on October 14, 2024 | Photo Credit: ANI Ahead of the new BJP government’s swearing-in ceremony on October 17, the BJP legislature party will hold a meeting on October 16, Haryana’s caretaker Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Monday (October 14, … Read more

Results of recruitment exams for 25,000 posts in Haryana to be announced soon: Nayab Singh Saini

Results of recruitment exams for 25,000 posts in Haryana to be announced soon: Nayab Singh Saini

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini speaks to the media, in Kurukshetra on Friday (October 11, 2024). | Photo Credit: ANI Outgoing Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Friday (October 11, 2024) said the results of recruitment exams for nearly 25,000 posts will be announced soon, even before the new BJP government is sworn … Read more

Congress will form govt on its own in Haryana: Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Congress will form govt on its own in Haryana: Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Former Haryana Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda. File | Photo Credit: ANI Senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday (October 7, 2024) asserted that his party is going to form the government on its own in Haryana, where trends showed the BJP crossing the halfway mark. Speaking to reporters in Rohtak, … Read more

Gurugram records second lowest turnout in Haryana polls despite special measures

Gurugram records second lowest turnout in Haryana polls despite special measures

Voters wait in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station, Sukhrali area in Gurugram district of Haryana during the State Assembly elections on October 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Despite the various steps taken by the local administration to address urban voter apathy, including setting up of special polling … Read more