Ramesh Rana

After spending nearly 40 years in the Army, Lt Gen ramesh rana (retd), former director general of Assam Rifles, returned to his native Bajghera village in Gurgaon, where he intended to spend the rest of his life. However, it turned out to be an unpleasant experience as his land in the village had been acquired for settling the oustees of Dwarka Expressway.

CHANDIGARH: Sher Singh Badshami was on Tuesday elected unopposed as president of the Haryana unit of the ruling Indian National Lok Dal(INLD) for the second time by party's state delegates and district presidents.

The Army on Saturday mobilised an engineering column comprising medical and signal entities from Bhubaneswar to Gopalpur in Ganjam district, to be the landfall area of the Cyclone Phailin in Odisha.

Loosely based on the infamous Badaun rape case, the film became a talking point for many and now, according to the latest reports, it will be screened in Punjab villages.

Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami is caught in a tight contest against his Congress rival, Bhuvan Kapri, in Udham Singh Nagar’s Khatima constituency, as per poll analysts.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) released its first list of 50 candidates for Uttarakhand Assembly elections on Saturday. The party will contest on all 70 assembly seats of the state and names of the remaining 20 party candidates are likely to be announced in next three or four days.

Farmers put up a road blockade on two highways in Ambala district on Wednesday to protest alleged non-procurement of paddy at the designated centres by government agencies. The vehicular traffic on the Ambala-Hisar and Ambala-Jagadhri highways was affected due to the road blockade.

A nine-year-old boy has earned the dubious tag of being the country's youngest rape suspect after he was booked for the alleged rape of a six-year-old girl.

After much fanfare and consultation with pundits, the auspicious time of 1pm was chosen to start the mammoth task of door-to-door segregation of garbage in the city.

Two truck drivers were killed and three others sustained injuries when heavy boulders fell on their vehicles along Chandigarh-Manali National Highway near Hanogi Mata temple in Mandi district on Friday morning. This is the fourth such incident at the same spot in the last few years.

Police lobbed 11 teargas shells to disperse two groups of different communities, who clashed over a petty issue in city's Rudarpura area on Sunday.

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Vidhan Sabha speaker Satbir Singh Kadian has constituted House committees on estimates, public undertakings, welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and backward classes, subordinate legislation, government assurances, rules, privileges, library, and public accounts for the year 2003-04.

CBSE has sent several advisories to private schools against the sale of uniforms and stationery on the school premises. Schools, however, have continued operations, calling it a gesture of goodwill for working parents.

A group of parents on Friday urged Gurgaon’s divisional commissioner to immediately revive the audit process of private schools in the city.

Eight revellers seen dancing in front of an idol of Lord Ganesha with beer bottles and liquor glasses in their hands in three videos that went viral on social media were arrested by police from an area under the limits of Mahidharpura police station here on Tuesday.

LUCKNOW: In yet another leakage of competitive examination papers, this time it was the pre medical test conducted by CBSE and entrance test for Basic Teachers Certificate.

Detailing the movement, defence public relation officer, Group Captain B B Pande said that nine engineers of the Red Eagle Division have departed from Allahabad.

The Haryana Board of School Education (HBSE) has declared new timings for schools after air quality index (AQI) and particulate matter (PM) levels hit the ‘very poor’ level . The move was triggered after government school teachers unanimously wrote a letter to the director of the state elementary education department in Panchkula, to push back school timings.