Amid all hullabaloo about seeking Sant Rampal's ouster and getting Satlok Ashram vacated, the Government Senior Secondary School at Karontha village of the district bore the brunt.
The wheat arrival in Haryana has reached 58.62 lakh tonnes in the mandis during the current procurement season. Out of this, over 58.54 lakh tonnes of wheat has been procured by government agencies at the minimum support price and 8,815 tonnes of wheat has been purchased by the private millers and traders, a spokesperson of the Food and Supplies Department said here on Friday.
Acting on a promise made after much hue and cry by political parties in Punjab and Haryana, the central government has amended the Wealth Tax Act to ensure that agricultural land remains out of its ambit.
A criminal, wanted in several cases of murder and dacoity, was shot dead by the police in an encounter near Goghrian village of the district, police said on Friday.
In an indication of a possible tie-up between their parties ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha and assembly elections, BJP president Rajnath Singh called on ailing Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief Om Prakash Chautala at a hospital in Delhi on Thursday.
The district police have arrested two youths for assaulting two Dalits at Pabnawa village, about 25 km from here, late on Tuesday night.
After followers of the Arya Samaj called off their agitation at Karontha village of the district on Wednesday, a few of them continued to protest in fields, lifting the blockade from the Jhajjar-Rohtak road on Thursday.
Karontha clash: Body of third victim cremated at Ladhot village. Jhajjar-Rohtak road still blocked.
To provide better services to consumers, the Haryana Power Distribution Corporations have decided to computerise the record of their consumers under the Restructured-Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP) of the Government of India.
The Central Insecticide Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) on Wednesday told the Punjab and Haryana high court that it was inquiring into the "illegalities and irregularities" pertaining to the use of Raxil-2DS fungicide to treat Karnal bunt disease.
A six-year-old boy was charred to death in Faridabad when the makeshift slum cluster he lived in with his family caught fire on Tuesday night. Prabhu Razdan reports.
Accusing the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government of failing to maintain law and order in state, a delegation of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) submitted a memorandum to Haryana governor Jagannath Pahadia on Wednesday demanding dismissal of the state government and fresh elections in state besides a judicial inquiry in the recent Karontha village clash incident in which three persons were killed.
Just when the elders from both Dalit and Ror communities were deliberating on putting an end to caste tension at Pabnawa village, a group of youths from the dominating community allegedly attacked and injured two Dalits on late Tuesday night.
Haryana's main opposition party INLD on Wednesday blamed the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government for Sunday's violence in Karontha village, saying that the administration had failed to heed the warning signs and allowed the situation to slip out of control.
The disputed Satlok Ashram was today locked after nearly 3,000 followers of self-styled godman Rampal vacated the site in Karontha village, but protestors refused to lift dharna demanding that it be demolished.