A woman lawyer, who has accused former Inspector General of Haryana Police M S Ahlawat of molesting her, has gone missing from her home, her father has said in a complaint to the police.
Speaking at a roundtable with senior journalists in New Delhi, Suzuki said: "Haryana is my first home and Gujarat is my second. I have conveyed this to the two chief ministers."
The Haryana government has agreed to appoint a special prosecutor, K T S Tulsi, to frame charges against those identified in connection with the incident.
Senior leaders are of the impression that Rahul's stock is down in the Congress party with very few willing to root strongly for him. He did not speak at the meeting as AICC general secretaries did not speak during the meeting.
The Congress has 40 MLAs while the BJP has 25 in the 68-member state assembly. The remaining three seats are held by independents.
Amid severe cold and fog, the march resumed in the morning from Dodwa in Karnal's Nilokheri region and entered the Kurukshetra district later in the day.
President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday unfurled a national flag being touted as the tallest in the country at famous holy Brahamsarovar area of Kurukshetra.
The Haryana government on Friday decided to seek a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the murder of Delhi police's encounter specialist Rajbir Singh, following a request by the slain cop's family for such an investigation. Property dealer Vijay Bhardwaj has confessed to the police that he had killed the Assistant Commissioner of Police on Monday night in Gurgaon. The Gurgaon and Delhi police, who are presently investigating the case, have arrested Bhardwaj.
Strongly defending Khap Panchayats (caste councils), Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said they don't order "honour killings" and most such cases involve relatives of boys or girls, whose relations are opposed by their families.
With Team Anna asking people not to back their party in Hisar Lok Sabha bypolls, chief ministers of three Congress-ruled states and senior leaders on Monday hit back at the Jan Lokpal Bill champions, dubbing them as agents of Opposition "trying to grind their own axe in the guise of fighting graft".
Cracking the whip, Congress on Thursday night suspended rebel party MP from Haryana Chaudhary Birender Singh and former CWC member Jagmeet Brar for "gross indiscipline" and "deliberately lowering the prestige of the party".
Haryana is witnessing a multi-cornered contest this time, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party facing anti-incumbency and a resurgent Congress.
Sections of the Congress party are of the view that the party would have kept itself out of any embarrassment had it not gone about defending Robert Vadra. Renu Mittal reports
'There is some deep rot that has set in the Congress party. This requires an organisational surgery.'
The Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra re-entered Haryana on Thursday evening from Uttar Pradesh but he left for Delhi to meet his ailing mother Sonia Gandhi and will return next morning, a senior Congress leader said.
The ruling Congress on Wednesday promised a loan waiver scheme for non-farmer loan seekers -- like the landless, craftsmen and small shopkeepers -- setting up of a farmers' commission, construction of two lakh cheap houses for the urban poor and making the state power surplus in Haryana.
The many colours of India came alive as the famous Surajkund crafts fair began near Delhi on Tuesday with ethnic wares from all over the country on display and Department of Posts releasing a commemorative cover and stamp to mark the event's 25th anniversary.
Oscar winning music composer A R Rahman on Saturday launched the theme song of the Commonwealth Games with a rendering of "Oh yaaro, yeh India bula liya" at a glittering ceremony in Gurgaon.
Former Haryana chief minister Bansi Lal's son Surender Singh and industrialist O P Jindal, who died in a chopper crash on Thursday, were cremated with full state honours on Friday.
In the morning, shares of Maruti Suzuki India were trading 0.87 per cent down at Rs 1,216.95 apiece on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
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With this development, Bhajan Lal's son Kuldeep Bishnoi, with just two MLAs on his side, stands isolated. He was expected to join the Congress, but the latest development has taken the wind out of his sails
With Haryana facing the prospect of a hung assembly, Indian National Lok Dal chief Om Prakash Chautala on Thursday said that the governor should invite the opposition parties first and give them an opportunity to form the government. "We appeal to the governor to invite the opposition parties first, which have emerged as the largest group. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda should immediately step down on moral grounds."
State Home Minister Anil Vij said the probe will also go into all aspects of illegal mining in the area.
The actor was given the title after his father, former Indian captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, passed away on September 22.
Opposition parties in Haryana on Monday asked Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to drop Home Minister Gopal Kanda from his cabinet.On Sunday, Kanda allegedly ordered his security men to open fire on agitating Indian National Lok Dal activists, who had stopped his convoy at Sirsa. Kunda was caught on camera by a private news channel while issuing the order.The INLD had called for a shutdown and its activists had organised a sit-down demonstration.
The Congress has said the assembly polls results were "unexpected" and have alleged discrepancies in the EVMs in some seats.
Sabeer Bhatia's proposal for setting up a 'Nano City' has been given the go ahead.
Sharma, who last weekend had attacked the Congress leadership accusing it of targeting BSP supremo Mayawati, came to Parliament House on Tuesday in the company of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and said that he would vote for the Congress in the confidence motion. "Congress is my party, Sonia Gandhi is my leader. I was never against the party, I will vote in favour of the Congress," the MP from Karnal said when asked about his stand on the confidence vote.
On the recommendation of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former director general of police S P S Rathore on Monday lost his police medals.
Sukhu, the 58-year-old MLA from Nadaun in Hamirpur district, was elected the the CLP leader and will take oath as chief minister Sunday, the party said.
Capping two-and-half years of strained ties since he was ignored by the Congress high command for chief ministership in Haryana, the party's veteran leader Bhajan Lal and his son Kuldeep Bishnoi on Sunday quit the party, attacking leader Sonia Gandhi and floated a new outfit.
Jindal, 75, had been elected to the state assembly for the third time from the Hissar assembly constituency.
The Congress on Thursday said it will continue to avail all options still available under the law after a Gujarat court rejected Rahul Gandhi's application for a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case.
Venod said there was no pressure on him from the government or the party high command to resign from his post.
Luck has been smiling on six-year-old Prince since the nation watched him being rescued from a 60-feet-deep pit last week with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday announcing free education for him.
Haryana goes to polls on Tuesday with ruling Congress making all out efforts to retain power and in the process break a jinx of three decades during which no incumbent government succeeded in returning to power.
Samsung Telecommunications on Wednesday said it would set up a $15 million mobile handset manufacturing facility in Haryana.
The voter turnout recorded in the 2019 assembly polls was around 68 per cent.
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