The red beacons were removed from the vehicles of the chief minister and other members of the council of ministers. Additionally, a ban on the foreign travel of ministers for two years and organising of banquets on state expense has been imposed.
The Supreme Court has taken cognisance of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which eight people were killed in violence during a farmers' protest, with a bench headed by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana scheduled to hear the matter on Thursday.
"Stop dreaming of opening the borders," Chaduni told the government while addressing a "Kisan Mahapanchayat" at Kurukshetra's Ismailabad, adjoining Punjab's Patiala district.
It also dismissed an application of the Delhi Police seeking permission to submit additional evidence in the case.
The government will present findings of the probe panel that looked into Walmart's lobbying activities to enter the Indian market, along with action taken report, before Parliament in the monsoon session.
Later the controversial minister Anil Vij retracted from his comments.
Haryana and Punjab remained on high alert with officials warning that violent miscreants will be shot at sight.
Justice Gogoi will assume the office on October 3.
The Delhi High court on Monday sought response of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Indian Administrative Service officer Sanjiv Kumar's appeal against his conviction and 10-year jail term in the case of illegal recruitments of teachers in Haryana.
The entire operation was meant to have a chilling effect on independent journalists, those not completely subservient to the regime, the small section still doing what the Fourth Estate should do -- raising questions to those in power.
The apex court questioning the police about the arrests said that 'dissent is the safety valve of democracy and if you don't allow these safety valves, it will burst.'
Feeling 'insulted' after his name was not added to this year's list of Arjuna awardees, boxer Manoj Kumar on Wednesday said he would sue the Sports Ministry for the 'injustice' meted out to him.
The apex court has also sought details of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the judicial enquiry commission, reportedly set up by the state government.
Some of our leaders were busybusy over the weekend.
At least 15 variations were being evaluated regarding the '5/20 rule'.
The situation could worsen if weather predictions of more rain in the capital and upper catchment areas come true.
Restricted by state government orders, the ownership of such land could not be formally registered, so the advances made continued to be reflected in the accounts as 'advances against land'.
The top court took into account the Centre's submissions that entire process of promotion has come to a 'standstill' due to the orders passed by various high courts and the apex court had also ordered for 'status quo' in a similar matter in 2015.
SC asked Sidhu to face trial for seeking assistance of a government servant during the 2009 general elections.
'The attempt to make Aadhaar mandatory has now emerged as an act of bullying by government agencies, turning citizens into subjects by making fundamental rights conditional on biometric identification,' says Gopal Krishna.
I am only suggesting greater sensitisation and understanding of adults' sexual and lifestyle choices, says Shekhar Gupta.
Wang Chang Qi, 80, was captured by Indian forces in 1963 after the India-China war. Convicted for spying, he was in Indian jails for six years till his release in 1969.
bureaucrat-turned-politician Alphons Kannanthanam said that beef would continue to be consumed in Kerala.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday denied bail to three persons, convicted along with 12 others in the 2010 Mirchpur Dalit killings case. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and S P Garg dismissed the interim bail applications of convicts Kulwinder, Dharambir and Ramphal, after perusing the reports furnished by the senior superintendent of police of Hissar district in Haryana.
The Delhi high court on Monday dismissed a plea for its directions to make Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi a witness in a case against activist Anna Hazare for allegedly instigating public against state.
All these male politicians are unlikely to risk their sinecures to speak up in support of a bunch of women wrestlers who have chosen to challenge a politician who appears to have the ruling regime in a stranglehold, points out Kanika Datta.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said no loss of life was reported in any of the minor incidents reported in some parts of Punjab.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed convicted former Haryana Chief Minister O P Chautala's plea seeking extension of bail given to him on medical grounds in teachers' recruitment scam, saying opinion of a high-level medical board shows his hospitalisation is no more required.
Justice Jagdeep Singh read out the verdict as soon as the special CBI Court began the hearing on the case on Friday.
Absconding former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda on Monday moved the Delhi high court for anticipatory bail in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, four days after his bail plea was dismissed by a lower court.
You have strangulated the entire city and now you want to come within the city and start protest again here," the Supreme Court on Friday told a farmers' body protesting against the three farm laws and seeking directions to authorities to allow it to stage satyagrah at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
Vineet Kumar had changed several hard disks before the search operation at its headquarters in Sirsa.
This was a major miscalculation on the part of the state police, the officials said while piecing together the turn of events since February 23 when Singh, a Khalistan advocate, had stormed a police station in Ajnala of Amritsar district and secured the release of his aide Lovepreet Singh Toofan.
While the BJP alleged that the arrest of its leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was part of Kejriwal's vendetta politics, the AAP rejected the charge and said that Bagga has been arrested for trying to stoke communal tension and violence in Punjba.
The Uttar Pradesh government grappled on Monday with the aftermath of violence during a farmers protest in Lakhimpur Kheri, lodging a case against Union minister Ajay Mishra's son, promising a probe by a retired high court judge and stopping opposition leaders from reaching the trouble spot.
The Delhi high court on Friday sought CBI's response on the plea of Indian Administrative Service officer Vidya Dhar, awarded 10 years imprisonment along with former Haryana Chief Minister O P Chautala in the Junior Basic Trained teachers scam, against his conviction and jail term.
The court had on Wednesday held that the previous SIT had not carried out further probe into these 186 cases in which closure reports were filed
Wang Qi, now 77, was caught when he entered the Indian territory shortly after the Sino-India War of 1962. He was later released from jail.
Indian National Lok Dal chief Om Prakash Chautala appeared in a Delhi court on Friday in connection with a disproportionate asset case.
Pilot has spoken to a senior party leader from southern India on Thursday laying conditions for his return.
