The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a chargesheet against the Speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Mr Nirmal Singh Kahlon and 14 other individuals in a corruption case pertaining to extensive bribery in the recruitment of panchayat secretaries during his tenure as minister of rural development and panchayats from 1997 to 2002.

Multiple breaches along the incomplete Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal, which has been at the focus of the longest-pending dispute between Haryana and Punjab, and the largely seasonal Ghaggar river tributaries, have emerged as the cause for much misery in both of India’s main food-producing states.

Thousands of ecstatic Tibetan exiles quite literally poured out from their homes to join a common celebration to mark the Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday in McLeodganj, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile since 1960.

Two more teenagers were poisoned to death early on Sunday morning in Haryana’s Fatehabad district adding to the growing list of honour killings in the caste and tradition-bound state.

Film actor Kareena Kapoor’s vintage style, red crash helmet as she rides a scooter to meet Amir Khan in the final sequence of the Bollywood blockbuster 3 Idiots appears to have achieved the impossible in Punjab.

The Haryana government has ordered an investigation into the sudden demise of Bishambhar Kumar Malhotra, a Panipat-based jeweller who had courageously exposed a murky extortion racket involving senior officers of the Haryana police STF some months ago. Malhotra died in a Delhi hospital on Wednesday after a suspected

Already struggling with jat-dalit conflicts and honour killings ordered by the khaps or caste councils, the Haryana administration now faces an communal situation in a Jind village where Muslim residents have been prevented from burying their dead.

The families of Indian nationals who perished in the June 1985 bombing of Air India’s Kanishka have called upon Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to promptly implement the recommendations of the Justice John C. Major Commission which recently attributed the tragedy to “institutional” and “organisational” failures.

Senior Congress leader and former MP Birender Singh’s name has been cleared by the party high command for nomination to the Rajya Sabha from Haryana.
“I was informed today that I have got the nomination. I will be filing my papers on June 30,” the former Haryana minister said. Mr Singh, a known detractor of chief minister

A joint meeting of Punjab’s top political leaders, on Saturday, decided to seek Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to help resolve a fresh row with neighbouring Haryana over the apportioning of water resources.