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What recession? Haryana to hire 40,000 employees

Wednesday 27 May '09

Job losses have been the recurrent theme of the ongoing recessionary times. But in a staggering exception, Haryana government will hire 40,000 employees this year.
‘The people have voted for development’

Thursday 21 May '09

Deepender Hooda’s winning margin of 4,45,736 votes is the highest in these Lok Sabha elections. With this, the Rohtak MP not only improved his own performance of 2004...
Why Nitish left Ludhiana shaken and stirred

Wednesday 13 May '09

On Sunday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, one of the nine NDA Chief Ministers present in a show of strength rally here....
1984 riots cannot be kept alive for ever: PM

Tuesday 12 May '09

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday described the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as a “painful” episode and said the issue could not be kept alive for ever....
The hygiene patrol

Sunday 10 May '09

Armed with sticks, torches and whistles, their task is to prevent anyone from defecating in the open.
Home feeling neglected, Jindal banks on performance in House

Wednesday 6 May '09

For the past month, early morning joggers at the sports complex in Sector 13 here have had the chance of exchanging....
Reversal of fortune: Cong smiles as Sonepat cries for development

Wednesday 6 May '09

In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, when Congress won nine out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, the only seat it lost was Sonepat....
Promises for remedy in Punjab’s cancer capital

Tuesday 5 May '09

In Bathinda constituency in Punjab’s Malwa region, measures to control cancer is the recurrent theme of all speeches of both Akali Dal candidate Harsimrat Badal....
‘Congress was afraid of fielding Manmohan against me’

Saturday 2 May '09

Cricketer-turned-commentator and politician NAVJOT SIDHU is looking to win his third consecutive Lok Sabha election from the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat....
Kishen Sangwan files papers from Sonepat

Friday 17 April '09

Kishen Sangwan, the lone BJP MP from Haryana, today filed his nomination from Sonepat. He also submitted the list of his assets.
Schoolgirls stranded as Cong Govt sends ‘saffron’ bicycles for black repaint

Sunday 12 April '09

At the Government Higher Secondary School in Alwar, Rajasthan, over 2,000 bicycles stand stacked against each other in the playground...
Challenges before ‘solar city’: Rooftop kits, cost

Thursday 2 April '09

The UT Administration is considering a proposal to make Chandigarh a solar city. A draft of the detailed project report prepared by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) submitted to the Administration last week says if suitable measures are taken...
Chandigarh looks to become a ‘solar city’ in a decade

Thursday 2 April '09

After taking a lead in introducing a ‘smoke-free’ environment and banning polythene bags, the UT Administration is now considering another ambitious plan: to make Chandigarh a ‘solar city’.
NREGS tell-tale: empty ponds, empty promises in Haryana

Friday 20 March '09

Widespread poverty in the villages of largely arid Mahendergarh district of Haryana ensured that it was the first district...
With dimsums and noodles, at home in Haryana

Sunday 15 March '09

Khanpur Khurd, a village in Haryana’s semi-arid district of Jhajjar, doesn’t have pucca roads, has nothing in the name of a school or hospital and has no water or electricity.....
Guj ship-breaking biz wrecks Punjab steel industry’s boat

Wednesday 25 February '09

Shipping has been among the worst-hit industries to have suffered the effects of the ongoing meltdown.
‘Recession not a bad thing for India’

Saturday 14 February '09

Believe me, the ongoing downturn isn’t a bad thing to happen to India’s IT sector. It is in fact, quite good.
Despite slowdown, PIDB’s hopes high

Tuesday 10 February '09

A mental asylum may seem like an unlikely location for a five-star hotel, but that is the site in Amritsar being sought by Taj Hotels for their first five-star hotel in Punjab.
Pass on tax sops to buyers: Govt to realtors

Monday 2 February '09

As part of its efforts to revive the sluggish housing sector, the UPA Government has directed the public sector banks to ask their prominent customers....
Venod Sharma: The man who could have been CM

Friday 30 January '09

Two years after he resigned following relentless public pressure over his attempt to bribe a witness in Jessica Lal murder case, the rehabilitation of political career of Venod Sharma has begun.
puttar’s Punjab

Friday 23 January '09

It is believed that when Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal went to national BJP leaders L K Advani and Rajnath Singh earlier this month to convince....
Slowdown grounds export of vegetables

Friday 16 January '09

Early this week, Fieldfresh, an initiative of Bharti-Rothschild, dispatched a consignment of baby corns to London. In 2008, the firm had exported 200 million tonnes (MT) of vegetables to the European markets...
Chandigarh may get itself teeth against stray dogs

Tuesday 13 January '09

CITIZENS of Chandigarh are doing everything they can to prevent their city from “going to the dogs” — after a district judge got bitten by one...
Punjab Police train rural youth for security jobs

Wednesday 31 December '08

Amongst other things, the Mumbai attacks highlighted corporate India’s vulnerability to terror.
Chinjabi: Chinese Ambassador’s recipe of cooperation

Saturday 27 December '08

Confucious, the legendary Chinese philosopher, had said that running a government is like preparing a dish-too much interference spoils everything.
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