New Delhi: BJP youth wing workers led by party's Delhi unit president Vijay Goel on Sunday courted arrest while protesting at the residence of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanding release of Delhi's share of water allegedly held back by the state. Goel and scores of activists of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), including Delhi BJYM chief Gauarav Khari, were taken to Parliament Street police station and were later released.
Earlier, addressing the protesters, Goel said, "The overall water management system has collapsed in Delhi. Not only Delhi has not got its due share from Haryana, the much-delayed Munak Canal whose cost overruns are phenomenal doesn't have single drop of water despite tall claims made by the Chief Minister during the last one year. The fact is that from Munak Canal also, Delhi will only get around 75-80 MGD water. But there will still be shortfall of more than 200 MGD and the government has no plan to fill this gap. The way Congress is trying to project Munak canal as a panacea for Delhi's water crisis is thus misleading."
Goel said that Congress governments in Delhi and Haryana should stop "shadow boxing" at least on sensitive issues like water crisis which affect life of every citizen of Delhi. "The political acrobatics of Congress which is ruling both the states (Delhi and Haryana) on the issue of water cannot escape the eyes of angry public," he said.
The BJP state unit chief also alleged that every
06:53 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: A delegation of MPs and MLAs from Delhi on Saturday met Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and requested him to release water to the national capital from Munak Canal in his state. The Munak canal was constructed by Haryana with financial assistance of around Rs 400 crore given by Delhi government on the condition that the national capital will be supplied 80 MGD water from it. But...
01:57 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Haryana on Friday agreed to release raw water from its quota in Yamuna to Delhi which is reeling under shortage of water due to a breach in the upper Ganga canal in Uttar Pradesh. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda agreed to provide Delhi around 240 cusecs of raw water from its share in Yamuna following a request by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Areas in East and South...
02:25 AM, May 18, 2013
Rohtak: The disputed Satlok Ashram was completely evacuated and the protesters cremated the body of a woman killed in Sunday's clashes in Rohtak as the stand-off between self-styled godman Rampal's followers and Arya Samaj activists ended on Wednesday. The issue was resolved peacefully after holding parleys with both the parties, Rohtak Deputy Commissioner Vikas Gupta said. Security of the Satlok Ashram had been handed over to the CRPF as protesting...
10:30 PM, May 15, 2013
Rohtak: The disputed Satlok Ashram was on Wednesday sealed by Haryana government after nearly 3,000 followers of self-styled godman Rampal vacated the site in Karontha village, where an uneasy calm prevailed. "The ashram has been vacated by the hundreds of followers of self-styled godman Rampal and there is calm now," an official spokesman said. Satlok Ashram, a cause of dispute between Arya Samajis and Rampal's followers, was the site of...
03:46 PM, May 15, 2013
Rohtak: The Satlok Ashram authorities in Rohtak are promising to vacate the area after the locals gave an ultimatum. Prohibitory orders are in place in the area. The villagers refused to cremate the body of a woman who lost her life in the violence, that also left two others dead. They have said that the cremation will only take place once the Ashram has been vacated fully. The district administration...
01:46 PM, May 14, 2013
Violent clashes took place in Rohtak in Haryana on Sunday leaving three people dead and over 100 injured. Clashes took place between members of the Arya Samaj and followers of a godman, who owns the Satlok Ashram at Karontha village. The state government has ordered a magisterial probe in the case. ...
08:10 PM, May 13, 2013
Rohtak: Violent clashes took place in Rohtak in Haryana on Sunday leaving three people dead and over 100 injured. This includes 50 police personnel. Clashes took place between members of the Arya Samaj and followers of a godman, who owns the Satlok Ashram at Karontha village. Arya Samajis claim that the ownership of the dera is illegal and its presence is affecting peace in the region. The police had to...
08:20 AM, May 13, 2013
Chandigarh: The Haryana government on Sunday said all bus stands in the state will be fitted with CCTV cameras to prevent any mischief in the premises. " A sum of Rs 4 crore will be spent on the installation of CCTV cameras in all the bus stands to prevent any mischief," Haryana Director General of State Transport Arun Kumar said in a statement in Chandigarh. He said that such cameras...
03:41 AM, May 13, 2013
Rohtak: Three people were killed and over 100, including 50 policemen, were injured when a clash broke out between two groups and a mob went on a rampage torching several vehicles during a protest over an ashram at Karontha village near Rohtak on Sunday. The controversy over possession of Satlok Ashram, headed by Rampal at Karontha village, 10 km from Rohtak, on Sunday took a violent turn when policemen tried...
11:32 PM, May 12, 2013
Rohtak: An angry mob clashed with the police and set two buses on fire during a violent protest against the opening of an ashram of a controversial godman near Rohtak on Sunday. One person has been killed in police firing that took place near Satlok Ashram at Karontha village. Some protestors were injured in the violence. The police had to resort to lathicharge and use tear gas shells to disperse...
03:40 PM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: A trial court is expected to frame charges against former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chadha on Friday in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Kanda and his employee were named by 23-year-old airhostess Geetika in her suicide letter in 2012. In judicial custody since August 2012, both Kanda and Chadha have been charge sheeted under section 306 (abetment of suicide), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 506...
07:46 AM, May 10, 2013
Hisar: Two cases of alleged honour killings have been reported from Haryana, a state which has gained notoriety for the ghastly crime. In the first case a father allegedly murdered his daughter as he was opposed to her relationship with a boy from the same village while in the other case a young man was beaten to death by the girl's family. According to the police, in the first case...
02:59 PM, May 09, 2013
Chandigarh: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday will hold confabulations with state party leaders and workers here in his bid to further strengthen the party in Haryana. The closed door meeting of Rahul, to be held in three rounds with Haryana Congress leaders and activists, will last till evening, party sources said here. Rahul will be having a meeting with the party MPs and MLAs from the state, besides...
02:25 PM, May 08, 2013
Kolkata: A Mercedes car being used by the son of Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen was seized on Tuesday by police. The car having a Haryana registration number and valued at over Rs 1 crore was seized from where it was parked at Deshopriya Park in south Kolkata, police said. Sen and his group director and confidante Debjani Mukherjee are in 14-day police custody for the chit fund scam. Saradhu...
11:40 PM, May 07, 2013
Bilaspur: A man has been sentenced to death by a local court in Bilaspur for abducting and killing three minor siblings in February 2011 in Ratnapur town of the district. First Additional District and Sessions Judge Neeta Yadav on Saturday sentenced - Manoj Suryawanshi - to death for abducting and killing the children from his neighbourhood. According to police, Suryawanshi had kidnapped his neighbour Shivlal Dhivar's children - Vijay (8),...
02:31 PM, May 05, 2013
Gurgaon: A youth was beaten to death here at a wedding after a tiff over playing songs, police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in Kherki Majra village under Rajendra Park police station in Gurgaon on early Tuesday. Ompal, 19, of Sakhrod village of Bhiwani district in Haryana, who was the part of a procession, was beaten to death by fellow revellers. According to police, some youths were dancing at...
11:43 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Rohtak: A teenage school student was shot dead allegedly by his classmates in a town in this Haryana district on Sunday, police said. A mob later went on a rampage setting a car on fire and vandalising the house of an accused. Nitin, 15-year-old Class 10 student, was allegedly shot dead by four classmates during a religious function in Meham town, 80 km from New Delhi, on early Sunday, police...
10:37 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Rohtak: A teenaged school student was shot dead allegedly by his classmates in a town in this Haryana district on Sunday, police said. A mob later went on a rampage setting a car on fire and vandalising the house of an accused. Nitin, 15-year-old Class 10 student, was allegedly shot dead by four classmates during a religious function in Meham town, 80 km from New Delhi, early on Sunday, police...
04:29 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is carrying out raids at eight locations including Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Haryana in connection with the coal scam. The raids were conducted after an FIR was filed against a Delhi-based private company Pushp Steels. With the registration of this new case, the total number of FIRs registered in the coal allocation go up to 11. CBI sources said Pushp Steel and Mines...
09:56 AM, Apr 27, 2013
