Raghvendra Rao is Senior Assistant Editor. Covers Information & Broadcasting Ministry, Election Commission, Department of Personnel & Training, the Union Cabinet and Lok Sabha.
January 07, 2005 01:20 IST
Haryana's Commissioner for Persons with Disability M.S. Ahluwalia today passed an order restraining the Election Commission from conducting ...
Fri, Jan 07, 2005November 28, 2004 00:00 IST
OCTOBER 15, 2002, was a dark Dussehra for five families in Haryana. The lynching of five Dalits near Dulina Police Post in Jhajjar shook the...
Sun, Nov 28, 2004October 18, 2004 01:42 IST
In response to the Delimitation Commission asking Haryana not to go ahead with its plan of carving out Satyamev Puram, Chief Minister Om Pra...
Mon, Oct 18, 2004October 03, 2004 01:03 IST
Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala today announced the creation of the state’s 20th district, Satyamevpuram. The new district w...
Sun, Oct 03, 2004October 03, 2004 00:00 IST
Fourteen years ago Meham entered our political vocabulary, becoming a synonym for booth capturing and rigging. The incident had all the ingr...
Sun, Oct 03, 2004July 18, 2004 01:06 IST
Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala today demanded the dismissal of the Congress government in Punjab over its stance on the SYL issu...
Sun, Jul 18, 2004May 08, 2004 00:00 IST
His defeat in the 1999 Lok Sabha elections brought an end to the decades-old monopoly of the ‘‘Rao clan’’ in South Harya...
Sat, May 08, 2004May 08, 2004 00:00 IST
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today accused the BJP of hatching a deep-rooted conspiracy against his party b...
Sat, May 08, 2004May 03, 2004 00:00 IST
A Sympathy wave catapulted her into the Lok Sabha in 1999 from the Mahendragarh parliamentary seat. But sympathy is not what she is banking ...
Mon, May 03, 2004April 28, 2004 00:00 IST
He wears bhagwa, sports a tilak on his forehead and once on the dais, talks everything under the sun but politics. A political nonentity til...
Wed, Apr 28, 2004March 25, 2004 00:00 IST
Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala charged the BJP with opposing his government though it piggybacked on the regional party in the l...
Thu, Mar 25, 2004December 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Chandrakala’s husband was electrocuted last year. Her brother-in-law, the sole bread-winner in the family, committed suicide a month ag...
Mon, Dec 01, 2003November 21, 2003 00:00 IST
Singer Daler Mehndi may be on the run but that has not stopped him from striking property deals. While the Punjab police were initiating the...
Fri, Nov 21, 2003August 28, 2003 00:00 IST
For almost a month now, Idrees Mohammad has been on the run. He not only fears for his and his children’s lives, but is almost certain ...
Thu, Aug 28, 2003July 05, 2003 00:00 IST
The Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Police Academy (PPA) at Phillaur is set to get deemed university status, making it the first such varsity i...
Sat, Jul 05, 2003May 17, 2003 00:00 IST
It was just through a gold tooth that Amritsar’s Kamal Kishore was able to identify the charred body of his uncle Jai Gopal Mehra, one ...
Sat, May 17, 2003August 26, 2002 00:00 IST
The last remains of the World Trade Center disaster may well be on their way into many Indian homes. Thousands of tonnes of scrap metal reco...
Mon, Aug 26, 2002July 18, 2002 00:00 IST
The school authorities used to make us cut grass for two hours daily. We got skin allergies. Besides, teachers roughed us up for no reason a...
Thu, Jul 18, 2002