Haryana government on Saturday appointed a one man commission of Inquiry to probe the killing of Sikhs at a village in the state's Rewari district during the 1984 riots.

Kuldeep Sharma was Friday elected as the Speaker of Haryana Assembly. Sharma is a Congress MLA from Ganaur constituency.

The Punjab police investigators are preparing to fly out to Britain to question suspects believed to have carried out the assassination of Rulda Singh, who was president of the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat,

An associate of Haryana’s former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala was shot dead by car-borne assailants while he was sitting on dharna at Rohtak to protest the state government’s land acquisition policy.

The wife of an incumbent Cabinet minister belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party as well as his legislator son have been booked for allegedly murdering a close relative.

The author of the controversial Nanakshahi calendar says the Sikh almanac has lost its originality and identity with Sikhism as a consequence of “arbitrary” amendments forced by the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) — the community’s apex religious affairs body.

Barely hours after his chief secretary categorically absolved the Karmapa of any misdemeanours, Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, in a most vehement U-turn, said there was no question of any clean chits to Ogyen Trinley Dorje while Central agencies were still investigating the currency seizures from his monastery.

Alluding to what he sees as a growing police-politician nexus in Punjab, former chief minister Amarinder Singh chided the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition for its reliance on police officers to win elections.

Haryana wants Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh’s personal intervention to save its two main water systems — the Yamuna and the Ghaggar — from certain death due to the millions of tonnes of toxic effluents being dumped into these rivers as they traverse Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

A bill ensuring right to justice for all is expected to be introduced in Parliament in the next five to six months, Union law minister M. Veerappa Moily said here on Saturday.