Happily oblivious to the raging controversies surrounding the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, 60 incredulously enthusiastic young dogs are training round-the-clock in preparation to sniff any terror threat to the prestigious sporting event two months from now.

Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday reviewed the flood situation in the state and announced relief measures for farmers, who have suffered heavy losses due to the recent floods.

The Australian cycling team manager for the pre-Commonwealth Games invitational event, Ms Linda Wibberley, has fulfilled her mother’s dying wish to have her ashes immersed in the Ganga.

Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced cash compensations of Rs 2 lakhs each to the families of 24 Hindu pilgrims who were killed after the truck ferrying them plunged into a gorge

After bearing the ignominy of being the state with the lowest sex ratio in the entire country for decades, Punjab now claims a dramatic increase in the number of girl children compared to 798 girls per 1000 boys reported in the 2001 Census. State health and family welfare minister Lakshmi Kanta Chawla, on Saturday, quoted new,

Whether the NIA will have any better success with the Samjhauta probe than Haryana’s SIT is still to be seen, if and when the case gets to the stage of a court trial, but Indian prosecutors will have to considerably rely on the testimony of Usman Mohammad — a Pakistan passenger who saved dozens of lives by throwing out a suitcase that later proved to be the third bomb.

Inconclusive investigations into the February 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing have now been handed over to the National Investigation Agency following a request from the Haryana police which failed to make any breakthrough over the past three years.

The police in Amritsar has arrested five men, including a French national, in possession of a large number of weapons, including armour-piercing ammunition and Kalashnikov rifles.

Officers of the Punjab police’s Special Operations Group insist that Pal Singh, a French national among five men arrested, allegedly with weapons and armour-piercing ammunition, is a Pakistan-trained weapons expert and a close associate of the BKI’s Narain Chaura.

Reeling from drastic revenue cuts consequent to reduced overseas admissions in the wake of racial attacks on Indians, companies promoting Australian universities are engaging cricketing legends to revive the Aussie dream amidst students here.