Marking the final one hundred-day countdown to the Commonwealth Games 2010, the Queen’s Baton Relay crossed over from Pakistan into India amidst celebrations on both sides of the Zero Line on Friday morning.

Ahead of the 19th Commonwealth Games this October, the Queen’s Baton Relay will cross over from Pakistan into India amidst the tightest security arrangements ever witnessed at the Attari-Wagah Border — the only official road crossing along the 553km border separating the two Punjabs since the Partition of 1947.

Atrocities against Haryana’s dalits were unabated even after the state government fulfilled its recent promise by constituting a one-man judicial commission to probe the April 21 violence in Hisar’s Mirchpur village where upper caste miscreants torched 18 dalit homes, resulting in the death of a 70-year-old man and his handicapped daughter.

Pakistan’s former human rights minister Ansar Burney has offered to pay Rs 25 lakhs in “blood money” to save 17 Indians on death row in the United Arab Emirates from the gallows.

Pakistan’s former human rights minister Ansar Burney has offered to pay Rs 25 lakhs in “blood money” to save 17 Indians in death row in the UAE from the gallows. He recently made a special trip to Sharjah to ascertain the facts of the case for himself. He said the 17 Indians were convicted on the testimony of a lone eyewitness who has since reneged and confessed that he never actually identified any of the men convicted of murder.

Seventy-two-year-old Rajo Devi of Haryana who hit the headlines in 2008 by becoming the oldest woman in the world, is furious over a London-based newspaper report of her death.

A 66-year-old farmer’s wife in Haryana has become the world’s oldest known mother of triplets after remaining childless for the past 44 years.
Born May 21, 1944, Bhateri Devi gave birth to two healthy boys and a little girl on May 29 at Hisar’s National Fertility Centre, where attending doctors employed the in-vitro fertilisation technique to help her conceive.

The Amritsar police on Thursday arrested four young men in possession of plastic explosives and narcotics believed to have been smuggled across the electrified security fence from Pakistan.

Haryana’s chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, on Thursday, ordered a judicial probe into the violence at Mirchpur village where upper caste miscreants targeted dalit homes resulting in the tragic death of an ageing father and his handicapped daughter on April 21.

While ex-DGP S.P.S. Rathore cools his heels in jail, another former top Haryana police officer has been booked for molesting a young woman who sought his help in a dowry harassment case.