By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Nov 3 (IANS) Being the joint capital of two states and the headquarters of a union territory gives Chandigarh a lot of VIPs, including two who are now on ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Oct 22 (IANS) This is one triumph that will haunt the Congress in Haryana for a long time. In trying to return to power - a feat not ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Oct 19 (IANS) With its maze of malls, condominiums and IT offices, Millennium City Gurgaon has never quite fitted in with the rest of Haryana - an incongruity that ...

London, Oct 8 (IANS) Former Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin has rejoined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) as a senior adviser, according to the New York-based private equity company he quit six years ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Oct 4 (IANS) In a year when Haryana has got much less rainfall, it is raining millionaires and billionaires in the state's electoral fray. Over 50 percent of the ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Oct 2 (IANS) Chandigarh may claim to be the cleanest city in India but an ambitious multi-million rupee plan of local authorities to make it still cleaner with imported ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Sep 25 (IANS) Unlike the previous assembly elections, especially the last one in 2005, the polls in Haryana next month will be a multi-cornered one on all 90 ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Sep 13 (IANS) Leading a weakened opposition against the ruling Congress for next month's assembly elections in Haryana is not the only trouble that former state chief minister ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Sep 2 (IANS) Having sought early assembly polls in Haryana, the state's ruling Congress faces a peculiar problem now. There are too many leaders wanting a slice of ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Aug 17 (IANS) Business honchos, take note. In times of recession, a company floated and managed by schoolchildren in Chandigarh has given a dividend of 900 percent to ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Aug 16 (IANS) Power politics seems to be at the heart of the Haryana government's move to set up a separate body to administer gurdwaras in the state ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Aug 12 (IANS) In these times of recession, when millions have lost their jobs, one family in Punjab seems to be gainfully employed in public life - with ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Aug 8 (IANS) Having electrified all its villages long back but facing a higher demand for power, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda says the state is well on ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Aug 8 (IANS) For a politician who faces assembly elections only months later, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is sitting pretty. He is so confident of retaining ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Aug 5 (IANS) Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has asked for a two-year extension to launch its $5-billion special economic zone near Gurgaon, Haryana Chief Minister Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Aug 1 (IANS) With his victory in an assembly by-election almost a foregone conclusion, Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal could be heading to re-claim the high profile ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, July 21 (IANS) The man from faraway New Zealand who came to Punjab in the 1950s as a Christian missionary but ended up being a globally-reputed historian on Sikhs ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, July 18 (IANS) Creating the twin of an Indian village in faraway Canada might seem improbable even for the Punjabis, who are known all over the world as a ...

New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) The Delhi Lokayukta Friday asked Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators from Rohini, not to have any further construction on allegedly encroached land in ...

By Jaideep Sarin On Board Air India One, July 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said the union cabinet will soon discuss the Delhi High Court ruling decriminalising homosexuality. "I will seek ...

By Jaideep Sarin On Board Air India One, July 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, an economist turned politician, Saturday said former Infosys co-chairman Nandan Nilekani's appointment as head of a government ...

By Jaideep Sarin On Board Air India One, July 11 (IANS) India wants Pakistan to punish those behind the Mumbai terror attack and is looking for a reaffirmation of this when ...

By Jaideep Sarin On board Air India One, July 11 (IANS) India and China need to resist pressure from industrialised countries on the issue of climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said ...

By Jaideep Sarin On board Air India One, July 11 (IANS) Sounding a note of caution that the international environment was not gong to be supportive in the current phase of global ...

By Jaideep Sarin On Board Air India One, July 11 (IANS) Credible action is required from Pakistan to deal with terrorists working against India from its territory, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) Convincing her father to let her go to school has paid dividends for a teenaged Indian girl from a tribal area of Orissa. She ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) It can be termed as the new 'G' order of the world where the presence of various nations spells out their international political and ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) The outreach meeting of the G8, the grouping of the world's most wealthy and industrialized countries, with the world's emerging economies G5, Thursday outlined ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) Trade protectionist policies of some countries, especially in the times of global economic crisis, have been given a thumbs down by the joint declaration of ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) Pakistan has got the support from the G8, the group of world's eight most wealthy and industrialised countries, for its fight against terrorism. "The G8 ...