Disinterest of Haryana in the girl child is very pronounced and the Census data, released today, vouches for its ‘notoriety’. The child sex ratio in the age group of 0-6 years has been pegged at 834 girls for 1,000 boys in the state, the lowest in the country despite an increase over the last Census. Haryana is followed by Punjab (846) and Jammu and Kashmir (862) in this category.

Though the sex ratio in the 0 to 6 years category in 2011 has shown an improvement over the 2001 data, going up from 819 to 834, it is a way below compared to that of the country with a sex-ratio of 919 girls for 1,000 boys. In rural areas, it has increased to 835 from 823 and in urban from 808 to 832.

Gurgaon got the lion's share of Rs 605.48 crore in the total budget estimate of Rs 890.77 crore approved for development works in the urban estate developed by the Haryana Urban Development Authori

Accelerating work on its ambitious 3,300-km-long dedicated freight corridors project, which is being constructed on the eastern and western flanks of the country at the cost of R90,000 crore, the railways has shortlisted two consortiums led by major Japanese infrastructure firms to develop a major portion of the western freight corridor stretch.

The final contract, for the construction of a 640-km-long route from Rewari to Palanpur at the cost of R6000 crore, will be awarded to the firm selected by the end of this month.

A mahapanchayat, organised by various farmers’ groups at Rewari’s Aasalwas village on Sunday, threatened to launch an agitation next month if the government does not find an amicable solution to the land acquisition row in the district.

While the mahapanchayat was chaired by Dayaram Bagthala, the chief speaker on the occasion was Bhartiya Kisan Union’s (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait.

A mahapanchayat of farmers from 21 villagers of Rewari district of Haryana on Sunday threatened to re-launch their agitation within a month's time if the State government did not accept their demand for withdrawal of a proposal to acquire about 3000 acres of land along the Delhi-Jaipur highway.

The meeting of various organisations at Asalwas village reiterated their resolve to continue with the struggle to save the farmers’ land. Meanwhile, the State government through the district administration has sought to open talks with the Mahapanchayat representatives.

The “Taste of India” has widened its frontiers even further. Having revolutionised the milk sector in many parts of the country, the owner of brand Amul, the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), on Wednesday started operations on the country’s biggest dairy plant in Dharuhera in Haryana.

This dairy is expected to cater to the daily needs for milk and milk products of not only Haryana residents but those of Delhi and NCR too which is the world’s second largest urban aggregation by population.

New Delhi: Haryana is now offering a new ‘land pooling’ scheme to douse protests against land acquisition for industrial development, which provides an option for landowners to become “partners” in

Haryana should wait until new land acquisition law is framed: Farmers

A day after a violent clash between farmers protesting against land acquisition and police personnel left several persons on both sides injured, normalcy was restored at Asalwas village, where the clash occurred, and the surrounding areas, including Bawal town. The Haryana Government is proposing to acquire land here to develop an extended industrial area, centred around Bawal town, that is part of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project.

Police opens fire at stone-throwing farmers on Delhi-Jaipur highway

Villagers opposing land acquisition clashed with police at Asalwas, 90 km from Delhi, on Sunday, torching several vehicles and blocking the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway. The police opened fire to disperse the protesters.

Over 60 people, including police personnel, were injured when protesters — opposing the acquisition of 3,300 acres in 16 villages for an industrial estate to be set up by HSIIDC — turned violent during a mahapanchayat here, the police said. Rewari Deputy Commissioner C.G. Rajinikanthan said the mob pelted police officers with stones, injuring a woman DSP and 40 other personnel.