New Delhi, The Congress Party on Wednesday mocked Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar who, with an axe in hand, threatened a BJP leader to chop off his head.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala posted a video of Khattar attending a road show in which he is presented an axe.

Chandigarh, The decks have been cleared for the construction of two rail lines in Haryana as the Haryana Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited has completed their detailed survey and detailed project report, an official said on Tuesday.

With the construction of the Karnal-Yamunanagar (61 km) and Jind-Hansi (50 km) rail lines, the long-standing demand of the people would be fulfilled, a government spokesman said.

Chandigarh, Speculations are rife over a pre-poll alliance between the Congress and the BSP in Haryana after a closed-door meeting between two-time former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Mayawati in New Delhi, party insiders said on Monday.

The meeting that lasted for over half an hour on Sunday night saw the presence of newly-appointed state Congress President Kumari Selja, too.

Chandigarh, Frontizo Business Services, a joint venture between the Patni Group and Amazon Asia Pacific, on Monday announced to employ 1,000 people for its new centre in Panchkula near here in Haryana, the second and largest centre in India.

The company aims to enroll 350 employees by Diwali and then ramped up close to 1,000 employees by March 2020.

The hiring would happen from Hindi-speaking regions around the centre, Apoorva Patni of the Patni Group said.

Rohtak, Sounding a poll bugle in the poll-bound Haryana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday not only presented his government's report card in the first 100 days of governance but also praised the Manohar Lal Khattar-led government in the state for fighting corruption and nepotism.

Appealing to the public to help conserve water by adopting rainwater harvesting techiniques, Modi in his address here, third in past few months, promised to double the farmers' income by 2022.

Chandigarh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch an election campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday in poll-bound Haryana with green mode.

He will address the public in Rohtak town, the only Lok Sabha seat in the state which was won by the Congress in the 2014 elections, on the conclusion of the state BJP's 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra'.

New Delhi, Justice D.K. Jain, appointed by NCLAT to oversee the IL&FS resolution process, on Friday approved the transfer of the Gurgaon Rapid MetroRail to Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA). It will now be incumbent on the Haryana government on what the way forward will be for the Rapid MetroRail.

The Haryana government could either choose to run the Rapid MetroRail itself or subcontract it to another party.

Mahendragarh, Vikram Gujjar alias Papla, the most wanted gangster of Haryana, who escaped from the Behror police station lockup in Alwar district of Rajasthan on Friday, has a history of jail-breaks.

Gujjar, a native of Kheroli village in the Mahendragarh district of Haryana, escaped when over a dozen criminals carrying fire-arms, including AK-47 rifles, attacked the police station and broke the cell where Gujjar was lodged. They fired indiscriminately to terrorise policemen.

New Delhi, Ahead of the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections, the Congress on Wednesday appointed former Union Minister Kumari Selja as the state party chief and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the Congress Legislature Party leader and Chairman of the Election Committee.

The announcements were made by former Union Minister and Haryana Congress in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad and party General Secretary, Organisation, K.C. Venugopal.

Hisar Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday launched the UDAN regional connectivity scheme here that will allow tourists to fly from Hisar to Chandigarh for just Rs 1,674 in 45 minutes.

He took the maiden flight in a seven-seated plane from Hisar to the state's capital Chandigarh.

Before launching the flight, Khattar said with the completion of the expansion work in Integrated Aviation Hub in Hisar within two months, an 18-seater plane would start plying.