Jind District

Haryana Polls: It Is Dushyant Chautala Vs BJP's Prem Lata in Uchana Kalan

Assembly | Press Trust of India | Wednesday October 16, 2019

The two main Haryana Assembly candidates in Uchana Kalan constituency in Jind district do not represent just their parties, but their families as well.

Amit Shah To Hold Rally In Haryana's Jind; May Set Tone For Polls: Report

India News | ANI | Friday August 16, 2019

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address a grand public rally in Haryana's Jind district today.

Abhay Chautala Dares Brother's Son, Wife To Resign As INLD Leaders

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday December 9, 2018

Moments after his nephew and Hisar leader Dushyant Chautala announced a new political outfit, INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala today dared him and sister-in-law Naina to resign as the party's leader and legislator, respectively, to test their popularity. Dushyant launched the Jannayak Janata Party and unveiled its flag at a well-attended rally in H...

120 Dalits From Haryana Convert To Buddhism, Blame BJP Government

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday June 4, 2018

As many as 120 Dalits from Haryana's Jind district have converted to Buddhism over non-fulfilment of their demands including making SC/ST Act more stringent, Dalit leader Dinesh Khapad claimed today.

Unable To Top Her Class, Haryana Girl Shoots Herself With Father's Gun

India News | Edited by Debjani Chatterjee with inputs from ANI | Monday April 2, 2018

A student of class 11 shot herself with her father's revolver on Monday, in Jind district of Haryana. The teenager, who was studying in Indus Public School, got her results on Saturday.

8 Crore In Cash, Jewellery Seized In Raids On Haryana Law Maker's Firms

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday May 5, 2017

The Income-Tax Department has seized Rs 8 crore in cash and jewellery worth Rs 2 crore during raids on the premises of an agri-processing company, allegedly owned by an MLA, in Haryana's Jind district.

Girl Who Reported About Her Father Burning Stubble To Be Rewarded

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday October 28, 2016

The Haryana State Pollution Control Board has decided to honour and reward a girl from Jind district for reporting the case of stubble burning by her father to the authorities.

Jat Quota Stir: Railway Station Set On Fire In Jind

India News | Agencies | Saturday February 20, 2016

As the Jat stir for quota continued, some unidentified people set on fire the Budha Khera Railway Station in Haryana's Jind district today.

This woman sarpanch in Haryana ends one more symbol of male dominance

India News | Sonal Mehrotra | Friday April 25, 2014

Ghoonghat (veil) is a symbol of male dominance, and female subservience, more so in the Jat-dominated Haryana. But Neelam, the 31-year-old feisty sarpanch of Chappar village in Jind district, has been waging a determined and relentless battle to end this centuries-old tradition in a land where women dare not speak in front of the male members of t...

Minor girl allegedly gang-raped in Haryana

Cities | Press Trust of India | Tuesday October 1, 2013

A minor girl was allegedly gang-raped by three youths at Rajana Khurd village of Jind district yesterday, police said.

Haryana puts rapists' profiles on Web; two arrested for obscene MMS

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday January 4, 2013

Haryana police today began putting names and details of convicted rapists on a government website even as two youths were arrested in Jind district for allegedly recording and circulating the obscene MMS of a teenager.

Four killed, 9 students injured in road mishap

Chandigarh News | Press Trust of India | Monday October 15, 2012

Four people, including two women, were killed and nine girl students injured in a head-on collision between a jeep and a private school bus in Haryana's Jind district on Monday morning, police said.

A day after Sonia Gandhi's visit, another Dalit girl raped in Congress-ruled Haryana

India News | Edited by Surabhi Malik | Wednesday October 10, 2012

When Sonia Gandhi visited Haryana's Jind district yesterday and met the family of a Dalit girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped, the Congress chief promised justice and said that the guilty would get "severest punishment." But it seems her word has failed to act as a deterrent.

Sonia Gandhi visits rape victim's family, rejects khap panchayat's stand

India News | Reported by Ketki Angre | Tuesday October 9, 2012

Sonia Gandhi visits Jind: Congress president Sonia Gandhi spent 10 minutes today in a small, one-storey home in Haryana's Jind district visiting the family of a Dalit girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped over the weekend. "She hugged me and said 'It wasn't just you who lost a daughter...she was my child too'," said the mother of the ...

Sonia Gandhi visits rape victim's family, rejects khap panchayat's stand

India News | Edited by Surabhi Malik | Tuesday October 9, 2012

Congress president Sonia Gandhi spent 10 minutes today in a small, one-storey home in Haryana's Jind district, visiting the family of a Dalit girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped over the weekend. In the last 30 days, 11 rapes have been reported from Haryana. "She hugged me and said 'It wasn't just you who lost a daughter...she was m...