In an unfortunate incident, three children were killed when they got buried under the debris of a wall when it collapsed on them at a brick kiln located near village Jaspur in Haryana's Panchkula district on Wednesday, officials said.

The children who died were identified as seven-year-old Rafia, the daughter of Mohd Shad, and four-year-old Jishan and two-year-old Ishan, both sons of Nawab.

The wall of the brick kiln collapsed apparently due to heavy rains. The police reached the spot and took the dead bodies into their possession.

The General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee, former Union Minister, and MP from Sirsa, Kumari Selja said that the final decision on ticket distribution is made by the party high command. Kumari Selja said that the decision regarding the Chief Minister's post is also made by the high command, which can appoint anyone from the 36 communities, including someone from the Dalit community, as the CM. Haryana has suffered under the misgovernance of the BJP for ten years, and the state has lagged behind in many ways. With the Congress government coming to power, our focus will be on advancing the state. We need to ensure that the youth of Haryana get jobs, employment, and good education, and these are the areas we need to focus on in the coming time. Within the BJP, everyone is entangled over ticket distribution; the Chief Minister and the BJP state president are not on the same page.

Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Poonia, both from Haryana, met the Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, as the state gears up for elections a month from now.

The Congress party also took to social media to share photos of Rahul Gandhi with the wrestler duo.

The meeting comes amid heightened speculations of wrestler Vinesh Phogat making her debut in the Haryana Assembly elections on a Congress ticket.

The meeting also assumes significance because the Congress party is understood to be giving last-minute touches to the list of candidates for the poll-bound state.

As per reports, the Congress Central Election Committee has finalised names of 34 candidates for the 90-member Haryana Assembly so far. The state’s screening committee had presented 49 names to the Central panel, out of which 34 names were finalised and 15 are under further deliberation.

At least seven pilgrims, comprising three women, were killed and eight injured in a road crash in Haryana's Jind district early Tuesday, police said.

All the passengers were trapped inside the vehicle, and the spot was filled with screams.

The accident occurred on the Hisar-Chandigarh National Highway when a truck loaded with logs rear-ended a passenger van (Tata Magic). After the crash, the van veered off the road and fell into a ditch. The van, carrying devotees, was going from Haryana's Kurukshetra to Gogamedi in the Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan.

The truck driver fled from the spot after the accident.

The General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee, former Union Minister, and MP from Sirsa, Kumari Selja rejected all the claims made by the BJP government in the state. She said that in the last ten years, the BJP has not developed the state but rather destroyed it. Small and large cities in every district of the state are struggling with issues like traffic jams, waterlogging, sewer blockages or overflows, drinking water crises, and street light problems. The big cities come to a standstill because of traffic jams, while life seems to float in waterlogged areas.

Shambhu border of Haryana-Punjab will not open yet. A hearing on this matter was held in the Supreme Court on Monday. In which the SC has formed the High Power Committee. The Supreme Court said that we are forming a committee, but are not deciding on any issue. This authority is being given to the committee. Officials of Punjab and Haryana are also included in this committee.

The General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee, former Union Minister, and Sirsa MP Kumari Selja said that from the very beginning, the intentions of the state's BJP government regarding providing employment have been flawed. This is why it never took any meaningful steps to fill the two lakh vacant posts. The slogan-chanting BJP government kept making announcements for recruitments. Now that the model code of conduct is in place in the state, the Haryana Staff Selection Commission is seeking permission from the Election Commission for recruitments, which the Commission has clearly refused. The Commission is now asking for permission, even though it sat idle for nine years and eleven months. It should issue a white paper and inform the public about what it has done in its nearly ten-year tenure. 

A day after an employee of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) succumbed to his injuries after being abducted and thrashed over an alleged affair with the wife of one of the accused, the Gurugram Police on Friday arrested three persons in connection with the case.

The arrested persons have been identified as Pankaj, Vikas, and Jitesh, while the prime accused Ramveer, with whose wife the victim allegedly had an affair, is still on the run. The suspects were arrested by a Crime Branch team from the Basai area on Friday.

The deceased, Naresh Kumar, was a supervisor in the sanitation wing of the municipal body.

The General Secretary of the All India Congress, former Union Minister, and MP from Sirsa, Kumari Selja said that while the BJP government of the state is busy patting itself on the back for its development, the people of the state are struggling for basic facilities. Essential services such as health, education, electricity, and water have been confined to paper. The state's healthcare services are the most fragile; deliveries are happening either on hospital floors or outside the hospitals, there are places without doctors, and where there are doctors, there are no medicines or paramedical staff. Government hospitals have been reduced to mere referral centers. Patients are being misled about the Ayushman cards, and such patients do not even receive treatment when doctors are not paid. The public is aware of all this and cannot be misled. The people, frustrated for the past ten years, have now decided to oust the BJP government, and in this election, the public will teach the BJP a lesson by voting against it.

Doctors in Gurugram have successfully treated a 60-year-old woman who was suffering from paralysis in both legs due to a significant spinal tumour.

The patient had initially sought treatment at a local hospital and then shifted focus to CK Birla Hospital in Gurugram because the primary investigations failed to pinpoint what her condition was.

The doctors found that the woman had a sizable tumour in her spine. The tumour had severely impacted her ability to perform daily activities, leaving her dependent on her children for even the simplest tasks

The doctors informed her about the microscopic tumour removal surgery that could restore her to a mobile state.

“Utilising the latest advancements in microscopic spine surgery and neuromonitoring techniques, the tumour excision surgery was performed successfully. These technologies play a crucial role in enhancing the precision and dexterity of spinal procedures,” Dr Arun Bhanot, Director-Spine Surgery, CK Birla Hospital Gurugram told.