Shiv Charan Lal Sharma, the Labour and Employment Minister of the Indian state of Haryana has said that private firms should hire casual labour directly fro the labour market instead of relying on contractors.

The minister said that the payments to them should be made through cheques. "Company should not hire casual workers through contractors rather they should hire them directly by negotiating with them. They can also ask the state employment department to provide workers on contract basis," Sharma said.

Gurgaon, Sep. 28 : The GBTA Foundation, a research arm of the Global Business Travel Association, and Egencia, the corporate travel arm of Expedia, Inc., have released results of its first ever corporate travel policy study for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, exploring trends and effectiveness in policies.

Gurgaon, Sep 24 : Condoling the death of veteran parliamentarian Vasant Sathe,

senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L. K Advani on Saturday described him as a gentleman politician, who used to do what he felt right.

Talking to reporters here, Advani said: "I have not seen such a political leader. I had a close relation with him, despite he being in another party. He was never influenced by his party."

BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said Sathe had his own style of dealing with politics

Gurgaon, Aug 30: Anna Hazare''s health is improving and his blood pressure and heart rate are becoming stable, said Dr. Yatin Mehta of Medanta Medicity in Gurgaon, where the social activist has been admitted after he broke his fast on Sunday.

Talking to reporters here, Dr. Mehta said: "His (Anna) condition is stable. He has started walking. All parameters are good now. He is on soft diet."

"His blood pressure is124/88. Ketone levels have gone down. It will take 4-5 days for him to be out of the hospital," he added.

Manesar (Haryana), June 17:  The workers at auto major Maruti Suzuki's plant in this Haryana town called off their 13-day long strike, after an agreement was reached between them and the company management on the issue of a second union.

"The strike have been called off. The management and the 2,000-odd workers of Maruti have reached an understanding," Anil Kumar, general secretary of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) told IANS.

Monitoring with the intention that the state of Haryana had taken action with unfairness and hatred to confirm support to DLF Universal Ltd, the High Court, on Friday, ordered the state government to get back from DLF land estimating 19 acres, 4 kanals and 5 marlas in Nathupur village of Gurgaon district and that was obtained by the state and moved to the planner for locating up a cyber town.

The court additionally ordered the state administration to give back the land to the gram panchayat of Nathupur which is rite now fraction of the Gurgaon Municipal Corporation.

The Haryana government has determined to initiate an e-challaning system for enhanced management of traffic regulations in the state.

According to Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Home Department, Krishna Mohan here today, the E-challaning system might entail of a computer-based centralized catalog of vehicles, driving licenses and traffic infringement and hand-held stuffs with the field personnel to offer them real time connectivity with the pivotal server.

Haryana will establish New Born Corners (NBC) and Sick New Born Care Units (SNCUs) in all the administrative hospitals of the state in order to confirm the infant death rate.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda made this announcement today while addressing a meeting.

Mr. Hooda stated that NBC units would be established at 144 sub-centres, 11 rural community health (RCH) centres and 156 primary health centres under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

Six days after Rekha Gohil (27) gave birth to a baby on the pavement after being turned away by a civic maternity home at Mahim, the municipal corporation suspended a physician and a senior nurse until pending inquiry gets completed.

Rekha's husband, Kishorilal, who works a conservancy worker with the ward office in Dadar, said, "We are thankful to the civic authorities that they took our complaint seriously."

Chandigarh, July 11 : The floods in parts of Punjab and Haryana has led to a spate of angry exchanges between the two states, each accusing the other of causing the flooding on their side.

Ruling political leaders of Haryana and Punjab are accusing each other for releasing water into the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, which has led to breaches in parts of the canal causing widespread floods in both states.

The Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal was built to link the waters of the two rivers, but has left the neighbouring states completely divided.

Vodafone Essar, one of the country's top cellular service providers, has made announcement about the launching of India's most economical Bonus offer for its prepaid customers.

Available at Rs 4, it is the lowest cost denomination offer presently available in the market.

Eyeing to enable many more individuals at the grass root level to stay linked, the Rs 4 Bonus reiterates Vodafone's commitment towards speeding up tele-density in India and enhancing affordability.

Recently sown paddy crop has been destructed in around 4 days of flood fury in some regions of Haryana and Punjab, the states, which are the largest food grain contributors to the national kitty.

Thus far, 11 fatalities have been reported including six in Punjab and five in Haryana, with 4-5 people missing after being washed away in both states.

Heavy rain accompanied by breaches in rivers and irrigation canals in some regions of both states resulted in flooding since Tuesday.

Asset financing company Magma Fincorp Ltd has announced that it would offer up Rs 532 crore in retail loans in Punjab and Haryana during the existing fiscal year (2010-11).

In a declaration, Sanjeev Chandhok, regional sales manager stated, "By penetrating deeper, we will focus on providing asset finance to the economically disenfranchised in the state."

Construction equipment and tractor finance have been the major growth drivers this year for the company.

The recent proclamation of nation's first Global Centre for Nuclear Energy has come in Bahadurgarh town on the border of Haryana and Delhi.

The Centre inaugurated by the PM himself will be set up on high importance terms on a dimension of 125 acres while 80 acres will be kept for residential plots.

It is deemed to take up Considered a minimum of three years for completion as stated by project director Dr J P Shrivastva, who led a six-member-team that visited Jassaurkheri and Kheri Jassuar villages today.

Mango farming is gaining ground in Haryana with its production and area under cultivation going up by around three times in two decades.

Financial Commissioner Roshan Lal stated that the production of mango climbed from 19,900 tonnes in 1990-91 to 64,570 tonnes in the year 2009.

Mr. Roshan Lal attributed the groth to the use of newest technology by agriculturists.

The area under mango production also went up to 9,125 hectares from 3,553 hectares previously.

An extra 250 hectares would be brought under mango plantation during the existing financial year (2010-11).

The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has decided to establish a Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership in the neighboring villages of Jasaur Kheri and Kheri Jasaur in Haryana's Jhajjar region.

The centre's project director, G. P. Srivastav, and other DAE representatives visited the site Friday to examine it.

Mr. Srivastav stated that four educational institutions will open in the centre to examine nuclear security, radiological conservation, use of radio-stopes and radiation techniques and nuclear energy facility.

Today, Delhi Petrol Dealers Association (DPDA) declared to go on an indefinite strike from June 14 if Delhi administration fails to bring equality in VAT rate with the neighboring states.

DPDA president Atul Peshawaria stated, "If the government does not reduce the VAT and bring it to parity with that of Haryana, we will be left with no other option but to close down our petrol pumps and observe a strike."

The increase in value added tax has seen 35 to 95% drop in the sale of diesel since 2008.

According to official reports, Haryana is infamous for its skewed sex ratio. But thanks to quotas for women in grassroots bodies, over 16,000 women are set to be elected in the panchayat elections next month, getting a chance to show their might.

State election commissioner Dharam Vir told IANS, "The panchayat elections in the state are being held June 6 and 12. The reservation of seats for women candidates will give them a fair representation in these bodies."

Police officials have caught seven people, comprising two engineering pupils, in Haryana region and recovered cocaine worth Rs 2.5 crore from their possession.

Police detained seven people near a bus stand in Ambala Cantt and around one kg of smuggled cocaine was recovered from their possession.

As per a senior farm official, wheat production of Haryana will fall this year. It has been estimated that there will be a huge production of in the year when the season commenced. But now it has been seen that the output can't reach to that mark and will behind by a huge margin.

According to the official, higher temperature in this region has ruined the earlier expectation and now he is apprehending that the wheat output may fall behind by 200,000 tonnes from the expected figure. Haryana is the third biggest wheat producer in the country.