Haryana minister misses oath-taking due to traffic jam

October 28th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Harmohinder Singh Chatha was Wednesday elected speaker of the Haryana assembly in the first one-day session of the newly-elected house that also saw 89 legislators take oath. Chatha, who was agriculture minister in the previous Congress government, was elected unanimously.

October 27th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Haryana chief minister for a second consecutive term Bhupinder Singh Hooda faces his first political test Wednesday when he has to prove the majority of the Congress government on the floor of the assembly. The Congress leadership in the state expects to clear the majority test in the floor of the house comfortably.

October 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Bhupinder Singh Hooda was Sunday evening sworn in as the chief minister of Haryana for a second term amid chaos as unruly Congress supporters virtually took over the proceedings. Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia administered the oath of office and secrecy to Hooda at a ceremony in the Haryana Raj Bhavan here.

October 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Bhupinder Singh Hooda was sworn in as Haryana's Chief Minister for a second consecutive term on Sunday. Governor Jagannath Pahadia administered the oath of office and secrecy to Hooda in a ceremony held at the Haryana Raj Bhavan.

October 24th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Bhupinder Singh Hooda will take oath as chief minister of Haryana for a second time Sunday. Hooda's name was announced early Sunday by the Congress high command in New Delhi following two days of suspense over the Haryana leadership issue.

September 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister K. Rosaiah Thursday took oath as the state's caretaker chief minister.

August 12th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In the wake of a poor monsoon in Haryana, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Wednesday urged the central government to allocate 400 MW additional power from the unallocated pool of central generation. In response to our earlier request, the central government had allocated only 100 MW of additional power for Haryana.

July 27th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - With over 500 personal guests, most of them from his home state, descending on this city, former Rajasthan chief minister Jagannath Pahadia was Monday sworn-in as the 15th governor of Haryana. Pahadia, the 77-year-old Gandhian, was administered the oath of office by Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice T.S.

July 26th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Former Rajasthan chief minister Jagannath Pahadia will be sworn in as Haryana governor here Monday. Pahadia, 77, will replace A.R.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The 15th Lok Sabha saw many of the newly-elected MPs take oath Monday in their mother tongue or languages of their choice, with Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Sumitra Mahajan leading the way by doing so in Sanskrit. She was followed by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP Basudev Acharya taking oath in Bengali and Arjun Sethi of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in his Oriya.

May 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - She went slow and flumbled twice, but the entire hall at Rashtrapati Bhavan erupted in applause and smiles as Agatha Sangma, the youngest minister in the Manmohan Singh government, took oath Thursday. Wearing a traditional stole and sarong in beige and white, 28-year-old Sangma folded her hands into a gentle namaste for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi sitting in the front row, before taking her place beside President Prathibha Patil to take oath in Hindi.

May 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The morning after taking oath for his second consecutive term, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday called a meeting of the new cabinet at his residence here. The meeting is basically to decide the dates for parliament sessions and when to present the budget, said an official at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

May 22nd, 2009 English was the language of the evening Friday with 15 of the new ministers as well as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh taking their oath of office in it. Only Kamal Nath, Sharad Pawar, C.P.

May 20th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Immediately after taking oath as Andhra Pradesh chief minister here Wednesday evening, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy signed two files related to free electricity supply and low price rice - the two poll promises of the Congress.

May 20th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Congress leader Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy is all set to take oath as Andhra Pradesh chief minister Wednesday evening for the second consecutive term.