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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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Topic: Haryana

Whose song is it anyway? What’s the controversy that has stalled release of Haryana’s Rajya Geet

Five-member panel of Haryana MLAs finalised composition to be unveiled in ongoing budget session. Speaker has now directed panel to resolve issue before it can be adopted as state song.

Haryana gets ready to set up 1st IIT, days after Naveen Jindal’s pitch in Parliament

BJP MP Jindal raised the demand in Lok Sabha on 19 March. BJP MPs in Haryana have begun lobbying to ensure that the IIT is established in their parliamentary constituencies.

Who is Masoom Sharma, singer at the centre of Haryana govt’s crackdown on songs promoting gun culture

Several Haryanvi singers have rallied behind the Haryanvi singer, questioning why his songs were taken down while others with similar themes have been spared.

Haryana has no patience for woke narrative on drug abuse and trade. It’s a war

Haryana is hunting down traffickers, dismantling networks, and breaking the cycle of addiction before it takes hold. Take your poison elsewhere—in Haryana, the game is over.

Haryana budget unveils a ‘Department of Future’, allots Rs 5,000 crore to key BJP poll promise

Haryana CM Nayab Saini, who also holds the finance portfolio, unveiled his first budget Monday. Total outlay for FY 2025-26 is Rs 2.05 lakh cr, up 13.7% hike from previous fiscal year.

Murder by ‘single blow of a lathi’. Why HC reduced 100-yr-old convict’s life term to 5 yrs in jail

Case pertains to murder of one Tale Ram, a resident of Pakasma village in Haryana’s Rohtak, in March 2004, after a violent altercation that involved the sons of convict Jage Ram.

Is Haryana facing ‘pauperisation’? BPL ration cards surge 5x, AAY beneficiaries up 20%

Responding to an unstarred question in Haryana Assembly, minister of state for food, civil supplies & consumer affairs said the surge was recorded between April 2022 & September 2024.

7 of 10 Haryana municipal corporations go for women mayors as BJP routs Congress

The Congress lost Rohtak, a stronghold of former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, and Sirsa, where party MP Kumari Selja wields influence.

Beatings, forced labour, starvation—Haryana rehab centres are torture chambers

Drug rehabilitation has become a new sunrise sector in Haryana. Private centres are a money-making machine, while many families see them as a way to offload their struggling loved ones.

On Camera

Grok is able to say things that even Kunal Kamra can’t get away with

Indian liberals find themselves in a bewildering reality—having to appreciate something created by Musk, a man who wears his anti-woke credentials on his sleeve.

How India’s share in global goods exports has remained lower than what it was at Independence

Analysis of Indian data shows merchandise accounts for a shrinking share of India’s total export basket. This decline has accelerated since 2014, despite Modi govt's ‘Make in India’ push.

Top US officials planned Yemen bombing in an 18-person chat on Signal, accidentally added a journalist

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz created the group, which included Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice-President JD Vance & Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

One prime minister’s 19-month legacy is bigger than another’s Emergency

Shastri’s legacy is unfairly overshadowed by peace he made at Tashkent and a visit that also took his life. Among his contributions were Green Revolution and talent-hunting Dr Swaminathan.