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Topic: Haryana

Lt Gen Vats, BJP RS pick from Haryana, is ex-Army doctor who says khaps aren’t ‘regressive’

D.P. Vats is a retired Lt General of the Army and ex-chief of the Haryana Public Service Commission. But BJP leaders are also surprised at his nomination.

Haryana aims for new gender selection record, wants 90% of cattle to be female

The state plans to reduce the population of male cattle to the minimum possible, while increasing the population of milk-producing female cattle.

In ‘Left-less’ Haryana, CM tears down ‘lal jhandewaale’ over anganwadi stir

Congress says Khattar just wanted to gloat over party’s Tripura victory.

The new saviour of Haryana’s cows: Same top cop who ‘failed’ to check Jat fires in Rohtak

Shrikant Jadhav was pulled up by a probe panel for failing to curb the Jat agitation as IG of Rohtak. After a clean chit, he’ll be chief of Gau Seva Aayog.

Remembering a Haryana girl who made Hindi Medium Type cool by becoming a heroic astronaut

Kalpana Chawla died in a space tragedy 15 years ago. But she brought home to me the Hindi Medium Type, or HMT, advantage.

The long battle to bring ex-DGP SPS Rathore to justice for molesting Ruchika Girhotra

The former Director General of Police was sentenced to six months in jail for molesting Ruchika Girhotra. That legal battle took over two decades.

In the age of hashtag feminism, we honoured a cop who molested a child, ruined her family

If Ruchika Girhotra was molested in the #MeToo era, DGP Rathore would be in jail for a long time. But he was a VIP invitee at the R-Day function in Panchkula.

Rapes, murders and riots: Faith in Khattar’s Haryana hits rock bottom

Faith in Haryana police is at rock bottom, and fingers are being pointed at greenhorn Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who also holds the home portfolio.

Amid rising rapes in Haryana, top cop advises women: Don’t trust men around you

IGP Mamta Singh says most rapists are known to victims, the problem seems to be that women and their families have ‘too much faith’ in men around them.

Mamta Sharma murder a grim reminder that Haryana’s raginis are targets of crime

Sharma’s murder is not the first crime against female folk performers in the state. Internet fame has just made things worse.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.