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Topic: Karnal

5 seats to keep an eye on as counting for Haryana assembly elections begins

From CM Khattar’s Karnal to Congress leader Bhupinder Hooda’s Garhi Sampla-Kiloi, these 5 seats have star power or the potential for a close battle.

Doctor shot dead in Haryana. BJP’s Khattar govt slammed by opposition

A 56-year-old doctor Rajiv Gupta, who owned a hospital, was shot at by motorcycle-borne assailants in Karnal.

BJP is looking to get around caste, the pulse of Haryana politics, and win the state

The BJP is once again relying on the strategy it adopted in some of the seats in 2014 — of fielding non-Jats in Jat areas and a non-Brahmin in a Brahmin seat.

Ashwini Kumar Chopra, the BJP MP who gave up a cricket career to become a journalist

Chopra, the MP from Karnal, has caused a stir in the party with his eulogy of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and praise for the Congress.

Priyanka the Indira Gandhi that nation waiting for, writes BJP MP, leaves party red-faced

Ashwini Kumar, a media baron and the Karnal MP, has been on a warpath with the Haryana BJP unit. His paper carried an ode on Priyanka.

Haryana farmers sorry for poor Delhi air, but say stubble burning is a compulsion

Since Haryana farmers know they are being watched by authorities, many have begun to burn paddy straw at night.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?