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TopicManohar Lal Khattar

Topic: Manohar Lal Khattar

Khattar’s ‘Sunday to FUNday’ remark is like fighting depression with a Hallmark card

Nandita Singh -
Dissent makes for a healthy democracy, no matter what day of the week it is.  People are far more likely to be happy if we have ministers who address problems.

Khattar ‘ignores’ corruption charge against officer but suspends him in ‘anti-Brahmin’ row

Chitleen K Sethi -
Question in junior engineer recruitment had sparked protests from Brahmin bodies; Haryana CM accused of giving caste politics primacy over corruption.

This Haryana expressway is under construction for 14 yrs, despite Khattar’s deadlines

Chitleen K Sethi -
The 136-km long, 6-lane project has to be completed by February 2019, but Khattar announced many deadlines, all of which have been missed; new target is 30 June 2018.

Khattar’s namaz remark contradicts what Hindutva groups have argued for in the Ayodhya case

Apurva Vishwanath -
A Supreme Court judgment in 1994 in the Ayodhya case had ruled that while a Muslim can pray practically anywhere, the site of a Hindu temple is set in stone.

After Khattar’s remark, recall what Premchand and Sarojini Naidu had said about namazis

Apoorvanand -
Gone are the days when practices attached with religions other than ours excited us. Now they scare us.

Govt should provide places for namaz if it doesn’t want us to pray on roads: Muslim groups

Sanya Dhingra -
Groups also reiterate the demand to open up historical mosques for worship, while minorities commission chairperson says the row is ‘not a big issue’.

Khattar govt slammed for asking engineers casteist, sexist question about ‘bad omens’

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
Applicants were asked which was not a bad omen – ‘meeting a black Brahmin’, ‘an empty pitcher’, ‘a casket full of fuel’, or ‘sight of the Brahmin girl’.

Audio clip puts Haryana’s Khattar govt at centre of bribery row

Chitleen K Sethi -
Opposition corners BJP on a viral purported conversation about the Haryana staff selection commission chairman taking bribes for jobs

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

Chitleen K Sethi -
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

Chitleen K Sethi -
Congress says Khattar just wanted to gloat over party’s Tripura victory.
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Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

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

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

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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