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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
TopicManohar Lal Khattar

Topic: Manohar Lal Khattar

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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.

Haryana govt to withdraw cases against Jat agitators of 2016 to clear way for Amit Shah rally

Violence during 2016 stir claimed 31 lives; now influential Jat body has called off plan to disrupt Amit Shah rally on 15 Feb after govt agrees to its demands.

Now cows are expected to help reform prisoners in Haryana’s jails as well

Under the idea mooted by chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar in November 2016, the state government will use jails with surplus land as cow shelters.

On Camera

UNGA was Nepal’s missed opportunity. It can’t ignore foreign policy during domestic turmoil

The decision not to send PM Sushila Karki or a high-level delegation to the UNGA reflects how foreign policy often receives the least attention in Nepal.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Maharashtra Police places order for US-made sniper rifles even as MHA recommends ‘Make in India’

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Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.