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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
TopicManohar Lal Khattar

Topic: Manohar Lal Khattar

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.

Haryana govt’s gift to Ram Rahim’s dera: Free regularisation of unauthorised properties

Haryana government carved out a new revenue estate and exempted 11 Dera Sacha Sauda properties of godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim from ‘change of land use’ approvals.

Ram Rahim convicted: Haryana’s poor law and order record faces another harsh test

The state’s effectiveness to deal with such a situation is under scrutiny, given Haryana’s reputation as a “soft” government incapable of handling law and order with an iron fist.

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Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.