67 Haryanvi songs have been taken down already on police orders. Singer Masoom Sharma alone accounts for 19. The issue figured in the assembly last year.
Reshuffle comes days after Haryana sought CBI probe into an alleged Rs 590 cr bank fraud, allegedly involving some IAS officers, flagged by Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau.
As the Haryana CM presents the Rs 2.23 lakh crore budget, the optics—including a kesari pagri, a Sikh scripture, and a Ravidassia quote—speak a language meant for Punjab’s voters.
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini attributes the fraud to collusion by lower-level employees at Chandigarh banks & says the full sum was credited back to state govt accounts.
The stalemate mirrors a failed 1986 attempt to resolve a related but equally intractable territorial dispute, both rooted in the 1985 Rajiv-Longowal Accord.
Half of the promised amount will be credited directly to the beneficiary’s savings account, and the other half will be deposited into a government-run account, which will mature within 5 years.
Officials say Kenya's soil offers strong potential to grow wheat and rice, while several farmers from Punjab and Gujarat already lease land there to grow flowers and avocados.
Police face mounting pressure to ensure transparency in ASI Sandeep Lathar case. The ASI allegedly shot himself & blamed IPS Puran Kumar—whose body was found a week before his—in note.
BJP govt in Haryana did not find it politically expedient to ‘apply the stick to undeserving elements’ covered under BPL list owing to Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, it is learnt.
Haryana Excise & Taxation Dept, which has so far allotted only 934 of 1,200 liquor zones, is grappling with a significant shortfall in revenue due to the reluctance of bidders.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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