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Topic: Panipat

Babur, Akbar, and Abdali—the losses Panipat doesn’t want to battle anymore

From crumbling memorials to misplaced narratives, Panipat's historic battlefields bear witness to a legacy of defeat—and the struggle to reclaim it.

Man arrested from Haryana for plot to kill Salman Khan, ‘gave contract to Lawrence Bishnoi gang’

The Navi Mumbai Police picked up Sukhbir Balbir Singh Wednesday, say he planned to use weapons from Pakistan.

Panipat men are becoming Hanuman for 41 days. No salt, no women, only tapasya

Every Dussehra, the Hanuman Swaroop phenomenon sweeps across Panipat, turning ordinary men into symbols of devotion and defiance. It’s a rite of passage.

Writings on the Haryana Wall still have Modi first, just the first among equals

BJP's 2024 Haryana campaign is different. Modi's isn’t the lead picture on hoardings and after two terms in power, BJP is relying once again on its mainstay: upper castes & Punjabis.

Stabbed in front of students, ‘left to bleed’ — Haryana minor’s death puts Aakash Institute in spotlight

Family of 16-yr-old stabbed to death — allegedly by fellow student — in Aakash Institute classroom, accuses coaching centre of 'not sending victim to hospital in time'. Institute denies allegation.

4 assailants rape 3 women in front of family members, rob them of cash & jewellery in Haryana

The four men barged into the house where the families lived and used ropes to tie the family members of the three women labourers before raping them.

Panipat man believes sleeping under guava tree ‘cured’ him of Covid. Rubbish, say experts

Experts say sitting under the trees won't 'magically restore' oxygen levels; good nutrition and hydration help patients recuperate.

Sodomy-accused UP man arrested 4 months after his arm was ‘chopped off for being a Muslim’

Ikhlaq Salmani was arrested this week, while his family members were detained in UP. His lawyers say police are yet to take action against those who attacked him.

Locked up, starved and all of 25 kg — how a Panipat woman was rescued after year in toilet

Ramrati, a mother of three, was rescued from her house in Panipat village 2 weeks ago. Doctors say she is not mentally stable. Domestic violence case registered against husband.

‘Sodomy’ accused UP man claims his arm chopped off as he’s Muslim, cops blame train accident

Ikhlaq Salmani claimed his right arm was chopped off by two men as he is a Muslim. But police say he has been booked for sodomy & hurt himself when he jumped near a railway track.

On Camera

Why betting on a reformed Iran could be a mistake for India

Yusuf T Unjhawala’s argument that a secular and reform-oriented regime in Iran could be less prone to aligning with India’s adversaries raises some pertinent questions.

More salaried than self-employed Indians earning less than Rs 25k a month face borrower stress—study

Think360.ai, a firm that helps banks & financial institutions make credit decisions, based its analysis on 20k borrowers. 

What are US ‘bunker buster’ bombs & stealth bombers than can strike Iran’s nuclear mountain

Both GBU-57 munition & B-2 stealth fighter is with America. Moreover, Israel does not have any aircraft in its inventory to carry out such a challenging mission.

India-Pakistan terms of engagement: H-word, M-word & the Trump hyphenation

Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.