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Are dnepo kids like Ishit 'Rudeboy' Bhatt what India needs instead of achhe bachhe?Apart from making for great TRPs, brash, insolent kids may be the 'sahi jabab' rather than youngsters hardwired to be deferential to elders...- Will win each battle with people's blessings: Vinesh Phogat as she starts poll campaign from JulanaWrestler and Congress candidate Vinesh Phogat has launched her campaign for the upcoming Haryana assembly election. Phogat, contesting from...
- Vinesh Phogat: Olympian takes the fight from the wrestling mat to the political arenaVinesh Phogat, a former wrestler and three-time Olympian, has joined Congress and will contest in the Haryana assembly elections. Despite h...
- Wrestlers threaten to approach Supreme Court, seek support from all quartersOn being questioned whether they feel it has become a battle of two states, Haryana from where most wrestlers hail and Uttar Pradesh, the l...
- UP polls: BJP faces farm distress; law & order; welfare issues may help partyBut if the 2017 polls were a no-contest for the BJP in western Uttar Pradesh like most of the state, the Samajwadi Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal ...
- Most Khap elders of West UP with Samyukt Kisan Morcha on protestET spoke to several Khap leaders who supported continuation of the agitation. "The farm laws were brought only last year. The issue of MSP ...
- Farmers ready to continue protest on Delhi borders till Modi government lasts: Narendra TikaitFarm leader Mahendra Singh Tikait's son Narendra Tikait said his two brothers and the entire Tikait family would leave the protest if even ...
- Former police constable to farm hero, Rakesh Tikait is the cynosure of many eyes, not just farmersBorn on June 4, 1969 in Sisauli village of Muzaffarnagar district in western Uttar Pradesh, Rakesh Tikait joined BKU after quitting the Del...
- Ghazipur displaces Singhu border as the new epicentre of farmers' protestThe UP government had increased police deployment at the Ghazipur border and the protest site could have been vacated in the night. But thi...
- Farmer protest: At Singhu border, the mood is sombre but the protest continues“We went to meet the farmers to allow us to open at least one side of the road. For the last two months they have blocked it and we are suf...
- Trolled, mocked, even stoned... How these Mahila MPs made itFirst-timers without any political lineage to find out the odds they conquered on the way to Parliament.
- Manushi Chhillar effect: Haryana khap turns progressiveHe pointed out that a joyous occasion like a wedding often became a heavy burden for the family. Many ended up in massive debt as a result.
- Jat stir: Haryana DGP Yashpal Singhal says forces dealing with dynamic situationHe said the situation has 'improved' since yesterday and the Army was out to assist the police to help bring the situation under control.
- Panchayat bans mobile phones among girlsA khap panchayat of Basauli village, in its order said that unmarried girls of the village were not to use mobile phones or social media.
- Western UP villages undergo a sweeping character changeBlame is apportioned equally between Akhilesh Yadav for lax administration and Narendra Modi who the villagers feel has gone back on his po...
- Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao: Why it will take a lot more to change mindsets in India's hotbeds of misogynismKhaps — or community or clan councils — have in the recent past passed diktats that range from the outlandish to the ridiculous — from a ba...
- Official debates on conversion and sex treat the rest of us like childrenProhibitions on conversion are similar to prohibitions on sex. Police act in concert with right-wing goons to thwart ‘kiss of love’ events.
- Supreme Court ruling: Are Shariat courts and khaps, cultural necessities or evils?At least 80% of disputes are resolved by biradiri panchayats,” she says. Kishwar isn’t the only one supporting khaps and Shariat courts.
- Lok Sabha Elections 2014: In Raajhar, Muslims, Dalits fall silent after Amit Shah's visitRaajhar village in Shamli district grabbed headlines after Narendra Modi's aide Amit Shah delivered his "revenge" speech here last week..
- What makes Haryana the land of social contrastsTall tales of wealth creation spurred by proximity to Delhi apart, Haryana is home to a series of bad news reeking of a feudal social order.
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