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Ashok Kumar

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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Ashok Kumar

    Haryana villages are fighting back against drugs (opens the original)

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    On the side of a busy road cutting through Rajthal village in Haryana’s Hansi district, around 150 kilometres north-west of Delhi, stands a bright red-and-white banner tied to a yellow police barricade. In bold letters in Hindi, it reads, “Nasha ke khilaf gram panchayat Rajthal ka sakht sandesh [The strict message from the Rajthal gram panchayat (village council) against drug/substance abuse].” The warning below says: sell drugs in the village and pay ₹1 lakh; help a drug peddler get bail and pa

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Ashok Kumar

    After Jat belt, Nuh next in INLD’s bid to reclaim lost ground (opens the original)

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    After taking its battle for political relevance into former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s home turf – the Jat stronghold of Sonipat-Rohtak-Jhajjar -- last year with a ‘Samman Diwas’ rally, a resurgent Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is now shifting its focus to another Congress fortress, the Muslim-dominated Nuh. Led by national president Abhay Singh Chautala, the party has announced that the next edition of the annual event — to mark the birth anniversary of former Deputy Prim

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Ashok Kumar

    Year-long overhaul boosts Haryana Congress, but challenges persist (opens the original)

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    GURUGRAM: When Indian Youth Congress and National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) workers blocked Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s convoy and showed him black flags over Gurugram University’s infrastructure last month, the friction signalled a newly coordinated grassroots mobilisation reflecting the results of the party’s year-long Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan campaign. However, this newfound ground momentum remains shadowed by questions being raised on appointments made on recommendations

  4. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Ashok Kumar

    A sanctuary turned death trap: Turtles flee poisoned waters of Kajalheri (opens the original)

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    For years, the pond at Kajalheri village in Haryana’s Fatehabad was a safe haven for hundreds of rare turtles. Today, the same waters are forcing them to flee for their lives. The Shri Guru Gorakhnath Community Reserve, notified by the Haryana Government in 2019, is home to an estimated 150–200 Indian Softshell, Red-roofed and Indian Peacock turtles. But the sanctuary, where the reptiles once came to breed and lay eggs, has allegedly turned into a toxic habitat because of untreated sewage and ne

  5. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Ashok Kumar

    Gen Z vs Haryana khap panchayats: Old rules, new rebels (opens the original)

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    Anchal, an M.A. student and a resident of Igra village, Jind district, posted a video on social media satirising khap panchayats, the powerful but unelected community bodies dominated by elderly men from landowning communities in Haryana. Imagining what a “Gen Z panchayat” might look like, she suggests in the video that elderly men face restrictions on playing cards, smoking hookahs and bidis, and wasting time, while tobacco sellers be fined. The money collected through such fines, she jokes, c

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