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Haryana Assembly election 2019: Narendra Modi to address rally in Ballabhgarh today, in Thanesar, Dadri on 15 Oct, and Hissar on 18 Oct

This will be the first of the four rallies, Prime Minister has scheduled to address in Haryana, he will be in Thanesar and Dadri on 15 October while the last rally before polls commence in the state will be in the Jat-dominated Hissar on 18 October

BS Hooda's open dare to Congress leadership may ring alarm bells for Gandhis, Robert Vadra over National Herald, DLF land deal cases

By holding a public rally at his home turf Rohtak without informing the central and state leadership, Bhupinder Singh Hooda has virtually moved a no-confidence motion against Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Muzaffarnagar's Muslims, haunted by memories of riots, rebuff notion of 'compromise' with Jats

The Lok Sabha polls, fortunately, saw no repeat of 2014 and polling here was completed peacefully in the first phase on 11 April. But a sense of safety and security still eludes the displaced Muslim families.

In Haryana, Lok Sabha polls are just a dry run

The political landscape of Haryana is looking unprecedentedly cluttered and messy in the run-up to the voting this month

Lok Sabha Election 2019, Haryana profile: Rohtak, Gurgaon, Sirsa among key seats; Jat votes may prove deciding factor

Jats, who form around 29 percent of Haryana’s population, are important to political parties.

Author Tanuj Solanki on why Punjabi has become passé and UP's Khadi boli is the ‘in’ thing’ in Bollywood

Khadi boli, lingua franca of western Uttar Pradesh, has been mainstreamed by Bollywood.

Delhi High Court dismisses appeal of 15 convicted of killing Dalits in Haryana's Mirchpur village

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed the appeal of 15 persons belonging to the dominant Jat community against their conviction and sentencing in a case of burning alive a 70-year-old Dalit man and his physically-challenged daughter at Mirchpur village in Haryana's Hisar district in 2010.

Haryana Jat community to hold peaceful protests at CM Manohar Lal Khattar's govt functions over quota stir

The All-India Jat Aarakshan Sangarsh Samiti had announced that it would be holding dharnas in Haryana from 16 August, 2018. They claimed that Khattar himself had assured them of withdrawing all the cases registered against the community leaders except for 45 cases.

Saharanpur violence: Jatonwala's Dalits find their loyalties split between BJP, BSP and Bhim Army

Finding strength in numbers, the Dalits of the region are free of atrocities such as untouchability and violent assertion of identity by upper castes.

Amit Shah's Jind bike rally as it happened: BJP chief says party will form governments in two more states

BJP president Amit Shah is in Jind, Haryana, to take part in ‘Yuva Hunkar’ rally, which is going to see the participation of more than one lakh motorcycle riders today