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‘No trauma centres, no four-lane roads, no universities’: Congress MLA Mamman Khan alleges Haryana govt neglects Mewat

March 27, 2025 7:29 pm

Haryana Assembly Speaker Harvinder Kalyan says the Congress MLA is ‘trying to take the discussion in some other direction’.

Nuh violence: Who are Mewat's Meo Muslims?

August 29, 2023 10:11 am

The Meos follow syncretic traditions and live in a vast and very backward region whose name derives from the word ‘Meo’: Mewat. It comprises the Nuh, Palwal, Faridabad and Gurgaon districts of Haryana, the Alwar and Bharatpur districts of Rajasthan and a few areas of western UP.

Nuh clash: 8 held from Alwar, Bharatpur; Bittu Bajrangi nabbed

August 05, 2023 9:01 am

A group of over 500 men held a march in Pataudi Friday and submitted a representation to the SDM to be sent to the Prime Minister, the governor, and the CM, seeking action against those accused in Nuh violence.

Delhi police rescue kidnapped man from Haryana’s Mewat, arrest lab technician

December 25, 2022 8:45 am

According to police, the man was thrashed in a field and made to call his wife to ask for ransom.

Mewat-based gang of ATM thieves busted in Delhi, 2 held

September 03, 2022 7:25 am

Police said Rs 18.8 lakh was stolen from an ATM in Moti Bagh on June 15, and Rs 8 lakh was stolen from an ATM in Baba Haridas Nagar. The cash chests of both ATMs were cut open.

Known for tough stance against corruption, Judge Dhonchak retires

April 01, 2021 6:40 pm

During first few months of his posting in Gurgaon, the number of inmates had gone down to 2,605 on January 31, 2020 from 2,880 on September 30, 2019. Later in 2020, the courts remained partially shut for a long period due to Covid-19.

Injectable contraceptives: At Mewat, women get shot of empowerment

October 25, 2018 6:53 am

Less than a year after it was launched in the government’s family planning programme, injectable contraceptives have become a tool of empowerment for these women in Mewat, which was declared India’s most backward district by Niti Aayog this year.

Mewat rape case: Medical board rejects minor’s plea seeking termination of pregnancy

January 10, 2018 9:28 am

“Keeping in view of clinical examination and radiological examination, the board is of the opinion that there is no abnormality in the foetus and continuation of the pregnancy would not entail danger to the life of the patient,” the doctors panel said in the report.

In Mewat, Pehlu Khan’s family joins ‘black Eid’ protest

June 27, 2017 4:20 am

“Kya maarte hi rahenge hamein? Us bacche ne kya bigada tha kisi ka (Will they keep killing us, what did that child Junaid Khan do to anyone)?” Hussain, lynched cattle farmer Pehlu Khan’s uncle, asked on the rising violence by cow vigilantes.

Man stabs neighbour to death over water in Mewat

May 10, 2016 6:35 am

According to the police, it was alleged that Mubeen Khan, the neighbour, had not paid for his share for the water tanks that we re supplied to the colony.

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Nagina Online: What happens when social media comes in one of India’s most backward villages

August 07, 2017 5:15 pm

On July 12, a public beating and banishment of a 27-year-old youth from the village of Nagina in Haryana's Mewat district, was prompted because of an allegedly offensive social media post which sparked communal tensions in the area.

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