Malik Khap

Rio Paralympics silver medallist Deepa Malik, who landed back home in the wee hours of Saturday morning, couldn't have asked for a better homecoming party. Nearly 200 people from her village in Haryana had come to receive her.

Among the endless stream of visitors at Olympic winner Sakshi Malik's bungalow in the city's Sector 4, there was one gent who perhaps personified the Haryana stereotype - out of place with everything else in the house.

A day after he stirred a controversy by backing a Haryana khap panchayat's viewpoint that girls should be married early to prevent rapes, Om Prakash Chautala tried to sidestep the issue today.

Sonia Gandhi visits Jind: Congress president Sonia Gandhi spent 10 minutes today in a small, one-storey home in Haryana's Jind district visiting the family of a Dalit girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped over the weekend. "She hugged me and said 'It wasn't just you who lost a daughter...she was my child too'," said the mother of the ...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi spent 10 minutes today in a small, one-storey home in Haryana's Jind district, visiting the family of a Dalit girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped over the weekend. In the last 30 days, 11 rapes have been reported from Haryana. "She hugged me and said 'It wasn't just you who lost a daughter...she was m...

Rio Paralympics silver medallist Deepa Malik, who landed back home in the wee hours of Saturday morning, couldn't have asked for a better homecoming party. Nearly 200 people from her village in Haryana had come to receive her.

Among the endless stream of visitors at Olympic winner Sakshi Malik's bungalow in the city's Sector 4, there was one gent who perhaps personified the Haryana stereotype - out of place with everything else in the house.

A day after he stirred a controversy by backing a Haryana khap panchayat's viewpoint that girls should be married early to prevent rapes, Om Prakash Chautala tried to sidestep the issue today.

Sonia Gandhi visits Jind: Congress president Sonia Gandhi spent 10 minutes today in a small, one-storey home in Haryana's Jind district visiting the family of a Dalit girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped over the weekend. "She hugged me and said 'It wasn't just you who lost a daughter...she was my child too'," said the mother of the ...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi spent 10 minutes today in a small, one-storey home in Haryana's Jind district, visiting the family of a Dalit girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped over the weekend. In the last 30 days, 11 rapes have been reported from Haryana. "She hugged me and said 'It wasn't just you who lost a daughter...she was m...