Two students from Punjab Engineering College (PEC) in Chandigarh have created a low-cost automated AMBU bag, which can be used in low-resource hospitals and emergency situations where ventilators are not available.

Satpal Chaudhary, 50, doesn’t look a traditional Haryanvi farmer. Well, he isn’t either. For someone who grew up helping his father cultivate wheat and paddy on their 50-acre farm, Satpal’s transformation into a progressive entrepreneur is remarkable.

Around 190 criminals convicted of heinous crimes such as rape and murder are currently out on loose from Haryana jails after availing the facility of parole or furlough.

Handing out a 20-year rigorous imprisonment to self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, convicted for raping his two “sadhvis” (female followers), a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Monday said the convict does not deserve leniency as he did not spare his pious disciples and acted like a wild beast.

Driven by the fear of the Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act passed in 2015, which provides rigorous imprisonment of three to 10 years for cow slaughter, the number of people coming with stray cattle to the cow shelters has increased manifold.

Retired subedar Ram Kishan Grewal, whose suicide has triggered a political row over one-rank one-pension (OROP) issue with opposition parties coming in and declaring him a martyr, was cremated at a separate cremation ground meant for Dalits at his native village Bamla in Haryana’s Bhiwani district.

Haryana’s wrestler Sakshi Malik, made the nation proud by winning a bronze medal at the Olympics. But back in Mokhra, Malik’s native village in Rohtak, women’s dream of attaining equality with men seems far-fetched.

Black soot hangs thick in place of blackboards inside half-a-dozen schools, a grim reminder of the violence and arson during the Jat stir for reservation in education and jobs. Some the extensively damaged schools, where students are to write their high school board exams, cannot say how they will get things ready for the test as well as prepare simultaneously for the next academic session.

For girls of a Haryana village school, attending nature’s call was a problem. The toilets in government high school in Anwal village in Rohtak were always dirty. With no cleaning staff, hygiene was an issue.