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By Gitanjali Das, Senior Assistant Editor

As Vinesh Phogat returned to India and made her way from Delhi’s IGI airport to Haryana, there were tears, there were drum beats, there were showers of flower petals, and there were politicians.

With the Haryana elections around the corner, the political undercurrents were palpable at the wrestler’s roadshow. With Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda perched on top of her SUV and his MLAs and ticket aspirants felicitating her at various stops, it was pretty much a Congress show. BJP leaders were noticeably absent. Read this report by Sushil Manav.

The Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) is in the throes of a meltdown. Within hours of the Election Commission announcing Haryana election dates, party MLA from Uklana Anoop Dhanak’s resignation landed in the WhatsApp messages of top JJP leaders and the WhatsApp groups of Haryana journalists. On Saturday morning, four more resignations from more JJP MLAs started trickling in. Read this report by Sushil Manav.

Did you, like many others, think butter chicken is a dining table staple in Punjabi households? Well, the facts paint a very different picture. Latest statistics show that Punjabis feature among the lowest chicken- and egg-eating populations in the country. You’ll never guess where chicken consumption is the highest in the country. Read this report by Nikhil Rampal to find out.

On 17 July 2018, a three-year-old girl was brought to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital by her adoptive mother with injuries and continuous bleeding from her private parts. The woman claimed that the child had injured herself while playing. However, she went on to become the main suspect in the case and was accused of penetrative sexual assault. Read more about the complex case in this report by Bismee Taskin.

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Opinion

How the 2018 experiment of bringing Imran Khan to power failed is a masterclass in how not to run your country with a single working brain cell. Establishments in the world work to destabilise other governments, but the Pakistani establishment believes in destabilising its own, writes Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat.

With celebrities and influencers such as Elvish Yadav and Farah Khan endorsing Adivasi oils as elixirs, Hakki Pikki tribal community members have emerged as successful entrepreneurs in the hair oil industry. Today, almost every Hakki Pikki family in Pakshirajapura village near Mysuru is manufacturing and marketing traditional Adivasi hair oil, writes ThePrint’s Heena Fatima.

Video

MakeMyTrip wants Indians to come back home, and it’s asking in Gulzar’s voice. Watch Triya Gulati explain the brand’s latest campaign in ThePrint ‘Vigyapanti.’

As dengue cases surge in many parts of the country, experts say that prevention and timely management could be the keys to prevent it. Watch Dr Ashwani Kumar, ex-director, ICMR and Neeraj Nischal, additional professor, AIIMS, in ThePrint ‘Health And You’ with Sumi Sukanya.