19/07/2025
📰 Key Headlines: Haryana News from the Past Week
1. Inter-State Yamuna River Clean-up Initiative
The Union Home Ministry has launched a coordinated mission involving Haryana, Delhi, and UP to clean the Yamuna. Haryana aims to curb industrial pollution by March 2026 and build new sewage and effluent treatment plants by March 2028. Up to 2,400 cusecs of Ganga water will be diverted to enhance river flow.
2. Encounters & Crime
In Yamunanagar, police shot and wounded two members of the Venkatt Gang; both are hospitalized and under police questioning. No police personnel were harmed.
In Gurgaon's Sushant Lok area, authorities raided an illegal IVF‑surrogacy clinic operating since April–May 2025. The centre lacked proper licenses and stored dozens of frozen embryos and semen samples, often from economically vulnerable donors. This is the first FIR of its kind in Haryana.
3. Environmental Enforcement
The NGT has taken action against the Faridabad Animal Husbandry Department for illegally cutting down heritage peepal and ficus trees without following permit conditions. Environmental compensation estimates are to be submitted before the next hearing on October 16, 2025.
4. Administrative & Judicial Updates
The Punjab and Haryana High Court directed medical officers to deliver reports in criminal investigations within two days, stressing timely submissions to aid justice delivery. Compliance is expected by August 1.
Haryana has proposed three HCS officers for deputation to Chandigarh administration to fill a vacancy. Final selection is expected within a week.
5. Governance & Appointments
Ashim Kumar Ghosh was appointed as the new Governor of Haryana on July 14, 2025, replacing Bandaru Dattatreya.
6. Bureaucratic Gaffes & Accountability
A Faridabad citizen who requested a death certificate for his father instead received a birth certificate by mistake. The Haryana Right to Service Commission fined the clerk involved.
7. Judicial Oversight on Academic Rights
The Supreme Court relaxed bail conditions for Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, criticizing the Haryana SIT’s FIRs as overreaching. The court emphasized free speech and academic freedom, even quipping, “You don’t need a dictionary” to interpret his remarks.