While another man, Zafar Khan, was lynched in Rajasthan for shielding a woman, no arrests have yet been made although there are witnesses who saw CPI-ML leader Zafar Hussain, 55, being beaten viciously by municipal workers. Notably, Pratapgarh commissioner Ashok Jain was also allegedly part of the group that was[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a middle-aged man was beaten to death by municipality employees as he was allegedly trying to stop them from scaring women defecating in open and taking their pictures in Pratapgarh town on Friday. The incident took place near Bagwasa Kachi Basti area at around 6.30 am.[Read More…]
Those working for the Rajasthan government for over 15 years or attained 50 years of their age and whose integrity is suspicious and work unsatisfactory may lose their job. Rajasthan Chief Secretary O P Meena, in an order, has asked all department heads to mark those employees or officials who[Read More…]
On Friday, a nationwide stir has been started by the farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan where they are blocking national highways as a part of their protest. The farmers have gathered in order to protest against the death of five cultivators in police firing in Madhya Pradesh and also against[Read More…]
In a merciless act, two men in Nagaur, Rajasthan have been arrested for allegedly kicking and beating a mentally-challenged woman with a rubber pipe. The incident reportedly happened on Tuesday but came to light when someone uploaded a video on social media. Woman mercilessly thrashed in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district, forced[Read More…]
Doctors in Udaipur were stunned to find female reproductive organs in a 22-year-old man’s body while treating him for undescended testicles. Surgeons effectively detached a uterus, ovaries, and cervix from the man, who does not wish to be named. The patient’s condition is improving after the surgery and now he[Read More…]
Recently, a top Indian sociologist, Bindeshwar Pathak, has announced to name one Indian village after US President Donald Trump. The decision has been taken as part of his efforts to strengthen India-US relationship. The village is being developed in Mewat region, Rajasthan. In a community event organised in Washington DC,[Read More…]
While the debate over cows cow vigilantism intensifies after repeated instance of violence across the country, in another occurrence of fury, on Sunday, over 50 men attacked a truck from Tamil Nadu in Barmer district of Rajasthan, ferrying cows as they suspected cattle smuggling. According to the police, 4 people,[Read More…]
Farmers’ protest which was till now confined to Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh will now take a nationwide turn with 62 farmers’ organisations to hold a nationwide protest from Sunday. The action was decided in a meeting held in Delhi a day before. It is scheduled that from June 11 until[Read More…]
Rajasthan government has announced to raise the insurance amount by one lakh for farmers. Nearly 7 lakh farmers who have availed crop loan through cooperative banks in Rajasthan will get an insurance cover of Rs 6 lakh by giving only Rs 27 as yearly premium. Read more: The law of the[Read More…]
A bad cell phone signal forced the MoS for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal on Sunday to climb a tree in Rajasthan’s Bikaner. This probably is the first such incident. Meghwal instructed authorities to take help from villagers in his constituency after climbing a tree. Eventually, a special ladder was ordered[Read More…]
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced its result for class X today on its official website cbse.nic.in. Until now, the results of 11 regions, including, Allahabad, Chennai, Delhi, Dehradun, Trivandrum, Ajmer, Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar, Madras, Guwahati and Patna have been announced. However, the board informed that the results of[Read More…]
Seeking safety of cows in wake of the ongoing beef tension in the country, the Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday came out with a statement, asking the government to declare cows as the national animal of the country. Rajasthan government runs the ‘Hingonia Cattle Rehabilitation Center’, that seeks to preserve[Read More…]
The Rajasthan High Court judge, Justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma, who asked for the cow to be declared a national animal, has caused much outrage by saying that peacock is the national bird because it is “celibate”. He said, “Peacock is a Bramhachari and it does not have sex with a[Read More…]
The Rajasthan high court on Wednesday suggests the Centre to declare cow as the national animal of India. The recommendation comes as a number of states in the nation are protesting the government’s move to impose ban on the slaughter of cattle, mainly cows, for commercial purposes. Presently, the tiger[Read More…]
Chief Minister of Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje has admitted that recent crimes, including those by cow vigilantes, against minorities are bringing a bad name to the state. She also said that strict actions will be taken against those committing the violence. “The law of the land prevails in Rajasthan, and the[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a young woman from Jaipur has alleged that her parents had hired murderers to kill her husband. She said that she saw her husband murdered. Mamata Chaudhary, 30, had married Amit Nayyar, 28, an engineer from Kerala a year-and-a-half ago. They had met when they were[Read More…]
Ziqitza Healthcare Ltd (ZHL) director, Sweta Mangal has reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking speedy resolution of what she termed was a “witch hunt” against her and her colleagues. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached properties worth Rs 11.58 crore belonging to Mangal and Ravi Krishna, Congress leader Vyalar[Read More…]
In an unfortunate incident, over 26 people, including 4 children were killed while 28 others injured when a wall of a wedding hall collapsed during a heavy storm in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan on Wednesday night, police said. The area was hit by a storm when the wedding was going[Read More…]
A Dalit man riding a mare during his wedding procession (baraat) was attacked with beer bottles and dragged along the road allegedly by a group of upper caste men in Rajasthan’s Udaipur district, according to multiple reports. Kailash Meghwal, the groom, was attacked in Jhalo Ka Dhana village in Udaipur.[Read More…]
The Rajasthan Congress on Friday met Governor Kalyan Singh and demanded a CBI probe into the murder of dairy farmer Pehlu Khan in Alwar by the cow vigilantes. 55-year-old Pehlu Khan was beaten to death on April 1 in Rajasthan’s Alwar district by the self-proclaimed gaurakshaks onApril 1. A delegation[Read More…]
Controversial Hindu leader Sadhvi Kamal equated the self proclaimed cow vigilantes who were accused of lynching a Muslim dairy farmer in Rajasthan’s Alwar to freedom fighters such as Bhagat Singh or Chandrasekhar Azad and called them future heroes. “When Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad went to jail, then they were[Read More…]