JAISALMER: Rajasthan’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) detained a ‘maulvi (cleric)’ in Kuriyaberi village, located in Tanot-Kishangarh area near the India-Pakistan border, for his suspected involvement in potential anti-national activities in the region. Sources said the operation leading to the detention of the 45-year-old cleric, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was initiated Saturday on the basis of…
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat HC has paved the way for a couple’s divorce after their marriage broke down over conflicting desires about where to live — the husband preferred living in the UK, but the wife did not want to leave India.The HC quashed Ahmedabad’s family court order that had rejected a mutual-consent divorce petition as “premature”.The…
Baytoo Shifted To Barmer; Gudamalani, Dhorimana To Balotra JAISALMER/JAIPUR: In a controversial move, the Rajasthan govt has overnight redrawn the boundaries of the Barmer and Balotra districts, prompting significant administrative shifts and igniting political row over the timing and intent. A revenue department notification dated December 31, which surfaced publicly on the night of January…
RAIPUR: One-and-a-half months after top Maoist gun Madvi Hidma was felled in an encounter in Andhra Pradesh, his confidant Barse Deva surrendered along with 40-odd rebels in neighbouring Telangana on Saturday, a development security officials described as the wipeout of PLGA battalion number 1, the most feared Maoist strike unit in Bastar.Deva and Hidma were…
Barse Deva was a close associate of Madvi Hidma, the rebel top gun killed in Andhra Pradesh recently. Over the past two years, over 518 Maoists were killed in encounters across the state, mainly in Bastar division.Bastar IG P Sundarraj the operation was launched following inputs about presence of armed cadres, and of the 14…
NEW DELHI: BJP working president Nitin Nabin is likely to be formally elected the party’s president before the budget session, which usually starts in Jan last week, setting off an organisational overhaul.Sources said the election process for national president is expected to begin after January 14, which marks the start of an auspicious period from…
The Union government’s Functionality Assessment of Household Tap Connections 2024 covered 15,094 rural households between September and October 2024 and was released last month. Water samples were collected from two households per source/scheme… and tested for three types of parameters: E Coli, total coliform in NABL-accredited labs, and on-site testing for pH, Union govt assessment…
INDORE: In Bhagirathpura, mornings no longer begin with the clang of utensils and the rush to fill water pots. In the country’s cleanest city, people now pause before drinking water. The densely populated neighbourhood in Indore district, home largely to daily-wage workers and small shop employees, is still coming to terms with the deaths caused…
INDORE: Angry residents of Bhagirathpura area, where 10 deaths have been reported because of contaminated drinking water – although MP govt has confirmed a toll of five so far – want those guilty of negligence to be held to account.Hours after reports of deaths and hospitalisations surfaced on December 29, Indore municipal corporation (IMC) officials…
AHMEDABAD/BENGALURU: After sewage contamination of drinking water caused 10 deaths in Indore, Gandhinagar and Bengaluru are also grappling with a similar public health scare.While a sudden surge in typhoid cases has been reported in several localities of Gandhinagar, residents of KSFC Layout in Bengaluru’s Lingarajapuram area have been reporting symptoms like gastrointestinal pain, vomiting and…