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Amid a row over an alleged attack on members of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) during a visit to a government school in Jaipur, the outfit and local villagers have lodged FIRs against each other, accusing one another of assault and creating a ruckus. The CJP team on Friday reached Rampura Kanwarpura village to inspect […]
Violence broke out in Rampura Kanwarpura village in Rajasthan’s Jaipur district on Friday when volunteers of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) were stopped from entering a government school for an inspection, with both sides giving sharply different accounts of what followed. The CJP volunteers had arrived in the Bagru area to inspect the school’s infrastructure […]
Five people have been booked after two Dalit men alleged that they were subjected to caste-based abuse, forced to vacate chairs and sit on the ground during an Independence Day programme at a government school in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district, according to the FIR. The alleged incident occurred on August 15 at the government school in […]
In a major multi-state crackdown against the ISI-backed, Pakistan-based Shahzad Bhatti Network (SBN) ahead of Independence Day, security agencies busted its terror syndicate and thwarted plans for subversive attacks aimed at disrupting the occasion. In a coordinated operation carried out on August 12, using a real-time intelligence-sharing system with state police forces, they made 254 […]
The Rajasthan government has restricted the entry of outsiders in government schools without prior permission of the principal and barred photography and videography without written approval, a move which came after the CJP announced it would inspect schools in the state that are in a “poor” condition. The government order issued on Sunday evening also […]
A 45-year-old man was electrocuted when he tried to help pilgrims after a canter carrying them came in contact with a high-voltage power line in Gharaunda on late Saturday night, while six pilgrims were injured, said Gharaunda police. The deceased was identified as Naresh Kumar, a retired Army personnel and a resident of Gharaunda. As […]
Four people were killed and four others sustained injuries after a private speeding bus hit a group of devotees while they were loading luggage into a stationary pickup on the roadside after returning from Patla Peer Shrine in Jhalawar district, police said on Sunday. Sarola SHO Budharam Choudhary said a preliminary enquiry suggested brake failure […]
A man, who rushed to help pilgrims after a canter truck carrying them came in contact with a high-voltage power line in Haryana’s Karnal, was electrocuted while over 20 people in the vehicle were injured, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday night when the canter carrying over 50 pilgrims was headed to […]
Ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s programme in Alwar on Sunday, police detained some students, saying they were allegedly planning to hold a protest and show black flags over a range of issues, including the demand for restoration of student union elections. Shah, accompanied by Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, is scheduled to address […]
Two days after they went missing, the bodies of a 65-year-old milk seller and his wife were found stuffed inside a trunk at their home in Udaipur’s Punawali village on Friday, police said. The deceased were identified as Lahri Lal Paliwal (65) and his wife Radha Devi (62), SHO Shaitan Singh Nathawat said. The couple […]
Umesh Chander Datta, IPS, presently posted as Inspector General with the elite Special Protection Group (SPG), which looks after the security of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded the President’s Medal for Distinguished Service on the occasion of Independence Day. Datta, born and educated in Chandigarh, belongs to Rajasthan cadre of the IPS. His father […]
The Chandigarh Police have busted an interstate illegal arms supply network operating between Rajasthan and Chandigarh, arresting five accused and recovering six firearms, 21 live cartridges and two magazines, officials said on Thursday. The bust comes close on the heels of the city police busting a Pakistan-linked arms-smuggling module and arresting a history-sheeter with more […]
