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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicBarmer district

Topic: Barmer district

One arrested in Barmer for posting video of army movement on social media

Barmer police said in a statement that a special cyber patrolling and surveillance campaign is going on in the district and the action was part of that.

Who is Ravindra Bhati, 26-yr-old Rajput rebel raising a ‘desert storm’ in Rajasthan’s Barmer

Bhati won the Sheo assembly seat as an Independent after BJP denied him a ticket. Now, he’s aiming for the Barmer Lok Sabha seat and is drawing comparisons to Sachin Pilot.

Modi rallies to return of Jaswant Singh’s son — BJP’s scramble to retain Barmer as rebel queers pitch

Union minister Kailash Choudhary’s seat is likely to see tough fight from popular Rajput leader & Independent MLA Bhatti who quit BJP last year when it denied him assembly poll ticket.

Why Barmer oil refinery is still a hot election topic in Rajasthan — just like in 2013 & 2018

Work on the Barmer Pachpadra refinery is expected to be completed by March 2024, after a decade of delays, controversies, and battles between BJP and Congress. Blame-game is still on.

Horses to helicopters, moustache to libraries — Dalit pride in Rajasthan has new wings

Ignoring slurs, threats and even lathis, many Dalits in Rajasthan are defying caste norms to ride horses and land in helicopters at their wedding.

Pomegranate to prawns — how Barmer is moving beyond desert staples bajra & cumin

Scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra have helped farmers in Rajasthan's Barmer district grow fruits and vegetables never grown here before, and earn up to five times more.

‘They can break legs, not spirit’: RTI activists call Barmer the ‘kala pani’ of Rajasthan

Rajasthan is where RTI movement began in the late 1990s. Even so, multiple RTI activists in state's Barmer claim they regularly face attacks or threats as they attempt to 'expose corruption'.

‘Pierced with nails, made to drink urine’: Rajasthan RTI activist claims work led to attack

Amra Ram had filed a complaint this month against alleged illegal liquor trade & corruption in two govt schemes in a Barmer gram panchayat. Four arrests for assault so far, police say.

Rajputs compare ‘rape & murder’ of Dalit child by Muslim to ‘cow slaughter’

As politicians try to hijack the incident, the girl’s family says there is no animosity between the Dalits and Muslims in the village.

On Camera

Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.