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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicBarmer district

Topic: Barmer district

Angry protesting students call IAS Tina Dabi ‘reel star’. She says ‘non-issue created for a viral moment’

Dabi, who has often found herself at the centre of controversies owing to her popularity on social media, is an IAS of Rajasthan cadre. She is currently serving as Barmer collector.

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

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.