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Topic: Rajasthan

Rajasthan to ban pvt vehicles to visit Hanuman temple in Sariska tiger reserve, start e-bus shuttles

SC has fixed 31 March, 2025, as deadline for this. Order was passed after court reviewed Central Empowered Committee report on action needed to improve habitat management inside reserve.

A crime-infested Rajasthan village is called IAS factory today. Next goal: more women officers

Nayabas was notorious as a village of criminals until the 1970s. Now, about 500 people from here hold govt jobs, including 10 UPSC officers and over two dozen in state services.

Rajasthan to withdraw Gehlot govt’s suit in SC contesting phone-tap case probe, says ‘no merit in it’

Gehlot govt had moved suit in 2023 seeking declaration from SC that Rajasthan Police & not Delhi Police had jurisdiction to probe ‘phone-tapping’ incident involving Gajendra Shekhawat.

‘Women sarpanches must prove worth at every turn,’ says ‘hockey wali sarpanch’ Neeru Yadav

Yadav, widely recognised for her work as sarpanch of a Rajasthan village — from a girls' hockey team to a financial awareness drive — represented her district at a UN event in May.

Govt job aspirants with fake degrees — how nexus of Rajasthan private universities, gangs was exposed

Om Parkash Jogender Singh (OPJS) University has awarded 43,000 degrees since 2013, much beyond what it was authorised to issue, according to Rajasthan Police.

In 1st budget, BJP govt in Rajasthan promises Khatu Shyam corridor, 4 lakh govt jobs in 5 years

Rajasthan Dy CM & Finance Minister Diya Kumari also announced ‘one state, one election’ and allocation of Rs 13 cr to be spent on celebrating festivals ‘with full joy and devotion’.

Posing as devotees, cylinder delivery boys, how Jodhpur police nabbed 3 accused in 2021 paper leak case

A woman was arrested from Barsana in Mathura district, while two men were arrested from Hyderabad last week in connection with a 2021 sub-inspector/platoon commander paper leak case in Rajasthan.

ED makes 3rd arrest in Rajasthan’s Jal Jeevan Mission ‘irregularities’ case

Mahesh Mittal, owner of Shree Ganpati Tubewell Company, was taken into custody Wednesday.

Karauli rape-murder case takes unexpected turn — parents ‘poisoned 11-yr-old, set her ablaze’, held

Karauli SP says the 11-year-old, who was speech and hearing impaired, was not raped. Relatives insist family ‘being framed’.

‘Zukham pneumonia ban gaya’ — BJP leaders say Oppn’s tactics, infighting, caste factor hurt party in Rajasthan

BJP’s Jhabar Singh Kharra said that Congress successfully created an anti-BJP narrative in Rajasthan, which the party could not thwart. BJP won 14 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

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From Bronze Age migrations to British Raj—how ideas stopped flowing between India and Iran

As early states developed in the Iranian plateau and northern India, ideas continued to circulate between the steppe and the settlements of the Iranian plateau and the Punjab plains.

Geoeconomic confrontation top trigger for global crisis, cyber insecurity biggest risk for India—WEF

WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'

The curious case of Pakistan’s JF-17 orders

Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines. 

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.