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Now, I am Zeenab, leave us alone, says Barmer missing woman in video

The woman, Ritu Khandelwal, now known as Zeenab, said that she married Gulzar Khan and all documents related to her marriage are authentic.

Ritu Khandelwal, now known as Zeenab.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Apr 24, 2018 10:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Contribute to environment protection, plant a tree, online

If you want to contribute to the environment by planting a tree, you can do so with a few clicks of your mouse

An NGO, SankalpTaru, has started an online portal, which will help you plant a tree on your behalf in the Thar and some other locations in India.(HT File)

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Updated on Apr 23, 2018 10:10 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

To woo voters, Rajasthan government announces free power connections

The government will provide free connections under the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Scheme.

A woman works in a field in Shekhawati area in Rajasthan. The move will benefit around 15 lakh families in the state.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 19, 2018 10:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Two Rajasthan teens leave home to meet Facebook friends

Police have traced them and handed them over to their parents.

One of the teens had travelled to Patna in Bihar.(REUTERS/ Representative image)

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Updated on Apr 18, 2018 10:16 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Bharat Bandh: BJP asks party leaders to reach out to Dalits

Facing heat from the Dalit community during April 2 Bharat bandh, the state BJP government and the party have extended an olive branch to the community and started a damage control exercise

Protestors in Jaipur during ‘Bharat Bandh’ called by SC, ST communities on April 2.(Himanshu Vyas/HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 13, 2018 10:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Rajasthan government employees on leave on April 2 on police radar

The police have sought a list of government employees who were on leave on April 2 from the district administration.

Smoke billows from a burning bus in Alwar on April 2.(PTI)

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Updated on Apr 11, 2018 10:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Caste panchayat boycotts family over dowry complaint

Sheo police in Barmer have lodged a case of social boycott of a family by caste panchayat. The victim alleged that they have approached the police with the dowry harassment complaint, after which the caste panchayat have passed the diktat of social boycott of the whole family

The members of a family in Rajasthan’s Barmer who have been facing a social boycott by fellow villagers following a diktat passed against them by a caste panchayat.(HT Photo.)

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Updated on Apr 08, 2018 09:56 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Bharat bandh: Dalits allege police harassed protesters

The activists claimed that police intentionally registered cases against Dalits to harass them.

Protestors during the Bharat Bandh in Rajasthan on April 2.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 08, 2018 09:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Barmer BJP, Congress leaders in blame game over Bharat bandh violence

The BJP and the Congress blamed each other for the violence during the April 2 Bharat bandh called by Dalit organisations protesting the Supreme Court’s ruling that, they say, dilutes a law protecting their rights, even as normalcy has returned to Rajasthan’s Barmer district

Protesters in Jaipur during a Bharat bandh on April 2 called by Dalit organisations against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (prevention of atrocities) Act.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Apr 06, 2018 09:12 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Barmer govt hospital not equipped for surgery on HIV-positive

Most people have to travel at least 200 km to Jodhpur or places in Gujarat for the surgery.

Around 1,500 HIV-positive people are registered with anti-retroviral therapy centre at the district hospital and 1,071 with Barmer Network for People living with HIV/AIDS.(HT Photo/Representative image)

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Updated on Apr 01, 2018 09:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Barmer police team leaves for Kashmir to trace missing woman

Police claimed that the girl had converted to Islam in December last year.

Ritu Khandelwal, 18, went missing from her home in Barmer.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 30, 2018 09:52 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Father of Barmer woman who converted to Islam says she’s in danger

The woman had gone missing on March 16.

Ritu Khandelwal, from Barmer, who converted to Islam in Kashmir.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 28, 2018 09:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Barmer woman converts to Islam to marry Kashmiri man, J&K high court provides security cover

According to the documents received with the HC order, Barmer’s Ritu Khandelwal, 18, converted to Islam on her own will and became Zeenab

Ritu Khandelwal, 18, of Barmer converted to Islam on her own will and became Zeenab.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 27, 2018 10:40 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByMukesh Mathrani

Govt provides 3,477 agri power connections in 4 years, promises 9,570 in next few months

In the last four years of the BJP rule in Rajasthan, the electricity department provided 3,477 connections for agricultural use in Barmer

In just over nine months, the Raje government wants to grant 9,570 more agriculture power connections in Barmer district.(HT)

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Updated on Mar 24, 2018 10:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Horse for which Salman Khan offered ₹2 crore, a star attraction at Rajasthan’s Barmer cattle fair

A rare-breed horse for which Bollywood actor Salman Khan had reported offered to pay more than ₹ 2 crore, but was rejected by the owner, has become the star attraction at the Tilwara cattle fair in Rajasthan’s Barmer

Saqab, the horse’s popularity has soared so high that eager traders and onlookers alike are queuing for selfies with the “star attraction” at the Tilwara cattle fair in Rajasthan’s Barmer.(HT Photo.)

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Updated on Mar 17, 2018 08:58 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Cops register report in Barmer 3 years after man goes missing

Gida police lodged the missing person’s report on Tuesday after Barmer superintendent of police Gagandeep Singla directed them. The SP said Narsaram met him to complain that Gida police had not registered his report about the missing of his father

Rajuram Beniwal of Malwa Goliyan village under Gida police station in Rajasthan’s Barmer district went missing three years ago.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 14, 2018 08:57 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Refinery office to be set up in Rajsathan’s Jodhpur miffs Barmer residents

Residents said that if the administrative office of the Pachpadra refinery is set up at Jodhpur, then there will be no meaning of setting up the refinery in Barmer.

Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and Union minister of state for petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan at the signing of a memorandum of understanding to set up oil refinery in Barmer’s Pachpadra.(Representative Picture/HT File Photo.)

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Updated on Mar 13, 2018 09:56 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

BSF personnel battle drinking water problem at border outposts in western Rajasthan

Ravi Gandhi, BSF deputy inspector general at Rajasthan frontier, said the problem isn’t restricted to Barmer and that border outposts in Jaisalmer and Bikaner in the state face it too.

According to BSF officials, they are sometimes forced to get drinking water from towns located 80 km to 125 km from outposts.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 04, 2018 07:51 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Rajasthan: Video shows trust chief dragging woman by hair, kicking her; police register case

The accused is yet to be questioned.

Eyewitnesses said that the victim is mentally challenged and destitute.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Feb 27, 2018 09:24 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Centre stops job scheme funds for CM’s cleanliness mission in Rajasthan

The Centre has asked the Rajasthan government to stop using national rural job scheme funds for a village cleanliness drive in the state, said officials familiar with the development.

Mukhyamantri Swachh Gram Yojna aims at making Rajasthan villages clean and creating awareness about cleanliness among the rural people besides encouraging them to recycle biodegradable waste.(AFP File Photo)

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Updated on Feb 24, 2018 09:05 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Big cat that injured five villagers in Rajasthan’s Barmer, caught

Forest department officials late on Wednesday trapped a leopard, a couple of days after the big cat attacked and injured five villagers in Barmer’s Nawatala Rathodan village

Forest department officials late on Wednesday trapped a leopard that attacked and injured five villagers in Barmer’s Nawatala Rathodan in Rajasthan.(HT Photo.)

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Updated on Feb 22, 2018 10:28 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Addiction leads farmer to grow opium, arrested

Police said Bishnoi is addicted to poppy husk, locally called doda post, and got his daily fix from the legal vends until April 2016 when the state decided to shut down the vends and banned the use of husk.

Barmer police raided the man’s illegal poppy farm on Monday and destroyed 840 opium plants before arresting the farmer, Jairam Bishnoi.(HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Feb 21, 2018 08:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

90% farmers in Barmer, Jaisalmer won’t benefit from loan waiver

Raje has announced a one-time loan waiver of up to ₹50,000 for small and marginal farmers.

Police deployed as farmer protest during their Mahapadav (sit-in) demanding implementation of Swaminathan Commission Report in Bikaner.(PTI File)

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Updated on Feb 17, 2018 10:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Four years on, CM’s budget announcement yet to see light of the day

The Maru Vikas Board was proposed for the planned development of Barmer and Jaisalmer districts. The board was to have its headquarters in Barmer and was supposed to ensure all-around development of the desert districts.

Chief minister Vasundhara Raje presents State Budget 2018-19, at the state assembly, in Jaipur.(HT FILE PHOTO)

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Updated on Feb 13, 2018 09:27 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Women groups in Barmer fight hygiene battle with low-cost sanitary pads

Superstitions and cultural taboos associated with periods have persisted at the cost of women’s health and safety. Studies show a link between infections that cause cervical cancer and poor menstrual health.

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Updated on Feb 11, 2018 04:23 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Barmer refinery: Rajasthan Congress leaders hit out at PM Modi

Former Congress parliamentarian from Barmer Harish Choudhary said work on the multi-crore proposed oil refinery project is yet to start more than three weeks after the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone on January 16

Congress national secretary and former Barmer MP Harish Choudhary interacting with the media person at Barmer on Saturday.(HT Photo.)

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Updated on Feb 03, 2018 10:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Woman forms gang of thieves to arrange bail money for brother

Two members of the gang were arrested, but the woman managed to give the police a slip.

The two arrested members have confessed to their crime.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 23, 2018 10:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Eligible people not getting benefit of govt schemes: Rajasthan MLA

The MLA blamed official inaction for the situation.

Manvendra Singh, legislator from Sheo assembly constituency, in Barmer.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 22, 2018 10:21 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Rajasthan: Jats upset with Modi for ignoring their folk deities

Members of a Jat social outfit also objected to the use of ‘khamma ghani’ as salutation by the PM.

Prime minister Narendra Modi being presented a turban at a rally in Barmer.(PTI)

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Updated on Jan 18, 2018 10:23 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Leopard which injured 4 villagers caught in Barmer

The leopard had attacked four villagers in Peelu village.

Forest department officials with the leopard which was caught in Barmer on Wednesday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 17, 2018 10:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByMukesh Mathrani

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The woman, Ritu Khandelwal, now known as Zeenab, said that she married Gulzar Khan and all documents related to her marriage are authentic.

If you want to contribute to the environment by planting a tree, you can do so with a few clicks of your mouse

The government will provide free connections under the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Scheme.

Police have traced them and handed them over to their parents.

Facing heat from the Dalit community during April 2 Bharat bandh, the state BJP government and the party have extended an olive branch to the community and started a damage control exercise

The police have sought a list of government employees who were on leave on April 2 from the district administration.

Sheo police in Barmer have lodged a case of social boycott of a family by caste panchayat. The victim alleged that they have approached the police with the dowry harassment complaint, after which the caste panchayat have passed the diktat of social boycott of the whole family

The activists claimed that police intentionally registered cases against Dalits to harass them.

The BJP and the Congress blamed each other for the violence during the April 2 Bharat bandh called by Dalit organisations protesting the Supreme Court’s ruling that, they say, dilutes a law protecting their rights, even as normalcy has returned to Rajasthan’s Barmer district

Most people have to travel at least 200 km to Jodhpur or places in Gujarat for the surgery.

Police claimed that the girl had converted to Islam in December last year.

The woman had gone missing on March 16.

According to the documents received with the HC order, Barmer’s Ritu Khandelwal, 18, converted to Islam on her own will and became Zeenab

In the last four years of the BJP rule in Rajasthan, the electricity department provided 3,477 connections for agricultural use in Barmer

A rare-breed horse for which Bollywood actor Salman Khan had reported offered to pay more than ₹ 2 crore, but was rejected by the owner, has become the star attraction at the Tilwara cattle fair in Rajasthan’s Barmer

Gida police lodged the missing person’s report on Tuesday after Barmer superintendent of police Gagandeep Singla directed them. The SP said Narsaram met him to complain that Gida police had not registered his report about the missing of his father

Residents said that if the administrative office of the Pachpadra refinery is set up at Jodhpur, then there will be no meaning of setting up the refinery in Barmer.

Ravi Gandhi, BSF deputy inspector general at Rajasthan frontier, said the problem isn’t restricted to Barmer and that border outposts in Jaisalmer and Bikaner in the state face it too.

The accused is yet to be questioned.

The Centre has asked the Rajasthan government to stop using national rural job scheme funds for a village cleanliness drive in the state, said officials familiar with the development.

Forest department officials late on Wednesday trapped a leopard, a couple of days after the big cat attacked and injured five villagers in Barmer’s Nawatala Rathodan village

Police said Bishnoi is addicted to poppy husk, locally called doda post, and got his daily fix from the legal vends until April 2016 when the state decided to shut down the vends and banned the use of husk.

Raje has announced a one-time loan waiver of up to ₹50,000 for small and marginal farmers.

The Maru Vikas Board was proposed for the planned development of Barmer and Jaisalmer districts. The board was to have its headquarters in Barmer and was supposed to ensure all-around development of the desert districts.

Superstitions and cultural taboos associated with periods have persisted at the cost of women’s health and safety. Studies show a link between infections that cause cervical cancer and poor menstrual health.

Former Congress parliamentarian from Barmer Harish Choudhary said work on the multi-crore proposed oil refinery project is yet to start more than three weeks after the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone on January 16

Two members of the gang were arrested, but the woman managed to give the police a slip.

The MLA blamed official inaction for the situation.

Members of a Jat social outfit also objected to the use of ‘khamma ghani’ as salutation by the PM.

The leopard had attacked four villagers in Peelu village.

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