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At Jaisalmer shelter, no food for Muslims forced out of village

Jaisalmer municipal commissioner says they don’t have budget to provide food to displaced families.

The Muslim families cook their own food after district administration failed to supply food.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Oct 12, 2017 10:20 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Indian man who crossed over to Pakistan in 1990 detained on returning

Hasan Khan crossed over to Pakistan from Jaisalmer in 1990 and stayed with his sister.

Hasan Khan has been detained in Rajasthan after he crossed back to India from Pakistan. (ANI Twitter)

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Updated on Oct 10, 2017 07:45 PM IST

Barmer, Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani

Rajasthan: Muslims forced to leave village after threats from upper caste Hindus

Trouble at the Jaisalmer village began during a Navratri function in a village temple on September 27, where folk musician Amad Khan performed religious songs, a tradition in Dantal, about 700 km from state capital Japiur.

Mewat Yuva Sangthan takes out a silent march in Alwar demanding arrest of accused in Pehlu Khan lynching case. The mass exodus is the latest in a series of incidents targeting the minority community in the BJP-ruled state, where Pehlu Khan, a cattle trader from Haryana was lynched in April by a cow protection vigilante group.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Oct 08, 2017 04:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Dalit rape victim threatens to commit suicide, alleges police inaction

A week after a Dalit rape victim committed suicide in Barmer, another Dalit rape victim has threaded to commit suicide alleging police inaction in her case

The victim’s father alleged that Uttmaram is getting undue favour from the police and is continuously threatening them.(HT File/Mohd Zakir)

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Updated on Sep 19, 2017 09:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Housing for all a distant dream, of planned 4.73 lakh, only 5974 built

More than two years after it was launched in June 2015, the scheme has failed to pick pace in the state with Vasundhara Raje government achieving just a little over 1% of the set target.

The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana envisages affordable housing for all by 2022.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 18, 2017 09:14 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

‘Jan-Dhan’ account big hurdle to government welfare schemes

32 thousand families deprived from getting benefits of ‘PM Awas yojana’.

An incomplete house, which was being built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 17, 2017 08:08 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Protest erupts in Barmer over minor’s gang rape

Mass protest erupted across Barmer district on Saturday a day after a six-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped inside a state-run school

Students protest against the minor’s gang rape, in Barmer on Saturday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 16, 2017 08:34 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Six-year-old girl allegedly tied to table, gangraped in govt school in Rajasthan

The incident came to light after the victim complained of pain in her private parts to her parents, who rushed her to a local hospital.

A social activist hold placards during a protest against rape, in New Delhi.(AFP FILE PHOTO)

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Updated on Sep 15, 2017 05:48 PM IST

Barmer, Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani

Indian forces ready for any situation: Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman

New defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman says she would give top priority for maintaining optimum preparedness of the armed forces.

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman with Indian Air Force chief Air Marshal B S Dhanoa (left) at the Uttarlai airbase in Rajasthan’s Barmer district on Sunday.(HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Sep 10, 2017 11:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Sitharaman to visit forward airbase Uttarlai in Rajasthan on Sunday

Newly appointed defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman will start her field work on Sunday with a visit to India’s first underground airbase in Barmer district that borders Pakistan

Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday assumed charge as the country’s defence minister.(HT Photo)

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Published on Sep 09, 2017 05:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

In Pakistan jail for 32 years, this Rajasthan man finally has a shot at freedom

Laxmi was 18 when her husband strayed across the frontier and was captured in 1985. He was a cattle grazer in Gohad Ka Tala, a village close to the India-Pakistan border.

Laxmi Singh with the photo of her husband Bhagu Singh who has been languishing in a Pakistani jail for three decades.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 08, 2017 08:39 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Donkey in vehicle leaves cow vigilantes sheepish in Rajasthan

A group of alleged vigilantes chased a vehicle suspecting cow smuggling and beat up the people in it in Barmer.

In the name of saving cows, self-proclaimed cow protectors have unleashed violence in several parts of the country.(HT Photo/Picture for representation only)

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Updated on Sep 04, 2017 08:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Looking for ‘missing’ Sarswati, Haryana team reaches Jaisalmer

Haryana and Rajasthan have launched efforts to revive the mythical river believed to have disappeared 4,000 years ago.

Millions take a dip at Sangam, the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad. Soon after coming to power in 2014, the NDA government revived efforts to trace Saraswati.(HT file photo)

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Updated on Sep 01, 2017 08:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Shifted from ‘neglected’ shelter, ten cows die in Rajasthan

The deaths led to protest by villagers and cow vigilantes.

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Updated on Sep 01, 2017 06:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Veiled threat in Swachh drive: ‘Want to live with your wife, get a toilet first’

Swachh authorities in Barmer have printed banners containing the message, which has been displayed at many places in the district.

Hoardings containing the message, “If you want to live with your wife, have a toilet first”, have been put up at many places in Barmer.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 27, 2017 07:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Barmer crude scam: Cairn removes over 10 officials

Cairn Oil and Gas has removed more than 10 officials for their alleged links with the Barmer crude oil scam

Cairn earlier suspended 31 contracts and sub-contracts, leaving hundreds of workers jobless.(HT File Photo)

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Published on Aug 25, 2017 07:52 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Villagers pledge ₹22 lakh for govt school infrastructure in Rajasthan

Students of government senior secondary school in Ogala village in Barmer sit either under a tree or in the verandah outside eight locked and unusable classrooms. Only three classes -- 9, 11 and 12 -- are held in classrooms

After villagers pledged ₹22 lakh for development of the school in Ogala, the state government announced to donate ₹33 lakh.(HT Photo)

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Published on Aug 21, 2017 07:58 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Funds for bustard conservation embezzled, allege EDC members

The Centre and the state government funded activities under Project Bustard and Rajasthan Forestry and Biodiversity Project between 2013 and 2016 for conservation of the endangered birds, locally called ‘godawan’

Tthe Great Indian Bustard is on the brink of extinction with just 200 or so left in the wild.(HT File)

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Updated on Aug 17, 2017 09:10 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

446 Barmer schools with no teachers get one each, ward off closure threat for now

With these 446, Barmer now has 1,100 schools with just one teacher. It makes up for more than 26 per cent of the 4,213 government schools in the district.

Students attend class under a tree at a government school in Rajasthan.(HT file photo/Picture for representational purpose only)

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Updated on Aug 11, 2017 08:18 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Rajasthan floods: Hundreds of families displaced, relief still elusive

Gudamalani and Dhorimanna blocks are the worst affected after rain damaged a Narmada canal on July 21 and gushing water submerged dozens of villages.

Villagers being moved to safer locations in Barmer.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 03, 2017 08:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Can Barmer become ODF by end of 2017 with 70% work remaining?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set October 2, 2019, as the deadline for the country to become open defecation free but Rajasthan’s cabinet minister Surendra Goyal, who’s in charge of Barmer, set a different deadline for the border district for the ODF tag

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan aims to make India open defecation free by October 2, 2019, but progress is slow in Rajasthan’s Barmer.(HT File Photo.)

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Updated on Jul 30, 2017 07:15 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Oil’s not well behind 20-ft-high walls in this Barmer factory

The factory in Barmer Dadan, 10 km from Barmer city, was one of the first factories police raided to unearth one of the biggest oil theft scams

The underground tankers at a Barmer factory where crude oil stolen from Cairn wells was stored.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 26, 2017 07:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Heavy rain causes flood-like situation in Rajasthan, schools closed in 2 districts

In the capital Jaipur, many areas were submerged even on Monday and local residents reported having to wade through knee-to waist-deep water

The heavy rainfall has washed away many makeshift structures.(HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Jul 24, 2017 12:30 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani

Barmer Oil scam: 3 more factories sealed, 20k litre of crude seized

The district police on Sunday made a new revelation in the oil scam claiming that crude stolen from Barmer was also being supplied to factories in nearby Jalore district.

One of the factories, where the stolen crude oil was stored, was sealed by the police on Sunday.(HT Photo.)

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Updated on Jul 23, 2017 07:55 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Rajasthan: Over 5 crore litres of crude stolen from Cairn oilfield in Barmer; 8 held

According to police, the tanker operators were authorised for transporting water, but used to carry oil in two of the five compartments inside the nearly 40,000-litre tanker. The rest would be filled with water.

A Cairn India employee works at a storage facility for crude oil at Mangala oil field at Barmer in Rajasthan.(REUTERS)

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Updated on Jul 22, 2017 10:25 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Barmer | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Three killed in Rajasthan as vehicles swept away while crossing flooded road

A minor boy was among three people killed when several vehicles trying to cross a flooded road was swept away in Barmer on Thursday night.

Rescue workers deploy a crane to retrieve a pick-up van trapped in flood waters in Rajasthan’s Barmer on Thursday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 21, 2017 10:36 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByMukesh Mathrani

Posts vacant, Rajasthan’s first digital FM station yet to tune in to border villages

A newly installed hi-frequency transmitter, which can negate the border villages’ dependency on Pakistan radio stations, is yet to start functioning because posts have not been filled up.

The country’s third and Rajasthan’s first 20-kilowatt digital FM (frequency modulation) radio station was set up in March.(Representative Photo)

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Updated on Jul 12, 2017 08:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Now use FB, Gmail accounts for college admissions in Rajasthan

Though left with no option, college authorities have expressed shock, saying the directive has made it difficult for them to identify fake application forms.

Rajasthan’ college education department, in its admission policy for 2016-17, has recognised Facebook and Gmail accounts, along with Aadhaar and Bhamashah cards, as valid identity documents to fill up admission forms.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 09, 2017 07:51 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Rajasthan govt order: Principal to face action if school closes because of staff crunch

The Rajasthan secondary education department issued the directive to officials after many schools were closed down in the state as vacant teachers’ posts could not be filled.

In Barmer district alone, 2799 posts are vacant in schools. Villagers at many places have warned that if posts are not be filled up soon, they will lock the schools(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 08, 2017 08:20 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

Demonetisation spawns note ban of a different kind in Barmer

For the past one week, the public sector bank’s branches have been turning away people coming to deposit small currencies – Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 50 and Rs 100 – because the vaults have no space to store them.

Bakhtawar Singh, the manager of currency chest, Barmer, SBI, says the Reserve Bank of India, which was supposed to collect the demonetised notes, was yet to do so. Hence, there is no space.(REUTERS)

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Updated on Jul 06, 2017 08:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMukesh Mathrani, Barmer

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Jaisalmer municipal commissioner says they don’t have budget to provide food to displaced families.

Hasan Khan crossed over to Pakistan from Jaisalmer in 1990 and stayed with his sister.

Trouble at the Jaisalmer village began during a Navratri function in a village temple on September 27, where folk musician Amad Khan performed religious songs, a tradition in Dantal, about 700 km from state capital Japiur.

A week after a Dalit rape victim committed suicide in Barmer, another Dalit rape victim has threaded to commit suicide alleging police inaction in her case

More than two years after it was launched in June 2015, the scheme has failed to pick pace in the state with Vasundhara Raje government achieving just a little over 1% of the set target.

32 thousand families deprived from getting benefits of ‘PM Awas yojana’.

Mass protest erupted across Barmer district on Saturday a day after a six-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped inside a state-run school

The incident came to light after the victim complained of pain in her private parts to her parents, who rushed her to a local hospital.

New defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman says she would give top priority for maintaining optimum preparedness of the armed forces.

Newly appointed defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman will start her field work on Sunday with a visit to India’s first underground airbase in Barmer district that borders Pakistan

Laxmi was 18 when her husband strayed across the frontier and was captured in 1985. He was a cattle grazer in Gohad Ka Tala, a village close to the India-Pakistan border.

A group of alleged vigilantes chased a vehicle suspecting cow smuggling and beat up the people in it in Barmer.

Haryana and Rajasthan have launched efforts to revive the mythical river believed to have disappeared 4,000 years ago.

The deaths led to protest by villagers and cow vigilantes.

Swachh authorities in Barmer have printed banners containing the message, which has been displayed at many places in the district.

Cairn Oil and Gas has removed more than 10 officials for their alleged links with the Barmer crude oil scam

Students of government senior secondary school in Ogala village in Barmer sit either under a tree or in the verandah outside eight locked and unusable classrooms. Only three classes -- 9, 11 and 12 -- are held in classrooms

The Centre and the state government funded activities under Project Bustard and Rajasthan Forestry and Biodiversity Project between 2013 and 2016 for conservation of the endangered birds, locally called ‘godawan’

With these 446, Barmer now has 1,100 schools with just one teacher. It makes up for more than 26 per cent of the 4,213 government schools in the district.

Gudamalani and Dhorimanna blocks are the worst affected after rain damaged a Narmada canal on July 21 and gushing water submerged dozens of villages.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set October 2, 2019, as the deadline for the country to become open defecation free but Rajasthan’s cabinet minister Surendra Goyal, who’s in charge of Barmer, set a different deadline for the border district for the ODF tag

The factory in Barmer Dadan, 10 km from Barmer city, was one of the first factories police raided to unearth one of the biggest oil theft scams

In the capital Jaipur, many areas were submerged even on Monday and local residents reported having to wade through knee-to waist-deep water

The district police on Sunday made a new revelation in the oil scam claiming that crude stolen from Barmer was also being supplied to factories in nearby Jalore district.

According to police, the tanker operators were authorised for transporting water, but used to carry oil in two of the five compartments inside the nearly 40,000-litre tanker. The rest would be filled with water.

A minor boy was among three people killed when several vehicles trying to cross a flooded road was swept away in Barmer on Thursday night.

A newly installed hi-frequency transmitter, which can negate the border villages’ dependency on Pakistan radio stations, is yet to start functioning because posts have not been filled up.

Though left with no option, college authorities have expressed shock, saying the directive has made it difficult for them to identify fake application forms.

The Rajasthan secondary education department issued the directive to officials after many schools were closed down in the state as vacant teachers’ posts could not be filled.

For the past one week, the public sector bank’s branches have been turning away people coming to deposit small currencies – Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 50 and Rs 100 – because the vaults have no space to store them.

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