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Rajasthan violence leaves 1 dead, five injured; state seeks RAF from Centre

Hundreds of tribal youths blocked NH-8 in Dungarpur on Thursday before setting vehicles on fire and injuring several policemen. They have been demanding the filling of 1,167 unreserved posts of government teachers with ST candidates

Police said Tarun Ahari succumbed to his injuries and his body was shifted to Kherwara mortuary.(Representational Image)

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Published on Sep 27, 2020 10:22 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur/Udaipur | ByJaykishan Sharma, Sohail Khan

Internet suspended, section 144 imposed in four Rajasthan districts after violent protests

The protesters demanded filling of 1,167 unreserved posts of government teachers with ST candidates.

In the last three days, six trucks, five buses, four police vehicles, nine cars, nine tempos and one motorcycle have been torched.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 26, 2020 07:16 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur/Udaipur | ByJaykishan Sharma, Sohail Khan | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

Farmer gets electricity bill of over ₹3 crore for 2 months. This followed

Superintending engineer Girish Joshi said the operator who records meter readings mistakenly keyed in meter number in the column for reading.

The power bill in question going viral on social media.

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Updated on Sep 08, 2020 06:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySohail Khan

US NGO pitches in to restore 140-yr-old legacy in Rajasthan’s Udaipur

The haveli is owned by the Bachhawat Mehta clan and was built by military commander-in-chief of the erstwhile princely state of Mewar in Rajasthan

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Published on Sep 04, 2020 11:40 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySohail Khan

No space, no problem! Rajasthan youth quarantines himself on neem tree amid Covid-19 lockdown

Ishwar Lal Rawat who belongs to Daabkiya village of Bhinder, quarantined himself on the tree as there was no extra room at his house.

18-year old Ishwar Lal Rawat of Rajasthan’s Daabkiya village.(HT Photo)

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Updated on May 06, 2020 04:39 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySohail Khan | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

UP migrant worker quarantined in Udaipur commits suicide

The man was from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh and was among the 187 labourers who were quarantined by the Udaipur district administration at the facility when they were travelling to their home town.

The labourer was found hanging from the ceiling fan at the facility. There was no suicide note so the reason is unclear, according to the police. (Image used for representation).(FILE PHOTO.)

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Updated on Apr 05, 2020 06:28 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySohail Khan

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Vote split by Hanuman Beniwal’s party in Ajmer division worries BJP, Congress

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Top contenders BJP and Congress face competition from newly formed Rashtriya Loktantrik Party led by Jat leader and MLA Hanuman Beniwal in Rajasthan.

The shrine of Saint Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Rajasthan. The growing support Hanuman Beniwal’s Rashtriya Loktantrik Party in Ajmer division has the BJP and Congress worried about a shift in their vote base.(HT File Photo)

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Published on Mar 18, 2019 02:30 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ajmer | BySohail Khan

Rajasthan Assembly Election 2018: Much at stake for veterans Girija Vyas of Congress and BJP’s Gulab Chand Kataria

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: Girija Vyas of Congress and Gulab Chand Kataria of BJP are contesting from the Udaipur assembly seat. Both are entrenched in the politics of the region.

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: Congress veteran Girija Vyas on campaign trail in her assembly constituency Udaipur.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Dec 04, 2018 02:51 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySachin Saini/Sohail Khan, Udaipur

Rajasthan election 2018: PM Modi doesn’t understand Hinduism, says Rahul Gandhi

Speaking at an interaction with local residents in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, Rahul Gandhi questioned what kind of a Hindu the prime minister was.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked prime minister Narendra Modi on issues ranging from Hinduism and women empowerment to demonetisation(PTI)

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Updated on Dec 01, 2018 10:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySachin Saini and Sohail Khan

Constituency watch: Potholed roads, stray dogs plague city of lakes Udaipur

Officials say roads have been damaged for development works, residents feel otherwise; they say pileups of garbage take sheen off beautiful sites

The condition of roads worsens after a few spells of rain. It has become difficult to commute on the roads, say residents.(HT/File Photo)

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Published on Oct 23, 2018 03:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySohail Khan

Commerce undergraduate held with 128 cheat sheets in Rajasthan

A flying squad of Udaipur’s Mohanlal Sukhadia University on Saturday caught an undergraduate student of commerce course with 128 crib sheets during the examination of BCom second year in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan on Saturday

Prof Chandra Shekhar Sharma, head of an anti-copying flying squad of Udaipur’s Mohanlal Sukhadia University, with 128 cheat sheets of printed answers .(HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 01, 2018 10:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

Rajasthan woman reunites with son 10 years after he went to jail for murder

The woman, Dali Bai, from Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh, spent eight years in a mental asylum without any mental illness before being reunited with her son.

Dali Bai meets her son Mohan in the open jail in Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar.(HT Photo.)

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Updated on Jan 28, 2018 10:07 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySohail Khan

Udaipur brothers make machine to produce sanitary pads at low cost

The cost of the machine is Rs 1,00,000 and it has the capacity to produce 1200 pads in a day.

Abdul Kadir Khan (right) with Aleem Khan.(HT PHOTO)

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Published on Jan 22, 2018 09:58 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySohail Khan

Rajasthan: Man killed in road accident, wrist found 28km away from incident site

Police identified the victim as one Vinod Kumar from Hisar in neighbouring Haryana.

Police found a decapitated wrist of a man from a spot some 28km away from where his body was recovered after he met with an accident.(Shutterstock photo for representational purpose only.)

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Updated on Dec 21, 2017 04:55 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySohail Khan

Narendra Modi praises Udaipur boy for drawing on Swachh Bharat

Kapil Meena’s drawing won the first prize at the block and state-level contest. It was also judged the best nationally.

In the painting, Kapil Meena displayed a few people cleaning their village and throwing litter in dustbins(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 22, 2017 08:23 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

In this tribal village sans school, youths ensure kids stay literate

Two youths start a makeshift school in an abandoned building of the forest department to educate village children

Sonu Meena and Ramlal, who run the makeshift school, don’t charge any fee.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 10, 2017 08:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManoj Ahuja and Sohail Khan, Udaipur

Born at 24 weeks, weighing 520gm, baby beats odds to survive

Maya, a premature baby, fought for three-and-half months to survive at the neonatal intensive care unit (ICU) at the Jivanta Children’s Hospital in Udaipur.

During her 102-day at the neonatal ICU, the baby gained weight and on discharge she weighed 1.71 kg(HT FILE PHOTO)

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Updated on Sep 10, 2017 08:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan

Meet Kothari brothers, who designed turban for Narendra Modi

It took them 10 days to make the turban.

Jayant and Jinesh Kothari at their shop in Udaipur.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 29, 2017 08:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

Man kidnapping captured on camera, three abductors arrested in Rajasthan’s Banswara

A 60-year old man was kidnapped in Udaipur on Monday for failing to clear a debt of Rs 20 lakh from a finance company in Banswara. The crime was recorded on the CCTV that showed how three men dragged the man into a car without a registration number

CCTV footage shows a 60-year-old man being kidnapped by two men in a car in Udaipur on Monday.(CCTV Footage.)

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Updated on Aug 22, 2017 08:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

Udaipur collector makes surprise visit, finds class 9 students can’t write english alphabets

District collector Bishnu Charan Mallick during his surprise visit to the school on Wednesday found that the students of senior classes cannot write English correctly.

The collector learnt that students of class 7 don’t have a mathematics teacher.(Burhaan Kinu/HT Photo/ Picture for representation only)

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Updated on Aug 10, 2017 07:32 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

The swachh way of learning in Rajasthan: B for bath, C for cleaning, D for dustbin

Children in 300 primary schools are no longer learning ‘A for apple’ or ‘B for ball’. Now, it’s A for abuse, B for bath, C for cleaning and D for dustbin.

Primary school children in Rajasthan are learning a new set of words in Hindi and English alphabet with pictures and names of different articles related to the importance of sanitation.(HT Photo.)

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Updated on Jul 30, 2017 06:57 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

62-year-old man kills woman friend for her jewels, they turn out to be fake

Accused had poisoned the woman before setting her ablaze after taking her on a long ride in Rajasthan’s Udaipur last month

They had been in a relationship for the last four months.(HT File)

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Updated on Jul 20, 2017 08:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

Udaipur girl youngest participant to join European Peace Walk

The European Peace Walk is a 500-km trek through six countries.

Udaipur’s Tanya Rathi at Sopron in Hungary.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 30, 2017 08:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

Man sets wife ablaze over ₹200

The couple’s two children witnessed the whole incident.

Rape cases across India are on the rise with even erstwhile safe metros such as Bangalore and Kolkata reporting violent crimes against women. Raj K Raj/HT Photo(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 28, 2017 03:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

Doctors remove uterus, ovaries from 22-year-old man’s body in Udaipur

He is recovering from the surgery and now wants to get married.

The man was suffering from Persistent Müllerian Duct Syndrome (PMDS), a rare genetic disorder of sexual development.(Shutterstock)

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Updated on Jun 16, 2017 05:55 PM IST

Udaipur, Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan

Rajasthan’s Shivani Paliwal heads to LA to be part of Simon Fuller’s pop group

imon Fuller, best known for managing The Spice Girls, selected 15-year-old Paliwal and Mumbai girl Simran Duggal after a round of auditions in March this year.

Shivani is a student of Rajiv Shruti Dance Institute in Udaipur.

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Updated on Jun 14, 2017 01:14 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Udaipur | BySohail Khan

Sir Roger Moore: James Bond lives on in the lanes of Udaipur

While earlier, the cafes used to have projectors and screen, nowadays the movie is stored in a pen drive and is shown on large LED TV.

Octopussy was Roger Moore’s sixth film as James Bond.

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Updated on Jun 01, 2017 11:48 AM IST

Hindustan times, New Delhi | ByManoj Ahuja and Sohail Khan

After DNA test, Mumbai woman to be reunited with 12-day-old son she tried to sell for ₹2L a year ago

In May last year, the woman struck a deal with the couple but they refused to take the 12-day-old boy after they saw that he was dark skinned

The boy was sent to a government shelter home. The police recovered some documents which confirmed the deal between the two families(Representational photo)

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Updated on May 03, 2017 10:28 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan, Udaipur

Anushka Sharma makes a surprise visit to an animal shelter in Udaipur. See pics

Anushka Sharma made a surprise visit to an animal care centre called Animal Aid Unlimited near Udaipur in Rajasthan, much to the surprise of the shelter’s team.

Anushka Sharma, who is a known animal lover, shared her experience on her Instagram page.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 27, 2017 02:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySohail Khan

Cop ‘victim-shames’ minor facing harassment on social media, Maneka intervenes

In an apparent case of victim shamming, a teenage girl who was victim of cyber harassment, was asked why she posted pictures on social media by two police officers and a lawyer.

A teenage girl from Udaipur faced cyber harassment when a received a DM of her morphed nude picture on Instagram account.(Representative imafe)

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Updated on Apr 12, 2017 07:43 AM IST

Udaipur, Hindustan Times | BySohail Khan

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Hundreds of tribal youths blocked NH-8 in Dungarpur on Thursday before setting vehicles on fire and injuring several policemen. They have been demanding the filling of 1,167 unreserved posts of government teachers with ST candidates

The protesters demanded filling of 1,167 unreserved posts of government teachers with ST candidates.

Superintending engineer Girish Joshi said the operator who records meter readings mistakenly keyed in meter number in the column for reading.

The haveli is owned by the Bachhawat Mehta clan and was built by military commander-in-chief of the erstwhile princely state of Mewar in Rajasthan

Ishwar Lal Rawat who belongs to Daabkiya village of Bhinder, quarantined himself on the tree as there was no extra room at his house.

The man was from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh and was among the 187 labourers who were quarantined by the Udaipur district administration at the facility when they were travelling to their home town.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Top contenders BJP and Congress face competition from newly formed Rashtriya Loktantrik Party led by Jat leader and MLA Hanuman Beniwal in Rajasthan.

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: Girija Vyas of Congress and Gulab Chand Kataria of BJP are contesting from the Udaipur assembly seat. Both are entrenched in the politics of the region.

Speaking at an interaction with local residents in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, Rahul Gandhi questioned what kind of a Hindu the prime minister was.

Officials say roads have been damaged for development works, residents feel otherwise; they say pileups of garbage take sheen off beautiful sites

A flying squad of Udaipur’s Mohanlal Sukhadia University on Saturday caught an undergraduate student of commerce course with 128 crib sheets during the examination of BCom second year in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan on Saturday

The woman, Dali Bai, from Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh, spent eight years in a mental asylum without any mental illness before being reunited with her son.

The cost of the machine is Rs 1,00,000 and it has the capacity to produce 1200 pads in a day.

Police identified the victim as one Vinod Kumar from Hisar in neighbouring Haryana.

Kapil Meena’s drawing won the first prize at the block and state-level contest. It was also judged the best nationally.

Two youths start a makeshift school in an abandoned building of the forest department to educate village children

Maya, a premature baby, fought for three-and-half months to survive at the neonatal intensive care unit (ICU) at the Jivanta Children’s Hospital in Udaipur.

It took them 10 days to make the turban.

A 60-year old man was kidnapped in Udaipur on Monday for failing to clear a debt of Rs 20 lakh from a finance company in Banswara. The crime was recorded on the CCTV that showed how three men dragged the man into a car without a registration number

District collector Bishnu Charan Mallick during his surprise visit to the school on Wednesday found that the students of senior classes cannot write English correctly.

Children in 300 primary schools are no longer learning ‘A for apple’ or ‘B for ball’. Now, it’s A for abuse, B for bath, C for cleaning and D for dustbin.

Accused had poisoned the woman before setting her ablaze after taking her on a long ride in Rajasthan’s Udaipur last month

The European Peace Walk is a 500-km trek through six countries.

The couple’s two children witnessed the whole incident.

He is recovering from the surgery and now wants to get married.

imon Fuller, best known for managing The Spice Girls, selected 15-year-old Paliwal and Mumbai girl Simran Duggal after a round of auditions in March this year.

While earlier, the cafes used to have projectors and screen, nowadays the movie is stored in a pen drive and is shown on large LED TV.

In May last year, the woman struck a deal with the couple but they refused to take the 12-day-old boy after they saw that he was dark skinned

Anushka Sharma made a surprise visit to an animal care centre called Animal Aid Unlimited near Udaipur in Rajasthan, much to the surprise of the shelter’s team.

In an apparent case of victim shamming, a teenage girl who was victim of cyber harassment, was asked why she posted pictures on social media by two police officers and a lawyer.

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