JAIPUR: Cricket was in the desert air as politics took the dais in poll-bound Rajasthan on Sunday, with PM Narendra Modi aiming at Congress’s stumps by alluding to the Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pilot tussle with an analogy about how its leaders “forget to make runs and try to run out each other”.That wasn’t the only cricketing … Read more
A majority of women in West Bengal and Jharkhand were married by the age of 21, while the proportion in Jammu and Kashmir was less than 10% in 2020. In Delhi, over 17% of women married before 21. In the country as a whole, nearly 30% of women married by the time they were 21, … Read more
JAIPUR: Thousands of people — including teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Relief Force (SDRF), civil defence and locals — clapped in joy the moment a two-year-old girl was bailed out from a 200-foot-deep borewell in which she had fallen on Thursday morning near Abhaneri village in Rajasthan’s Dausa district. Unlike … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday conducted raids at 40 locations linked to NGO representatives, their middlemen and home ministry officials for allegedly facilitating violation of foreign funding rules. The CBI said that hawala transactions worth Rs 2 crore have been detected so far in the raids. It has been detected … Read more