Jaipur, June 24 (IANS) Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (RPCC) President Govind Singh Dotasra on Wednesday refuted allegations made by the state Agriculture Minister Kirori Lal Meena. He accused Minister Meena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led state government of attempting to divert attention from the alleged fertiliser and seed scam in the Agriculture Department.Addressing a press conference at the state Congress headquarters, Dotasra said that before levelling allegations against o…
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Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar, June 24 (IANS) Gujarat Health Minister Praful Pansheriya said on Wednesday that the state government would take strict action against all those involved in the alleged blood plasma adulteration racket busted in Ahmedabad district, describing the tampering of life-saving medical supplies as a “grave offence that endangered patients’ health”. His remarks came a day after the Ahmedabad Rural Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) dismantled a racket accused of replacing genu…
Shahjahanpur, June 24 (IANS) Two wanted criminals, accused in cow slaughter cases and carrying a reward of Rs 10,000 each, were arrested following a police encounter during a joint operation conducted by the Special Operations Group (SOG), Surveillance Cell, and Kant Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district. Illegal country-made pistols, cartridges, and a mobile phone were recovered from their possession.According to Additional Superintendent of Police (City), Shahjahanpur, Devendra Kumar…
Ayodhya, June 8 (IANS) A notorious and wanted criminal carrying a reward of Rs 1.90 lakh was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) in Ayodhya, officials said on Monday. The criminal was identified as Bhanu Pratap Singh, alias Bablu, a resident of Vidhanapar village under the Belghat police station area in Gorakhpur district. According to officials, the STF cornered him near the Aimi Ghat bridge in the Maharajganj police station area of Ayodhya at around 11 p.m. o…
Ahmedabad, June 6 (IANS) Ahmedabad has emerged as the epicentre of Gujarat Police’s ongoing ‘Operation Delta Hunt’, accounting for the highest number of Bangladeshi nationals identified during the statewide verification and enforcement drive and offering investigators an unprecedented insight into how undocumented migrants were living, working and moving across the state. The operation, launched simultaneously across Gujarat after weeks of intelligence gathering, telecom analysis, technical surv…
Srinagar, June 6 (IANS) Village Defence Committee (VDC) members in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district have been given specialised training in handling automatic weapons and techniques of guerrilla warfare.VDC members of Doda district have expressed confidence in tackling any security challenge following specialized training in handling automatic weapons and guerrilla warfare techniques, officials said on Saturday.As part of efforts to strengthen security in far-flung border villages, the Specia…
Viramgam, June 1 (IANS) A large-scale demolition and encroachment removal operation was carried out in Viramgam town of Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district on Monday morning to facilitate the widening of State Highway No. 17 under the Viramgam-Surendranagar-Wadhwan four-lane road project.The drive covered around 4,000 square metres of government and private land along an approximately 400-metre stretch near Gangasar Lake, where officials said long-standing encroachments had created a traffic bottlene…
Surat, May 20 (IANS) The Surat City Police apprehended 73 people, including several repeat offenders linked to serious crimes such as murder, robbery, and narcotics offences, during a city-wide crackdown on illegal weapons under a special drive called “Operation Rambo”, officials said on Wednesday. The operation was launched by the city police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) after Police Commissioner Anupam Singh Gehlot took note of the growing use of deadly weapons such as swords, knives, …
Jaipur, May 16 (IANS) Rajasthan BJP chief Madan Rathore launched a sharp attack on the Congress over the NEET paper leak controversy, saying the party had no moral authority to question the BJP government on examination scams. Rathore alleged that the former RPSC Chairman, considered a close aide of former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, had been arrested in a paper leak case, accusing the Congress of being “neck-deep in corruption”Addressing the media during the third session of the ‘Pandit De…
Jaipur, May 14 (IANS) The alleged masterminds behind the Rajasthan NEET-2026 paper leak, Mangilal and Dinesh Binwal, belong to a family that had recently drawn attention for producing five medical students. Even as the Special Operations Group investigates their alleged wealth, political connections, and financial dealings, relatives maintain that the brothers are innocent and have been involved only in the real estate business, not in any examination racket.In a social media post dated November…