Newspaper
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Draft Data Protection Rules Can Be Improved
Issues around overbreadth, clarity, and discretionary power being placed in the hands of State agencies call for wider discussion
3 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Post 370 Kashmir has no place for UN office
Recent strikes by Pakistan Air Force in Afghanistan, the last was on Christmas Eve, are a grandchild of the Cold War triggered by American diplomat George Kennan's 8,000-word telegram from Moscow in 1946 that was realpolitik in its most clinical form; he scorned democracy and saw no American interest in defending American values far from home.
4 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
How Indian Diaspora Can Contribute to Viksit Bharat
This year, Odisha is hosting the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. Over the years, Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi has enhanced not only the Indian diaspora's participation in the event but also their sense of community, pride, and purpose among millions of non-resident Indians (NRIs).
3 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Rekindle the animal spirits
Creating mass demand, leading to a boom in investment, is necessary; encouraging consuming classes to spend will help
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
HC Upholds SC Student's Access to Scholarship
The Bombay high court on Monday upheld the eligibility of a Scheduled Caste (SC) student for a scholarship to study in the Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU).
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Env ministry eases afforestation process for the coal blocks
EXPERTS HAVE SAID RAISING PLANTATIONS ON DEGRADED FOREST LAND DOES NOT COMPENSATE FOR LOSS OF FORESTS
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Restore 4 Bhiwandi wetlands that are dumps: NGT to Thane collector
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Thane collectorate to clean up four wetlands in Anjur Dive village in Bhiwandi, which were turned into a dumping ground over the last one year.
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
3 School Students Among 4 Killed in Road Accident in Jharkhand: Cops
Officials Said the Students Were on Their Way to School Despite a Govt Order Directing Schools to be Shut in View of the Severe Cold
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Jammu-Kashmir train aims to tackle sub-zero temps
The tailor-made Vande Bharat Express, which will be the first ever train to link Jammu with Kashmir, is ready and has been brought to Delhi, said officials aware of the matter.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
IED was likely planted a month before detonation
The high intensity IED (improvised explosive device) used by Maoists in an attack in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Monday, in which eight police personnel and a civilian driver were killed, was likely planted at least a month before the incident, officials aware of the matter said, adding that Bijapur continues to be a hot spot for Left-wing extremism (LWE), with IEDs planted by the Maoists being recovered frequently.
4 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Data localisation only for specific purposes
The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules will take a targeted approach to data localisation, affecting only specific categories of personal data and for specific purposes, information technology (IT) secretary S Krishnan said, adding that there are no easy solutions to verifying children's age online.
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Lapses in security under lens after strike by insurgents
A number of security lapses, ranging from inadequate combing operations to breach of norms, may have led to the killing of nine people in an IED blast by Maoists in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, officers aware of the matter said on Tuesday.
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Parl Panel On Simultaneous Polls Holds Its First Meeting
The parliamentary panel constituted to scrutinise the two bills on simultaneous elections held its first meeting on Wednesday.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Formula E Race Case: Senior IAS Officer Appears Before ACB
Senior IAS officer Arvind Kumar, one of the accused in the first information report (FIR) registered in Formula E race case, appeared before the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Tech solutions can help verify kids' age: Minister
IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday that the country has technological solutions to verify children's age online, leveraging its digital infrastructure to implement the new draft data protection rules' parental consent requirements even as he conceded that verifiable parental consent is a global problem.
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Will reclaim land taken under pretext of Waqf
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said the state government will reclaim every inch of land that has been taken under the pretext of waqf.
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
'Ruthless' conspiracy: Delhi Police opposes bail to 2020 riots accused
The 2020 riots in northeast Delhi were part of a \"clinical and pathological\" conspiracy, orchestrated by forces hostile to India, and carried out with \"ruthless intensity,\" the Delhi Police told the Delhi high court on Tuesday.
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Canadian Held at IGI for Carrying Croc Head
In an unusual bust at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, customs officials at Terminal 3 intercepted a Canadian national who they realised was \"acting suspicious\", only to discover that he was carrying in his luggage the severed head of a crocodile.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Assembly Session to Begin from Jan 31
The third session of the 16th Rajasthan legislative assembly will commence on January 31, assembly speaker Vasudev Devnani said on Wednesday after reviewing the preparations for the session.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Forest dept to track leopard population amid rise in man-animal conflict: Official
Amid the rise number of leopards and human-wildlife conflict in Rajasthan, state forest minister Sanjay Sharma on Wednesday directed officials concerned to keep a track of the population of leopards, excluding those in Tiger Reserves, in protected areas using the camera trap method, officials familiar with the matter said.
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Expert: Jaisalmer May Have Links To Tethys Sea
Eruption of water at a borewell drilling site in Mohangarh region in Jaisalmer has led to claims of the city's proximity to the Tethys Sea, an ocean that existed about 250 million years ago.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Expert: Jaisalmer May Have Links to Tethys Sea
Days after the leakage of gas and water during a tubewell drilling operation in the desert region of Jaisalmer, an ONGC team in its report has advised against attempting to remove the trapped truck and machinery, citing such action could trigger another round of water and gas leakage.
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Govt Sanctions Women Police Battalion In Three Districts
The state government on Wednesday gave financial and administrative sanction for the constitution of women police battalion in Sikar, Alwar and Barmer district of Rajasthan, an official familiar with the matter said.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Govt Merges 190 Schools Over Zero Enrollment and Poor Infra
The government has merged at least 190 primary and upper primary schools across the state that have been running with zero enrollment and poor infrastructures, officials familiar with the matter said.
4 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Asaram moves HC to suspend life sentence
Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, convicted of sexually assaulting a minor, on Wednesday moved the Rajasthan high court seeking suspension of the life sentence awarded to him by the special court in Jodhpur.
2 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Need talks on ancient languages, says official
More discussions on Sanskrit and other ancient Indian languages are important to develop the value system of Indian society, said Neeraj K Pawan, secretary of sports department.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Elgar Parishad Case: Bail to Rona Wilson, Sudhir Dhawale
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to researcher Rona Wilson and activist Sudhir Dhawale, both arrested in 2018 in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Army divers retrieve body of one miner from flooded 300-foot-deep coal mine in Assam
Indian army divers retrieved the body of one of at least nine miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India's northeastern Assam state, officials said Wednesday.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
JEE Aspirant, 19, Dies by Suicide in Kota, First Such Case This Year
A 19-year-old student preparing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission in undergraduate engineering courses, died by suicide in Rajasthan's Kota district on Wednesday, police said.
1 min |
January 09, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's marriage of two years has officially ended
Jennifer Lopez and actor Ben Affleck's divorce has finally come through.
1 min |