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Jaipur Sanitation Worker Dies by Suicide; Scanner on Officer: Cops
A 55-year-old contractual sanitation worker, on Thursday night, died by suicide inside the meeting hall of the Jaipur Heritage Municipal Corporation (JMC-H), said police officials, adding that he accused an executive engineer of the department of intimidating him over his work.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Civic archives from 1880s to be digitised for public access
Delhi's archival documents dating back to the 1880s — currently stored in the record room of Chandni Chowk's historic Town Hall — will soon be digitised to improve public access, aid academic research, and deepen engagement with India's democratic past, officials said on Thursday.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Kamra's Arrest Not Needed for Probe: Court on Plea Against FIR
The Bombay high court on Friday admitted a petition filed by comedian Kunal Kamra, seeking the quashing of a first information report (FIR) lodged against him for allegedly defaming Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde during a show in February.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Samsung to Invest $117 Million in Tamil Nadu Facility: Minister
South Korea's Samsung Electronics will invest ₹1,000 crore ($117.09 million) in its facility in southern India, a minister said on Friday, months after the plant faced worker protests following employee suspensions.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
WII Conducts Census of the Great Indian Bustard After Eight Years
For the first time in eight years, a detailed census of Rajasthan's state bird, the Great Indian Bustard (Godawan), has been completed in Jaisalmer.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Govt May Allow 49% Foreign Stake in Nuclear Power Plants
India could allow foreign companies to take a stake of up to 49% in its nuclear power plants, three government officials familiar with the matter said, as New Delhi draws up plans to open up its most guarded sector to help achieve goals to cut carbon emissions.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Govt may allow 49% foreign stake in nuclear power plants
India could allow foreign companies to take a stake of up to 49% in its nuclear power plants, three government officials familiar with the matter said, as New Delhi draws up plans to open up its most guarded sector to help achieve goals to cut carbon emissions.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Four Unarmed Guards Tourists' Only Safety Net
The six-kilometer-long mountain dirt track between Pahalgam town market and the Baisaran meadow was not guarded by armed personnel, and the closest thing to security for the tourists who visited the meadow, the site of the deadly April 22 attack that killed 26 people, were four unarmed guards from a cadre affiliated to the Jammu and Kashmir police, according to officials.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
What is wrong with Nitish Kumar Reddy, SRH's middle-order bedrock?
Sitting in the opposing corner during last year's Boxing Day Test match, watching Nitish Kumar Reddy take down Australian pacers and spinners with equal contempt, Pat Cummins and Daniel Vettori would have been counting days before the Indian all-rounder would join hands with them for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Protests in state against terror attack in J&K; BSF on high alert
Protests were held in several parts of Rajasthan on Friday in response to an attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
IMF Says Asia Can Cut Rates to Cushion Economy From Tariff Shock
The International Monetary Fund said Asian central banks generally have room to lower interest rates to support domestic demand and offset the impact of the escalating global trade war, with the region in much stronger shape than before the Asian financial crisis.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
J&K attack likely to expand counterterror role of forces
The April 22 terror strike near Pahalgam signals an imminent change in counter-terror dynamics in Jammu and Kashmir as the security forces are now likely to find themselves overstretched, with their role possibly no longer confined to stopping terrorist infiltrators coming from Pakistan and other duties in the hinterland, but also working out a strategy to deal with attacks on vulnerable tourist destinations in the union territory, officials aware of the matter said on Thursday.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Cross-border wedding called off after attack
Amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan following the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, a much-awaited cross-border wedding has been stalled, dashing the hopes of a family from Rajasthan's Barmer district after years of effort.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
RBI Pulls Plug on Jalandhar's Imperial Urban Co-op Bank
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday said it has cancelled the licence of Jalandhar-based Imperial Urban Co-operative Bank as the lender does not have adequate capital and earning prospects.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Steel sector safe from dumping, says Goyal
India is poised to contribute significantly to global steel demand, Union minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday while emphasizing that the government has been able to protect the domestic steel industry from unfair dumping and irrationally low pricing.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
L-G Sinha, Army Chief and Top Commanders Review Security
Every perpetrator of the Pahalgam terror attack must be hunted and made to pay a heavy price for the dastardly act, Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha said on Friday at a security review meeting with top army officials, including Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Himanta Govt Seeks Rollback Of 'Eco-Sensitive' Tag At Kaziranga
The Assam government has written to the Centre to seek the withdrawal of a proposal for an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) encompassing the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, which has the largest population of the endangered one-horned rhino, and seven other protected areas adjoining it, citing unresolved boundary issues, unsettled community rights and potential for socioeconomic distress.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
From law to liberation: An SC judge who drinks only Gangajal
EVEN WHEN HIS OFFICIAL RESPONSIBILITIES TAKE HIM ABROAD, JUSTICE KAROL STAYS ROOTED IN HIS VOW TO DRINK ONLY GANGAJAL
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
India-Pak tensions force flight reroutes
Top Indian airlines Air India and IndiGo are bracing for higher fuel costs and longer journey times as they reroute international flights after Pakistan shut its airspace to them amid escalating tensions over a deadly militant attack in Kashmir.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Strange homecoming for Iyer as Punjab take on KKR
Having led KKR to the title last year before he was let go, Shreyas Iyer will have a point to prove
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Iran-US Nuclear Programme Negotiations Resume in Oman
Negotiations between Iran and the US over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme will return on Saturday to the secluded sultanate of Oman, where experts on both sides will start hammering the technical details of any possible deal.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
No aliens yet, but signs from distant planet are interesting
Imagine observing our Sun from 120 light-years away, using an observatory as powerful as our James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), trying to figure out whether there are planets around our Sun, and whether there are signs of life on any of them.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Higher expenses dent Maruti Suzuki Q4 profit
The carmaker's consolidated net profit in Q4 declined by 1% y-o-y to ₹3,911 cr
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
It was a complete horror': Survivors grapple with trauma, seethe at govt
Asavari Jagdale, the 26-year-old daughter of Pune interior designer Santosh Jagdale killed in Pahalgam, led her father's funeral procession carrying the fire for the final rites—a task that is usually performed by the male members of the family.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Elphinstone bridge in Mumbai set to be razed in 3 months
The railways on Thursday discussed alternative routes and ticket counters for the time when the Elphinstone road over-bridge (ROB) shuts down for vehicular traffic and pedestrians.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
World Court Orders Review of Israel's Jurisdiction Challenge
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday ordered a pretrial panel to reconsider an Israeli appeal against the court's jurisdiction over Gaza and the West Bank.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
China vows to ready its emergency plans
Signals Calm Amid Trade War
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
India Names 59-Member Squad for Asian C'ships in South Korea; Neeraj to Skip
India on Friday named a 59-member team for the upcoming Asian Athletics Championship in South Korea with star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra expectedly skipping the event, with almost all those who had excelled in the just-concluded Federation Cup in Kochi making the cut.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Srinidhi on losing Sita's role to Sai Pallavi
Telugu actor Sai Pallavi is set to portray Sita alongside Ranbir Kapoor's Lord Ram and Yash's Ravana in director Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana.
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April 26, 2025
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
DDA Approves ₹8,720 Crore Annual Budget for 2025-26
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA), chaired by Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena, has approved its annual budget for 2025-26, pegging total expenditure at ₹8,720 crore and projecting a surplus of ₹840 crore.
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