With the Municipal Corporation elections on the horizon, MLAs across Ludhiana have been on a spree to inaugurate projects, even for minor ones like installing tubewells and building public toilets. On Tuesday, MLAs Madan Lal Bagga and Ashok Prashar Pappi inaugurated a ₹12-lakh tubewell project in the Kesar Ganj area. They’re simply trying to score political points.” An MC official, …
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested Sanjay Badaya, a close aide of former Rajasthan public health and engineering department minister Mahesh Joshi, from Jaipur in connection with the alleged Jal Jeevan Mission scam. The arrest took place based on an FIR lodged by the state Anti-Corruption Bureau in August 2023 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after arresting two …
Jaipur: The Enforcement Directorate has made a fresh arrest in connection with its money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the Jal Jeevan Mission scheme being implemented in Rajasthan, officials said on Wednesday. The central government's Jal Jeevan Mission aims to provide safe and adequate drinking water through household tap connections and is being implemented in Rajasthan by the state's …
A 28-year-old man and his 80-year-old grandfather died on Friday afternoon allegedly after being electrocuted while fetching water from a tubewell in a village in Greater Noida, senior police officers said. Sonu and his grandfather Harkiran, residents of Attapeer village, were heading from the market to their home when they stopped at the tubewell to fetch some water home. ) …
On Saturday, a 70-year-old Sadhu was stoned to death by unknown murderers in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district. The brutal crime reportedly occurred in the early hours of the morning when Buddhasen was sleeping by a tubewell in Lala Nagla hamlet, which falls under the district’s Vijaygarh police station area. Giving information about the murder, CO Barla Abhay Pratap Pandey said …
A protest erupted in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur on Tuesday after Kisnaram Bheel, a 45-year-old Dalit man, died after he was allegedly beaten by around 11 to 13 men on Sunday. The accused men belonged to the same community as Kisnaram and had allegedly beaten him up as they objected to him extracting water from a local tubewell. Eight of the accused …
The highly-subsidised electricity supplied to Haryana’s farm sector to run agriculture tubewells will cost the state government ₹6.67 per unit in 2022-23 financial year. The power tariff approved by the HERC for 2022-23 said agriculture tubewell supply tariff will be ₹ 6.67 per unit for the metered supply. The power tariff approved by the HERC for 2022-23 said agriculture tubewell …
