Jaipur: Aamir Khan's highly acclaimed 'Satyameva Jayate' has inspired a sarpanch in a Rajasthan village to register police cases against women and families who go for tests to detect and abort the girl child. "Illegal sex determination is rampant in the Shekhawati region (Jhunjhunu, Churu and Sikar districts)," sarpanch Randheer Singh of Budania village told IANS. The village, some 200 km from here, is home to some 5,000 people. Randheer...
02:09 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Suspected Naxals on Thursday killed a Sarpanch in the Gondia district in Maharashtra. The Sarpanch was abducted by the Naxals on May 7. The body was recovered on Thursday morning with bullet injury marks. Police had launched suo moto search operation following abduction. ...
10:19 AM, May 10, 2012
Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal sarpanch who slapped a lady teacher was arrested on Tuesday, but was out on bail shortly after that on a bond of Rs 50,000. Teachers refuse to relent until satisfactory action is taken. Angry teachers took to streets after Varinder Kaur, a teacher from Gidderbaha, was assaulted in public by Shiromani Akali Dal sarpanch Balwinder Singh. Kaur was slapped and manhandled when she and other...
07:07 PM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: An FIR has been registered against the Shiromani Akaali Dal sarpanch who slapped a woman teacher, who was demanding a permanent job, at a function in Muktsar district in Punjab. The lady Varinder Kaur was part of a delegation of teachers who wanted to meet Bhatinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the wife of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal at the function on MOnday. A scuffle broke out...
10:26 AM, Dec 06, 2011
A sarpanch belonging to the Shiromani Akali Dal repeatedly slapped and manhandled a woman teacher in Gidderbaha in Punjab. ...
07:36 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a Shiromani Akali Dal Sarpanch Balwinder Singh of Gidderbaha in Punjab slapped and manhandled a woman teacher during the public visit program of Harsimrat Kaur Badal who is Member of Parliament and wife of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. A group of teachers from the education guarantee scheme teachers union had gone to the venue to put forth their demands for jobs....
01:25 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Mumbai: Sarpanch of social activist Anna Hazare's village Ralegan Siddhi will meet AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Tuesday, an associate of the Gandhian said on Sunday. "Our village sarpanch Jaisingh Mapari will meet Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Tuesday and request him to visit the village," Hazare's aide Datta Awari said. The villagers would like to show Rahul the progress done by Ralegaon Siddhi in areas like...
10:29 PM, Oct 16, 2011
New Delhi: Angry villagers near Gurgaon tried to burn a man alive for killing a village sarpanch. The man died in the hospital, but police said that the absconding assailants are part of a criminal gang. A 45-year-old sarpanch of Hyatpur village near Gurgaon was shot dead by a group of men. The incident enraged the villagers who caught one of the assailants and set him on fire while the...
02:11 PM, Jun 24, 2011
New Delhi: Chamail Singh, a key witness in the murder case of former Haryana village sarpanch Karam Singh, was found dead near a police post in Karnal on Wednesday. Singh was in his mid-40s and a resident of Panipat. In a statement given on Monday, he said that he had paid a bribe of Rs 4 lakh to former Chief Parliamentary Secretary Zile Ram Sharma for securing a job for...
12:05 PM, Jun 16, 2011
Chandigarh: After CNN-IBN reported how an old former sarpanch was killed on their orders, the Haryana government has forced transport minister OP Jain and Chief Parliamentary Secretary Zileram Sharma to quit. Former sarpanch Karam Singh's family had alleged that Jain and Sharma got him killed because he dared to ask them to return Rs 13 lakhs paid to them for jobs for his son and two others. "Police is interrogating...
10:20 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Jammu: He earned a masters in business administration (MBA) in Derbyshire and was flooded with job offers. But Gurmeet Singh Bajwa had other dreams. He has just been elected a sarpanch of a small village close to the Pakistan border. At age 28, Bajwa says this is what he is committed to: serve village folks still steeped in poverty and corruption. "At one point, my promise was to live up...
01:30 PM, May 31, 2011
Kunzar, Baramulla: The panchayat election results of Jammu and Kashmir have thrown up a big and nice surprise as a Kashmiri Pandit woman has been elected a Sarpanch. Her phone hasn't stopped ringing since 52-year-old Ashaji, as she is fondly called, was elected as the Sarpanch two days ago. She was greeted with hugs and kisses by neighbours and friends in Wussan village of Baramulla. A Kashmiri Pandit, Asha defeated...
07:38 AM, May 12, 2011
Kunzar, Baramulla: The panchayat election results of Jammu and Kashmir have thrown up a big and nice surprise as a Kashmiri Pandit woman has been elected a Sarpanch. Her phone hasn't stopped ringing since 52-year-old Ashaji, as she is fondly called, was elected as the Sarpanch two days ago. She was greeted with hugs and kisses by neighbours and friends in Wussan village of Baramulla. A Kashmiri Pandit, Asha defeated...
07:38 AM, May 12, 2011
United Nations: There was a sense of disbelief among ministers and ambassadors from diverse nations when the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations introduced the jeans-clad Chhavi Rajawat as head of a village in India. For, from a distance one could easily mistake Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontline model or at least a Bollywood actress. But she is sarpanch of Soda...
10:06 AM, Mar 28, 2011
8 months ago the management graduate gave up the comforts of a corporate job in urban India to drive back to her roots. ...
09:33 AM, Oct 28, 2010
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