Jodhpur: Ahead of filing its final chargesheet in the Bhanwari Devi murder case, the CBI on Monday interrogated Kusum Bishnoi, considered to be close to accused Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi. Kusum, pradhan of Bilara constituency to which Bhanwari belonged and a relative of Malkhan, was taken to the agency's office here late this evening. CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra said there was no fresh arrest in the case and efforts...
11:58 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday is expected to take a decision on the minimum age criteria for children seeking nursery admissions in the national capital. It currently stands at 3 years. But the Ganguly committee had in 2007 proposed that the age limit be raised to 4. According to the committee, children were emotionally, mentally and physically better equipped to start school at the age of 4....
06:28 AM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: BJP on Monday urged the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi to formulate a transparent procedure for nursery admissions and ensure its strict implementation by schools as the city government has "failed" to do so. "Delhi Government and its Education Department have proved to be incompetent and useless in helping the children in nursery admissions. They have completed only formalities," Delhi BJP President Vijender Gupta said. He asked the Lt...
04:56 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Jodhpur: One of the main accused in the missing nurse Bhanwari Devi case, Om Prakash Bishnoi, on day refused to record his statement before the magistrate and was remanded to judicial custody. The CBI had moved an application in the court on Tuesday for recording Bishnoi's statements, and brought him to the court on Wednesday. However, he refused to record the statement and came out, sources said. The CBI court...
11:19 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Jodhpur: A wrist watch, a toe ring, a pendant and a broken chain have been recovered from the Indira Gandhi canal near Jaloda village in Jodhpur, said to be the place where Rajasthan nurse Bhanwari Devi was murdered and burnt to death. The CFSL team reached the spot to examine the contents recovered. The CBI team carrying the investigations said that the items belonged to Bhanwari Devi. Bhanwari Devi had...
12:16 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday is expected to decide whether to raise the minimum age criteria for nursery admissions to 4 years plus which currently stands at 3 years. In 2007, the Ganguly committee had proposed that the age limit be raised to 4 years plus to reduce the pressure on parents as well as children. However, the Delhi government had asked for an extension of the...
06:21 AM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: About 300 schools in the national capital opened up nursery admissions for the year 2012 on Monday. With more and more schools going online, things have definitely become simpler, but concerns still remain. The sense of uncertainty is still very much around with lakhs of applicants, a handful of schools and few seats. Puneet Malhotra, a 41-year old consultant, has been to seven schools so far. He feels...
08:41 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Jodhpur: Intensifying efforts to trace the body of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, the CBI has zeroed in on places in Jaloda village where she could have been buried and are scouting the area using sophisticated devices. On the basis of the interrogation of Om Prakash Bishnoi, brother and gang member of Bishna Ram Bishnoi, who is said to have a hand in disposing of the body of Bhanwari devi, a...
06:31 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Jodhpur: Intensifying efforts to trace the body of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, the CBI has zeroed in on places in Jaloda village where she could have been buried and are scouting the area using sophisticated devices. On the basis of the interrogation of Om Prakash Bishnoi, brother and gang member of Bishna Ram Bishnoi, who is said to have a hand in disposing of the body of Bhanwari devi, a...
02:14 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI's custody of key suspect Sahiram Bishnoi ends on Monday. The CBI in its chargesheet claimed that Sahiram had hatched the conspiracy to kill the Dalit nurse at sacked minister, Mahipal Maderna's behest. Bhanwari has been missing for 121 days now. The CBI on Sunday grilled Maderna's wife Leela Maderna and a Congress legislator's son in connection with the disappearance of Devi, sources said. Mahipal was arrested...
11:14 AM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: The sale of nursery admission forms begins in schools across Delhi at 8.30 am on Monday. The common admission forms will be available for the first time and free of cost for economically weaker sections in keeping with Directorate of Education's latest guidelines. The forms can be picked up till January 16. With the start of nursery admission process, parents are all set for the winter scramble to...
09:01 AM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: The judicial custody of accused in the Bhanwari Devi case, Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna and Parasram Bishnoi ends on Saturday. Earlier on Friday, key accused Sahiram Bishnoi had surrendered to the CBI. He has been sent to CBI custody till the January 2. The CBI chargesheet says Sahiram plotted to kill Bhanwari at former minister Mahipal Maderna's behest. Bhanwari Devi, posted as an auxiliary nurse at a sub-centre...
11:13 AM, Dec 24, 2011
Kolkata: The bodies of two nurses of the city's Advanced Medicare & Research Institute (AMRI) hospital who died while saving the lives of the patients during a fire tragedy two days ago - which killed 93 patients and staffers - were sent to their home state Kerala on Sunday. Remya Rajan and Vineetha PK saved eight patients. They died of suffocation. Their bodies brought to the St Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic...
12:09 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Jodhpur: The CBI, probing the Bhanwari Devi missing case, on Tuesday grilled several persons, including her husband Amarchand, officials said. They said the investigating agency have obtained some evidences and are in the process of verifying them. Bhanwari, an auxiliary nurse midwife at a sub-centre in Jaliwada village - around 120 km from Jodhpur, is missing since September 1. Amarchand has alleged she was kidnapped at the behest of Mahipal...
12:33 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Jodhpur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will finally submit its report to the Rajasthan High Court in the Bhanwari Devi case on Thursday. The court had given the CBI time till November 24 to investigate the matter of the missing dalit nurse. The CBI on November 14 approached the court for four weeks time to complete investigations in the case of the missing dalit nurse. While the court granted...
07:40 AM, Nov 24, 2011
Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court will hear the habeas corpus petition submitted by missing nurse Bhanwari Devi's husband on Monday. Former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna who is accused of having a hand in her disappearance is likely to come for the questioning to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court. Maderna skipped questioning since Friday citing health grounds, he was also hospitalised after citing chest pains. Bhanwari Devi has been...
09:59 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: The man accused of kidnapping Dalit nurse Bhanwari Devi will be produced in a Jodhpur court on Saturday. Shahabuddin's period of CBI custody ends on Saturday. Shahabuddin will be tried in the Johpur High Court. Shahbuddin is a history-sheeter and considered to be close to former Rajasthan water resource minister Mahipal Maderna, who was sacked from the Rajasthan Cabinet by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot following allegations that he...
06:21 AM, Nov 05, 2011
Jaipur:In a major breakthrough, one of the two key suspects accused in the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi was remanded to two-day police custody after he surrendered in a court in Jaipur on Saturday. Shahbuddin is a history-sheeter and considered to be close to former Rajasthan water resource minister Mahipal Maderna, who was sacked from the Rajasthan Cabinet by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot following allegations that he behind the...
12:21 AM, Oct 23, 2011
Jaipur: In a major breakthrough in the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, key suspect Shahbuddin surrendered before the Central Bureau of Investigation court in Jodhpur at about 4 PM on Saturday. Shahbuddin is a history-sheeter and considered to be close to former Rajasthan water resource minister Mahipal Maderna, who was sacked from the Rajasthan Cabinet by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot following allegations that he behind the mysterious disappearance of...
05:18 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Jaipur: In a major breakthrough in the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, key suspect Shahbuddin surrendered before the Central Bureau of Investigation court in Jodhpur at about 4 PM on Saturday. Shahbuddin is a history-sheeter and considered to be close to former Rajasthan water resource minister Mahipal Maderna, who was sacked from the Rajasthan Cabinet by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot following allegations that he behind the mysterious disappearance of...
05:18 PM, Oct 22, 2011
