Jaipur: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) co-owner Shah Rukh Khan on Saturday pleaded guilty for smoking in public and said that he was ready to pay fine. The Rajasthan Police had filed a complaint against Khan for smoking in public during an IPL match at the Swai Man Singh Stadium. The case has been adjourned till June 21 and Khan is not required to appear before the court for now. On...
02:25 PM, May 26, 2012
Jaipur: 82-year-old Pakistani microbiologist Dr Khaleel Chisti's prayers to return to Pakistan finally have been answered. Though only for five months, Dr Chisti will be able to return to his native country as per the Supreme Court's orders. Dr Chisti was ecstatic when he heard this news. Dr Chisti came to India in 1990 to attend a relative's wedding. His son Tariq Chisti, who flew in from Jeddah, too was...
09:41 PM, May 10, 2012
Jaipur: In Rajasthan, the rift in the BJP's state unit is out in the open. The party high command summoned former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to Delhi, after she threatened to quit over another leader's proposed yatra. "I will quit the party if Kataria goes ahead with his yatra," Vasundhara said. Vasundhara had threatened to leave the BJP objecting to RSS backed leader Gulabchand Kataria's proposed "Lok Jagran Yatra" in...
09:30 PM, May 06, 2012
Jaipur: Yet another teenager has stood up against child marriage in Rajasthan. In Dausa, an eleventh standard student has refused to accept her marriage that took place years ago when she was a little girl. This comes less than a week after 17-year-old Lakshmi from Jodhpur also got her marriage annulled for the same reason. It's a tough battle against her own people but 16-year-old Prem Saini from Dausa has...
07:41 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Jaipur: In Rajasthan child marriages continue to be a rampant practice. But 17-year-old Lakshmi has just stepped out of what seemed like a nightmare. Lakshmi was told only weeks back that she was married off when she was two years old and now she must go to her husband's home. But she has sought the help of social workers to have her illegal marriage annulled. She wants to study, and...
06:41 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Jaipur: Two days back when Deeksha Sharma locked herself in her room, her parents thought she was studying for exam. They had no idea that the college student had lost her lonely battle to sexual harassment. Accused had hounded her for four months. When her parents broke the room open they found her hanging from the ceiling fan. "The were hounding her for four months....they would stalk her, make indecent...
08:25 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Jaipur: After setting an example in effective implementation of the MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act), Congress-ruled Rajasthan is where the UPA government's flagship programme is now virtually dying. With the expenditure on MNREGA in Rajasthan shrinking this year to almost one-third of its spending in 2006, the activists say the Congress government is now developing cold feet in executing its own programme. In 2008-09 the expenditure on...
07:01 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Jaipur: On February 2, even as Sonia Gandhi was speaking out against corruption in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a 65-year-old RTI applicant from Bikaner in Rajasthan was brutally attacked after he tried to expose corruption in the MNREGA work. The ex-Sarpanch was allegedly beaten up by supporters of the current Sarpanch. Dudhram had complained to the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) about the allocation of Rs 4 crore...
06:59 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Jaipur: Milli Council activists on Tuesday staged a protest outside the Jaipur Literature Festival venue and demanded that Salman Rushdie's video conference be called off. The activists have called the video conference an insult. Milli Council is one of the organisations which has filed a complaint against writers for reading out passages from 'The Satanic Verses'. The organisation is based in Jaipur. The case is to come up for hearing...
01:47 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Jaipur: In a new twist to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's video conference at the Jaipur Literature Festival, sources on Tuesday said the state authorities will allow him to speak but with certain conditions. Sources said that the Festival organisers have given a written insurance to the state authorities that Rushdie will not speak on or about 'The Satanic Verses'. The sources added that the state administration will control Rushdie's...
09:07 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Jaipur: Celebrated author Salman Rushdie will not attend the Jaipur Literature Festival, which began in Rajasthan's capital on Friday. Rushdie issued a statement through the organisers of the festival saying that he will not be coming to the event. "Very sad not to be at jaipur. I was told bombay mafia don issued weapons to 2 hitmen to "eliminate" me. Will do video link instead. Damn," Rushdie tweeted. Jaipur Literature...
02:11 PM, Jan 20, 2012
There is a heavy security cover although there is uncertainity whether Salman Rushdie will visit the fest or not. ...
08:44 AM, Jan 20, 2012
There is a heavy security cover although there is uncertainity whether Salman Rushdie will visit the fest or not. ...
08:44 AM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Clearly no lessons have been learnt in Rajasthan as rats were found attacking a woman's corpse in govt-run morgue in Beawar. Yet another shocker from a Rajasthan hospital days after CNN-IBN reported that paralytic stroke patient Mohd Iqbal was nibbled at by rats in the ICU of Jodhpur's MDM hospital. This time it's the body of 25-year-old Janta Devi that's been attacked by rodents in the mortuary of...
08:11 AM, Jan 15, 2012
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