Jodhpur: The delay in construction of the campuses of the eight new IITs has not affected the "standards of education" and pace of research, Union Minister of Human Resource Development MM Pallam Raju said here on Wednesday.
Referring to IIT-Jodhpur, he said that the institution has done remarkable job in the field of solar energy and promoting entrepreneurship. Attributing the delay to the issues like land acquisition, he said in spite of this delay, the IITs have been faring well as expected from their respective temporary campuses, adding, now a few of them have started construction of their permanent campuses.
Raju was here to lay the foundation stone of the first phase of the construction of the IIT-Jodhpur's campus, one of the 8 new IITs which have been announced under the 11th Five year plan....
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01:07 PM, Apr 17, 2013
A Jodhpur court on Saturday framed, revised, and diluted charges against Bollywood actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam under Wildlife Protection Act, for aiding film star Salman Khan in the blackbuck poaching case. ...
07:45 PM, Mar 23, 2013
After Sanjay Dutt, it is Bollywood actor Salman Khan's turn to face the courts. Khan will soon appear before a Jodhpur Court that will read out revised charges against the actor and four others in a 14-year-old case of blackbuck poaching during a film shooting in Rajasthan. The court will also read out charges against other Bollywood actors, including Saif Ali khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam, in the blackbuck...
10:17 AM, Mar 23, 2013
After Sanjay Dutt, it is the poster boy of Bollywood's 100 crore club actor Salman Khan who might have tough times ahead at the courts. Salman's past is back to haunt him. The actor's 1998 blackbuck poaching case is in focus and Salman has been charged under Section 51 of the Wildlife Protection Act and Section 149 (unlawful assembly) of the IPC which carries a maximum sentence of three years...
09:43 AM, Mar 23, 2013
After Sanjay Dutt, it is Bollywood actor Salman Khan's turn to face the courts. A Jodhpur Court will on Saturday read out revised charges against the actor and four others in a 14-year-old case of blackbuck poaching during a film shooting in Rajasthan. The court will also read out charges against other Bollywood actors, including Saif Ali khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam, in the blackbuck poaching case. ...
07:59 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Bollywood star Salman Khan and four other actors will appear in Jodhpur before a court to hear the fresh charges in a 14-year-old case of blackbuck poaching during a film shooting in Rajasthan. ...
03:58 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Many call India the head injury capital of the world. Nearly 2 lakh Indians die every year of head injuries, according to NIMHANS. The simplest preventive is getting people to wear helmets. That's the key message that came out of retreat in Jodhpur. ...
12:33 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Musician Sting was in Jodhpur for a private concert, to help raise awareness and funds for the Indian Head Injury Foundation. ...
05:20 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Musician Sting was in Jodhpur for a private concert to help raise awareness and funds for the Indian Head Injury Foundation. He spoke to CNN-IBN in an exclusive interview about India being the head injury capital of the world, why head trauma is so personal a cause to him and what he loves about India. ...
05:45 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Actor Salman Khan's 1998 Black Buck case comes up in a Jodhpur court on Monday and the court is expected to read out the revised charges against the accused. ...
08:42 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Film actors Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabbu and Neelam will appear before a court in Jodhpur in connection with the blackbucks poaching case of 1998. The court will read out the revised charges to all the actors, who are accused of killing two blackbucks on the intervening night of October 1 and 2 in Kankani village during shooting of the film 'Hum Saath Saath Hain'. ...
10:25 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Model Naomi Campbell accepted libel damages Thursday from a British newspaper over a story that falsely claimed she was planning an elephant polo match in India for her partner's birthday. ...
12:37 PM, Feb 01, 2013
After the medical report of Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, a key accused in the Bhanwari Devi murder case was submitted in a local court on January 21, another accused Mahipal Maderna's report was also submitted in the court on Wednesday. ...
08:54 AM, Jan 24, 2013
A Jodhpur trial court has sentenced a man for sexually harassing a woman on a volvo bus. The trial has been concluded within a week of the case being filed. ...
01:31 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Much awaited Tamil movie 'Kadal' will feature actors Karthik and Thulasi in the lead roles. ...
04:40 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan, who gave Bollywood a blockbuster with 'Ek Tha Tiger' this year and will hopefully repeat the success with the forthcoming release 'Dabangg 2', says he might be in court on his 47th birthday Dec 27 in a 2007 hit-and-run case. "On Dec 27, I am not doing anything. I am not very sure what I am doing that day. On my birthday, I myself might be...
01:38 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Jodhpur: An Indian Air Force Corporal, Rahul Singh, 24 years of age, allegedly committed suicide at the Jodhpur Air Force base on Sunday. He was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his room. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered and the police have initiated investigation. Rahul Singh (24), who was a corporal at the Jodhpur Air Force Station, shut himself in his barrack and allegedly committed suicide by...
11:42 AM, Dec 10, 2012
Jaipur: An Indian Air Force corporal committed suicide on Sunday by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in the barracks in Jodhpur air base in Rajasthan, police said. Corporal Rahul Singh, 24, committed suicide in Jodhpur, over 340 km from here, said a police official. "He was found hanging from a ceiling fan in the barracks of air force station, Jodhpur, in the afternoon," he said. Singh joined the IAF...
06:07 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Jodhpur: A woman IAF officer has allegedly committed suicide in Jodhpur. 29-year-old squadron leader Anandita Das was found hanging from a ceiling fan on Wednesday morning. The Indian Air Force has ordered a court of inquiry into the death. Anandita Das, hailing from Kolkata, was posted at the Jodhpur Air Force Station and living in the officers' quarters with her husband, who is also an IAF officer. "She was found...
10:27 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Jodhpur: Evicted out of their home, miseries of a HIV-affected family did not end with their finding of a new house in a locality in Jodhpur as their neighbours, following discovery of their disease, beat them up and threw them out of the area. The family of six, including four children, was forced out of their home by their family members on November 6 after an NGO worker allegedly made...
10:59 PM, Nov 24, 2012
