Ajmer: Residents whose houses face the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti have been asked to keep their windows shut while the Pakistan president is inside the shrine later on Sunday afternoon. A police official said people residing near the dargah have already been given a list of dos and don'ts. All the stores catering to pilgrims situated along a one kilometre-long narrow lane leading to the shrine will have to...
03:18 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Jaipur: Three policemen in Rajasthan's Bikaner city were on Tuesday booked for the death of a Dalit youth after he was detained and allegedly tortured at a police station last week, officials said. Four people, including two policemen, had sustained injuries on Monday as villagers in Bikaner's Chhattargarh town clashed with police while protesting the alleged torture of Dalit youth Kishan Meghwal in police station. "Keeping in view the villagers'...
02:42 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Jaipur literature Festival organiser Sanjoy Roy has claimed that JLF organisers chose to call off controversial author Salman Rushdie's video link even after the Rajasthan police promised protection. While speaking exclusively to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he admitted that it was the festival organisers who decided to call off the video conference with the author at the last minute despite the assurances of security given by the...
04:46 PM, Jan 29, 2012
In the ongoing Rushdie row at the Jaipur Literature Festival, actor Rahul Bose drew attention to the limitations in the Constitution concerning freedom of expression in the country. "We need to take a look at 'Freedom of Speech' under the Constitution of India. We need to campaign for change," he said. ...
08:52 PM, Jan 24, 2012
The Rushdie controversy continues to cloud Jaipur's Literature Festival. The author is unlikely to be given permission to mark his presence through video conferencing at the festival tomorrow. According to sources, the police may reject the organisers' request for Rushdie's video conference session citing law and order concerns. A police complaint was, meanwhile, filed against organisers and the 4 authors who read from the banned book Satanic Verses. ...
10:29 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Jaipur: Amidst reports that the Rajasthan police planned to deny permission to author Salman Rushdie for his video conference on Tuesday at 3:45 PM at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival, festival producer Sanjoy Roy said that he had no information about the whole issue and that they will go ahead with the video-conference as scheduled, till they get any written confirmation from the police. He said that the festival organisers...
05:31 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Jaipur: Author Salman Rushdie has accused the Rajasthan government of making up the assassination theory, just so he would stay away from the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival. The state however has hit back saying the decision to not come was taken by Rushdie alone and it was the government's duty to inform him about any possible threat. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has countered Rushdie saying that there was adequate...
09:54 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Jaipur: Two days after he decided to skip the Jaipur Literature Festival citing threats from a Mumbai don, celebrated author Salman Rushdie on Sunday slammed the Rajasthan police for allegedly inventing a plot to keep him away. Rushdie tweeted: "I've investigated, and believe that I was indeed lied to. I am outraged and very angry. Don't know who gave orders. And yes I guess the same police who want to...
12:02 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New York: An 'angry' Salman Rushdie claims he has found out that the intelligence provided to him by Rajasthan police about threat to his life if he attended the Jaipur Literature Festival was concocted to prevent him from going to India. Rushdie took to microblogging site Twitter to vent his anger and responded to reports in Indian media that said "Rajasthan police invented plot to keep away Rushdie." Rushdie tweeted,...
08:23 AM, Jan 22, 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
Jodhpur: A top doctor of a hospital on Tuesday said the CBI had given him an application to send a team of experts for conducting the DNA test on Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and Gungun, the youngest daughter of Bhanwari Devi. "We sent a team of experts, which took the blood samples of Gungun and Malkhan. The samples have been kept by CBI, which will be sending it to...
11:02 PM, Dec 27, 2011
Jodhpur: Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, a key suspect in the Bhanwari Devi abduction case, has been sent to police custody till December 28. Bishnoi was arrested by the CBI on Monday after he surfaced for questioning. The CBI has also been questioning his family members for last few days as Bishnoi representing Luni constituency in the Rajasthan Assembly, was evading repeated summons issued by the agency for questioning. The...
05:07 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Jodhpur: Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, who was evading interrogation for last few days, was arrested by the CBI in connection with the Bhanwari Devi abduction case after he surfaced for questioning on Monday. The CBI has been questioning his family members for last few days as Bishnoi representing Luni constituency in the Rajasthan Assembly, was evading repeated summons issued by the agency for questioning. The MLA, who appeared at...
09:22 PM, Dec 19, 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
New Delhi: Shahabuddin, one of the two accused in the Bhanwari Devi missing case, was on Saturday sent to judicial custody till November 19. Shahabuddin is accused of kidnapping Dalit nurse Bhanwari Devi. 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...
03:20 PM, Nov 05, 2011
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