There has been yet another gangrape in Delhi. A 42-year-old woman from Jaipur was allegedly gangraped by three people on Wednesday night in South Delhi. The police registered a case on Wednesday night against three people, out of which one person has been reportedly detained. ...
08:04 AM, Dec 27, 2012
A low intensity earthquake hit Jaipur and adjoining areas this evening. The quake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale struck at 6:32 PM and lasted for about three seconds. ...
09:19 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Rajasthan authorities have decided to deploy policemen in uniform as well as in plain clothes in state transport buses in Jaipur, in the wake of the gangrape of a girl in a moving bus in Delhi that sparked public outrage. ...
03:46 AM, Dec 20, 2012
A 16-year-old student allegedly committed suicide on Friday by hanging himself in Mahesh Nagar area in Jaipur after being harassed by teachers of his school. ...
09:19 AM, Dec 15, 2012
A new-born girl child was found abandoned in an isolated area in Jalore district, police said in Jaipur. ...
01:17 AM, Dec 14, 2012
A case has been lodged against spiritual guru Bapu Asaram after a man was allegedly injured by the 'prasad' being thrown at him by the former during a religious function in Sojat city in the Pali district, police said on Saturday. ...
08:57 AM, Dec 09, 2012
Finally, the Rajasthan government has given five per cent reservation to Gujjars. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gahlot's government gave the reservation to Gujjars under the Special Backward Classes (SBC) category without tampering with the quota for any other caste. ...
02:21 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: Six books including "River of Smoke" by Amitav Ghosh, "Narcopolis" by Jeet Thayil and "The Wandering" by Pakistan-based author Jamil Ahmad, have been shortlisted for the DSC South Asian Literature Prize 2013. The list, announced in a gala at the Mayfair Hotel in London, it includes six writers -- three Indians, two Pakistani and one from Bangladesh -- besides an American translator for the $50,000 prize. The finalist...
11:32 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Jaipur: Thirteen people were killed and 39 others injured when their bus collided with a truck in Churu district in the wee hours on Thursday. The bus was on its way to Karanpur town from Jaipur when the incident occurred near Sardarshahar, SP, Churu, Omprakash said. Seven out of the 39 injured are in a critical condition and have been referred to hospitals in Sikar and Bikaner. ...
09:33 AM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: In a tragic story case of corporal punishment from Jaipur, a ten-year old girl, who was the daughter of a CNN-IBN Citizen journalist, has succumbed to cancer. She had lost partial vision after her teacher beat her for not doing her homework. CNN-IBN had first shown Piya Chaudhary's story in 2010. The wound in her eye developed into a cancerous tumour due to severe blood clotting. Two years...
08:17 AM, Nov 17, 2012
Jaipur: Income Tax department raided a jeweller's shop in Jaipur and recovered assets worth Rs 100 crore. The assets include cash amounting to Rs 1.5 crore. Jewellery worth Rs 1.5 crore and gold bricks worth Rs 70 lakh have also been recovered. Sources say the Income Tax department carried out the raids on Motisons Jewellers in Jaipur on Monday. Income Tax officials say that the jeweller is involved in hawala...
01:18 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Jaipur: Motherless Baby Damini, who was admitted at a private hospital here following government support, was on Monday discharged in a healthy condition. A father's prayers, along with thousands of nameless others, have been answered at last. The 51-day-old motherless Baby Damini, who spent the first few days of her life slung across her father's chest as he pulled a rickshaw in Bharatpur, has now been discharged from the hospital....
08:45 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Jaipur: Motherless baby Damini, who had been battling for her life for two weeks, has been discharged from a Jaipur hospital. The one-month-old baby, brought in a critical and malnourished state, was admitted to the hospital after the state government decided to provide free treatment to her. The plight of the baby first came to light after the baby's father, a rickshaw puller, was seen carrying her around his neck...
01:22 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Jaipur: The government looks to battle corruption in lower bureaucracy by launching a scheme that integrates government flagship programmes with the Aadhaar card. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday launched the ambitious programme integrating various government-run flagship programmes with the Aadhaar card system. Aadhaar card users can now directly access six government schemes like the MNREGA, the Chief Minister's Rural BPL housing scheme, the Pension...
01:20 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: The 2013 edition of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature looks set to be closely contested, with several acclaimed novels on the 16 book Longlist. The DSC Prize 2013 Longlist was announced today by Jury chair K Satchidanandan and comprises four debut novels, two works in translation from Hindi, and authors and translators form across India, Australia, UK, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Pakistani fiction, which was conspicuous by its...
02:53 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Jaipur: The famous paan (betel leaves) prepared in the Rajasthan capital are likely to add royal flavour to Bollywood couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor's wedding, which will reportedly take place in Mumbai Oct 16. Annu Mobile Paan Bhandar, a shop in the city, is said to have been approached by an event management company to supply a wide variety of paans for the wedding. "We have been approached...
04:40 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Jaipur: An eighteenth century tunnel connecting Amber Palace and Jaigarh Fort, two major attractions in Rajasthan's capital city, was inaugurated on Sunday and thrown open for tourists, officials said. While inaugurating the tunnel, Rajasthan Tourism Minister Bina Kak said that the tunnel was believed to have been constructed as a defence mechanism. "In case of an attack on Amber Palace, the royal family, noblemen and others could be evacuated undetected...
10:39 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Jaipur: Security in and around the Sanganer Airport in Jaipur was on Sunday stepped up after security agencies received information about a post on social-networking website Facebook threatening to blow up the airport on October 1. "We got information that somebody has uploaded content threatening bomb blast at the airport on a social networking website, following which we tightened security and briefed airlines about that," airport's Officiating Director P Srikrishna...
08:41 PM, Sep 30, 2012
London: Jaipur will play an important role in the Man Booker International Prize 2013 as the judges will announce the list of finalists for the award at the venue of a prestigious literature festival held in the city. The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, the largest and liveliest literary festival in Asia-Pacific, will host the press conference to announce the judges' list of finalists on January 24, next year. The winner...
05:30 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Jaipur: A nine-storeyed residential building in Jaipur's dry river catchment area was demolished on Sunday evening on the High Court's orders after it was found to have encroached upon the city's drainage system. A group of dynamite experts had been trying to pull down the building for the past five days. During the recent heavy rain, the building had reportedly clogged the city's drainage system. ...
04:11 PM, Sep 17, 2012
