The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature announced the jury for its 2013 edition. The five-member panel includes Eleanor O'Keeffe, K Satchidanandan, Muneeza Shamsie, Rick Simonson and Suvani Singh. Eleanor O'Keeffe is an Irish/Canadian cultural entrepreneur. After living and working in Paris for a number of years, she was co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival for two of its earlier years as well as co-director of the Shakespeare and Company...
02:16 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: An officer of the Indian Army died after suffering a paralytic attack during a departmental enquiry at the Delhi Cantonment on Sunday. Subedar Major Rajendra Singh's family, that is in Jaipur, alleges that he was tortured by the senior officers questioning him. The family has filed a case of murder against the Army. They say that Subedar Major Singh had exposed some senior officers in an alleged corruption...
09:51 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Jaipur: A 16-year-old girl has lodged a complaint with the police that she was abducted, confined to a car and gangraped for 20 days by five men in Rajasthan's Ajmer district, police said on Friday. The girl, a resident of Sikar district, had come to stay with her aunt in Jaipur district's Rainwal town, from where she was allegedly abducted on June 4. The family members had registered a missing...
09:44 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Jaipur: In a brutal honour killing, a man beheaded his 20-year-old daughter with a sword in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district on Sunday, police said. According to the police, the incident took place in Charbhuja area of the district, some 400 km from Jaipur. "The man, Omkar Singh, was spotted roaming in the village with a severed head. The villagers brought him to the nearby police outpost with the head and a...
10:47 AM, Jun 18, 2012
Jaipur: Twenty-five people were killed and 61 others injured in three road mishaps in different parts of Rajasthan, police said on Friday. Nineteen passengers of a private bus were killed and 37 injured when the bus collided with a truck and caught fire near Sanchore area in Jalore district this evening. Of the 19 passengers, four succumbed to their injuries in various hospitals of the district. The bus, which was...
08:01 AM, Jun 16, 2012
Jaipur: A man jumped in front of a moving train after axing to death two of his cousin's children and injuring two others in Rajasthan's Bundi district on Wednesday, police said. An illicit relationship seemed to be the cause behind the killing and suicide, they said. The incident occurred in the wee hours near Lakheri area in the district, some 200 km from Jaipur. "During preliminary investigation, it has come...
02:02 AM, Jun 14, 2012
New Delhi: Literature, the soul of cultural exchange, is giving conventional diplomacy a run for its space in South Asia with the mushrooming literary festivals that are provoking, discussing and building new bridges across cultures. Five major literature festivals - the Jaipur Literature Festival, Mountain Echoes in Bhutan, the Kathmandu Literary Yatra, the Galle Literary Festival in Sri lanka and the Karachi Literature Festival - which have been showcasing literature...
10:45 AM, May 28, 2012
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
New Delhi: Actor and co-owner of Kolkata Knight Riders Shah Rukh Khan has been asked to appear before a Jaipur court on Saturday after he was served summons in a case related to smoking in public by him at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium during an IPL match. On April 27, Khan had been directed by a local court in Jaipur to appear before it on May 26, after he...
09:59 AM, May 26, 2012
Jaipur: Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan has been served a summon by the Rajasthan police over a complaint alleging that the actor was seen smoking in public on April 8 in Jaipur during a match. This was during the IPL match between the Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders. The court has asked the actor to be present for hearing on May 26. The complainant had moved court...
01:13 PM, May 22, 2012
Jaipur: As many as 27 passengers received burn injuries after a packet of firecrackers caught fire in a moving bus in Rajasthan's Sawaimadhopur district. The private bus was on its way to Indergarh town from Sawaimadhopur city last evening when a packet containing firecrackers caught fire in the bus near Ravajana Doonger, injuring 27 people, police said on Wednesday. The injured were evacuated from the bus and rushed to a...
09:59 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: A Jaipur trial court summoned Shah Rukh Khan for smoking in public. He did so during an IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders on April 8 in the Sawai Madho Singh stadium. The court has fixed May 26 as the next date of hearing. However, this is not the first time Shah Rukh Khan is getting any legal notice for smoking in public. He has...
01:15 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Friday announced the induction of five new members to its advisory committee for the 2013 and 2014 editions of the $50,000 prize. In a statement, the DSC Group said noted Indian poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Booker Prize jury member Alastair Niven, author and South Asian literary expert Fakrul Alam, translator, editor and author Ira Pande and American author and journalist Marie...
12:00 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Jaipur: A man was arrested along with his four accomplices in Rajasthan on Friday on charges of shooting dead his daughter and her boyfriend after they were spotted in a compromising position, police said. The bodies of Sharda, 20, and Nag Kumar, 23, were found April 1 near Ucchen village of Bharatpur district, some 200 km from Jaipur. "Both had been shot in the back. We also recovered a gun...
09:37 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Jaipur: A 25-year-old woman allegedly threw her three minor daughters into a well and then committed suicide by consuming poison in Taranagar area of Rajasthan's Churu district, police said on Saturday. The woman, Indira, allegedly threw her three daughters - Manisha, 5, Aina, 3 and Babli, 1 - into a well in their field on Thursday evening and later committed suicide by consuming a toxic substance. When Indira's husband returned...
08:52 AM, Apr 08, 2012
Jaipur: Congress MLAs Mahipal Maderna and Malkhan Singh, both accused in the Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case, will soon be shifted outside the Jodhpur jail following government orders, officials said on Tuesday. While Maderna will be sent to the Jaipur Central Jail, Malkhan will be shifted to the Ajmer Central Jail as per the orders, officials said on Tuesday. The Home Department had issued orders in this regard a...
04:37 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Hyderabad: A day after controversial author Salman Rushdie hit out at Congress and Rahul Gandhi, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said on Sunday that the Congress was adopting a "selective approach" in this regard. "That was unfortunate... Congress and pseudo-secular parties were selective in their approach," he told reporters in Hyderabad. Venkaiah was reacting to Rushdie's comment that his presence at the Jaipur Literary Festival held in January was...
06:29 PM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: In India, two months after being forced to skip Jaipur Literary Festival, controversial author Salman Rushdie on Saturday hit out at Congress, suggesting that his presence there was blocked because of "useless electoral calculations" and told Rahul Gandhi that "it did not work". The renowned author, who has been castigated by fundamentalist Muslim groups for his book 'The Satanic Verses', said blocking his presence in Jaipur "led the...
10:38 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Two months after he was forced to skip a literary fest in Jaipur, controversial writer Salman Rushdie on Saturday night attended a function in New Delhi amid tight security. The controversial author of 'The Satanic Verses', which was banned in India owing to protest from a section of Muslims, attended the 'India Today Conclave' at Taj Palace attended by a select group invitees. He spoke at a session...
09:07 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Jaipur: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present the Budget on March 16. A hotelier from Jaipur Prithvi Singh from Jaipur requests the Fiance Minister to remove the tax on clubbable income provision from the Income Tax Act. It's a week short of Prithvi and Pratibha Singh's 16th wedding anniversary and Prithvi wants to gift his wife something special. She wishes for a part of heritage property to do something of...
09:57 AM, Mar 12, 2012
