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
Jaipur: In a shocking and bizarre incident in Jaipur, the police have arrested a 21-year-old paraplegic woman over charges of abuse. The police claim the woman is involved in the kidnapping and sexual abuse of another woman. What is shocking is that the 21-year old herself is allegedly a victim of sexual abuse by three Rajasthan policemen. Her parents alleged that she was being falsely implicated in another case so...
11:15 AM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file its second chargesheet against former Rajasthan minister Mahepal Maderna in the Bhanwari Devi murder case on Wednesday. The case is also likely to come up for discussion in the Rajasthan Assembly as well. On Tuesday, a special CBI court had extended the judicial custody of the 13 accused in the case till March 13. The nurse went missing...
08:11 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Jaipur: Muslim organisations in Rajasthan on Tuesday said they had not posed a life threat to controversial author Salman Rushdie during his proposed visit to the recently concluded Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF). "Ever since the Jaipur Literature Festival ended with a fiasco on January 24, an impression is being created that Muslim organisations of Rajasthan had issued threats to the life of Rushdie or threatened to disrupt the prestigious literary...
01:13 AM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Days after Salman Rushdie was not allowed to speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival, the issue continues to touch a raw nerve among Muslim clerics and intellectuals even as liberals excoriate the brazen violation of a writer's freedom of creative expression. "It was the right thing not to let him speak. And it's a good thing he did not come," Darul Uloom Deoband vice chancellor Maulana Abul Qasim...
12:26 PM, Jan 30, 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
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...
07:56 AM, Jan 29, 2012
Jaipur: Veteran actress Jaya Bachchan, who was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jaipur International Film Festival today, said that there was a need to make archives to preserve the history of cinema at both national and international levels. "If you really want to do something for Indian cinema, preserve its history. It is important to preserve the history for tomorrow... for the future generation, and I am...
12:31 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Is 2011-12, 1988-89 all over again? The near farce over Salman Rushdie's non-appearance in Jaipur, whether in person or even in a videolink, would suggest ...
12:20 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Kolkata: Criticising the government for the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival, novelist Vikram Seth on Thursday said the affair was whipped up because of "power", "politics" and "misuse of religion". "The whole affair was whipped up because of power and politics and because of the misuse of religion. And the government did nothing. Frankly this is madness," he said at the Kolkata Literary Meet. "We...
08:12 PM, Jan 26, 2012
New Delhi: While Booker-winning author Salman Rushdie has refused to back down after being denied his live video link at the Jaipur Literature Festival, the Congress has come out in defence of the Rajasthan government. Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh tweeted, "We are a multi-religious, multi-ethnic society. We can't allow anyone to hurt the sentiments of any particular religious group - be it Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists or any...
11:48 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Gagged not once but twice from participating in the Jaipur Literature Festival, controversial author Salman Rushdie says he won't back down and will keep coming back to India. He also blamed the government for bowing to, who he called, religious gangsters. Rushdie said that he was 'shocked' and 'astonished' over the cancellation of his video conference. He blamed politics and linked the cancellation of the video link to...
07:27 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday sought to play down the decision of the party-led Rajasthan government against allowing Salman Rushdie to address the Jaipur Literature Festival via a video link and said the organisers had no other choice in view of protests at the venue. Party spokesperson Renuka Chowdhury said the organisers had not been left with "any other choice" in view of the protests. "There are many issues...
05:33 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Salman Rushdie on Tuesday said that it was very convenient for everyone in the Congress that he did not come to India just before the Uttar Pradesh elections scheduled in February-March. "I wasn't contacted by anyone in the government at the beginning. The Rajasthan authorities were saying to the organisers that they wanted to make my trip possible. But as it got closer and closer that commitment started...
01:10 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Rushdie was given permission to address the Jaipur Lit fest through video link but was forced to cancel the appearance after protests. ...
11:53 PM, Jan 24, 2012
