Beside the international stars, the festival will host literature in 17 Indian languages as well. ...
02:12 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Women will be a powerful voice at the sixth annual DSC Jaipur Literature Festival Jan 24-28. ...
07:38 PM, Jan 11, 2013
A 29-year old US national allegedly committed suicide by jumping from a hotel building, where he was staying, in Jaipur on Tuesday night, police said. Jose Alfredo from California had checked in a hotel in Vidhyadhar Nagar locality with his Indian friend Ankit on January 7. ...
08:40 AM, Jan 10, 2013
An 18-year-old girl attempted suicide on Thursday by setting herself ablaze ofter being constantly harassed by a neighbour in Rajasthan's Alwar town, police said. The neighbour has been arrested. ...
02:05 AM, Jan 04, 2013
As things heat up down south, North India continues to battle a harsh winter with the mercury dropping to three degrees below normal at most places. ...
06:31 AM, Jan 03, 2013
Hyderabad restricted Rajasthan to 274 for 5 at stumps on day one after Vineet Saxena hit a fine half-century. ...
07:36 PM, Dec 29, 2012
Two policemen were on Thursday shot dead by two persons in Jhunjhunu district, officals said. A police team was enroute the police station in a jeep with two suspected criminals, when one of them opened fire and they escaped from the custody, Malsisar area SP Jhunjhunu Kailash Vishnoi said. ...
01:18 AM, Dec 28, 2012
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
