Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot flagged off the first Special Yatra train for Rameshwaram dham under the Rajasthan government’s Senior Citizen Pilgrimage Scheme 2013 at the Durgapura railway station in Jaipur. Gehlot’s wife Sunita Gehlot, Devasthan Minister Brij Kishore Sharma, Minister of State Ram Kishore Saini, North Western Railway General Manager RC Agrawal were also…
Rajiv Arora, vice-president of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee hosted an iftar party in the city recently. The do, which witnessed a huge turnout, saw the Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s family in attendance. Rajiv and his wife Neeru played the perfect hosts as they received guests at the entrance. Guests at the do had a…
Scores of activists of Sri Rajput Karni Sena today held protest demonstrations here demanding the withdrawal of the TV serial “Jodhaa Akbar”, alleging the period drama had “distorted” the history of the Rajputs. The SRKS activists gathered outside the Pink Square Mall where Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha were present for promotion of…
Rajasthan has prepared master plans for all cities in the state, including Census towns, possibly becoming the first Indian state to achieve such a milestone. “We are ready with master plans for 297 towns, out of which 113 are Census towns,” said Gurdial Singh Sandhu, additional chief secretary (urban development), Rajasthan. The state might be…
After announcement of successful name of the candidates now RPSC has listed out the cut off marks list and Marks of the candidates in the SET-Examination held by the Commission on 26/08/2012. Rajasthan SET 2012 Exam Cutoff Marks Subjectwise And Individual Marks Check out the subjectwise cutoff in Rajasthan SET 2012 Exam and for checking…
In Rajasthan, where political patronage to illegal mining is an open secret, police and administration officials had been at the receiving end of the mafia whenever they tried to curtail the menace. Last year, superintendent of police, Bharatpur, Vikas Kumar was shunted out to a non-field posting for over a year when he dared to…
The Jaipur-Mathura-Jaipur superfast special train service started from Sunday. North Western Railway chief public relation officer Tarun Jain said train number 02404 Jaipur-Mathura departs from Jaipur at 3.20 pm and reaches Mathura at 8.20 pm. Similarly, train 02403 Mathura-Jaipur superfast special departs from Mathura at 8.25 am and reaches Jaipur at 12.50 pm. These trains will run daily and this service…
Panic-stricken people rushed out of their homes and offices as the tremor lasted nearly 10 seconds. An earthquake of moderate intensity on Monday shook Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district but there were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property. The quake, measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale, struck at around 12:57 pm, the…
Rajasthan received 346.33 mm rainfall in the last two months, which is 38.91 per cent more than the corresponding months last year, according to a data of Water Resources Department. From June 1 to July 31, the average normal rainfall in Rajasthan was 346.33 mm as against 249.38 mm last year in the same months,…
An IPS officer was transferred two days after he reopened the history sheet of the father of a Congress MLA in Rajasthan, who had allegedly been involved in smuggling and other anti-social activities. Superintendent of Police, Jaisalmer, Pankaj Choudhary said, “As an officer of the state police department, I will soon be shifting to the…