Not just for its sweets and bhujiya but Bikaner has earned its name for high quality of wool and woolen trade across the globe. The business which started in the district some 150 years back has given it a unique identity. But shortage of labour and unabated slaughtering of sheep’s for meat has posed a…

Breaking the record of past seven years, the number of dengue patients in Rajasthan has shot up drastically. In 2013, the number of cases reached around 2,500 which itself speaks volumes about the complete failure on part of the civic body and health department and also highlights the level at which they work. Till last…

This Diwali, when you purchase sweets, you will see something special. The Election Commission, in a move to sensitize people, would paste stickers urging them to use their voting rights on boxes of sweets. Not only that, the EC is also planning to send the message via LPG gas, e-mitra centres, water and electricity bills….

Gehlot govt may have distributed laptops, cheques for tablets under the Rajiv Gandhi Vidhyarthi Digital Yojana, but they are of little use to students in rural areas. Many feel hiring more teachers instead would have helped. The new Mathematics teacher at Matasula Secondary School, located in an interior tribal village in Udaipur, is having nightmares….

Rajasthan Director General for Police (DGP) H.C. Meena has gone on leave till the completion of the elections following indications that the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) could remove him from office. The police officer, the younger brother of Union Minister of State for Finance Namo Narayan Meena, has kept open his options about joining politics…

A team of Indian Institute of Management-Udaipur has been selected among the top five business schools from 80 teams across the globe to compete in the finals of the India-US Business Conference-CK Prahalad Business Case Competition 2013 at the Stephen M Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Competing with teams from Harvard, Wharton, Stanford,…

A handwritten note pasted on the wall of a hospital in Kota district threatening bomb blasts at four places sent police into tizzy. The note was pasted on a wall in one of the toilets in J K Lone hospital in Kota city,” Superintendent of Police Satyaveer Singh told PTI over the phone. src: http://www.ptinews.com/news/4103043_Bomb-threat-sends-cops-into-tizzy-in-Kota.html

True to his style of interactive speeches, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday took the audience of the state BJP’s Scheduled Tribe wing’s meet to storm. Lashing out at everybody from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi to the CBI, Modi did not spare anybody….

Even before the formal release of BJP manifesto, state president Vasundhara Raje on Saturday set out to woo the tribals by announcing special schemes under the tribal sub plan. “If we come to power, we will set up a special police battalion in the name of Maharana Pratap on the lines of Hadi Rani battalion…

A Jodhpur sessions court on Saturday extended the judicial custody of Asaram Bapu till November 6, who is accused of sexually assaulting a minor at his ashram. However, the Jodhpur Police didn’t filed its chargesheet against Asaram. Four accomplices of 72-year old Asaram were also sent to judicial custody. The controversial Asaram has been accused…