To strengthen the border security force (BSF), an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will soon be included for guarding the western border adjoining Pakistan, said BSF director general Subhash Joshi, who was in Jaisalmer for inaugurating new building of BSF sector north. He added that by next year, eight helicopters from Russia will be purchased, the…
Ace discus thrower Krishna Poonia is expected to join the Congress Party tomorrow at a rally in Rajasthan, where she is also likely to contest in the upcoming state Assembly elections slated for December 1. Poonia, the only Indian woman track and field athlete to have won an individual gold medal in the Commonwealth Games…
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will lay the foundation stone of refinery and petro-chemical complex at Pachpadra in Rajasthan’s Barmer district on Sunday. According to television reports, elaborate security arrangements have been made in Pachpadra in view of the UPA chairperson’s visit. The Union Cabinet on Friday approved setting up of a nine million tonne refinery-cum-petrochemical…
The Election Commission will review the preparations for the Rajasthan Assembly elections being made by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer and district returning officers (collectors) on October 26 here. An EC team will arrive here on October 25 and will hold separate meetings with district collectors, superintendents of police and political leaders, a…
The controversy over the post of mahant of the only Brahma temple here in Pushkar intensified after a CCTV footage was leaked showing self-proclaimed successor Sompuri stealing money from the dan matra (donation box) of the temple. The footage showed Sompuri along with another priest taking the donation money from the box and the other…
Pakistan high commissioner Salman Bashir visited Ajmer dargah on Sunday and offered a chadar for peace and prosperity in both India and Pakistan. Bashir, who came along with his family in his private vehicle, refused to comment on issues of ceasefire violation, infiltration and said, “This is not the place to talk on such matters….
Rahman paid a hush-hush visit to the Ajmer Dargah on Friday evening, ahead of his live concert in the Pink City. The music maestro, alongwith his co-musicians, paid obeisance at the dargah. Later, he addressed a press conference in Jaipur. “I have a strong spiritual connect with Khawaja Sahib. He is my Guruji. Though it…
Hundreds of political leaders are queuing up at the doorsteps of astrologers and priests with requests to forecast their future and to organise special prayers for their success in the assembly elections. Polling for the 200 assembly seats in the state is slated for Dec 1. Several leading astrologers in the state told IANS, some…
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will address a party rally at Udaipur’s Gandhi Maidan on October 26. People from tribal areas of Udaipur division will attend the rally, BJP leader GC Kataria told reporters here on Saturday. BJP’s election manifesto for Rajasthan assembly election was almost complete and would be submitted to party’s state…
Union minister Porika Balram Naik today urged the Congress to field at least four candidates from the Banjara community in the December 1 Assembly polls in Rajasthan. Naik, the Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, said the state has a nomadic population of 30 lakhs and, of them, nine lakhs are voters….