A local court on Monday acquitted 58-year-old Sansar Chand accused of poaching tigers in one of the half-a-dozen cases registered against him here. The acquittal did not get Sansar Chand out of the jail, as several other cases of poaching against him are still being tried in various courts in Alwar and other parts of…
Outstripping the techno-savvy cities across the country, including Bangalore, culturally rich Pink City is getting sound on technical advancements too. After the inclusion of laptops and tablet PCs in the school bags, Jaipur is not far away from becoming India’s second complete Wi-Fi enabled city after Mysore. Not just this, the city would be getting…
A year after the Passport Sewa Kendra project was launched, the Jaipur regional passport office was awarded ‘Certificate of Excellence’ by the Ministry of external affairs. The centre won the award in the category B passport offices in the country for achieving high standards of services during 2012-13. The award was accepted by regional passport…
A professional hockey player from Germany has taken it upon herself to teach the sport to children in Rajasthan’s Dausa district. Andrea Thurmshirn is the hockey coach for children at Garh Himmat Singh, Dausa. For Andrea the village was same as it was in a picture book but she had to face the language hurdle….
Situation in government hospitals in the city and the state returned to normal as resident doctors resumed duties on Sunday. The resident doctors were protesting after some persons attacked the doctors in government-run medical college in Kota and Gangauri Hospital in Jaipur. The doctors were demanding security in the hospitals so that such incidents could…
Rajasthan University has entered the second phase of the long-awaited recruitment process for the post of 390 teachers. Interviews for the posts will begin from August 10. The outgoing RU vice-chancellor, Madhukar Gupta, has given his nod for the interviews after the first phase of scrutinizing applications was completed. “We have received a total of…
Till a few years ago, eating out in the city would mean trying out varieties of noodles, dosas or going for more traditional fare like ‘laal maas‘ or the ‘Rajasthani thali’. Couscous, bruschetta, panini and teppanyaki would have sounded like alien words to most of us. Thanks to globalization and a growing fascination among food…
The much-awaited Jaipur Metro Rail Project has got the green signal from the Railway Ministry on technical clearance for its operations in signal, telecom and electricity expansion system, official sources said today. In his letter to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge approved the “schedule of dimensions” (SOD) for Jaipur Metro Rail,…
The Election Commission today directed District Election Officers (DEOs) and district police chiefs in Rajasthan to finalise and submit plans for ensuring free and fair Assembly polls, to be held this winter, to Chief Election Officer by August 4. Deputy Election Commissioner Vinod Zutshi asked officers to plan accordingly keeping in mind the state’s “sensitive”…
Rajasthan BJP president Vasundhara Raje today expressed confidence about returning to power in the forthcoming Assembly polls with ‘historic majority’. ‘BJP will form the next government in Rajasthan with historic majority because people want to get rid of the bad governance of Congress and want to make a new Rajasthan with employment opportunities for youths,…