Rajasthan University’s constituent colleges-Maharani’s and Maharaja‘s-have announced the final cut-off lists for the popular courses on Saturday. The Maharani’s College released the cut-off for two sections of B.Com under the self-finance course (SFS) which touched an all-time high of 92%. The B Com list for remaining three sections will be announced on Monday. “The cut-off…
The Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF) 2013, Jodhpur, slated from October 17 to 21 would be an emotional musical homecoming of the gypsies from south of France to their “ancestral” home in Rajasthan. A project that takes the best of the Gipsy Kings’ Rumba and fuses it with Indian instruments and ‘alap’ called ‘Bamboleo meets…
Bargaining for fares with autorickshaw drivers would end soon in Jaipur as the transport department has increased autorickshaw fares with a rider that a passenger should pay fare as per the meter reading. For a long time, autorickshaw drivers have been demanding hike in fares and were not charging fare on meter readings. After the…
The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave the nod for setting up the National Capital Region Transport Corporation Limited (NCRTC), which will implement the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) projects in the NCR. The move is expected to speed up the construction of three RRTS corridors connecting Delhi with Panipat, Alwar and Meerut. The NCRTC is…
A single judge bench of the Rajasthan high court has ordered an ACB inquiry into the suspicious tender allotment process for supply of speed governors in RSRTC. The order came on a petition filed by one-time successful bidder M/s Rosmerta Autotech Pvt Ltd. The petitioner was the lowest bidder in the first round of tender…
Thirty out of 200 members of Rajasthan Assembly faced criminal charges when they were elected in 2008. Currently, the figure stands at 34. The four more cases are post-poll development and most of them did not face any criminal charges in the past. Though none of these legislators are convicted, alleged involvement in fake encounters…
Police officers at the Rajasthan Police Academy (RPA) were in tizzy and filed a case of theft after finding one 9 mm glock pistol and a bayonet of AKan -47 missing for the last 10 months. Though officials who lodged the theft case at Shastri Nagar police station on Wednesday maintained that the incident could…
Jaipur will be promoted as a destination for summer and monsoon tourism and witness a melange of cultural evenings dove-tailed with a wide array of Rajasthani cuisine at the City Palace and Hotel Clarks Amer, an official said Wednesday. The event, christened ‘Jaipur by Nite’ July 26 and 27, is targeting domestic tourists, especially the…
A day after the he rued the poor quality of higher education in the country, President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday stressed on the need to focus on research work to match the levels of countries like the UK, China and Isreal. “The nation spends only 0.9% of GDP on research and development keeping us way…
Like other good things, intriguing art also seems to come in small packages in Jaipur. Miniature art, it appears, is quite popular in the city. For some, it is a way of getting into the record books, while for others, collecting miniatures is a hobby. In the former category is 29-year-old Navratan Prajapati, who believes…