The government on Friday had announced major changes to top bureaucratic posts in the ministry. Revenue Secretary Shaktikanta Das is to take over as the new economic affairs secretary next month. He replaces Mehrishi. Financial Services secretary Hasmukh Adhia will replace Das as revenue secretary. Mehrishi was Chief Secretary in the Rajasthan government before asked…

The state government has allotted one hectare land near the Shilpgram in Sawai Madhopur. This will be third such institute in Rajasthan. MLA from Sawai Madhopur, Diya Kumari said “the institute will create avenues for the youth to enter the hospitality sector as Sawai Madhopur is well known for Ranthambhor national park, Ranthambhor Fort and…

Badni Devi, a resident of Gangashahar area here took the resolution of ‘Santhara’ on July 17 though the ritual was socially undertaken on July 25, said Jain Mahasabha secretary Jain Lunkaran Chajed. Earlier on August 10, when the Rajasthan High Court had held ‘santhara’ as illegal making it punishable under section 306 and 309 of…

On August 7, Bikaner police registered an FIR against Lt General Parnaik under Sections 420, 467, 468 and 471, IPC sections dealing with cheating, forgery and using forged documents, to claim 25 bighas of agricultural land (roughly 12 acres) in Mohangarh village, Jaisalmer. Lt General Parnaik had received the land for being awarded a Yudh…

“Issue notice. Leave granted,” a bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy said while staying the HC order and issuing notices to the Centre, Rajasthan and others. The bench was hearing a batch of petitions filed by various religious bodies of Jain community members against the High Court order on Santhara. The…

“The PM’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ reflects how serious he is about farmers’ issues,” she added. Dismissing opposition’s criticism that the Prime Minister made a “U-turn” on land acquisition, Raje said chief ministers during the Niti Ayog meeting had suggested him to leave the issue of Land Acquisition Bill to the states. The Centre today decided…

  Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje had asked the Centre last year to order a CBI probe into the scam. Rajasthan Police’s FIR, filed in June last year immediately after BJP returned to power in the state, has named Gehlot, Pilot, Ravi Krishna and Karthik Chidambaram, sons of senior Congress leaders and former union ministers…

  Jasmeet Khurana, senior consulting manager at analyst firm Bridge to India, told PV Tech that Rajasthan has cheap non-cultivable land and enjoys high irradiation, making it ideal for solar power generation. It now has the highest installed capacity in the country, having overtaken the previous leader Gujarat earlier this year. Nevertheless, Khurana said that…

The MOUs were for the new portal of Rajasthan Investment Promotion Scheme 2014 (RIPS 2014), for creating a ‘Government of Rajasthan – CSR Portal’ to facilitate, communicate and operationalise CSR in the state, and for the Ease of Doing Business (EODB), an official release said. Senior officials of state government and representative from the company…

The protest march began from Ramlila Ground-New Gate and culminated at Mahaveer school in form of a gathering where the religious leaders expressed their displeasure over the high court ruling. “Our peaceful protest is against the judgement pronounced by the high court,” Convener of the Joint Action Committee of Digambar and Shwetambar Jains Rajendra Godha…