Nearly 50 children, who were kept in two illegal children’s home here for months with little food amid pathetic living conditions, have been rescued by a team of Rajasthan Commission for Protection of Child Rights, police said today. On a tip off from Delhi, the team led by the Commission Chairperson Deepak Kalra raided a…
A team of Union Human Resources Development Ministry will be visiting the site of proposed Indian Institute of Information Technology Rajasthan (IIIT-R) at the end of the month, Kota–Bundi MP Ijjayraj Singh today said. “The formalities about IIIT-R in Kota by Rajasthan government has been completed,” Singh said in a release, adding that he had met Minister of State for Human…
After the commotion prevails the peace. After nearly a week of heated agitations by police and advocates in Jaipur, the latter on Tuesday resorted to Gandhigiri as a means of protest. Registering their resentment over police action on them, the lawyers took out a silent protest rally covering their mouths. The rally was attended by…
After establishing itself as a major platform of literature and music with the Jaipur Literature Festival, the heritage property will play host to national and international artists who will gather to celebrate art at the first edition of the Jaipur Art Festival from March 18 to 22. Adding diverse and vivid colours to the already…
IIT Jodhpur invites applications for admission to the PhD Programmes various Centre of Excellence for the academic year commencing from July 2013. For further information visit : http://www.iitj.ac.in/phd_admission.html Applications for admission to the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Programme in the above mentioned four Centres of Excellence (under Regular and Full Time Category, Part-time/Sponsored category) are invited from…
IIT Jodhpur invites applications for admission to the interdisciplinary M.Tech programmes (Regular and full time) in (i) Centre of Excellence in Energy and (ii) Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technology (iii) Centre of Excellence in Systems Science for the academic year commencing from July 2013. For further information visit : http://www.iitj.ac.in/mtech_admission.html Minimum Educational…
After lighting rural areas of South Africa, solar-powered lamps ‘Little Suns’ will now illuminate homes in interior parts of Western Rajasthan. As many as 200 ‘Little Sun’ lamps have been put on display at a three-day exhibition, which began here yesterday at Mehrangarh Fort, and will be distributed among villagers in rural areas at the…
A police team from Jaipur reached Kerala’s Kannur district on Monday afternoon to execute a production warrant for Biti Mohanty, convicted of raping a German woman before jumping parole seven years ago. However, the team is unlikely to immediately leave with Mohanty for Jaipur as he was sent to Kerala police’s custody for the next…
The brother of Delhi gang-rape accused Ram Singh, who allegedly committed suicide, today claimed that he was murdered and said that he saw injury marks on his body and finger marks on his neck. He also said the family will take Singh’s body to Karauli village in Rajasthan where the last rites will be held….
The Global Jojoba World 2013, an International Workshop on Jojoba Agronomy Horticultural and oil Production, under the patronage of the BBA, will take place in Jaipur, India on July 30 & 31, 2013. Science and Horticulture for People, the theme of the workshop, emphasizes scientific components of successful Jojoba farming and how it relates to…