The Supreme Court of India dismisses the Rajasthan state government’s plea against the Dabangg 2 actor in the blackbuck poaching case Salman Khan, his Khandaan, well-wishers and millions of his fans can finally breathe a sigh of relief, as the Supreme Court has rejected all the allegations imposed on the actor by the Rajasthan government in the blackbuck…
The sudden freeze in India-Pakistan ties does not seem to be showing any signs of thawing. The government has denied two New Delhi-based Pakistani diplomats — press councillor Manzoor Memon and minister of trade Naeen Anwar — permission to attend the Jaipur Literary Festival. According to sources, both had applied for permission to attend the…
Reporting a crime and verifying a domestic help or tenant with the police is no longer a hazard, thanks to an Android mobile application developed by the Rajasthan police that has GPS enabled services through which sending photographs, and videos to the nearby police station and control room would be easier. The state crime records bureau’s (SCRB)…
An ACB team in Bikaner caught red-handed deputy registrar of co-operative societies when he was taking a bribe of Rs 5,000 on Tuesday. DSP (ACB), Bikaner, Anand Swami, said that Mahavir Prasad Soni, deputy registrar, was demanding Rs 1 lakh from a gramsewak Kalyan Singh towards regularization of his services and pay enhancement. Kalyan Singh lodged a complaint with ACB. According…
Rajasthan forte in jewellery is now being challenged by low-cost imitation ornaments from China. Nearly 40% of imitationjewellery consumed in the state is imported from the China due to its low cost. According to the data from the Union ministry of commerce, India imported imitation jewellery worth Rs 130 crore in 2011-12. Out of the total, more than 50…
The curtain will go up on the DSC Jaipur Literatutre Festival 2013 Jan 24-Jan 28 under the shadow of simmering unease with Muslim hardline groups upping the din for banning four writers who had read out excerpts from Salman Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses” last year and the RSS opposing the presence of six Pakistani writers at…
With the excitement building up for the five-day literary extravaganza Jaipur lit fest, the latest to join the festival’s eclectic list of speakers is Nobel laureate Dalai Lama. The spiritual guru will be in conversation with British-born essayist and novelist Pico Iyer on the first day. This year, influence of Gautam Buddha on literature is one of…
The Pink city will witness a celebrity wedding on January 30, when Bollywood actor Ashish Sharma ties the knot with television actress Archana Taide. Ashish, who made his Bollywood debut with Love, Sex Aur Dhokha, got engaged to Archana, who features in TV soap Qubool Hai, in October. According to sources, the wedding will be a lavish affair, with…
For a state considered a frontrunner in the solar energy sector, Rajasthan is falling behind in the ‘race for the sun’. Its efforts to develop three solar cities in the state have been a damp squib even as cities in many other states have got their master plans approved by the Union ministry of new and renewable…
The mobile users in Jaipur and Rajasthan got a temporary breather from the Supreme Court, which on Monday stayed a High Court order directing relocation of all cellphone towers from residential areas. The HC’s November 27 order giving two months time to the mobile phone service providers to relocate the signal boosting towers out of…