Old rivalry between two student groups claimed the life of a 17-year-old youth and left five others injured on the campus of a college in Udaipur on Monday. The deceased identified as Jaypal Singh Mertia was a first year student of B N College in Udaipur and was a resident of Pali district. Jaypal died…

The 10th edition of the Jaipur Jewellery Show (JJS) is set to dazzle jewellery lovers from December 22 and will continue till December 25 at hotel Rajmahal Palace. This year, the show will have 464 stalls of jewellers from across the globe. They will be displaying their best creative work. The theme of this years…

After the interaction session with finance minister P Chidambaram, Alwar district authorities said the Aadhaar-enabled direct cash transfer schemes will be rolled out from January 1, 2013, the deadline announced by the Centre for rolling out the services in 43 districts of the country. Top officials said the welfare programmes under nine government departments covering 34 schemes…

The active western disturbances created overcast conditions in the state on Friday and some parts of northern Rajasthan even witnessed showers, which added a nip in the air.Mount Abu and Sriganganagar remained coldest in the state recording minimum temperatures of 10.0 and 10.6 degrees Celsius, respectively. Met office informed that in the next couple of days the mercury…

In the first-ever Right to Recall referendum in Rajasthan, the chairman of the Mangrol municipality of Baran district, Ashok Jain (62) has won by a margin of 3,488 votes. The referendum was to decide whether Ashok Jain, the chairman of the Mangrol municipality, should be retained or recalled from the post. Polling was held on Thursday,…

The Leela Palace Udaipur was conferred two prestigious awards at the Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Travel Awards 2012. The property was voted the second favourite in two important award categories – ‘Best Leisure Hotel’ second year in a row, and ‘Best Hotel Spa’. The awards were presented to Graham Grant, General Manager, The Leela Palace…

The schoolkids in Rajasthan are being showered with freebies. The state government has announced to distribute more than one lakh laptops to the meritorious students next year in addition to bicycles to be given to all girls enrolled in class9 onwards so as to curb the dropout rate of girls in government schools. With elections…

Two children, who had reportedly gone missing a few days ago, were found dead in a dug-out pond in the Karni Vihar police station area here, police said on Thursday. Sonu (9) and Daya (7) were found yesterday, police said. Both of them were children of construction labourers and their families had registered a missing…

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday announced monetary assistance of Rs 5,000 per month for accredited journalists aged above 62 years who have worked for at least 20 years in a newspaper. The scheme was announced as part of a slew of welfare measures drawn up to coincide with the completion of four years…

The Rajasthan government will launch the facility of free basic medical tests for patients here from April 7 next year, chief minister Ashok Gehlot announced on Thursday. Addressing a press conference on completion of the fourth year in power for the Congress government under his leadership, Gehlot said the free medicine scheme launched in October…