A Constable was shot dead and an ASI injured allegedly by a group of unidentified persons, when a police team went to a village of Dholpur district to arrest a man wanted in a criminal case. Rajendra Singh, 30, was shot dead in the incident, police said. According to police, a team led by Assistant…
A new-born girl child was found abandoned in an isolated area in Jalore district, police said in Jaipur. She was admitted to a government hospital in Sanchore area of the district, where her condition was stated as stable, they said. The infant was found wrapped in a cloth and abandoned few hours after her birth,…
For the first time in Rajasthan, an election for recalling an elected chairman of a municipal body was held in Mangrol Municipality area of Baran district on Wednesday. In accordance to the the Rajasthan Municipal Act 2009 that furnishes the voter with the ‘Right to recall’, people of Mangrol municipality voted in the election on…
Rajasthan Engineering Colleges Society has expressed its inability to give revised pay scales to teachers in the existing fee structure. The private engineering colleges have a provisional (uniform) fees of Rs 60,000 which they claim is the lowest charged by any engineering college in India. The society has shot a letter to the Rajasthan Technical University (RTU)…
In a shocking revelation, more than fifty percent of admissions made in the private schools in the city under RTE Act this year, have been found to be bogus. Physical verification conducted by the officials of education department exposed the shocking malpractice by schools who allegedly filled up seats for under privileged students using “fictitious…
A local court, hearing the Bhanwari Devi murder case, will frame charges against one of the key accused Malkhan Singh Bishnoi on December 19. The court, which was supposed to frame charges against Bishnoi today, postponed it as the latter could not be produced in the court due to lack of security personnel for escorting…
The Rajasthan High Court today dismissed bail plea of Bharatbhai Mohan Rateshwar, key accused in the 2007 Ajmer dargah bomb blast case. A division bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and Meena V Gomber, while rejecting the bail plea, observed that this is not the “appropriate stage” for granting bail, looking at the record and progress…
The Congress chintan shivir is an occasion for the Pink city to wear a beautiful look once again. The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) from Wednesday will start a campaign to beautify the city. As the ‘shivir’ is slated for 18 and 19 January at Jaipur, direction has been given to complete the beautification work with one in…
A bike rally was organised recently, on the occasion of World Aids Day, to create awareness about HIV and express solidarity with the people affected. Filmmaker Kabir Khan came to show his support and even participated in the rally. Bike-a-Thon 2012 was organized in the city, by an NGO that works for the HIV affected children. Kabir flagged…
Contrary to just thinking about case studies, calculating the return on investment and thinking about landing high-paying corporate jobs, IIM Udaipur students took the initiative to provide career guidance to local students, mainly from government schools. The students of class 9 and class 10, of Shikshaniketan high school were invited to the IIM campus, to…