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Young start ups receive prize at Rajasthan Start up Fest by Chief Secretary, C S Rajan

The third prize of Rs 20,000 was shared between BITS, Pilani (Pranav Kulkarni), who presented Review Rate a website which aggregates product reviews and generates meaningful insights from them and IIM Shillong (Ishan Pasrija and Cheena Pasrija) who presented their Apna Chotu which will be a bridge between villages and the opportunities present in the…

CAIT filed complaint against E-commerce companies for flouting FDI

These companies claim to be a marketplace and therefore can provide only a technology platform for the sellers who are registered with them. Since ownership of inventory does not hold by the said companies they can not offer sale or discounts in totality on their online portals, but they are doing so which also establishes…

Rajasthan tops in number of students who cracked IIT

1965 students from Rajasthan secured IIT seats out of a total of 9974 seats. Uttar Pradesh has secured the second position with 1259 qualifying students, while Andhra Pradesh which topped the list last time, had 776 students. 770 students from Telangana secured seats this year. In another interesting trend, 25 per cent of the seats,…

Jan Awas Yojna – Govt launches New Housing Project for EWS & LIG

The new policy, launched by chief minister Vasundhara Raje on 26 September, offers incentives to developers to construct EWS and LIG housing on private and government land. Through this the government aims to focus on construction of houses in cities with a population of 1 lakh and above. There are 13 such cities in Rajasthan….

Congress accused the BJP government on misusing funds for its Resurgent Summit

BJP government was “misleading” people of the state in the name of foreign investment which it was expecting during Resurgent Summit in November, she charged. Only road works and beautification works were under taken in the name of the summit in Jaipur’s VVIP roads and hotel areas, she said. There should be a fair probe…

Rajasthan ACB arrested senior Rajasthan Administrative Service officer for land Deal Scam Case

He was found involved in the case of allotment of a lease deed of 27,000 sq yard land to a firm in Jaipur against prescribed norms in 2001, he said. The officer was posted as Deputy Secretary in Urban Development and Housing Department when the deed was issued, he said. Another beneficiary from the land…

Kota Youth Set a Guinness World Record by memorising 70,000 Pi digits

He was awarded the certificate of Guinness World Record for memory on October 1. “The most decimal places of Pi memorised is 70,000, and was achieved by Rajveer Meena (India) at the VIT University, Vellore, India, on 21 March 2015. Rajveer wore a blindfold throughout the entire recall, which took nearly 10 hours,” the official…

Rajasthan to become north India’s startup hub in the next five years

Veenu Gupta, Principal Secretary, Industries at Government of Rajasthan says, We plan to bring investments of up to Rs 500 crore in next five years and help set up at least 500 startups in the state, with the help of India’s leading venture capital firms, accelerators and tech companies The state will invest about Rs…

Folk musicians of Rajasthan launch debut album, through crowdfunding!

The concept of crowd-funding dates back to centuries according to Khan. “Being a manganiyar, our community used to sing and perform for the kings and emperors in the past. The rewards we got were, gold, silver horses and elephants,” Khan told PTI in an interview. Khan explains that the idea was to gather support from…

Rajasthan Cops busted Exam Cheating Kit racket in New Delhi

A team raided the office of Spy India Private Limited, located in a flat at Green Park in New Delhi, on Saturday night and recovered a large number of kits which were ready to be sold, said Alok Tripathi, additional director general of police, SOG. He said the accused used to assemble spy cams and…