The fire at the Indian Oil depot here continued to rage Friday morning, a day after it broke out, with six people still trapped and officials saying nine people could have been killed and nearly 150 injured. The blaze, which broke out at 7.15 p.m. following a minor earthquake, has engulfed the nearby Agro food centre and a power grid. The fire, at...
Woman mayor for Jaipur, Kpta and Udaipur
The directorate of local bodies (DLB) completed the lottery which decided that this time Jaipur, along with Kota and Udaipur, will have women mayors. According to a DLB release, the lottery was opened for 184 urban local bodies(ULB) across the state out of which 87 ULBs have been reserved for women as per the 50% quota guidelines. This means these...
BJP Leader in Rajasthan, Kataria Lead the race
BJP in Rajasthan is now looking for the next BJP Leader of Opposition in state after much awaited resignation by Vasundhara Raje. Now BJP is looking for the successor for Vasundhara Raje. After Raje's resignation, former Rajasthan home minister Gulab Chand Kataria is considered...
Pushkar Fair 2009 started today
Pushkar Fair started today at holy city Pushkar in Rajasthan. Hoteliers and people involved in the tourism industry were happy with the initial bookings. Hotels in the city are occupied by both foreign and domestic tourists. City-based travel operators were busy arranging luxury...
OASIS 2009 at BITS Pilani Rajasthan : 27-31 Oct
The Annual Inter Collegiate Cultural Festival, Oasis 2009 will be held at BITS Pilani from 27 to 31 October 2009. The Oasis, which is in its 39th edition this year, will be inaugurated by popular Actor, Screenwriter, Director and Social Activist, Mr Rahul Bose. Promising 96 hrs of non stop entertainment, Oasis 2009 brings together several events which...
Vasundhara Raje resigns as leader of opposition in Rajasthan
Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje met senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani on Friday and submitted her resignation as leader of opposition in the state assembly. "Raje met Advani and tendered her resignation," said a BJP leader, who said he was privy to the development, but refused to be identified as the party had not...
After RCA, Rajasthan cricket team in trouble now !!!
Two teams claiming to represent the faction-ridden Rajasthan Cricket Association have turned up here to play against hosts Mumbai Cricket Association in the C K Nayudu under-22 league. "Two teams have come here claiming to represent Rajasthan. In such a situation, as per the instructions from the BCCI's CAO Prof Ratnakar Shetty, neither team would...
SAARC Team visits Sariska
A team of ministers and officials of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations is on a visit to the famed Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan to know about the country’s success in tiger conservation. The delegation visited the sanctuary on Tuesday night and is also scheduled to go around the sanctuary to get a first-hand experience...
Dr Asha Pande awarded by Legion de Honor
Dr Asha Pande awarded by Legion de Honor. French government conferring on her the country’s highest civilian award, Legion de Honor. Pande is the head of the dramatics department at Rajasthan University (RU). She is also founder-director of the Master in European Studies at RU and heads the centre for French and Francophone studies at RU. The 55-year-old...
Haryana Assembly election Result 2009
Adampur: Kuldeep Bishnoi(HJC)- Wins Ambala Cantt: Anil Vij(BJP)- Wins Ambala City: Venod Sharma(Cong)- Wins Assandh: Pt Zile Ram Chochra(HJC)- Wins Ateli: Anita Yadav(Cong)- Wins Badhra: Raghbir Singh(INLD)- Wins Badkhal: Mahender Partap(Cong)- Wins Badli: Naresh Kumar(Cong)- Wins Badshahpur: Dharam Pal(Cong)- Wins Bahadurgarh: Rajinder Singh Joon(Cong)-...
MS Windows 7 launch date in India : 22 october 2009
Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it is planning for Windows 7 to hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs on October 22. To reach that milestone, Microsoft plans to wrap up development of the operating system by the middle or end of next month, Senior Vice President...
Fire claim 5 life in Bhilwara, Rajasthan
Fire claim 5 life in Badoni village near Raipur in Bhilwara district in Rajasthan. Accident happen in 'makka' crop field claiming 5 life including 3 woman and 2 child. According to sources accident happen when huts in field get fire by machine used in fie...
Udaipur-New Delhi Mewar Express collide, 21 Died
A train crashed into another train's rear carriage reserved for women and disabled passengers, killing 21 people and injuring 17 who remained trapped for hours Wednesday near the Taj Mahal in northern India, police said. Rescuers had to cut open the wrecked compartment to free...
Oil and Natural gas in Jodhpur-Marwar Region
Geologists have found traces of oil and natural gas in Jodhpur-Marwar region of Rajasthan. Researchers have claimed that the sandstone found at the mines in the region date back to about 600 million years, which would put the fossil in the Ediacaran age, just before the Cambrian era that saw an explosion in the evolution of species.'They (plant fossils)...
Rajasthan HC put stay on 5% Gujjar Reservation
The Rajasthan high court has stayed the state government’s decision to provide 5% reservation to Gurjars and three other communities,besides 14% reservation to the Economically Backward Classes (EBCs) as it breached the 50% limit set on quota. A division bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Bhalla and Justice M N Bhandari, on a petition filed by students...
Rajasthan Govt demands 4% on Oil Production by Cairns
The Rajasthan government has slapped a notice on Cairn India demanding the company to pay 4 percent VAT instead of 2 percent CST on the sale of crude oil from the explorer's oil fields at Barmer in the state. The company, on September 25, 2009, has made an online payment of...
Quota in Public Distribution System at Rajasthan
The Rajasthan government announced quota in the public distribution system (PDS) for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC). "The quota would be 16 per cent for SC, 12 per cent for ST and 21 per cent for OBC," Rajasthan Food and Civil Supply Minister, Babulal Nagar, told reporters here. However, in the tribal...
Geographic conditions of Rajasthan
The main geographic features of Rajasthan are the Thar Desert and the Aravalli Range, which runs through the state from southwest to northeast, almost from one end to the other, for more than 850 km. Mount Abu is at the southwestern end of the range, separated from the main...
Banganga fair, Bairath, Jaipur Rajasthan
Banganga fair is one of the oldest fairs probably 200 years old, since the time of the erection of the Radha-Krishna temple at Bairath district of Jaipur. It is held near a rivulet 11 km away from Bairath on the full moon day of Vaisakh (April-May). The stream is believed to...
Rajasthan - A Royal State with Several Colours
Rajasthan has been the house of royalty in India. The State of Rajasthan offers a plethora of destinations to visit. It is famous for having one of the oldest mountain ranges called the Aravallis and the sun kissed Thar Dessert. In terms of heritage Rajasthan is one of the...
New tax regime from 2011: Pranab
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said a new direct tax regime with rationalised rates and simplified procedures will take effect 2011 and as the government was open to suggestions to improve the proposals. "We want to present all stakeholders with a tax regime that is simple and broad based, leading to lowering of tax rates, much better...
US President Barack Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
US President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize just nine months into his Presidency for his "extraordinary efforts" to strengthen international diplomacy in a stunning choice that left the world divided whether the honour came too early. Hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee made the sensational announcement, a beaming Obama(48)accepted...
Pushkar Fair 2009 on 25 October to 2nd November
Pushkar fair 2009 a 7 days festival will be held on 25 October to 2nd November 2009. Introduced for the first time by the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC) in association with Siyahi, the festival aims to add new shades of magical world of words to the multifarious...
Former minister Subhash Mehriya booked for hitting a police constable
A former Union Minister of State has been booked for allegedly hitting a police constable and abusing an SHO in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district. NDA's former Union Minister of State Subhash Mehriya got annoyed when his car was stopped at a check point near Balwantpura area. He snatched constable Vikram Singh's stick and hit him with it, Bhanwar Lal,...
Inda launched 1 Paisa per second Plan in Rajasthan
Idea Cellular, on Thursday, launched a new ‘Super seconds’ tariff plan in Rajasthan which offers calls at 1 paisa per second on all local and STD calls on any network in the country. With this Idea becomes the first operator in the state to offer such plan as Tata Docomo is...
Cairns Sells First Crude oil from Rajasthan, A new Era Begins
Cairns Sells First Crude oil from Rajasthan, A new Era Begins. Cairn India, the company that gave the nation its largest oil discovery in more than two decades, has sold the first crude from its prolific Rajasthan fields to the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL). Cairn had on August 29 started production from its Barmer district fields in...
Advani will not lead BJP in 2014 elections - Naidu
Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president M Venkaiah Naidu said on Thursday that, the party may not contest the 2014 Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of L K Advani. In an interview to a private news channel, Naidu however maintained silence over the possible leader who can lead the party five years down the line. He also agreed that it...
Infosys to build houses for flood-hit in Karnataka
India's IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd and biotechnology major Biocon Ltd pledged to re-build around 6,000 houses at a cost of Rs.60 crore for the flood-affected people of north Karnataka, Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said Thursday. 'The IT and biotech industries in the state have come forward to help the state government in re-building...
Former Minister Sunil Deshmukh expelled from Congress
The Congress on Thursday expelled former Maharashtra Guardian Minister Sunil Deshmukh, who rebelled against President's son and party candidate here, from the party for six years. City Congress president Vishwasrao Deshmukh made the announcement in this regard at a press conference here. Besides Sunil Deshmukh, Mayor Ashok Dongre and former Mayor Milind...
Moist killed 18 policemen in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra
Maoist guerrillas Thursday ambushed a police patrol and gunned down at least 18 policemen in a jungle stretch of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, officials said.The massacre occurred about a kilometre from Laheri village when the policemen were trekking through thick forests in search of hidden Maoists, an official of the Gadchiroli district police...
Blast outside Indian embassy at Kabul, 17 Dead
A large bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Thursday. The Indian embassy in Kabul was the target of yet another terror attack early Thursday morning after a suicide bomber drove a car loaded with explosives into the embassy building, killing 17 people and injuring 80, including three ITBP personnel. Twelve Afghan nationals...
15 People hospitalised because of mixed oil in Sikar
15 People of same family get hospitalized because of mixed oil in food in Sikar. 3 People are under treatment at Kalyana hospital. They brought the oil last day and after taking it all the family member feel some Walloon in in body. Police is now investigating the matt...
e-Sanchar Project - A Govt of Rajasthan Initiative
e-Sanchar Project: e-Sanchar Project one of the most famous project in IT Field in India as its impact is long term and for large No. of people. e-Speech Application through Network for automated Communication Help And Response project integrates mobile / telephony network with...
JSW Energy to establish 10 power plants in Rajasthan
JSW Energy, a group company of Jindal South West (JSW) group headed by Mr. Sajjan Jindal, has decided to establish 10 power plants with a capacity of 1350 MW in all in Rajasthan's Barmer district. The company stated in a communiqué that the project is being implemented by Raj...
Reservation for Youth in Panchayati Raj
The state cabinet on Wednesday gave its green signal for an amendment to the Panchayati Raj Act to provide reservation to youths at village level in the state. Once the new rule is implemented, those in the age group of 21 to 35 will get reservation in all the three tiers of...
BJP on Wait and Watch Mode over Vasundhara Raje Resignation
Being failed to make former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje quit as leader of the opposition accepting its diktat, the BJP central leadership on Wednesday said "her resignation can wait". M Venkaiah Naidu, BJP pointsman for talking to Raje on the issue and deal with...
Doctor arrested while taking bribe at Jaykaylon Hostpital Jaipur
A senior paediatric surgeon, working as a professor and unit head in Jaykaylon Government Hospital, here was caught red handed while accepting a bribe of Rupees 4000 by a patient's attendant. Dr S B Sharma was caught at his residence yesterday while accepting advance payment of Rs 2000 for operating upon a child admitted in his ward, an Anti Corruption...
Can talk if Naxals give up arms: Home Minister
A day after Jharkhand Special Branch Inspector Francis Induwar was beheaded by Naxalites, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram made it clear that security forces would continue to engage them till they laid down arms but said states could open a dialogue with Naxals on “issues of development, neglect, deprivation and composition of governance structures”...
IIT Delhi Faculty accepts sixth Pay Commission
After government's assurance that the pay structure norms could be relaxed by IITs, the IIT Delhi Faculty Forum has decided to accept the 6th Pay Commission package. "We have been given a lot of assurance by the government. We expect that the assurances will be implemented. We are asking our faculty to accept the new package," Prof S S Murthy, president...
Centre alloted 209 Crore for Flood in AP and Karnataka
Central Govt has released Rs 209.1 crore from the Calamity Relief Fund to flood-hit Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka to tackle the situation even over two dozen villages in Krishna and Guntur districts of Andhra Pradesh continue to face flood fury. Andhra Pradesh will receive Rs 156.84 crore while Karnataka will get Rs 52.26 crore, an official release...
De Dana dan Hindi Movie Release date and review
Movie Name: De Dana danDirector: PriyadarshanProducor: Vipul ShahMusic: PritamDistributed by Venus Records & TapesStar Cast: * Akshay Kumar * Sunil Shetty * Paresh Rawal * Katrina Kaif * Neha Dhupia * Sameera Reddy * Johnny LeverPlot: De Dana Dan is a forthcoming Hindi language...
Indian born scientist gets Nobel Prize in Chemistry
In a rare honor for Indian scientific community, Indian-born American scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2009. Ramakrishnan and two other scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their "studies of the structure and...
Ajmer Mayor Dharmendra Gehlot arrested
Ajmer Mayor and BJP Leader Dharmendra Gehlot arrested and sent to Jail today at ajmer. He was arrested in one of old case registered against him on 5th Jan 2007 by a police. He is presented today in Court from where court order to sent him to Jail. Later he was released on "Jamana...
Rajasthan Govt may involve Private players in Water supply
In an effort to improve basic infrastructure and provide quality services to people, the state government is planning to involve private players in key areas like drinking water supply, roads, health and education. Soon, Udaipur will become the first city in the state where the drinking water supply system will be privatised. Principal advisor to...
Bigg Boss 3 Contestants | Bigg Boss 3 Participants
Bigg Boss Season 3 is back and bigger than ever. The previous seasons of Bigg Boss have changed the definition of Indian television and this season is here to redefine it. As the Bigg Boss 3 paved the come back of Amitabh Bachchan on Indian Television, it became one of the most...
Student Protest and Lathicharge at Subodh College Jaipur
The police on Monday used force to disperse a group of students who forcibly tried to enter a private college on Tonk Road, demanding action against another group involved in beating of a junior student recently. The scuffle started at 10 am when 100-odd students gathered at the gate of Subodh College led by NSUI leader Mukesh Bhakar raising slogans...
How to download Rajasthani Songs free
Rajasthan, one of the states of India and home to several important centers of Indian musical development, including Udaipur, Jodhpur and Jaipur. The region's music shares similarities both with nearby areas of India and the other side of the border, in the Pakistani province of Sindh. There are two traditional classes of musicians: the Langas, who...
Nobel Medicine Prize for research into ageing
Australian-American researcher Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for identifying a key molecular switch in cellular ageing. The trio were honoured for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected...
Govt to spend 15000 Crore to clean Ganga
After investing almost Rs 960 crore in the past 22 years, the Centre has now decided to spend an additional Rs 15,000 crore to make the Ganga river pollution free within the next ten years. "No untreated industrial effluent and municipal sewage will be allowed to flow in the...
Former BJP minister Ujla Arora passes away
BJP veteran and a former minister Ujla Arora today died at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital at 4:15 PM here after a prolonged illness, family sources said. She was over 75 years old. Arora, who had strong RSS roots, served as an MLA five times from Jaipur(Gramin) since 1977 and...
Rajasthan International Folk Festival on full Swing
Traditional folk music from the remote villages of Rajasthan is finding high-profile voices to carry it mainstream. A five-day Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF), which began Oct 1 at the sprawling Mehrangarh Fort, is promoting 'unheard of music from the desert villages...
Heavy rains in Rajasthan
Heavy rains lashed most parts of Rajasthan today providing people respite from hot and humid weather conditions, a Met official said. Due to low pressure over southern region, including Karnataka and north Maharasthra, the monsoon will continue for next two days, the official said. The temperature dipped by five to ten degrees at almost all places...
Pt Kalyan Dutt Sharma passed away
Renowned Astrology scholar and President Award winner Pundit Kalyan Dutt Sharma who has to his credit building five stone observatories at different places including Jaipur, passed away here last night. He was 90. He is survived by his only daughter. Pundit Sharma who presently was associated with Lal Bahadur Shastri Sanskrit University New Delhi,...
Nikhil Kumar appointed Nagaland Governer, Dr. Kamla for Tripura
Former Delhi Police Commissioner Nikhil Kumar was appointed the Governor of Nagaland on Sunday, in another change, Dr Kamla has been appointed as the Governor of Tripura replacing Dinesh Nandan Sahaya. Kumar will take over from Gurbachan Jagat, Governor of Manipur, who is holding additional charge of the Governor of Nagaland, a press release from the...
Bureaucratic activities affects Panchayati Raj - Sonia Gandhi
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday said that despite efforts there was a deterioration in the rural administration system and villagers' voice was being quietened. She expressed serious concern over increasing bureaucratic activism in the Panchayati Raj. Addressing at...
UN release Mahatma Gandhi stamp
Marking the International Day of Non-Violence, the United Nations released a Mahatma Gandhi stamp on the occasion of his 140th birth anniversary. The United Nations Postal Administration released the $1 stamp designed by Miami-based artist Ferdie Pacheco. The stamp shows the...
NIMS Diploma cource students and future !!!
The unrecognized courses run by the educational institutions in the state continue to mar the prospects of students vying for a better future. More then 15 students, who have successfully cleared their diploma course in pharmacy from NIMS University last year, are crying foul now. They have not received a license from the Pharmacy Council of India...
Countdown began for Commonwealth Games 2010
A year-long countdown began on Saturday for the 19th Commonwealth Games, the biggest sporting extravaganza hosted by India, that the govt says will showcase its abilities even as critics say the preparations are not up to the mark and may fall short of international expectations....
Bisalpur water pipeline break in Jaipur
Bisalpur pipeline project for Jaipur water supply is now looking somewhat tough for jaipur. Last evening project to bring water supply in "Chardiwari" Area collapse when pipeline blast at JLN Road near HCM Ripa. This sudden accident make a chaos in JLN Marg and everyone start...
Tiger woods at $1 Billion
Tiger Woods has become the first athlete to surpass $1 billion in career earnings, the Forbes magazine estimates that golf's top-ranked player crested the plateau when he earned $10 million for winning the FedEx Cup on Sunday. Forbes reported on its Web site on Tuesday that Woods entered 2009 having earned $895 million since he joined the PGA Tour...
International Year of Tiger - 2010
India always on the receiving end of Tiger conservation and protection, has on Saturday announced its decision to draw international attention on the issue by launching 2010 as the “Year of the Tigers’’. The next year on Valentine's Day, the campaign from Jim Corbett National Park will kick off, according to Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. India's...
