Rajasthan royals may get IPL 4 Ticket, HC put stay for 6 weeks

In a major relief to the owners of the Rajasthan Royals, the contract termination of the former franchise from the IPL has been stayed for six weeks on Tuesday by the sole arbitrator Justice B N Srikrishna. BCCI on October 20 terminated the contracts of the two IPL franchisees,...

Read More

2G Scam: 119 Telecom companies to get Notice from DoT

Facing allegations of massive financial irregularities in 2G spectrum allocation, the govt has said show-cause notices will be issued to 119 licencees for suppressing facts and also for missing roll-out obligations as per the terms and conditions of licence. ".we believe that some of the companies might have suppressed facts, might have got an undue...

Read More

Jaganmohan Reddy resigned from Congress, May form new party

Andhra Pradesh, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy today resigned from his Lok Sabha seat and also quit the Congress party. He faxed his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker this afternoon. In an open letter written to Party President Sonia Gandhi, Jagan stated that he has been suffering humiliation in silence over the political developments that had taken place in...

Read More

Parliament adjourned for contineous 12th day

For the 12th straight working day, both the houses of Parliament were adjourned for the day on Monday without conducting any bussiness as the members persisted with their demand for a Joint Parliamentary probe into the 2G spectrum allocation. The government's every effort to break the logjam has yielded no result and question hours in both houses of...

Read More

Ratan Tata move to SC on Radia tapes

Ratan Tata, the Chairman of the Tata Group of companies, will move the Supreme Court on Monday against the publication of intercepts of his conversations with Public Relations (PR) representative Nira Radia, who handles corporate communication for the Tata Group. The phone transcripts are part of an investigation and have been made public.He also asserted...

Read More

B L Sharma appointed Rajasthan University Vice-Chancellor(VC)

Governor Shivraj Patil on Sunday appointed 55-year-old Jodhpur-born and current vice-chancellor (V-C) of Bhavnagar University (Gujarat), Dr B L Sharma, as full-time V-C of the Rajasthan University (RU) for three years. Sharma's appointment has ended speculations doing the round...

Read More

BSNL Landline offers 180 Sec Local, STD calls from 1 December

BSNL Landline reduces call rates from 1st december 2010 by offering 180 Sec Local, STD pulse from 1 December which will again fuel the Tarriff war as now BSNL Landline STD will be far lesser than Mobile subscribers which offer 50 Paisa/ Min on average while BSNL will now offers 33 Paisa/ Min. Landline surrender rate has always been a cause of great...

Read More

US warns India about possible WikiLeaks release

India is among several countries briefed by US diplomats about an expected release of classified US files by the WikiLeaks website that is likely to cause international embarrassment and could damage some nations’ relations with the United States. The US has warned India and other key governments across the world about a new potentially embarrassing...

Read More

Sub Inspector (SI) Examination 2010 by RPSC Ajmer

Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC), Ajmer invites application for 395 post in Police department by S.I. Police Combined Competitive Exam, 2010.Job Detail: 1. AP - 361 Post2. Platoon commander - 34 PostPay Scale: Rs. 9300-34800 Grade pay 3600, Rs. 11100 during first 2 yearsReservation: As per govt of rajasthanQualification: Must hold a Degree...

Read More

RAS Mains 2010 Exam from 2-15 January 2011

Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC), Ajmer has announced the Rajasthan Administrative Services (RAS) Mains examination dates which will be held between 2nd Jan to 15 Jan 2010. Total 13000 candidates are selected for RAS Pre examination who will appear in main examination.Visit RAS Mains Exam 2010 Schedule:http://rpsc.gov.in/Vigyapti_time_ta...

Read More

Rajasthan HC stays nurses recruitment 2010

Rajasthan High Court has stayed till further orders, recruitment of 903 Grade-2 nurses on the basis of the recruitment test held last month. The Single Bench comprising Justice Govind Mathur issued the stay order yesterday during hearing on the petition filed by Tanuj Vaishnav of Pali and 17 others. The court directed the government not to act on the...

Read More

Rajasthan gets first Rural court of India

Rajasthan gets first Rural court of Country when Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily on Saturday inaugurated Rajasthan's first gram nyayalaya at a subordinate court premises in Bassi town of the district. "The gram nyayalaya is the concept for taking justice to the village door-step and will prove helpful in decreasing pendency of the cases," Moily...

Read More

Rajasthan people to get UID Cards "aadhaar" soon

Central government's ambitious scheme of issuing Unique Identity (UID) cards "aadhaar" to all citizens will soon be introduced in Rajasthan. Officials from the Union government had a meeting with the state officials in Jaipur on Friday where they principally agreed to implement...

Read More

More arrests likely in Ajmer Blast - Dhariwal

Rajasthan Home Minister Shanti Kumar Dhariwal has hinted that there could be a few more arrests in the Ajmer Dargah blast case and disclosure of a few more big names in the coming days. He, however, denied that the investigations in the case were being influenced. Responding to the allegations against politicisation of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), he...

Read More

Rajasthan's asian games hero gets warm welcome

Asian Games gold medallist Bajrang Lal Takhar, who belongs to Sikar, being welcomed at Sanganer airport on his return to India from Guangzhou on Friday. Apart from Takhar, Rajasthan’s Satish Joshi and Giriraj Singh, who won silver and bronze in rowing, were also given a warm welcome at the airport and later at CMO by Ashok Gehlot. The state government...

Read More

Best ever performance in Asian games by India

India created history by recording their best-ever performance in Asian Games with 64 medals, including a record 14 gold, with star boxer Vijender Singh providing the icing on the cake by bringing the last yellow metal on the penultimate day in Guangzhou on Friday. The men's and women's kabaddi teams expectedly maintained their supremacy by clinching...

Read More

Govt annouce Rs 3300 Crore for Naxal areas

Government has unveiled a special Rs 3300 crore action plan in 60 affected tribal and backward districts across nine states. The Integrated Action Plan (IAP) is intended to provide immediate redressal to problems of the people in tribal and backward districts in the sector like healthcare, drinking water, education and roads. The IAP would be given...

Read More

IPL 4 players auction on 8 January 2011

The IPL player auction for the 2011 season will be held on January 8 and 9 in Mumbai, the league's governing council has announced. The tournament itself will feature eight teams, playing 60 matches, and run from April 8 to May 22. The tournament, which begins a week after the World Cup ends, will involve each of the eight sides playing playing 14...

Read More

Vijender Singh wins gold medal in boxing

Ace pugilist Vijender Singh trounced Uzbekistan's Abbos Atoev 7-0 in the final of the men's 75 kg category to take the gold medal. It was India's fourth gold of the day and 14th overall. Vijender and Atoev had fought twice before with the score at one apiece. But on this occasion Vijender packed too many punches for his rival. The win made up for the...

Read More

Man's kabaddi team wins Gold in Asian games

Indian men's kabaddi team won India's its 12th gold at the Asian Games here Friday, while three boxers and the men's kabaddi team remained in the gold hunt on the 14th day of competitions. India defeated Iran in final by 37-20 in asian games to fetch 12th gold for India. This is highest ever medals by indian in Asian games before that india manage...

Read More

Nitish Kumar sworn in as chief minister of Bihar

Nitish Kumar was on Friday sworn in as the 32nd chief minister of Bihar by governor Devanand Konwar. BJP's Sushil Kumar Modi was sworn in as cabinet minister. He will be the deputy chief minister. The alliance between Nitish's JD(U) and the BJP won a massive victory earlier...

Read More

Indian Women Kabaddi team win gold

The Indian Women's kabaddi team did justice to their favourite tag by winning the gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou on Friday. India beat Thailand 28-14 in the final to clinch the 'yellow metal'. This medal took India's overall gold tally to 11. Women's kabaddi...

Read More

MDS University Ajmer B.Ed result declared

MDS University Ajmer has declared B.Ed result today. To view result announced please visit below mentioned website: MDS University Ajmer B.Ed result Roll No wise MDS University Ajmer B.Ed result Name wi...

Read More

Arun Kumar Mishra appointed Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice

Rajasthan High Court Judge Arun Kumar Mishra has been appointed Chief Justice of the High Court by President Pratibha Patil, a Law and Justice Ministry announcement said. Andhra Pradesh High Court Additional Judges Bejjaram Chandra Kumar, Nalla Bhuma Narayan Rao, Samudrala Govindarajulu and Noushad Ali, in that order of seniority, have been appointed...

Read More

Beautification plans for the State Circle a Wasteful Expenditure - Joshi

Jaipur MP Mahesh Joshi has termed the state government’s beautification plans for the State Circle a “wasteful expenditure”. The Congress leader, who represents Jaipur in the Lok Sabha, has joined his party colleague and legislator Pratap Singh Khachariawas in accusing the home minister Shanti Dhariwal and the senior government officials of sidestepping...

Read More

Kapil Sibal launches MNP from Haryana

India on Thursday ushered in Mobile Number Portability that will allow cellphone users to switch operators without changing numbers, with Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal launching the service in Haryana. The rest of India would get to use MNP from January 20, next year. The consumer friendly service was mooted over two years ago and was planned to be...

Read More

Golden day for india in Asian Games, win 3 Gold

Taking Indian athletics to a new high, Joseph Abraham and Ashwini Chidananda on Thursday grabbed gold medals in the men's and women's 400m hurdles, an unprecedented feat for any country at the Asian Games. Hurdler Ashwini Chidananda stole the limelight with a gold medal while the Indian men's hockey team and talented middle distance runner Tintu Luka...

Read More

Mauritius president arrives in Udaipur Rajasthan

Mauritius president, Anerood Jugnauth arrived at Lake city Udaipur today on a three-day personal visit to the state. On Monday, Jugnauth will visit the famous Ranakpur temples in Pali district and then will leave for Udaipur next morning. The president, accompanied by his wife, landed at the air strip at 12.45 pm, where he was welcomed by the district...

Read More

DDA housing scheme 2010 launched

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has launched new housing schemes for the delhiites on Friday evening. The new DDA housing scheme 2010 will start allotting flats after November 25 onwards. There are different categories and classes of flats. The 16, 000 DDA flats which includes one BHK, Two BHK and Three BHK, will be allotted in different areas...

Read More

After 2G Scam, CBI busts multi-crore housing scam

Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested many high profile officials of Life Insurance Corporation of India and several senior bank officials.  CBI, in a press conference, said that raids have been conducted on the premises of LIC Housing Finance in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai The CBI, which was said to questioning a slew of...

Read More

Andhra CM Rosaiah resigns

Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister K Rosaiah has announced his resignation. The party in Andhra Pradesh has faced a public and massive attack from one of its own against the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi. On Friday, Sakshi TV, owned by Jagan Mohan Reddy, broadcast a program...

Read More

Bihar New CM - Nitish kumar, election result forecast

Nitish Kumar`s magic seems to be working again in Bihar as the JD(U)-BJP combine appears all set for a clean sweep in the Assembly Elections for which counting is underway on Wednesday. Trends are now available for over 200 of the 243 seats in the Bihar Assembly and show the JD(U)-BJP combine surging ahead. The JD(U) is leading that surge. Nitish...

Read More

Rajasthan ATS arrest one man in Jaipur blasts

Mohammad Salman alias Chhotu an alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist involved in serial blasts across the country including Jaipur was arrested by Delhi Police, he was handed over to Rajasthan ATS on Tuesday. He will be produced in a local court in Jaipur on Wednesday. The ATS is likely to seek his custody for questioning in the Jaipur serial blasts...

Read More

Two forest guard suspended in Sariska case

Sariska Field Director and Chief Conservator of Forest K K Garg was transferred from his place to Kota in the aftermath of death of a tiger named ST-1. Besides Mr Garg, a forester and a forest guard, posted in the Taalvrikshya area of the sanctuary, have been placed under suspension, official sources said today. The tiger was translocated to Sariska...

Read More

Auto driver held for raping foreigner

Gujarat police has arrested an auto rickshaw driver for sexually harassing a Taiwanese woman. Police officials said that the auto rickshaw driver, a native of Rajasthan, sexually assaulter the foreigner on Monday, Nov 22 night. While traveling in his auto, Taiwanese woman, who was working with a private firm in Vastrapur, was taken to a secret place...

Read More

Jamia Millia University honours Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of six millions Tibetans and a global icon of peace and inter-faith harmony, was Tuesday conferred an honorary doctorate by Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia, a government-funded central university with a 90-year-old rich history. The honour had the nod of the Indian government. The university vice chancellor, Najeeb Jung,...

Read More

AIR, Doordarshan employees on strike

Employees of All India Radio and Doordarshan Tuesday went on a 48-hour strike to press their demand for repeal of the Prasar Bharati Act, bringing operations of the state-run radio and television channels to a standstill all over the country. The strike called by the National Federation of Akashvani and Doordarshan Employees (NFADE), an umbrella body...

Read More

BSNL employees may go on 3 days strike on December 1

BSNL Executive and Non-executive employees may go on three days strike from 1st to 3rd December 2010 for settlement of the various demands as per BSNL Unions sources. BSNLEU General Secretaries of the JAC constituents have observed one day parliament march on 15 Nov 2010 and demanded immediate payment of bonus / PLI. But his reply was in the negative...

Read More

AIDS cases drop by 50% in India

India has shown a 50 percent drop in the number of new HIV infections in the last 10 years as the AIDS epidemic is beginning to reverse globally with a decline in the newly-infected HIV cases and AIDS-related deaths, says a United Nations report released Tuesday. The 2010 UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic shows about 33.3 million people were...

Read More

Bihar Election 2010 results | Bihar Vidhan Sabha election result

Bihar Assembly elections or Bihar Vidhan Sabha election result 2010 for 243 constituencies si declared today on wednesday, 24 September 2010. Nitish kumar headed NDA make a clear sweep in Bihar with 202 sets in Bihar and nitish kumar to be next bihar CM. The Elections constant...

Read More

Sariska Field Director removed after death of tiger

Sariska Field Director and Chief Conservator of Forest K K Garg has been removed from the post in the aftermath of death of tiger ST-1 which was translocated to Sariska from Ranthambhor about two years ago. Mr Garg has been transferred as Chief Convervator of Forest in Kota. ''Tiger ST-1, a 5-year-old male, was found dead in suspicious circumstances...

Read More

Cairn India forced to cap output from Rajasthan oilfield

Cairn India has been forced to cap oil production from its Rajasthan fields as the government is delaying approval for plans to raise output by 20 per cent ostensibly because of its standoff with the company's majority shareholder. Cairn India produces 125,000 barrels of crude oil per day (6.25 million tons a year) from Mangala oilfield, the largest...

Read More

Navi Mumbai airport gets conditional environmental clearance

After a year-long tussle between Civil Aviation and Environment Ministries, the Navi Mumbai airport finally got the green signal on Monday. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced the environmental clearance for the Navi Mumbai airport in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel. Addressing...

Read More

International Film Festival of India started in Goa

Veteran Bollywood director Yash Chopra inaugurated the 41st edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji, Goa on Monday. Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and actor Ajay Devgn were the chief guests at the ceremony. The film extravaganza was kicked off with a screening of the hit British film "West is West" and will go on...

Read More

BSNL Rajasthan launches "Yuva Rajasthan Education Plan"

BSNL has launched a prepaid scheme in the name of Yuva Rajasthan Education plan which is focused towards promotion of education and targeted towards students and faculties of all the educational institutions. The plan will facilitate dissemination of IT enabled content and among students, research scholars and faculties of educational institutions...

Read More

RPSC may introduce new pattern for RAS Exams

Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday said a new pattern in Rajasthan Administrative Services (RAS) exams will be introduced soon. He said the RAC will adopt the method of annual calendar like Union Public Service Commission for recruitment to various posts. He spoke about these changes while laying foundation stone of a guesthouse on the RAC headquarters...

Read More

1.5 Lakh devotees takes holy dip at Pushkar Sarovar

More than 1.5 lakh devotees today took holy dip in the Puskhar sarovar here during Shahi Snan on Kartik Purnima marking the end of week-long Pushkar Fair which featured Camel Fair, Hot Balloon flights and a number of other entertainment and cultural programmes during the course of the annual festivities. A number of Sadhus, monks and priests reached...

Read More

Rajasthan-MP Ranji Trophy match end draw

Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh Ranji Trophy Plate Group A match was ended draw because both teams first innings was not completed at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here this evening. Now Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh had nine points each from three matches so far. Seven overs were remained of the day, when the match was stopped by the both the captains....

Read More

Super Sunday for India, win 3 Gold in asian games

The athletes provided a huge boost to the country's lacklustre campaign in the 16th Asian Games by fetching two gold medals while Ronjan Sodhi brought an end to the gold drought in shooting as India bagged as many as nine medals to climb to the 8th position on an eventful ninth day of competitions in Guangzhou on Sunday. After a disappointing medal...

Read More

Coal India becomes third most powerful Indian company

State-run Coal India, CIL, has become the third most powerful Indian company with a total market capitalisation of 2, 09,671 crore rupees and is only lagging behind RIL and ONGC. The coal behemoth added another feather to its cap last week when it replaced IT giant Tata Consultancy Services to become the country's third most coveted firm. CIL added...

Read More

Anil Kumble supporters win KSCA Elections

The trends in the elections to the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) began to arrive on Sunday night which eventually translated into a landslide victory for the team led by Anil Kumble. KSCA new president Anil Kumble with secretary Javagal Srinath at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Sunday. DH photo by Srikanta Sharma R In one of the...

Read More

President on 9 days State visit to UAE, Syria

The President Mrs Pratibha Devisingh Patil left on a nine-day State visit to the UAE and Syria this evening. She is being accompanied by a high level business delegation and two members of Parliament. The Union Culture Minister Mr.Bharat Singh Solanki is also accompanying the President. In the first leg of her visit, the President will go to Abu Dhabi...

Read More

WikiLeaks' chief Assange to be held in rape charge

Whistle-blower WikiLeaks' founder will be detained soon over the rape charge as the Swedish government issued an international arrest warrant. Swedish government official stated that they want to question the founder of the website Julian Assange for alleged offences. However, Assange’s legal office in Sweden claimed that dates had already been arranged...

Read More

Vasundhara Raje slam congress on 2G Scam at RU Campus

Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Friday expressed shock over the magnitude of the 2G spectrum scam, saying the size of the 1.76 lakh crore swindle was equivalent to the state's budget for three and a half years. "The 2G spectrum scam is so big that the amount...

Read More

Rajasthan gets 505 MW Solar energy projects

Solar energy projects with generation capacity of 505 MW power involving a private sector investment of over Rs 6,000 will be set up in Rajasthan. The bids for the purpose were opened and finalised by the union Government yesterday, an official Spokesman said here tonight adding that quotations/bids for projects with generation capacity of 630 MW were...

Read More

Road accident claim 9 lifes in Jodhpur

Nine people were killed in a collision between a jeep and two trucks at Bapujee village near Lohawat in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan this morning. The mishap occurred at around 0930 hrs after the ill-fated jeep with a group of farm labourers on board was heading for Phalodi when it met the accident due to foggy weather and poor visibility, police...

Read More

Rajasthan's Bajrang Lal Takhar win gold in Asian games

Bajrang Lal Takhar on Friday not only brought India a historic gold in rowing but also brought an end to coach Ismail Baig's 28-year-long wait to win the yellow metal in the Asian Games. "Today's gold is very, very important. I have waited 28 years for this. I started rowing...

Read More

Minister demanded bribe from me - Baba Ramdev

Baba Ramdev alleges that a minister demanded a bribe of Rs 2 crore from him. He made the revelation during the camp of Bharat Swabhiman Yatra in Gonda.Claiming that he had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi two years ago to demand concrete measures for checking corruption, Ramdev regretted that no step has...

Read More

'Big Boss' and 'Rakhi ka Insaaf' only after 11 pm: Govt

Faced with mounting complaints from TV viewers and women outfits about objectionable contents, the Govt has ordered channels airing TV shows 'Big Boss' and 'Rakhi ka Insaaf' to broadcast them only between 11 PM and 5 AM, virtually bracketing them as only for adult viewing. Both...

Read More

Poisoning may have killed Sariska tiger: Jairam Ramesh

Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh Wednesday did not rule out the possibility of the tiger in Rajasthan's Sariska Tiger Reserve being poisoned to death early this week. Ramesh, who visited the tiger reserve, said: "There were very little injury marks on the tiger's body so it seems that it might have died due to poisoning or a snake bite."...

Read More

Rajasthan Govt to provide free bus passes to winner teachers

The Rajasthan Government has extended to the national and state award winner teachers, facility of concessional journey in State Road Transport Corporation buses. As per the decision, the award winner teachers will be entitled to rebate of 50 per cent in the fare to travel in the roadways run ordinary and express buses within the state, an official...

Read More

Rajasthan's Kalbelia dance and songs got UNESCO recognition

Rajasthan's Kalbelia dance and songs is now in UNESCO’s representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This annual list of UNESCO emphasizes on endangered performing art forms, so that the artists might get global support in terms of financial assistance,...

Read More