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Times of India
March 22, 2018
The bench was hearing an appeal against a division bench order of the Rajasthan High Court of September 12, 2016, quashing a government notification of September 18, 2009, withdrawing declaration of the village Napasar in Bikaner district as Nagar Palika (municipality). The top court had passed ...
Hindustan Times
March 22, 2018
Founder secretary, Sariska Tiger Foundation, an NGO, Dinesh Verma said, “Till the villages inside STR are shifted, the required management cannot be maintained. It has to be the priority as tigers have been reintroduced in STR and only three of 29 villages have been shifted.” He added that all issues will ...
Moneycontrol.com
March 22, 2018
Shares of AurionPro Solutions added 4 percent in the early trade on Thursday on bagging order worth Rs 180 crore from Rajasthan government. The company has won the Rajasthan government's innovative project for designing and developing the nation's very first 3D city model for the city of Jaipur.
Business Standard
March 22, 2018
Now Rajasthan is no more limited to history tales, but stands synonymous with the IT industry and technology which is sure to bring in golden future for the ... Exhibitions on themes such as Happy village, Happy City, Start Up and Future Is Here were organised on the occasion and information on artificial ...
Hindustan Times
March 21, 2018
While each city is unique, Sawai Madhopur's spatial development plan 2035 could serve as a template not just for Rajasthan but for cities across India. ... One hundred and eighty master plans had been produced by the town planning department (TPD) of Rajasthan in the span of barely two years, with very ...
The Indian Express
March 21, 2018
A village in Rajasthan has made it mandatory to plant saplings every time a girl child is born. To tackle two major social issues – girl-child empowerment and afforestation, Piplantri village has decided on this single initiative. Recently, news agency ANI posted a documentary video on the village online, ...
Times of India
March 21, 2018
On being asked how she would balance her upcoming MBBS internship and the responsibilities of a sarpanch, Shahnaaz, who is pursuing her degree from a medical college in Moradabad, replied, “I will be doing my internship from Gurugram which is one-and half hour journey from my village. It makes it ...
Scroll.in
March 19, 2018
Piplantri village in Rajasthan has devised an innovative method to combine two major causes – girl-child empowerment and afforestation – into a single initiative. ANI reports that the village has made it mandatory for families to plant up to 111 saplings every time a daughter is born in their homes.
Firstpost
March 5, 2018
Masti ki Paathshala: A democratic learning centre comes up in Alwar, Rajasthan thanks to a former teacher; seeks funds for 500 more schools ... After visiting villages in five different districts of Rajasthan, I finally settled on this village called Agar, in the Alwar District, not very far from the Sariska Tiger ...
The Hindu
March 5, 2018
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Rajasthan government to file an affidavit within three weeks in a matter pertaining to pollution from buses operating to the State from Bikaner House near India Gate here. The apex court ordered that if the State does not file an affidavit in three weeks, all buses ...
Times of India
March 5, 2018
Congress leader Govind Dev Singh Dotasar took a jibe at Vasundhara Raje government on college dress code by saying that it runs under the influence of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the state government wants to make everybody babaji. 'First they made changes in curriculum then issued ...
NDTV
March 4, 2018
Kota: A 31-year-old man has been arrested for setting on fire a 35-year-old married woman after she resisted his attempt to sexually assault her at a town in Rajasthan, police said. The woman died during treatment in hospital at Kota, police said. The accused, identified as Rambharan Yadav, a resident of ...
Hindustan Times
March 4, 2018
The forest advisory committee (FAC) of the Centre has given the approval for land use change of the 100 hectares of forestland in Lakhawa region to relocate villages out of the Mukundra reserve, though the villagers' demand for a higher compensation package remains a sticking point. “An FAC team ...
Breaking Travel News
March 2, 2018
The Park Hotels has launched its second hotel in Rajasthan under the Zone by The Park brand. The new Jodhpur property is centrally located in the vibrant Blue City and provides a haven for aspiring, price-conscious travellers in search of chic design and a dynamic atmosphere. Developed by ...
Times of India
March 2, 2018
6 arrested for conducting occult practices in Rajasthan. PTI | Mar 2, 2018, 12:42 IST ... Gajendra alias Pappu Sharma, the main accused in the case, is on the run, said Deepak Ojha, SHO, Gangapur city police. According to the police, the victim Anita Singh was ill and she died in a closed room 45 days ago. The victim's ...
The Hindu
March 2, 2018
The AIKS has decided to continue its protest meetings in the villages and announced that the farmers would not allow any Minister to enter the villages until the loan waiver issue was resolved. “The farmers will protest against any official or private visit of Ministers to the villages and block their way,” AIKS ...
YourStory.com
March 1, 2018
In the nondescript Rajasthan Amivada village, in Jhadol district in Udaipur, marginal tribal farmers created history by harvesting bamboo grass in the last week of ... As a symbolic gesture, 14 other villages from four blocks, participated in this initiative in their respective villages by harvesting bamboo.
Hindustan Times
February 28, 2018
The Rajasthan government has decided to use drones to survey the villages for its Mukhya Mantri Jal Swavlamban Abhiyan (MJSA) scheme, the fourth phase of which would begin in July. “We are targeting to prepare the detailed project report for Phase-IV along with the completion of Phase-III (which is ...
India Today
February 28, 2018
Kisan Sabha leaders intended to reach out to farmers in different villages and plan their future strategy. "We will campaign in every village for two months, hold sabhas and tell the people about the anti-farmer character of the government. If the government does not pay heed to our demands by May 1, we ...
The Better India
February 27, 2018
To fulfil the needs of the villagers, Rajendra Singh started rural development and employment generation activities in 1985 in Gopalpura village through water conservation. He played a catalysing role in the building of 8600 johads in 1058 villages spread over 6500 sq km in nine districts of Rajasthan.
Times of India
February 22, 2018
Rajasthan gets its fourth liquor-free village ... JAIPUR: Holi is just a week away, but in Foga village of Churu district celebrations have already started. ... With this, Foga joins the league of three other villages—Kachhbali, Rojda and Mandawar—which have already been declared liquorfree villages over the ...
PetaPixel (blog)
February 6, 2018
Portraits of Rajasthan: Photographing Villagers in India ... Driving through the cities and villages of Rajasthan provides for an intimate view of rural India. ... Two girls clearing sticks from their parents land; Outside Kadel village Children herding goats; Village of Delwara Boys pause a cricket game to strike a ...
Times of India
February 23, 2018
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Business Line
February 23, 2018
In the second week of February, for the last 23 years, Nawalgarh town in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan comes alive. Its landscape takes on a different hue. The entire community gears up for fun, frolic, food and competitive games. Small businesses from the entire State, especially Jhunjhunu district, ...
Hindustan Times
February 23, 2018
Despite a loan waiver, hundreds of farmers blocked the Bikaner-Agra national highway 52 near Sikar town on Thursday. Two days ago, the government arrested the national secretary of Kisan Sabha, Amra Ram and his colleague Pema Ram, to pre-empt the protests. “Our leaders were arrested when they ...
Times of India
February 23, 2018
Call it superstition or the fear of death. Legislators in the state are beginning to suspect that the Rajasthan assembly is haunted by spirits. The lawmakers believe that the House never retains its maximum strength of 200 members for long, either because one or the other member resigns, goes to jail or has ...
Times of India
February 23, 2018
Rajasthan gets its fourth liquor-free village ... JAIPUR: Holi is just a week away, but in Foga village of Churu district celebrations have already started. ... With this, Foga joins the league of three other villages—Kachhbali, Rojda and Mandawar—which have already been declared liquorfree villages over the ...
Hindustan Times
February 22, 2018
A rescue team from Jodhpur along with local forest department officials caught the leopard from Dhakon Ka Tala village under Chohtan block of the district, said Barmer divisional forest officer Udaram Siyal. Following information from villagers that the big cat was sighted near the village, a joint forest team ...
CNN
February 22, 2018
Largely built in the 1700s under the order of Rajput ruler Sawai Raja Jai Singh II, Jaipur is surrounded by a city wall and several defensive forts. Conceived as a commercial center in the state of Rajasthan, it was considered ahead of its time due to the use of grid iron city planning. A romantic dusty pink hue ...
South China Morning Post
February 22, 2018
Teeming cities give way to arid desert, fairy-tale palaces rub shoulders with audacious forts and clothes come in colours dazzling enough to cause cataracts. ... To this end, off-the-beaten-track villages are marketing themselves as “the real Rajasthan” by offering an authentic alternative to the mainstream ...
The Tribune
February 17, 2018
Six people were killed and 19 others injured following a blast in two cooking gas cylinders because of leakage at a marriage at Beawar town of Ajmer district on Friday night. The deceased included two children and a woman. A two-storey house collapsed and the adjoining houses were also damaged in ...
Hindustan Times
February 17, 2018
Bodies of six people have been recovered while the injured five are undergoing treatment. Rescue operations are on to trace 13 people. jaipur Updated: Feb 17, 2018 15:07 IST. Press Trust of India, Jaipur. A view of a building collapsed in a gas cylinder blast in Beawar town in Rajasthan on Friday.(PTI Photo). Six people ...
Times of India
February 17, 2018
Farmers dig pits, sit in them to protest land acquisition in Rajasthan. PTI | Feb 16 ... "We are protesting against land acquisition in almost eight villages for the construction of a bypass in Laxmangarh. We began a ... Batad said nearly 10 km of the proposed bypass would pass through the village. Get latest ...
Hindustan Times
February 17, 2018
Verma, a businessman, has spent more than Rs 20 lakh to build a community centre at Jalpali in Rajasthan's Sikar district. A bulk of the money he spent on building the community hub, Gayatri Chetna Centre, is what he had saved for his son Gautam's education. Verma wanted Gautam to be a doctor.
Times Now
February 16, 2018
Minor raped, murdered in Rajasthan. File Photo. Jhalawar (Rajasthan): A six-year-old girl, who had gone missing since February 14, was found raped and murdered in an agriculture field on Thursday in Rajasthan's Jhalawar city. The deceased belongs to Bhil community from Chota Raipur village under ...
Times of India
February 16, 2018
Karan Tacker: I gorge on local delicacies and gain extra kilos whenever I visit Rajasthan ... In the city recently to host an engagement ceremony, Karan shared with us, “Jaipur is close to my heart as my very first commercial shoot for a personal care ... You can't come to Rajasthan and not try the local food.
India Today
February 16, 2018
Sikar, Feb 16 (PTI) Farmers today dug pits here and sat inside them as a mark of protest against land acquisition in the district for a proposed flyover in Laxmangarh. "We are protesting against land acquisition in almost eight villages for the construction of a bypass in Laxmangarh. We began a relay strike ...
Times of India
February 16, 2018
JAIPUR: A 50-year-old sarpanch died after he was attacked by suspects involved in illegal sand mining at Bowli village in Sawai Madhopur district on ... According to district SP Maman Singh Yadav, Meena was accompanied by teams from the Rajasthan Armed Constabulary (RAC) and the mining ...
Hindustan Times
February 16, 2018
On a balmy April night in 2016, Sushila Bishnoi, 18, stepped out of her in-laws' house in a western Rajasthan village. It was well past midnight when she began a three-km trek to the nearest highway, where Sushila hoped to meet an activist she had called up earlier. Married off at the age of 12, Sushila was ...
India Today
February 16, 2018
The police have lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against 21 people but only nine have been identified so far. All of them are absconding. Sand mining in Rajasthan has been put on hold following Supreme Court's orders leading to large-scale black marketing of bajri, a material used in construction of ...
The Tribune
February 16, 2018
The deceased belongs to Bhil community from Chota Raipur village under Jhalawar city police station area. Thinkstock. Jhalawar, February 16. A six-year-old girl, who had gone missing since February 14, was found raped and murdered in an agricultural field on Thursday in Rajasthan's Jhalawar city.
Condé Nast Traveller India
February 15, 2018
After about 160km on the road, you reach the outskirts of Alwar town and, bypassing its eastern edge, you come to the fields that surround the village of Kesroli. ... If you happen to be partial to sweetened, solidified milk, you should wander around the city market and sample the kalakand. Locals claim this ...
Mumbai Mirror
February 15, 2018
Jaipur: Rajasthan health minister urinates on Pink City walls, picture goes viral. Mumbai Mirror | Updated: ... Bringing embarrassment to the BJP government in Rajasthan, a picture of state Health Minister Kalicharan Saraf urinating on walls in Jaipur, has gone viral on Wednesday. However, Saraf shrugged ...
The Indian Express
February 13, 2018
Barely a fortnight after her party lost all three bypolls in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje presented the annual budget on Monday. ... in loans availed to such people by the state, Raje announced that Rs 80 crore has been allocated for construction of Ambedkar Bhawans in each municipality.
The Better India
February 13, 2018
Scientists and geologists confirmed the astonishing figure, and experts claimed that the deposits are located mostly in the cities of Banswara and Udaipur. A huge quantity of gold ... Search is also on in the town of Bhilwara to see if these valuable minerals are present under the earth. This is not the first time ...
Times of India
February 12, 2018
The special operations group (SOG) of the Rajasthan police busted a post-mortem racket. Six persons were arrested, which includes a lawyer, doctor and a cop, who make fake post-mortem reports of people who are alive to claim accident insurance from insurance companies. According to DIG Sanjay ...
Hindustan Times
February 12, 2018
They stayed together for five years in Suwana village in Rajasthan's Bhilwara, until tuberculosis claimed Devi's life on February 4 in a hospital in Jaipur. As the news of her death spread, the elders of the Jat-dominated village pronounced that nobody would touch her body. Balai returned to the village in the ...
Times of India
February 12, 2018
JAIPUR: The Centre has released Rs 784 crore for Rajasthan's four cities - Jaipur, Udaipur, Kota and Ajmer - which were selected under the smart city projects. ... However, the funds won't be enough for the four cities as Jaipur Smart City Limited (JSCL) itself has proposed projects worth Rs 600 crore.
Moneycontrol.com
February 11, 2018
The Centre has released nearly Rs 9,940 crore to the states so far for the Smart Cities Mission, with Maharashtra accounting for the highest amount of Rs 1,378 crore, followed by Madhya ... The Centre released Rs 8 crore to West Bengal whose New Town Kolkata was selected for the mission in May 2016.
Times of India
February 11, 2018
According to the data available on department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP's) website — http://eodb.dipp.gov.in — which provides real-time ranking and tracking of the states and UTs based on the implementation of the recommendations, Rajasthan stood at 6th place as on February 1 with an ...
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