On Wednesday, the Tripura chief minister said that famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore refused the Nobel Prize in protest against the English.
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A 14-year-old girl attempted suicide by setting herself ablaze following an alleged rape bid by a youth two days ago, police said on Monday.The minor girl doused herself with kerosene before setting herself on fire, police said.
The IIM Bill, passed by Rajya Sabha, gives B-schools autonomy and power to award full-fledged degrees.
Star discus thrower Krishna Poonia signed a two-year sponsorship deal with Hindustan Zinc Limited on Thursday.
Till now, the CBI has examined 73 witnesses in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh alleged fake encounter case.
Jet Airways on Wednesday said it would offer about 31,000 seats daily by operating 255 flights to 40 destinations in its new winter schedule with immediate effect.
The Leela Palace and Resorts, a reputed chain of hotels in the country, has drawn up ambitious plans to come up with three hotels in Chennai, Udaipur and Delhi within the next three years, according to its chairman C P Krishnan Nair.
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He served the right-wing organisation for around 16 years under the guidance of Gobinda Acharya and Krishnagopal Sharma, two prominent Sangh leaders.
The Rajasthan Medical Council has suspended the registration of 12 doctors for alleged violation of Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act.
Mahipal, who has worked with actresses like Madhubala and Meena Kumari, established himself as a hero in the mythological genre.
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"I love being in Rajasthan and am doubly happy that I have been able to come so soon after doing the The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 's first version. I would like to go to Udaipur again and see how the lakes are there now," Judi Dench, who has been shooting in Jaipur for the sequel of her hit film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, says. P B Chandra reports.
The price of petrol has been hiked by Rs 1.39 per litre and that of diesel by Rs 1.04 a litre, in sync with firming international rates.
We have brought about a slew of reforms that would help improve governance and also facilitate industrial growth, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje tells Sahil Makkar.
The doctorate is being confereed upon by Singhania University in Udaipur.
At 19, he quit everything to work in a tribal village for free.
Rohin Nagrani drives the new Elantra ahead of its launch.
In an interesting development, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who is very much in the news these days would be travelling by a special plane to Udaipur, Rajsamand and Nathdwara temple in Rajasthan, accompanied by Union Road and Transport Minister C P Joshi for a one-day trip to the state on Saturday.
He will meet Uddhav Thackeray at his home and address Gujaratis all over the city.
In a bid to set a world record, an artillery team of the Indian Army will undertake an adventurous hang gliding expedition to cover a distance of 350 kms non-stop from Bikaner to Sanderao in Rajasthan.
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AirAsia India CEO Mittu Chandilya, who was here on the Bengaluru-Jaipur launch flight, said both the cities have great potential to expand and hence the airline has set aggressive targets and beginning of flights to the two new routes was a part of the business strategy.
The Public Private Partnership Approval Committee (PPPAC), chaired by Economic Affairs Secretary R Gopalan, had granted approval to the six proposals of the ministry of road transport and highways spread across five states, an official statement said.
Addressing a daily media briefing to give updates on the COVID-19 situation in the country, Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said most of the Markaz event-related cases have been found in states with high burden of the disease, such as Tamil Nadu (84 per cent), Telengana (79 per cent), Delhi (63 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (59 per cent) and Andhra Pradesh (61 per cent).
Barmer, one of the most talked-about Lok Sabha constituencies in the run up to the 2014 general elections, registered 71.60 per cent turn out in the polls held on Thursday, one of the highest in Rajasthan.
'A poorly conceived reboot that's overlong, overdramatic and overdone, Love Aaj Kal simply cannot differentiate between pyaar and parody,' says Sukanya Verma.
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Special CBI Judge S J Sharma ruled the prosecution has failed to put forth any "documentary and substantive evidence" to suggest or establish the alleged conspiracy.
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The Japanese word "Kizashi" means "something great is coming". Maruti Suzuki (MSIL) must be hoping its newest luxury sedan of the same name lives up to that promise. Kizashi will be launched in India this month-end and was formally unveiled in Udaipur last week.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday presented Queen Elizabeth some photographs taken 54 years ago from her first visit to India in January-February 1961 when she was the chief guest at the Republic Day parade in New Delhi.
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