The Delhi high court on Tuesday stayed a Central Information Commission order to Central Board of Secondary Examination to allow inspection of class 10th and 12th school records of Union Minister Smriti Irani.
The Rajasthan police are interrogating 66 Pakistani nationals who visited Pushkar town in Ajmer district allegedly violating visa norms.
Dausa Member of Parliament Kirori Lal Meena, who was on a dharna in Jaipur seeking justice for a tribal woman allegedly raped by an Indian Police Service officer about 13 years ago, was arrested along with 13 others in the wee hours of Wednesday.
Today, hour-long, high-pitched 'debates' at prime time, replete with inflammatory visuals and captions, using half-truths, insinuations and lies, pour venom against Muslims and seek to divide Hindus and Muslims, notes Jyoti Punwani.
Reader Sujay Ray drove over 5000 km through sections of the Golden Quadrilateral on his two-wheeler over ten days. He shares his experiences with us.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, announces the next Common Proficiency Test (CPT) of the Institute will be held on February 3, 2008.
Here are few things you should know about Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba, India's next naval chief.
Delhi is likely to record its second-coldest December since 1901 as temperatures are predicted to drop further.
Govt Engineering College, Ajmer invites applications for M Tech. Programmes.
Among the candidates who were leading were Congress's Sachin Pilot in Ajmer, Jitendra Singh in Alwar, Seeshram Ola in Jhunjhunu, Namo Narayan Meena in Tonk-Sawaimadhopur, C P Joshi in Bhilwara and Girija Vyas in Chittorgarh
Top seed Achanta Sharath Kamal overcame a stiff resistance from unseeded Sanil Shetty of Air India to emerge champion in the Inter Institutional Table Tennis Championship at Ajmer on Sunday.
The fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections will go to polls on April 29. The voting will be held for 71 seats spread across 9 states.
Swarms of immature pink locusts and adult yellow locusts are currrently active. Not only are fresh locusts swarms expected to arrive in the coming weeks, but even those already present in India have mated and are breeding new offspring.
Within four years of winning a single party majority in the Lok Sabha with 282 seats -- the first time it has happened in 30 years -- the BJP has lost it.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday presented the Railway Budget.
Malegaon blasts were not the only terror strike Joshi orchestrated. He, says the charge-sheet by NIA, was involved in the planning and execution of blasts in Malegaon, Ajmer and Mecca Masjid.
A Sikh man, awaiting trial in an honour killing case, has been slapped with a whopping $ 15 million lawsuit in California's civil court by the victim's family. Gurparkash Khalsa, 56, is in jail charged with killing Ajmer Hothi, 23, the ex-boyfriend of his daughter on March 27, 2007 after he married another woman.
After Congress' observer to the state K C Venugopal made the announcement at a media briefing in New Delhi.
The Sanganer MLA alleged Raje was "misusing" her political power for "personal gains" and that the state government is a group of those who "extort" money.
'We have to stop thinking about GDP and look at the impact on output and unemployment.' 'And that is not going to be insignificant.'
All I have to say is that the narco-analysis reports came in very late and by the time we started to look into it, the case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation. We however got to know that those involved in the Nanded blast were also part of the Parbhani blasts case, says K P S Raghuvanshi, former chief of the Mumbai Anti Terrorism Squad
Security forces have found that terrorists are difficult to interrogate and break. In the past four months, 15 key persons belonging to various outfits including the Students Islamic Movement of India were picked up from Karnataka and Indore. But getting information out of them has been difficult.
The MEA has also asked the Rajasthan government to provide all assistance to the foreign tourists.
Pakistan has proposed the dates of June 27-29 for Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmud Qureshi's first bilateral visit to India.During the planned three-day official trip, that may include a short trip to Ajmer Sharif , Qureshi will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee, at whose invitation he will be visiting India. Qureshi's call on meetings with the top Indian leadership, including PM Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil, are being planned.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) will adopt 15 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) to convert them into centres of excellence.
With Naxal attacks on the rise, particularly in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, the Union Home Ministry is seriously considering a proposal to jack up ground-level intelligence collection by appointing more sleuths and raising additional battalions of para-military forces.
In fact news of his death started trickling in a few days after the twin blasts in Hyderabad. But the Intelligence Bureau said that it was a ploy by their counterparts in Pakistan to mislead investigations. While Bilal's death is more or less confirmed now, Indian intelligence agencies feel he was killed due to professional rivalry.
The ISI had claimed Bilal was shot in an encounter following the twin blasts in Hyderabad. The IB says that of late the ISI has been using this ploy to mislead investigating agencies in India. Every time the pressure on Pakistan builds up to hand over a terrorist whom they are shielding, they come up with such stories.
Dismissing India's contention that ISI could be involved in the recent blasts in various cities, Pakistan on that such allegations could vitiate the atmosphere for the ongoing Composite Dialogue process. "Pakistan rejects the allegations leveled by the National Security Adviser of India, M K Narayanan, about the suspected involvement of ISI in Ludhiana, Ajmer and Mecca Masjid blasts," Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Sadiq said in Islamabad on Thursday.
Security at malls is usually manned by security personnel from private firms. A routine check of visitors is conducted before the entry point, but this check is rudimentary at best. Moreover, the personnel from private security firms lack the expertise to check terror elements. The vehicles entering the mall's parking space are never checked. After parking, the visitor has to enter the mall through the staircase at the back, where there are absolutely no security checks.
Following is a chronology of some recent major bomb blasts in the country:
A day after a blast at Ajmer dargah claimed three lives, India asked the international community to send a clear signal to terrorists and their sponsors that their action will not be tolerated irrespective of the motivation and the underlying cause. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly's legal committee, Indian Ambassador Nirupam Sen asked the nations to devise a global response to deal with terrorism, saying nothing can justify the senseless killing of innocents
The SP said the protesters also pelted stones, injuring four jawans, adding that police had to lob tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.
Gujjar Mahasabha patron Col (retd) K S Bainsala, Congress MP Sachin Pilot, BJP rebels Atar Singh Bhadana and Prahlad Gunjal, Lokjanshakti Party MLA Ranveer S Gudha were among those who courted arrest.
The gorgeous gal turns 25 on July 29.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Tuesday claimed that the Chinese government had recently proposed to him a five-point programme and assured that all his powers, suspended since in 1956, would be restored once he returned to China. Talking to the media, the Dalai Lama, who came to Ajmer to offer prayers at the Khawja Moinudeen Chisti Dargah, said he dismissed the proposal since "it was the question of the future of six crore Tibetans and not of my powers."
Rajput organisations say the film is historically incorrect, and that Jodhaa was the daughter of Udai Singh of Marwar and was married to Salim, Akbar's son.
We have unashamedly allowed scavenging to continue through all of 60 years of our Independence.
IB sources say that the nexus between terror outfits in the North eastern part of the country and the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad Islamiya has been brewing for sometime now.
Although the role of Shahid Bilal is not ruled out in the Uttar Pradesh blasts, the police say that the serial blasts were conducted under the supervision of Sabah Hijaji, another commander of the HuJI.
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