Proposal for Indo-Pak bus through Thar desert

A new bus route between India and Pakistan may be opened through the Thar desert if the proposal to connect Munabao (in Rajasthan) and Khokharapar (in Sindh province) by road is accepted, official......

Birthday gift gone wrong, woman drives Thar through 1st floor showroom

A husband's birthday gift of a Mahindra Thar SUV to his wife turned into a near-tragedy in east Delhi when a good luck ritual went awry, sending the car crashing through a showroom's glass wall and......

Exercise Trishul sets new benchmarks in joint military ops

Tri-services' Exercise Trishul has set new benchmarks in jointness and interoperability and "we go back much stronger out of it", top Indian military commanders said on Thursday. IMAGE: Indian......

Modi govt 'nearly signed death warrant' for Aravalli Hills: Sonia Gandhi

Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday claimed that the Modi government has displayed a particularly "venal streak of cynicism" in relation to environmental protection......

IMAGES: World's best boutique hotel is in Rajasthan

Mihir Garh in Rajasthan has won the World’s Best Boutique Hotel 2013 award in London. It has also been honoured as one of the World's Best Romantic Retreats. Mihir Garh, an exclusive boutique......

MRPL to double crude offtake from Cairn's fields

Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd will double offtake of crude oil from Cairn India's Rajasthan fields to 0.4 million tons this fiscal. "We bought 0.2 million tons of Rajasthan crude in......

Cairn to invest $150 mn in Rajasthan

British energy firm Cairn Energy Plc will invest $100 to $150 million to start production in the recent oil discovery in the Thar desert in Rajasthan, billed as India's largest on-land oil......

Food Bill: Lessons India should have learnt from Soviet Union

By throwing food at poverty that is result of faulty economics and lack of jobs, one is only trying to suicidal path says Colonel (retd) Anil Athale. Right at the outset the author wishes to......

Harsh Varrdhan Tells His Thar Story

Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor's thriller Thar is going places and the actor cannot hide his happiness. He's especially proud of Shreya Dev Debe, who recently won the best cinematography award at the......

Review: The Song Of Scorpions: Masterly Irrfan

The Song Of Scorpions is a reminder, if one were needed, that Irrfan was not just a star actor but a true artiste, observes Deepa Gahlot. The arid and rugged landscape of the Thar desert in......

Pet parenting. Housing dreams. Desert dramas

Rehabilitation of street kids, pet parenting, housing dreams, desert dramas and life-changing magicians, Sukanya Verma suggests all this and more on OTT this week. JhundWhere to watch?......

Curry Westerns Move To Rajasthan

Even as our tier-2 and tier-3 cities become increasingly well-mapped, and well-documented through myriad tech-driven data, the Indian film-maker's dominantly urban gaze turns to regions not crowded......

Paralympic icon Jhajharia gets BJP ticket for Lok Sabha polls

IMAGE: India's greatest para-athlete Devendra Jhajharia will be contesting on a BJP ticket from his hometown of Churu in Rajasthan. Photograph: Devendra Jhajharia/Instagram Devendra Jhajharia was......

Army doctor from Maharashtra pedals to history in US

Another Maharashtrian, Dr Amit Samarth of Nagpur, followed him at the finish line at Annapolis on American east coast around midnight on Monday as per the Indian time. IMAGE: Srinivas Gokulnath.......

Lone Indian in Brazil ultramarathon runs because 'there's peace there'

When he is not running, Vishwas Bhamburkar spends his time filing Right to Information cases. P Rajendran meets with the only Indian running the Brazil 135 Ultramarathon later this week “A......