A section officer posted in the legal wing of the Rajasthan assembly was arrested on Sunday for allegedly printing fake notes of a purported value of about Rs. 9 lakh. Rashpal Singh reports.
A team of Rajasthan's Anti-terrorist Squad is in Mumbai to probe any link between Wednesday's serial blast in the financial capital and the bombings in the Pink city in 2008.
The Rajasthan anti-corruption bureau (ACB) has arrested two SpiceJet pilots for getting licence by allegedly misrepresenting the number of hours they have flown.
At the end of the day, Swedish writer Henning Mankell considers himself just a “storyteller”. His most popular protagonist is, of course, Kurt Wallander, that somewhat moody and diabetic detective, operating out of the southern town of Ystad in Sweden.
Going by its title, Patrick French's new book
India: A Portrait seems to aim for the impossible. To present a homogenous portrait of India in less than 400 pages would mean either glossing over its innumerable complexities and social contradictions, or leaving the picture incomplete.
Today opens in Jaipur the biggest and liveliest festival of literature east of the Suez. It is also, we believe, the largest free literature festival in the world, writes William Dalrymple.
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Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad on Saturday took right-wing Hindu group Abhinav Bharat member and Samjhauta Express train blast accused Swami Aseemanand in its custody in connection with the 2007 Ajmer Dargah attack case.
Karachi-based author H M Naqvi beat out stiff competition from five contenders to win the first DSC Literature Prize for South Asia for his debut novel Home Boy.
Concerned over the financial problems being faced by ailing film actor A K Hangal, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday gave him Rs. 2 lakh.
Karachi-based author HM Naqvi’s debut novel, Home Boy, won the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Novelist Daman Singh, the daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, says the three attributes that set her father apart from the rest are his clear conscience, integrity and simplicity.
A girl tried to commit suicide by jumping before a moving train following alleged attempt of sexual harassment by an inspector and head-constable in Pratap Nagar police station.
An American national disturbed over denial of Indian citizenship allegedly committed suicide by immolating himself on a hill at Virat Nagar, around 75km from Jaipur, in the wee hours of January 26.
An American man has died after setting himself on fire in an abandoned Buddhist center in northwestern India, leaving a cryptic suicide note that blamed his death on "cruel incidents" in his homeland and India, police said.
The state Anti-Terrorist Squad's investigation in the Ajmer Dargah blast case is heading in a "very positive direction", Rajasthan Home Minister Shanti Dhariwal said on Saturday.