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  • Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee

    'Don't think so': Abhijit Banerjee says wouldn't have won Nobel Prize living in India

    India | January 27, 2020 8:55 IST

    Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee feels that he wouldn't have won the nobel prize if he was living in India. The 58-year-old India-born American economist was speaking at a session at Jaipur Literature Festival when he was asked if he could have won the Nobel based in India.

  • Youth falls off Crystal Palm Mall in Jaipur, dies 

    Youth falls off Crystal Palm Mall in Jaipur, dies

    India | January 15, 2020 20:17 IST

    A youth died on Wednesday after allegedly falling from a mall in posh area of the city with police suspecting it to be a suicide. The incident happened at Crystal Palm Mall located near 22 Godam area where the body of a youth (in 20's) was found lying in a pool of blood.  

  • Jaipur double muder: IOCL Manager killed wife, son; killer

    Jaipur: IOCL Manager killed wife, son; killer caught on camera carrying toddler | Watch

    January 12, 2020 15:04 IST

    In a barbaric incident, a 30-year-old woman and her 21-month-old son were brutally murdered at Unique Tower residential apartment in Pratap Nagar, Jaipur. The CCTV footage shows the killer carrying the toddler and walking out of the apartment.

  • Man slits wife's throat, hits child's head with heavy object to start new family in Jaipur, arrested

    Man slits wife's throat, hits child's head with heavy object to start new family in Jaipur, arrested

    January 10, 2020 16:14 IST

    The conspiracy was hatched on January 3 at a hotel near the Jaipur airport. Rohit (accused) paid Rs 20,000 in advance to the killer. Rohit had planned the murder of his wife and son to start a new family as his the relationship with his wife was strained right from their marriage.

  • Thieves flee with ATM containing Rs 14 lakh in Rajasthan

    Thieves flee with ATM containing Rs 14 lakh in Rajasthan

    January 07, 2020 18:38 IST

    The incident took place on Monday night at the ATM kiosk of Oriental Bank of Commerce in Thada village, said Phool Ka Bagh police station SHO Ravindra Pratap Singh. Police said no security guard was posted at the kiosk.

  • Sitharaman launches awareness campaign on CAA in Jaipur

    Sitharaman launches awareness campaign on CAA in Jaipur

    India | January 05, 2020 15:00 IST

    Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday launched a door-to-door awareness campaign on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) here.

  • Cold wave conditions persist in Rajasthan; Banasthali coldest at 3.3 deg Celsius

    Cold wave conditions persist in Rajasthan; Banasthali coldest at 3.3 deg Celsius

    India | January 02, 2020 16:15 IST

    Cold wave conditions continued unabated in Rajasthan on Thursday with few places witnessing dense fog, a Meteorological Department official said. Banasthali was the coldest place in the state with a minimum temperature of 3.3 degrees Celsius, followed by 3.4 degrees Celsius in Fatehpur.

  • Several vehicles collide at Delhi-Jaipur highway

    More than 30 vehicles pile-up due to fog on Delhi-Jaipur highway, at least 15 injured

    India | January 02, 2020 10:34 IST

    More than 30 vehicles pile up at the Delhi-Jaipur highway due to fog. Several people are said to be injured in the incident.

  • Jaipur records 2nd lowest temperature in 55 years

    Jaipur records 2nd lowest temperature in 55 years

    India | December 30, 2019 10:29 IST

    For the last four days, the temperature has been dipping. The state recorded second lowest-ever temperature in 55 years at 1.4 degrees Celsius as a cold wave continued to sweep Rajasthan.

  • 77 infant deaths in Kota in a month: CM orders probe

    77 infant deaths in Kota in a month: CM orders probe

    India | December 28, 2019 16:53 IST

    "The chief minister has taken this issue very seriously and hence, I am here to find out the reason for neonatal deaths. A special committee will investigate if there were hygienic or clinical issues behind the death of these kids. Besides, all other issues will also be taken up," Galeria said after visiting Kota.

  • PM Modi, Amit Shah fuelling unrest: Gehlot

    PM Modi, Amit Shah fuelling unrest: Ashok Gehlot

    India | December 27, 2019 17:24 IST

    “The government has failed on every front. Now to divert public attention from real problems, they are raising such issues and fuelling unrest, disrupting communal harmony. They should revoke CAA and assure the nation NRC will not be implemented,” Gehlot tweeted.

  • Rajasthan cold: Sikar shivers at 0 degrees

    Temperature dips in Rajasthan; Sikar shivers at 0 degrees

    India | December 26, 2019 15:06 IST

    Rajasthan shivered on Thursday morning with the temperature in Sikar at 0.0 degrees Celsius, Mount Abu recorded 1.0 degree, Pilani was at 0.5 degrees, Churu at 1.3 degrees while Jaipur chilled at 5.8 degrees, said IMD Director Shiv Ganesh. In wake of the cold wave warning given by the Met department for Thursday in Churu, Hanumangarh, Bikaner, Sikar, Jhunjhunu, Alwar and Dausa, and Bharatpur, the local administration in the state has been taking special initiatives to tackle the cold winter.

  • BREAKING: All 4 convicts sentenced to death in Jaipur Bomb

    All 4 convicts sentenced to death in Jaipur bomb blasts case

    India | December 20, 2019 18:12 IST

    All four convicts in the Jaipur bomb blasts case have been sentenced to death, a state court pronounced the quantum of punishment on Friday. The four convicts who will be hanged to death are Sarvar Aazmi, Mohammad Saif, Saifur Rahman, and Salman.

  • Jaipur blasts: Punishment to be pronounced Friday

    Jaipur blasts: Punishment to be pronounced Friday

    India | December 19, 2019 19:14 IST

    A special court will on Friday pronounce the sentence against the four men convicted for the serial blasts that killed over 70 people in 2008. The special court on Thursday heard arguments on the quantum of punishment for the four men. Public prosecutor Srichand said the court will pronounce the sentence at 4 pm on Friday. The maximum punishment is a death sentence.

  • 2008 Jaipur blasts case

    2008 Jaipur blasts case: 4 accused convicted, one acquitted

    India | December 18, 2019 12:49 IST

    On May 13, eight serial bomb blasts rocked the Pink City. The eight bomb blasts took place one after another and most of them were close to the worship places in old Jaipur city (walled city). The blasts killed 70 people and injured more than 170.

  • Party turns nightmare: Girl raped by hotel staffer in Jaipur

    Party turns nighmare: Mumbai girl raped by hotel staffer in Jaipur

    December 05, 2019 17:12 IST

    A 19-year-old management trainee from Mumbai was allegedly raped by a boy after a house party. The Mumbai girl was in Jaipur on a training course.

  • Jaipur man uses 2,000 BC 'grapho analysis' to train

    Jaipur man uses 2,000 BC 'grapho analysis' to train management students, professionals

    India | December 01, 2019 11:53 IST

    The science of grapho analysis goes back to around 2,000 BC in the times of Greek philosopher Aristotle, when he discovered the relation between the human mind and their handwriting, said Toshniwal, a chemical engineer-turned grapho analyst.

  • Police thrash, manhandle unemployed women in Jaipur

    Police thrash, manhandle unemployed women in Jaipur

    India | November 25, 2019 23:05 IST

    The police manhandled and baton-charged the unemployed women, protesting outside the state Congress office, in Jaipur on Monday. 

  • Husband of sarpanch beaten to death in Rajasthan's Alwar

    Husband of sarpanch beaten to death in Rajasthan's Alwar

    November 25, 2019 16:21 IST

    The incident occurred in the Mandawar area on Sunday evening when Mahaveer Yadav was returning home from his factory, the police said.

  • Buzz around Jaipur resort hosting Maharashtra Congress

    Buzz around Jaipur resort hosting Maharashtra Congress MLAs

    Politics | November 11, 2019 16:55 IST

    A resort in the Rajasthan capital has become one of the centres of power play amid efforts to form the government in Maharashtra. Since Friday evening, the new Congress MLAs are holed up at the resort on Delhi Road near here while party leaders discuss whether to support the Shiv Sena claim to power in Maharashtra.