Jaipur: A total of 55 cases of Zika virus have been confirmed in Jaipur, making it the country’s biggest outbreak of the disease to date. Officials sources said that a WHO team will be visiting the city soon to monitor the measures being taken to check the virus outbreak in[Read More…]
Independent Khimsar MLA Hanuman Beniwal, who had already distanced himself from both Congress and BJP in Rajasthan, has announced to float a new political party ahead of assembly polls 2018, Hanuman Beniwal will organize a ‘Hunkar’ rally in Jaipur on October 29, where Beniwal will officially launch his new party[Read More…]
Jaipur: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Usha Punia, a former minister in the Rajasthan government, on Wednesday quit the party ahead of Assembly elections later this year. Usha Punia was the Tourism Minister in the state government from 2003 to 2008, under the Chief Ministership of present incumbent Vasundhara Raje. In[Read More…]
Jaipur: A total of 29 positive cases of Zika virus, including three pregnant women, have been detected in Jaipur, said Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Veenu Gupta on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference here, she said: “To date, a total of 29 cases of Zika virus have been confirmed in Jaipur.[Read More…]
Jaipur: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he projected himself as a ‘chowkidar’ but never specified as to whom he was serving. “It is now clear that he is a ‘chowkidar’ of an industrialist. Modi took him to France to sign the Rafale fighter[Read More…]
Rajasthan polls 2018, which are scheduled for December 2018 is witnessing various turns and twists every day and latest development came from religious outfits. As per the sources, around 4 Hindu saints have desired to contest in the upcoming election. One of them is a close aide of chief minister[Read More…]
Shambhu Singh Khetasar, a Rajasthan minister has created a controversy after a photograph of minister urinating near a wall that had a poster of chief minister Vasundhara Raje went viral on social media. Talking about the incident, which took place near a BJP rally in Ajmer on Sunday, Khatesar boldly[Read More…]
Rajasthan politics which is witnessing several ups and downs every day in the poll-bound season observed another major political development on October 17. Manvendra Singh, son of BJP leader Jaswant Singh and MLA from Sheo assembly in Barmer joined hands with Congress. Ahead of the upcoming assembly election, Manvendra Singh’s[Read More…]
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana assembly polls are scheduled for the November and December 2018 and both the Congress and the BJP have geared up to fight against each other. However, in the royal state, where BJP is ruling since 2013, is witnessing an extensive ‘infighting’, which could[Read More…]
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Saturday announced free electricity for farmers up to Rs 10,000, hours before the Election Commission announced schedule for upcoming Assembly elections in the state. Addressing a public meeting in Ajmer, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister made the[Read More…]
Ajmer: Accusing the Congress of working for only one family and practicing vote-bank politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked the people to keep it away from power, breaking the state’s tradition of alternating power between the Congress and the BJP every five years. Modi said that the Congress which[Read More…]
The Election Commission of India on Saturday announced the electoral exercise for Rajasthan, where assembly, comprising of 200 members, ends on January 20, 2019. Chief Election Commissioner, OP Rawat stated that “Voting in Rajasthan will take place on December 7, while counting of votes will take place on December 11.[Read More…]
Bhola Singh, 34, a resident of Chak 12SLW village, who was a farm labourer, was allegedly beaten to death by some landlords in Hanumangarh of Rajasthan on Thursday night. Sukhdev Singh, brother of Bhola Singh, told the police that “Kulwant Singh and his brother Gurdas Singh took Bhola to their[Read More…]
LIVE UPDATES: The Election Commission Saturday announced dates for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram and Telangana. With the announcement of the poll dates by the ECI, the Model Code of Conduct has come into force with immediate effect. The election in Chhattisgarh will be held in[Read More…]
Ahead of assembly election in Rajasthan, an interesting report presented by Election Watch claims that of the 200 MLAs of the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha, 145 are crorepatis. As per the affidavits were given to Election Commission of India 73% of the MLAs own assets of Rs 1 crore or above.[Read More…]
Ahead of assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, political scenarios are changing every day and the recent announcement of Mayawati over alliance formation with Congress created another stir in the political circles of India. During an interview on Thursday, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh alleged that, Mayawati was[Read More…]
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati’s declaration that her party will go alone in the upcoming Rajasthan assembly election, has totally changed the electoral scenario for the Royal state. Congress party, which is efforting hard to return in power, obtained a resentment from political experts, after failing over forming an alliance[Read More…]
In a poll-bound state Rajasthan, where current BJP government is facing resentment from all the directions of state, there is factual information, which proves that BJP government have to face a tough task, to return in power. Following the trends of Rajasthan electoral scenario, since 1993, it is noted that[Read More…]
Rajasthan, the royal state of India which comprises 90% of the Hindu population and 10% of minority communities, is witnessing a massive agitation over caste and religion based politics. Following which, minority communities are also vocal on several issues including increased participation of minority community people in politics. As per[Read More…]
Political mutiny in Rajasthan BJP has made party leaders worried. Rajasthan assembly poll, which is likely to be held in December 2018 and several party leaders have already distanced themselves from BJP. Manvendra Singh, son of former Union minister, Jaswant Singh has resigned from the party on September 22. Manvendra[Read More…]
Jaipur: Unidentified assailants on Saturday opened fire at a car in which Rajasthan lynching victim Pehlu Khan’s son Irshad, and other key witnesses in the 2017 case were going, officials said. Pehlu Khan’s son and others were on their way to a court in Rajasthan’s Behrod for a hearing. Pehlu[Read More…]
In view of assembly elections 2018 in Rajasthan, the BJP’s Minority Morcha has demanded tickets for Muslim candidates from the party. The president of the Minority Morcha, Abdul Rashid Ansari said this in the state BJP meeting on Saturday held at the BJP headquarters in Jaipur. The assembly elections are[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, doctors of a government health centre in Barmer, carried out autopsies on two bodies beside a road earlier this week, drawing protests from locals and seeking probe into the matter. Health officials however justified the action as done on “humanitarian grounds” on the family’s request as[Read More…]
Alwar: Falahari baba, a self-styled godman from Rajasthan, was sentenced to life on Wednesday by Alwar’s Additional District and Sessions judge Rajendra Sharma for raping a female student from Chhattisgarh. According to information, the baba was arrested on September 23, 2017, after the victim accused him of sexually assaulting her[Read More…]
Manvendra Singh, son of former union minister Jaswant Singh, quits the BJP on Saturday at his Swabhiman rally in Rajasthan‘s Barmer district. Manvendra, an MLA from Barmer’s Sheo constituency ends his ties with BJP. He says, “Kamal ka Phool Hamari Bhool Thi (choosing the lotus flower was our mistake),” while[Read More…]