Meghnad Desai

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Betting dens like mini telephone exchange, say Jaipur police

Saturday 18 May '13

While the IPL matches in Jaipur were being closely watched by teams of Mumbai and Delhi police without the knowledge of the local police, teams of Jaipur police were in hot pursuit of bookies operatin...
Ahead of polls, Kataria on sticky wicket

Friday 17 May '13

His imminent arrest is likely to affect Vasundhara Raje who will have to wage a lonely battle
Bird watching

Friday 3 May '13

Rajasthan studies the emu so that it can train farmers to diversify profitably.
Raje steals a march in yatra war

Monday 29 April '13

The crowd may have been thin at places and her speeches not so rousing, but in the yatra-for-yatra tussle in Rajasthan, the BJP's new state president
Cash back

Sunday 21 April '13

Over 100 villages in Bikaner have formed their own anti-corruption bureau, the Jagruk Nagrik Manch, making sure that bribe seekers return the money they take
Activists find proof of more kids at illegal Jaipur shelters

Saturday 20 April '13

A month after it rescued 53 inmates of two illegal children''s homes in Jaipur, NGO FXB India Suraksha has found pictures of more children from Northeast celebrating Christmas at these shelters.
MGNREGS protest: Didn''t work but got pay

Thursday 11 April '13

Biram Nath, 50, of Sadhuna village, about 60 km from Bikaner, Rajasthan, has been protesting outside the Nokha sub-divisional magistrate office for the past 73 days.
'Rapisthan' tag hits Rajasthan

Wednesday 10 April '13

Rajasthan HC last week referred to term 'Rapisthan'' for their laxity in handling gangrape cases.
This Week Rajasthan: Season of rallies

Wednesday 10 April '13

The congress has taken out a Sandesh Yatra, and the BJP a Suraaj Sankalp Yatra.
A tale of two yatras gone off track

Monday 8 April '13

The last week in Rajasthan saw mud-slinging, name-calling, show of strength and empty rhetoric as the ruling Congress and the BJP embarked on their respective statewide yatras
'Pak forces said they would treat her like their daughter... and they did'

Monday 8 April '13

The BSF personnel don't want Pooja to wear the salwar suit gifted by the Pakistani side
Vasundhara Raje sets out on swanky mass contact Suraaj Sankalp Yatra

Thursday 4 April '13

The former chief minister has likened the yatra to her 2003 'Parivartan Yatra'' after which the BJP registered a sweeping victory in the polls.
In swanky 'rath'', Vasundhara sets out on a mass contact yatra today

Thursday 4 April '13

The former chief minister has likened the yatra to her 2003 'Parivartan Yatra'' after which the BJP registered a sweeping victory in the polls.
Illegal Jaipur shelter owner accused of abusing 2 girls

Saturday 30 March '13

The girls revealed the alleged abuse during counseling sessions over the last one week.
Illegal Jaipur shelter owner accused of abusing 2 girls

Saturday 30 March '13

Two of the children have accused a pastor named Jacob John, of sexually abusing them.
MNREGS mockery: Rs .001 per day

Tuesday 26 March '13

In Didwana, Ajmer district, 111 workers were paid Rs 35 per day for a 'patwari nadi khudai''.
MNREGS mockery: Re .001 per day

Tuesday 26 March '13

At Chenpura village in Dudu district, Ghisi Devi, Lad Kanvar, Sannu Kanvar and several others toiled to make a gravel road from May 5 to July 3 last year
When the going gets tough, Manju gets tougher

Sunday 24 March '13

Days into her new job, Manju Devi, Rajasthan''s first female porter, is learning the tricks of the trade
Tripura records lowest House sittings

Friday 22 March '13

Gujarat is highest; the last time LS met for 100 days in a year was in 1988
Their world in a single room

Friday 15 March '13

Rescued in Jaipur, 51 children who were not allowed to step out of room, watch TV or make a phone call back home
Governor, Gehlot appeal to cops, lawyers to end confrontation

Tuesday 12 March '13

As lawyers across the nation called a strike to protest lathicharge of their counterparts in Jaipur last week, lawyers here continued to stage protests
Amid protests, Pak PM prays for 'world peace'

Sunday 10 March '13

Pakistan PM Raja Parvez Ashraf on Saturday prayed for 'world peace'.
Jaipur cops protest after HC removes top officers over clash with lawyers

Saturday 9 March '13

Police said the lawyers were caned and tear-gassed only when they disrupted law and order
Spriritual head of dargah to boycott Ashraf

Saturday 9 March '13

Security at the shrine was beefed up on Friday.
Elections round the corner, Gehlot rains sops in budget

Thursday 7 March '13

Presenting his last budget before the assembly elections later this year, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Wednesday doled out sops for farmers