Rajasthan

<p ⁄><p ⁄>In a tragic incident a woman and her 5-year-old toddler were found murdered near Kanota village in Jaipur district. According to the police, the woman hailed from Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh and was living in Jaipur with a man. The police believe that the man with whom she was reportedly living might have killed the woman to get rid of her. The police said that on Monday morning some villagers spotted a body of a woman with serious head injuries and also found a seriously…

Smuggling of firearms from Dholpur region, notorious for its high crime rate, has been a major headache for city police. On Friday, the police managed to bust a smuggling gang with the arrest of five persons. Two of the gang members were rickshaw-pullers who later took to crime. BL Soni, inspector-general of police (Jaipur Range I) said, "We arrested five persons who were planning to loot a petrol pump in the city. We have recovered one pistol, one revolver and three country-made pist…

The work at 1,200 mega watt Kali Sindh power plant is going on in full swing as the deadline for completing the first phase of the project by October 2011 approaches. On Wednesday, the 211 tonne boiler drum of the plant was erected at a height of 75 m which marked the completion of the initial level and now officials are planning to speed-up the process so that deadline for both the 600 mw units could be met. Chairman cum managing director (CMD) of Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limi…

Jaipur’s storehouses of knowledge are dying a slow death. Dusty and infested with termites and pests, city’s public libraries are hanging by a thin thread of hope offered by the resilience of a handful of citizens determined to protect their history and intellectual heritage.Whether government-run or private, Jaipur’s public libraries are plagued by a severe shortage of funds, technology and staff, hindering their ability to maintain these facilities. Old libraries like the Mahara…

Civil society activists fighting against reduction in food entitlements to the below poverty line (BPL) families from 35 kg to 25 kg slammed the indifferent attitude of the major political parties in the state. Reacting on the absence of representatives from ruling Congress party and both the opposition groups the BJP and the CPI (M), advocate Prem Krishan Sharma, president of Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) said that the poor of the state had to fight their battle without any…