Jodhpur, India News

JAIPUR: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday announced several measures in the 2009-10 Rajasthan Budget to strengthen internal security in the wake of the May 2008 bomb blasts in Jaipur and the October 2007 terror attack at the Ajmer dargah.

Rajasthan the royal state of India is globally famous for its enchanting monumental beauty.

Jodhpur: At a time when acute water shortage has become a cause of grave concern in the desert State of Rajasthan, Jodhpur faces an alarming situation of rapid rise in groundwater level that has started seeping into houses.

My uncle Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, the unparalleled sarod maestro, died recently. His father Ustad Alauddin Khan and my grandfather Ustad Ayet Ali Khan were brothers.

London, July 3: The world is lucky to have Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister of India, Tony Blair said today.

India on Wednesday formally set up its second specialized anti-terror operations force's hub in the southern Indian city of Chennai after Mumbai, said Home Ministry officials.

India Gazette Wednesday 1st July, 2009 New Delhi, July 1 : The Army will set up special anti terror units in Bangalore and Jodhpur, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said after inaugurating the Chennai hub of the National Security Guards .

Jaisalmer There was no need for an alarm clock when the bus turned into Jaisalmer, as touts came on the bus, offering free transport and no commitment, if we looked at their accommodation.

The pioneering exhibition Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur presents little known, large-scale images from the 17th-19th centuries that convey an unsurpassed intensity of artistic vision in Rajasthan art.

NEW DELHI: The task force, which includes British-based billionaires Gopichand Hinduja and L.N Mittal, are expected to lead a fundraising appeal for the campaign at the glitzy Indian Summer Garden Party in Chelsea this weekend.

The name 'India' suggests an image of a vast country boasting many attractions and wonderful sightseeing attractions.

Amidst the sand dunes and thorny vegetation of Thar desert towers a fort, 120 metres above the plain.

When Ustad Ali Akbar Khan arrived in London for a fortnight on his way back home after a visit to the USA in 1955, The Observer carried an appreciative piece on him titled 'Music of Kings'. In the years that followed, Khansahib ~ who passed away on Friday at his music centre in USA at 10 a.m. after a prolonged kidney ailment leaving behind wife ...

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, , belonging to Sania Maihar Gharana, noted player of the 25- stringed instrument Sarod, passed away today at his residence in San Anselmo, San Francisco, USA.

SEATTLE, June 16 /CNW/ -- Holland America Line is offering exciting new World Cruise tours and Overland Adventure tours in some of the world's most exotic locations: South America, Africa and India.

Kipling found it over-whelming: "the work of angels and giants", he called it, "built by Titans and coloured by the morning sun". Rising from a sheer-sided sandstone ridge, it looms over the blue houses of the city "like a vast stone galleon"; closer up, it is "an impressive confusion of ramparts, colossal defensive gateways, audience halls with ...

Rajasthan is one of the most admired tourist destinations of India. Visitors from far end of world come to visit this kingly state for its exquisite monumental beauty.

'We will take you on a four-star tour of Mt. Kailash and the Mansarovar,' a New Delhi-based tour operator promised Rajendra Harsh, a 52-year-old financial consultant from Ahmedabad.

The aircraft will be formally inducted into service June 15, with the strength of the squadron eventually ramped up to 18 jets.

JAIPUR: The high-power V. S. Vyas Committee appointed by the Rajasthan Government to select the sites for Indian Institute of Technology , Indian Institute of Management and other premier institutions in the State has recommended that the engineering institute be set up in Jodhpur and the management school in Udaipur.