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Topic: Rajasthan

SC imposes Rs 50,000 fine on Adani Power, rejects plea seeking late surcharge from discoms

SC dismissed Adani Power application seeking Rs 1,300 crore from Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd & 2 other discoms, ruling that application was 'not the proper legal course'.

Karnataka’s draft bill for gig workers: income security, occupational safety, grievance redressal

Karnataka will be 2nd state after Rajasthan to have legislation for welfare of gig workers. Experts & activists welcome key provisions, including fair terms of contract, mentioned in draft.

How ‘portable’ Kavad shrines of Rajasthan tell stories of gods & epics

The tradition of kavad banchana involves carrying the kavad to different places, mostly homes of the patrons, and narrating stories from epics such as the Mahabharata or Ramayana.

A grand socialist revolution is now a curse. Rajasthan villages can’t exit Vinoba’s Gramdan

Vinoba Bhave inspired many people to donate their land for collective ownership in the 1950s and 60s. Now, some Gramdan villages are fighting for ‘freedom’.

Why has Gujarat moved closer to BIMARU club, Rajasthan zoomed past it? Clue is in budgets

That Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh punch well above their weight is a lesson for poor states: There is light at the end of the tunnel, and effort bears fruit.

Ex-saree seller & BJP’s Hindutva face who called Akbar ‘tyrant & rapist’ — Rajasthan minister Dilawar

Madan Dilawar has triggered one controversy after another as education minister. But it's his hardline Hindutva stance & party loyalty that make BJP reward him repeatedly, say analysts.

As BJP denies party tickets to 5 MPs in Rajasthan, dissent comes out in open — ‘what was my fault?’

Churu's sitting MP Rahul Kaswan and senior leader Jaswant Bishnoi from Jodhpur have put out a series of tweets after BJP's first Lok Sabha list was released Saturday.

How a play & an elopement led to suspension of 3 Muslim teachers in Kota, sparked communal tension

An interfaith couple eloped from Khajuri Odpur this month. The incident, compounded with allegations of religious conversion, led to the suspension of 3 Muslim teachers at a govt school.

Rift emerges in Rajasthan BJP as MLA takes swipe at Union minister Shekhawat — ‘only does lip service’

Ahead of Lok Sabha elections, Shergarh MLA Babu Singh Rathore has accused Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat of neglecting development projects, not delivering on promises.

Indian ‘flew 1st aeroplane’, Akbar was ‘rapist’ — Rajasthan minister Dilawar’s headline-making spree

Six-term MLA Madan Dilawar was minister of social welfare in Vasundhara Raje-led BJP govt (2003-08). He has been in news for his controversial statements and ‘arbitrary actions’.

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A new Indian foreign policy consensus is emerging. That India isn’t a great power yet

After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.

Geoeconomic confrontation top trigger for global crisis, cyber insecurity biggest risk for India—WEF

WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'

The curious case of Pakistan’s JF-17 ‘orders’

Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines. 

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.