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  • Heavy rain lashes Jaipur 8 Sep 2008, 0358 hrs IST,TNN (The Times of India)

    Sep 8 5:45 AM

    JAIPUR: The retreating monsoon finally drenched the state with several areas reporting good rain on Sunday. The city recorded 19mm of rain, bringing down the temperature to 33 degree celsius. Read More

  • BJP sniffs ‘foreign’ hand (The Telegraph)

    Sep 8 3:27 AM

    Jaipur, Sept. 7: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today said the influence of Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origins could be seen in the Indo-US nuclear deal. Read More

  • Raj Govt marginally reduces cess on Diesel, Cooking gas (Deepika)

    Sep 8 2:48 AM

    Jaipur, Sep 6 (UNI) Rajasthan Government has reduced cess on diesel by 60 paise per litre and on cooking gas by Rs 13.42 per cylinder to neutralise marginally the impact of hike effected on petroleum products by the Centre three months ago. Read More

  • BJP to renegotiate nuke deal if voted to power (Hindustan Times)

    Sep 8 1:42 AM

    Alleging the Indo-US nuclear deal has undermined India s sovereignty, the BJP on Sunday said it would renegotiate the pact if it was voted to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha election. Read More

  • Rajasthan s pension scheme for unorganised sector draws praise (Business Standard India)

    Sep 8 12:46 PM

    If the early indicators from a new micro pension scheme in Rajasthan are anything to go by, the state may well set a new trend in providing an old-age nest egg to its low-income unorganised sector workers. Read More

  • Rising interest rates to eat into infra firms profit (Business Standard India)

    Sep 8 12:15 PM

    Projects having loans with floating interest to take the hit. Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), GVK Group and other construction firms may have to settle for lower returns from their projects as rising interest rates are expected to hurt profitability of roads, power, ports and airports. Read More

  • BJP will renegotiate N-deal if comes to power: Sushma Swaraj (The Economic Times)

    Sep 7 10:00 PM

    Expressing her apprehensions about the Indo-US nuclear deal, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today said that if the party come to power it will renegotiate the pact. Read More

  • Pamper me wild 7 Sep 2008, 0648 hrs IST, Indrani Rajkhowa Banerjee,TNN (The Times of India)

    Sep 7 7:00 AM

    Hear this. The personal requests of Hollywood diva Jennifer Lopez include some specifics for her hotel rooms; sheets with a certain thread count, full-length mirrors in every room, and lit candles. Perfume should be sprayed when she walks down her path. Read More

  • 9/11 marked the birth of 21st century 7 Sep 2008, 0224 hrs IST (The Times of India)

    Sep 7 6:31 AM

    In four days’ time, the world’s newspapers and airwaves will again be full of references to international terrorism, marking the seventh anniversary of what the Americans have taught us to call 9/11. Indians can well be forgiven for paying less attention to the date than many others, for our experience of terrorism both predates September 11, 2001 and has been tragically renewed since, most ...... Read More

  • City feels the tremors of Afghan quake (The Times of India)

    Sep 7 4:21 AM

    If you thought the world trembled a bit on Saturday morning, you were right. A 5.8 Richter quake with its epicentre in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan sent tremors that hit the city at 11.18 am. Read More

News Blogs

Flagrant Foul on Hari Kumar & Heather Timmons of the New York Times - for their reprehensible article on Orissa

Sep 6 5:09 PM

We have written several positive articles on this blog about the New York Times. At least two articles speak of our respect for the writings of Heather Timmons of the New York Times. Unfortunately one solitary act can reveal the dark corner of someone s soul. This was the analogy used by a CNN anchor to describe the well-publicized racially orien...

War on Terror - And finally the Pakistan Link

Sep 6 11:39 AM

Offstumped started this quest to unravel why Tarun Tejpal’s Tehelka went out of its way to bat for SIMI. Offstumped then revisited his ISI links from past and his recent investments. However the SIMI trail to Chicago’s so called Indian Muslim Community opened up an intersection with Tarun Tejpal’s felicitaion by IMC-USA a Chicago based Muslim Organ...

Sep 6 3:47 AM

tied IMC-USA the front organization for opposing Narendra Modi’ visa and favorite of Communal Socialists in India to Mr. Syed Azmatullah Qadri of Chicago. It turns out Mr. Qadri is the President of Chicago’s Mosque - The Muslim Community Center. Now Offstumped has uncovered a document by the Pakistan Embassy that lists contributions from Mr. Qadri’...

Returning to India: Why NRIs Are Heading Home

Sep 6 12:10 PM

This article was was written by Dina Mehta in January 2005. We re republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. I saw Ashutosh (Lagaan) Gowarikar’s Swades - We, the People on the second day of its release, with great expectations. Swades means our country . The message in the film was alright, about a Non-Resident Indian...

chand baori

Sep 5 8:35 PM

Chand Baori is a famous stepwell situated in the village of Abhaneri near Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. This step well is located opposite Harshat Mata Temple and is one of the deepest and largest stepwells in India. It was built in the 9th century and has 3500 narrow steps and 13 stories and is 100 feet deep. Wikipedia A New Morning ...

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