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RAJASTHAN Highlights of the Rajasthan budget 2018 Royalty exempted to carry out mining in many areas. Zero belt mining policy will be promoted. GST will be reduced on Kota stone Tax relief of Rs 650 crore given in the budget No new taxes imposed in the current budget District Lease … Read more
RAJASTHAN Kabul plans monument in Ajmer to boost ties Afghanistan has expressed interest in setting up a monument in Ajmer to celebrate its religious and cultural ties with the Dargah. Afghanistan has been pitching for declaring Herat and Ajmer as twin cities. Herat is known as the cultural capital of Afghanistan which has a rich history … Read more
RAJASTHAN What is the Rajasthan ordinance about, what’s its context? The Rajasthan government passed an executive order that it now wants to enact into law. This amends Sections 156 and Section 190 of the CrPC, to require prior sanction from the state or Centre, for probing corrupt activities of serving or retired public servants, … Read more
RAJASTHAN Survey on full immunisation begins in Rajasthan Chasing target of increasing full immunisation coverage to over 90% in the state by December 2018, the health department has started a headcount survey in the entire state of children up to two years to check if they were vaccinated ever or partially vaccinated or fully vaccinated. … Read more
NATIONAL Nagaland Gets New Chief Minister, Liezietsu Shurhozelie. Ruling Naga People’s Front (NPF) supremo Shurhozelie Liezietsu will take over from Chief Minister TR Zeliang. Recent issue in Nagaland – It is the Conflict in social groups of Nagaland for the 33 % reservation of women in elections. Naga Mothers’ … Read more
RAJASTHAN Ganga all set to be state’s first transgender cop Twenty-four-year old Ganga Kumari is all set to be Rajasthan’s first and India’s third transgender to join a state police force. A two-year-long legal battle has finally borne fruit for Kumari, who could’ve become the first transgender ever to don the police uniform in … Read more
RAJASTHAN SC bars Rajasthan from crossing 50% quota limit In a major setback to the state government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained it from crossing the 50% ceiling on total reservation until the writ petition challenging the hike in OBC quota was decided by the Rajasthan High Court. The state government, by a new legislation … Read more
RAJASTHAN Govt seeks world record tag for ‘Daughters Are Precious’ event The state health department will get the ‘Daughters Are Precious’ event registered with the Guinness World Records. Last year, the department felt that by enforcing the PCPNDT Act, sex determination and female foeticide could be controlled to a limited extent. Higher success … Read more
RAJASTHAN Patients to get free food at govt hospitals in state. The state government has announced that it will offer food free of cost at government hospital across the state and health department will bear the entire expenditure. The scheme is likely to be implemented from September. In addition, the government has … Read more
RAJASTHAN 14-yr-old swimmer Gauravi Singhvi does Rajasthan proud in Mumbai Ninth-grader Gauravi Singhvi, 14, from the City of Lakes set another record by covering a distance of 48 kilometers in 9 hours 22 minutes in Mumbai on Tuesday. She is the youngest swimmer in the state to do so. She began her mission from … Read more