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Number of tigers in Rajasthan has crossed 100, says CM Ashok Gehlot

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said the number of tigers in Rajasthan has crossed 100 due to the efforts of the state government in wildlife conservation. The number of other wild animals including panther, chital, deer, kharmor is also increasing continuously in the state, he said, stressing that "wildlife conservation is our topmost priority." According to an official statement, Gehlot was addressing a meeting of the State Wildlife Board at the Chief Minister's residence on Wednesday night. He also said that from October 2, Wildlife Week will be organized across the state. During which interesting activities related to increasing curiosity about wildlife among the general public including school children will be organised. He instructed the departmental officers to carry out the action plan as per the requirement in the state sanctuaries including Ranthambore, Sariska, Mukundra and Ramgarh Vishdhari. The chief minister said that for the conservation of forests and ...

Lumpy Skin disease: No immediate impact on milk output, say states

Officials worry that disease may affect fertility of affected animals, and of their offspring

Lack of Trust: BJP on Gehlot's adviser warning on unauthorised slogans

Rajasthan Chief Minister's adviser on Tuesday issued a diktat to supporters at a public function to stick to only two slogans given by the party, failing which they would be taken away by police, prompting the BJP to say the government either "lacked slogans or trust". Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot inaugurated the block-level Rajiv Gandhi Rural Olympic Games and also laid foundation stones for several development works in Dudu here. At a public gathering held in connection with this, Independent MLA from Dudu, Babulal Nagar, who is also an adviser to Gehlot, warned people against raising any slogan other than 'Rajiv Gandhi Amar Rahe' and 'Ashok Gehlot Zindabad'. Nagar said, "I have given you two slogans. 'Rajiv Gandhi Amar Rahe' and 'Ashok Gehlot Zindabad'. No one should raise any other slogan. If you want to, you can leave. "If someone raises the slogan, police will take you away. They will put you in lock up and frame a case," he added. Poonia took to Twitter t

If Pilot can become CM by hurling shoes at me he should: Rajasthan minister

Rajasthan Minister Ashok Chandna has reacted sharply to Sachin Pilot supporters hurling footwear towards a stage where he was present, saying if the ex-state Congress president can become chief minister by getting shoes hurled at him, he should do it. He also got into a war of words with Deputy Leader of Opposition in Assembly Rajendra Rathore, who along with him and other leaders of the Congress and BJP was present on the stage when shoes were hurled. The incident happened on Monday at a mass meeting held before the immersion of the ashes of Gurjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla in the Pushkar lake. However, former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot was not present at the mass meeting. Both Pilot and Chandna are from the Gurjar community. As soon as Industries Minister Shakuntala Rawat, Sports Minister Chandna and other Congress leaders got on the dais, Pilot's supporters in the crowd started hooting, upset over the former deputy chief minister allegedly not being invited to the ...

Ashok Gehlot's govt very insensitive towards cows: Rajyavardhan Rathore

Rathore accused the Rajasthan government of being insensitive towards cows and claimed that lakhs of cows have died due to lumpy disease but the state government is not serious

Rajasthan to tap solar energy to fulfil electricity demand in agri sector

Rajasthan's solar generation potential has been assessed at 142 Gw. The state government plans to harness this potential systematically and has set an ambitious target of 30 Gw capacity by 2024-25

Rename Rajasthan as Kartavyasthan: Shashi Tharoor on renaming Rajpath

Criticising the BJP government over the renaming of Rajpath as Kartavya Path, Congress leader and author Shashi Tharoor questioned the centre that shouldn't all Raj Bhavans become Kartavya Bhavans

Rajasthan govt sanctions Rs 37.75 crore for expansion work of 10 airstrips

The Rajasthan government has sanctioned Rs 37.75 crore for expansion work at 10 airstrips in the state. An official statement said Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved the fund for various airstrip development works including boundary wall construction, campus wall construction and airstrip refurbishment. Of these, Rs 14 crore will be given for shifting the mega highway and Buddha Mandavar Road and construction of boundary wall for the Kolana (Jhalawar) airstrip, Rs 4 crore for increasing the height of the boundary wall of the Abu Road (Sirohi) airstrip and other works there. As much as Rs 1.97 crore has been allocated for works at the Phalodi (Jodhpur) airstrip, Rs 3.40 crore for the Talwara (Banswara) airstrip, Rs 4.60 crore for the Padihara (Churu) airstrip, Rs 4.50 crore for the Sirohi airstrip. The government allocated Rs 2 crore each for the Tarapura (Sikar) airstrip and the Kumher (Bharatpur) airstrip, Rs 1.23 crore for the Sawai Madhopur airstrip and Rs 5 lakh for the .

Identifying works and funding key to national urban job scheme

The financial burden depends on the design of the scheme.

Rajasthan CM launches employment scheme for families in urban areas

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday launched a scheme on the lines of the MGNREGA to provide 100 days of employment to families in urban areas. Calling the launching of the Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Scheme historic, Gehlot said any family that wants to increase their income at a time of high inflation could seek jobs under it. The scheme has been prepared after studying similar such programmes in other states, he added after launching the programme during a state-level event at Ambedkar Bhawan here. Ten women beneficiaries were presented job cards during the function. Under the scheme, projects on environment protection, water conservation, heritage conservation, maintenance of gardens, removal of encroachment, illegal sign boards, hoardings and banners, and sanitation will be undertaken. People in the 18 to 60 age group are eligible for the scheme, under which at least 50 people in each ward of urban local bodies will be given employment. To register for it, a .

Amit Shah to address BJP meet at Rajasthan's Jodhpur, CM Gehlot's home turf

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Saturday address the valedictory session of a national-level meeting of the BJP's OBC Morcha in Jodhpur, the home turf of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Shah is also scheduled to deliver the inaugural address at a meeting of the BJP's booth-level workers in Jodhpur. The home minister will arrive at the Air Force station in Jaisalmer on Friday evening. He will interact with BSF officials at the south sector headquarters in Dabla (Jaisalmer) and spend the night at the BSF Officers' Institute. Shah will visit the Tanot Mata temple in Jaisalmer on Saturday morning before leaving for Jodhpur. In Jodhpur, he will address the valedictory session of the BJP OBC Morcha's national working committee meeting at a city hotel. National president of the morcha K Laxman, Union Labour Minister Bhupendra Yadav, and the BJP's Rajasthan unit chief Satish Poonia inaugurated the two-day working committee meeting on Friday morning. Soon after the OBC Morcha

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar visits ancestral village in Rajasthan

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar arrived in his home state Rajasthan on Thursday and visited his ancestral village Kithana in Jhunjhunu district. Dhankhar reached Kithana by helicopter and was accorded a warm welcome by the local people. He visited a school, offered prayers at a temple, and laid the foundation stone of another school. The vice president also interacted with people. Jhunjhunu MP Narendra Kumar, Women and Child Welfare Minister Mamta Bhupesh, local MLAs and other public representatives were present with him. The vice president was scheduled to offer prayers at the Salasar Balaji temple in Churu and the Khatu Shyamji temple in Sikar before heading for Jaipur. In Jaipur, Dhankhar is scheduled to meet with Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra around 3.40 pm and attend a function of the Bar Council of Rajasthan in the evening before returning to Delhi.

NEET UG results: Rajasthan's Tanishka bags 1st rank, 18 girls in top 50

In the results of the NEET UG-2022 declared on Wednesday evening, Rajasthan's Tanishka bagged the topmost rank among the 17.64 lakh candidates who appeared for the medical entrance exam.

Country can plunge into civil war if hate allowed to spread, says CM Gehlot

Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday warned the country could plunge into civil war if hatred over caste and religion is allowed to spread. Addressing a press conference here ahead of the launch of the party's 3,570-km 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Gehlot also said there was a need to give the slogan of 'Bharat Jodo' as an atmosphere had been created in the country, for the first time since Independence, that there is hate, tension and violence. The whole country is concerned about this, he said. "We have been requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi that you should appeal that there be love, brotherhood and harmony among people and violence will not be tolerated. He has not done so till now," Gehlot said. "There is so much polarisation, hate has been created in the name of caste and religion. If this is not controlled, it can go towards civil war," he said. He urged them to act on the message of the Bharat Jodo Yatra of .

Rajasthan to launch 100-day urban employment guarantee scheme on Friday

The Rajasthan government will launch on Friday an ambitious scheme to provide 100 days of employment to needy families in urban areas on the lines of rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA. More than 2.25 lakh families have already registered for the Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Scheme which was proposed by chief minister Ashok Gehlot in the state budget this year. An official said the scheme to be launched on September 9 would cover works like environment protection, water and heritage conservation, garden maintenance, and removing encroachments, illegal sign boards, hoardings, banners etc. Sanitation, cleanliness and other such works will also be undertaken under the scheme, he said. "People from the age group of 18 to 60 are eligible for the scheme. Interested families will get 100 days of employment. The scheme will be implemented in all the urban local bodies from September 9," the local self government department official said. The state government has allocated Rs 800

Invest Rajasthan Summit: State govt signs MoUs, LoIs of Rs 10.44 trillion

The summit has evinced interest from local business owners, in addition to investors from India and abroad

HOP Electric to establish 60-acre EV park in Neemrana: CEO Mehta

Company will raise money for the project by taking debt and through equity sale, he says

Rajasthan govt plans to upgrade facilities in hotels owned by RTDC

Recently, chief minister Ashok Gehlot approved Rs 10 crore for the renovation of six hotels of RTDC

Victim knows the offender in over 95 per cent rape cases in India: Report

A total of 65,025 such cases were reported in 2021, and 96.8 per cent of the victims in these cases knew the rapist beforehand, the NCRB report revealed

Investments worth Rs 10.44 trn lined up ahead of Invest Rajasthan Summit

Investments of over Rs 10.44 trilion are lined up ahead of the Invest Rajasthan Summit to be held here on October 7-8, Shakuntla Rawat, state Minister of Industries and Commerce, said