”Jaipur” News

PM visits blast victims, calls to boost security

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday visited victims of bombings that killed 45 people in a communally sensitive city, as calls grew for his government to beef up its intelligence apparatus.
07 28 2008 11:14PM (...more)

India PM sees bomb sites, calls grow to boost security

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh viewed on Monday damage wreaked by bombings that killed 45 people in a communally sensitive city, as calls grew for his government to beef up its intelligence apparatus.
07 28 2008 9:57PM (...more)

Indian prosthetic inventor dies at 80

JAIPUR, India - Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, inventor of a low-cost prosthetic foot that has helped millions of people in developing and war-torn countries, has died. He was 80.
01 8 2008 10:01PM (...more)

Former Indian royal Gayatri Devi dies

JAIPUR, India – The former queen of the western Indian desert kingdom of Jaipur, Gayatri Devi , who was often described as one of the 08 19 2009 3:40AM (...more)

US tourist hitches rickshaw, weds driver in a week: report

NEW DELHI (AFP) – A 26-year-old American tourist travelling in India hitched a ride in a rickshaw last week and married the driver a few days later, a report said Friday.
09 26 2009 2:58PM (...more)

Death of Indian 'queen' triggers royal squabble

NEW DELHI (AFP) – The death of an Indian queen who personified a lost era of aristocratic privilege and exotic glamour has sparked a bitter inheritance dispute among her surviving family. Gayatri Devi was one of the most
08 19 2009 4:31PM (...more)

India court denies HIV-positive mom custody

SUMMARY: A court in Jaipur, India , denies an HIV-positive widow custody of her 8-year-old daughter; the woman fled her in-laws after they treated her badly.
09 29 2007 11:04AM (...more)

India tourist city blasts kill at least 60

JAIPUR, India (AFP) - A series of bombs tore through crowded markets in the Indian tourist city of Jaipur late Tuesday, killing at least 60 people in what police said was a terror attack.
05 14 2008 8:21AM (...more)

Seven bombs kill 60 people in Jaipur

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Seven bombs ripped through the crowded streets Jaipur on Tuesday evening, killing around 60 people in markets and outside Hindu temples.
05 30 2008 8:35PM (...more)

Curfew in Jaipur a day after blasts

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Authorities imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew in parts of the historic city of Jaipur on Wednesday, a day after eight bombs ripped through bustling streets, killing 61 people and injuring 216.
05 30 2008 8:34PM (...more)