The newly-introduced Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) in Jaipur has become a national benchmark for management of mass transport systems in India. The Rajasthan government was awarded Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Urban Mobility Award-2010 by the Union government on Sunday.

Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) cell in the state has stepped up its efforts to stop killing of girl child.
The cell, especially made to implement the PCPNDT Act, has started a campaign of sort in the state to check sonography centres regularly in all districts of Rajasthan, starting from Jaipur.
"On Thursday, we raided Dr B Lal Laboratory at Unnati Towers in Vidhyadh

Massive deforestation and change in land use pattern have affected the climatic conditions all over the world.

The state government has made it mandatory that daily wagers, working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), should be apprised of the progress of their work and their earnings on day-to-day basis.
Sources said that fresh instructions have been issued after it was found that most of the workers were not being informed about their earnings by the supervisors and

With the state government gearing up to draft the Master Plan-2025 for rural areas, village panchayats may soon lose their freedom to allocate land for hospitals or schools as per their wishes.
The urban development and housing (UDH) department has selected 100 villages, with a minimum population of 10,000, across the state for their centralised planning.

Park authorities have made it mandatory to verify the identity of tourists in whose name booking has been done

Arvind Singh
Next time you visit the Ranthambhore National Park (RNP), do not forget to carry a valid photo identity card.

Almost no one today can deny the importance of saving the environment. But, at the same time, ecological concerns can't hold progress to ransom.

Rajendra Pachauri believes world will continue to have more floods, droughts and heat waves
Cancun: From the methane-laden tundra of the far north to the depths of the oceans, world governments need to spend more on cutting-edge research to "get a handle" on how much and how quickly the world will warm in decades to come, says the head of the UN climate science network.
"There are huge gaps in t

Villagers in Paldi and Bhichi are on all-night vigil as the forest guards have failed them.

Forest department deploys teams of guards at vulnerable places in the national park to conduct patrolling after an activist shoots off letter

DNA Correspondent
Fearing poaching of tigers, the state forest department has sounded a high alert in and around the Ranthambhore National Park.
According to sources, forest guards have been especially deployed at vulnerable places and teams have been c