A new Child Development and Nutrition Resource Centre, launched here earlier this week, will provide focused and rapidly usable information and other resources for early child care and development and nutrition for toddlers to promote healthy parenting among young couples and train the resource persons working in the rural areas.

The chaos created by BRT in New Delhi has panicked the Rajasthan Government, which has decided to send a team of official to the national to study of the situation as similar system is being introduced in the State capital. The decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting on Tuesday and it was felt that, if some changes in implementation of the scheme are required, could be carried at this initial stage.

The Great Indian Travel Bazaar 2008 beginning here this Monday is going to be a major pan-Indian travel mart, focusing for the first time on in-bound travel. As many as 163 key foreign tour operators and travel writers from 42 countries are scheduled to join the which will have 200 booths showcasing and marketing various tourism products in India.

The public sector Jaipur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam has formulated an ambitious plan for supply of electricity to 693 villages and 1,296 hamlets in seven districts of Jaipur, Bharatpur and Kota divisions this year with an expenditure of Rs.197.57 crore. The Chairman and Managing Director of Jaipur discom, R.G. Gupta, said here on Thursday that the villages to be electrified during 2008-09 would include 96 where no power transmission lines presently exist. Over 4 lakh families, including 2.96 lakh living below poverty line (BPL), inhabit these villages.

Traditional farming practices have been developed by agrarian societies in particular ecological setting. Sustainability in these systems has been derived after a long tenure through trial and error with crops and practices. Most of the practices of traditional farmers for disease management in developing countries consist of cultural control. Some of the traditional practices of practical importance adopted by the farmers of semiarid and arid Rajasthan which include districts of Barmer, Jodhpur, Pali and Jaipur are discussed in this paper. Dec 2007

At Jaipur residents cost

Reckless manhunt by Sariska forest officials, complain villagers

The Rajasthan high court has given its approval to a settlement to develop a public park and retain a golf course and a polo ground in the Rambagh Complex. The complex is considered to be the green

Jal biradari launches movement to drought proof villages

Contaminated drinking water can lead to respiratory problems

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