”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)

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)

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)

Five blasts in Jaipur, five feared dead

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Five blasts were heard in Jaipur on Tuesday evening, all within a few minutes of each other, police said, adding that witnesses had told them that five or six people had been killed.
05 14 2008 8:29AM (...more)

Seven blasts kill more than 10 in Jaipur - police

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Seven blasts killed more than 10 people in Jaipur on Tuesday evening, police said.
05 14 2008 8:28AM (...more)

Jaipur bombs kill more than 20 - police

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed in bomb blasts in Jaipur on Tuesday, police said.
05 14 2008 8:28AM (...more)