Jaisalmer (India)

Type: City

Name: Jaisalmer (India)

Country: India

Latitude: 26.92

Longitude: 70.900002

population: 67,609

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Yusuf Khan

Zooming in on talented youth gone awry

Vivek Agnihotri, known for films such as Chocolate and Hate Story, is now ready with his next, Freedom. The film features Dance India Dance winner Salman Yusuf Khan in the lead. Vivek started out as an ad filmmaker before moving into filmmaking.Speaking ... [Published Asian Age - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Vivek Agnihotri, Parveen Babi, Yusuf Khan, Jaisalmer (India)

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

North India sizzles as mercury continues to soar

New Delhi: Mercury levels continued to rise across North India, with the national capital registering a record breaking 45.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday, the hottest in a decade for the month of May. Amritsar in Punjab faced its hottest day in three decades ... [Published IBNLive India News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Mercury, Ganganagar (India), India

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Caught in the rain!

local timeView 3 Hour Detailed Kolkata (Calcutta) Weather Forecast for Today Kolkata 1 3 Day Weather Forecast Summary: Light rain (total 2mm), mostly falling on Mon afternoon. Warm (max 39C on Mon afternoon, min 29C on Mon night). Wind will be generally ... [Published Silicon India - May 22 2013]

Entities: Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, Indian Ocean

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Welspun Energy secures $21.7m in financing for solar power project in India

India-based renewable energy firm Welspun Energy has secured INR1.2bn ($21.7m) in financing for its 20MW solar power project in Jaisalmer in the state of Rajasthan.Welspun said that the entire project cost has been funded on a 75:25 debt equity ratio ... [Published Clean Technology Business Review - May 22 2013]

Entities: Solar Power, India, Renewable Energy, Jaisalmer (India)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Road trips to Rajasthan popular for vacations

Buses, trains and flights are passe. Road trips to the desert state seem to be the hot new travel option for people.We have seen actors take road trips in movies, but now that trend has also become a rage among youngsters who are are opting for road trips ... [Published Times of India - May 20 2013]

Entities: Jaipur, Jaisalmer (India), Ahmedabad

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Living out of a suitcase

Forty five countries since 1997! Peter and Carole Cox love to travel. So do many of us. But then they have been travelling, with just short breaks, for the past 15 years.I meet the English couple when I board a train from Nagercoil to Chennai. It is not ... [Published The Hindu - May 19 2013]

Entities: Thanjavur (India), Peter Cox, India, Rameswaram (India)

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

Renewable Energy Corporation

Welspun to get Rs 120-cr aid for Rajasthan wind project

Welspun Energy, a developer of renewable energy projects, has achieved financial closure for a 20-MW wind energy project in Rajasthan.According to a press release from the company, the project to come up in Jaisalmer has been sanctioned Rs 120-crore debt ... [Published Hindu Business Line - May 16 2013]

Entities: Wind Project, Jaisalmer (India), Renewable Energy Corporation

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

India with G Adventures

Canadian-based G Adventures’ three-week India on a Shoestring tour rolls out the best of the north. You tour Old Delhi, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Pushkar, Udaipur and Jaipur, plus see the sunrise at the Savitri Temple in Pushkar, take an overnight ... [Published Doctor's Review - May 17 2013]

Entities: Pushkar (India), India, Jaisalmer (India), Bikaner

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Election Commission demonstrates new system in EVMs

CiolBANGALORE, INDIA: The Election Commission of India (ECI) demonstrated Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) developed by Bharat Electronics limited, Bangalore (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of India Limited ... [Published Cyber India Online - May 16 2013]

Entities: Jaisalmer (India), Leh (India), Electronics Corporation of India, Bangalore

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Has car advertising become boring?

For a category that is one of the largest ad-spenders, car advertising ironically has mostly remained stuck to the mid gear formula of 'family and friends going on a long drive'. The variations are mainly on whether the drive is from Mumbai to Lonavla ... [Published Economic Times - May 15 2013]

Entities: StrawberryFrog, India, Jimmy Vee, Renault SA

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

World Heritage tag may bolster 6 Rajasthan forts

Six hill forts from Rajasthan may soon get the prestigious tag of World Heritage Sites of the Unesco. The forts — Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Ranthambore, Gagron, Jaisalmer and Amber — are all located on the Aravalli range, which also happens to be one ... [Published New Delhi Pioneer - May 09 2013]

Entities: Chandresh Kumari, Jaisalmer (India), Pattan (India), United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cul..., International Council on Monuments and Sites

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 2 reports

6 Rajasthan forts poised to get World Heritage status

Jaipur: India has nominated a group of six hill forts in Rajasthan for World Heritage Sites this year. UNESCOs World Heritage Committee at its meeting in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh next month will decide on conferring the status on them. The hill forts ... [Published Daily Bhaskar - May 08 2013]

Entities: Jaisalmer (India), Property, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cul..., International Council on Monuments and Sites, Architecture

Quotes

...During the IPL season too, there was a huge influx of people in Jaipur, who travelled from Ahmedabad and Agra via road. "I travelled to Jaipur via road from Ahmedabad, for the Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders' match. It was fun" recounts Sandeepan Mondal

Road trips to Rajasthan popular for vacations [Published Times of India - May 20 2013]

Carole and Peter have their family back home in England $ their only son, his wife and their three young grandchildren. And Carole's mother. "We will see them soon after a whole year. They are used to us going in and out of their lives."

Living out of a suitcase [Published The Hindu - May 19 2013]

"The cheetah which existed in India is only genetically different from African Cheetah and not an alien species. It can survive in the sites that our wildlife experts have selected" the official said

Cheetah back in India? Yes, if the government has its way [Published ProKerala.com - May 19 2013]

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ISI sets up 2 new terrorist training camps near... [Published IntelliBriefs - Jan 15 2013] Vimal Bhatia, TNN Jan 14, 2013, 01.40AM ISTJAISALMER: Pakistan Intelligence Agency ISI have reportedly opened two new centres to train a large number of youngsters on terrorism. The centres are in the Pakistani side just opposite the Jaisalmer-Ganganagar ...