Rajasthan

Areva T&D bags order worth Rs 60 crore; stock soars 4%

Areva T&D bags order worth Rs 60 crore; stock soars 4%Areva T&D India Ltd, the Indian arm of French energy firm Areva SA has signed a contract worth Rs 60 crore for Hybrid Gas-Insulated Substation with Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (RRVPNL) for Indira Gandhi Nagar substation (Jagatpura) at Jaipur.

A company official said, that this is the first 145 kV hybrid GIS order for AREVA T&D in India and only the second order of its kind in the country.

Indian Air Force displays its strike capabilities

Indian Air Force displays its strike capabilitiesPokhran (Rajasthan), Mar 4 : India''s frontline fighter aircraft bombed simulated targets in the northwestern desert areas of Rajasthan.

Awesome strike capabilities of Indian Air Force (IAF) were on display as frontline fighters from South Western Air Command (SWAC) took part in a training exercise in Pokhran range here on Tuesday.

The fighter aircraft fired a vast array of precision and non-precision area weapons onto simulated targets, demonstrating their firepower.

New BrahMos missile successfully tested, hits target

New BrahMos missile successfully tested, hits targetPokhran, Mar. 4: A new version of the BrahMos cruise missile was successfully tested on Wednesday, hitting its target at the Army’s test range in Pokhran, Rajasthan.

On January 20, the BrahMos Block II, during an earlier test, took off successfully, but deviated from its path and landed away from its target.

Official sources claimed a small defect in the software of the homing device of the missile prevented the hit then, defect has since been rectified.

Dhariwal gets home ministry

Jitendra is in charge of energy in latest portfolio reshuffle

Shanti Kumar Dhariwal is the new home minister of Rajasthan and Jitendra Singh the energy minister. Two days after his first cabinet expansion, chief minister Ashok Gehlot reshuffled the portfolios among his team on Monday lavishing Dhariwal with some important departments that he had kept with himself, until now.

Gehlot who earlier had 38 ministries with him has retained finance, planning and civil aviation portfolios. After the reshuffle, he now has 12 ministries with him.

Newly wedded Dalit boy brings home his bride by chopper in Rajasthan

Newly wedded Dalit boy brings home his bride by chopper in RajasthanJaipur, March 2 : Hundreds of people in Jaipur were astonished on Saturday when they witnessed a newly wedded boy of Dalit community, a low caste group of society, bringing along his bride to his home in a chopper!

As the bridegroom Surinder Sawariya, who is in his early twenties, landed near his house in Rundal Village here with his bride, it was quite a draw for a large number of people.

Lalit Modi humbled in Rajasthan Cricket Association elections

 Indian Premier League Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi New Delhi, Mar 1 : Indian Premier League Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi on Sunday lost the Rajasthan Cricket Association elections held for the post of President to Sanjay Dixit, an Indian Administrative Services officer.

Required to get 17 votes to secure a win in the election with majority, Modi could manage just 13 of the total 32 votes. Dixit, on the other hand, bagged 18 votes.

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