Category: News

Everybody is eager to know what is happening around them! The curiosity to know about the happenings and the events of the Udaipur never dies. What if I tell you that you can keep yourself updated about the city sitting at your home.

Sometimes, we want to keep ourselves updated about what is going on in our own Udaipur city which on our daily news channel we are not able to fetch. And so we bring you a platform where you can read every update and news related to the city. Be it government updates, social events, or important information, you can find everything in a single place along with relevant images and specific details. News of Udaipur is a special platform for all the News enthusiasts who wants to know about the benchmark events of the town, the book releases, the press releases, the events, and many other important updates about the city with 100% authenticity and lightning fast speed.

Food News

Cafe’ Rocks: A new Exciting Destination to open on 19th August

Post author By Palak Jain
Post date August 17, 2011
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Today I will take you on a journey to a perfect lounge where you can enjoy with your friends having your favorite fast food, or you can chat with special someone over a cup of coffee, or spend a leisure time listening music and reading your favorite novel. You can even complete your office presentation or your college records and school projects in a peaceful environment as here you can find free Wi-Fi facility, as well as healthy environment and food. It’s Café Rocks, completely according to its name, always rocking. And the long wait has come to an end with the café opening on 19th August at 4A, Ashok Nagar Main Road.

Here you will find a perfect environment that will uplift your mood and the aroma in the air will relieve you from the very tensions of life. The royal architecture and interior designing of the place will surely attract you. Yummy pizzas and sandwiches are there in front of you to sensitize your taste buds and you can’t stop yourself from gulping them down. Your date will be perfect when it will end with the desserts. And most of all, its specialty-coffees will make you forget all other Cafes.

Still worried about something?? Oh I got that. Relax you need not worry about your budget as Café Rocks befriends your pocket very easily whether you are a college student, a housewife or a high profile businessman.

So the next time when you are planning to give a birthday treat, or throwing your anniversary party, or want to have a get together with friends, a romantic date, or even a business meeting, switch on for Café Rocks and you will always memorize and cherish those special moments.

Meanwhile take a glimpse at the new destination in Udaipur, opening on 19th August.

Tags cafe, coffee, cup, day, fast, food, hangout, lounge, meeting, place, rocks, udaipur

Events News

Water Sport Activities at Fatehsagar Organized by MLSU

Post author By Mujtaba R.G.
Post date August 11, 2011
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Mohan Lal Sukhadia University(MLSU) on its Golden Jubilee year has organized a 2 day event of adventure water sport activities on 11th and 12th August at Fatehsagar. This event was inaugurated by Prof. I.V. Trivedi (Vice Chancellor, MLSU). MLSU is the first ever university to organize such Water Sport event for students. The event is open for all the regular students of 170 colleges affiliated with MLSU. The interested students can collect the forms from the Sports Council of MLSU 🙂

Here are a few glimpses of The Event captured by Gaurav Mehta 😀

Tags adventures in udaipur, guesthouse udaipur, ivtrivedi, mlsu, mlsu udaipur sport, mlsu.org, mohanlal, sports in udaipur, sukhadiya, water sport udaipur, watersports

News

Post office will now be the ‘Adhaar’ for Unique Identification

Post author By Prasun Bannerjee
Post date August 4, 2011
8 Comments on Post office will now be the ‘Adhaar’ for Unique Identification

From now onwards, the post office will be the centre for registration and issue of the Unique Identification Card, or the ‘Adhaar’ (meaning: Base) card, a scheme started by the Government of India.

Post office launched this scheme on Tuesday, 2^nd August 2011 by the Chief Minister, Mr. Ashok Gehlot, Mr. Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information for Rajasthan via video conferencing from Jaipur, at the Chetak Circle Post Office in Udaipur, where Mrs. Rajni Dangi, Director of the Ajmer Postal Board, R.P. Gupta were also present, where the first registration for the Adhaar Card was made in favor of a team member of UdaipurBlog, Mr. Gaurav Bhattacharya.

How to get the Adhaar Card: This card gives a unique 12 digit identification number to each citizen of India. To apply for the Unique ID, the applicant must bring with him a photo ID proof, as well as a valid address proof. The applicant will then be biometrically scanned for his fingerprints, and the retina impressions at the dedicated counter for the same. The cards will be sent within 3 months to their respective applicants via post.

Here are a few snaps of the event by Gaurav Bhattacharya

Learn how to Check Aadhar Card

Tags adhaar, biometric, card, central, general, grand, how to get, identification, post office, postage, postal, procedure, registration, udaipur, unique

More News

The Royal Prince is now at a distance of a ‘LIKE’

Post author By Guest Author @UdaipurBlog
Post date July 30, 2011
1 Comment on The Royal Prince is now at a distance of a ‘LIKE’

The Mewar Royal Family and The Eternal Mewar dynasty need no introduction, not only to us but to the entire world.

The Royal Family has always been lending a helpful hand to our city whenever needed, via many of its charitable trusts, and social works. The HRH group of hotels also, does not need any introduction; it is famous both among the masses and the classes. In the same chain, to increase the public interaction directly with the royal family, the prince of the Eternal Mewar dynasty, His Highness Mr. Lakshyaraj Singh Ji Mewar has taken another social hi-tech step, and that step is interaction via Facebook.

The most charming and adorable prince is now on Facebook via his official public profile page which already has more than 1900 members. Here he interacts with the public, shares his views about the city, and his thoughts of wisdom with everyone. This is first of its kind phenomenon of social interaction as there has been no such attempt by any royal family in India. He tries his best to respond to each and every comment or post.

On asking his highness The Prince of Mewar about his idea for taking such an innovative step, He says, “It has not been as a very long time since I am back home to my motherland. I have been missing my family, friends, the city and its vibrant colorful life. Coming back home feels like being at ease, and being among my own people. A sense of belonging exists. Being back home and connecting with citizen, I feel great pleasure with the love and friendly response I receive from them.”

He hopes to hear more from people and share more so that together we could create a better tomorrow by creating a better today for our City.

The link to his official fan page is given below where people can connect with him:

Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/mewarlakshyarajsingh

Article Contribution by : Ronak Chauhan

Tags facebook udaipur, Lakshyaraj Singh Ji Mewar, Lakshyaraj Singh Ji Mewar facebook, udaipur maharaja, udaipur royals

News

Deewana Group makes its place in the Top-6 in X-Factor

Post author By Guest Author @UdaipurBlog
Post date July 27, 2011
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Hey friends, every proud Udaipie, all the television watchers, and all the music lovers. There’s a good and exclusive news fom UdaipurBlog for all.

In the recent TV Music Reality Show X-Factor, the Deewana group with our own Shahnawaz aka Bunty makes its place in the top 6, and again wins performer of the week trophy. They will be seen singing the title song from Omkara in the “Villian special episode”, where the Bollywood’s Bad Man, Gulshan Grover will be present as the celebrity judge will be seen appreciating them. The Saturday special episode will be “Idol Tribute Episode”, where the group will be seen singing Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s Qawwali “Roshan hai Sama”, for which all the three judges Sonu, Shreya and Sanjay Leela Bhansali will be seen giving them a standing ovation.

We have previously also informed before hand about one more such victory of the group (Link). Stay tuned for more such Updates. Shahnawaz appeals again to Udaipur to please vote for Deewana group by Typing XF 01 and Send to 5252525, else the pride of Udaipur will have to be in bottom 2 for the next week.

Tags 6, ali, bad man, candle, celebration, deewana, fateh, group, grover, gulshan, khan, mall, nusrat, qawwali, shahnawaz, udaipur, villian, x factor

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Udaipur gathered to pay tribute to Lt. Archit Verdia

Post author By Palak Jain
Post date July 27, 2011
17 Comments on Udaipur gathered to pay tribute to Lt. Archit Verdia

“Shaheed ki chitao par lagege har baras mele…. Watan par mitne walo ka baki yahi nishan hoga…..!!!!”

Eyes filled with tears, pain of loss easily visible on each face, air filled with patriotic songs. No one could stop their tears from rolling down when candles were lightened in the memory young and brave Lt. Archit Verdia. A huge crowd gathered at the ‘Shaheed Smarak’ of Town Hall yesterday, the 26^thof July, co-incidentally, which was also the Kargil day, to pray for his departed soul.

His mother, Mrs. Beena Verdia, and sister, Devyani Verdia, were also present there. Though their hearts were deeply engrossed in the grief of losing their 23 yrs old young son, but their heads were held high as they knew that Archit has not died, but has become immortal in the heart of every Indian. His late father will be brightly shining as a star seeing the bravery of son who has fulfilled his dreams of seeing his son as a soldier. We salute to this family for giving a great soldier to this country.

It has been known that Lt. Archit Verdia left this world on 20th of this month while trying to save his colleagues who were caught in fire at an army camp of Siachen Glacier. Born on January 20, 1988, Archit completed his +2 from The Study School, Udaipur. He got his training from Officer’s Training Academy, Chennai and was posted in the Indian Army about one and half years back.

Udaipur has never witnessed the pain of losing a soldier at the border. But today when we look at Archit, every hand comes up in reflex to give a salute to him. His funeral will be held today at Rani Road at 9 a.m. after his body will be brought to his hometown with due respect.

We all have been through a great loss. Udaipur has lost a brave child. We all pray for the peace of the departed soul, and also salute the spirit of the soldier.

Photos by: Prasun Bannerjee

[L to R] Mrs. Rajni Dangi, Mrs. Beena Verdia and Devyani Verdia

Tags archit, Army, candle, light, lt, march, martyr, siachen, tribute, udaipur, verdia

News

Co-operative Bank Board Elections Held

Post author By Mujtaba R.G.
Post date July 26, 2011
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The elections for board of Udaipur Urban Co-operative Bank were held yesterday in the Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat. Immense interest of people could be seen to access their voting rights. One could see the crowd of the election in the streets. The polling finished smoothly. There were 9 candidates to be elected out of a total of 11. The result was announced till 8 and the list of candidates who were elected is as under

Akhtar Hussain
Ashiq Ali
Arvind Shah
Fatima Liyaquat
Mansoor ali R.V.
Mushtaq Hussain
Shbbir Hussain R.V.
Lft. Col. (Rdt.) Sirrajduddin
R.L. Nagar

In the elections, Mr. Akhtar Hussain bagged the highest position. One could see the winning spirit and the happiness of the elected members after the results were declared.

Tags bank, board, co-operative, cooperative., elections, udaipur, urban

News

CSI Programming Competition held for School Students

Post author By Prasun Bannerjee
Post date July 25, 2011
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The Computer Society of India (CSI) organised a young talent search competition for the school students as the talent search for programming and coding. Udaipur was also a centre amongst about 20 centres in India. As many as 7 schools, namely Central Academy Ambamata, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Maharana Mewar Public School, Alok School, St. Anthony’s, St. Gregorious, Delhi Public School participated in the competition held on yesterday on 24 July,2011 at the city centre of Techno India NJR Institute of Technology located at Madhuban.
Mr. Piyush Javeria informed that the competition was of 2 hours duration in which a team of 3 students had to solve 4 problems of programming and logic in any programming language out of C, C++ or JAVA. The winner is judged based on the timing and accuracy.

The national level round will take place on 28th August at Chennai. The winner gets a prize of Rs. 15,000. The two winner teams will then be participating in the SEARCC international competition which will be held at Chennai.
Dr. Dharm Singh, secretary, CSI Udaipur Chapter explained that this competition is organised by CSI every year, though less entries/participations have been a bit disappointing, yet a higher number of participation is expected in the upcoming years.
The competition was guided by the CSI members’ team from Techno India NJR, comprising of CSI student chapter members, and headed by Mr. Piyush Javeria and Ms. Shilpa Pandey. The Senior CSI members, Mr. M L. Talesra, Mr. Mazhar Hussain, Dr. Anand Swarup expressed their thoughts to increase awareness about CSI and its different chapters, for better educational and research outcomes. Few students were seen curious for the CSI student chapter membership, which is now open for school students also.

Tags csi, CSI Programming Competition, CSI udaipur, techno njr

Events News

A Perfectly Inspiring class by the Missile Man

Post author By Mujtaba R.G.
Post date July 23, 2011
1 Comment on A Perfectly Inspiring class by the Missile Man

APJ Abdul Kalam is a man of great vision, an eminent scientist and engineer who served as the 11th President of India from the period 2002 to 2007. A person with the pure and down to earth personality was in the city of lakes yesterday. He arrived at the Maharana Pratap international airport at 3:30 P.M., and went straight to the circuit house for rest, where he enjoyed the pleasing and every refreshing view of our own Fatehsagar. After resting for about an hour Kalam sir took the the class of the Lakecity students in Delhi Public School at Chitrakoot Nagar. One could also see the crowd waiting outside for Dr. Kalam to have a view of our very own people’s president. In his half an hour class in DPS, the ironic missile man of India firstly asked the students about what they wanted to become in their future life. In this process he found that there were majority of the students who wanted to become engineers and lesser wanted to become a teacher.

Talking about building a personality, he added that one should have the knowledge as well as the purity of the heart. In this process he gave the students the knowledge equation i.e.

Knowledge = Creativity + Purity in heart + Courage

In his speech he did not forget to mention the role of mother in the prosperity of the nation. In the series of questions and confusion many students raised their points to the iconic man. In this chain he told the students about how he enjoys his role of a teacher. On the question about India’s possibility to become the superpower by 2020, Dr. Kalam again reminds the role of a mother in nation building and explains “If a child keeps his mother happy, he will sure keep the family happy, if he makes the family happy he will surely make the Udaipur happy, and if he makes the Udaipur happy he makes Rajasthan happy, if he keeps the Rajasthan happy he indeed keeps the India happy and if country is happy then what more do you need to make the country a super power.”

On being asked about his source of inspiration, Dr. Kalam did not forget to mention his teacher V. Subrramanium Iyyer. On a question about why India is always giving a handful of friendship to Pakistan and is not using this hand to slap him for the activities, Kalam quoted “strength respects strength” and explained that being a democratic country we are not supposed to risk the lives of 112 billion people who rely on us.

Dr. Kalam, the teacher of ideas and an environment ambassador inaugurated the Eco Club of the School by watering a plant. In the end with a conversation with the principal of Delhi Public School, she shared her experience about the program and also felt honored as the great personality was between them in their very own campus. The facility provided by the school and the arrangements for the program was excellent. And they wish to have many more interactions of the eminent personalities with the ordinary students of Udaipur in the coming times.

A glimpse of the event can be seen below via the following photographs:

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Photos By: Yash Sharma

Video By: Gaurav Bhattacharya

Edited By: Prasun Bannerjee

News Social

Training Programme for BPL People concluded

Post author By Prasun Bannerjee
Post date July 23, 2011
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To reduce the unemployment rates, and for the upliftment of the BPL (below poverty line) population, an NGO, Vishvas, today finished off with a training as well as certification programme “Skill Training & Placement of Rural Youth Leading to Gainful Employment” for the BPL people from the rural areas of Udaipur, Rajsamand and Bundi, under Special SGSY (Swaranjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana)

100 candidates meeting the minimum requirements for the eligibility criteria were selected from these rural areas by Viashvas, and they were provided with the security guard training of one month duration, a course and certification by IGNOU. The programme was held in association with the Securities and Intelligence Services (India) ltd (SIS).

The candidates had one month of residential training at SIS Regional centre located at Debari. They were provided free lodging and food for the entire duration. All the candidates have been placed with a minimum salary of 4-6 thousand per month.

The certification programme was carried out yesterday at 9:30 a.m. for the persons who qualified both the written and the physical examinations. Mrs. Teena Kumar, Zila Parishad Udaipur, Mr. Pritam B. Yashwant, District Collector Rajsamand, Mr. Ram pal Sharma, Chief Executive officer, Rajsamand were present at the ceremony.

Vishvas is a Non Governmental Organisation which carries out such type of training programmes for people below poverty line for their proper employment and upliftment. This programme was funded by the Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna, a poverty eradication plan by the Government of India.

Photos by: Monika Jain

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