Jaipur: Farmers Saturday urged agriculture department and its minister Kirori Lal Meena to address large-scale sale of fake and substandard seeds in the market. The move comes after Meena made surprise inspections at several factories producing spurious fertilisers in the last two days. Farmers said that there is no mechanism to act against traders selling…

Jaipur: A dispute over parking facilities at the government-run JK Lon Children’s Hospital led to a three-hour work stoppage on Saturday, temporarily disrupting medical services before being resolved through administrative intervention.The strike led to a complete work stoppage across outpatient departments, laboratories and several wards, although essential emergency services continued to function.The conflict arose from…

Jhunjhunu: Dr Deepak Agrawal, joint director of animal husbandry department in Sikar, was Saturday caught red-handed by an ACB team from Jaipur taking a bribe of Rs 25,000. Additional SP of ACB Special Unit II Jaipur, Mahavir Sharma, stated that an employee of animal husbandry department had filed a complaint against Dr Agrawal for demanding…

Jaipur: Rejecting the notion of a political compromise in the appointment of Bhajan Lal Sharma as chief minister, BJP national president JP Nadda Saturday lauded his contribution to the party while describing him as a “loyal soldier of our (party’s) ideology” with a proven track record of dedication to public service.Speaking at the ‘Lokmata Devi…

Jodhpur: A court here Saturday sentenced a junior engineer (JEN) of Jodhpur Development Authority (JDA) to four years of rigorous imprisonment in a corruption case. The convict, identified as Kanaram, a resident of Jodhpur, had taken a bribe for granting construction permission in 2016.According to Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) public prosecutor Dinesh Tiwari, a complaint had…