KOTA: A 17-year-old boy was fatally hit by a train in Rajasthan’s Kota district on Wednesday evening, shortly after learning his Class 10 board exam results. The victim, identified as Dushyant Sahu, a resident of Vigyan Nagar in Kota city, died near the Sanjay Nagar railway crossing under Udhyog Nagar police station limits. According to…

Jaipur: Two days after four labourers died of suffocation while cleaning an underground septic tank at a jewellery manufacturing unit in the city’s Sitapura industrial area, the Jaipur police Wednesday registered an FIR in the case—though without naming anyone as responsible.Sources told TOI that the FIR records only the sequence of events and stops short…

Jaisalmer: A state govt employee was detained Wednesday in Rajasthan on suspicion of spying for Pakistan’s spy agency ISI amid a widening crackdown on espionage networks across the country after Op Sindoor.Sakur Khan Mangaliyar, employed with the state’s employment department, was picked up by a joint team of CID and intelligence agencies from his office…

Jaipur: The local self-govt (LSG) department has started preparations to conduct elections to all 190 urban local bodies across Rajasthan between Nov 15 and Dec 15, following state govt directives. This will be the first time that the state will hold all municipal elections simultaneously, and is part of a plan to implement the ‘one…

Jaipur: Days after a patient died at the city’s SMS Hospital due to a botched blood transfusion, govt has planned new protocols to make blood grouping compulsory for all patients at the time of their admission.The blood grouping will be conducted for all in-patients at the Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine (IHTM) department in Dhanwantri OPD…