Jaipur: The cybercrime wing of the state police arrested five men for allegedly renting out bank accounts to fraudsters, enabling transactions of over Rs 4 crore, in Alwar Tuesday. Police said they received a lot of complaints from victims of the cybercrime whose money was siphoned off, and tracked the mule accounts, allegedly rented or…
Jaipur: The state agriculture department on Tuesday launched the country’s first drone-based cloud seeding experiment at the Jamwaramgarh Dam area to revive Ramgarh Lake and address the region’s water crisis. Although the technology failed twice on the inaugural day, the scientists finally managed to fly the drones up to a height of 400-feet in the…
Jaipur: The unchecked release of stray dogs from Nasirabad and Ajmer into the forested expanse of Arwar Conservation Reserve has emerged as a grave threat to the endangered Lesser Florican, locally known in Rajasthan as ‘khamor’.Villagers have reported a manifold increase in stray dogs in recent years, with many now entrenched in grassland pockets that…
Jaipur: A 27-year-old woman in the city ended her life along with her one-and-a-half-year-old son by jumping in front of a moving train Tuesday. SHO (Malpura Gate) Munindra Singh said Priya Singh, a resident of Sundar Vihar near Sitapura, jumped before the train at Govardhan Nagar railway crossing. The impact flung the bodies away from…
Bhilwara: Police Tuesday destroyed illegal poppy husk, cannabis and smack seized from eight police stations in Chittorgarh district. The action came after court verification. SP Manish Tripathi was present at the site and the action was carried out under the supervision of the District Drug Disposal Committee.SP Manish Tripathi of Chittorgarh stated that the storerooms…